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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon%20Slayer%3A%20Kimetsu%20no%20Yaiba%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Hinokami%20Chronicles | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles is a fighting action-adventure game developed by CyberConnect2. Based on the 2019 anime adaptation of Koyoharu Gotouge's manga series, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the game was released by Aniplex in Japan, and globally by Sega, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in October 2021. It was released for Nintendo Switch in June 2022.
Gameplay and plot
Adapted from the events of the first season of the anime series, along with Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train, the game's single player story mode follows Tanjiro Kamado, the series' protagonist, as he joins the Demon Slayer Corps and faces off against various demons in order to turn his sister Nezuko, who has become a demon, back into a human. The story features some exploration elements, and is told through various cutscenes and boss battles with demons seen in the anime series. The Hinokami Chronicles also features a versus mode, where players form teams of two fighters from the roster and battle CPU opponents or other people. The game supports both local and online multiplayer.
Characters
The game launched with 18 characters, including six who appeared in the spin-off anime Chuukou Ikkan!! Kimetsu Gakuen Monogatari. Six characters were later added via free updates, along with seven made available as downloadable content, for a total of 31.
Development
The game was announced in March 2020. It was to be published by Aniplex for the PlayStation 4; the company previously produced the 2019 anime adaptation. Later that month, first footage was shown, along with the announcement that the game, titled Kimetsu no Yaiba Hinokami Keppūtan, will be developed by CyberConnect2, the company known for developing the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja series. Following months of development, the game was re-announced via the issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump to be a multiplatform arena fighting game for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Ufotable, the animation studio behind the anime series, has produced several key illustrations for the game.
The Hinokami Chronicles received three free post-launch DLC, each with two new characters. The first, announced in October 2021, and released in November 2021, added Akaza and Rui, the first playable antagonists in the game. An Additional Character Pack, released in 2022, added seven characters from the Entertainment District Arc as paid DLC. A Nintendo Switch version was released in Japan on June 9, 2022, and worldwide the following day.
Reception
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles received "mixed or average" reviews for most platforms according to review aggregator Metacritic; the Xbox Series X/S version received "generally favorable" reviews. The PlayStation 4 version of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles was the bestselling retail game during its first week of release in Japan, with 94 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Chase%20III | William E. Chase III is a retired United States Navy rear admiral who last served as the deputy commander of the Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network from July 12, 2021 to August 2023. He most recently served as the Senior Military Advisor for Cyber Policy to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Deputy Principal Cyber Advisor to the United States Secretary of Defense from October 12, 2020 to July 2021. Previously, he was the Deputy Director of Command, Control, Communications, and Computers/Cyber of the Joint Staff from July 2018 to October 2020.
References
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1968 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Naval Academy alumni
Naval Postgraduate School alumni
National War College alumni
United States Navy admirals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20features%20removed%20in%20Windows%2011 | Windows 11 is the latest major release of the Windows NT operating system and the successor of Windows 10. Some features of the operating system were removed in comparison to Windows 10, and further changes in older features have occurred within subsequent feature updates to Windows 11. Following is a list of these.
Features removed in version 21H2: (RTM)
Bundled software
No longer available
The following applications are no longer bundled with Windows 11 and no longer available.
Internet Explorer (still can be opened using Internet Options in Control Panel)
Wallet
Not bundled, but available
The following applications are no longer bundled with Windows 11, but can still be installed from the Microsoft Store.
3D Viewer
OneNote for Windows 10
Paint 3D
Skype
Windows shell
The following parts of the Windows shell are no longer available in Windows 11.
Lock Screen's quick status
Tablet mode
The Timeline feature in Task View
The Save Search option in File Explorer
In addition:
The touch keyboard no longer docks in screens larger than 18 inches.
Windows no longer synchronizes desktop wallpapers across devices with a Microsoft account.
Windows no longer shows a small preview of images or videos on folder thumbnails. Instead, it shows the generic folder icon for any folder containing images or videos. (This change has been reverted in February 2022 insider builds.)
Start menu
Some functionality from the Start menu was removed and replaced with other features.
Folders and groups (reinstated in February 2022 insider builds)
Live tiles (the Widgets panel provides portions of what the live tiles of Windows 10's bundled apps once provided)
Recent and pinned files on pinned apps
Taskbar
The following taskbar features are no longer available as of Windows 11:
Support for moving the taskbar to the top, left, or right of the screen
Support for changing the size of the taskbar or its icons
"Time" is not displayed in the calendar when clicking on the "Date/Time" on taskbar
Scheduled events are not displayed in the calendar when opened
The option to show or hide Windows shell's tray icons (Only third-party icons can be hidden or shown)
All settings and shortcuts in the taskbar's context menu (Only a shortcut to the taskbar settings area of the Settings app is available.)
The network and audio flyouts have been consolidated into a new settings flyout
"Some icons in the System Tray", although Microsoft doesn't specify which
Support for third-party taskbar components (deskbands)
The upward swipe gesture for jumplists
Ability to move the system tray from the primary monitor
The People button (The "Chat" button powered by Microsoft Teams takes its place.)
The News and Interests panel (The "Widgets" panel serves the same purpose.)
Action Center (Two separate flyouts take its place: "Notification Center" and "Quick Settings")
Support for showing one icon per app window the taskbar (Reinstated in May 2023; option merged with show |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features%20new%20to%20Windows%2011 | Windows 11 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system and the successor to Windows 10. It introduces new features such as a redesigned interface, new productivity and social features, and updates to security and accessibility, alongside improvements to performance.
Windows shell
Fluent Design System: Updates to the Fluent Design System, a design language introduced by Microsoft in 2017, are featured in Windows 11. According to Microsoft, the design of Windows 11 is "effortless, calm, personal, familiar, complete, and coherent." The redesign focuses on simplicity, ease of use, and flexibility, addressing some of the deficiencies of Windows 10. Most interfaces in Windows 11 feature rounded geometry, refreshed iconography, new typography, and a refreshed colour palette. In addition, translucency and shadows are made more prevalent throughout the system. Windows 11 also introduces "Mica", a new opaque Material that is tinted with the color of the desktop wallpaper.
The Start menu: The Start menu has been significantly redesigned in Windows 11, adhering to the principles of the updated Fluent Design System. The menu has now been moved to the center by default, with an option to move it back to the left side. The Live Tiles feature introduced in Windows 8 is replaced by a set of pinned apps and a new cloud-powered "Recommended" section that shows recently opened files and documents from any location, including a PC, a smartphone, and OneDrive. The new Start menu also includes a search box.
Taskbar: The Taskbar has also been center-aligned, and now includes new animations for pinning, rearranging, minimizing, and switching apps on the Taskbar. The buttons can still be moved to the left-hand corner as in Windows 10.
Notification Center & Quick Settings: The Action Center from Windows 10 has been replaced by a Notification Center and a Quick Settings menu, both accessible from the lower-right corner of the Taskbar. The Notification Center contains all the user's notifications and a full-month calendar, while the Quick Settings menu lets the user manage common PC settings quickly and easily like Volume, Brightness, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Focus Assist. Directly above the Quick Settings menu, the user can see media playback information when watching a video on platforms such as YouTube, or when listening to music in apps like Spotify.
File Explorer: The File Explorer on Windows 11 has been refreshed with the Fluent Design System and the Ribbon interface has been replaced with a new command bar with a revamped user interface and a Mica background. It also introduces revamped context menus with rounded corners, larger text, and Acrylic. App developers will also be able to extend the new context menus.
Themes: In addition to new default themes on Windows 11 for both Light and Dark mode, it also includes four new additional themes. Windows 11 also adds new high-contrast themes for people with visual impairments.
Sounds: Windows 11 introduces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Commission%20on%20the%20Stability%20of%20Cyberspace | The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace was a multistakeholder Internet governance organization, dedicated to the creation of diplomatic norms of governmental non-aggression in cyberspace. It operated for three years, from 2017 through 2019, and produced the diplomatic norm for which it was chartered and seven others.
Origins
Together with the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise, the GCSC was a product of the 2015-2017 Dutch chairmanship of the London Process, and particularly the work of Wouter Jurgens who, as head of the cyber security department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had responsibility for organizing the 4th Global Conference on CyberSpace ministerial, which was held in The Hague April 16–17 of 2015, and formalizing its outcomes. Jurgens had been working for several years on the topic of governmental non-aggression in cyberspace, in collaboration with Uri Rosenthal, Bill Woodcock, Olaf Kolkman, James Lewis, and others who would subsequently become GCSC commissioners.
The GCSC was launched by Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders at the 53rd Munich Security Conference, on February 18, 2017, with a three-year charter, and issued its final report at the Paris Peace Forum, on November 13, 2019.
Published norms
Norm to Protect the Public Core of the Internet
The Norm to Protect the Public Core is the GCSC's principal product, and has been included or referenced in many subsequent legislative and diplomatic work. It was included in the European Union's Cybersecurity Act, which extends the mandate of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity to include the protection of the public core. The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace included a call for compliance with the Public Core norm. The United Nations cites the Public Core norm in the 2019 report of the Secretary General and the report of the Secretary General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation, The Age of Digital Interdependence.
Norm to Protect the Electoral Infrastructure
Norm to Avoid Tampering
Norm Against Commandeering of ICT Devices into Botnets
Norm for States to Create a Vulnerabilities Equities Process
Norm to Reduce and Mitigate Significant Vulnerabilities
Norm on Basic Cyber Hygiene as Foundation Defense
Norm Against Offensive Cyber Operations by Non-State Actors
Other publications
In addition to the Norm to Protect the Public Core and the seven subsequent norms, the GCSC has published several other documents.
Definition of the Public Core, to which the Norm Applies
Early in the process of defining the Norm to Protect the Public Core the effort was divided into two working groups, one, principally diplomatic, to specify what actions should be precluded; the other, involving subject-matter experts, to specify which infrastructures were deemed most worthy of protection. This latter working group specified a survey of cybersecurity experts, delegated implementation of the survey to Packet Clearing House, and integrated its r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumed%20Guilty%21 | Presumed Guilty! is a 1989 video game published by Cosmi.
Gameplay
Presumed Guilty! is a game in which in the then-future of 1996, and the player's first case for the new world-wide computer police network Copnet is investigating the death of Ray Lamonte, who had just received an award for his work in satellite laser weapons.
Reception
Scorpia reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The sloppiness in this game shows throughout, from the errors in the manual through the utilities that don't work properly to the numerous typos and misspellings in the text, the incessant noise of the game (no way to turn off the sound), and the final crash at the end. What might have been a reasonably good game is made frustrating and unenjoyable by the lack of adequate quality control."
Reviews
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Jan, 1990
The Games Machine (UK) - Feb, 1990
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Detective video games
DOS games
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Video games set in 1996
Video games set in the future
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starschema | Starschema Inc. is a global data services consultancy based in Arlington, VA with additional offices in San Francisco, Budapest and Szeged.
History
Founded in 2006 in Budapest, Hungary, Starschema initially worked for the European market. By the early 2010s, the company counted a number of Fortune 500 companies among its clients, including General Electric, Apple Inc. and Johnson & Johnson. In 2016, the Government of Hungary awarded Starschema the Grand Prix for Innovation in IT, and the company opened its US headquarters in the following year after a $5m investment by the Central European venture capital fund PortfoLion. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Starschema posted a revenue of $14.2m for the 2020 fiscal year. On 14 January 2022, HCL Technologies announced an agreement to acquire Starschema for , subject to regulatory approvals from the Government of Hungary. The acquisition was finalized on .
Services
Starschema's customer base has in recent years shifted towards a greater emphasis on the healthcare and life sciences portfolio. Alongside large multinational corporations, Starschema also serves a range of NGOs, such as the UN's World Food Programme. The company's global network of partners includes Amazon Web Services, Snowflake Inc. and Tableau Software. The company's main practice areas are
data science, AI and machine learning,
strategic consulting,
data engineering, e.g. data warehousing and data lakes, and
data visualization.
Awards and recognition
The Financial Times ranked Starschema among the 1,000 fastest growing companies in Europe in 2019, and the company was listed as one of the fifty fastest-growing technology companies in Central Europe by Deloitte. In 2018, Aon Hewitt ranked Starschema as one of the best places to work in Hungary.
Starschema's work in public health has been widely recognized, including the company's cooperation with PATH on malaria surveillance in Ethiopia, Zambia and Senegal. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Starschema partnered with Snowflake Inc. to provide a comprehensive COVID-19 data set through Snowflake's Data Exchange.
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Data companies
Technology companies of the United States
Companies based in Arlington County, Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A4rbel%20R%C3%B6hl | Bärbel Röhl (born 6 March 1950) is a German actress.
Life and career
Little is known about Bärbel Röhl regarding verifiable biographical data. Accordingly, she was born on 6 March 1950 in Kargow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in what was then East Germany. From 1968 to 1972, she completed an apprenticeship as a graduate actress at the Theaterhochschule Leipzig. Since 1979, Röhl has worked at various German theaters and has also been in front of the camera for film and television productions since 1983. In 1998, she also obtained another professional qualification as a naturopath. According to her vita, she has completed a vocal training (classical and musical), performs with literary-musical programs and lives in Berlin.
Personal life
Röhl is the mother of Katja Frenzel and Anna Frenzel-Röhl and the aunt of Henriette Richter-Röhl, all in whom are also actresses.
References
External links
Official Website
1950 births
Living people
People from Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district)
German film actresses
German stage actresses
German television actresses
20th-century German actresses
21st-century German actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20A.%20Smolka | Scott A. Smolka is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York.
Education and career
He obtained his Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in Mathematics from Boston University in 1975 and 1977, respectively, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Brown University, Providence, RI, in 1984. Before joining Stony Brook, Smolka was a Scientific Analyst at Aerospace Systems, Inc., Burlington, MA. Smolka's research spans the formal modeling and analysis of cyber-physical and biological systems, model checking, process algebra, and runtime verification. He is perhaps best known for the algorithm he and Paris Kanellakis developed for deciding Robin Milner's bisimulation. Smolka is a Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
In 2019 on his 65th birthday, a conference and festschrift was organised .
Selected publications
Bergstra, Jan A., Alban Ponse, and Scott A. Smolka, eds. Handbook of process algebra. Elsevier, 2001.
Kanellakis, Paris C., and Scott A. Smolka. "CCS expressions, finite state processes, and three problems of equivalence." Information and computation 86, no. 1 (1990): 43-68.
VanGlabbeek, Rob J., Scott A. Smolka, and Bernhard Steffen. "Reactive, generative, and stratified models of probabilistic processes." Information and Computation 121, no. 1 (1995): 59-80.
Giacalone, Alessandro, Chi-Chang Jou, and Scott A. Smolka. "Algebraic reasoning for probabilistic concurrent systems." In Proc. IFIP TC2 Working Conference on Programming Concepts and Methods. 1990.
Ramakrishna, Y. S., C. R. Ramakrishnan, I. V. Ramakrishnan, Scott A. Smolka, Terrance Swift, and David S. Warren. "Efficient model checking using tabled resolution." In International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, pp. 143–154. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1997.
Awards and honors
2021 Dijkstra Award.
Appointed SUNY Distinguished Professor, Nov. 2016.
EATCS Fellow for “fundamental contributions in formal modeling and analysis”, since Feb. 2016.
Name added to Stony Brook University’s Faculty Honor Wall, July 2017.
Joint CONCUR-QEST-FORMATS 2016] Invited Speaker.
2008-2009 SUNY President/Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
References
External links
Scott Smolka's homepage
Scott Smolka’s publications indexed by Google Scholar
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Brown University alumni
Boston University alumni
Stony Brook University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emdoor | Emdoor (Chinese: 亿道), with the full name Shenzhen Emdoor Information Co., Ltd., also known as Emdoor Information, is a Chinese provider of rugged mobile computers founded by Zane Zhang in 2008, headquartered in Shenzhen. Being a subsidiary of Emdoor Group, it principally provides rugged tablets, laptops and handheld terminals. Emdoor is currently a technology ecosystem partner of Microsoft and a partner of Rockchip, as well as a former partner of Electric Cloud.
Emdoor cooperated with Microsoft and Intel to unveil a tablet called "EM-i8080" at Computex 2014, which cost just $100. In April 2016, it was listed on the New Third Board with the stock code , and was delisted on 27 April 2018. The company started IPO counseling, and made a counseling filing with the Shenzhen Securities Regulatory Bureau on December 11, 2020.
History
In 2012, Emdoor stepped into the field of rugged tablet, with product lines including rugged phones, tablets and 2-in-1s. Since early 2014, it has collaborated with Intel and become one of the latter's ODM partners in China.
In June 2014, Emdoor joined with Microsoft and Intel to release the EM-I8080, a Windows 8.1 tablet priced at $100. In October, it presented another Windows 8.1 tablet costing around $65 in Hong Kong.
In 2015, Emdoor worked with Qualcomm and Microsoft to launch Windows 10 Phones in China. In 2020, it rolled out its first 5G rugged tablet.
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Computer companies of China
Computer companies established in 2008
Chinese companies established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%2011%20version%20history | Windows 11 is a major release of the Windows NT developed by Microsoft that was released in October 2021. Starting with Windows 10, Microsoft described Windows as an "operating system as a service" that would receive ongoing updates to its features and functionality, augmented with the ability for enterprise environments to receive non-critical updates at a slower pace or use long-term support milestones that will only receive critical updates, such as security patches, over their five-year lifespan of mainstream support.
Channels
Windows Insider Preview builds are delivered to Insiders in four different channels. Insiders in the Dev and Canary Channel receive updates prior to those in the Beta Channel, but might experience more bugs and other issues. Insiders in the Release Preview Channel do not receive updates until the version is almost available to the public, but are comparatively more stable.
Version history
As with Windows 10 (since version 20H2), mainstream builds of Windows 11 are labeled "YYHX", with YY representing the two-digit year and X representing the half-year of planned release (for example, version 21H2 refers to builds which initially released in the second half of 2021).
Version 21H2 (original release)
The original version of Windows 11 (also known as version 21H2 and codenamed "Sun Valley") was released in October 2021. It carries the build number 10.0.22000. The first public preview build was made available to Windows Insiders who opted in to the Dev Channel on June 28, 2021.
Version 22H2 (2022 Update)
The Windows 11 2022 Update (also known as version 22H2 and codenamed "Sun Valley 2") is the first and current major update to Windows 11. It carries the build number 10.0.22621. The first preview was released to Insiders who opted in to the Dev Channel on September 2, 2021. The update began rolling out on September 20, 2022. Notable changes in the 2022 Update include:
Redesigned and new Efficiency mode feature in Task Manager
Re-added the drag and drop feature on the taskbar
Improvement to the snap layout experience
New live captions feature
New Smart App Control (SAC) feature for blocking untrusted applications
Split "Focus assist" feature into "Do not disturb" and "Focus"
Included Clipchamp as inbox app
The first component update to Windows 11, version 22H2, codenamed "Moment 1", was released on October 18, 2022 with build 22621.675 and several further changes:
New tabbed browsing feature and refreshed layout of the left navigation pane in the File Explorer
New inline suggested actions feature
Re-introduced taskbar overflow feature
Improvements to the built-in Windows share window
The second component update to Windows 11, version 22H2, codenamed "Moment 2," was released on February 28, 2023 with build 22621.1344 and several further changes:
Added iOS support in the Phone Link app
New Studio Effects section in the Quick Settings for NPU-compatible devices
Redesigned Quick Assist app
Added third-pa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoose%20%28MongoDB%29 | Mongoose is a JavaScript object-oriented programming library that creates a connection between MongoDB and the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment.
