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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arun%20K.%20Somani | Arun K. Somani is Associate Dean for Research of College of Engineering, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Philip and Virginia Sproul Professor at Iowa State University. Somani is Elected Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for “contributions to theory and applications of computer networks” from 1999 to 2017 and Life Fellow of IEEE since 2018. He is Distinguished Engineer of Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) and Elected Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS).
Biography
Somani received a B.E. (Hons.) degree in Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in 1973, an M.Tech. in Computer Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in 1979 and an MSEE in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 1983. In 1985, after completing his Ph.D. at McGill University, he joined the faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at University of Washington, serving as assistant professor from 1985 to 1990, associate professor from 1990 to 1995 and professor till 1997.
In 1997, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Iowa State University. He served as David C. Nicholas Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1997 to 2002, Jerry R. Junkins Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2002 to 2014, Director of Information Infrastructure Institute from 2002 to 2015 and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department from 2003 to 2010. He is serving as Anson Marston Distinguished Professor since 2007, Associate Dean for Research of College of Engineering since 2013 and Philip and Virginia Sproul Professor since 2014, all at Iowa State University.
During 2010–2011, Somani served as Ram Rajindra Malhotra Professor at Indian Institute of Technology. He also served as an honorary distinguished professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech) since 2010 and a visiting professor at Gujarat Technological University. Professor Somani also is serving as a Fulbright Specialist from 2019 to 2024.
Early life and family
Arun Somani was raised by Dulari Somani and Kanwarlal Somani
in Beawar, India, and attended Government Patel Higher Secondary School before pursuing his engineering degrees and joining the workforce. His education was partially supported by a National Scholarship in India and Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship. He and his wife, Manju Somani, raised three children.
Contributions
System-Level Diagnosis is a field of study in which computing units can be utilized to test each other to locate faulty units. Somani developed a generalized theory for system-level diagnosis
in the presence of an arbitrary fault set in a multi-computer system. He characterized diagnosable systems
in terms of their testing requirement under various model of test result interpretation and faults scenarios where faults occur seque |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Radvinsky | Leonid "Leo" Radvinsky () is a United Kingdom-based Ukrainian-American businessman, pornographer and computer programmer. He is the founder of the cam site MyFreeCams (through his holding company, Mfcxy, Inc.), and the majority owner of content subscription service OnlyFans.
Biography
Radvinsky was born in Odesa, Ukraine and his family later emigrated to Chicago when he was a child. In 2002, he graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in economics. He is Jewish.
Radvinsky operates a venture capital fund called "Leo", founded in 2009, which invests mainly in tech companies. Notable investments include Israel-based B4X and software creator, Pleroma. Radvinsky is also a supporter of the Elixir programming language.
In May 2021, The Guardian described him as a "US-based online pornography veteran who largely chooses to avoid the media." He donated $5 million to Ukraine relief in 2022 as well a cancer charity, an animal-welfare organization, and a skin-disorder-research fund.
Career
Early career
In 1999, when Radvinsky was 17 years old, he helped incorporate Cybertania Inc., a website referral business. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Radvinsky developed more than ten websites such as Password Universe, Working Passes and Ultra Passwords that claimed and were advertised to provide users with "illegal" and "hacked" passwords to porn sites, where he earned money for every click. Ultra Passwords reportedly earned $1.8 million a year in revenue during the 2000s.
In 2004, he founded MyFreeCams, an adult streaming website. The same year, Microsoft sued Radvinsky for allegedly sending millions of deceptive emails to Hotmail users, but the case was eventually dismissed.
OnlyFans
In 2018, he bought a 75% stake in OnlyFans' parent company Fenix International Ltd. from its British founders Tim Stokely and his dad Guy Stokely. After this, OnlyFans became increasingly focused on not safe for work (NSFW) content and "gained a pop culture reputation for being a hive of pornography". In a roughly two-year period from 2021 to 2022, Radvinsky received around $500million in dividends from the website. He has a net worth of 1 billion dollars as per the 2022 The World's Billionaires.
References
External links
Official website (#1)
Official website (#2)
Leo.com (venture capital fund)
1982 births
Living people
People from Odesa
Businesspeople from Chicago
American company founders
American pornographers
American venture capitalists
American investors
Helicopter pilots
Ukrainian businesspeople
American Jews
Ukrainian Jews
American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Ukrainian emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert%20Sonna%20Momo | Lambert Sonna Momo (born 1970 in Yaoundé) is a Swiss computer scientist of Cameroonian origin. He is known for his work in electronic identification and authentication through biometrics.
Education
After obtaining a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Yaoundé in 1993, he continued his studies with two master's degrees at the EPFL in Lausanne in software engineering (2001) and in information systems (2003).
He obtained his doctorate in information and security systems at the University of Lausanne in 2008 for a thesis on "Elaboration de tableaux de bord SSI dynamiques: une approche à base d'ontologies" (Developing dynamic ISS dashboards: an ontology-based approach) under supervision of Solange Ghernaouti-Hélie.
Career
Academic career
Until 2014, he taught at University of Lausanne on topics related to computer security and the protection of private data.
In 2016, he assembled a multidisciplinary team composed of biometrics specialist Sébastien Marcel at Idiap Research Institute; cryptographer Serge Vaudenay, director of the EPFL's Security and Cryptography Laboratory, electronics engineer Pierre Roduit at HES SO Valais Wallis, and microtechnologist Eric Grenet at Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology. This team jointly developed BioID and BioLocker, a patented biometric authentication technology based on multi-view vein scanningthat combines data security and respect for private sphere protection.
Entrepreneurship
He is the founder of GLOBAL ID SA, a spin-off of EPFL that brings vein-based biometric authentication technology to the market.
The biometric technology based on vein recognition is considered ethical because the key is hidden and therefore impossible to steal; the encryption is done end-to-end with a random code that changes constantly.
The contactless scanner is under development and the project has received a grant of 1 million from the Swiss Confederation.
Lambert Sonna Momo is the Inventor of the VenoScanner.
Publications
Awards
2021: Winner of the 2nd Cameroon Digital Boost in Douala
2013: Honorary citizen of the city of Douala for services rendered.
2022: Appointed head of the Bangang community in Switzerland
References
External links
Website of Global-ID
Website of Idiap Research Institute
Website of LASEC-EPFL
1970 births
Living people
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni
University of Lausanne alumni
University of Yaoundé alumni
People from Yaoundé
Academic staff of the University of Lausanne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphanthera | Siphanthera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae.
Its native range is Southern Tropical America.
Species:
Siphanthera arenaria
Siphanthera cordata
Siphanthera cordifolia
Siphanthera cowanii
Siphanthera dawsonii
Siphanthera duidae
Siphanthera fasciculata
Siphanthera foliosa
Siphanthera gracillima
Siphanthera hostmannii
Siphanthera miqueliana
Siphanthera paludosa
Siphanthera ramosissima
Siphanthera robusta
Siphanthera subtilis
Siphanthera todziae
Siphanthera vaupesana
Siphanthera villosa
Siphanthera wurdackii
References
Melastomataceae
Melastomataceae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datamini | Datamini is the only tribe within the subfamily of the Dataminae from the order of the Phasmatodea. The representatives of this subfamily are on average not as large as those of the other two subfamilies belonging to the family of Heteropterygidae.
Description
Datamini species remain relatively small for phasmids. In females, the body length varies between 2.5 and 6 cm, depending on the species. The males remain somewhat smaller with a body length of less than 2 to a maximum of 5 cm. The presence of sensory areas, which is considered to be the autapomorphic characteristic of the Heteropterygidae, is fully developed in the Dataminae. With them there is a pair of these sensory fields on the Prosternum and a third in the middle behind it on the so-called (Pro-) Furcasternit. All species are wingless in both sexes. The females lack the secondary ovipositor typically developed in the other subfamilies at the end of the abdomen. Their abdomen ends bluntly. In adult females, the abdomen is widened and significantly increased towards the middle due to egg production. Males have a cylindrical central abdomen area, which is thinnest here. Pointed spines can be found in many species, especially in the males. Alternatively, the body can be covered by wart-like tubercles. The latter is more common in females. Most species are monochrome beige, brown or black-brown in color or patterned in these colors.
Distribution and way of life
The range area of the Dataminae covers large parts of Southeast Asia. It extends in the north over the eastern Myanmar, includes Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and in South China the provinces Yúnnán, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang partially, as well as Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian and the Special Administrative Regions Hong Kong and Macau, as well as the autonomous region Guangxi. To the east it includes the Okinawa Islands and Taiwan, then somewhat following the Huxley line so that Palawan is included, but not the Calamian Islands. The Dataminae are also represented on the Moluccas islands Buru and Seram and all Lesser and Greater Sunda Islands. In the west they can be found on the entire Malay Peninsula and the Andamans.
The way of life of the nocturnal animals, like the defense strategy, is geared towards mimetic. The animals often move slowly or not at all when touched for a long time. During the day, the phasmids usually hide in the leaves and at the foot of plants. To eat, they often only climb a few centimeters on the food plants. The females usually lay only a few, but relatively large eggs on or in the ground. With Epidares and some Orestes species it was observed that they prepare a hollow in the ground with the front legs, then the abdomen quickly over the front body let it fold, squeezing out an egg. This is catapulted forward, caught with the antennas and rolled over them into the trough, where it is then covered with earth by using the forelegs. It takes between two and six months for hatching. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVN%20%28disambiguation%29 | OVN, or Open Virtual Network, is a system to support virtual network abstraction.
OVN may also refer to:
Open value network, a new organizational framework |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Hubbard | Rebecca Allana Hubbard is an American biostatistician whose research interests include observational studies and the use of electronic health record data in public health analysis and decision-making, accounting for the errors in this type of data. She is a professor of biostatistics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Early life and education
Hubbard is African-American, and grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where her parents had moved from farming communities in Delaware. She had a childhood love for science fiction and a talent for science and mathematics, and became the first person in her family to go to college.
She began her studies at the University of Pittsburgh in 1996, as a pre-med microbiology student, but shifted to ecology and evolution after finding herself uninterested in clinical work and clumsy at lab work. As an ecology student, she studied competition among plant species for openings in forest canopies. Her eventual interest in biostatistics began with a summer undergraduate research program directed by Louise M. Ryan at Harvard University. She graduated summa cum laude in 1999, and was awarded a Marshall Scholarship, which brought her to the University of Edinburgh for a master's degree in epidemiology in 2001, and a second master's degree in applied statistics at the University of Oxford in 2002. She returned to the US for a PhD in biostatistics at the University of Washington, completed in 2007. Her dissertation, Modeling a Non-Homogeneous Markov Process via Time Transformation, was supervised by Lurdes Inoue.
Career
Hubbard worked in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center at the University of Washington from 2007 to 2008, and as a researcher at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle (currently the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute) from 2008 to 2014, while holding an affiliate faculty position at the University of Washington.
In 2014, she moved to the University of Pennsylvania as an associate professor of biostatistics, epidemiology, and informatics, where she was promoted to full professor in 2020. At the University of Pennsylvania, she is also deputy director of the division of biostatistics and a member of the Abramson Cancer Center. She chaired the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association in 2018.
Recognition
Hubbard was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2019. In 2020, she was the co-winner (with Sherri Rose of Harvard) of the Health Policy Statistics Section Mid-Career Award of the American Statistical Association.
References
External links
Hubbard Lab: Statistics for EHR Research
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
Biostatisticians
21st-century African-American scientists
African-American women scientists
University of Pittsburgh alumni
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Alumni of the University of Oxford
University of Washington alumn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%20899 | IBM code page 899 (CCSID 899) is a computing code page used under DOS to type mathematical symbols. It is also used by some printers. It contains the same characters as code page 259, but in a different arrangement.
Codepage layout
Characters are shown with their equivalent Unicode codes.
Code page 1092
Code page 1092 (CCSID 1092) is very similar to code page 899. The only difference is that code 0xC8 is mapped to U+2500 instead of U+2015 .
References
DOS code pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20T.%20Thai | My Tra Thai is an American computer science engineer, professor in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering department at the University of Florida, and Fellow of the IEEE.
Early life and education
Thai completed two bachelor's degrees in computer science and mathematics from Iowa State University in 1999 before enrolling at the University of Minnesota for her PhD.
Career
Upon completing her PhD, Thai joined the University of Florida as an assistant professor and received a Young Investigator Award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for her project "C-WMD: Models, Complexity, and Algorithms in Complex Dynamic and Evolving Networks." She also received a National Science Foundation CAREER Awards from 2010 to 2015 for her project "Optimization Models and Approximation Algorithms for Network Vulnerability and Adaptability." In 2015, Thai became the first woman to be named a Full professor in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering department at the University of Florida. The following year, she was named a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor from 2016 to 2019.
In 2019, Thai was appointed the Associate Director of The Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Thai was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for her "contributions to modeling, design, and optimization of networked systems."
References
External links
Living people
University of Minnesota alumni
Iowa State University alumni
University of Florida faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles%20for%20a%20Data%20Economy | The Principles for a Data Economy – Data Rights and Transactions is a transatlantic legal project carried out jointly by the American Law Institute (ALI) and the European Law Institute (ELI). The Principles for a Data Economy deals with a range of different legal questions that arise in the data economy. Since data is different from other tradeable items, the Principles draw up legal rules for data transactions and data rights that take into account the interests of different stakeholders involved in the data economy. The Principles are designed to facilitate contractual relations as well as the drafting of model agreements and can guide courts and legislators worldwide.
The project proposes a set of principles that can be implemented in any legal system and is designed to work in conjunction with any kind of data privacy/data protection law, intellectual property law or trade secret law. The Principles do not address or seek to change any of the substantive rules of these bodies of law.
The Project Team consists of Neil B Cohen and Christiane Wendehorst (as Project Reporters) and Lord John Thomas as well as Steven O. Weise (as Project Chairs).
Characteristics of data
The law governing trades in commerce has historically focused on trade in items that are tangible like goods or on intangible assets, such as shares or licenses. However, data does not fit into any of these traditional categories, nor does it qualify as a service. It is often unclear how traditional legal rules and doctrines can apply to data, as data is different from other assets in many ways. For example, data can be multiplied at basically no cost and can be used in parallel for a variety of different purposes by many different people at the same time (data is a “non-rivalrous” resource). Uncertainty regarding the applicable rules to govern the data economy may inhibit innovation and growth and trouble stakeholders like data-driven industries, start-ups, and consumers.
Stakeholders in the data economy
The Principles have taken the basic types of players and relations which can be found in data ecosystems as a starting point to provide guidance in different situations. The central actors in the data economy are data controllers (also called “data holders”). They are in a position to access the data and decide for which purposes and means this data should be processed. A controller may exercise control all by itself or share it with co-controllers, such as under a data pooling arrangement. Data processors provide the processing of data on a controller’s behalf as a service. Another important group of stakeholders includes those that contribute to the generation of data (e.g. data subjects). Other players in the data economy include data assemblers or data intermediaries (e.g. data trusts).
History of the project and timeline
Before the official adoption of the project by ALI and ELI bodies in 2018, the project team carried out a Feasibility Study from October 2016 to Febr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyn%C3%A4shamn%20Station | Nynäshamn is a station on Stockholm's commuter train network, located in Nynäshamn within Nynäshamn Municipality and is the terminus for the Nynäs Line. On a normal winter weekday, the station has about 900 boarders (2015). The station has three tracks, which end with stop buffers. Entrance to the platform is geographically from the north (the track runs in a half loop through the city and ends in the "wrong" direction). The station no longer has an entrance building or ticket hall, but has weather protection on the platform. Nynäshamn is used as a transfer to the Destination Gotland ferries to the island of Gotland.
History
The station was built as part of the Nynäs Line, and was opened to traffic in 1901. The old station building was designed by the architect Ferdinand Boberg. It is a wooden building with yellow-painted facades and has a similar appearance to other station buildings line, also designed by Boberg. Today, the building is owned by housing association Nynäshamnsbostäder.
The old station building is located some distance from the track area itself. This is it was originally planned for the tracks to end in front of the building. However, a longer track was built to enable direct connection to the Gotland boats. This occurred in the years 1902-1973 and 1995-2007.
In 2007, the platform located just beside Nynäshamn Ferry Terminal was closed to allow expansion of the ferry terminal, and the track was shortened by 500m to the current terminus.
Gallery
Station Building
Station Platforms
References
Nynäshamn Municipality
Railway stations in Stockholm County
Railway stations opened in 1901
1901 establishments in Sweden
Railway stations in Sweden opened in the 1900s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becker%27s%20Hospital%20Review | Becker's Hospital Review is a medical industry trade magazine that does its own research, supplementing this with government-released data and U.S. News & World Report rankings. It is published by ASC Communications, Inc., an Illinois corporation owned or controlled by its registered agent, Scott Becker, and lists with the Illinois Secretary of State its offices as being located at 77 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois. It covers its field from the prospective of those involved: doctors, hospitals, and those who pay: patients and the general public (via taxes and insurance premiums). Some of these topics come together, such as a hospital's payout for disclosing a patient's HIV information to the person's employer, and reviewing how their privacy policy can accommodate the needs of hospital staff, those being treated, and the employer's insurance personnel.
Government web sites refer to their information, and they summarize legislative hearings, albeit much of this is press releases by various agencies.
Overview
Their data has impact: a nurses' union's 2011 public statements cited Becker's data to justify their demands. Becker's reports on how data is used (or abused). and they cite, review and analyze surveys and rankings, including how various subgroups of medical practitioners are affected. A Bank's securities industry review about using Artificial Intelligence opened with some of Becker's numbers.
Notable information sources cite their annual rankings and "Top" lists.
