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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL%20X15p | X15p is a class of narrow gauge electric multiple units to be operated by SL on the Roslag Railway. 22 3-car sets will be delivered from 2020 to increase capacity on the network; the first of which were delivered in autumn 2020. Testing of the trains has been going on since then but no date is set for when they can enter regular service. The name follows Swedish tradition for rail vehicle names, in which X means electric multiple unit, and the last p means 891 mm gauge.
A new depot, Vallentunadepån, has been constructed near Molnby, about 3,5 kilometers north of Vallentuna, in order to house the new trains. The depot contains space for all of the 22 new trains, with the ability to conduct maintenance on them as well. The older X10p rolling stock will still be housed at the depot in Mörby.
References
External links
SL köper in nya tåg till Roslagsbanan
Stadler Rail multiple units
X15p
Stockholm
1500 V DC multiple units
Train-related introductions in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed%20network | In a social network analysis (as in blockmodeling), a positive or a negative 'friendship' can be established between two nodes in a network; this results in a signed network. As social interaction between people can be positive or negative, so can be links between the nodes (representing persons).
When a positive or a negative value is attributed on the relationship between the two nodes, it is called a user evaluation. In social groups, people can like or dislike, respect or disrespect other people in their social groups.
The quality of such connections can be further analysed, as a positive connections can have a positive influence on the whole network (one person on social group or society in general) and vice versa.
When network connections are not evaluated between the nodes (e.g., all connections are regarded as positive - as they exist), then such a network is defined as an unsigned network.
For intrinsically dense unsigned networks where link weights can be observed, the underlying networks may actually be signed networks. The underlying signed network backbones can be extracted using significance filter and vigor filter using open-source software packages in R and Python.
References
See also
Signed graph
Balance theory
Social network analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi%20Bapna | Ravi Bapna is an Indian-born American data scientist, digital transformationalist, business academic, executive educator and speaker. He is the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Business Analytics and Information Systems, the Associate Dean for Executive Education and the Academic Director of the Carlson Analytics Lab and the Analytics for Good Institute at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
Bapna’s research falls in the areas encompassing social media, peer influence, monetization and design of Freemium communities, big-data analytics, online dating and matching, economics of information systems, human capital issues in the IT services industry, online auctions, e-market design, grid computing, and the design of the IT organization. He has also worked extensively on the emerging digital transformation of business and society, considering it as a giant global laboratory
Bapna is a member of several professional societies and organizations, including the Information Systems Society, where he was elected as president for 2013-2015. He also serves as a Senior Editor for Information Systems Research.
Education
Bapna received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calcutta in 1989, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in 1993. He then moved to the United States, earning his Doctoral Degree in Information Systems from the University of Connecticut in 1999.
Career
Following his doctoral degree, Bapna started his career as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas in 1999. In the following year, he held appointment at Northeastern University as an assistant professor. In 2001, he joined the University of Connecticut as an assistant professor, and became an associate professor and Ackerman Scholar in 2004. From 2006 till 2008, he was appointed by the Indian School of Business as an associate professor of information systems. He then held appointment at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, as a tenured associate professor till 2010, and as Board of Overseers (Full) Professor till 2015.
During his tenure at the University of Minnesota, Bapna also held several administrative appointments. He served as a Department Chair for Information and Decision Science till 2015, as Program Director for MS-Business Analytics Program till 2017, and became an Academic Director of Carlson Analytics Lab, and Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Business Analytics and Information Systems in 2015, an Associate Dean for Executive Education in 2017, and Academic Director for Analytics for Good Institute in 2020. From 2012 to 2016, he was the founding academic co-director (with Professor Joe Konstan) of University of Minnesota's Social Media and Business Analytics Collaborative (SOBACO).
In 2021, Bapna was appointed as Area Leader of the Information Systems area at the Indian School of Business with the role of providing academic leadership and counsel to the ISB Dean Madan Pi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak%20Kapur | Deepak Kapur (born August 24, 1950) is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico.
Biography
Kapur was born in a lower-middle-class family based in Amritsar, where his father, Nawal Kishore Kapur, was a cloth broker; his mother, Bimla Vati, was a housewife.