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Free software programmed in JavaScript
JavaScript |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE%20Connect | KDE Connect is a multi-platform application developed by KDE, which facilitates wireless communications and data transfer between devices over local networks. KDE Connect is available in the repositories of many Linux Distributions and F-Droid, Google Play Store for Android. Often, distributions bundle KDE Connect in their KDE Plasma desktop variant. KDE Connect has been reimplemented in the GNOME desktop environment as GSConnect, which can be obtained from Gnome Extension Store.
Mechanism
KDE Connect utilizes various DBus interfaces from UI agnostic Libraries for a specific operating system for its functioning.
Features
Shared clipboard: copy and paste between your phone and your computer (or any other device)
Notification sync: Read and reply to your Android notifications from the desktop
Share files and URLs instantly from one device to another including some file system integration
Multimedia remote control: Use your phone as a remote for Linux media players
Virtual touchpad: Use your phone screen as your computer's touchpad and keyboard
Presentation remote: Advance your presentation slides straight from your phone
Encryption
KDE Connect uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption protocol for communication. It uses SFTP to mount devices and to send files.
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KDE Applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder%20Abuse%20Prevention%20and%20Prosecution%20Act%20of%202017 | On October 18. 2017, President Trump signed into law the Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017 (P.L. 115–70), identifying the need for data on elder abuse. An elder abuse case has many stages from the incident through investigation (by adult protective services or law enforcement), prosecution, and trauma recovery. Several federal agencies currently collect elder abuse data (including physical abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation) on an ongoing basis at different points in the process.
The Act increases the federal government's focus on preventing elder abuse and exploitation by creating a multi-pronged approach for protecting older adults by punishing perpetrators who exploit, abuse, and harm vulnerable seniors.
On World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2021, the Biden Administration committed to ensuring that older Americans have greater opportunities to live with dignity, safety, independence, and social connections, by including more than $1.4 billion in additional funding in the American Rescue Plan for programs that promote community living and ensure the safety and protection of older adults. The law also enhances the Elder Justice Act and ensures that Adult Protective Services can be used to protect the safety and dignity of all seniors.
Background
Elderly abuse is a complex issue that requires a multifaceted policy response combining public health interventions, social services programs, and law enforcement.
Currently, elder abuse is viewed through the lens of four distinct federal data sets:
National Adult Mistreatment Report System (NAMRS) collects state-level adult protective services data
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) collects state-level law enforcement data
FTC Consumer Sentinel Network collects consumer complaints from multiple sources
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) collects data on suspected elder financial exploitation submitted by financial institutions
The Department of Justice provides the purpose and scope of each of the above.
History
The bill (S. 178) was first introduced in the Senate on January 20, 2017, to prevent elder abuse and exploitation and improve the justice system's response to victims in elder abuse and exploitation cases.
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) was launched on June 15, 2006, by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and the World Health Organization at the United Nations. The purpose of WEAAD is to provide an opportunity for communities around the world to promote a better understanding of abuse and neglect of older persons by raising awareness of the cultural, social, economic and demographic processes affecting elder abuse and neglect. In addition, WEAAD is in support of the United Nations International Plan of Action acknowledging the significance of elder abuse as a public health and human rights issue. WEAAD serves as a call-to-action for individuals, organizations, and communities to raise awareness abo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20E.%20Tohline | Joel Edward Tohline (born July 15, 1953) is an American astrophysicist, specializing in computer simulation of complex fluid flows in astrophysical systems.
Education and career
Tohline went to high school in New Orleans. He graduated in 1974 with a B.S. in physics from Centenary College of Louisiana and in 1978 with a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His thesis is entitled Fragmentation of Rotating Protostellar Clouds. As a postdoc he was from 1978 to 1980 a Willard Gibbs Instructor in Yale University's astronomy department and from 1980 to 1982 a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In Louisiana State University's department of physics and astronomy, he was from 1982 to 1986 an assistant professor, from 1986 to 1990 an associate professor, and from 1990 to 2002 a full professor and is since 2002 to the present Alumni Professor. In 1987 he used Blake Van Leer's invention for creating 3-dimensional hydrodynamic computer code. While at LSU, he created numerous textbooks on mathematical tools and the physical concepts, white dwarfs and neutron stars. From 1994 to 1997 he was chair of the department. He was from January to May 2000 a visiting associate in astronomy at California Institute of Technology. From 2010 to the present he is the director of the LSU Center for Computation & Technology.
Tohline is the author or coauthor of about 100 research articles. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Selected publications
Christodoulou, D. M., Shlosman, I., & Tohline, J. E. (1994). A New Criterion for Bar-Forming Instability in Rapidly Rotating Gaseous and Stellar Systems. I. Axisymmetric Form. arXiv preprint astro-ph/9411031.https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9411031
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American astrophysicists
Centenary College of Louisiana
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
Louisiana State University faculty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20N.T.%20Shanahan | John N.T. "Jack" Shanahan is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general who last served as the first Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. Prior to that, he was the Director of Defense Intelligence for Warfighter Support of the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. Shanahan graduated from the University of Michigan in 1984 with a B.S. degree in chemistry. He later earned an M.A. degree in national security and strategic studies from the College of Naval Command and Staff at the Naval War College in 1996 and an M.S. degree in national security strategy from the National War College in 2001.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOD%20Tuition%20Assistance | DOD Tuition Assistance is a US Department of Defense (DOD) program that fund higher education programming for US military servicemembers who wish to attend college before their service obligation ends. Currently, DOD TA funds servicemember's college tuition and fees, not to exceed $250 per semester credit hour or $166 per quarter credit hour and not to exceed $4,500 per fiscal year, Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. In 2019, DOD spent more than $492 million on the program that year and about 220,000 troops used the benefits.
History
The US military has employed civilian institutions for its troops since at least World War I. According to the US Department of Veterans Affairs, DOD Tuition Assistance began in the 1950s as a way to provide education benefits to active duty personnel. In the 1990s, DOD Tuition Assistance was excluded from requirements that schools receive funding outside of government funds. This loophole made servicemembers more vulnerable to for-profit colleges that were aggressively marketing students.
During the Obama administration, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found problems with the DOD Tuition Assistance program and reforms were imposed. In 2011, the GAO published a report calling for greater oversight of the DOD TA program. While DOD has instituted an oversight system, it has rarely sanctioned schools for violations of the MOU. In 2012, President Obama issued Executive Order 13607 instructing the Department of Education, Department of Defense, and Department of Veterans Affairs to develop "Principles of Excellence to strengthen oversight, enforcement, and accountability" within the Post-9/11 GI Bill and the Tuition Assistance Program. At its peak in fiscal year 2013, DOD spent $540 million on the program. In that year, 571 advisors provided educational support to nearly 280,000 service members. In 2014, DOD created the DoD Postsecondary Education
Complaint System (PECS). GAO also again found that DOD was lacking in its administration of the program. In 2015, after an expose by the Center for Investigative Reporting, DOD began removing the University of Phoenix from military installations for the school's aggressive marketing.
From 2014 to 2018, the number of servicemembers using the program fell by 14.5 percent. In 2018 the number of service members using tuition assistance fell another 2.5 percent. According to the Military Times "For-profit schools accounted for 34.7 percent of TA usage in fiscal 2018, compared with 39.7 percent for public schools and 25.7 percent for private nonprofit schools. For-profits are even more dominant among the top 50 TA schools, accounting for 39.3 percent of the student enrollment, more than public and private institutions."
Under the Trump administration, regulations were eased even though schools continued to be out of compliance. In 2018, the Department of Defense reported that all member schools that reported had at least one violation of the MOU. One school had 17 infractions. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/48th%20Daytime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 48th Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), honoring the best in U.S. daytime television programming in 2020. The winners were revealed on June 25, 2021, while the nominations were announced alongside the main ceremony categories on May 25, 2021.
The nominations for both the Daytime Children’s Programming & Animation Emmy Awards and the Daytime Lifestyle Programming Emmy Awards were announced on June 28, 2021. The winners were announced via the Emmys OTT platform on July 17, 2021, for the Children’s Programming & Animation awards and on July 18, 2021, for the Lifestyle Programming awards.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards were announced on May 25, 2021, while the nominees for the Daytime Children’s Programming & Animation Emmy Awards and the Daytime Lifestyle Programming Emmy Awards were announced on June 28, 2021.
Winners in each category are listed first, in boldface.
Programming
Performance and Hosting
Animation
Art Direction
Casting
Cinematography
Costume Design
Directing
Editing
Main Title Design
Hairstyling
Lighting Direction
Makeup
Music
Technical Direction
Sound
Special Effects
Voice Direction
Writing
Chairman's Award
NATAS Chairman Terry O'Reilly presented the Crystal Pillar Chairman's Award to 16 daytime television professionals who "envisioned and implemented procedures that made safe production of media possible during the COVID pandemic." The award inscription reads: "For distinguished leadership in seeking to assure the health and safety of our television industry colleagues during the COVID-19 pandemic".
Notes
References
External links
Daytime Emmys website
048 Creative Arts
2021 television awards
2021 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleni%20Diamanti | Eleni Diamanti is a Greek engineer who is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Diamanti serves as Vice Director of the Paris Centre for Quantum Computing. She was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant in 2018.
Early life and education
Diamanti is from Greece. She was an undergraduate student at the National Technical University of Athens, where she majored in electrical and computer engineering. She moved to the United States for graduate studies, joining Stanford University as a Master's student. She remained at Stanford for her doctoral research, where she looked at the implementation of phase shift quantum key distribution systems. After graduating, Diamanti returned to Europe, where she joined Institut d'Optique as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow. She completed her habilitation at the Paris Diderot University in 2014.
Research and career
Diamanti was appointed to the faculty at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2009. Her research considers experimental quantum cryptography and the development of photonics sources for quantum networks. Alongside developing encryption software using quantum technology, Diamanti was made Vice Director of the Paris Center for Quantum Computing. In this capacity she takes part in the European Union Quantum Flagship. She was awarded a Prime d'Excellence Scienitifique from the CNRS in 2013. In 2018 Diamanti was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant.
Selected publications
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Greek women engineers
Greek computer scientists
National Technical University of Athens alumni
Stanford University alumni
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Da%20Vinci%3A%20Mission%20Mona%20Lisa | Leo Da Vinci: Mission Mona Lisa () is a 2018 Italian-Polish 3D computer-animated adventure film directed by Sergio Manfio.
Premise
The film follows a fictionalised young Leonardo da Vinci, who goes on an adventure alongside four friends in order to find a sunken treasure to save crush Lisa from bankruptcy and a forced marriage.
Cast
Italian
Alex Polidori: Leo
Gabriele Patriarca: Lorenzo
Emanuela Ionica: Lisa
Arianna Vignoli: Agnes
Giulio Bartolomei: Niccolò
Franco Mannella: Ciacco/Captain Fly
Roberto Draghetti: Primo Ufficiale dei Pirati
Davide Garbolino: Francis
Roberto Stocchi: Cicala
Oreste Baldini: Cantastorie
Stefano Mondini: Padre di Lisa
Stefano Billi: Killer
English
Johnny Yong Bosch: Leo da Vinci
Bryce Papenbrook: Lorenzo
Cherami Leigh: Lisa
Faith Graham: Agnes
Landen Beattie: Niccoló
Michael Sorich: Lisa's Father
Keith Silverstein: Ciacco/Captain Fly
Jamieson Price: First Mate of the Pirates
Release and reception
Leo Da Vinci was released theatrically in Italy on 11 January 2018. It had a worldwide gross of $2,594,932.
The film received generally negative reviews from critics, and on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of based on critical reviews, indicating a "rotten" score.
References
External links
(in Italian)
Leo Da Vinci: Mission Mona Lisa at Cinematografo.it (Italian-language film database) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabab%20Ward | Rabab Kreidieh Ward is an Lebanese-Canadian electrical engineer specializing in signal processing. She is a professor emerita of electrical and computer engineering at the University of British Columbia.
Education and career
Despite finishing high school with the highest marks in her year in Lebanon, Ward was refused admission to the engineering program at the American University of Beirut because she was a woman. Instead, she began studying medicine at Cairo University to please her father, but quickly switched to engineering there, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1966. She worked briefly for the Ministry of Hydro-Electric Resources in Beirut before coming to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate study in electrical engineering and computer science, where she earned a master's degree in 1969 and completed her PhD in 1972.
She moved to Vancouver following her husband, a civil engineer who had obtained a faculty position at the University of British Columbia while she had been unsuccessful in her own academic job search. Eventually, she found part time work as a lecturer at the University of British Columbia, from 1973 to 1975. In 1975, they both obtained faculty positions at the University of Rhodesia, where she became a lecturer and then senior lecturer, but by 1979 they were pushed to leave by the growing unrest of the Rhodesian Bush War, including the execution of the head of her department. They returned to the University of British Columbia and she returned to her part-time lecturer position. Finally, in 1981, she was appointed as an assistant professor, the first woman to become an engineering professor in British Columbia. She was given tenure as an associate professor in 1985, promoted to full professor in 1993, and retired as professor emerita in 2015. At UBC, she directed the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems from 1996 to 2007.
Recognition
Ward became a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 1997. She was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1999, "for contributions to digital signal processing applications in television and medical imaging". She also became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2001. She was elected as an international member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020, "for innovative applications of signal processing to industrial and bioengineering problems".
In 2007, the IEEE Signal Processing Society gave her their Society Award (later renamed the Norbert Wiener Society Award), "for outstanding technical contributions and leadership in advancing the field of signal and image processing". She was president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for 2016–2017.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian electrical engineers
Canadian women engineers
Lebanese engineers
Lebanese women scientists
Cairo University alumni
Univer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YurView | YurView is a group of cable television networks featuring both national and local lifestyle and sports programming. The group of networks are owned by Cox Communications and are available exclusively to Cox subscribers.
History
Beginning in February 2017, Cox began to rebrand their various local origination as YurView. The networks continued to broadcast local high school and college sports, as well as other non-sports programming of local interest. New national programming was also added. Two of the first new shows launched were Dash to the Desert, a show offering analysis of the NCAA tournament and Tech Trends, a show featuring highlights from the Consumer Electronics Show.
Networks
YurView is also offered to Cox subscribers in Cleveland, Ohio and Sun Valley, Idaho, but it is unclear whether these areas carry local programming.
References
External links
Official Website
Cox Communications
Television channels and stations established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20National%20Highway%20568 | China National Highway 568 runs from Lanzhou to Luqu via Linxia and Xiahe. It is one of the new trunk highways proposed in the China National Highway Network Planning (2013 - 2030).
Route
See also
China National Highways
References
Transport in Gansu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation%20warfare | Fifth-generation warfare (5GW) is warfare that is conducted primarily through non-kinetic military action, such as social engineering, misinformation, cyberattacks, along with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and fully autonomous systems. Fifth generation warfare has been described by Daniel Abbot as a war of "information and perception". There is no widely agreed upon definition of fifth-generation warfare, and it has been rejected by some scholars, including William S. Lind, who was one of the original theorists of fourth-generation warfare.
History
The term 'fifth-generation warfare' was first used in 2003 by Robert Steele. The following year, Lind criticised the concept, arguing that the fourth generation had yet to fully materialize.
In 2008, the term was used by Terry Terriff, who presented the 2003 ricin letters as a potential example, but stated that he was not entirely sure if it was a fifth-generation attack, claiming "we may not recognize it as it resolves around us. Or we might look at several alternative futures and see each as fifth generation." Terriff argued that while fifth-generation warfare allows "super-empowered individuals" to make political statements through terrorism, they lack the political power to actually have their demands met.
Characteristics
Alex P. Schmid said that fifth-generation warfare is typified by its "omnipresent battlefield", and the fact that people engaged in it do not necessarily use military force, instead employing a mixture of kinetic and non-kinetic force. In the 1999 book Unrestricted Warfare, by colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui of the People's Liberation Army, they noted that in the years since the 1991 Gulf War, conventional military violence had decreased, which correlated to an increase in "political, economic, and technological violence", which they argued could be more devastating than a conventional war. On the contrary, Thomas P. M. Barnett believes that the effectiveness of fifth-generational warfare is exaggerated, as terrorism conducted by individuals, such as Timothy McVeigh or Ted Kaczynski, lacks the support of more organized movements. This was seconded by George Michael, who noted that in the United States, gang violence was responsible for far more deaths than lone wolf terrorist attacks.
L.C. Rees described the nature of fifth generation warfare as difficult to define in itself, alluding to the third law of science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke – "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
See also
Counterinsurgency
New generation warfare
Radicalism (politics)
Subversion
References
Cyberwarfare
Military doctrines
Military operations by type
Psychological warfare
Social engineering (political science)
Warfare by type
21st-century conflicts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvie%20and%20the%20Magic%20Museum | Harvie and the Magic Museum () is a 2017 3D computer-animated comedy fantasy film based on the Czech Spejbl and Hurvínek puppet comedy duo.
Premise
Harvie, a troubled ten-year old boy, accidentally activates the legendary magic disc that brings puppets to life. However, this also brings back the mad puppeteer who wants to turn the entire city and all its inhabitants into his own puppet stage, and only Harvie can stop him.
Cast
Production
Production for the film lasted seven years. With a budget of 170,000,000 CZK ($8,000,000), it was the fifth most expensive Czech film at the time of its release, and the most expensive animated Czech film.
Release and reception
The film was released in the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 31 August 2017, and had a worldwide gross of $2,079,037. In the Czech Republic, it opened with $354,048 for a total gross of $1,007,954; in Slovakia, it opened with $2,265 for a total of $61,859. The film was released in Russia on 7 March 2019. It was boycotted by the Association of Cinema Owners and three other networks due to the lobbying of the film by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Because of this, the film was a box office bomb, grossing $235,105 in its opening weekend for a total gross of $468,680.
The film received generally negative reviews from critics.
The UK and Irish DVD release markets the film as a Halloween movie.
See also
List of animated feature films of 2017
List of most expensive Czech films
References
External links
2017 animated films
2017 films
Belgian animated films
Czech fantasy comedy films
Czech animated comedy films
Czech animated fantasy films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond%20Triangle%20Players | Richmond Triangle Players (RTP) is a nonprofit, professional theatre company located in Richmond, Virginia that produces programming rooted in queer experiences and supports the development of queer artistry.
It is the only professional theatre company in Central Virginia and the longest continually operating theatre in the Mid-Atlantic region which serves the LGBTQ+ community.
History
The company originated from a benefit performance in 1992, where they performed a trio of one-act-plays by Harvey Fierstein. In the following year the Richmond Triangle Players launched its first season with four plays. For the first fifteen years the company was located at the Fieldens Cabaret Theatre and in 2010 the organization opened the Robert B. Moss Theatre, a 90-seat theater located in the Scott’s Addition neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia.
In 2014 Richmond Triangle Players partnered with artists from the local TheatreLAB to create Spectrum, a theatre arts education program for LGBTQ+ youth and allies in grades 8-12.
Notable productions have included The Laramie Project and A Chorus Line.
So.Queer Playwrighting Festival
In 2020 the Richmond Triangle Players launched the So.Queer Playwriting Festival, a biennial festival of LGBTQ+ works by a selected playwright. The company collaborates with the playwright through a series of salon readings, staged readings, and minimalized productions, as well as consultations with local artists, mentorship from theatre professionals, and the provision of other creative supports. The idea for the festival came from former Richmond Triangle Players Artistic Director John Knapp and his husband Tom Gillham.