Lists
Among the categories for which Becker's' produces lists are:
Great Hospitals in America
Top Places to Work in Health Care (including Work/Life Balance)
African-American Leaders in Healthcare
History
Their founder/publisher is Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWoods, who "also served as chair of the national health care practice at McGuireWoods." They began in 2007, and compete with 1976-founded Modern Healthcare.
In addition to their ratings services, Becker, who is also a CPA, partners with Deloitte, one of the Big Four accounting firms, to collect and analyze hospital data. Their industry coverage includes personnel changes. During the 2020 CoronaVirus period, they collected and reported on healthcare spending, including employee layoffs. A notable user-contributed collection of articles references them.
References
External links
Official website
Russell Investments' Lisa Schneider's Becker's article: Five Questions Hospital and Healthcare Fiduciaries Should Ask (Russell Investments)
Medical magazines
Professional and trade magazines
Magazines established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegnera | Hegnera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. The only species is Hegnera obcordata.
Its native range is Indo-China to western Malesia. It is found in the countries of Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand and Vietnam.
The genus name of Hegnera is in honour of Johanna "Hansli" Cnefelius, née Hegner, a friend of the author of the genus, Anton Karl Schindler.
The Latin specific epithet of obcordata refers to the obcordate shape of the leaves. Hegnera obcordata was first described and published in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Vol.20 on page 285 in 1924.
Hegnera obcordata has the following synonyms; Desmodium obcordatum , Meibomia obcordata and Uraria obcordata .
References
Desmodieae
Monotypic Fabaceae genera
Plants described in 1861
Flora of Malesia
Flora of Indo-China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saleem%20Bhatti | Saleem Bhatti is a British computer scientist who is one of the leading voices in the development of ILNP. He is a professor of computer science in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews.
References
External links
https://ilnp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk
British computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Walther | Andrea Walther (born 1970) is a German applied mathematician whose research interests include nonlinear optimization, non-smooth optimization, and scientific computing, and who is known in particular for her work on automatic differentiation. She is professor of mathematical optimization in the institute for mathematics of Humboldt University of Berlin.
Education and career
After studying business mathematics at the University of Bayreuth beginning in 1991 and earning a diploma in 1996, Walther completed a doctorate at the Dresden University of Technology in 1999. Her dissertation, Program Reversal Schedules for Single-and Multi-processor Machines, was supervised by . She completed a habilitation at the Dresden University of Technology in 2008.
She worked as a research assistant and junior professor at the Dresden University of Technology from 2000 to 2008. In 2009, she took a professorship at Paderborn University, and in 2019 she moved to her present position at Humboldt University.
Since 2020 she has been convenor of European Women in Mathematics.
Book
With her advisor Andreas Griewank, Walther is the coauthor of the second edition of the book Evaluating derivatives: principles and techniques of algorithmic differentiation (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2008).
References
External links
Home page
1970 births
Living people
21st-century German mathematicians
German women mathematicians
University of Bayreuth alumni
TU Dresden alumni
Academic staff of TU Dresden
Academic staff of Paderborn University
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Tyler | Joel K. Tyler is a retired United States Army major general who last served as chief of staff of the United States Africa Command. He was previously the director of operations and cyber of the United States Africa Command, commanding general of the United States Army Test and Evaluation Command, and prior to that the commander of the United States Army Joint Modernization Command. In March 2021, he was assigned to replace Major General William Gayler as the Chief of Staff of the United States Africa Command.
Tyler attended the University of Arkansas, where he participated in the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps program and earned a commission and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1988. He later received a Master of Science degree in public administration from Central Michigan University and a Master of Arts degree in national security and strategic studies from the College of Naval Warfare.
References
Central Michigan University alumni
Living people
Naval War College alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Army generals
United States Army personnel of the Gulf War
United States Army personnel of the Iraq War
University of Arkansas alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leretia | Leretia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Icacinaceae. The only species is Leretia cordata
Its native range is Costa Rica to southern Tropical America. It is also found in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panamá, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
The genus name of Leretia is in honour of Jean de Léry (1536–1613), an explorer, writer and Reformed pastor born in Lamargelle, Côte-d'Or, France. The Latin specific epithet of cordata is derived from cordatus meaning heart-shaped or cordate.
Both genus and species were first described and published in Fl. Flumin. on page 99 in 1829.
References
Icacinaceae
Monotypic asterid genera
Plants described in 1829
Flora of Central America
Flora of northern South America
Flora of western South America
Flora of Brazil
Taxa named by José Mariano de Conceição Vellozo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity%20MasterChef%20Australia%20%28series%201%29 | The first series of the Australian cooking game show Celebrity MasterChef Australia began production in early September 2009, and premiered on Network Ten on 30 September 2009. Matt Preston, George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan returned as judges for the show; however Sarah Wilson did not reprise her role as host from the first season of MasterChef Australia.
Former world-record holder & Olympic medalist Eamon Sullivan won the series, taking home $50,000 for charity Swim Survive Stay Alive.
Contestants
Celebrity MasterChef Australia features 18 celebrities as contestants. Network Ten officially revealed the first batch of contestants on the 3 September 2009 episode of The 7pm Project. However, several contestants were revealed before Ten's official announcement of their participation.
The contestants include:
Ten initially announced that actor Steve Bisley would also be a participant, but he later withdrew from the show. Ten cited a scheduling conflict for his departure, though the ABC have claimed that Network Ten are using it as an excuse; the announcement of his participation on the show was the same day the actor was charged with assaulting his ex-wife Sally Burleigh during an argument between the former couple. Rachael Finch previously auditioned for the first series of MasterChef Australia, but did not make past the initial rounds.
Special guests
Matt Moran - Heat 1 Pressure Test
Brent Savage - Heat 2 Pressure Test
Kylie Kwong - Heat 3 Pressure Test
Stephanie Alexander - Heat 4 Pressure Test
Tony Bilson - Heat 5 Pressure Test
Katrina Kanetani - Heat 6 Pressure Test
Steven Krasicki - Semi Final 2
Adriano Zumbo - Semi Final 3
Andrew McConnell - Grand Final
Episodes
References
External links
MasterChef Australia
2009 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine%20Action | Palestine Action is a pro-Palestinian protest network that uses civil disobedience tactics to shut down and disrupt multinational arms dealers. In particular, the group targets UK-based operations that provide weapons used in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Protests
Palestine Action was founded on 30 July 2020 when activists broke into and spray-painted the interior of Elbit Systems' UK headquarters in London.
On 19 May 2021, during the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, four members of the group dressed in red boiler suits climbed onto the roof of an Elbit Systems-owned drone factory in Meridian Business Park, Leicester. The occupation lasted six days, and a total of 10 arrests were made for conspiracy to commit criminal damage and aggravated trespass.
The group have staged similar occupations of Elbit Systems sites in Bristol, Oldham in collaboration with Extinction Rebellion and Tamworth in collaboration with Animal Rebellion.
On 10 June 2021, three protestors from the group "stormed, scaled and occupied" an APPH drone factory in Runcorn. Activists daubed red paint on the exterior, dismantled drone and aircraft machinery and destroyed windows. The next day all three were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and aggravated trespass.
On 14 June, the fourth anniversary of the Grenfell fire, a similar occupation protest was staged at an Arconic factory in Kitts Green, Birmingham by three protestors. Arconic provided the cladding that allowed the rapid transmission of fire across Grenfell tower, and according to Palestine Action provide "materials for Israel's fighter jets". The occupation ended when two activists were arrested from the roof of the building two days later. One activist was remanded in prison and immediately went on hunger strike. The activist said they would end their strike if any one of four conditions were met: release of Palestine Action protestors; the eviction of Elbit from its London headquarters by property firm LaSalle Investment Management; the closure of all Elbit Systems’ British operations or; release by the government of all correspondence and documents relating to its dealings with Elbit and its subsidiaries.
In April 2022, two Palestine Action protestors chained themselves to the gates of a drone factory of UAV Tactical Systems at Meridian Business Park in Braunstone. Other activists gathered nearby with signs stating "Free Palestine". Three protestors were arrested. A spokesperson for the group said that "Direct action will not cease until all Elbit sites are closed."
References
Non-governmental organizations involved in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Palestinian solidarity movement
Direct action |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomorphization | In programming languages, monomorphization is a compile-time process where polymorphic functions are replaced by many monomorphic functions for each unique instantiation. It is considered beneficial to undergo the mentioned transformation because it results in the output intermediate representation (IR) having specific types, which allows for more effective optimization. Additionally, many IRs are intended to be low-level and do not accommodate polymorphism. The resulting code is generally faster than dynamic dispatch, but may require more compilation time and storage space due to duplicating the function body.
Example
This is an example of a use of a generic identity function in Rust
fn id<T>(x: T) -> T {
return x;
}
fn main() {
let int = id(10);
let string = id("some text");
println!("{int}, {string}");
}
After monomorphization, this would become
fn id_i32(x: i32) -> i32 {
return x;
}
fn id_str(x: &str) -> &str {
return x;
}
fn main() {
let int = id_i32(10);
let string = id_str("some text");
println!("{int}, {string}");
}
See also
Parametric polymorphism
Type erasure
Template (C++)
References
Polymorphism (computer science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy%20W.%20Chapman | Wendy Webber Chapman is an American research scientist in biomedical Natural language processing and Information Extraction. In 2019, after serving for six years as Chair of the University of Utah School of Medicine Division of Biomedical Informatics, Chapman left the institution to join the University of Melbourne.
Early life and education
Chapman completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in linguistics and her Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from the University of Utah.
Career
Upon completing her doctorate, Chapman joined the University of Pittsburgh as a postdoctoral fellow in Biomedical Informatics before joining their faculty. As an assistant professor, she worked with the RODS Lab on biosurveillance and learned how to develop and evaluate NLP techniques. She eventually left the institution to join the University of California, San Diego in 2010. Prior to leaving, she was elected a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association for her "sustained technical and organizational contributions to the field."
During her short tenure at the UC San Diego School of Medicine’s Division of Biomedical Informatics, Chapman participated in active research related to biomedical Natural language processing. In 2013, Chapman returned to her alma mater to chair their Department of Biomedical Informatics. The following year, she was the recipient of a 2014 Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Fellowship. Her work in "developing informatics algorithms and tools for natural language processing, a means of using computational power to pull data from doctor’s notes and health records that are otherwise hidden from automated analyses," was recognized with an election to the National Academy of Medicine.
In 2019, after serving for six years as Chair of the University of Utah School of Medicine's Division of Biomedical Informatics, Chapman left the institution to join the University of Melbourne. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chapman was appointed to the board of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. She is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
Personal life
Chapman is married to fellow scientist Brian Chapman.
References
External links
Living people
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
Academic staff of the University of Melbourne
University of Utah School of Medicine faculty
University of Pittsburgh faculty
University of Utah alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20in%20Vijayawada | Vijayawada, in India, has a well-developed communication and media infrastructure. It has a basic network of optical fiber cables. The city's telephone system is serviced by four landline companies: BSNL, Tata Indicom, Reliance and Airtel. There are a number of mobile-phone companies: Aircel, BSNL, Airtel, Uninor, MTS, Tata Indicom, Tata Docomo and Jio. Several companies offer broadband internet access.
Broadcast radio
The city has a variety of AM and FM radio stations. AlR Vijayawada, also known as "Aakasavani Vijayawada" is one of the oldest serving FM radio stations in the city. Most of the stations have broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week with programming in Telugu and English.
The FM radio stations in the city are:
AIR Vijayawada Akashvani 103.4 MHz
AIR Rainbow 102.2 MHz
Radio City 91.1 MHz
BIG FM 92.7 92.7 MHz
Red FM 93.5 MHz
Ee FM 91.9 MHz
Radio Mirchi 98.3 MHz
The AM radio stations in the city are:
AIR Vividh Bharati 1503 kHz
AIR FM Gold 828 kHz
AIR FM South Vijayawada (A) 837 kHz
Internet radio
Radio Tulip (24/7 Non-Stop Telugu live radio) website Retrieved 2017-04-01.
Radio Khushi (24/7 Telugu online radio) website Retrieved 2011-09-05.
TeluguOne Radio (24/7 Telugu live radio website Retrieved 2011-09-05.
Tharangamedia website
Television networks
The Doordarshan Telugu channel, DD Saptagiri, was the first TV channel launched in Hyderabad in the year 1974. After bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh state, DD Saptagiri was relegated to being telecast from Doordarshan Kendra Vijayawada for Andhra Pradesh while the existing network, renamed DD Yadagiri, was aimed at the Telangana populace
Satellite channels
DD Saptagiri
Cable channels
V Local
Siti Channel
C Channel
MCN
News papers
Visalaandhra was the first newspaper in the state, started from Vijayawada. As per the 58th annual report of Press India 2013–14, the large and medium Telugu daily publications from Vijayawada include Andhra Jyothy, Eenadu, Sakshi, Suryaa, Andhra Prabha, Vaartha, Prajasakti, and Udaya Bharatam.
Major English publications are Deccan Chronicle, The Hindu, The Times of India, News Boom, The Fourth Voice, The New Indian Express and Views Observer.
Magazines
Vijayawada has several magazines in Telugu and English languages.
Telugu
Neadu
Swathi
Navya
Andhra Prabha
Andhra Jyotii
Crime Today
Vipula
Chatura
Vanitha
Chandamama
Great Andhra
Santosham
English
Amaravati Times
B Positive
India Today
References
Mass media in Vijayawada
Vijayawada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Meltzer%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Bernard Meltzer (born in 1916 in South Africa; died on 4 July 2008) was a British computer scientist, who with Donald Michie was one of the main founders of research on artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh.
Meltzer studied physics at the University of Cape Town with a bachelor's degree in 1934, and was briefly a physics demonstrator in Cape Town. He emigrated to Great Britain, where he worked for the Marconi Company and, after the start of the Second World War, for the Telecommunications Research Establishment conducting research on radar. In 1941 he enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and from 1943 taught radar and electronics to military personnel at the University of Aberdeen. After the war he went into industry (Mullard's Radio Valve Company, from 1949 in the research laboratories of EMI). In 1953 he received his doctorate from the University of London in mathematical physics with Reinhold Furth (1893–1979). In 1955 he became a lecturer and later a reader in the electrical engineering department of the University of Edinburgh, doing research in electronics (both semiconductors and tubes). His research on ion propulsion resulted in an invitation from NASA to Stanford University in 1962.
Meltzer also had an interest in mathematical logic and began to work in computer science and artificial intelligence. 1964/65 he worked at the Atlas Computer Laboratory of the Science Research Council and then founded the Metamathematics Unit at the University of Edinburgh. The focus of the Unit was on automatic proof methods. In 1972 he received the chair of Computational Logic (corresponding to the name of the new department, which succeeded the Metamathematics Unit). From 1974 to 1977 he was head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence. In 1978 he retired.
Edinburgh became a center of artificial intelligence under him and Donald Michie, with scientists such as Robert Kowalski (who was one of the founders of logic programming in the early 1970s) and Alan Bundy. J Strother Moore (who received his doctorate there in 1973), Robert S. Boyer (visiting scholar 1971 to 1973) and Pat Hayes (like Robert Kowalski, his doctoral student).
With Donald Michie he published the series Machine Intelligence (Volumes 4 to 7) from 1969 to 1972.
In 1979 he received the first Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award.
References
External links
Obituary at the University of Edinburgh
British computer scientists
South African computer scientists
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
1916 births
2008 deaths
South African emigrants to the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Goonies%20%281985%20video%20game%29 | The Goonies is a puzzle-platform game programmed by Scott Spanburg and published in 1985 by Datasoft. It is based on the Richard Donner film The Goonies (1985).
Gameplay
The game has eight stages, each based on a scene from the film. In each stage, the two Goonies must work together to solve puzzles and reach the exit to move on to the next stage. In single-player mode the joystick button can be used to switch between the two characters, and in the two player mode, each player controls one Goonie.
Reception
The game received positive reviews. Computer and Video Games reviewer said that "each screen is packed with interesting puzzles and problems. The attention to detail is good - and the game is fun to play". Computer Gamer magazine said: "Even if it doesn't break all software records, it's one of the best platform games I've played".
References
External links
Review in Antic
Review in ANALOG Computing
Review in Compute!
Review in Page 6
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
1985 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Datasoft games
Puzzle-platform games
Video games based on films
Video games developed in the United States
ZX Spectrum games
U.S. Gold games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunu | Nunu may refer to:
People
Jemma Nunu Kumba (born 1966), South Sudanese politician
Nunu Abashydze (born 1955), Ukrainian shot putter
Nunu Datau, Indonesian actress
Nunu Khumalo (born 1992), South African actress and model
Nunù Sanchioni, Italian operatic singer
Thamsanqa Keith Nunu (born 1998), Zimbabwean cricket player
Nunu (born 1998), Israeli singer and performer
Places
Ñuñu Qullu (disambiguation), name of several mountains in Bolivia
San Vicente Nuñú, Mexico
Nunu Kumba, Ethiopia
Other
Nunu language
Nunu, from League of Legends
Nu-nu, herbal stimulant
Nunu dialect of Ngiri language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%20Fincher | Sally A. Fincher (born 1959) is a British Computer Scientist and Emerita Professor of Computing Education at the University of Kent. She was awarded the Suffrage Science award in 2018 the SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education in 2010 and a National Teaching Fellowship in 2005.
Early life and education
Fincher was an undergraduate student at the University of Kent, where she studied philosophy and computer science. She moved to the United States for her graduate studies, where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in English from Georgetown University.
Research and career
Fincher leads the University of Kent Computing Education Group. Here she has led computing education projects, including the bootstrapping research in Computer Science Education series and the UK sharing practice project. These programmes looked to identify best practise for computer science education and disseminate this information to the teaching community.
Beyond innovations in computing education, Fincher studies patterns and the development of patterns for human–computer interaction. She created a pattern library for user interfaces for human–computer interactions.