Awards and recognition
Richmond Triangle Players has received praise from local press and has been nominated for several awards. It was nominated for the inaugural People’s Choice Award from the Richmond Theatre Critics Circle and has both praise and awards for its 2018 production of The Laramie Project.
In 2016 Playbill.com named Richmond Triangle Players as "one of the 15 most important theaters of its kind in the nation". Richmond Triangle Players has also been named one of the year’s “OUTstanding Virginians” at the 2018 statewide Equality Virginia dinner and was named a 2019 “Richmond History Maker” by the Valentine Museum and Capital Region Collaborative.
Awards
Best Local Theater Company, 1st Place, Best of Richmond, Style Weekly 2017
Best Local Theater Company, 2nd Place, Best of Richmond, Style Weekly 2020
References
External links
Theatre companies in Virginia
Theatres in Richmond, Virginia
Organizations based in Richmond, Virginia
1992 establishments in Virginia
LGBT in Virginia
LGBT culture in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datavant | Datavant is a health information technology company based in San Francisco, CA, USA, which develops and maintains a digital ecosystem for the exchange of healthcare data. Datavant's clients include clinical research organizations, pharmaceutical companies, payers, analytics companies, hospitals, and providers, operating primarily in the US healthcare market.
Along with the Health Care Cost Institute, Snowflake, Elsevier, Parexel, and others, Datavant operates the COVID-19 Research Database, which "enables public health and policy researchers to use real-world data to understand and combat the COVID-19 pandemic."
History
Datavant was co-founded by Roivant Sciences in 2017 with a focus on data management in support of clinical trials. Datavant's founding CEO was Travis May, a former co-founder of LiveRamp.
The company received a $40.5mm Series A investment in 2018 led by Roivant Sciences, followed by a $40mm Series B investment in 2020. In June 2021, Datavant entered into a seven billion dollar deal to merge with the healthcare information management company Ciox Health. Following the merger, May became president and joined the company's board, while Ciox's CEO Pete McCabe become the CEO of the joint entity that continued under the Datavant name. Also in June 2021, Datavant announced a partnership with Biodesix, a data-driven diagnostics company.
References
External links
Health information technology companies
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Health informatics
2017 establishments in California
Privately held companies based in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejas%20Networks | Tejas Networks is an optical, broadband and data networking products company based in India. The company designs develops and sells its products to telecom service providers, internet service providers, utilities, security and government entities in 75 countries. The company has built many IPs in multiple areas of telecom networking and has emerged as an exporter to other developing countries including Southeast Asia and Africa.
History
Founded in 2000 by Sanjay Nayak with initial funding from Gururaj Deshpande. They were later joined by Kumar Sivarajan (an academic at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and author of a book on optical fiber) along with Arnob Roy (an ex-colleague of Nayak). Tejas Network made a beginning with the development of Intelligent Network technologies. These networks transferred data between two points at the precise speed as per the requirements of the customer. The network also rerouted and cleaned the traffic in case of disruptions During 2002–2003, the company acquired ten customers.
Tejas Networks went public on BSE and NSE in June 2017 with a valuation of Rs 2301 crore ().The organization is considered to be the first listed player in the optical networking equipment space in India by Centrum Broking analysts Alpesh Thacker and Siddhartha Khemka. The anchor investors that bet on Tejas Networks ahead of its IPO were namely Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, East Bridge Capital and PremjiInvest, the family investment arm of Wipro Ltd. In 2020, Tejas Network developed the world's largest disaggregated packet-optical switch that was called TJ1600S/I.
ICRA reported a downward shift in their rating because the revenue and profitability of the company experienced a decline in the financial year 2020. The decrease in revenue was accounted to reduced revenue from government and the international market.
On 29 July 2021, Tata Sons, through its subsidiary Panatone Finvest Limited, initiated an investment in Tejas Networks to buy a 43.35% stake for Rs 1884 crore through shares and warrants. According to The Economic Times, Tejas Networks is looking to use Tata group’s backing to expand its telecom products portfolio. In March 2022, Tejas Networks acquired 64% of Saankhya Labs, an Indian wireless communication and semiconductor company. In April 2022, Tata Sons, through Panatone Finvest Limited, increased its shareholding of Tejas Networks to 52.45%, and thus, acquired the majority of Tejas' shares.
Business
Tejas also has products created on 10G-PON technology, and its equipment are upgradable to 5G. They help private telecom operators in India by supplying GPON equipment. They are partnering with system integrators to bid for BSNL’s 4G tender and investing in 4G wireless. Tejas also supports BSNL’s optical transmission network.
The company is supplying its products to Bharti Airtel for supporting optical network and implementing 5G backhaul, B2B services and broadband applications.
Tejas Networks also supplies GPON e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aire%20de%20Santa%20Fe | Aire de Santa Fe is an Argentine radio station that transmits from the City of Santa Fe, Argentina on the FM 91.1 frequency and broadcasts on more than five stations through its network of radios located in the Santa Fe cities of Helvecia, Rafaela, San Javier, San Justo and Sunchales, as well as in the city of Paraná in Argentina It is owned by the businessman and journalist Luis Mino.
History
In 2008 and with the support of journalists such as Mercedes Marti, Marisa Brel, Gonzalo Bonadeo and its current director and renowned Argentine journalist Luis Mino, the radio began its broadcasts from the center of the city of Santa Fe, Argentina with studios overlooking the Street. In addition, a camera records images of the main study, to be transmitted through the radio website.
Programming
Its grid is made up of journalistic programs, magazines and music programs. Currently, the Argentine journalist Luis Alberto Mino is the head of the radio.
It also has its own news service (Aire Digital) and national and international soccer broadcasts, they have even covered the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
References
Radio stations in Argentina
Broadcasting in Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Clapperton | Craig A. "Clap" Clapperton (born 1967) is a United States Navy vice admiral and naval flight officer who serves as the commander of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and the United States Tenth Fleet since August 4, 2022. He most recently served as the commander of Combined Joint Task Force, Cyber from June 30, 2021, to June 7, 2022. He previously served as commander of Carrier Strike Group 12 from May 7, 2020 to June 17, 2021.
He was also deputy director of operations of United States Cyber Command, with command tours as commanding officer of the from July 2015 to July 2017 and commanding officer of from November 2012 to July 2014. He also commanded the Shadowhawks of VAQ-141, relinquishing command in September 2007 to Commander Michael D. McKenna.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Clapperton graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, commissioning via the NROTC program in 1989 and designated a naval flight officer in 1991. In 2008, he earned an M.A. degree in National Strategy and Security Studies from the United States Naval War College (with highest distinction) and was a member of the college's elite Stockdale group. He is also a distinguished graduate of the Navy Nuclear Power Training Command and completed nuclear power training in 2010. He was the 2007 recipient of the Admiral James Bond Stockdale Award for Inspirational Leadership.
In March 2023, Clapperton was nominated for reappointment as vice admiral, with the addition of Navy Space Command to his assignment.
References
Living people
United States Naval Academy alumni
Naval War College alumni
Military personnel from Pittsburgh
Military personnel from Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Recipients of the Air Medal
United States Navy admirals
1967 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Little%20Vampire%203D | The Little Vampire 3D, also known as The Little Vampire, is a 2017 3D computer-animated vampire film directed by Richard Claus and Karsten Kiilerich and based on the children's book series of the same name by German writer Angela Sommer-Bodenburg.
Cast
Jim Carter as Rookery
Rasmus Hardiker as Rudolph Sackville-Bagg and Gregory Sackville-Bagg
Alice Krige as Freda Sackville-Bagg
Tim Pigott-Smith as Frederick Sackville-Bagg
Miriam Margolyes as Wulftrud
Matthew Marsh as Gernot
Joseph Kloska as Maney
Phoebe Givron-Taylor as Anna Sackville-Bagg
Jim Carter and Alice Krige reprised their roles from the 2000 live-action adaptation of The Little Vampire.
Release
The film had its world premiere in the Netherlands on 5 October 2017. It was released in Germany, Denmark and Italy on 26 October 2017, and in the UK on 25 May 2018. It received 19,767 admissions in Danish cinemas, and had a worldwide gross of $13,808,590. The UK theatrical and DVD versions were cut by 29 seconds in order to remove a scene involving electricity in order to achieve a U rating from the BBFC.
The film received generally negative reviews from critics, and on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a score of 14% based on 14 critical reviews, indicating a "rotten" score.
See also
The Little Vampire (2000), live-action film also based on the titular book series
References
External links
2017 films
2017 animated films
2017 computer-animated films
2017 comedy horror films
2010s fantasy comedy films
Children's horror films
Vampire comedy films
German vampire films
Animated films based on children's books
Dutch animated films
Films based on German novels
2010s English-language films
Films directed by Karsten Kiilerich
2010s German films
Animated films based on novels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy%20intermediate-scale%20quantum%20era | The current state of quantum computing is referred to as the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, characterized by quantum processors containing up to 1000 qubits which are not advanced enough yet for fault-tolerance or large enough to achieve quantum supremacy. These processors, which are sensitive to their environment (noisy) and prone to quantum decoherence, are not yet capable of continuous quantum error correction. This intermediate-scale is defined by the quantum volume, which is based on the moderate number of qubits and gate fidelity. The term NISQ was coined by John Preskill in 2018.
Algorithms
NISQ algorithms are designed for quantum processors in the NISQ era, such as the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) and quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA), which use NISQ devices but offload some calculations to classical processors. These algorithms have been successful in quantum chemistry and have potential applications in various fields including physics, materials science, data science, cryptography, biology, and finance. However, they often require error mitigation techniques to produce accurate results.
Beyond-NISQ era
The creation of a computer with tens of thousands of qubits and enough error correction would eventually end the NISQ era. These beyond-NISQ devices would be able to, for example, implement Shor's algorithm for very large numbers and break RSA encryption.
See also
Quantum supremacy
References
External links
John Preskill lecture on NISQ era
Computer architecture statements
History of computing hardware
Quantum computing
Quantum information science
Computational complexity theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20allocation%20problem | In economics and computer science, the house allocation problem is the problem of assigning objects to people with different preferences, such that each person receives exactly one object. The name "house allocation" comes from the main motivating application, which is assigning dormitory houses to students. Other commonly used terms are assignment problem and one-sided matching. When agents already own houses (and may trade them with other agents), the problem is often called a housing market. In house allocation problems, it is assumed that monetary transfers are not allowed; the variant in which monetary transfers are allowed is known as rental harmony.
Definitions
There are n people (also called: agents), and m objects (also called: houses). The agents may have different preferences over the houses. They may express their preferences in various ways:
Binary valuations: each agent values each house at either 1 (which means that the agent likes the house), or 0 (which means that the agent dislikes the house).
Preference ranking: each agent ranks the houses from best to worst. The ranking may be strict (no indifferences) or weak (indifferences allowed).
Cardinal utility: each agent assigns a non-negative numeric value to each house.
Several considerations may be important in designing algorithms for house allocation.
Pareto efficiency (PE) - no other allocation is better for some agents and not worse to all agents.
Fairness - can be defined in various ways, for example, envy-freeness (EF) - no agent should envy another agent.
Strategyproofness (SP) - each agent has an incentive to report his/her true preferences to the algorithm.
Individual rationality (IR) - no agent should lose from participating in the algorithm.
Efficient allocations
In economics, the primary efficiency requirement in house allocation is PE. There are various algorithms attaining a PE allocation in various settings.
Probably the simplest algorithm for house allocation is serial dictatorship: the agents are ordered in some arbitrary order (e.g. by seniority), and each agent in turn picks the best remaining house by his/her preferences. This algorithm is obviously SP. If the agents' preferences are strict, then it finds a PE allocation. However, it may be very unfair towards the agents who pick last. It can be made fairer (in expectation) by choosing the order uniformly at random; this leads to the mechanism called random serial dictatorship. The mechanism is PE ex-post, but it is not PE ex-ante; see fair random assignment for other randomized mechanisms which are ex-ante PE.
When each agent already owns a house, fairness considerations are less important, it is more important to guarantee to agents that they will not lose from participating (IR). The top trading cycle algorithm is the unique algorithm which guarantees IR, PE and SP. With strict preferences, TTC finds the unique core-stable allocation.
Abdulkadiroglu and Sönmez consider an extended setting in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOBuilt | TOBuilt is a digital, crowd-sourced database of buildings, structures, heritage sites, and human-made landscapes in Toronto, Ontario, Canada maintained by the Toronto branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. The database's initial catalogue was created by Robert Krawczyk in 2006. In 2015, ACO Toronto assumed the operation of TOBuilt and relaunched it on a new platform. As of December 2022, TOBuilt maintains entries for over 14,500 sites located across the city of Toronto.
Database content
TOBuilt's central mandate is to document architecture and built heritage throughout Toronto's six boroughs: Old Toronto, North York, East York, York, Etobicoke, and Scarborough. Individual entries contain present and historical photographs of the site in question as well as information about its date of construction, architect, designer, creator, cultural history, architectural style, level of heritage designation, and location. Historical architectural styles that are highly represented in the database include Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne Revival, Edwardian, and Arts and Crafts. It also documents the use of early 19th-century English architectural styles in the city, including surviving Georgian, Regency, and Neoclassical buildings, as well as those representing modern styles such as Brutalism. TOBuilt has documented various historical Indigenous sites across Toronto.
TOBuilt has conducted several extensive surveys of architectural typologies in Toronto, including of missing middle architecture, places of worship, and schools. In 2022, TOBuilt completed a first-of-its-kind research project documenting over 2,000 detached suburban houses, including Victory Houses, built between 1940 and 2000 in North York, Etobicoke, and Scarborough. The database also maintains an updated list of "at-risk" buildings in the city that are currently threatened by demolition, redevelopment, neglect, or alteration, and most recently by provincial Bill 23.
Architectural advocacy
In February 2021, the owner of a 3-storey Second Empire building designed by Scottish architect David Brash Dick in 1878 at 127 Strachan Avenue in Toronto's West End Niagara neighbourhood withdrew a demolition application after advocacy efforts led by TOBuilt. The project centred around a TOBuilt Instagram campaign and an online petition garnering nearly 5,000 signatures.
References
External links
Official website
2006 establishments in Canada
Organizations based in Toronto
Heritage registers in Canada
Historic preservation in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callaphididae | Callaphididae is a family of true bugs belonging to the order Hemiptera.
Genera:
Bacillaphis Quednau, 1954
Dataiphis Linnaeus, 1995
Nippocallis Matsumura, 1917
Saruallis
Synthripaphis Quednau, 1954
References
Hemiptera
Hemiptera families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Life | Computer Life was a magazine which focused on computers. The New York Times called it "an endless array of permutations that marry the term PC to some older, less-capitalized form of existence" because of its coverage of "the culture of computers." Amidst "hundreds of computing magazines" its focus was Generation X.
History
Ziff Davis began publishing the San Francisco monthly in 1994. Advertising revenues had increased
by 1996, but not in proportion to "the increase in overall spending." Part of this was attributed to major portions of some company's ad budgets focused on television.
When it first came out, Family Life was "the largest start-up ever undertaken" by Ziff Davis. This was the era when the magazine's big brother was "No. 1 in total advertising, ahead of Forbes and Business Week." By 1998 it had been renamed; it was subsequently closed by Ziff Davis.
References
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudd%20Canaday | Rudd Canaday is an American computer systems engineer and a previous member of the technical staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, credited to co-develop the initial design of the Unix file system. In 2015 he joined a Palo Alto based tech startup, Entefy, as a Senior Architect & Engineer.
Research and career
Canaday received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Physics from Harvard University in 1959 and received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964.
In 1960s, Ken Thompson developed a game called Space Travel on Multics file system, which ran very slowly on the machine. This caused Thompson to design his own hierarchical file system along with Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy and Canaday. Joe Ossanna also joined Thompson, Ritchie and Canaday to program the operating system called Unics, later named Unix.
In 1973, Canaday along with Evan Ivie started developing the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) to support a computer center for a 1000-employee Bell Labs division, which would be the largest Unix site for several years.
Selected publications
Canaday, Rudd H., R. D. Harrison, Evan L. Ivie, J. L. Ryder, and L. A. Wehr. "A back-end computer for data base management." Communications of the ACM 17, no. 10 (1974): 575-582.
Canaday, Rudd H. "Two-dimensional iterative logic." In Proceedings of the November 30—December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, part I, pp. 343–353. 1965.
See also
History of Unix
PWB/UNIX
References
External links
LinkedIn profile
Why the co-inventor of Unix joined Entefy (Youtube video with narration by Rudd Canaday)
Living people
American computer scientists
Harvard University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Unix people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemundo%20Kids | Telemundo Kids (in borrowed its name from Telemundo's 1995-1998 Saturday morning block Telemundo Infantil) is a former American children's programming block that airs on the Spanish-language television network Telemundo, which debuted on October 6, 2001, to September 3, 2006. The three-hour block—which airs Saturday and Sunday mornings from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time and Pacific Time—features live action and animated series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 14.
Programs featured on the block consist of a mixture of series originally produced in Spanish and dubbed versions of series that were originally produced and broadcast in English. All shows featured on Telemundo Kids are designed to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) via the Children's Television Act. Telemundo Kids aired for the final time on September 3, 2006. The following week, the block's direct successor, Qubo on Telemundo debuted.
History
Telemundo Kids introduced as Saturday and Sunday morning in 2001
In October 2001, Telemundo announced that it would launch as revival, Telemundo Kids, which is borrowed originally known as Telemundo Infantil (in English: Telemundo Kids) from 1995 to 1998. Additionally, after Nickelodeon en Telemundo blocks was discontinued on September 30, 2001, ahead of the expiry of Telemundo's program supply deal with Nickelodeon. "Telemundo Kids" features some programs complaint with Federal Communications Commission and educational programming requirements - debuted on the air for three-hour within typical ran from each Saturday and Sunday morning at 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. All other time periods with Infomercials (thought some Telemundo affiliates choice to pre-empt the block of favor of the commercials and bumpers). The introduction a new logo with font text (Boink STD) with the orange line with the original 2000 "Telemundo" font, alongside bumpers and promos and controlled by Telemundo Network Group, LLC. (a unit of NBCUniversal).
The block included a three-hour lineup that consisted mainly of dubbed versions of American, Canadian, European animated series came the network opted to fully program was mix of acquired from various programming production companies and distributors (the network was carry pick-up the animated series was in partnership with Sony Pictures Television (via Adelaide Productions and based on Sesame Street was educational cartoon developed by Sesame Workshop), the Japanese-based animation studio Toei Animation, the European-based animation studio BRB International and the Canadian-based animation studio Nelvana. However, Nickelodeon (owner by Paramount Global) returned to the network in 2004 to 2006) and the divided across Sábados de Fantasía ("Fantasy Saturdays") and Domingos de Aventura ("Adventure Sundays"). The block's initial lineup consisted mainly of the originally produced and broadcast in English inclu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Pinot | Apache Pinot is a column-oriented, open-source, distributed data store written in Java. Pinot is designed to execute OLAP queries with low latency. It is suited in contexts where fast analytics, such as aggregations, are needed on immutable data, possibly, with real-time data ingestion. The name Pinot comes from the Pinot grape vines that are pressed into liquid that is used to produce a variety of different wines. The founders of the database chose the name as a metaphor for analyzing vast quantities of data from a variety of different file formats or streaming data sources.
Pinot was first created at LinkedIn after the engineering staff determined that there were no off the shelf solutions that met the social networking site's requirements like predictable low latency, data freshness in seconds, fault tolerance and scalability. Pinot is used in production by technology companies such as Uber, Microsoft, and Factual.
History
Pinot was started as an internal project at LinkedIn in 2013 to power a variety of user-facing and business-facing products. The first analytics product at LinkedIn to use Pinot was a redesign of the social networking site's feature that allows members to see who has viewed their profile in real-time. The project was open-sourced in June 2015 under an Apache 2.0 license and was donated to the Apache Software Foundation by LinkedIn in June 2019.
Architecture
Pinot uses Apache Helix for cluster management. Helix is embedded as an agent within the different components and uses Apache ZooKeeper for coordination and maintaining the overall cluster state and health. All Pinot servers and brokers are managed by Helix. Helix is a generic cluster management framework to manage partitions and replicas in a distributed system.
Query management
Queries are received by brokers—which checks the request against the segment-to-server routing table—scattering the request between real-time and offline servers.
Cluster management
Pinot leverages Apache Helix for cluster management. Helix is a cluster management framework to manage replicated, partitioned resources in a distributed system. Helix uses Zookeeper to store cluster state and metadata.
Features
Pinot shares similar features with comparable OLAP datastores, such as Apache Druid. Like Druid, Pinot is a column-oriented database with various compression schemes such as Run Length and Fixed-Bit Length. Pinot supports pluggable indexing technologies - Sorted Index, Bitmap Index, Inverted Index, Star-Tree Index, and Range Index, which are what primarily differentiates Pinot from other OLAP datastores.
Pinot supports near real-time ingestion from streams such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis and batch ingestion from sources such as Hadoop, S3, Azure, GCS. Like most other OLAP datastores and data warehousing solutions, Pinot supports a SQL-like query language that supports selection, aggregation, filtering, group by, order by, distinct queries on data.
See also
List of column-oriented D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banks%20V.%20Telcos%20USSD%20Dispute | Banks V. Telcos USSD Dispute is a 2019 commercial dispute in Nigeria between the banks and telecommunication companies about who should pay for the use of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) for financial transactions such as funds transfer, checking account balance and mobile airtime top-ups. This service gained wide usage in Nigeria in 2015 and the dispute centered around who should pay the costs of these transactions.
The USSD services is widely promoted by commercial banks to optimize their financial services to customers and generate more revenue. But there was no agreement between telecommunications service providers and commercial banks as to who would offset USSD service charges.
Dispute
In October 2019, telecommunications companies and commercial banks publicly engaged in dispute over USSD service charges following the refusal of the banks to pay for the services used by their customers. The banks then proposed to telcos to adopt end-user billing while receiving fees for the USSD transactions. But telcos disagreed for two reasons: First, this would be double billing to end-users as banks were already charging and receiving fees for USSD transactions. Second, telecommunications regulator, Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC had barred telcos from charging fees for financial transactions carried out on their USSD platforms. This put telcos at a loss.
On 21 October 2019 MTN adopted end-user billing proposed by the banks and announced a N4 per 20 seconds USSD service access to its subscribers. But NCC ordered immediate suspension of the service access charges. This was backed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN who said USSD is a "sunk cost" (meaning not an additional cost on the infrastructure of the telecom company). But MTN argued that it is an additional cost on its network infrastructure. Later in December, the Association of Licensed Telecommunications of Nigeria (ALTON), in support of MTN said telcos had invested hugely in USSD service infrastructure and threatened to shut down if telcos would not be allowed to charge USSD service access fee proposing that telcos would only render free USSD service if banks stopped charging subscribers for same service. The Executive Vice Chairman, NCC at a meeting with the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) announced that banks owed mobile network operators N17 billion for services rendered within the period USSD service access charge was suspended.
In 2020, NCC reduced USSD service access charge to N1.63 from N4.86 and instructed that charges be billed via a corporate billing model, officially making banks responsible for paying the USSD service charge. The use of USSD increased by 14.5 per cent in March 2020, due to COVID-19 restrictions and in June same year, the value in monetary term was put at N390 billion and monthly average value of USSD transactions rose to N230 billion. Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) alone reported ₦3.89 trillion in USSD transact |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Shahid%20original%20programming | Shahid is the first and largest Arabic content streaming platform in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA). Part of MBC GROUP, Shahid is home to original productions from the Arab world, a wide range of exclusive movies and premieres, as well as the top watched live Arab TV channels.
Shahid Original series
In 2019, Shahid began producing their own originals series. The first series that premiered under the aegis of Shahid Original series was El Diva, a drama featuring superstar Cyrine Abdelnour, and Yacob Alfarhan.
The platform has rapidly grown its portfolio to include original content from different countries, and genres that range from drama to comedy to thriller. Shahid Original series are available exclusively to Shahid VIP subscribers.
All programming is in Arabic, listed below by launch date and classified by primary genres.
References
Middle East Broadcasting Center |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st%20News%20and%20Documentary%20Emmy%20Awards | The 41st News & Documentary Emmy Awards were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), honoring the best in American news and documentary programming in 2019. The winners were announced on two ceremonies via live-stream at Watch.TheEmmys.TV and other apps associated, the winners for the News categories were announced on September 21, 2020, while the ones for the Documentary categories were revealed on September 22, 2020.
The nominees were announced on August 6, 2020 for both the News and the Documentary categories.
Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced on August 6, 2020. Winners in each category are listed first, in boldface.
News programming
Programming in Spanish
Documentary Programming
Craft
Regional News
Multiple nominations
References
External links
News & Documentary Emmys website
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
Emmy Awards
News & Documentary Emmy Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational%20quantum%20eigensolver | In quantum computing, the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a quantum algorithm for quantum chemistry, quantum simulations and optimization problems. It is a hybrid algorithm that uses both classical computers and quantum computers to find the ground state of a given physical system. Given a guess or ansatz, the quantum processor calculates the expectation value of the system with respect to an observable, often the Hamiltonian, and a classical optimizer is used to improve the guess. The algorithm is based on variational method of quantum mechanics.
It was originally proposed in 2013, with corresponding authors Alberto Peruzzo, Alán Aspuru-Guzik and Jeremy O'Brien. The algorithm has also found applications in quantum machine learning and has been further substantiated by general hybrid algorithms between quantum and classical computers. It is an example of a noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) algorithm.
Description
Pauli encoding
The objective of the VQE is to find a set of quantum operations that prepares the lowest energy state (or minima) of a close approximation to some target quantity or observable. While the only strict requirement for the representation of an observable is that it is efficient to estimate its expectation values, it is often simplest if that operator has a compact or simple expression in terms of Pauli operators or tensor products of Pauli operators.
For a fermionic system, it is often most convenient to qubitize: that is to write the many-body Hamiltonian of the system using second quantization, and then use a mapping to write the creation-annihiliation operators in terms of Pauli operators. Common schemes for fermions include Jordan–Wigner transformation, Bravyi-Kitaev transformation, and parity transformation.
Once the Hamiltonian is written in terms of Pauli operators and irrelevant states are discarded (finite-dimensional space), it would consist of a linear combination of Pauli strings consisting of tensor products of Pauli operators (for example ), such that
,
where are numerical coefficients. Based on the coefficients, the number of Pauli strings can be reduced in order to optimize the calculation.
The VQE can be adapted to other optimization problems by adapting the Hamiltonian to be a cost function.
Ansatz and initial trial function
The choice of ansatz state depends on the system of interest. In gate-based quantum computing, the ansatz is given by a parametrized quantum circuit, whose parameters can be updated after each run. The ansatz has to be adaptable enough to not miss the desired state. A common method to obtain a valid ansatz is given by the unitary coupled cluster (UCC) framework and its extensions.
If the ansatz is not chosen adequately the procedure may halt at suboptimal parameters that do not correspond to a minima. In this situation, the algorithm is said to have reached a 'barren plateau'.
The ansatz can be set to an initial trial function to start the algorithm. For |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%20Lamar%20Williams | Mason Lamar Williams III (January 20, 1943 – June 28, 2021) was an engineer and physicist, noted for his contributions in the areas of magnetic recording and data storage on hard disk drives (HDD). A large part of his career was with the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. After retiring, Williams played a major role in the restoration and demonstration of the IBM RAMAC at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California
Background and education
Mason Lamar Williams was born in San Mateo, California on 20th January, 1943. His parents were Mason Lamar Williams Jr. (1915-1991) and Helen Williams. His father had a long prestigious career in the Army. The family lived in various parts of the US and overseas. Williams graduated from high school in Georgia. He studied engineering at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena and received the B.S. degree in 1964. As a resident of Fleming House in January 1961, he contributed to the Great Rose Bowl Hoax. Williams continued his studies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, receiving an M.S.E.E. degree in 1966 and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Physics in 1970. His advisor at USC was physicist Jan Smit noted for his work on magnetic ferrites.
Williams and his wife, Phyllis (m. 1968/06/22) lived in the Almaden Valley. They had two sons, Michael and Stephen. Williams died in San Jose on June 28, 2021, at the age of 78.
Career
Williams joined IBM, San Jose, CA, in 1970 initially in the Manufacturing Research organization where he reported to Larry Comstock. In the late 70's he worked on magnetic bubble memory. In 1982, he joined the Magnetic Recording Institute (led by Charles Denis Mee) and managed an investigation of perpendicular magnetic recording. In 1985 he moved to the IBM Almaden Research Center to become manager of Advanced Recording Heads with a focus on magnetic modelling. Williams represented IBM on the National Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) UltraHigh Density Magnetic Recording Head project. In 1996, he became a member of the Extremely High Density Recording Strategy Team at INSIC which led to the proposal for TDMR technology.
In 2002, the IBM HDD division was purchased by Hitachi. Williams worked for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) and continued to conduct fundamental research and modeling of magnetic recording physics and on HDD system integration.
After Williams retired from Hitachi GST in 2005, he played a major role in the restoration of the IBM RAMAC, the first commercial hard disk drive. This work was done at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. He volunteered as a docent at the museum and gave weekly demonstrations of the drive.
Awards and recognition
In 1999, Williams was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for "contributions to the understanding of the digital magnetic recording process and the continued progress of areal density of disk drives".
In 2006 Willi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inference%20Corporation | Inference Corporation specializes in "the development of artificial intelligence computer systems."
History
Los Angeles-based Inference was founded in 1979. In the 1990s they built a case-based computer program for Compaq Computer Corporation that would enable dealing with a situation where
"a computer printer turns out a blurry and smeared page" without having to call a help desk. Although such software already existed, the breakthrough was that it was small enough to fit "on three floppy disks."
The company's Automated Reasoning Tool (ART), initially implemented on a mainframe, subsequently made available on PCs, has been extended to ART-IM, an Information Management package; the product line originated in 1988.
Ford and AOL are among the household-known corporations that use Inference software to enhance customer service. Inference was acquired by eGain Corporation in
2000. Prior to that, Inference acquired 1981-founded Computer Mathematics Corporation, marketer of SMP (computer algebra system); Inference made another acquisition the year before they themselves were acquired by eGain.
Automated Reasoning Tool
The Automated Reasoning Tool (ART) is a system designed by Paul Haley, Chuck Williams, Brad Allen, and Mark Wright, to design rule-based knowledge representations with options for frame and procedural methods of knowledge base representation.
ART's syntax influenced NASA's derived CLIPS in the mid-80s. ART is a derivative of OPS5, with extensions, built for the Inference Corporation.
References
History of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity%20based%20training | Velocity based training (VBT) is a modern approach to strength training and power training which utilises velocity tracking technology to provide rich objective data as a means to motivate and support real-time adjustments in an athlete's training plan. Typical strength and power programming and periodisation plans rely on the manipulation of reps, sets and loads as a means to calibrate training stressors in the pursuit of specific adaptations. Since the late 1990s, innovations in bar speed monitoring technology has brought velocity based training closer to the mainstream as the range of hardware and software solutions for measuring exercise velocities have become easier to use and more affordable.
Velocity based training has a wide range of use cases and applications in strength and conditioning. These include barbell sports such as powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting and Crossfit, as well as rock climbing.Velocity based training is widely adopted across professional sporting clubs, with the data supporting many periodisation decisions for coaches in the weight room and on the field.
Most commonly, velocity based training is used on compound strength and power movements such as squats, deadlifts, bench press and the olympic lifting variations. Values such as mean velocity, mean propulsive velocity and peak velocity are recorded in metres per second (m/s) and logged over time to monitor performance and fatigue levels in individual athletes or across teams or cohorts.
Physiology of velocity based training
Velocity Based Training is built on the training principle of intent to move and Newton's second law of motion.
Intent to Move
When training for strength and power, athlete should aim to apply as much intent as possible to their movements. By trying to lift weights as explosively as possible, an athlete will accelerate and increase the recruitment of their largest, most powerful type II motor units through the Henneman Size Principle. This higher effort and intent in training in turn increases rate of force development, preferential type II fibre hypertrophy through the SAID principle.
Until recently, tracking this intent relied on a keen coaches eye and subjective feedback methods. The ability to track and monitor objective metrics such as velocity and power has become a key coaching tool for providing motivation to athletes, improving training adaptations and reinforcing this higher intent to training.
The load velocity profile
In most traditional strength movements, as the amount of load an athlete aims to lift increases, the velocity at which they are able to move decreases. The relationship between load and velocity follow a predictable and consistent linear pattern. The stability of this load velocity relationship has made Velocity Based Training a useful tool to be able to predict and estimate strength levels, fatigue and readiness to train.
The load power profile
Similarly to the velocity profile, power and load share a st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling%20on%20CBS | Cycling on CBS is the de facto name for broadcasts of multiple-stage bicycle races produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network. CBS was notably the first American television network to provide coverage of the Tour de France. CBS also provided coverage of Paris–Roubaix during the 1980s.
Overview
Tour de France coverage
CBS first covered the Tour de France in 1980, airing approximately five minutes of action. During that time, CBS typically taped segments of the beginning of the stage in order to air them the following weekend on CBS Sports Sunday. The final stage would however, be broadcast live.
On April 7, 1985, CBS entered into an agreement with Broadcasting Rights International Corporation to retain the American television broadcasting rights to the Tour de France through 1988. The agreement was said to initially be worth approximately $50,000 with an additional $237,000 for the broadcasting rights to the 1987 tour. By 1986, CBS would devote to hours of coverage for five consecutive weekends.
When CBS broadcast their final Tour de France in 1988, their coverage for the first three weekends consisted of highlights and features. Tim Brant and Phil Liggett served as hosts for the telecasts airing under the CBS Sports Sunday umbrella. CBS would however, air the final stage live on July 24.
In 2001, the Outdoor Life Network (or OLN) replaced ABC and ESPN as the principle American television broadcaster for the Tour de France. The network in the process, purchased air time on CBS, where three one-hour tape delayed specials would air on Sunday afternoons. These specials mainly recapped the past few days of action from the final three weeks of the tour. CBS however, devoted hours to the final stage of the tour on CBS Sports Spectacular. In total, the arrangement with OLN and CBS was worth approximately $3.3 million.
CBS employed the services of commentators Armen Keteyian, Phil Liggett, and Paul Sherwen. In 2006, Bob Neumeier succeeded Armen Keteyian as the host. The following year, Craig Hummer succeeded Neumeier in the hosting role for CBS.
In 2008, Greg Amsinger hosted the Tour de France for CBS.
CBS' involvement with the Tour de France once again ended when NBC took over the American broadcast television network rights in 2011.
Tour of America
In 1983, CBS teamed with World Tour Cycling to devote at least 27 minutes to the Tour of America, which was a 130 km race from Williamsburg, Virginia to Richmond, Virginia.
Paris–Roubaix
CBS began covering Paris–Roubaix in 1984 and continued on through 1988, when the coverage like with the Tour de France moved over to ABC. Theo de Rooij, a Dutchman, had been in a promising position to win the 1985 race but had then crashed, losing his chance of winning. Covered in mud, he offered his thoughts on the race to John Tesh after the race:
"It's a bollocks, this race!” said de Rooij. "You're working like an animal, you don't have time to piss, you wet your pants. You're r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwi%20Rubiyanti%20Kholifah | Dwi Rubiyanti Kholifah, commonly known as Ruby Kholifah, is an Indonesian Women's rights leader and Human rights activist. She is the Indonesian director of the Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN).
Biography
Kholifah was born and raised in Indonesia, and completed a bachelor’s degree in literature from Universitas Jember, Indonesia and a master’s degree in health and social science at Mahidol University in Thailand, where she studied the sexual health and practices of young women in traditional Islamic schools (Pesantren). She has also been an activist with the Nahdlatul Ulama. She joined the Asian Muslim Action Network in 2005 as coordinator of the research fellowship program.
She is currently Indonesia's director for the Asian Muslim Action Network, focusing on women in peacebuilding and interfaith cooperation. In 2014 she was selected as an Asia Foundation Development Fellow. In 2016 she was recipient of the N-Peace Award. She has spoken out about such topics as the wearing of the Hijab, rights for victims of Rape, interfaith relations, Terrorism, rights for the Ahmadiyya minority, Transgender rights, and other issues.
Recognition
She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2014.
Publications
Kholifah, D. R. (2010). Contesting discourses on sexuality and sexual subjectivity among single young Muslim women in pesantren. Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Dwi Rubiyanti Kholifah
Nahdlatul Ulama
Indonesian women's rights activists
Indonesian human rights activists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Schrooten | David Benjamin Schrooten is a Dutch computer hacker also known as Fortezza and Xakep. In 2012, he was arrested in Romania at the request of the United States Secret Service and extradited to Seattle, Washington. Here he was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison, primarily for his role in trafficking credit cards he obtained by hacking other hackers. And by doing so approximately causing 63 million dollars in damages.
In 2014 he was sent back to the Netherlands through a treaty transfer and subsequently released in December that same year. After his release he authored a book named Alias Fortezza chronicling his arrest and incarceration.
As a computer hacker he was particularly notorious for hacking rival groups such as the Infraud Organization, in which he crowned himself admin under the alias xakep. He was also known as one of the founders of the cybercrime forum kurupt. That later split up in two separate forums, because of infighting among founding members. The break up resulted in hacking skirmishes between the groups that ended when they started publishing each other names. After his arrest, the remaining forum kurupt.ru kept operating and continued getting themselves involved in high profile hacking endeavours such as the stophaus attack, that broke a part of the internet.
References
Dutch computer specialists
Hackers
21st-century Dutch criminals
People extradited from the Netherlands
People extradited to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy%20Cat | Spy Cat (), also known by its German name Marnie's World, is a 2018 computer-animated action-adventure comedy film written and directed by brothers Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein. The film was loosely inspired by the German fairy tale Town Musicians of Bremen. The film is about Marnie, a chubby house cat who gets everything she wants.
The film is an international co-production between Germany's Scopas Medien, Belgium's Grid Animation and India's Philm CGI.
Cast
Alexandra Neldel as Marnie Sunshine, an orange house cat who goes out of adventure and into action.
Axel Prahl as Elvis, a brown dog and Marnie's sidekick.
Erik Borner as Anton, a zebra who later became a donkey who lived in Africa.
Sylvain Urban as Eggbert, a white rooster who is one of Marnie's heroes.
Release
Spy Cat received its worldwide premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on 13 June 2018, before being theatrically released in Portugal on 14 March 2019. It was released in Germany on 18 April 2019 by Universum Film and in Belgium on 1 May 2019, as well. The film had a worldwide gross of $3,440,104, but received generally negative reviews from critics.
For its British theatrical release, the film was slightly cut to remove a comical scene of a man urinating against another man accidentally when he's distracted in order to receive a U rating from the British Board of Film Classification. An uncut PG classification was available.
In 2020, an English dubbed version of SpyCat was released with influencer Addison Rae now voicing the character of Marnie.