Awards and honours
Fincher was honoured by Ann Blandford for ‘making computer science education inclusive and effective’. She served as chair of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) from 2018 to 2020. Other awards include:
2003 Mary Kenneth Keller Computer Science & Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award
2004 Honorary Doctorate from Antenor Orrego Private University
2005 Awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
2009 Awarded distinguished membership of the Association for Computing Machinery
2010 Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
2018 Suffrage Science award
Selected publications
Her publications include:
Computer Science Education Research with Marian Petre
The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research with Anthony V. Robins
Programming Environments for Novices
Computer science project work : principles and pragmatics
References
Living people
1959 births
British computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Kent
Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Academics of the University of Kent
British women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96smo%20railway%20station | Ösmo station is a railway station on the Nynäs Line of Stockholm's commuter rail network, located in the urban area of Ösmo in the municipality of Nynäshamn in Stockholm County. As of 2019, on a normal winter weekday, the station has approximately 1,300 boarding passengers. The station is located on the single-track Hemfosa-Nynäshamn section of the line, and lacks ticket barriers. The journey time from Ösmo to Stockholm City Station is approximately 45 minutes.
History
The station was opened to traffic in 1901 with the inauguration of the line. The station building, designed by architect Ferdinand Boberg, is the best preserved of the Nynäs Line's original station buildings, however is no longer part of the railway, and is now a private house. In 2008, the station's platform was extended to accommodate full-length SL X60 trains. At the same time, a new entrance was built towards Nyblevägen in the south for a better connection to the new bus terminal, which was inaugurated at the end of 2009.
Gallery
Old Station Building
Current Station Building
Platform
References
Railway stations in Stockholm County
Railway stations in Sweden opened in the 1900s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emtage | Emtage is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alan Emtage (born 1964), Barbarian-born Canadian computer scientist
James Emtage (1902–1995), Barbadian cricketer
See also
Emptage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20language%20in%20EBCDIC | Several mutually incompatible versions of the Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) have been used to represent the Japanese language on computers, including variants defined by Hitachi, Fujitsu, IBM and others. Some are variable-width encodings, employing locking shift codes to switch between single-byte and double-byte modes. Unlike other EBCDIC locales, the lowercase basic Latin letters are often not preserved in their usual locations.
The characters which are found in the double-byte Japanese code used with EBCDIC by IBM, but not found in the first edition of JIS X 0208, also influenced the vendor extensions found in some non-EBCDIC encodings such as IBM code page 932 ("DBCS-PC") and Windows code page 932.
Single-byte codes
Similarly to JIS X 0201 (itself incorporated into Shift JIS), Japanese EBCDIC encodings often include a set of single-byte katakana. Several different variants of the single-byte EBCDIC code are used in the Japanese locale, by different vendors; a given vendor may also define two different single-byte codes, one favoured for half-width katakana and one favoured for Latin script. Variants of EBCDIC favoured by a given vendor for use for katakana are sometimes referred to as EBCDIK, standing for Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Kana code.
Code pages incorporating half-width kana are an exception to IBM's EBCDIC invariant character set, which specifies a set of characters which are usually encoded the same across all EBCDIC code pages. Most notably, they sometimes include katakana characters at code points which are used for lowercase letters of the Basic Latin alphabet in the invariant set. Encoding of lowercase letters when katakana characters are included at those locations, and encoding of katakana characters when lowercase letters are retained in their usual locations, can vary between vendors, as shown below.
Microsoft Windows implements two Japanese single-byte EBCDIC variants, with code page numbers 20000 higher than IBM's code page numbers for its variants, as code pages 20290 (documented as , "IBM EBCDIC Japanese Katakana Extended") and 21027 ("Extended/Ext Alpha Lowercase"). Code page 21027 as implemented in Windows is an incomplete implementation, lacking two-way mappings for several letters and kana, and is currently deprecated.
IBM's code pages were later updated to include the Euro sign at 0xE1, retaining their original CPGID numbers, but being assigned new CCSID numbers. Hence, the CCSID 290 refers to the original version of code page 290, while the version of code page 290 with the Euro sign is also known as CCSID 8482. Similarly, CCSID 1027 refers to the original version of code page 1027, while the version of CPGID 1027 with the Euro sign is given the CCSID 5123.
Alongside versions of IBM's double-byte Japanese DBCS-Host code page (CPGID 300, CCSID 300 or 16684) as a double-byte component, IBM code page 290 is used as the single-byte component of the multi-byte code page IBM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain%20%28telecommunications%29 | Rain or Rain (Pty) Ltd is a South African mobile communications company, providing voice, messaging, data and converged services.
History
Rain launched in February 2018, and began providing data only services using 3000 of their own cell towers and leasing infrastructure from Vodacom and MTN.
In June 2020, rain announced the addition of 1500 5G standalone towers to be launched in 2021
Technology
Rain offers data-only mobile network services in South Africa. They provide 4G and LTE services through a partnership to use Vodacom and MTNs infrastructure. It launched The first Standalone 5G (3600) network in the country. Powered by Huawei.
Rain’s Standalone 5G is currently available in major metropolitan areas around the country.
Controversies
Ban Claiming “Unlimited Data 24/7 on 5G”
In August 2020, the advertising appeal committee of the advertising regulatory bureau banned rain from claiming unlimited 5G 24/7 after receiving multiple complaints from the public
Spectrum Arrangements
in October 2021, Telkom has approached Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to report spectrum arrangements between competitors Vodacom and Rain.
Telkom argues Vodacom’s ability to control Rain’s spectrum entrenches its position as a dominant player in a highly concentrated market. An investigation is still underway.
Ownership
See also
Telephone numbers in Africa
Telephone numbers in South Africa
MTN (South Africa)
Cell C
Telkom Mobile
Internet in South Africa
References
External links
Mobile phone companies of South Africa
Telecommunications companies established in 2018
Companies based in Johannesburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14%20%28novel%29 | 14 is a 2012 science fiction novel by American author Peter Clines.
Plot
14 follows Nate Tucker, who lives in Los Angeles, is stuck doing data entry and doesn't know what he's doing with his life. Just as he needs to move out of his old place, Nate hears of an apartment building with extremely low rent at an after work get-together, and once Nate signs his lease for 565 dollars a month (including utilities) at the Kavach building, the mysteries of the old Los Angeles brownstone begin to unravel.
Nate discovers that his building manager Oskar Rommel is reluctant to tell him much about the building. He also discovers that there is a colony of bright green, seven-legged cockroaches that skitter around his apartment, his kitchen light is a black light no matter what kind of bulb he puts in, and the four massive padlocks that are on apartment 14. In addition to discovering the visible oddities of his building, Nate also encounters his neighbors Veek, Roger, Xela, Clive, Debbie and the newly moved-in Tim. Together, they slowly unveil the deeper hidden secrets of the Kavach building. Over the course of the novel, the group, with Nate at the lead, discover that the building is not hooked into the Los Angeles power grid and instead pulls its power from a series of Westinghouse generators that draw from a fault line almost a mile underneath Kavach. They also discover writing on all of the walls of various apartments that includes scientific formulas, population growth algorithms and a letter from one of the men who created Kavach, Aleksander Koturovich, which helps answer the mysterious questions about the nature of the building. Aleksander Koturovic along with Whipple Van Buren Phillips and Nikola Tesla helped finance and construct the Kavach building as a protective barrier around our reality, meant to guard against a species of multi-dimensional predators that appear in our world once the total population of the planet reached a critical point, consuming everything in their path before returning to their home dimension to await the next turn of the cycle.
Nate and the others also discover that beneath the paneling of Clive and Debbie's apartment is a series of knobs and switches that are meant to act as the controls for the building. As Nate and the others break into apartment 14 to discover the last of the mysteries of their building, they realize that a pocket of space is within the apartment which acts as a counterbalance for the power of the building. The apex of the story occurs when Andrew, another resident of Kavach who is also a member of the Family of the Red Death (a doomsday cult that worships Koturovic's alpha predators), deactivates the building, causing the barrier to fail and the creatures to emerge. Nate and the other residents of the Kavach building hurriedly work to change the switches and dials on the control panel in Clive and Debbie's apartment. Oskar gets captured by a flying creature, they fail to get him back and in the proce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realtime%20Trains | Realtime Trains is a website that tracks trains on the British railway network.
History
Realtime Trains was launched in October 2012 by Tom Cairns, a student at the University of Southampton.
In March 2020, Abellio ScotRail became the first operator to share additional rolling stock information with Realtime Trains. The additional information was dubbed Know Your Train, and includes a visual overview of the type of rolling stock and number of carriages used by each service. Operators which now offer this information include Northern Trains and TransPennine Express. In May 2021, Realtime Trains stated that 45% of the distance travelled by trains on the British railway network was covered by Know Your Train.
Another service called Track Your Train was added in September 2020, offering advanced notice of platform alterations and potential delays to a service. Initially, Track Your Train is only available on selected services starting at .
Following a grant from the Culture Recovery Fund, in 2021 Realtime Trains installed live departure boards for Swanage Railway heritage services at and stations.
Data sources
The data presented on Realtime Trains is created using a variety of sources and human input. In 2017, Realtime Trains installed GPS tracking devices in trains to allow services to be tracked during a diesel gala on the Swanage Railway.
References
External links
British companies established in 2012
Internet properties established in 2012
British websites
Transport websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge%20service | In cloud computing, the term zero-knowledge (or occasionally no-knowledge or zero access) refers to an online service that stores, transfers or manipulates data in a way that maintains a high level of confidentiality, where the data is only accessible to the data's owner (the client), and not to the service provider. This is achieved by encrypting the raw data at the client's side or end-to-end (in case there is more than one client), without disclosing the password to the service provider. This means that neither the service provider, nor any third party that might intercept the data, can decrypt and access the data without prior permission, allowing the client a higher degree of privacy than would otherwise be possible. In addition, zero-knowledge services often strive to hold as little metadata as possible, holding only that data that is functionally needed by the service.
The term "zero-knowledge" was popularized by backup service SpiderOak, which later switched to using the term "no knowledge" to avoid confusion with the computer science concept of zero-knowledge proof.
Providers of zero-knowledge services include:
Bitwarden
Cubbit
DekkoSecure
LucidLink
NordLocker
NordPass
ProtonMail
Signal
SpiderOak
Sync.com
Tarsnap
Skiff (email service)
Tresorit
Memento Cloud
Privacy Vault
Disadvantages
Most cloud storage services keep a copy of the client's password on their servers, allowing clients who have lost their passwords to retrieve and decrypt their data using alternative means of authentication; but since zero-knowledge services do not store copies of clients' passwords, if a client loses their password then their data cannot be decrypted, making it practically unrecoverable.
Most cloud storage services are also able to furnish access requests from law enforcement agencies for similar reasons; zero-knowledge services, however, are unable to do so, since their systems are designed to make clients' data inaccessible without the client's explicit cooperation.
References
Privacy
Computer security
Backup software
Secure communication
Internet terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti%20computers | The Olivetti company, an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other such business products as calculators and fax machines, was founded as a typewriter manufacturer by Camillo Olivetti in 1908 in the Turin commune of Ivrea, Italy.
Olivetti was a pioneer in computer development, starting with the mainframe systems in the 1950s, and continuing into the 1990s with PC-compatible laptops and desktops.
History
1950–1960s
Between 1955 and 1964 Olivetti developed some of the first transistorized mainframe computer systems, such as the Elea 9003. Although 40 large commercial 9003 and over 100 smaller 6001 scientific machines were completed and leased to customers to 1964, low sales, loss of two key managers and financial instability caused Olivetti to withdraw from the field in 1964.
In 1965, Olivetti released the Programma 101, considered one of the first commercial desktop programmable calculators. It was saved from the sale of the computer division to GE thanks to an employee, Gastone Garziera, who spent successive nights changing the internal categorization of the product from "computer" to "calculator", so leaving the small team in Olivetti and creating some awkward situations in the office, since that space was now owned by GE.
1970s
In 1974, the firm released the TC800, an intelligent terminal designed to be attached to a mainframe and used in the finance sector. It was followed in 1977 by the TC1800.
1980s
Olivetti's first modern personal computer, the M20, featuring a Zilog Z8000 CPU, was released in 1982.
The M20 was followed in 1983 by the M24, a clone of the IBM PC using DOS and the Intel 8086 processor (at 8 MHz) instead of the Intel 8088 used by IBM (at 4.77 MHz). The M24 was sold in North America as the AT&T 6300. Olivetti also manufactured the AT&T 6300 Plus, which could run both DOS and Unix. The M24 was also sold as Xerox 6060 in the US, and as LogAbax PERSONA 1600 in France. The Olivetti M28 was the firm's first PC to have the Intel 80286 processor. It was sold in France as the LogAbax Persona 1800.
The same year Olivetti produced its M10 laptop computer, a 8085-based workalike of the successful Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100, which it marketed in Europe. These were the first laptops to sell in million-unit quantities, though the itself only attained sales figures in the tens of thousands and went out of production within two years.
In 1985, the company acquired a controlling share in the British computer manufacturer Acorn Computers Ltd; a third partner was Thomson SA. Olivetti sold the Thomson MO6 and Acorn BBC Master Compact with brand names Olivetti Prodest PC128 and PC128S respectively.
In 1987, Olivetti introduced the LSX line of computers which was based on the Motorola 68000 series of processors. They could run either Olivetti's proprietary MOS or Olivetti's own Unix variant, X/OS. Intended to replace Olivetti's existing Linea Uno (L1) range of multiuser systems, introduced in 1981, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy%20networks%20in%20Nigeria | Piracy network in Nigeria refers to the organisation of actors involved in the sophisticated, complex piracy activities: piracy kidnappings and petro-piracy. The most organised piracy activities in the Gulf of Guinea takes place in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A large number of both non-state and formal state actors are involved in a piracy operation, indicating a vast social network. As revealed by the arrested pirate Bless Nube “we do not work in isolation. We have a network of ministries’ workers. What they do is to give us information on the location and content of the vessels to be hijacked. After furnishing us with the information, they would make part payment, and after the hijack, they would pay us the balance.” Pirate groups draw on the pirate network to gain access to actors who provide security, economic resources, and support to pirate operations. This includes government officials, businesspeople, armed groups, and transnational mafia.
The organisation of the piracy network is not based around a single person, pirate group, or ethnic group, but rather based on cooperation between the involved actors. Members of the piracy network are hired on a case-to-case basis, based on their skill and contribution to each piracy operations. Members can enter and exit the piracy network as they please, thus the organisational structure varies from operation to operation. The average piracy operation requires between 40-60 members. This includes the pirate groups directly involved in attacks, and other players who can provide financing, insider information, ransom negotiation and money laundering, and facilitate sales of stolen goods. From the pirate groups, usually 3-10 pirates participate in attacks. On rare occasions, up to 20-30 pirates in multiple speedboats participate in attacks. Although membership is fluid, the various roles needed for successful piracy operations are not. These roles include pirate leaders, operational crew, sponsors, informants, security, facilitators, transport, and sales.
Organisation of the piracy modus operandi
Piracy kidnappings and petro-piracy have slightly different modus operandi, and therefore the organisation of such operations is different. Kidnapping is a lengthy process, where a long time may pass between the attack and receiving payout. The operations are therefore organised in a way that prevents state authorities from interfering at any time of this process. Petro-piracy, on the other hand, must navigate state institutions to gain access to oil markets. This requires strong cooperation with formal actors within the Nigerian economy.
Piracy kidnappings
The organisation of piracy kidnappings is complex, and require extensive planning, long-term commitment, heavy weaponry, and intelligence. Additionally, it must have support networks for security and economic resources. The main actors included in piracy kidnappings are therefore pirate leaders, operational crew, sponsors, informants, security, f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trupanea%20sedata | Trupanea sedata is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Trupanea of the family Tephritidae.
Distribution
Kenya.
References
Tephritinae
Insects described in 1957
Diptera of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervision%20%28Shostakovich%29 | "Intervision" () is a brief orchestral work by Dmitri Shostakovich composed in 1971. It was commissioned by the Intervision Network, which broadcast its premiere on March 29, 1971, one day before the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Because Shostakovich's Intervision was regularly used to preface broadcasts of foreign news items, the work became one of the composer's best-known in the final decades of the Soviet Union. It was published in volume 36 of the new complete works edition of the composer's music currently being published by DSCH Publishers. Shostakovich's manuscript, which contained portions of his transcription for voices and piano of his Symphony No. 14, was gifted by the composer to Boris Parsadanian. The manuscript is currently held in the Juilliard Manuscript Collection.
References
External links
Compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich
1971 compositions
Television music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara%20Javidi | Tara Javidi is an Iranian electrical engineer and computer scientist who studies networked information, stochastic control, machine learning, hypothesis testing, network optimization, and network routing, among other topics. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where she co-directs the Center for Machine-Integrated Computing and Security with Farinaz Koushanfar.
Education and career
Javidi graduated from Sharif University of Technology in 1996, and earned two MS degrees and a PhD from the University of Michigan in 2002. Her dissertation, Optimal Resource Allocation: Issues and Applications, was supervised by Demosthenis Teneketzis.
She became an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington in 2002 before moving to her present position at the University of California, San Diego in 2005. She was promoted to full professor in 2016.
Recognition
Javidi was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2021, "for contributions to stochastic resource allocation and active hypothesis testing".
In 2020, the University of Michigan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering recognized her with their Distinguished Educator Award, for her "significant and lasting impact in education".
References
External links
Home page
Center for Machine-Integrated Computing and Security
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Iranian computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Sharif University of Technology alumni
University of Michigan alumni
University of Washington faculty
University of California, San Diego faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Immaculate%20Hospital | Mary Immaculate Hospital is a former hospital in Queens, NY. It was part of the Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center network
An attempt to save the hospital was made the hospital with a purchase by Jamaica Hospital.
Current
The hospital is to be converted into luxury apartments.
References
Defunct hospitals in Queens
Buildings and structures in Queens, New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreWolf | LibreWolf is a free and open-source web browser and fork of Firefox with an emphasis on privacy and security.
Development
LibreWolf was initially released for Linux operating systems on March 7 2020. A community-maintained version for Windows was released a year later with a macOS port planned. It can also be installed via a portable AppImage or via the Microsoft Store and Windows Package Manager.
Features
Being a privacy focused browser, LibreWolf does not include telemetry and has uBlock Origin pre-installed. Certain features like Pocket are also disabled, and the auto-update function has been removed.
License
The browser is licensed by Mozilla Public License 2.0 while the website is licensed by GNU AGPL 3.0.
See also
Browser security
Pale Moon
Gecko (software)
Waterfox
References
2020 software
Free web browsers
Gecko-based software
Windows web browsers
Web browsers
Linux web browsers
Free and open-source software
Web browsers based on Firefox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20Hebrew | Mac OS Hebrew is used in Apple Macintosh computers to represent Hebrew texts.
References
Character sets
Hebrew
Hebrew alphabet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20OPL | The OPL (FM Operator Type-L) series are a family of sound chips developed by Yamaha. The OPL series are low-cost sound chips providing FM synthesis for use in computing, music and video game applications.
Internal operation
The internal operation of the chips is completely digital. Each FM-tone is generated by a digital oscillator using a form of direct digital synthesis. A low-frequency oscillator and an envelope generator drive an FM operator to produce floating-point output for the DAC. Decapsulation of the chips shows two look-up tables, one for calculating exponents and one for log-sine. This allows the FM operator to calculate its output without any multipliers, using the formula and two 256-entry look-up tables. Both tables are stored as pairs of values rounded to the nearest whole number, with the second value represented as the difference between it and the first value.
A quarter of the log-transformed sine waveform is stored as a sampled approximation in a 256-word read-only memory (ROM) table, computed by for values of 0 to 255. The rest of the sine-waveform is extrapolated via its property of symmetry. Scaling the output of an oscillator to a wanted volume would normally be done by multiplication, but the YM3526 avoids multiplications by operating on log-transformed signals, which reduces multiplications into computationally cheaper additions.
Another 256-word ROM stores the exponential function as a lookup table, used to convert the logarithmic scale signal back to linear scale when required, as the final stage where the oscillator-outputs are summed together (just prior to the DAC-output bus), with the modulator waveform always delayed by one sample before the carrier waveform. This table is computed by for values of 0 to 255. To compute the exponent, 1024 is added to the value at the index given by the least significant byte of input; this becomes the significand and the remaining bits of input become the exponent of the floating point output.
Chips in the series
OPL
The YM3526, introduced in 1984, was the first in the OPL family, providing a nine channel, two operator synthesizer. A very closely related chip is the Y8950, or MSX-AUDIO, which was used as an MSX expansion. It is essentially a YM3526 with ADPCM recording and playback capability.
The circuit has 244 different write-only registers. It can produce 9 channels of sound, each made of two oscillators or 6 channels with 5 percussion instruments available. Each oscillator can produce sine waves and has its own ADSR envelope generator. Its main method of synthesis is frequency modulation synthesis, accomplished via phase modulation of the phase of one channel's oscillators by the output of another.
The YM3526's output, a sequence of floating point numbers clocked at a sampling frequency of approximately 49716 Hz, is sent to a separate digital-to-analog converter (DAC) chip, the YM3014B.
Overview of a channel's registers:
For the whole channel:
Main frequency ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas%20Elmqvist | Niklas Elmqvist is a Swedish-American computer scientist. He is currently a professor in the College of Information Studies, an affiliate professor in the Computer Science Department, and an affiliate member of UMIACS (University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies), all at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Elmqvist served as director of the University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab from 2016-2021.
Prior to joining UMD, he was a faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University from 2008 to 2014.
In 2013, he received a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
In 2018 he was named a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
In April 2023, he was named a Villum Investigator by the Villum Foundation in Denmark.
Education
Niklas Elmqvist completed his Doctor of Philosophy in computer science in 2006 at Chalmers University of Technology.
Research
Niklas Elmqvist is known for his work on human–computer interaction, data and information visualization, and visual analytics.
His contributions are diverse and focused on innovative human-data interaction and open data infrastructures.
Early work centered on multivariate data visualization, such as in the GraphDice or DataMeadow systems.
In his 2009 paper "Hierarchical Aggregation for Information Visualization" he proposed a model for building, visualizing, and interacting with multiscale representations, guiding other researchers toward more scalable visualization techniques.
Niklas Elmqvist has developed new architectures that enable novel combinations of multiple devices (such as smartwatches and large displays) as well as thought-provoking new devices, such as the first olfactory data display.
He has championed the design of open and standardized infrastructures that support meshing those devices into a coherent whole, with a series of prototypes such as Munin, PolyChrome, and, more recently, the promising Vistrates framework, that supports easily building cross-device and distributed visualization applications.
His research exemplifies fluid interaction in a diverse set of visualization topics, from graphs and time series to animation and games, and, more recently, sensory substitution mechanisms such as haptic technology and sonification to improve the accessibility of visualizations for users with visual impairments.
Service
Elmqvist was a papers co-chair of the IEEE Computer Society IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) conference in 2016, 2017, and 2020.
He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics from 2015 until 2020, being awarded the TVCG Best Associate Editor Award in 2016.
He is currently on the editorial board for Information Visualization and International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
Books
Designing the User Interface Pearson by Shneiderman, B., Plaisant, C., Cohen, M., Jacobs, S., Elmqvist, N., Diakopoulos, N. - 6th Ed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishor%20S.%20Trivedi | Kishor Shridharbhai Trivedi is an Indian-American computer scientist who is currently the Hudson Chaired Professor in department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University.
Education
Kishor S. Trivedi was born in India. He graduated from Indian Institutes of Technology Bombay in 1968 with B.Tech. in electrical engineering. He received a master's degree in computer science in 1972, and a PhD in computer science, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under supervision of James Evans Robertson and J. Richard Philips.
Career
Kishor S. Trivedi is currently the Hudson Chaired Professor in department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University. He has been on the Duke faculty since 1975.
Books
He wrote three well-known books including the bluebook "Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications", redbook "Performance and Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems: An Example-Based Approach Using the SHARPE Software Package" and whitebook "Queueing Networks and Markov Chains". In addition to these three books, he recently wrote a greenbook "Reliability and Availability Engineering".
Publications
He has published more than 500 articles in international conferences, journals.
Honors
He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow and a Life fellow of IEEE. He received 2008 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award “For pioneering contributions to the understanding of the phenomena of software aging and software rejuvenation." He is an elected member of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerance.
References
American electrical engineers
Duke University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative%20Design%20in%20Minecraft | GDMC (short for Generative Design in Minecraft) is a programming competition to create procedurally generated settlements in Minecraft. The competition is organized by academics from New York University, the University of Hertfordshire and the Queen Mary University of London.
Organisers
Michael Cerny Green (New York University)
Christoph Salge (University of Hertfordshire)
Rodrigo Canaan (New York University)
Christian Guckelsberger (Queen Mary University of London)
Julian Togelius (New York University)
References
External links
Programming contests
Recurring events established in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20busiest%20railway%20stations%20in%20Poland | This is a list of the busiest railway stations in Poland sorted by the average number of passengers boarding daily in 2019. Statistics and data are collected by the .
List
Stations with daily riderships above 4,500 passengers are shown.
References
External links
Office of Rail Transport
Nasze dworce Introduction of main railway stations, PKP
Railway stations
Railway stations
Poland
Busiest railway stations in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafeMoon | SafeMoon LLC is a cryptocurrency and blockchain company created in March 2021. The company also has a SafeMoon token (SFM) which trades on the BNB Chain blockchain. The token charges a 10% fee on transactions, with 5% redistributed (or reflected) to token holders and 5% directed to wallets in a different currency, Binance Coin (BNB), controlled by the coin's authors. The token reached its all time high market cap in April 2021 of $17b. As of December 2022, it has since dropped 98.7% in value to $223m.
The SafeMoon company has released a minimal-function cryptocurrency wallet and has announced plans to release other cryptocurrency products. The company and the token have been the subject of several controversies since conception; by being compared to a ponzi-scheme, not delivering on products, having multiple class-action lawsuits filed against them, and facing serious fraud allegations.
History
2021: SafeMoon version 1
SafeMoon was released in March 2021. A compound of "Safe" and "Moon". The token was released with the slogan of landing "Safely to the moon", derived from the slang phrase used in the cryptocurrency community; "To the moon" which is used to describe a crypto token "to quickly rise in price". The token had no utility and team when it was launched. Upon release, Vice reported that between March 14 and April 21 of 2021, SafeMoon increased in value by 23,225% following celebrity endorsements from musicians Lil' Yachty and Nick Carter, YouTuber Logan Paul, social media hype, new exchange listings, and retail investors. At that time, Vice said that "cryptocurrencies like SafeMoon still have no real-world use." These celebrities were later sued by many SafeMoon investors as part of a class-action lawsuit branding SafeMoon to be a part of a pump and dump scheme. After the substantial rise in price, the unknown developers of the token appointed Braden John Karony as the CEO of Safemoon and registered as a Limited liability company with aims of providing utility to the token. Before this appointment, Karony served as a former analyst for the United States Department of Defense from January 2015 to January 2021.
In May 2021, SafeMoon announced making a presentation to The Gambia to provide "technology for innovation and learning purposes". The project was dubbed "Project " (the misspelling of Phoenix being intentional), SafeMoon released a familiar crypto pitch of serving the "unbanked" and claimed to be working with local governments to adopt the token as a local currency. A company run by John Karony's mother ECG LC, was set up in May 2021 to deliver this project. On August 27, 2022, John stated that his reasons for discontinuing his work in West Africa were due to supply chain problems, which is disputed by his mother in the ongoing Project lawsuit.
In June 2021, the project began beta testing of the SafeMoon wallet. The app was officially released on Google Play in September 2021 and the App Store in October 2021. Critics dubbed th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBS%20S.A.%20ransomware%20attack | On May 30, 2021, JBS S.A., a Brazil-based meat processing company, suffered a cyberattack, disabling its beef and pork slaughterhouses. The attack impacted facilities in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Background
JBS S.A., a Brazil-based meat processing company, supplies approximately one-fifth of meat globally, making it the world's largest producer of beef, chicken, and pork by sales. The attack was compared to the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, which occurred earlier in the same month.
An employee of Recorded Future referred to the attack as the largest to date to impact a company focused on food production. Some forty additional attacks on food producers occurred in the twelve months preceding the JBS attack, with targets including beverage company Molson Coors.
Impact
All facilities belonging to JBS USA, JBS' American subsidiary, including those focused on pork and poultry, faced disruption due to the attack. All JBS-owned beef facilities in the United States were rendered temporarily inoperative. Impacted slaughterhouses were located in states including Utah, Texas, Wisconsin, and Nebraska. A notable shutdown was the JBS beef facility in Souderton, Pennsylvania, which is the largest such facility east of Chicago, according to JBS.
The beef industry in Australia faced disruption as a result of the attack. JBS "stood down" some 7000 Australian employees on June 2.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture was unable to offer wholesale beef and pork prices on June 1. Due to predicted shortfalls in meat production and price increases, the USDA encouraged other companies to increase production. JBS indicated on June 1 that most of its facilities would resume functioning on June 2. The attack heightened awareness of consolidation in the meatpacking industry in the United States, and the corresponding vulnerability to decreased production, should one of the four major meat producers reduce its output.
JBS paid the hackers an $11 million ransom. The ransom was paid in Bitcoin. American politician Carolyn Maloney criticized the company for paying the ransom due to concerns it might incentivize further attacks. The attack brought attention to the potentially negative consequences of consolidation in meat production.
Responsibility
The White House announced that the cyberattack was likely conducted by a Russian organization, and news outlets reported that REvil was culpable. As of June 2, REvil had not taken credit for the attack, and the FBI was conducting an investigation into its origins.
After a 9 July 2021 phone call between United States president Joe Biden and Russian president Vladimir Putin, Biden told the press, "I made it very clear to him that the United States expects when a ransomware operation is coming from his soil even though it’s not sponsored by the state, we expect them to act if we give them enough information to act on who that is." Biden later added that the United States would take the group's servers down if Putin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV%20Television%20Playhouse | ITV Television Playhouse, often simplified to Television Playhouse, was a British anthology television series produced by and airing on the ITV television network from 1955 through 1963. The series premiered with the teleplay Midlevel on 24 September 1955. Its final episode was the teleplay They Don't Make Summers Like They Used To which aired on 27 December 1963.
Originally airing one hour long episodes weekly on Friday nights during its first season in 1955–1956, the programme was subsequently moved to Thursday night weekly broadcasts for its second (1956–1957) and third (1957–1958) seasons. The programme moved back to weekly Friday night broadcasts for its fourth (1958–1959) and fifth (1959–1960) seasons. It returned to Thursday night weekly broadcasts for seasons 6 (1960–1961) and 7 (1961–1962). The series moved back to Friday night broadcasts for season 8 (1962–1963). Its final season, season 9 (Autumn 1963), was only half as long as the other seasons and aired on Thursday nights.
See also
Playhouse (British TV series)
References
External links
1955 British television series debuts
1964 British television series endings
1950s British drama television series
1960s British drama television series
British drama television series
1950s British anthology television series
1960s British anthology television series
Black-and-white British television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2021–22 network television schedule for the five major English commercial broadcast networks in Canada covers primetime hours from September 2021 through August 2022. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 2020–21 television season, for Canadian, American and other series. CBC was first to announce its fall schedule on June 2, 2021, followed by Citytv and Global on June 8, and CTV on June 10. Yes TV, and Omni Television are not included as member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules. CTV 2 is not included on Friday or Saturday as it normally only schedules encore programming in primetime on Fridays and Saturdays.
Legend
Grey indicates encore programming.
Blue-grey indicates news programming.
Light green indicates sporting events/coverage.
Light purple indicates movies.
Red indicates Canadian content shows, which is programming that originated in Canada.
Light yellow indicates the current schedule.
Schedule
New series to Canadian television are highlighted in bold.
All times given are in Canadian Eastern Time and Pacific Time (except for some live events or specials, including most sports, which are given in Eastern Time). Subtract one hour for Central time for most programs (excluding CBC). Airtimes may vary in the Atlantic and Mountain times and do not necessarily align with U.S. stations in the Mountain time zone. Add one half-hour to Atlantic Time schedule for Newfoundland time. (See also: Effects of time zones on North American broadcasting)
Dates (e.g., (9/13)) indicate the first month and day of a program in its regular timeslot, not necessarily the premiere date.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
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| rowspan=2| Coronation Street
| style=background:#F08080 rowspan=2| Family Feud Canada
| colspan=2| War of the Worlds
| style=background:#F08080 colspan=2|Diggstown
| style=background:#6699CC colspan=2 rowspan=2|
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! Winter
| style=background:#F08080| Still Standing
| style=background:#F08080| Run the Burbs
| style=background:#F08080 colspan=2| Pretty Hard Cases
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! rowspan=2| Citytv
! Fall
| style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 rowspan=2|Mom
| colspan=2|Chicago Med
| colspan=2|Chicago Fire
| colspan=2|Chicago P.D.
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! Summer
| colspan=2|America's Got Talent
| colspan=2|So You Think You Can Dance
| style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2|Mom
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! rowspan=4| CTV
! Fall
| style=background:#F08080| Etalk
| The Wonder Years
| colspan=2| The Masked Singer
| rowspan=3| The Conners
| rowspan=3| Home Economics
| colspan=2| Alter Ego
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizuo%20Ishiguro | Shizuo Ishiguro (1920–2007) was a Japanese oceanographer who studied the dynamics of ocean waves using analog computing. He worked at the Nagasaki Marine Observatory from 1948 to 1960 receiving his doctorate from the University of Tokyo in 1958. His focus was large water oscillations known as “abiki” which occasionally cause ocean flooding in Nagasaki Bay. In 1957, Ishiguro was awarded a UNESCO fellowship to join the UK National Institute of Oceanography to adapt his work for storm surges in the North Sea, such as the serious flood of 1953.
Analysis of North Sea Flood
The North Sea Flood occurred on the evening of the 31 January 1953 when low atmospheric pressure, high winds and a high spring tide caused the sea level to rise five metres above its usual height. Serious flooding occurred on the east coast of England, the Netherlands, and Belgium. To perform his analysis, Ishiguro constructed an analog computer which relies on the mathematical similarity between the flow of electricity through a network and the flow of water in the sea during a storm-surge. The storm surge computer is now on display in the Mathematics: the Winton Gallery of the Science Museum in London as part of an exhibit about mathematical modelling of the sea.
Personal life
Shizuo Ishiguro is the father of Nobel Prize winning author, Kazuo Ishiguro.
References
Japanese oceanographers
University of Tokyo alumni
1920 births
2007 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streum%20On%20Studio | Streum On Studio is a French video game development company based in Paris. Founded in 2007, the studio is best known for developing E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy, Space Hulk: Deathwing, and Necromunda: Hired Gun
History
Streum On Studio was founded in 2007 by Jonathan Cacherat, Pierrick Le Nestour and Christophe Longuépée. Prior to starting the company, the team had worked on a mod for Half-Life named "Syndicate Black Ops". According to Longuépée, the word "streum on" means monster in Verlan. The studio then began working on their first project titled E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy with a team of about 10 people. The company then partnered with Games Workshop and Focus Home Interactive to release Space Hulk: Deathwing. The studio was acquired by Focus Home in April 2021, and became Focus Home's second in-house game development studio after Deck13 Interactive. The studio continued its collaboration with Games Workshop and released Necromunda: Hired Gun in June 2021.