References
External links
Spy Cat at filmportal.de (in German)
3D animated films
2018 films
2018 3D films
2018 computer-animated films
2010s German animated films
2010s children's animated films
German 3D films
German animated feature films
Belgian animated films
Talking animals in fiction
2010s German films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73rd%20Primetime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 73rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2020, until May 31, 2021, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards were presented across three ceremonies on September 11 and 12, 2021, at the Event Deck at L.A. Live in Downtown Los Angeles, California, preceding the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards on September 19. A total of 99 Creative Arts Emmys were presented across 92 categories. The ceremonies were produced by Bob Bain, directed by Rich Preuss, and broadcast in the United States by FXX on September 18.
The Queen's Gambit won nine awards, leading all programs; The Mandalorian and Saturday Night Live followed with seven wins each. The Mandalorian also received the most nominations with 19, followed by WandaVision with 15 and Saturday Night Live with 14. Program awards went to Boys State, Carpool Karaoke: The Series, Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square, For All Mankind: Time Capsule, Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal, Love, Death & Robots, Queer Eye, RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked, Secrets of the Whales, Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, and 76 Days. Netflix led all networks with 34 wins and 104 nominations.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡). Sections are based upon the categories listed in the 2020–2021 Emmy rules and procedures. Area awards and juried awards are denoted next to the category names as applicable. For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards have been omitted.
Programs
Performing
Animation
Art Direction
Casting
Choreography
Cinematography
Commercial
Costumes
Directing
Hairstyling
Lighting Design / Lighting Direction
Main Title and Motion Design
Makeup
Music
Picture Editing
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Special Visual Effects
Stunts
Technical Direction
Writing
Nominations and wins by program
For the purposes of the lists below, any wins in juried categories are assumed to have a prior nomination.
Nominations and wins by network
Ceremony order and presenters
The following categories were presented at each ceremony:
Ceremony information
The nominations for the 73rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards were announced on July 13, 2021, by Ron and Jasmine Cephas Jones via a virtual event. On July 21, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, also known as the Television Academy, revealed that the Creative Arts Emmys would be presented in two ceremonies on Saturday, September 11, and Sunday, September 12; the previous year's ceremonies had been spread out over five days due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The two ceremonies were scheduled to be held at the Microsoft Theater. On July 30, the event was split into three ceremonies scheduled for Saturday evening, Sunday afternoon, and Sunday evening. The combined |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93%25%20Club | The 93% Club is a student-run charity that aims to provide opportunities and a network for state school–educated university students in the United Kingdom. It has chapters at 45 universities in the UK and has reached more than 10,000 students.
History
The organisation was founded by Sophie Pender, who graduated from secondary school with three A* grades at A-Level but found her working-class council estate background criticised when she began studying at the University of Bristol in 2016. At that time, more than 35% of students at the university came from private schools.
The 93% in the name refers to the share of British people educated in state schools. Robert Verkaik described the club as a "reverse Bullingdon Club" in the Guardian, placing the organisation in contrast to the exclusive private club at the University of Oxford. The charity intends to counteract the traditional "What school did you go to?" question assumed to allow former private school pupils to get good jobs. It gives advice to students, such as helping them select a hall of residence or explaining that state school undergraduates may have built up resilience and may outperform the privately educated.
The movement attracted increased attention in 2020, when it grew to over 10,000 students in 36 universities. It obtained charitable status that December.
Reception
In June 2021, the charity attracted attention for a social media campaign asking users to share that they are "state school and proud". It also received some hostility, as some of its events were disrupted, and the organisation was criticised as "elitist". Pender rejected these criticisms, saying privately educated students "don't need to set up a 7% club because they already benefit from privileged networks". Other commentators have argued the "educational apartheid" of independent (private) schools is preventing social mobility.
References
Charities based in England
Socio-economic mobility
Student societies in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20build%20tool | dbt is an open-source command line tool that helps analysts and engineers transform data in their warehouse more effectively.
History
It started at RJMetrics in 2016 as a solution to add basic transformation capabilities to Stitch (acquired by Talend in 2018). The earliest versions of dbt allowed analysts to contribute to the data transformation process following the best practices of software engineering.
From the beginning, dbt was open source. In 2018, the dbt Labs team (then called Fishtown Analytics) released a commercial product on top of dbt Core.
Funding
In April 2020, dbt Labs announced its Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. In November, dbt Labs announced its Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia. And in June 2021, dbt Labs raised its Series C led by Altimeter, Sequoia, and Andreessen Horowitz. In February 2022, the company raised $222 million for its Series D, at a $4.2 billion valuation
Overview
dbt enables analytics engineers to transform data in their warehouses by writing select statements, and turns these select statements into tables and views. dbt does the transformation (T) in extract, load, transform (ELT) processes – it does not extract or load data, but is designed to be performant at transforming data already inside of a warehouse. dbt has the goal of allowing analysts to work more like software engineers, in line with the dbt viewpoint.
dbt uses YAML files to declare properties. seed is a type of reference table used in dbt for static or infrequently changed data, like for example country codes or lookup tables), which are CSV based and typically stored in a seeds folder.
References
Data warehousing
Business analytics
Free software programmed in Python |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle%20%28given%20name%29 | Carlisle is a given name related to Carlyle It may refer to the following notable people:
Carlisle Adams, Canadian cryptographer and computer security researcher
Carlisle Best (born 1959), Barbadian former cricketer
Carlisle Cullen, fictional character in The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
Carlisle Floyd (1926–2021), American composer
Carlisle Graham (1850 – 1909), American athlete
Carlisle W. Higgins (1889–1980), American jurist
Carlisle H. Humelsine (1915 – 1989), American diplomat and military office
Carlisle Jarvis (1906 – 1979), Australian rules footballer
Carlisle Moody (born 1943), American economist, criminologist, and professor
Carlisle Perry (1893 – 1953), American baseball player
Carlisle Runge (1920–1983), American lawyer and diplomat
Carlisle Trost (1930–2020), American navy officer
See also
Carlile (given name)
Carlisle (surname)
Carlyle (name)
English masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20Center%20for%20North%20Korean%20Human%20Rights | The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (commonly referred to as NKDB) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, that conducts data collection, analysis, and monitoring of human rights violations experienced in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea). NKDB not only offers resettlement support, psychological counseling, and educational opportunities, but also advocates for human rights advancement and transitional justice of past human rights violations in the DPRK.
NKDB’s Unified Human Rights Database contains over 84,000 cases of human rights infractions and details of over 54,000 involved persons. Along with regularly releasing books and reports, the organization hosts as well as participates in seminars that analyze and contextualize such incidents of human rights violation.
History
2000s
NKDB was officially established on 12 May 2003 in an effort to highlight the human rights situation inside North Korea. The organization was recognized as a legal entity by the South Korean Ministry of Unification in 2004. Furthermore, the organization expanded through the establishment of NK Social Research and the Resettlement Assistance Headquarters, and through research on different facets of North Korean defectors such as separated families, South Korean abductees, young female defectors, and those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
2010s
NKDB placed a greater focus on bringing greater international awareness of the North Korean human rights situation to the international community in the 2010s. NKDB also enhanced its role in the education of relevant North Korean issues, beginning with the North Korean Human Rights Academy in 2011. These regular sessions are led by leading academics, civil servants, and human rights advocates. There are now five different academies, focusing on issues ranging from human rights in North Korea, reunification of the Korean peninsula through a diplomatic approach, and counselling support for North Korean defectors.
2020s
In 2020, NKDB entered into an agreement to jointly operate the Hana Center in the western region of Gyeonggi Province, in conjunction with the Korea Hana Foundation, a public organization founded by the Ministry of Unification. The purpose of the Hana Centers is to provide continued assistance to North Korean defectors after their initial education at the government-run Settlement Support Center for North Korean Refugees, known as Hanawon. Concurrently, NKDB re-launched the Visual Atlas, a web-based platform to publicize the data recorded in the NKDB Unified Human Rights Database that enables visualization of incidents of North Korean human rights violations through an interactive map. In 2020, NKDB launched the North Korean Human Rights Larchiveum, a web-based platform that aggregates available information on North Korean human rights through a consortium of civil society organizations working on the issue. In ea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOSH | Josh (stylized as JOSH) is a video-sharing social networking service, owned by VerSe Innovation – an Indian technology company based in Bangalore, India. Josh is an Indian short video app that was launched in immediately after the Indian Government banned TikTok and other Chinese apps in June 2020. The founders of the platform have promoted the app as the “Instagram for Bharat” referring to their focus on the Indian audience that speaks its own regional and state languages. Josh was among the top 10 most downloaded apps social and entertainment apps in India of 2021 and had 150 million monthly active users as per April 2022.
History
The word 'Josh' translates to fervour or passion. The app was launched under the aegis of the Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign and to compete with the duopoly of Google and Facebook in India. Josh's parent company VerSe Innovations Pvt. Ltd. owns another startup Dailyhunt, which a content and news aggregator application. Both Dailyhunt and Josh are a part of the VerSe's focus on the "next billion" regional language users of India. Founders Virendra Gupta and Umang Bedi conceptualised Josh as a short-video platform that made content creation accessible to vernacular language users, essentially the non-English speaking audience in India.
Features
Josh is currently available in 12 Indian languages and allows users to upload, share, remix bite-sized videos of up to 120 seconds. There are various categories across the video section including viral, trending, glamour, dance, devotion, yoga and cooking among others. Similar to Instagram and TikTok, it has a video feed which is curated for individuals on the basis of their app behaviour. The app hosts many daily, weekly and monthly social media challenges.
Funding
In December 2020, within 3 months of its launch, Josh's parent app VerSe Innovation raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft. In February 2021, VerSe Innovation raised $100 million in Series H funding from Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund of the State of Qatar, and Glade Brook Capital Partners. In August 2021, VerSe raised over $450 million in its Series I financing round with a valuation of $1 billion. Investors included Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Siguler Guff, Baillie Gifford, Carlyle Asia Partners Growth II affiliates, and others. The startup announced its plan to expand overseas and broaden its ecommerce play for both Dailyhunt and Josh. In April 2022, VerSe announced that it has raised $805 million in funding from investors at a valuation of nearly $5 billion.
ByteDance Offloads Stake In Josh Parent VerSe, Exits At 56% Discount
Partnerships
In February 2021, Saregama and Josh signed a music licensing deal, wherein Josh expanded its musical library with 1.3 lakh songs from Saregama in 25 different languages.
To improve their user experience, Josh partnered with computer vision company D-ID in August 2021. The company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive%20Order%2013994 | Executive Order 13994, officially titled Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats, is the tenth executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden. The order indicates that it is vital to ensure that there is a more analytical approach to dealing with COVID-19 public health threats.
Provisions
This order directs the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Education, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Director of the National Science Foundation to select and designate a senior official to lead the fight against the agency’s COVID-19 and data-related issues. This individual will collaborate with the COVID-19 Response Coordinator to make accessible data related to highly significant hazards to public health. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the Director of OMB should quickly assess the capabilities on the part of agencies to recruit IT, staff and staff, for data collection and analysis. The Secretary of HHS shall examine the efficacy and connectedness of public health data systems in order to identify high-level health concerns and to review the collection by state and local authorities of morbidity and mortality data and shall provide a report with recommendations.
Effects
The order will lead to an increase of attention and resources to effectively deal with data-related problems. The new senior official will likely lead a group that will publish accurate COVID-19 data to the public. Overall, this order should help the United States disseminate factually correct information to the public and foster a stronger feeling of trust between the people and the government.
See also
List of executive actions by Joe Biden
2020 United States census
References
External links
US Presidential Actions
Federal Register
Executive Order on Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census
2021 in American law
Executive orders of Joe Biden
January 2021 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALTO%20%28protocol%29 | Application Layer Transport Optimization (ALTO) is a protocol that allows internet clients to obtain information that compares the network properties of paths to other endpoints. Typically, this would be used to identify the lowest-cost location to access a copy of some sort of content.
The ALTO base protocol is specified in RFC 7285. It requires "ALTO servers" to be deployed in the network with knowledge of network properties, often simply the routing cost to various endpoints. An "ALTO client," typically tied to a user agent attempting to obtain a resource, queries the ALTO server over HTTP to obtain the optimal location from which to retrieve the resource.
History
Starting around 2005, the widespread use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent was a serious concern to many network operators, as the massive amounts of network traffic caused by these applications
had a significant impact on traffic engineering and revenues. Some network operators tried to throttle this traffic.
In May 2008, in an IETF Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure, several areas of work were identified:
A standardized interface for the exchange of information between the underlying IP network and an overlay network, such as a peer-to-peer network. The basic idea is, that if the overlay network was aware of the topology and the cost for sending traffic through the underlying IP network, it could optimize decisions with respect to the overlay network's topology (e.g., peer selection) and routing of traffic through the overlay network. The result would be better performance or Quality of Experience in the application while reducing the utilization of the underlying network infrastructure. This work item led to the establishment of the IETF ALTO working group.
Content caches in the network. This has been studied in the IETF DECADE working group. However, no new protocol has been developed and standardized.
A new congestion control mechanism in the transport layer for background traffic, which "yields" to standard TCP. This was worked on in the IETF LEDBAT working group and has been standardized in RFC 6817.
A new DiffServ code point to mark IP packets to have a lower priority than the default "best effort" category has been standardized in RFC 8622.
The IETF ALTO working group was established in November 2008. The first deliverables were the problem statement, the requirements document, the specification of the core ALTO protocol and an ALTO server discovery mechanism. Since then, various extensions have been specified (see below) or are still work in progress (see IETF ALTO Datatracker).
Originally designed to support peer-to-peer file sharing, the concept is broadly applicable to many network problems. However, as of 2021 it has not achieved widespread deployment in the internet. Nevertheless, there have been experiments in Internet service provider (ISP) networks and a deployment to support large data transfers for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Proto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne%20Bechta%20Dugan | Joanne Bechta Dugan (born 1958) is an American computer engineer whose research concerns fault tolerance in computer systems, fault tree analysis, and the dynamic fault tree method for the probabilistic analysis of fault tolerance. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia.
Education
Dugan studied mathematics and computer science as an undergraduate at La Salle College, graduating in 1980. She went to Duke University for graduate study, and earned a master's degree and PhD in electrical engineering there. Her 1984 dissertation, Extended Stochastic Petri Nets: Applications and Analysis, was jointly supervised by Kishor S. Trivedi and Robert M. Geist III.
Recognition
Dugan was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2000, "for contributions to dependability analysis of fault tolerant computer systems". In the same year she won the IEEE Reliability Society Award for "contributions of new techniques for fault tree analysis, including theoretical advances, practical application and technology transfer through software tool development". She won the Harriett B. Rigas Award of the IEEE Education Society in 2003 for her contributions to undergraduate education.
In 2016, the La Salle University Computer Science Programs Advisory Board gave Dugan their IT Leadership Award.
References
1958 births
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
La Salle University alumni
Duke University alumni
University of Virginia faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20M.%20Romero | Daniel M. Romero is a Colombian-American computer scientist and Associate Professor in the University of Michigan School of Information and the Center for Study of Complex Systems. He is known for his work on social networks and information diffusion.
Early life and education
Daniel M. Romero was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He received a B.S. in Mathematics Magna Cum Laude at Arizona State University in 2006 and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 2012.
Career and research
Romero was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems (NICO) at Northwestern University from 2012 to 2013. He joined the School of Information faculty at the University of Michigan in 2014, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Romero is also appointed within the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
Romero's work focuses on the study of the evolution of social and information networks and the diffusion of information in social media. His work has been covered by the media including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New Scientist, among others. His research has been cited over 5,000 times according to Google Scholar. His article on the impact of exogenous shocks on the structure of social networks won Best Paper award at The Web Conference in 2016. He has received awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as well as the AFOSR Young Investigator award.
Selected works
Satyam Mukherjee, Daniel M. Romero, Ben Jones, and Brian Uzzi, (2017), "The Nearly Universal Link Between the Age of Past Knowledge and Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs in Science and Technology: The Hotspot." Science advances 3, no. 4: e1601315.
Daniel M. Romero, Brian Uzzi, and Jon Kleinberg, (2016), "Social Networks Under Stress." In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web (pp. 9–20).
Daniel M. Romero, Roderick I. Swaab, Brian Uzzi, and Adam Galinsky, (2015), "Mimicry is Presidential: Linguistic Style Matching in Presidential Debates and Improved Polling Numbers." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 41, no. 10: 1311-1319.
Daniel M. Romero, Brendan Meeder, and Jon Kleinberg, (2011), "Differences in the Mechanics of Information Diffusion Across Topics: Idioms, Political Hashtags, and Complex Contagion on Twitter." In Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web (pp. 695–704).
Bernardo Huberman, Daniel M. Romero, and Fang Wu, (2009), "Social Networks That Matter: Twitter Under the Microscope." First Monday.
References
Living people
American scientists
American computer scientists
Colombian scientists
Cornell University alumni
Arizona State University alumni
Hispanic and Latino American scientists
21st-century American scientists
University of Michigan faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joania | Joania is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Megathyrididae.
The species of this genus are found in Southern Europe and Northern Africa.
Species:
Joania arguta
Joania cordata
Joania peyrerensis
Joania ukrainica
References
Brachiopod genera
Terebratulida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census%20Transportation%20Planning%20Products%20Program | The Census Transportation Planning Products Program (CTPP) purchases data tabulations from the US Census Bureau which use data from the American Community Survey (ACS) to inform transportation planning and related efforts. The CTPP is a cooperative program funded by state departments of transportation and technical support for the program is provided by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
The main uses of CTPP tabulations are for creating population forecasts, performing environmental justice and social equity analyses, examining household lifecycles and behavior, analyzing the socio-demographics of a population, creating models of vehicle ownership, and validating transportation forecast output. The CTPP tabulations include three geographies: residence-based, workplace-based, and worker flows between home and work. Workers home-to-work flow information is only available from local household behavior surveys or through these special CTPP tabulations.
History
The tabulations that the CTPP procures fall into the category of Journey-to-Work (JTW) which describe the commuting behavior of workers in a given geography. JTW tabulations at standard census bureau geographies were first created in 1960 and were sponsored by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The transportation planning community then assumed ownership of the JTW questions when it paid for a set of special tabulations at Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZ) which are the level of geography at which most transportation planning efforts and research are performed.
There were 112 separate buyers of these JTW tabulations in 1970. Most buyers were from metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) across the country. By 1980 the number of buyers rose to 152. To develop the specifications for the tabulations, an ad-hoc committee of transportation planners was created via the Transportation Research Board (TRB). All the data users shared the cost for the package with help from a special grant from US Department of Transportation (DOT) to cover the cost.
In 1990 a "pooled-fund" process was developed which would allow all states and MPO's to access to the data. The purchase of data from the 1990 decennial census was also funded by a grant from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) which helped distribute the data.
For the 2000 tabulations the CTPP Working Group coordinated with AASHTO and paid the Census Bureau for the tabulations. The price for each state involved in the development of the package was based on that state's total population. DOT agencies provided funding for technical support related to use of the data as well as coordination and software.
From 1970 to 2000 the CTPP used data from the decennial census long form. The long-form decennial census was discontinued after the 2000 decennial census and in 2006 much of the content of the long form was replaced with the ACS. As a result, the CTPP now uses the ACS data.
Training and Out |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemphixina | Pemphixina is a monotypic genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Hemithirididae. The only species is Pemphixina pyxidata.
The species is found in southern part of Indian Ocean.