Games
References
External links
Companies based in Paris
Focus Entertainment
French companies established in 2007
Video game companies of France
Video game companies established in 2007
Video game development companies
2021 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie%20Meusienne%20de%20Chemins%20de%20Fer | The Compagnie Meusienne de Chemins de Fer (colloquially Le Meusien) operated from 1888 to 1922 a long metre gauge () rail network in the French Département Meuse. Its most westerly branch was built by the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer d'Intérêt Local de la Meuse and commissioned section by section since 1878. The Société Générale des Chemins de Fer Économiques took over the network in 1922 and operated it until decline and closure between 1929 and 1938.
History
Construction
The Compagnie des Chemins de fer d'Intérêt Local de la Meuse built and commissioned the first section of the local railway from Haironville via Revigny to Triaucourt from 1878 to 1881 and operated it until 1888. A short connecting line to Rembercourt joined the Triaucourt line at Les Merchines.
The concessionaire, Charles Varinot, had taken control of the line from Haironville to Triaucourt in 1888. The Compagnie Meusienne de Chemins de Fer (CM) took over the concession for the Haironville-Triaucourt line in 1888. Between 1891 and 1912, it put additional lines into service from Bar-le-Duc to Verdun, Clermont-en-Argonne and Pierrefitte-sur-Aire.
After the First World War, Société Générale des Chemins de Fer Économiques took over the network in 1922 and operated it together with the Réseau de la Woëvre northeast of Verdun. It operated the entire network until its gradual closure between 1929 and 1938.
However, a 13 km section between Haironville and Robert-Espagne, which had been regauged to standard gauge in the early 1930s, was still operated by steam engines for freight traffic until 1971.
A 4.2 km section of line north of Bar-le-Duc was reopened as a museum railway.
World War I
During the World War I, the locomotive fleet of the Compagnie Meusienne de Chemins de Fer (CM) was strengthened by requisitioning locomotives from metre gauge lines in other parts of France, so that up to 128 locomotives were used on the line. One of these was No. 55 (Corpet Louvet 1253/1909) from the Chemins de Fer Économiques des Charentes (EC). By the end of 1915, operational improvements made it possible to handle a very large amount of freight, which had increased from 800 to 1500 tons per day in addition to carrying 80 passengers per day. In the first five months of 1916, traffic increased to 137,367 soldiers, 84,888 wounded, 201,257 tons of supplies and 69,847 tons of ammunition and weapons transport.
During the war, the railway was popularly called "Varinot" after the name of its former concessionaire or "tacot" or "Tortillard" after the sound that it emitted. The military authorities called it the "Petit Tramway" and General Philippe Pétain described it as the "Petit Meusien". By improving the organisation of the traffic, the number of military transports increased from 22 trains on 21 February 1916 to 31 trains at the end of March to 35 at the end of April and finally even up to 48 trains between Revigny and Beauzée.
Post-war period
The Société Générale des Chemins de Fer Écono |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Governance%20Act | The Data Governance Act (DGA) is a legislative proposal of the European Commission that aims to create a framework which will facilitate data-sharing. The proposal was first announced within the 2020 European strategy for data and was officially presented by Margrethe Vestager in 25 November 2020. The DGA covers the data of public bodies, private companies, and citizens. Its main aims are to safely enable the sharing of sensitive data held by public bodies, to regulate data sharing by private actors. On 30November 2021, the EU Parliament and Council reached an agreement on the wording of the DGA. Formal approval by those bodies is still required but that should be procedural.
The proposed legislation has been analyzed by independent parties.
See also
Data Act (European Union)
General Data Protection Regulation
References
External links
Text of the Regulation
Text of Commission's Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on European data governance (Data Governance Act)
Procedure 2020/0340/COD on EUR-Lex
Procedure 2020/0340(COD) on ŒIL
2020 in law
2020 in the European Union
European Digital Strategy
Policies of the European Union
Data laws of Europe
European Union regulations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hridesh%20Rajan | Hridesh Rajan is an American computer scientist. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "distinguished contributions to data driven science, particularly to modularity and modular reasoning in computer software and the development of the Boa language and infrastructure."
Early life and education
Rajan completed his Bachelor of Technology in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology before moving to North America and enrolling at the University of Virginia for his graduate studies. He wrote his dissertation, "Unifying Aspect and Object-Oriented Program Design," under the guidance of Kevin J. Sullivan.
Career
Following his PhD, Rajan joined the Department of Computer Science faculty at Iowa State University as an assistant professor in 2005. In this role, he developed programming language designs to enable improved modularity for complex software systems to reduce defects and to improve software quality. As a result, Rajan received a 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER Award (NSF) for his project "Mutualism of Modularity and Concurrency Goals." The following year, he won another NSF award to improve modularization and reasoning mechanisms for Aspect-oriented programming languages. Upon his promotion to associate professor, Rajan was awarded multiple grants from the NSF to improve multicore programming.
By 2017, Rajan was appointed the Kingland Professor of Data Analytics and named an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Member. The following year, Rajan was awarded a 2018-19 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Rajan co-developed a data science infrastructure to improve research efficiencies for scientists who study the novel coronavirus. The tool enables scientists to quickly and efficiently locate, navigate and analyze coronavirus research from all over the world. He was also awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and eventually establish the Dependable Data-Driven Discovery Institute at Iowa State University. In June 2020, Rajan was selected to receive a Facebook Probability and Programming Award for his project "Manas: Big Code Assisted Neural Architecture Search." A few months later, his co-authored paper "On Decomposing a Deep Neural Network into Modules" was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
In November 2020, Rajan was appointed chair of the Department of Computer Science, removing his interim title. He was also elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "distinguished contributions to data driven science, particularly to modularity and modular reasoning in computer software and the development of the Boa language and infrastructure." The following year, Rajan served as the general chair for the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN conference SPLASH (Systems, Programming, Languages, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish%20Rao | Satish Rao is an American computer scientist who is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Biography
Satish Rao received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 and joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999.
Research and Awards
Rao's research focuses on computational biology, graph partitioning, and single- and multi-commodity flows (maximum flow problem).
Rao is an ACM Fellow (2013) and won the Fulkerson Prize with Sanjeev Arora and Umesh Vazirani in 2012 for their work on improving the approximation ratio for graph separators and related problems. Rao teaches discrete mathematics and probability theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
Publications
Satish Rao has published over 100 publications and is cited frequently.
Selected publications
S. Arora, S. Rao, and U. Vazirani. "Expander flows, geometric embeddings and graph partitioning," Journal of the ACM (JACM) 56.2 (2009): 1-37.
J. Fakcharoenphol, S. Rao, and K. Talwar, "A tight bound on approximating arbitrary metrics by tree metrics," in Proceedings of 35th Annual ACM Symp. on Theory of Computing, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2003, pp. 448–455.
K. Hildrum, J. D. Kubiatowicz, S. Rao, and B. Y. Zhao, "Distributed object location in a dynamic network," in Proceedings of 14th Annual ACM Symp. on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2002, pp. 41–52.
G. Even, J. S. Naor, S. Rao, and B. Schieber, "Divide-and-conquer approximation algorithms using spreading metrics," Journal of the ACM, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 585–616, July 2000.
T. Leighton and S. Rao, "Multicommodity max-flow min-cut theorems and their use in designing approximation algorithms," Journal of the ACM, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 787–832, Nov. 1999.
S. Rao, "Small distortion and volume preserving embeddings for planar and Euclidean metrics," in Proceedings of 15th Annual Symp. on Computational Geometry, New York, NY: ACM Press, 1999, pp. 300–306.
A. V. Goldberg and S. Rao, "Beyond the flow decomposition barrier," Journal of the ACM, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 783–797, Sep. 1998.
J. Ingemar Cox, S. L. Hingorani, S. Rao and B. M. Maggs. "A maximum likelihood stereo algorithm," Computer vision and image understanding 63, no. 3 (1996): 542-567.
F. T. Leighton, B. M. Maggs, and S. Rao, "Packet routing and job-shop scheduling in O(congestion + dilation) steps," Combinatorica, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 167–186, June 1994.
References
External links
Google Scholar profile
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Kawsachun%20Coca | Radio Kawsachun Coca, also known as RKC and by its English channel name Kawsachun News, is a Bolivian online and radio news network. It was founded on November 7, 2007 by the campesino workers unions and focuses on Latin American politics. It has a pro-socialist editorial line. It has both English and Spanish language channels.
History
The network was criticized in January 2020 by the former Bolivian Minister of Communication Roxana Lizárraga, who became part of the interim government after Jeanine Áñez declared herself next in line to assume the presidency. Lizárraga accused the Kawsachun news network and several community radio stations of not informing, but broadcasting "seditious voices". Under Lizárraga were with this reasoning many community radio stations shut down, other journalists restricted and a list of seditious journalists created, resulting in attacks on journalists. Lizárraga announced to Kawsachun that the freedom of expression has limits, however she did not also close Kawsachun, the station was in this conflict supported by the Movement Toward Socialism. Kawsachun reported in 2020 a recording in which Evo Morales, who was exiled after the political conflict that resulted in his resignation as President of Bolivia, called for the creation of armed militias. Morales confirmed to Reuters it's his voice and defended his words, saying "if the armed forces are shooting the people, killing the people, the people have the right to organize their security".
References
External links
News and talk radio stations
Radio in Bolivia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedham%20Public%20Library | The Dedham Public Library is a public library system in Massachusetts established in 1872. It is part of the Minuteman Library Network.
History
Social library
In 1794, just four years after the first circulating library was established in Massachusetts, the First Church and Parish in Dedham organized a social library. The minister, Jason Haven, kept the books in his house and they were only circulated on Mondays. The books were eventually moved to the vestry of the church, and circulation was moved to Sundays.
Dedham Library Association
On the November 24, 1854, a social library was organized in Dedham under the general laws by the name of the Dedham Library Association. The impetus for the founding the Library Association was Carlos Slafter, who made the first suggestion, and Dr. Joseph P. Paine. The pair raised $1,300. A circulating library belonging to Elbridge G. Robinson, editor of the Norfolk Democrat, was purchased for about $200. In addition to these, many new books were bought at an expense of about $1,000.
Three gentlemen, Edmund Quincy, Edward L. Keyes, and M.B. Inches, became actively interested in the project and contributed much to its success. The library was opened to the public on February 1, 1855, in a house next to the insurance building where Judge Ezra Wilkinson formerly had an office. Dr. Samuel Adams, a dentist, was the first librarian and lived in the same building. By the payment of $5, a person became a shareholder and member of the Association and was obliged to pay a varying sum annually toward its support. After a time, persons not members were admitted on payment of a fixed sum annually. The directors were able, at a moderate cost, to furnish the patrons with the best reading matter to be secured. The interest in the library as well as the number of readers increased from year to year and its influence upon the social and intellectual improvement of the town was marked.
Incorporation as a public library
For some time previous to 1870, a strong desire had been felt by many members of the association and others interested in the usefulness of the library that free privileges should be granted to the people of the town. This was found not to be feasible owing to insufficient funds. There was such a demand for this change that an effort was made to raise money for the support of a public library. A successful fair was held by the ladies of the Association soon after this in which people of all parts of the town were actively interested and which resulted in raising $4,000 as a fund for the new library.
Several persons had petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for an act of incorporation, which was passed March 24, 1871 and accepted April 27, 1871. This act incorporated Waldo Colburn, Thomas L. Wakefield, Edward Stimson, Edmund Quincy, William Chickering, Erastus Worthington, Alfred Hewins, Henry 0. Hildreth, and their associates and successors by the name of the Dedham Public Library and Reading Room. It als |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeer%20Alwan | Abeer Alwan is an American electrical engineer and speech processing researcher. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and vice chair for undergraduate affairs in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
Education and career
Alwan graduated from Northeastern University in 1983, and completed a doctorate (Sc.D.) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. Her dissertation, Modeling speech perception in noise : the stop consonants as a case study, was supervised by Kenneth N. Stevens.
She joined the UCLA faculty in 1992, was promoted full professor in 2000, and became vice chair in 2015. She has also served as editor-in-chief of the journal Speech Communication from 2000 to 2003. Her notable students at UCLA include Shrikanth Narayanan.
Recognition
Alwan became a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 2003. She was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2008, "for contributions to speech perception and production modeling and their applications", and a fellow of the International Speech Communication Association in 2011, "for her contributions to speech perception and production modeling and their application to speech synthesis and recognition". She has also been a Radcliffe Fellow, a distinguished lecturer of the International Speech Communication Association, and a distinguished lecturer of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association.
References
External links
Home page
UCLA Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
Speech processing researchers
Northeastern University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Radcliffe fellows
Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America
Fellow Members of the IEEE
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las%20Hermanas%20%28TV%20series%29 | Las Hermanas () is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Monti Puno Parungao, it stars Yasmien Kurdi, Thea Tolentino and Faith da Silva. It premiered on October 25, 2021 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Nagbabagang Luha. The series concluded on January 14, 2022 with a total of 60 episodes. It was replaced by Prima Donnas in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Yasmien Kurdi as Dorothy Manansala
Thea Tolentino as Minerva "Minnie" Manansala
Faith da Silva as Scarlet Manansala / Carla Illustre
Supporting cast
Albert Martinez as Lorenzo Illustre
Jason Abalos as Gabriel Lucero
Lucho Ayala as Ronald de Guzman
Jennica Garcia as Brenda Macario
Madeleine Nicolas as Josefa Manansala
Rubi Rubi as Rowena Mallari / Ellen "Lady E" Torillo
Melissa Mendez as Divine Sarmiento
Robert Ortega as Berto Macario
Paolo Serrano as Gerald Kau
Orlando Sol as Franco Francisco
Coleen Paz as Kiwi Almeda
Guest cast
Rita Avila as Mildred Manansala
Leandro Baldemor as Fernando Manansala
Gabrielle Hahn as a host
Production
Principal photography commenced in May 2021.
Episodes
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of Las Hermanas earned a 6.1% rating.
References
External links
2021 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUWELS | JUWELS (Jülich Wizard for European Leadership Science) is a supercomputer developed by Atos Forschungszentrum Jülich, capable of 70.980 petaflops (the speed is for JUWELS Booster Module). It replaced the now disused JUQUEEN supercomputer. JUWELS Booster Module is ranked as the eight fastest supercomputer in the world. The JUWELS Booster Module is part of a modular system architecture and a second Xeon based JUWELS Module ranks separately as the 52nd fastest supercomputer in the world.
JUWELS Booster Module uses AMD Epyc processors with Nvidia A100 GPUs for acceleration. University of Edinburgh contracted a deal to utilise JUWELS to pursue research in the fields of particle physics, astronomy, cosmology and nuclear physics.
In 2021, JUWELS Booster among eight other supercomputing systems participated in the MLPerf HPC training benchmark, which is the benchmark developed by the consortium of artificial intelligence developers from academia, research labs, and industry aiming to unbiasedly evaluate the training and inference performance for hardware, software, and services used for AI. JUWELS also ranked among the top 15 on the worldwide Green500 list of energy-efficient supercomputers.
The Simulation and Data Laboratory (SimLab) for Climate Science at Forschungszentrum Jülich uses JUWELS to detect gravity waves in the atmosphere by running computing programs to continuously download and compute on the operational radiance measurements from the NASA's data servers.
See also
Computer science
Computing
Supercomputing in Europe
Top500
Green500
References
External links
Forschungszentrum Jülich website
Supercomputing in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul%20Bari%20Khan | Abdul Bari Khan HI TI EF (born; 1961) (Urdu: پروفیسر ڈاکٹر عبدالباری خان) is a Pakistani cardiac surgeon and philanthropist. He is the founder of Indus Hospital and Health Network (IHHN) and served as the Network's CEO from 2007 to 2022. He has since taken on the new role as President of the Network.
Early life and education
Khan was born in 1961 in Karachi. He received his MBBS from Dow Medical College.
Awards and honours
Hilal-i-Imtiaz (2019)
Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (2015)
Eisenhower Fellowship (2004)
Asian Leadership Award (Lifetime Achievement Award)
Hall of Fame - DOW Graduate Association of North America
Honorary Trustee of Iqra Rozatul Atfal Trust
References
Living people
1961 births
Pakistani cardiologists
Pakistani philanthropists
Dow Medical College alumni
Pakistani medical doctors
Recipients of Hilal-i-Imtiaz
Recipients of Tamgha-e-Imtiaz
Eisenhower Fellows
Social entrepreneurs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume%20Rozier | Guillaume Rozier (born in April 1996) is a French engineer, data aggregator, consultant in data science, qualified on January 5, 2021 by the daily Les Echos as a "Most mediated Data Scientist of the moment". He is at the origin of website CovidTracker who regroup data about Covid-19 in France. Also, this website hosts VaccinTracker and ViteMaDose who regroup available appointments for the vaccination against Covid-19.
Biography
Family and childhood
Guillaume Rozier was born in April 1996 from a father who is computer scientist, and from a mother who is professor of physics.
When he was a teenager, he says he was interested about physics, meteorology and mathematics.
Education
Although earlier interested about IT, Guillaume Rozier didn't think he was a "geek" because he didn't know how to program when he got his scientific baccalaureate. After prep school in Champollion high-school at Grenoble, he joined Télécom Nancy in 2016. Also in 2018 he got a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Telecom Business School. During his studies, he studied big-data applied in the medical sector.
Career
Guillaume Rozier works henceforth for a French IT consulting group, a subsidiary of the American company Accenture.