References
Rhynchonellida
Brachiopod genera
Monotypic brachiopod genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega%20Network%20Taisen%20Mahjong%20MJ | is a mahjong arcade game developed by Sega AM2 and released by Sega. The first version for arcades was released in July 2002 for the Sega NAOMI 2 arcade system. It featured online features with ranking, customization and recording your play history, using the experience that AM2 had developed from Virtua Fighter 4 and VF.NET. It received numerous updates and sequels since then.
Sega Net Mahjong MJ2, the first sequel, switched arcade boards to the Sega Chihiro, and brought in nationwide online play. Sega Net Mahjong MJ3 was released and expanded the ruleset. Sega Net Mahjong MJ4 switched arcade boards to the Sega Lindbergh, and a training mode was added. Sega Net Mahjong MJ5 was on the Sega RingEdge and had multi-touch touchscreens. It was updated as Sega Network Taisen Mahjong MJ5R Evolution.
Eleven years later after launch of the first game, Sega Net Mahjong MJ was ported outside of the arcade with a version on PC and mobile. A full English localization of the mobile version was also released, however was shut down. English and Traditional Chinese languages were available in the Japanese version, but were later dropped, besides the commentary. It was also available on the free to play companion app of Yakuza 0 on PlayStation Vita.
A new version for arcades was also released, called Sega Net Mahjong MJ Arcade.
External links
Official website (English)
Official website
References
Video games developed in Japan
Sega arcade games
2002 video games
Mahjong video games
Sega-AM2 games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Sega Games franchises
Windows games
IOS games
Android (operating system) games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen%20Lives%20Project | The Stolen Lives Project is a watchdog group for deaths from police brutality in the United States. The group collects data on people who have died from the police and Border Patrol. Current supporters of the group include the National Lawyers Guild, the Anthony Baez Foundation, and the Center for Constitutional Rights.
History
The Stolen Lives project was created in 1990 in response to inaccurate public reporting of deaths due to police brutality and a lack of a nationwide body dedicated to reporting police brutality deaths. In an attempt to improve accountability, SLP encourages people to send photographs, names, and narrative accounts of individuals killed by the police, and has won awards for its thorough documentation of police brutality. In the 1990s, the Stolen Lives Project documented approximately 200 police killings per year.
Activity
The Stolen Lives Project, along with other police brutality watchdog groups, has organized a national day of protest against police brutality since 1996. Every year, the project holds a ceremony to present families of victims with certificates recognizing their loss. The Stolen Lives book published a print version of the group's database; the second edition was published in 1999. Further updates on the second edition were provided in the 2000s, in addition to state-specific versions.
See Also
Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States
References
External links
Stolen Lives Project
Police brutality in the United States
Protests against police brutality
1990 establishments in the United States
Criminal justice reform in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole%20Distribution | Ole Distribution is a company which owns several pay television networks in the region of Latin America. Is founded as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Discovery and Ole Communications.
Distributed channels
Warner Bros. Discovery distributes the following channels:
Owned by A+E Networks Latin America (owned by A+E Networks and Ole Communications):
History Latin America
H2 Latin America (started in July 2014 to replace Bio.)
A&E Latin America
Lifetime Latin America (started in June 2014 to replace Sony Spin)
NBCUniversal International Networks Latin America:
CNBC International Latin America (owned by Comcast/NBCUniversal and Ole Communications)
E! Latin America (owned by Comcast/NBCUniversal and Ole Communications)
Telemundo Internacional (except in Mexico. Owned by Comcast/NBCUniversal and Ole Communications)
Universal and Universal+ Latin America (except in Brazil, where the channel is operated by a 50/50 joint venture between NBCU and Canais Globo and distributed by Canais Globo)
Studio Universal (except in Brazil, where the channel is operated by a 50/50 joint venture between NBCU and Canais Globo and distributed by Canais Globo)
USA Network (except in Brazil, where the channel is operated by a 50/50 joint venture between NBCU and Canais Globo and distributed by Canais Globo)
DreamWorks Channel Latin America (except in Brazil, where the channel is operated by a 50/50 joint venture between NBCU and Canais Globo and distributed by Canais Globo)
Sony Pictures Entertainment:
Sony Channel
Sony Movies
AXN
OLE Communications
IVC Networks Latin America (except in Mexico and Brazil)
Defunct channels
Animax
Bio.
Locomotion
Sony Spin
Hallmark Channel
TV Quality
TeleUno
Mundo Olé
A&E Mundo
Calle 13
Sci-Fi
Movietime
CBS Telenoticias
SYFY
See also
Warner Bros. Discovery Americas
References
External links
Official Website
Latin American cable television networks
Warner Bros. Discovery Americas
Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiaries
Mass media companies established in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%20Cold%20War | The Artificial Intelligence Cold War (AI Cold War) is a narrative in which tensions between the United States and the People's Republic of China lead to a second Cold War waged in the area of artificial intelligence technology rather than in the areas of nuclear capabilities or ideology.
The context of the AI Cold War narrative is the AI arms race, which involves a build-up of military capabilities using AI technology by the US and China.
A key area of concern in the tensions between China and the US are semiconductors because of their key role of semiconductors for the competitiveness of the AI industry.
Origins of the term
The term AI Cold War first appeared in 2018 in an article in Wired magazine by Nicholas Thompson and Ian Bremmer. The two authors trace the emergence of the AI Cold War narrative to 2017, when China published its AI Development Plan, which included a strategy aimed at becoming the global leader in AI by 2030. While the authors acknowledge the use of AI by China to strengthen its authoritarian rule, they warn against the perils for the US of engaging in an AI Cold War strategy. Thompson and Bremmer rather advocate for a technological cooperation between the US and China to encourage global standards in privacy and ethical use of AI.
Shortly after the publication of the article in Wired magazine, the former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson referred to the emergence of an ‘Economic Iron Curtain’ between the US and China, reinforcing the new AI Cold War narrative.
Proponents of the AI Cold War narrative
Politico contributed to reinforcing the AI Cold War narrative. In 2020, the paper argued that because of the increasing AI capabilities of China, the US and other democratic countries have to create an alliance to stay ahead of China.
Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, together with Graham T. Allison alleged in an article in Project Syndicate that, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the AI capabilities of China are ahead of the US in most critical areas.
Academics have pointed to concerns about unethical use of AI which would be primarily associated with China. Ethics would therefore constitute a major ideological divide in the upcoming AI Cold War.
Fears around disrupting supply chains and a global semiconductor shortage are linked to Taiwan's critical role in the production of semiconductors. 70% of semiconductors are either produced in Taiwan or transfer through Taiwan, where TSMC, world's largest chipmaker is headquartered. The PRC does not recognize the sovereignty of Taiwan and trade restrictions by the US on companies selling semiconductors to the PRC have disrupted in the past the commercial relationships between TSMC and Huawei.
Restrictions to trading with China
US politicians and European industry players have invoked the looming AI Cold War as a reason to ban procurement by public authorities in Europe of Huawei 5G technology due to concerns over the Chinese state-sponsored surveillance i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi%20infiltration%20of%20Twitter | In 2014 and 2015, a team of Saudi agents allegedly stole proprietary and sensitive personal data from the American social media platform Twitter, in order to unmask anonymous dissidents of Saudi Arabia. Email addresses, phone numbers, internet IP addresses, dates of birth and a history of all the users' activity of Saudi dissidents, opponents and others, were among the stolen materials.
The United States Department of Justice charged two former Twitter workers and a Saudi intermediary with "acting as illegal agents of Saudi Arabia". Personal data of at least 6,000 Twitter accounts was acquired, according to the complaint.
Human rights groups ANHRI and Prisoners of Conscience have observed that some anonymous Saudi political activists on Twitter were identified and detained after the infiltration, and suspect that it is related. A Saudi scholar in exile in the United States sued Twitter, alleging that dozens of anonymous political activists he was in contact with have died, were tortured, or remain behind bars as a result of being found to have a connection to him.
Background
With roughly 10 million Twitter users, Saudi Arabia is the service's top Arab market. Not requiring use of real names further made Twitter a leading platform for political dissent in the country.
Saud al-Qahtani, one of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's top confidants at the time, posted a warning against masked Twitter accounts using his own verified Twitter account in August 2017. Asserting that governments can know the true names of those using Twitter anonymously, he brought up "technical methods" for tracing a person's IP addresses, as well as a "secret I'm not going to reveal." Twitter permanently banned al-Qahtani's account in September 2019, claiming "violations of our platform manipulation policies."
Incident
Perpetrators
Ali Alzabarah, a Saudi national, and Ahmad Abouammo, a U.S. citizen, were the two former Twitter employees that funneled the data, the complaint asserts.
Another Saudi national, Ahmed Almutairi, also known as Ahmed Aljbreen, worked as a middleman between Alzabarah, Abouammo, and representatives of the Saudi Royal Family. Almutairi is known for co-founding SMAAT, a Riyadh social-marketing firm that is controlled by the royal family and had a history of running political and commercial influence operations.
Bader al-Asaker, a Saudi official who heads the private office of Prince Mohammed and is a board member of Misk Foundation, a philanthropic organization affiliated with MBS, was also involved in the conspiracy, according to the complaint.
Timeline
Ali Alzabarah joined Twitter as a site reliability engineer in August 2013. Being involved in keeping the site up, he was given broad access.
In November 2013, Abouammo, who joined the firm as a member of Twitter's global media team to head the Middle East partnerships, met Alzabarah there.
In 2014, Abouammo was asked to authenticate an account belonging to a Saudi news personality by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defy%20TV | Defy TV is an American digital multicast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, airing primarily reality shows, having launched on July 1, 2021, with broadcast coverage of 92% of the United States.
History
On March 2, 2021, Scripps announced that it would launch two new multicast networks—Defy and TrueReal—in the wake of its acquisition of Ion Media and television transmitters shutting Qubo and Ion Plus down across the United States. The channels are part of Scripps's strategy to increase perception among cord cutters that do not have traditional pay TV packages.
The services launched on July 1 with 92% national coverage, mostly on Ion transmitters but also on subchannels of some Scripps local TV stations and by agreement with other station groups.
On March 10, 2023, Scripps announced that TrueReal would shut down on March 27, merging its programming into Defy TV.
Programming
The network's launch schedule was mainly made up of out-of-production unscripted shows from the library of A&E Networks, including Swamp People, American Pickers, Ax Men, Counting Cars, UFO Hunters, Forged in Fire and Pawn Stars.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueReal | TrueReal was an American digital multicast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, targeting women aged 25–54.
TrueReal and Defy TV, a complementary network targeted at men aged 25–54, launched together on July 1, 2021, with broadcast coverage of 92% of the United States. On March 27, 2023, TrueReal's schedule was merged with Defy and its channel space was reused to carry programming from Jewelry Television.
History
On March 2, 2021, Scripps announced that it would launch two new multicast networks—Defy and TrueReal—in the wake of its acquisition of Ion Media and television transmitters across the United States. The channels are part of Scripps's strategy to increase penetration among cord cutters that do not have traditional pay-TV packages. The tentative name for the network before launch was Doozy, but the name was later changed to TrueReal, clarifying the network's content.
The services launched on July 1 with 92% national coverage, mostly through Ion Television stations, but also on subchannels of some Scripps local TV stations and by agreement with other station groups.
On March 10, 2023, Scripps announced that TrueReal would shut down on March 27, merging its programming with that of Defy TV. After its closure, Scripps began leasing the open spectrum it created on its owned and operated stations to Jewelry Television.
Programming
TrueReal's schedule mainly included reality programs from the library of A&E Networks, including Storage Wars, Little Women: LA, Intervention, Hoarders, My Crazy Ex and Wahlburgers.
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Defunct television networks in the United States
Women's interest channels
Television channels and stations established in 2021
E. W. Scripps Company
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoWIN | CoWIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network) is an Indian government web portal for COVID-19 vaccination registration, owned and operated by India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It displays booking slots of COVID-19 vaccine available in the nearby areas and can be booked on the website. The site also provides vaccination certificates to the beneficiaries, which act as Vaccine Passports during the COVID-19 pandemic for the beneficiaries and can be stored in Digilocker. Users can access the platform via desktop, tablet, and mobile phones.
About
CoWIN serves the function of registration, appointment scheduling, identity verification, vaccination and certification of each vaccinated member. Registration for the vaccination slots can be booked on the same day or a few days prior. The platform has also been integrated in the Aarogya Setu and UMANG Apps. The certificate after COVID-19 vaccination can also be obtained through the platform. To expedite the development of this platform, several existing digital assets were leveraged, such as : Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN),Digital Infrastructure for Vaccination Open Credentialing (DIVOC), DigiLocker, Surveillance and Action for Events Following Vaccination (SAFE-VAC). CoWIN application was developed with five modules: the orchestration module; the vaccination cold chain module; the citizen registration module; the vaccinator module; and the certificate, feedback, and adverse event following immunization reporting module. As of now, eight vaccines can be registered on the platform in the country Covishield (18+), Covaxin (15+), Corbevax (12-14), Sputnik V (18+),Corbevax (12-14), Gemcovac (18+) Incovacc (18+), ZyCoV-D (18+) and Covovax (12+).
In the future, the Health ministry is working on upgrading CoWIN for the effective implementation of India’s universal immunization programme. Co-WIN platform will be used for booking slots for the routine vaccinations like Polio and Hepatitis. This will allow healthcare professionals to digitally track the immunization status of beneficiaries (mother and children) on a real-time basis and address the vaccination needs immediately.
Doctors and medical professionals may soon be able to manage appointments and maintain patient records over the vaccine platform CoWIN, with the National Health Authority (NHA) integrating it with the Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission (ABDM)—the backbone of India’s digital healthcare system. This lightweight health management information system (HMIS) solution will allow small clinics and providers to manage appointments, patient information and prescriptions. The HMIS will be integrated with all ABDM modules and allow the doctor and clinic to create a health professional ID and a health facility ID
History
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi had envisioned roll-out of a technology based citizen facing platform for smooth running of Covid-19 vaccination in India, long back in May 2020. The government repurposed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter%20Museum | Enter is a museum for computer and consumer electronics in the Swiss town of Solothurn. Now a non-profit foundation ("Stiftung ENTER"), it originated as the project of Swiss entrepreneur Felix Kunz. It is the largest private technology collection open to the public in Switzerland. Its current location in Solothurn opened in 2011.
History
The museum originated in the private collection of the Swiss entrepreneur Felix Kunz who has been collecting computers and electronics since the mid 1960s. In 2010, Kunz established a foundation for the museum jointly with Peter Regenass, a collector of calculators. In 2011, the Enter museum moved into a building right at the train station in Solothurn with a surface area of 1800 square metres. In 2022, the museum will be closed and transferred to the nearby village of Derendingen and re-open there on a larger scale in 2023, using a surface area of over 5000 square meters.
Collection
The museum displays about 10,000 exhibits from the history of radio, television and computers from the early years to the present.
Many of the exhibits were developed and produced in the Solothurn region, e.g. by Autophon or Anton Gunzinger. The collection has a focus on history of technology made in Switzerland with products of Studer-Revox Paillard, Bolex, Crypto AG, Gretag. It also shows the main stages of computer history with examples of IBM mainframes, Cray supercomputers, Commodore home computers, personal computers from Apple and IBM. It claims to feature "the largest physical collection of working Apple devices in Europe".
Part of the museum is a collection of 300 mechanical calculators of the Swiss collector Peter Regenass. Furthermore, it holds a large collection on the history of radio and television including a vast number of radio and TV sets, recording devices for audio and video and projectors including the Eidophor projectors used 1958 - 1999.Over time the Enter Museum has integrated other collections such as the Audiorama Montreux, which closed its doors in 2010 or the computer collection of the Swiss collector Robert Weiss or Peter Beck. Its collection has been named as outstanding by the media. There is hardly a computer of the past 50 years that is not on display there, according to a 2013 Neue Zürcher Zeitung article.
Selected exhibits
Switzerland's first radio station that started regular emission in Lausanne as early as 26 February 1923.
Early home computers such as Mark-8 minicomputer, Commodore PET 2001 or Apple 1
Mechanical calculators such as The Millionaire calculator and Curta.
Cryptographic devices of Crypto AG, Gretag and others including the Swiss Nema and the Russian Fialka
The Smaky-computer of Swiss engineer Jean-Daniel Nicoud and the Lilith Computer by Niklaus Wirth
The video projector Eidophor used 1958 – 1999.
The outdoor projector Spitlight used at the 1956 Olympic winter games in Cortina di Ampezzo.
Museum shop for spare parts
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrocast | Astrocast is a Swiss satellite communications company based in Lausanne. It aims to establish a global satellite network for IoT applications.
History
Astrocast was founded in 2014 by EPFL alumni, and employed 70 people in 2021. It launched its first five satellites in December 2018 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and another five in June 2021. It aims to operate a full network of 100 satellites by 2024. Astrocast's nanosatellites are CubeSats, cubes large.
Astrocast is backed by venture capital firm Adit Ventures, Airbus SE's venture arm and the European Space Agency. In June 2022, Astrocast announced that it was acquiring Hiber, an Amsterdam-based IoT space tech company.
Satellites launched
As of January 2023 the company has launched four batches of satellites, for a total of 18 spacecraft currently in orbit around the Earth.
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Official website
Aerospace companies of Switzerland
Communications satellite operators
Companies based in the canton of Vaud
2014 establishments in Switzerland
CubeSats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaseya | Kaseya Limited is an American software company founded in 2001. It develops software for managing networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. Owned by Insight Partners, Kaseya is headquartered in Miami, Florida with branch locations across the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Since its founding in 2001, it has acquired 13 companies, which have in most cases continued to operate as their own brands (under the "a Kaseya company" tagline), including Unitrends.
On July 2, 2021, the company's customers became victims in a ransomware attack by REvil, which leveraged Kaseya software to reach victim systems.
On April 4, 2023, the company acquired the naming rights to the Miami-Dade Arena, the home arena of the National Basketball Association's Miami Heat formerly known as the American Airlines Arena and FTX Arena, as part of a 17-year, $117.4 million agreement, thus renaming it Kaseya Center.
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Network management
Software companies based in Florida
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System administration
2001 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish%20Electricity%20Distribution%20Corporation | Turkish Electricity Distribution Corporation (Turkish: Türkiye Elektrik Dağıtım A.Ş. or TEDAŞ) is a distribution network operator for electricity covering Turkey. It has Electricity Distribution Companies across the country. In 2021 it was criticized for its accounting.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Shore%20TV | NSTV, also known as North Shore TV, is a public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable television network on Long Island, New York, cablecasting on Channel 20 Cablevision and Channel 37 Verizon FiOS channels in 14 incorporated villages in the Great Neck and Manhasset areas on the North Shore of Long Island. It was launched in 1984 as PATV, rebranded as NSTV in 2019. NSTV is located in Lake Success, New York. NSTV has received awards for Overall Excellence in Public Access and two New York Emmy nominations in the Military Program category.
North Shore TV is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization serving the incorporated villages of Flower Hill, Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, Kensington, Kings Point, Lake Success, Munsey Park, North Hills, Plandome, Plandome Manor, Plandome Heights, Russell Gardens, Saddle Rock, and Thomaston.
NSTV provides training, television equipment and studio facilities to residents of the Incorporated Village of Great Neck and the other, surrounding North Shore member villages who wish to create non-commercial community programming for the cable channel. Funding for NSTV is provided through cable television franchise fees, memberships and grants.
Programming
Programming includes “Teen TV” Youth Project, Veterans Project interviews with local veterans from World War II, Korean War and Vietnam Wars, Playwrights, and “Women in Technology”.