CovidTracker and ViteMaDose
Guillaume Rozier is famous for having created CovidTracker, a website aggregating data about Covid-19 in France, and also because he has created ViteMaDose ("QuickMyDose" in English) which allows people to find an appointment to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Indeed, ViteMaDose regroups the different appointment availability in the region.
Recognition
On May 21, 2021, Guillaume Rozier was nominated exceptionally to the rank of Knight in the French National Order of Merit.
References
French engineers
COVID-19 pandemic in France
1996 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20subset%20sum | The multiple subset sum problem is an optimization problem in computer science and operations research. It is a generalization of the subset sum problem. The input to the problem is a multiset of n integers and a positive integer m representing the number of subsets. The goal is to construct, from the input integers, some m subsets. The problem has several variants:
Max-sum MSSP: for each subset j in 1,...,m, there is a capacity Cj. The goal is to make the sum of all subsets as large as possible, such that the sum in each subset j is at most Cj.
Max-min MSSP (also called bottleneck MSSP or BMSSP): again each subset has a capacity, but now the goal is to make the smallest subset sum as large as possible.
Fair SSP: the subsets have no fixed capacities, but each subset belongs to a different person. The utility of each person is the sum of items in his/her subsets. The goal is to construct subsets that satisfy a given criterion of fairness, such as max-min item allocation.
Max-sum and max-min MSSP
When m is variable (a part of the input), both problems are strongly NP-hard, by reduction from 3-partition. This means that they have no fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS) unless P=NP.
Even when m=2, the problems do not have an FPTAS unless P=NP. This can be shown by a reduction from the equal-cardinality partition problem (EPART):
Given an instance a1,...,an of EPART with target sum T, construct an instance 2T+a1, ..., 2T+an of MSSP with target sum (n+1)T for both subsets.
A solution to EPART consists of two parts, each of which has n/2 elements with a sum of T. It corresponds to an optimal solution of both MSSP variants: two subsets with a sum of (n+1)T, which is the largest possible. Similarly, each optimal solution of MSSP corresponds to a solution to EPART.
Any non-optimal solution to MSSP leaves at least one item unallocated, so its sum is at most 2nT and its minimum is at most nT. In both variants, the approximation ratio is at most .
Therefore, for any , any algorithm with approximation ratio must find the optimal solution if it exists.
If we had an FPTAS, then we would have an algorithm with e.g. , with run-time polynomial in n. This algorithm could be used to solve EPART in time polynomial in n. But this is not possible unless P=NP.
The following approximation algorithms are known:
For max-sum MSSP, with variable m:
A PTAS, which runs in time O(m+n) when is fixed. The run-time is at least exponential in , and the authors consider it impractical.
A more general PTAS for the case in which the subset capacities are different.
A 3/4-approximation algorithm which runs in time O(m2n).
For max-min MSSP:
With variable m: a 2/3-approximation, in time O(n log n). No better approximation is possible unless P=NP (by reduction from 3-partition).
With fixed m: a PTAS, running in time .
With a fixed number of distinct input values: a PTAS using Lenstra's algorithm.
Fair subset sum problem
The fair subset sum problem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurabh%20Bagchi | Saurabh Bagchi is an Indian-born American academic researcher and educator in the area of computer science and engineering. He is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Purdue University. His contributions have been in the area of reliability and security of distributed computing systems and Internet-of-Things (IoT).
Education
He earned his B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India. He earned his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and 2001 respectively, working with Prof. Ravishankar Iyer.
Career
From 2001 to 2002, he was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, NY in the Distributed Messaging Systems group. He joined Purdue University in 2002 at the West Lafayette campus in Indiana, where he was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor and then Full Professor. He founded and directs a university-wide center called CRISP (Center for Resilient Infrastructures, Systems, and Processes) with about 25 affiliated faculty.
He has supervised 25 Ph.D. dissertations and about 50 MS dissertations. He is the co-author of a book from Springer titled "System Dependability and Analytics - Approaching System Dependability from Data, System and Analytics Perspectives" and a book on wireless security.
He has published more than 850 articles in books, journals, and conferences that have been cited more than 10,200 times for an h-index value of (55, 35) (All, Recent).
Professional affiliations
Saurabh is a faculty member at Purdue University in ECE and CS. He is also the Inaugural International Visiting Faculty at IIT Kharagpur in the Computer Science and Engineering department. He was the co-founder of a startup called SensorHound Innovations LLC in 2013, which worked in the area of IoT reliability. He is the CTO of a recent startup called KeyByte LLC (from 2021) which is seeking to commercialize cloud-hosted databases.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Computer engineers
American electrical engineers
Purdue University faculty
Indian emigrants to the United States
Academics from Kolkata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasjeet%20S.%20Sekhon | Jasjeet "Jas" Singh Sekhon is a data scientist, political scientist, and statistician at Yale University. Sekhon is the Eugene Meyer Professor at Yale University, a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a fellow of the Society for Political Methodology. Sekhon's primary research interests lie in causal inference, machine learning, and their intersection. He has also published research on their application in various fields including voting behavior, online experimentation, epidemiology, and medicine.
Biography
Sekhon graduated with a B.A. from the University of British Columbia. In 1999, he earned a Ph.D. at Cornell University.
Sekhon's career in academia began in 1999, when he became an assistant professor at Harvard University. He stayed at Harvard until 2005 when he moved to UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, he was appointed as the Robson Professor of Political Science and Statistics in 2014. In 2019, he accepted a non-academic position as Head of Advanced Data Science at Bridgewater Associates, and in 2020 left Berkeley to join Yale University, where he was appointed Meyer Professor of Political Science and Statistics and Data Science in 2021. He was named a fellow of the Society for Political Methodology in 2019 and a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.
Sekhon has authored or co-authored dozens of journal articles and several widely used R packages. The topics of his scholarship include experimental research methods, machine learning for estimating causal effects, election fraud, and matching. His research has been widely cited.
Research
Sekhon is best known for his research in causal inference and machine learning. His early research on causal inference focused on the role of matching, but he later wrote an article pointing out that matching is unable to address many of the problems (particularly the selection on observables assumption) that its proponents assume. Nevertheless, his Genetic Matching algorithm remains one of his most highly cited articles. As of 2021, his research focuses on developing interpretable and credible machine learning methods for estimating causal relationships.
One of Sekhon's first publications, a journal article in Digestive Diseases and Sciences, presented a novel treatment, glucocorticoid, for a rare disease that he suffered. Sekhon himself was the first case described in the article.
Selected publications
References
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
American political scientists
American statisticians
Yale University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Cornell University alumni
University of British Columbia alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20A.%20Kientz | Julie Anne Kientz (born May 9, 1980) is an American computer scientist. Kientz is a full professor in the University of Washington's Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering.
Early life and education
Kientz was born to Tom and Carol in Marion, Ohio, US on May 9, 1980. While attending River Valley High School in the 1990s, she won the Johnny Clearwater Award at the State Science Day. She originally intended to pursue a career in veterinary medicine but changed her path after fainting while watching a dog undergoing surgery. In her senior year, Kientz began taking courses at Ohio State University at Marion through the Post Secondary Enrollment Option.
Upon graduating high school, Kientz enrolled in the computer science engineering department at the University of Toledo. In her senior year, she was one of 12 students selected to participate in a summer research program at the University of California, Berkeley. Following her undergraduate degree, Kientz attended Georgia Tech for her Ph.D. in Computer Science. While there, she was inspired by her advisor Gregory Abowd to investigate technology that could improve the care of children with autism. Prior to creating software or technology, she trained to be a therapist for autistic children and worked as one for a year and a half. In this role, she co-built a prototype called Lullaby to replace the lab exams measuring reaction times. Later, her co-authored paper on Lullaby received the 2012 Best Paper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Kientz also developed Fetch, a software program that could run on cell phones to help its users locate items.
Career
Upon completing her PhD, Kientz accepted an assistant professor position jointly in the Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) and the Information School Departments at the University of Washington. In this role, she established the Computing for Healthy Living and Learning (CHiLL) Laboratory in 2009 to use "User-Centered Design processes to determine if technology performs as expected in a real-world environment." As director of the CHiLL Laboratory, Kientz developed Baby Steps to "transform developmental tracking into one of celebrating children’s achievements." During the same year, she was also awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to "design, develop, and evaluate the effectiveness of computing interventions to assist parents in ensuring the healthy development of their child."
Kientz eventually joined the HCDE Department full-time in 2012 while continuing to direct the CHiLL Laboratory. As a full member of the faculty, she received an $80,000 Hartwell Innovation Award for her project "Innovative Smartphone Application of a New Behavioral Method to Quit Smoking: Development & Usability Testing." By August 2013, Kientz was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of their 35 innovators under the age of 35. In the same month, she was also selected to receive a Google Faculty Research Award for her pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neha%20Narkhede | Neha Narkhede is an Indian American technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and former CTO of Confluent, a streaming data technology company. She co-created the open source software platform Apache Kafka. Narkhede now serves as a board member of Confluent. In 2020, she was listed as one of America’s Self-Made Women by Forbes.
Education
Narkhede was raised in Pune, Maharashtra and went to the Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT), University of Pune, where she gained a Bachelor of Science in engineering. In 2007, she received a masters in technology from Georgia Tech.
Career
After obtaining her Master's degree, Narkhede started her first job at Oracle as a principal software engineer. After Oracle, she worked as the lead of streams infrastructure at LinkedIn.
While working at LinkedIn in 2011, Narkhede created the Platform Apache Kafka, along with Jun Rao and Jay Kreps. They came up with the idea while on a project at the company and developed Kafka as an open source Platform. In 2014 she founded Confluent, a Palo Alto based startup, along with Rao and Kreps and decided to start Confluent as a B2B infrastructure company.
In 2017 she co-authored Kafka: The Definitive Guide along with Gwen Shapira and Todd Palino which is about the technology that created Kafka.
She was the CTO of Confluent and later also took upon the role of Chief Product Officer until 2020. She now serves as a board member.
She and her team at Confluent raised $125 million in 2019, bringing its total funding to $206 million in 2019. And in April 2020, the company raised $250 million bringing its total funding to $456 million.
Confluent as a company has filed for an IPO on June 1, 2021 and was valued at $4.5 billion. Companies such as Goldman Sachs, Netflix and Uber use the platform for data driven purposes.
Awards and honors
In 2017, MIT Technology Review listed her as one of the innovators under 35. In the following year Narkhede was listed as one of America's and the world's top 50 Women in Tech by Forbes and she won the Oracle Groundbreaker Award at the Oracle Code One conference in San Francisco. In October 2020, Narkhede was listed #33 on the list of "America's Self Made Women" by Forbes. In 2022, Neha received the Abie Award for Technology Entrepreneurship Award Winner at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing from Anitab.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Businesspeople from Pune
American technology executives
American technology businesspeople
Indian emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug%20algorithm | Bug algorithm is a class of algorithm that helps robots deal with motion planning.
Basic assumptions
The robot is treated as a point inside a 2D world.
The obstacles (if any) are unknown and nonconvex.
There are clearly defined starting point and goal.
The robot is able to detect obstacle boundary from a distance of known length.
The robot always knows the direction and how far (in terms of Euclidean distance) it is from the goal.
Algorithm
The most basic form of Bug algorithm (Bug 1) is as follows:
The robot moves towards the goal until an obstacle is encountered.
Follow a canonical direction (clockwise) until the robot reaches the location of initial encounter with the obstacle (in short, walking around the obstacle).
The robot then follows the obstacle's boundary to reach the point on the boundary that is closest to the goal.
Go back to step 1. Repeat this until the goal is reached.
See also
Pathfinding
Motion planning
References
Robot kinematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20H.%20Sargent | Edward H. Sargent is a Canadian scientist, who serves as University Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Vice-President of Research and Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Toronto. He also is the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology. He will join the Departments of Chemistry and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University, and will be affiliated with the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern.
Sargent has made contributions in the use of colloidal quantum dots and perovskite materials for optoelectronic devices, including photovoltaic cells, photodetectors, and light emitting materials. Sargent has also published in the area of electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide.
Sargent has been honored with multiple awards for his research, including a Killam Prize for Engineering in 2020, the NSERC Brockhouse Award in Interdisciplinary Research and Engineering with Shana Kelley in 2016, and the Steacie Prize in 2012. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Education
Sargent spent several summers in the early 1990s working on quantum well lasers at Nortel. He studied Engineering Physics at Queen's University at Kingston, earning his B.Sc.Eng. in 1995. Sargent then conducted graduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in the area of Photonics, at the University of Toronto, with Prof. Jingming Xu. He graduated with his Ph.D. in 1998.
Career
Sargent began his independent research career at the University of Toronto as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002, and full Professor in 2005. In 2015, Sargent was appointed as University Professor, the University of Toronto's most distinguished rank.
Sargent has also held multiple administrative roles within the University of Toronto. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Associate Chair of Research, for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was the Vice-Dean, Research for the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering from 2012 to 2016. Sargent served as the Vice-President, International for the University of Toronto from 2016 to 2020, helping to recruit new international graduate student researchers. Since 2020, he has served as the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives.
Sargent has held several visiting professorships. From 2004 to 2005, he was a Nanotechnology and Photonics Visiting Professor at the MIT Microphotonics Center. In 2013 he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at UCLA. In fall of 2017, he was a Somorjai Visiting Miller Professor at UC Berkeley, and in April 2018 he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Rowland Institute at Harvard University.
In 2005, he published for the general public about nanotechnology and its applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential%20Initiative%20for%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20%26%20Computing | The Presidential Initiative for Artificial Intelligence and Computing (PIAIC) was launched by the President of Pakistan, Dr. Arif Alvi, to promote education, research and business opportunities in Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Internet of Things, and Cloud Native Computing. The initiative comes in a bid to enable Pakistan in making an imprint on the world’s path towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It aims to transform the fields of education, research, and business in Pakistan. President Dr. Arif Alvi had launched PIAIC.
Available Programs
PIAIC is currently offering following of the technologies:
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Native and Mobile Web Computing
Blockchain
Internet of Things(IoT)
Distance Learning Education
PIAIC offers programs for distance learning as well as on-site learning, allowing students from across Pakistan to enroll online. However, students need to be present for exams onsite in order to enroll into the program and for examinations throughout the course of study The program has an initial target to enroll as many as 100,000 students within a year. After a successful launch in Karachi with 12,000 students enrolling, PIAIC have started registering students in other major cities like Islamabad and Faisalabad and soon plan on offering programs in Lahore, Quetta, and Peshawar.
This initiative is a privately funded not-for-profit educational program that has partnership with non-profit and for-profit organizations like Panacloud, Saylani Welfare International Trust, and Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX)
References
Education in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias%20Grossglauser | Matthias Grossglauser (born 1969 in Niederbipp, Switzerland) is a Swiss communication engineer. He is a professor of computer science at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and co-director of the Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory (INDY) at EPFL's School of Computer and Communication Sciences School of Basic Sciences.
Career
Grossglauser studied communication systems and electrical engineering at EPFL and at Georgia Institute of Technology, respectively, and graduated from both with Master's degrees in 1994. He received a PhD with highest honors in computer science from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) in Paris in 1998. His PhD thesis on "Control of Network Resources over Multiple Time-Scales" (in the French original: Contrôle des ressources de réseaux sur des échelles temporelles multiples) was supervised by Jean-Chrysostome Bolot. He then joined AT&T's Networking and Distributed Systems Laboratory (Shannon Labs) at Florham Park, New Jersey as a principal research scientist. In 2003, he moved as an assistant professor to EPFL's School of Computer and Communication Sciences. In 2007, he joined the Nokia Research Center (NRC) in Helsinki first as director of the Internet Laboratory, before becoming head of Data Insight program and member of the CEO Technology Council in 2009. In 2011, he became associate professor at EPFL's School of Computer and Communication Sciences where he was promoted to a full professor position in 2021.
Research
Grossglauser's research focuses on machine learning and data analytics, and on their applications in network science, computational social sciences, and recommender systems. His fields of interest encompass among others graph mining, mobility mining, epidemics, discrete-choice models, active learning, and network traffic measurement.
Graph Mining: Graph-structured datasets encompass online social networks (OSNs; e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter) and biological networks (e.g., proteins-protein interaction (PPI) and gene regulatory networks) that can be investigated by data analytics techniques to extract knowledge and make predictions. He employs stochastic models for large graphs and analyses them through the application of algorithms to gain a fundamental understanding about the properties of the components.
Mobility Mining: Grossglauser investigates the application of machine learning to harvest the rich structure of mobility date generated by millions of users on the move through their smartphones. He is interested in applications such as location-based advertisement, navigation and transportation, and augmented reality.
Epidemics: Epidemic models enables the study of dynamics and long-term asymptotics of epidemic processes, such as infectious diseases or the dissemination of ideas in social networks. It also explores measure such as vaccination to slow the process, or deliberate infections to optimize the spread of an opinion. In this field Grossglauser is intereste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%20TO9 | The Thomson TO9 is a home computer introduced by French company Thomson SA in 1985.
It's based on the Thomson TO7/70 with new features. It included a built-in 320 Kb 3.5" floppy drive unit, and inputs for light pen, joystick, and mouse. The ROM included some utilities like: two BASIC versions, a word processor (Paragraphe) and a database program (Fiche & Dossiers). The machine was compatible with the previous TO7 and TO7/70 models. Ten games were released for the TO9.
Introduced in October 1985, the Thomson TO9 was quickly replaced with the Thomson TO9+ that came out in 1986.
References
6809-based home computers
Thomson computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%20TO9%2B | The Thomson TO9+ is a home computer introduced by French company Thomson SA in 1986. It kept the professional look of the Thomson TO9 by using a separate keyboard (lower end models usually had an integrated keyboard).