The Norman Hall Memorial Playwright Festival
The PATV Playwrights Project was renamed The Norman Hall Memorial Playwright Festival in 2016. The "Playwrights" program accepts yearly submissions from playwrights across the country. Two plays are chosen and made into a television production. "Playwrights" has collaborated with Access San Francisco and Grand Rapids (GRCTV) in interviews of authors who were local residents of San Francisco and Grand Rapids.
New York University Tisch School of the Arts Professor George Stoney was quoted saying ""New Playwrights" is an example of public access television at its best. Professionals from the community are given a chance to experiment in ways the commercial theater never affords them and do it with class."
Awards and recognition
2008 National Award for Overall Excellence in Public Access
New York Emmy Nomination 2013 “World War II: Our Veterans Stories”
New York Emmy Nomination 2016 “Our Veterans’ Stories: Welcome Home”
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American public access television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecondHandSongs | SecondHandSongs (or Second Hand Songs) is a collaborative website that maintains a global database of mainly cover versions of original works. It also contains information about adaptations and samples. The website allows performers and volunteer curators to add songs and update their metadata. It includes links to freely accessible recordings of the covers, and external identifiers for those works and performances in other databases.
As of 2021, it included roughly a million covers of 100,000 original works, and was cross-referenced by MusicBrainz.
Data and uses
Data are contributed and edited by the active community, so the exact size of the database has changed over time. In 2007, the project included 60,000 covers. As of 2020, it had reached a million covers.
Data schema and identifiers
SecondHandSongs includes a work ID for each work, and a performance ID for each cover of a song by a performer.
A work is an equivalence class, i.e. a list, of performances of the same underlying song. Each performer has, at most, one performance for each work in the database.
Derived datasets
In 2011, the Million Song Dataset project released a SecondHandSongs subset (an intersection of SHS and MSD data). At the time, this was the largest dataset of cover songs available for academic research.
Later, it released the SHS100k dataset for machine learning, with 100k covers of 10k works. This has since become a benchmark for cover-song identification.
See also
WhoSampled, a similar website that also contains information about cover songs (as well as remixes), but is based more on samples and interpolations
References
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Search interface for the SHS database
Under the covers
Internet properties established in 2003
2003 establishments in Belgium
Belgian music websites
Online music and lyrics databases
Cover versions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Vitek | Olga Vitek is a biostatistician and computer scientist specializing in bioinformatics, proteomics, mass spectrometry, causal inference of biological function, and the development of open-source software for statistical analysis in these areas. She is a professor in the College of Science and Khoury College of Computer Sciences of Northeastern University.
Education and career
Vitek earned a bachelor's degree in econometrics and statistics from the University of Geneva in 1995, and a master's degree in 1996. She earned a second master's degree in mathematical statistics at Purdue University in 2001, and completed her PhD at Purdue in 2005. As a graduate student, she interned with Eli Lilly and Company; her 2005 doctoral dissertation, An Inferential Approach to Protein Backbone Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Assignment, was jointly supervised by statistician Bruce A. Craig and computer scientist Chris Bailey-Kellogg.
After postdoctoral research with Ruedi Aebersold at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Vitek joined the Purdue University faculty in 2006, with a joint appointment in the departments of statistics and computer science. She moved to Northeastern University in 2014, where she held the title of Sy and Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Associate Professor before being promoted to full professor.
She serves as council member for the Human Proteome Organization, board of director for the US Human Proteome Organization, and president of the American Statistical Association Boston Chapter. She is a founding committee member of Computational Mass Spectrometry (CompMS). She is an editorial board member of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, and associate editor of Bioinformatics.
Research
Vitek's research contributions include work with David E. Salt at Purdue University on genetic adaptations allowing plants to tolerate salt, and a study debunking earlier claims that some programming languages cause their users to write buggier code than other languages. She leads the project MSstats with Meena Choi and the project Cardinal with Kylie Bemis to develop open-sourced statistical software for mass spectrometry analyses, funded by the Essential Open Source Software for Science program of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Recognition
Vitek was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021. She received the Gilbert S. Omenn Computational Proteomics Award from the US Human Proteome Organization, and the Indigo BioAutomation FeMS Distinguished Contribution Award in 2021.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20en%20Telemundo | Nickelodeon en Telemundo (English: "Nickelodeon on Telemundo") is a former American children's programming block that airs on the Spanish language television network Telemundo, which debuted on November 9, 1998, to September 30, 2001. The two-hour block – which airs Monday to Friday morning, later on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 6:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time and Pacific Time – features live-action and animated series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 14.
Programs featured on the block consist almost entirely of Spanish-dubbed versions of series that were originally produced and broadcast in English (with the block featuring Spanish dubs of the joint agreement with Nickelodeon programming). All shows featured on Nickelodeon en Telemundo are designed to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) via the Children's Television Act. Nickelodeon en Telemundo aired for the final time on September 30, 2001. The following week, the turns out of revival which borrowed its name from Telemundo's 1995-1998 Saturday morning block Telemundo Infantil (in English, Telemundo Kids), Telemundo Kids debuted.
History
On September 15, 1998, Telemundo entered into a programming agreement with Nickelodeon to carry the cable channel's programming as part of a morning children's program block, "Nickelodeon en Telemundo" ("Nickelodeon on Telemundo"). The block, which debuted on November 9, 1998 and was considered a sub-block of Telemundo Infantil, consisted of Spanish dubs of Nickelodeon's animated series aimed at older children and preschool-oriented programs aired by the channel's Nick Jr. block (such as Rugrats, Doug, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Hey Arnold!, Rocko's Modern Life and Blue's Clues). Nickelodeon en Telemundo were changed the schedule, it was relegated to Saturday and Sunday mornings from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00a.m. ET/PT, in order to accommodate a time slot for Hoy En El Mundo (or Esta Manana) with hosting by Jose Diaz-Balart.
In September 2001, the Nickelodeon blocks were discontinued after September 30, 2001, ahead of the expiry of Telemundo's program supply deal with Nickelodeon. It was then replaced with Telemundo Kids debut on October 6, 2001, which is joint venture of the animation of Columbia TriStar (such as Men in Black: The Series, Dragon Tales, Jackie Chan Adventures and Max Steel). However, Dragon Ball Z carried over to the block premiered following debut on October 6. Following across Sábados de Fantasía (Fantasy Saturdays) and Domingos de Aventura (Adventure Sundays) were schedule time in 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. ET/PT, some of Telemundo stations/affiliates were including the time schedule.
Programming
Schedule issues
Although the Nickelodeon en Telemundo block regularly aired on Monday to Friday mornings, affiliates in some parts of the country deferred certain programs within the lineup to Saturday and Sunday morning time slots to accommodate locally produc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celonis | Celonis SE is a German data processing company that offers software as a service (SaaS) to improve business processes. It is headquartered in Munich, Germany and New York, United States.
History
Celonis was founded in 2011 by Alex Rinke, Bastian Nominacher, and Martin Klenk as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). In 2012, Celonis joined the SAP Startup Focus program, an accelerator for analytics startups building new applications on the SAP HANA platform.
In July 2015, Celonis signed a reseller agreement with SAP. Celonis has since been offered by SAP as Celonis Process Mining by SAP. Celonis was the first company from the SAP Startup Focus program to sign a reseller agreement with SAP.
Funding
In June 2016, Celonis received $27.5m in series A funding led by 83North and Accel.
In June 2018, Celonis received a further $50m in series B funding at a valuation of $1bn. The funding round was led by 83North and Accel.
In November 2019, Celonis closed $290m in series C funding at a valuation of $2.5bn.
In June 2021, Celonis raised a $1bn series D investment at $11bn valuation, becoming New York’s and Germany’s most valuable startup as per Forbes.
In August 2022, it is announced that Qatar's sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority has joined Celonis as the leader of the US$400 million Series-D expansion, which was already completed in June 2021, in the amount of US$1 billion, bringing the company's valuation to around US$13 billion.
Acquisitions
In April 2019, Celonis bought the Belgian software company Banyas for an undisclosed amount. Banyas technology was integrated into the Celonis platform to enable real-time connectivity to SAP.
In October 2020, Celonis acquired Czech software startup Integromat.com for "over $100M". Integromat, which has since changed its name to Make, sells an integration platform (iPaaS).
In October 2021, Celonis acquired London/Athens-based software company with over 100 employees Lenses.io, which is specializes in real-time streaming data tools.
In March 2022, Celonis acquired the Darmstadt-headquartered Process Analytics Factory GmbH (PAF), a company that provides process mining insights within the Microsoft Power Platform, for $100 million.
Products
In October 2020, Celonis launched its Execution Management System (EMS), a process analysis tool.
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Software companies of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Cobham%20%28mathematician%29 | Alan Belmont Cobham (4 November 192728 June 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for (with Jack Edmonds) inventing the notion of polynomial time and the complexity class P, for Cobham's thesis stating that the problems that have practically usable computer solutions are characterized by having polynomial time, and for Cobham's theorem on the sets of numbers that can be recognized by finite automata. He also did foundational work on automatic sequences, invented priority queues and studied them from the point of view of queueing theory, and wrote a program for playing contract bridge that was at the time (in the mid-1980s) one of the best in the world.
Cobham was a student at Oberlin College, the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but did not complete a doctorate. He became an operations researcher for the United States Navy, a researcher for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and a professor and founding department chair of the computer science department at Wesleyan University.
Selected publications
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20neural%20network | A graph neural network (GNN) is a class of artificial neural networks for processing data that can be represented as graphs.
In the more general subject of "geometric deep learning", certain existing neural network architectures can be interpreted as GNNs operating on suitably defined graphs. A convolutional neural network layer, in the context of computer vision, can be seen as a GNN applied to graphs whose nodes are pixels and only adjacent pixels are connected by edges in the graph. A transformer layer, in natural language processing, can be seen as a GNN applied to complete graphs whose nodes are words or tokens in a passage of natural language text.
The key design element of GNNs is the use of pairwise message passing, such that graph nodes iteratively update their representations by exchanging information with their neighbors. Since their inception, several different GNN architectures have been proposed, which implement different flavors of message passing, started by recursive or convolutional constructive approaches. , whether it is possible to define GNN architectures "going beyond" message passing, or if every GNN can be built on message passing over suitably defined graphs, is an open research question.
Relevant application domains for GNNs include Natural Language Processing, social networks, citation networks, molecular biology, chemistry, physics and NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems.
Several open source libraries implementing graph neural networks are available, such as PyTorch Geometric (PyTorch), TensorFlow GNN (TensorFlow), jraph (Google JAX), and GraphNeuralNetworks.jl (Julia, Flux).
Architecture
The architecture of a generic GNN implements the following fundamental layers:
Permutation equivariant: a permutation equivariant layer maps a representation of a graph into an updated representation of the same graph. In the literature, permutation equivariant layers are implemented via pairwise message passing between graph nodes. Intuitively, in a message passing layer, nodes update their representations by aggregating the messages received from their immediate neighbours. As such, each message passing layer increases the receptive field of the GNN by one hop.
Local pooling: a local pooling layer coarsens the graph via downsampling. Local pooling is used to increase the receptive field of a GNN, in a similar fashion to pooling layers in convolutional neural networks. Examples include k-nearest neighbours pooling, top-k pooling, and self-attention pooling.
Global pooling: a global pooling layer, also known as readout layer, provides fixed-size representation of the whole graph. The global pooling layer must be permutation invariant, such that permutations in the ordering of graph nodes and edges do not alter the final output. Examples include element-wise sum, mean or maximum.
It has been demonstrated that GNNs cannot be more expressive than the Weisfeiler–Leman Graph Isomorphism Test. In practice, this means th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Garcia | Rebecca Garcia may refer to:
Rebecca Garcia (computer programmer), American computer programmer
Rebecca Garcia (politician) (born 1973), Brazilian economist and politician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Matula | David William Matula (born 1937) is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on graph theory, graph algorithms, computer arithmetic, and algorithm engineering. He is a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University, where he formerly held the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering.
Education and career
Matula was an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis, graduating in 1959. He completed his Ph.D. in 1966 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Games of Sequence Prediction supervised by David Blackwell.
After completing his Ph.D., he returned to Washington University in St. Louis as a faculty member. He joined the Southern Methodist University faculty in 1974 as chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, was named to the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering in 2016, and retired in 2018.
Book
Matula is the coauthor, with Peter Kornerup, of the book Finite Precision Number Systems and Arithmetic (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications 133, Cambridge University Press, 2010).
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Home page
1937 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Graph theorists
American computer scientists
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University of California, Berkeley alumni
Washington University in St. Louis faculty
Southern Methodist University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20N.%20Gabow | Harold N. (Hal) Gabow is an American computer scientist known for his research on graph algorithms and data structures. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, and the former founding editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Algorithms.
Education and career
Gabow graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1968, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science in 1973 at Stanford University; his dissertation, Implementations of algorithms for maximum matching on nonbipartite graphs, was supervised by Harold S. Stone.
After working as an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania for a year, he joined the University of Colorado Boulder faculty in 1973 as an assistant professor of computer science. He was given tenure as an associate professor in 1979, and promoted to full professor in 1986; he retired as professor emeritus in 2008.
Gabow became the founding editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG), which published its first issue in 2005, after the mass resignation of the editorial board of its predecessor, Elsevier's Journal of Algorithms. He stepped down as editor on his retirement in 2008.
Recognition
Gabow was named as an ACM Fellow in 2002, "for contributions to efficient algorithms to flows, connectivity and matching". He has also won several distinguished service awards from the Association for Computing Machinery.
Personal life
Gabow is married to physician and healthcare executive Patricia A. Gabow.
References
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Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Harvard College alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20positioning%20data | Mobile positioning data (MPD) is a form of big data which results from the high data volumes of mobile positioning – tracking the location of mobile phones.
Mobile positioning data can be used for generating population and tourism statistics, for measuring human mobility, creating data-driven solutions in urban planning, establishing a response plan to disasters etc.
There are many ways to track the location of a mobile device in a network but this article covers mobile positioning data from network-based technologies:
Active mobile positioning is based on mobile network operators where the location of the mobile phone is determined with a special query. Mobile phones are positioned based on network signals from the network antennae, and usually using the signal triangulation method. Collecting this data generally requires special permissions (consent from people being positioned), meaning that the number of people who are being positioned is usually small.
Passive mobile positioning uses metadata from mobile phone use, such as incoming or outgoing calls or text messages (call detail records) or mobile internet usage (data detail records), that are automatically stored by every mobile network operator. The accuracy of passive mobile positioning is limited to the coverage area of network cells, which can range from a few hundred metres to multiple kilometres.
Compared to passive mobile positioning, active mobile positioning yields more accurate location data and provides a greater frequency in the data points created. Although less accurate, passive mobile positioning data has many benefits: it can be collected more easily compared to active mobile positioning data (requires no individual agreements), the number of people positioned can be much bigger and it can be gathered for longer periods of time.
History
Identifying mobile device locations achieved greater precision at the beginning of the 2000s. An important part was played by the E911 law accepted in the USA which made it mandatory to determine the original location of emergency calls. As the technical solutions of identifying a mobile phone's location developed further, different location based-services started to emerge. This possibility of observing people's movements and also their social characteristics became a subject of great interest for researchers and it was first introduced as the Social Positioning Method (SPM) in 2004. The method was developed by the Department of Geography of the University of Tartu, with professor Rein Ahas at the head and the company Positium, who also carried out the first research employing that method. SPM-based research focused on social flows in time and space by analysing the location coordinates of mobile phones (and also the social identification of the people carrying them). Since that method used active mobile positioning, consent from the people observed was needed. Mobile positioning data emerged as a completely new source of inform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20Andreu-Perez | Javier Andreu-Perez is a British computer scientist and a Senior Lecturer and Chair in Smart Health Technologies at the University of Essex. He is also associate editor-in-chief of Neurocomputing for the area of Deep Learning and Machine Learning. He is also a senior research fellow at the University of Jaén, Spain. Andreu-Perez research is mainly focused on Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI). He also chairs a interdisciplinary lab in this area, HCAI-Essex.
Early life and education
Andreu-Perez was born in Malaga, Spain. During his childhood he spent time living in Essex (United Kingdom), where he later in life joined as an academic, at University of Essex. He received his PhD in Intelligent Systems from Lancaster University (United Kingdom) in 2012. He is also alumni of the Hamlyn Centre at Imperial College London, which is one of the centers that form part of the Institute of Global Health Innovation. The centre focuses on the development of technological innovations for global health challenges.
Research and career
Andreu-Perez started his career investigating novel ways for generic human activity recognition from wearables by means of evolving intelligent systems techniques. His PhD focused on the development of evolving intelligent systems for problems arising from ubiquitous computing technologies, like the stochasticity and uncertainty of data modelling tasks such the recognition of human activity recognition by means of pervasive computing sensors. His research envisaged the utility of smart implants to replace wearables in achieving personalized healthcare in order to reshape the management of acute and chronic diseases. He has also collaborated with the British multinational pharmaceutic company GlaxoSmithKline for research on use of body sensors for the understanding of chronic conditions such as Rheumatoid Arthritis. Andreu-Perez was an invited faculty at the foundational (1st edition) Digital Rheumatology Day and annual international event organised by the swisse Foundation for Research into Musculoskeletal and Rheumatic Diseases (RMR).
Andreu-Perez later investigations were part of the EPSRC-NIHR Healthcare Technology Cooperatives Partnership: Technology Network-Plus on Devices for Surgery and Rehabilitation. In this project he explored the development of adaptive brain computer interface systems that uses fuzzy sets and systems to model neural uncertainty. His more recent scientific contributions have involved the combination of fuzzy logic and convolutional neural networks for this endeavour in smart environments. Making his first contribution in 2016, he also works in the development of techniques that combines brain connectivity estimators with machine learning and fuzzy logic for recognizing cognitive profiles. Among his most recent research he has been involved in the development of explainable artificial intelligence methods in developmental cognitive neuroscience. The official magazine of the IEEE Computatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Weather | Fox Weather is a digital broadcast television network and streaming channel operated by Fox Corporation which launched on October 25, 2021 to provide weather forecasts and information for the United States. The service is available through select digital subchannels of Fox Television Stations, YouTube TV, The Roku Channel, FuboTV, DirecTV Stream, Xumo, Amazon Fire TV, its website and mobile apps, the mobile and digital media player apps of Fox, Fox News and Fox Business, the websites of Fox's owned and operated stations, the OTT service Tubi, and simulcasted on weekend mornings from 6 to 9 AM ET on Fox Business and in daytime and various weekend slots on select MyNetworkTV stations.
During significant weather events, Fox Weather is often simulcast on Fox News, LiveNOW from Fox or Fox Business.
History
On December 9, 2020, Fox News Media announced the forthcoming launch of an ad-supported weather service that would include local and national weather related news. On June 24, 2021, Fox News Media announced a slate of six meteorologists who would make up the team reporting for the channel, joining from other local TV stations.
The channel is overseen by Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and executive Sharri Berg.
News of the launch sparked discussion on how the channel will cover climate change, an issue their sister channel Fox News has often dismissed. Regarding how the issue of climate change will be addressed on the new network, Berg stated in an interview that “...climate change is part of our lives. It’s how we live. It’s not going to be ignored.”
On August 18, 2021, Berg announced that Fox Weather would add three correspondents and five multimedia journalists to the team.
On September 1, 2021, Fox Weather released their first promo and announced that they would be launching in October. The launch date was later announced for October 25.
On October 18, 2021, Berg announced that Fox Weather would add four additional meteorologists and a multimedia journalist to the team.