It's based on the Thomson TO8 and fully compatible with it. This also enables it to run Thomson MO6 software. The computer was designed to be used as a Minitel server and has a built-in V23 modem (with a speed of 1200/75 bauds). This feature was accessible under BASIC and from the communication software that came with the computer. The machine was sold with a word processing program (Paragraphe), a database (Fiches & Dossiers) and a spreadsheet (Multiplan).
Compared with the TO9, the TO9+ added:
Basic 512
512 KB RAM
double-sided floppy disk drive (640 kB)
integrated modem
two ports for mice or joysticks
References
6809-based home computers
Thomson computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETV%20Bal%20Bharat | ETV Bal Bharat is a children's pay television channel owned by the Hyderabad-based ETV Network airing animated programming. The network was launched on 27 April 2021, initially with channels on twelve distinct languages.
Bal Bharat is the network's first television channel dedicated to children, and is the only one to include audio tracks in multiple languages, including eleven Indian ones and even English. However, it was announced that the Punjabi, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, and Assamese regional channels of Bal Bharat would cease operations by 1 April 2022, leaving their audio feeds to remain with the other six languages on the main channel.
Programming
See also
ETV Network
Ramoji Group
Eenadu
References
Children's television channels in India
Television stations in Hyderabad
Television channels and stations established in 2021
Ramoji Group
ETV Network
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20Miguel%20Pinho | Luis Miguel Pinho (PhD SMIEEE SMACM) is a Professor and Researcher in the Computer Engineering Department of the Polytechnic of Porto - School of Engineering (ISEP), in Portugal. He was a member of the Research Center in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems, and is Executive Director of the Porto Research, Technology & Innovation Center.
Education
He received a Licentiate (degree), a MEng and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the School of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal in 1994, 1997 and 2001, respectively.
Research
He has published more than 100 research works, mainly in the areas of real-time systems and the Ada programming language. Pinho has been actively involved with the Ada programming language, being awarded in 2012 the ACM SIGAda Robert Dewar Award for Outstanding Ada Community Contributions.
Organisational affiliations
Luis Miguel Pinho is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) .
Selected publications
Maia, Cláudio, Luis Miguel Nogueira, and Luis Miguel Pinho. "Evaluating android os for embedded real-time systems." In 6th international workshop on operating systems platforms for embedded real-time applications, pp. 63–70. 2010.
Pinho, Luis Miguel, and Francisco Vasques. "Reliable real-time communication in CAN networks." IEEE Transactions on Computers 52, no. 12 (2003): 1594-1607.
Albano, Michele, Luis Lino Ferreira, Luís Miguel Pinho, and Abdel Rahman Alkhawaja. "Message-oriented middleware for smart grids." Computer Standards & Interfaces 38 (2015): 133-143.
Maia, Cláudio, Marko Bertogna, Luís Nogueira, and Luis Miguel Pinho. "Response-time analysis of synchronous parallel tasks in multiprocessor systems." In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems, pp. 3–12. 2014.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Senior Members of the IEEE
Senior Members of the ACM
Portuguese computer scientists
People from Porto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepti%20Gurdasani | Deepti Gurdasani is a British-Indian clinical epidemiologist and statistical geneticist who is a senior lecturer in machine learning at the Queen Mary University of London. Her research considers the genetic diversity of African Populations. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Gurdasani has provided the public with her analysis of the evolving situation mainly on the Twitter platform.
Early life and education
Gurdasani was an undergraduate student at the Christian Medical College Vellore, where she studied medicine. After earning her medical degree she moved to the United Kingdom, where she worked toward a doctorate at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research involved the design of strategies to understand complex diseases in diverse populations.
Research and career
In 2013, Gurdasani joined the Wellcome Sanger Institute as a postdoctoral fellow, where she worked on the genomic diversity of African populations and how this diversity impacts susceptibility to disease. She makes use of dense genotypes and whole genome sequences to better understand how population movements determined genetic structure. In particular, Gurdasani develops machine learning algorithms to large-scale clinical data sets. At the Sanger Gurdasani co-led the African Genome Variation Project and the Uganda Resource Project.
Gurdasani moved to Queen Mary University of London in 2019, where she created deep learning approaches for clinical prediction and the identification of novel, genome-based drug targets. During the COVID-19 pandemic Gurdasani has provided public commentary on the pandemic, making use of both Twitter and print media to share her opinions. She has researched the incidence of long covid in the UK. In 2021 Gurdasani started to write for The Guardian.
Selected publications
References
External links
Living people
Indian epidemiologists
British women epidemiologists
People from Vellore
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Academics of Queen Mary University of London
1982 births
COVID-19 researchers
Genetic epidemiologists
Machine learning researchers
Public health researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Schuurman | Teunis Steven Schuurman (born September 1975) is a Dutch technology and media entrepreneur, best known for co-founding and being the first CEO of Elastic, a data search and analytics company listed at the NYSE (ESTC). After stepping down as CEO of Elastic in 2017, he started to work towards dedicating his time and resources exclusively to philanthropy. He is also the co-founder of Atlantis Entertainment, SpringSource and the founder of the non-profit organisations the Dreamery Foundation and FutureNL.
Career
Schuurman started his career in 2000 at Sogyo, a software consulting and project delivery company. Initially, he was stationed at Business Objects. In 2002 he shifted his focus towards the commercial growth of Sogyo.
In 2005, Schuurman left Sogyo and became the co-owner and Director of the Amsterdam based JTeam, an Amsterdam-based software application development company. Months after joining JTeam, Schuurman left and co-founded the open-source company SpringSource with Rod Johnson, Jürgen Höller, and Alef Arendsen. Originally branded Interface21, SpringSource delivered products and services around the open-source Enterprise Java framework, the Spring Framework. After having raised various mid-sized rounds of venture capital from venture capital firms Benchmark (Peter Fenton) and Accel (Kevin Efrusy). In August 2009 SpringSource was acquired by VMware (NYSE: VMW) for $420 million USD.
In December 2009, Schuurman left VMware to come back to JTeam as the CEO. During his 2 year tenure as CEO, Schuurman acquired several companies with JTeam, growing the company by 500%. JTeam rebranded to Orange11 and was acquired in 2012 by the Danish software company Trifork.
Elastic
Schuurman co-founded Elastic NV, formerly known by the name of its product Elasticsearch, with Shay Banon, Uri Boness and Simon Willnauer. Elastic is a search company that builds self-managed and SaaS offerings for search, logging, analytics, and security use cases. Under Schuurman's leadership, the company became one of Europe's fastest-growing technology scale-ups. In the first 2 years of his tenure as CEO, Schuurman raised various rounds of venture capital investment from Benchmark (Peter Fenton), Index Ventures (Mike Volpi), and New Enterprise Associates (Harry Weller, 1969-2016). In May 2017, Schuurman stepped down as CEO of Elastic, and co-founder Shay Banon took over.
In October 2018 Elastic went public on the New York Stock Exchange for an introduction price of $36 per share and an opening price of $70, indicating a 94% jump. Elastic is listed as ESTC. Currently, Schuurman serves on the board of directors of Elastic as a non-executive board director.
Atlantis Entertainment
In January 2016, Schuurman co-founded the Hollywood Hills-based media & entertainment company Atlantis Entertainment together with Nuno Bettencourt and Rene Rigal. Atlantis Entertainment is a full-service media & production company, which creates and produces content through ventures integrating fil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20Pasteur%20du%20Cambodge | Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC; ) is a medical research centre and public health institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is part of the Pasteur Institute's international network of health centres and is partnered with the Ministry of Health. It was first established in 1953 and reopened in 1992 after the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements.
Since 1998, IPC has been the only source of post-exposure prophylaxis vaccinations in the prevention of rabies in Cambodia. The institute has rabies prevention centres in Phnom Penh, Battambang and Kampong Cham.
From 2020, IPC has been part of the national committee involved in the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia as well as conducting research into SARS-CoV-2. Researchers at IPC found through sequencing research that viruses from Cambodian horseshoe bats shared 97% similarity with SARS-CoV-2, providing knowledge into possible origins of COVID-19. IPC also conduct research on future emerging zoonoses.
See also
Health in Cambodia
References
External links
http://www.pasteur-kh.org/
Cambodge
COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia
Virology institutes
Medical and health organisations based in Cambodia
Organisations based in Phnom Penh
Research institutes in Cambodia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishiguro%20Storm%20Surge%20Computer | The Ishiguro Storm Surge Machine is an analogue computer built by Japanese oceanographer Shizuo Ishiguro. Between 1960 and 1983, it was used to model storm surges in the North Sea by the UK National Institute of Oceanography. It is now on display in the Mathematics Gallery of the Science Museum in London.
History
Following the serious North Sea flood of 1953, the UK government set up a committee (known as the Waverley Committee) to develop a plan to prevent future disasters. The UK National Institute of Oceanography (NIO, now the National Oceanography Centre) was responsible for scientific investigation of storm surges in the UK. In 1957 Shizuo Ishiguro, a Japanese oceanographer who had been developing analogue methods for predicting ocean surges joined the NIO to apply his work to the North Sea. Initially, this was through a UNESCO fellowship but he later became a permanent employee of the NIO. Ishiguro continued to develop and apply his analogue model until the early 1980s, when improvements in digital computers led many oceanographers to favour numerical simulations. Ishiguro retired in 1983 but continued to work on his machine at home until his death in 2007. Ishiguro's storm surge computer was then acquired by the Science Museum, London where it is part of a display in the Mathematics Gallery about modelling the seas.
Description
Ishiguro’s machine is an analogue computer where electrical voltage and current are used to mimic the height and flow of water. The North Sea is represented as a grid with approximately 80 nodes which are connected electrically so that the flow of electricity between the nodes represents the flow of water between different points of the North Sea. The flow of water between points in the North Sea depends on the difference in water height, on fixed physical features such as coastlines and sea depth, on the Coriolis force (due to the Earth's rotation) and on time-dependent effects such as tidal forces (due to the gravitational effect of the Moon and the Sun) . The model mimics these using combinations of electrical components (resistors, capacitors, inductors) and signal generators to provide time-dependent inputs. The model simulates how a storm surge, typically approaching from the North, might move southwards across the North Sea. It predicts water flow and height at different locations and times allowing assessment of the maximum tidal height and the time at which the maximum might be expected at specific locations. A common use of the model was to investigate the need for sea walls and coastal defences. A film made by the NIO showing Ishiguro's explanation of the computer is in the archives of the National Oceanography Centre at the University of Southampton.
The physical structure of the computer comprises two panels containing the electrical grid used for the simulation, and a separate input/output section. Inputs were made using a Commodore CBM 8032 Computer with 5¼" floppy disk drives; the output was d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex%20%28TV%20program%29 | Flex is a 2021 Philippine television variety show broadcast by GTV. Hosted by Mavy Legaspi, Lexi Gonzales, Althea Ablan and Joaquin Domagoso, it premiered on July 4, 2021 on the network's Sunday evening line up. The show concluded on August 22, 2021.
Cast
Mavy Legaspi
Lexi Gonzales
Joaquin Domagoso
Althea Ablan
References
External links
2021 Philippine television series debuts
2021 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GTV (Philippine TV network) original programming
Philippine variety television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20rational%20Krylov%20algorithm | The iterative rational Krylov algorithm (IRKA), is an iterative algorithm, useful for model order reduction (MOR) of single-input single-output (SISO) linear time-invariant dynamical systems. At each iteration, IRKA does an Hermite type interpolation of the original system transfer function. Each interpolation requires solving shifted pairs of linear systems, each of size ; where is the original system order, and is the desired reduced model order (usually ).
The algorithm was first introduced by Gugercin, Antoulas and Beattie in 2008. It is based on a first order necessary optimality condition, initially investigated by Meier and Luenberger in 1967. The first convergence proof of IRKA was given by Flagg, Beattie and Gugercin in 2012, for a particular kind of systems.
MOR as an optimization problem
Consider a SISO linear time-invariant dynamical system, with input , and output :
Applying the Laplace transform, with zero initial conditions, we obtain the transfer function , which is a fraction of polynomials:
Assume is stable. Given , MOR tries to approximate the transfer function , by a stable rational transfer function , of order :
A possible approximation criterion is to minimize the absolute error in norm:
This is known as the optimization problem. This problem has been studied extensively, and it is known to be non-convex; which implies that usually it will be difficult to find a global minimizer.
Meier–Luenberger conditions
The following first order necessary optimality condition for the problem, is of great importance for the IRKA algorithm.
Note that the poles are the eigenvalues of the reduced matrix .
Hermite interpolation
An Hermite interpolant of the rational function , through distinct points , has components:
where the matrices and may be found by solving dual pairs of linear systems, one for each shift [Theorem 1.1]:
IRKA algorithm
As can be seen from the previous section, finding an Hermite interpolator of , through given points, is relatively easy. The difficult part is to find the correct interpolation points. IRKA tries to iteratively approximate these "optimal" interpolation points.
For this, it starts with arbitrary interpolation points (closed under conjugation), and then, at each iteration , it imposes the first order necessary optimality condition of the problem:
1. find the Hermite interpolant of , through the actual shift points: .
2. update the shifts by using the poles of the new :
The iteration is stopped when the relative change in the set of shifts of two successive iterations is less than a given tolerance. This condition may be stated as:
As already mentioned, each Hermite interpolation requires solving shifted pairs of linear systems, each of size :
Also, updating the shifts requires finding the poles of the new interpolant . That is, finding the eigenvalues of the reduced matrix .
Pseudocode
The following is a pseudocode for the IRKA algorithm [Algorithm 4.1].
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret%20Coders | Secret Coders is a series of graphic novels that combines logic puzzles, basic programming instruction, and a story where a group of seventh graders uncover a secret coding school. The series is written by Gene Luen Yang, illustrated by Mike Holmes, and published by First Second Books.
About the Author
The popular American cartoonist, Gene Luen Yang, authored Secret Coders. He acquired a bachelor's degree in computer science at U.C. Berkeley. Some of his non-cartoonist jobs included a few years of software developing and over fifteen years of high school teaching computer science in Oakland, California. His books are based on his teaching techniques, and meant to be educational, fun, and accessible by all age levels. He wrote the book to inspire people to learn coding. Yang wrote the book in a similar way to how he taught his classes. He has written many graphic novels including American Born Chinese, Dragon Hoops and Boxers & Saints. American Born Chinese also an upcoming TV series based on the original book.
Structure of the Novels
Secret Coders is a series of 6 educational graphic novels. Each of the Secret Coders graphic novels has 3 chapters. The chapter “titles” are drawings of four-eyed binary birds, displaying the chapter number in binary with open and closed eyes. At the end of each chapter, there is a coding or binary challenge. At the end of each book, there is a coding challenge. The answer to the coding challenge is revealed at the beginning of the next book. The sixth and final book does not have a coding challenge at the end.
The beginning of the first book implies that the books are stories being told by the main character, Hopper. This is confirmed by the end of book six, where Hopper begins to tell the story to Eni.
All the books take place at Stately Academy
Graphic novels
Secret Coders (2015)
This book is the first in the series and contains Chapters 1 - 3
In the first book, Hopper begins her first day at the strange Stately Academy. She meets Eni, who teaches about binary, teaching her how the robot birds around the school work. She also meets Josh, a kid who is perceived to be a bully by Hopper. Hopper meets an aggressive janitor named Mr. Bee, who she discovers he has more than meets the eye. She works with Eni to get into his office, and they find a robot turtle which is capable of learning basic speech commands. They both are caught by Mr. Bee, who uses the robot birds to attack them both, but they escape. Josh tries to apologize for his actions, but Hopper and Eni use the robot to trace a strange shape on the ground. It leads to an underground basement, but they are caught by Bee's birds and he gives them a challenge: if they can trace the path portal on the ground, they get to learn more about him. If not, they are expelled from the school.
Antagonist Dr. One Zero is shown briefly
Paths & Portals (2016)
This book is the second in the series and contains Chapters 4 -6.
In the second book, the group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Miang%20Lon%20Ng | Patricia Mian Lon Ng is a Singaporean scientist. She is a researcher at the Singapore Immunology Network.
Biography
Ng holds a Ph.D. degree in cell and molecular biology. She is a research fellow at the Singapore Immunology Network, part of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore.
Ng's research focuses on re-engineering antibodies so that they become more effective in fighting disease. In 2012 she received a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award. She was also nominated for a Great Women of Our Time Award, an annual suite of awards by The Singapore Women's Weekly magazine.
References
Living people
Singaporean scientists
L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science fellows
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolch | Dolch Computer Systems Inc. (stylized as Dolch.) was a manufacturer of high-end ruggedized portable computers for industrial usage.
History
The company was founded by Volker Dolch in 1987 in California. He sold his interest in the company in 1996 but continued to run it until he retired in 2001.
In February 2005, Dolch was acquired by Kontron AG from Siegel-Robert, Inc. Kontron had sold its rugged mobile platform to Azonix in 2007.
Products
Portable Add-in Computers (PAC)
Dolch FieldPAC FPAC5-233-XG
Dolch PAC 486
Dolch PAC 386
Pack Portable
Dolch 286-Pack Portable Computer
References
External links
Defunct companies based in California
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Portable computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Leapfrog | The IBM Leapfrog is a tablet computer prototype by IBM. It was designed by Sam Lucente and Richard Sapper. It is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. It won the Compasso d'Oro in 1994. When the tablet computer was announced, it was mistakenly described by design magazines as a product that could be bought.
References
External links
Video of the Leapfrog
Leapfrog
Prototypes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FightBox%20%28TV%20channel%29 | FightBox is an international English language TV channel owned by Mediabox Broadcasting International, a division of SPI International. The network broadcasts programming related to combat sports, including mixed martial arts, boxing, kickboxing, and professional wrestling.
History
The channel was started June 1, 2012.
Programming
Bare Knuckle
Valor BK - American promotion.
Boxing
Dream Boxing
LNK Boxing - Baltic promotion.
Kickboxing
Colosseum Tournament - Romanian promotion.
Enfusion - Dutch promotion.
GFC - Romanian promotion.
KOK - Baltic promotion.
Kunlun Fight - Chinese promotion.
Makowski Fighting Championship - Polish promotion.
Mix Fight Championship - German promotion.
Mix Fight Gala - German promotion.
OSS Fighters - Romanian promotion.
Prometheus Fighting Promotion - Romanian promotion.
Superfight Serie Hungary - Hungarian promotion.
TatNeft Cup - Russian promotion.
MMA
Cage Fury - American promotion.
Bushido MMA - Baltic promotion.
RXF - Romanian promotion.
Thunderstrike Fight League - Polish promotion.
Professional wrestling
NEW - German promotion.
References
External links
English-language television stations
SPI International
Television channels in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%20TO16 | The Thomson TO16 or Thomson TO16PC is a PC compatible personal computer introduced by French company Thomson SA in 1987, with prices ranging from 9000 to 16000 FF depending on the version.
Prototype
The original concept was a machine similar to the Macintosh. Based on this the Thomson TO16 prototype (codename Théodore) was built around a Motorola 68000 processor with an Intel 82716 graphics chipset. The operating system chosen was OS-9, a preemptive multitasking system similar to Unix. It also featured an integrated 20MB SCSI hard drive.
Work on the prototype was carried on between 1985 and 1988, with five machines built. This concept was abandoned in favor of a PC compatible architecture, with the TO16 model designation being kept.
Specifications
Motorola 68000 @ 8Mhz CPU
2 MB RAM
Two video modes: 320x200 with 256 colors; 640x270 with 16 colors
Mouse
3"1/2 floppy drive
20 MB SCSI hard drive
Thomson TO16
The Thomson TO16 is a IBM PC compatible machine, running MS-DOS 3.2 with MS-DOS Manager and GW-BASIC.
The CPU is an Intel 8088 capable of running at 9.54Mhz on turbo mode with 512KB of RAM and a CGA graphic card with expanded abilities.
Specifications
CPU Intel 8088 running at 4.77 or 9.54 MHz
support for Intel 8087 co-processor
512 KB of RAM, expandable to 768 KB on the motherboard.
32 KB of ROM
IBM Monochrome Display Adapter, Hercules Graphics Card, CGA and Plantronics Colorplus compatible graphic card
Internal 5"1/4 360 KB disc drive
Two ISA expansion slots
Connections for an external disk drive
RS-232C Serie and Centronics Parallel (Micro ribbon connector) interfaces
Optional Modem
Hardware versions
The original TO16 model was expanded into four variations by adding extra hardware, such as a modem or hard drive.
Thomson TO16PC: original and most basic version
Thomson TO16PCM : 2400 bauds modem
Thomson TO16XPDD : two disc drives
Thomson TO16XPHD : 20 MB hard drive, color monitor and EGA graphics
References
IBM PC compatibles
Home computers
Thomson computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch%20Up | Switch Up may refer to:
Switch Up (Big Sean song)
Switch Up (R. Kelly song)
SwitchUp, an online coding and computing programing platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori%20Tseitin | Grigori Samuilovitsch Tseitin (, born November 15, 1936 in Leningrad, USSR, deceased August 27, 2022 in Campbell, CA, USA) was a Russian mathematician and computer scientist, who moved to the United States in 1999. He is best known for Tseitin transformation used in SAT solvers, Tseitin tautologies used in the proof complexity theory, and for his work on Algol 68.
Biography
Tseitin studied Mathematics at the Leningrad State University (now Saint Petersburg State University) in 1951-1956. He earned his PhD in 1960 with "Algorithmic Operators on Constructive Complete Separable Metric Spaces“. In 1968, he received the Russian doctoral degree (corresponding to a habilitation) from the same university . From 1960 to 2000 Tseitin worked at the Smirnov Scientific Research Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics and taught classes in computer science at his alma mater.
In 2006, Tseitin was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by the ACM.
Works
G. S. Tseitin. „On the complexity of derivation in propositional calculus“ in: J. Siekmann and G. Wrightson, editors, Automation of Reasoning 2: Classical Papers on Computational Logic 1967–1970, S. 466–483. Berlin, Heidelberg, 1983.
Weblinks
References
1936 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Russian mathematicians
21st-century Russian mathematicians
Russian computer scientists
Scientists from Saint Petersburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Happets | The Happets in the Kingdom of the Sun (, ; also shortened to La tròpa de trapo) is a 2010 Spanish 3D computer animated stop-motion film directed and produced by Àlex Colls from a script by Lola Beccaria, loosely based on a Catalan children's preschool show of the same name that aired on the Catalan TV3. It was released on 29 October 2010 in Spain, and won Best Animated Film at the 3rd Gaudí Awards.
Premise
Mumu, a little cow, abandons her non-glam friends to become a star with very cool sheep, however, she soon comes to rue her decision.
Release
The film had its world premiere at the 5th Madrid de Cine-Spanish Film Screenings in Madrid on 22 June 2010. It was released theatrically in Spain on 29 October 2010 by Alta Films.
Accolades
Won Best Animated Film at the Gaudí Awards.
Nominated for the Goya Award for Best Animated Film at the 25th Goya Awards.
See also
List of 3D films (2005 onwards)
References
External links
2010 films
2010 3D films
2010 animated films
Spanish animated feature films
2010s Spanish-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Zahn | Oliver Zahn is US/German theoretical astrophysicist, data scientist, and entrepreneur, best known for developing algorithms for astrophysical data analysis and widely cited discoveries of phenomena in the history of the Universe. He is also known for his more recent work as founder and CEO of Climax Foods, a California-based biotechnology company modeling dairy and other animal products directly from plant ingredients. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Zahn directed UC Berkeley's Center for Cosmological Physics alongside George Smoot and Saul Perlmutter and was Head of Data Science at Google
Early life and education
Zahn was born in Munich and studied physics and philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, doing his Diploma thesis in theoretical astrophysics jointly at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and New York University, graduating summa cum laude. He went on to do his dissertation work in cosmology at Harvard University, before winning the inaugural prize fellowship at UC Berkeley's Center for Cosmological Physics, funded directly by the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Career
Industry career
In 2019, Oliver founded Climax Foods to replace animal foods with dairy and meat directly produced from plants, circumventing the animals' complex metabolisms and thereby reducing greenhouse gases and water use caused by animal agriculture. Climax aims to outcompete animal products by offering zero-compromise alternatives that are purely plant-based, yet indistinguishable in terms of taste and texture, and better than their animal-based competitors in terms of nutrition and price.
Academic career
Zahn has worked on a broad range of topics in theoretical, computational, and observational astrophysics and cosmology. Working with multiple multi-national collaborations, he has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles with more than 14,000 citations and a h-index of 68.
As an undergraduate at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Zahn studied the early Universe and constrained deviations from the laws of gravity and electro-magnetism during the Big Bang.
While a doctoral student at Harvard University, Zahn and co-authors Smith and Dore detected, for the first time, gravitational lensing in the cosmic microwave background. The finding has since been confirmed by teams analyzing data from the Planck, Polarbear, and SPT telescopes
In a separate series of papers Zahn introduced statistical measures to use redshifted 21 cm radiation to study otherwise inaccessible periods of the Universe's structure formation. He invented a novel simulation framework to study galaxy formation in the cosmic web, yielding orders of magnitude performance gains compared to previous ray tracing frameworks, enabling exploration of much larger parameter spaces.
While leading analyses for the University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley, based South Pole Telescope collaboration, Zahn and his team showed that the first galaxies for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else%20Heart.Break%28%29 | Else Heart.Break() is a programming puzzle video game. It was developed by Erik Svedäng with art by Niklas Åkerblad.
Development
Else Heart.Break() was developed by Swedish developer Erik Svedäng. Development began in 2010 after the release of Blueberry Garden. It was released on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X on September 24, 2015.
Reception
Else Heart.Break() received generally positive reviews from video game critics.
References
External links
2015 video games
Linux games
MacOS games
Programming games
Video games developed in Sweden
Windows games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortliffe | Shortliffe is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:
Edward H. Shortliffe (born 1947), Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician, and computer scientist
Glen Shortliffe (1937–2010), Canadian diplomat, civil servant, businessman, and Clerk of the Privy Council |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Nelson%20%28statistician%29 | For the American musician, see Wayne Nelson.
Wayne Nelson is an American statistician. His main contributions to the reliability theory are the Nelson-Aalen Estimator for lifetime data, various statistical procedures for accelerated life testing and both: nonparametric and parametric procedures for recurrent data analysis.
Early life and education
Nelson was born in Chicago in 1936. He studied Physics at Caltech and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1958. Nelson obtained a Master of Science in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1959, then a Ph.D. in statistics from the same university in 1965.
Career
Nelson was employed from 1965 to 1989 at General Electric R&D. He was also an adjunct professor teaching graduate courses on applications of statistics at Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Currently, Nelson works as a private consultant and legal expert witness in statistical analysis and modeling of data in many industries; including automotive, aviation, electric power, electronics, materials, medical devices, microelectronics, military hardware, nuclear power, railroad, software, and transportation.
Work
His research work focuses on collecting and analyzing reliability data, laboratory tests, accelerated tests, quality control, measurement error analysis, planned experiments, sampling, and data analysis.
Nelson worked with Odd Aalen on constructing the Nelson Aalen estimator., a non-parametric approximation of the cumulative hazard function that can account for both failure and censored data. He also developed a method to estimate Weibull distribution (with few or no failures) for products with evolutionary design (same shape parameter β).
In the late 1960s, Wayne developed a cumulative hazard analysis method for nonparametric estimation of a population's cumulative life distribution. The resulting estimate is most conveniently displayed and interpreted on a probability plot. Until Wayne developed his method practitioners relied on crude approximations for such analyses. Wayne’s paper "Hazard Plotting for Incomplete Failure Data" in the inaugural issue of the J. of Quality technology received the Brumbaugh Award for the ASQ as the 1969 paper that made a great contribution to the development of industrial applications of quality control. Moreover, his paper "Theory and Applications of Hazard Plotting for Censored Failure Data" was reprinted in the 40th Anniversary issue of Technometrics (2000) as one of the "Two Classics in Reliability Theory." Dr. Wayne also developed software that is widely used in reliability analysis; STATPAC is the first complete package for analysis of reliability and accelerated test data, including censored and interval data. It was the first to provide probability plots, confidence limits, maximum likelihood fitting of many models including accelerated life test models, proper analysis of step-stress data, residuals and their analyses, and a simple user interface. Its versatile r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20LaPaugh | Andrea Suzanne LaPaugh is an American computer scientist and professor emerita of computer science at Princeton University. Her research has concerned the design and analysis of algorithms, particularly for graph algorithms, problems involving the computer-aided design of VLSI circuits, and document retrieval.
Early life and education
LaPaugh is originally from Middletown, Connecticut, where her father worked in an office and her mother was a librarian; she majored in physics at Cornell University. This was at a time when Cornell had no undergraduate computer science program, but she became interested in computer science through courses on mathematical logic and formal languages, with instructors including Anil Nerode, Juris Hartmanis, and John Hopcroft. She began her doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974, working with Ron Rivest on graph algorithms, and finished her Ph.D. there in 1980 with the dissertation Algorithms for Integrated Circuit Layout: An Analytic Approach.
Career and later life
LaPaugh worked for a year as a visiting assistant professor at Brown University before joining the Princeton University faculty as an assistant professor in 1981, at first as the only female engineering faculty member and, after earning tenure in 1987, as the only tenured woman in engineering. She was promoted to full professor in 1995, and was the master of Forbes College at Princeton from 2000 to 2004. She retired to become a professor emerita in 2019.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marily%20Nika | Marily Nika FRSA, is a Greek computational scientist and product manager who works for Google in augmented reality, specializing in speech technologies and artificial intelligence.
Early life and education
Marily Nika grew up in Athens, Greece and attended University of Piraeus for her undergraduate studies and Imperial College London for her Ph.D. Growing up, she always demonstrated a unique passion and competence in programming. In 2011, Nika was the first Greek woman to receive Google's Anita Borg Scholarship, which allowed her to pursue a Ph.D. at Imperial College London. During her time at Imperial College, she created the Women in Computing group that aimed to support the College's women, and as part of this Nika organized various events including the UK's first ever female-only hackathon. Moreover, she launched the London Geekettes, a local chapter of a global network called the Geekettes. In 2020, she became the co-founder of the larger organization, Geekettes. In 2015, Nika created the computing curriculum for several British schools as part of Little Miss Geek.
In 2014 Nika completed her Ph.D. Her research focused on explaining by maths and epidemiology how content goes viral online. Her Ph.D. research got published as a book by Lambert Academic Publishing and also got presented at TEDxAthens in 2014.
Career
Nika completed a Ph.D. internship in data science at Facebook in 2014, and then joined Google's speech team full-time as an AI product manager working on a series of Google Assistant and speech technologies features. At the same time, she is a Teaching Fellow at Harvard Business School where she teaches a forum series in Product Management. She also teaches Product Management at O'Reilly Media.
Nika is a three-time TEDx Speaker (TEDxZurich 2013, TEDxAthens 2014, TEDxImperialCollege 2015), a Teaching fellow at Harvard Business School and an entrepreneur.
Awards
2015's Medal of Outstanding Achievement (Imperial College London, Royal Albert Hall)
2015's WISE Influence Award (Women in Science & Engineering)
2018's Woman of the Year award (everywoman in technology awards, London)
2020's Top 100 Women in tech, #TechWomen in London
2021's Emerging Leader Award (Imperial College London Alumni Association, London)
2021's 40 under 40 list (Greek America Foundation, New York)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaaki%20Kijima | Masaaki Kijima (born 1957) is a Japanese economist and mathematician. The Dean of the School of Informatics and Data Science at Hiroshima University, he has made significant contributions to applied probability and financial engineering. The most familiar of his contributions in the field of applied probability was the development of the G-renewal process. Kijima graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1980, then obtained a Ph.D. in business from the University of Rochester in 1986.
Work
Kijima and Sumita were the first to develop the generalized renewal process (GRP). Two years later, Kijima, Morimura, and Suzuki adapted the G-Renewal process to model the failure process of repairable systems with general repair conditions through the notion of the virtual age.
Published books
Stochastic Processes with Applications to Finance 2nd Edition, Kijima Masaaki, CRC Press LLC, April 2013,
Stochastic Processes with Applications to Finance, Kijima Masaaki, CRC Press LLC, July 2002,
Markov Processes for Stochastic Modeling, Kijima Masaaki, Springer, January 1997,
Selected scholarly papers
Some results for repairable systems with general repair, Masaaki Kijima, Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 26(1), pages: 89–102, 1989
Periodical replacement problem without assuming minimal repair, Masaaki Kijima, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 37(2), pages: 194–203, 1988
Economic models for the environmental Kuznets curve: A survey, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Masaaki Kijima, Katsumasa Nishide, Atsuyuki Ohyama, Vol. 34(7), pages: 1187–1201, 2010
A useful generalization of renewal theory: Counting processes governed by nonnegative Markovian increments, Masaaki Kijima and Ushio Sumita, Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 23(1), pages: 71–88, 1986
A Markov chain model for valuing credit risk derivatives, Masaaki Kijima and Katsuya Komoribayashi, Journal of Derivatives, Vol. 6(1), pages: 97–108, 1998
On the significance of expected shortfall as a coherent risk measure, Masaaki Kijima and Koji Inui, Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 29, pages: 853–864, 2005
A Markovian framework in multi-factor Heath-Jarrow-Morton models, Masaaki Kijima and Koji Inui, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 33(3), pages: 423–440, 1998
A multi-quality model of interest rates, Masaaki Kijima, Keiichi Tanaka, and Tony Wong, Quantitative Finance, vol. 9(2), pages: 133–145, 2009
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot%20Cops | Pot Cops is an American reality television series that aired on the Discovery Channel. The show premiered on February 20, 2013, during Discovery Channel's programming block titled "Weed Wednesdays", along with Weed Country. The series followed dealers, growers and patients of the marijuana trade in Humboldt County, California, located within the Emerald Triangle, along with the enforcers of the law at the Humboldt County Sheriff's office. Well known Humboldt County grower Timothy Littlefield is featured prominently in an episode where a garden was raided in a joint investigation with the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police. Pot Cops highlighted the difficulty that Humboldt County law enforcement officers faced in enforcing marijuana laws in California, after the passage of Proposition 215 in 1996 and before Proposition 64 in 2016.
Cast
Lt. Wayne Hanson, Head of the Humboldt County Drug Task Force (HCDTF)
Deputy Todd Fulton, Drug Enforcement Unit
Sgt. Bryan Quenell, Drug Enforcement Unit
Deputy Greg Musson, Drug Enforcement Unit
Deputy Blake Massaro, Drug Enforcement Unit, HCDTF
Agent Steve Dunn, Humboldt County Drug Task Force Special Agent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Velez | Dennis Velez is a United States Navy rear admiral and surface warfare officer who has served as the director of plans and policy of United States Cyber Command since June 2023. He most recently served as the commander of Carrier Strike Group 10 from April 2022 to May 2023. He previously served as the commander of Navy Recruiting Command from April 2020 to March 2022, and as the senior military assistant to the 76th United States Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer, with tours as commanding officer of the and .
Velez graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. He earned a master's degree in Information Technology Management. Also has a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from Touro College.
In February 2023, he was nominated for promotion to rear admiral.
Military decorations and awards
Among Rear Admiral Velez's military decorations are the following:
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