The network was also added as an over-the-air digital subchannel at the start of 2022 in markets served by the network's owned-and-operated stations group, presumably with local insertion allowing local forecasts and severe weather coverage. A weekend morning simulcast of the channel airs on Fox Business Network from 6 to 8 a.m. ET, which started on December 4.
YouTube TV added Fox Weather on February 2, 2022, becoming the first weather-focused channel to air on the OTT service. On February 8, Berg announced that Fox Weather had also been added to the Amazon News and The Roku Channel OTT services, and would be added to Xumo and FuboTV later in February. Berg also announced that, in addition to its addition to over-the-air digital subchannels, Fox Weather content would be simulcast for 1-2 hours daily on Fox Television Stations' MyNetworkTV and independent stations.
On March 14, 2022, Berg announced that Fox Weather had hired Bryan Norcross as its hurricane specialist. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub%20Copilot | GitHub Copilot (not to be confused with "Copilot X", the name of GitHub's "vision" for next-gen Copilot features) is a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool developed by GitHub (owned by Microsoft) and OpenAI to assist users of Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains integrated development environments (IDEs) by autocompleting code. Currently available by subscription to individual developers and to businesses, the tool was first announced by GitHub on 29 June 2021, and works best for users coding in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go.
History
On June 29, 2021, GitHub announced GitHub Copilot for technical preview in the Visual Studio Code development environment. GitHub Copilot was released as a plugin on the JetBrains marketplace on October 29, 2021. October 27, 2021, GitHub released the GitHub Copilot Neovim plugin as a public repository. GitHub announced Copilot's availability for the Visual Studio 2022 IDE on March 29, 2022. On June 21, 2022, GitHub announced that Copilot was out of "technical preview", and is available as a subscription-based service for individual developers.
GitHub Copilot is the evolution of the 'Bing Code Search' plugin for Visual Studio 2013, which was a Microsoft Research project released in February 2014. This plugin integrated with various sources, including MSDN and StackOverflow, to provide high-quality contextually relevant code snippets in response to natural language queries.
Features
When provided with a programming problem in natural language, Copilot is capable of generating solution code. It is also able to describe input code in English and translate code between programming languages.
According to its website, GitHub Copilot includes assistive features for programmers, such as the conversion of code comments to runnable code, and autocomplete for chunks of code, repetitive sections of code, and entire methods and/or functions. GitHub reports that Copilot’s autocomplete feature is accurate roughly half of the time; with some Python function header code, for example, Copilot correctly autocompleted the rest of the function body code 43% of the time on the first try and 57% of the time after ten attempts.
GitHub states that Copilot’s features allow programmers to navigate unfamiliar coding frameworks and languages by reducing the amount of time users spend reading documentation.
Implementation
GitHub Copilot is powered by the OpenAI Codex, which is a modified, production version of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), a language model using deep-learning to produce human-like text. The Codex model is additionally trained on gigabytes of source code in a dozen programming languages.
Copilot’s OpenAI Codex is trained on a selection of the English language, public GitHub repositories, and other publicly available source code. This includes a filtered dataset of 159 gigabytes of Python code sourced from 54 million public GitHub repositories.
Open AI’s GPT-3 i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Fung%20Chang | Li Fung Chang () is a Taiwanese communications engineer, since 2015 the chief architect of Taiwan's 5G cellular communications network program office in the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Taiwan), and a chair professor of electrical and computer engineering at National Chiao Tung University.
Education and career
Chang completed a PhD in 1985 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with the dissertation An Information-Theoretic Study of Ratio-Threshold Antijam Techniques supervised by coding theorist Robert McEliece. Prior to her current position in Taiwan, she has worked for Telcordia, AT&T Labs, and Broadcom.
Recognition
Chang was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2001, "for contributions to the design and analysis of radio links and networks for wireless voice/data services".
References
External links
Home page at NCTU
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Taiwanese electrical engineers
Taiwanese women engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Grainger College of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Population%20Data%20Science | International Journal of Population Data Science, also known as IJPDS, is a peer-reviewed open-access journal publishing original research on issues in population data science and administrative data linkage to advance population study across health, education, environment and other domains. It was established in 2017 in partnership with the International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN).
Scope
The journal publishes articles under four categories of population data science: (1) Data use for population impact; (2) Bringing together and analysing data from multiple sources; (3) Identifying population level insights; and (4) Developing safe, privacy-sensitive and ethical infrastructure to support research.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, PubMed, MEDLINE, PubMed Central, Europe PMC, Scopus, ResearchGate and WorldCat, among other scientific publication indexes and directories. Based on its CiteScore metric of 1.6 in 2017–2020, the journal ranked in the top tercile out of 109 tracked journals of similar scope.
Contents
Research published in the journal has found that enhancing public policy relevance of data linkage studies can help ensure social legitimacy. The journal also occasionally publishes themed collections. In 2020, the journal issued a call for papers on the theme "Population data science for COVID-19". Given the unprecedented impacts of the global pandemic, health data researchers identified and published their recommendations for approaches to timely and equitable data sharing for research and analysis.
In 2021, the journal issued a call for papers on the theme "Work designed to influence policy and practice."
Editorial Board
The journal's Founding Editor-in-Chief is Professor Kerina Jones of Swansea University, UK, and the journal's Deputy Editor is Professor Kim McGrail from the University of Columbia, Canada. Together they lead a panel of 17 international editors.
See also
International Population Data Linkage Network
Population Health Research Network (PHRN), Western Australia
Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK)
Heath Data Research UK (HDR UK)
Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank, Swansea University
Health Data Research Network Canada
Population Data BC, British Columbia, Canada
Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP), Philadelphia, USA
ICES (Formally the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, Canada
References
External links
Demography journals
Open access journals
Academic journals established in 2017
English-language journals
Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Koch%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Johann Wolfgang Koch (born 18 October 1962) is a German physicist and computer scientist. He teaches applied computer science at the University of Bonn, Germany, and is chief scientist of the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics. In 2011, Koch was elected a IEEE Fellow and since 2015, he has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
Life and education
Koch was born and brought up in Nuremberg, Bavaria, the eldest of three sons of the lawyer, insurance scientist, and manager and his wife Luise, née Köllner. He passed his Abitur at the in Aachen. At RWTH Aachen University, he studied physics and mathematics, graduating in physics (diploma in 1987). He received his doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1990 at the Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology of the RWTH Aachen with a dissertation in the field of ergodic theory of dynamical systems under the supervision of .
From 2002 to 2010, Koch taught as a lecturer at the chair of Armin B. Cremers on a part-time basis and habilitated in the field of applied computer science at the University of Bonn. At the University of Bonn Institute of Computer Science he has been teaching as an Apl. Professor since 2018, focusing on signal processing, sensor data fusion, artificial intelligence, resource management. He is also involved in .
Scientific focus
For many years, Koch has headed the research department Sensor Data and Information Fusion (SDF) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics, a research institute of the Fraunhofer Society, the largest organization for applied research and development in Europe.
He and his team work predominantly for the German Federal Ministry of Defences with security tasks, including homeland security, and corresponding industrial companies. The work covers digitization in this environment, such as Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), electronic & navigation warfare, sensor and platform resource management, mobile and distributed multisensor systems, and aspects of Manned-unManned Teaming (MuM-T). He is also the single point of contact of the Fraunhofer Segment for Defense and Security (VVS) to the European Future Combat Air System (FCAS). He also represents scientific interests of the German Navy within the framework of the European Defence Fund.
He is one of the initiators and co-chair of the Working Group on Responsible Use of New Technologies in a Future Combat Air System (FCAS),.
Koch is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF) and supports program committees for ISIF's FUSION conference series, and was Executive Chairman of FUSION 2008 in Cologne, .
Koch is involved in the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society (AESS) within the globally operating Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as an IEEE Fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, and Member of the Board of Governors,. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie%20Simmons | Stephanie Simmons is the co-chair of the Advisory Council on Canada's National Quantum Strategy and a Canadian Research Chair in Quantum Computing at Simon Fraser University. She is also the founder and Chief Quantum Officer at Photonic Inc., a spin out company which focusses on the commercial development of silicon photonics spin qubits. She was named by Caldwell Partners as one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in 2020. Her research considers the development of silicon-based systems for quantum computing.
Early life and education
Simmons started her scientific career at the University of Waterloo as an undergraduate student in mathematics and mathematical physics. She moved to the United Kingdom for her graduate research, where she worked toward her doctorate in materials science at the University of Oxford. She was a Clarendon Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her doctoral research looked at the creation of entanglement in condensed matter spin systems.
Research and career
Simmons was a research fellow in electrical engineering at the University of New South Wales. In Australia she worked with Andrea Morello on silicon-based quantum computing. She was part of the UNSW team who first demonstrated quantum logic between two electrons in a silicon chip. Using a conventional semiconductor manufacturing process, Simmons worked on a controlled-not gate (CNOT) that makes use of electron spin to store quantum information.
Simmons joined the faculty at Simon Fraser University in 2015, where she leads the Silicon Quantum Technology laboratory. Her research focuses on the qubits associated with luminescent defects in silicon. She was named a Canada Research Chair in 2017, and concentrated her efforts on the development of the world's first quantum computer. She has advised the Canadian government on quantum technology.
Awards and honours
2013 Physics World Top Ten Breakthrough of the Year
2015 Physics World Top Ten Breakthrough of the Year
2020 Canada's Top 40 Under 40
2021 YWCA Women of Distinction Award
2022 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship
Select publications
Personal life
Simmons has two children.
References
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Waterloo alumni
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mila%20affair | The Mila affair (French: Affaire Mila) is a French media and judicial case relating to freedom of speech and cyberbullying. After a man invoking Islam directed misogynistic and homophobic insults at "Mila" when she rejected his inappropriate sexual advances, she answered that "islam is shit". The 16-year-old was then threatened with death and rape by numerous people online, which caused her to leave school and to be placed under police protection.
Original facts
On 18 January 2020, "Mila", a 16-year-old female singer in the Isère region in Eastern France, made a live-stream with followers and talked with them about their love life, and answered to one of them that she indeed wasn't "particularly attracted to Arab and Black women". Later on the stream, a man hit on her inappropriately and she rejected him. The man responded with a series of misogynistic and homophobic insults in the name of "Allah", including "dirty whore", "dirty lesbian" and "dirty racist". Mila later made a story (available for 24 hours) on social media stating that "there's nothing but hate in the Quran. Islam is shit." The video was copied and widely shared on social media.
After her video clip went viral, she received over 100 000 hate messages, including death or rape threats, edited videos of her being hurt in various ways; the haters also published the address of her school.
Mila later received the tile of France’s ‘teenage Rushdie’ because of parallels drawn to British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie who had fallen into controversy with angry Muslim extremists in the late 1980s for voicing his opinion.
She and her family were consequently forced to live under 24-hour police protection per decision of the interior minister Christophe Castaner, and she has not been able to attend school since then.
On 3 February, she appeared in a TV interview where she stated "I am not a racist, not at all. You can’t be racist about a religion. I said what I thought, I am completely in my rights. I don’t regret it at all." She also announced that she would be filing a lawsuit against some of the people who harassed her with death threats, being represented by Richard Malka, who had previously represented Charlie Hebdo in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.
On 14 November 2020, she made another livestream criticising Islam, declaring that her detractors should "keep an eye on your buddy Allah because my fingers are still up his asshole and I'm not taking them out." The video led to another wave of harassment and threats.
In March 2021, her Twitter account was briefly suspended after a mass reporting campaign by the people harassing her.
Public reactions
This sparked a nationwide debate on the freedom of expression, Muslims, and the right to blaspheme. Blasphemy is not criminalized in France, and the initial police investigation against the girl's online comments was found to be without merit.
The hashtag #JenesuispasMila ("I am not Mila") was widely used, along wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina%20Umaschi%20Bers | Marina Umaschi Bers is the Augustus Long Professor of Education at Boston College. Bers holds a secondary appointment in Boston College's Department of Computer Science. Bers directs the interdisciplinary DevTech Research Group, which she started in 2001 at Tufts University. Her research involves the design and study of innovative learning technologies to promote children's positive development. She is known for her work in the field of early childhood computer science with projects of national and international visibility. Bers is the co-creator of the free ScratchJr programming language, used by 35 million children, and the creator of the KIBO robotic kit, which has no screens or keyboards.
Education
Marina Umaschi Bers went to Buenos Aires University in Argentina and received her undergraduate degree in Social Communications (1993). In 1994, she earned a master's degree in Educational Media and Technology from Boston University; she also has an M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2001, she earned a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory working under the mentorship of Seymour Papert. In 2001 Bers created her research group, the Developmental Technologies, or DevTech, at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. In 2018 she was named the chair of the Eliot-Pearson Dept. of Child Development. In 2022 she moved to Boston College as the August Long Professor of Education at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development. Bers received an appointment in Boston College's Department of Computer Science and is an affiliated faculty with the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.
Bers co-founded KinderLab Robotics in 2013, and has worked with WGBH-TV and PBS on content for children's broadcasting.
Research and work
Bers’ research centers around the potential of technology to foster the development of children. Her early work examined storytelling and language in children, robotics in early childhood education, and the development of values in virtual environments. In 2012 she developed the TangibleK robotics program to teach young children about the world of technology. Bers developed the ScratchJr programming language collaboratively with Mitch Resnick, Paula Bonta, and Brian Silverman. ScratchJr targets children from ages 5 to 7, and is an offshoot of Scratch which is used to teach programming to children from 8 to 16 computer programming. Bers also works to train childhood educators on the use of technology in the classroom and develops curriculum that can be used to teach programming and computational thinking. She developed the KIBO robot kit, a robot that young children can program with wooden blocks and serves as a tool to teach children computer programming.
Published books
Bers, M. U (2012). Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development: From Playpen to Playground. Oxford.
Bers, M. U & Resnick, M. (2015). The Official ScratchJr Book. No Starch Press.
Bers, M. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Iverson | Sara Iverson is a professor of biology at Dalhousie University, and the Scientific Director of the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN).
Iverson was selected by Mattel Inc. and National Geographic as an influential Canadian scientist and role model for Barbie's You Can Be Anything campaign as part of the doll's 60th anniversary. This effort is aimed at helping young girls can have a career in a scientific fields where women have historically been underrepresented.
Early life and education
Iverson was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. She has a bachelors of science in Zoology from Duke University, 1979. She received her Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Maryland, College Park MD in Nutritional Sciences. She began her career as a Graduate Research Fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Wuppertal, West Germany. She held teaching positions and research positions at University of Maryland, Oregon State University, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC; Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS. Iverson joined the Department of Biology, Dalhousie University.in 1994 as an Assistant Professor and rose to her current position as Professor in 2004. Iverson was selected as the Scientific Director of the Ocean Tracking Network Canada, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2008 and is in that role today. She is also a professor of biology in Affiliate Professor, Institute of Marine Science, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Career and research
Iverson's research interests are focused on how animals adapt to and exploit their environments and in the physiological and biochemical mechanisms which constrain or provide opportunities for them to do so. Her research program is inter-disciplinary, combining comparative physiology and ecology with lipid biochemistry and metabolism in vertebrates, and integrating laboratory and field studies on fundamental issues of interest to both zoological and medical communities, as and which also have implications for the conservation and management of mammal, seabird, and fish populations. Iverson supervises and mentors a number of graduate students both as a Professor and through her leadership within OTN.
Honors and awards
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Life Sciences Division, Academy of Science, 2018 – present
(As leader of OTN), Nature Inspiration Award to OTN (Not-for-Profit Large category), Canadian Museum of Nature, November 2016
(As leader of OTN) International Conservation Achievement Award to OTN, American Fisheries Society, July 2016
University Research Professor, distinction in scholarship, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, 2009–2014.
Killam Prize, Faculty of Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. 2000.
NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship July 1998 – June 2000.
Selected publications
The Ocean Tracking Network: Advancing frontiers in aquatic science and management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20TVING%20original%20programming | 2021, streaming service TVING began to produce its own original content.
Original programming
Drama
TV series
Special
Entertainment
Docuseries
Animation
Special
Original films
Feature films
Upcoming original programming
Drama
TV series
Animation
TV series
Exclusive international distribution programming
TV series
Film
See also
List of Paramount+ original programming (original films)
Notes
References
Lists of television series by streaming service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Ali%20Moni | Mohammad Ali Moni is a Bangladeshi computer engineer, researcher and data analyst. He has done research in various institutions including University of New South Wales, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and so on. He is research fellow in the Cancer Research Network of Faculty of Medicine in Sydney University and bone division of Garvan Institute of Medical Research.
Early life and education
Moni is born in Pabna District. He passed SSC from Pabna Zilla School in 1998. Then He got admitted into Computer Science and Engineering Department at Islamic University, Bangladesh in Kushtia. He did his PhD in clinical bioinformatics from the University of Cambridge.
Career
Research Fellow at University of Sydney (2017-12-08 to 2020-02-07)
Research Fellow (Faculty of Medicine) at University of New South Wales (2015-02-02 to present)
School of Public Health & Community Medicine at University of New South Wales (2020-02-10 to present)
Works
He published more than 200 articles and book chapters. His research interest is Cancer and bone genetics, disease comorbidities, diseasome, co-infection and cancer, data science, AI and machine learning.
References
External links
Dr Mohammad Ali Moni at Google Scholar
Mohammad Ali Moni at ResearchGate
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Islamic University, Bangladesh alumni
Bangladeshi computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Pabna District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Nine%20Realms | The Nine Realms may refer to:
DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms, an American computer-animated television series in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise
The Níu Heimar ("Nine Worlds") of Norse cosmology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Cifu | Adam Seth Cifu is an American physician, academic, author and researcher. He is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Academic Programming, Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence at the University of Chicago.
Cifu has authored over 125 peer-reviewed publications on clinical practice, medical decision-making and medical reversal, and general internal medicine. He is the co-author of a textbook on clinical reasoning, Symptom to Diagnosis: An Evidence-Based Guide and a book about medical decision making for the lay audience, Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives. He, together with Scott Stern, hosted the podcast S2D: The Symptom to Diagnosis Podcast and currently hosts The Clinical Excellence Podcast.
Education
Cifu attended the Dalton School in New York City. He then received his bachelor's degree with honors in Chemistry from Haverford College in 1989, and a Doctor of Medicine degree from Cornell University Medical College (now Weill Cornell Medicine) in 1993. He completed his internal medicine residency at the Beth Israel Hospital (now in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) in 1996, and then served as the Primary Care Chief Resident.
Career
Cifu started his career as a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School in 1993, and became an instructor in Medicine in 1996. He then joined the faculty of the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in 1997. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, and to Professor of Medicine in 2013.
Research
Cifu's research is primarily focused on the evidence base of clinical practice.
Medical reversal
A medical reversal occurs when a robust clinical trial produces results that contradict existing clinical practice and the older, less methodologically sound, trials on which it is based. The term was coined in 2011 in an article by Vinay Prasad, Victor Gall and Adam Cifu published in the Archives of Internal Medicine (now JAMA Internal Medicine).
Cifu and Prasad have published extensively on the topic. In one large study, Prasad, Cifu and collaborators reviewed all of the original research articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine between 2001 and 2010. They identified 146 common medical practices that offered no net benefits. He also focused low-value practices and patterns of medical research, and found out that reversal of established medical practice occurs across all classes of medical practice. In his paper published in 2012, he discussed the reversals in terms of established medical practices, and suggested that the established standards must be abandoned if they are not beneficial enough.
Cifu and Prasad brought together much of their research on Medical Reversal in a book entitled Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives. Abigail Zuger reviewed the book in the New York Times writing that the book concerns itself with "how often modern medicine reverses itself, analyzing why it happens, and suggesting ways to make it sto |
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