Education
Kapur's early education was at the Government Primary School, Katra Khazana, Amritsar, until 3rd grade. He was then shifted to the Vidya Bhushan Primary School, Amritsar. After 5th grade, he had to change school again to Dayanand Anglo Vedic (DAV) Higher Secondary School until 11th grade. He was selected in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) entrance examination in 1966. He got his undergraduate degree (B.Tech) in Electric Engineering from IIT, Kanpur, in 1971 and M. Tech. degree in Computer Science in May 1973 also from IIT, Kanpur.
Academic career
After graduating from MIT in March 1980, Kapur joined as a research staff at GE Corporate Research and Development (GECRD), Schenectady, NY, where he worked until Dec. 1987. While being at GECRD, he was an adjunct professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where he taught a course on automated reasoning based on term rewriting. At RPI he also co-supervised Ph.D. dissertations of Abdelilah Kandri-Rody and Hantao Zhang.
Kapur was hired in 1988 as a tenured full professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York. In 1998, Kapur got the distinguished research award.
Kapur became the Chair of the Computer Science department at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in December 1998, a position he held until June 2006. In 2007, Kapur was made a Distinguished Professor at UNM. In May, 2010, Kapur was awarded Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award by the School of Engineering of the UNM.
Kapur has held visiting appointments at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Institute of Software (Beijing), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS), Institute IMDEA Software, Madrid, among other institutions.
Kapur has served as a Consultant to GE Corporate Research and Development, Sandia National Labs, IBM Research at Watson and Fujitsu Labs.
Kapur was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Automated Reasoning from 1993-2007. He has served on the editorial board of many journals including Journal of Automated Reasoning, Journal of Symbolic Computation, Journal of Logic and Algebra Programming, Journal of Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing. Kapur also served on the board of Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics.
Kapur was a Board Member of the United Nations University - International Institute for Software Technology as well as United Nation University - Computing and Society. He was also a board member of the Computer Science Research Institute of the Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos Comput |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Industries | System Industries, Inc., was an American computer hardware company active from 1968 to 1993. It produced printers and disk drives for minicomputers.
History
The firm was founded in 1968 by Ed Zschau with backing from Brentwood Associates, a private equity firm. Corporate earnings were followed by The New York Times. Their focus was to be a third-party provider of DEC-compatible equipment, especially for printers and disk drives (and their controllers).
In 1992 they acquired Emulex's disk drive business. By 1993 System Industries was dealing with a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That same year they introduced an eraseable optical disc product and an 8mm magnetic tape storage devices.System Industries was one of 19 manufacturers of disk drive products that were sued in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Digital Equipment Corporation for alleged patent violations. Individual settlements were reached.
SilonicsSystem Industries had a subsidiary named Silonics, which made ink-jet printers. By 1980, System Industries found it more profitable to focus on its disk business.
SIMACS (SImultaneous Machine ACceSs)System Industries developed a capability for having more than one DEC CPU, but not at the same time, have write access to a shared disk. They implemented an enhancement called SIMACS (SImultaneous Machine ACceSs), which allowed their special disk controller to set a semaphore flag for disk access, allowing multiple WRITES to the same files; the disk is shared by multiple DEC systems. SIMACS existed on VAX and PDP-11 RSTS systems.
Advertising
It's "80 Mbytes of storage for under $12K!" ad was considered noteworthy by Computerworld, which in 2007, 2012 and 2017 headlined "... And other ad favorites," "... And other IT ad favorites," and "10 fun tech ads through the years." A CIO magazine'' "looking-back" item also noted the aforementioned ad headline.
References
1968 establishments in California
1993 disestablishments in California
American companies established in 1968
American companies disestablished in 1993
Computer companies established in 1968
Computer companies disestablished in 1993
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Firth-Butterfield | Kay Firth-Butterfield is a lawyer, professor, and author specializing in the intersection of artificial intelligence, international relations, Business and AI ethics. She is the CEO of the Centre for Trustworthy Technology which is a Member of the World Economic Forum's Forth Industrial Revolution Network. Before starting her new position Kay was the head of AI and machine learning at the World Economic Forum. She was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin.
Firth-Butterfield has authored of two books: Human Rights and Human Trafficking and Laws on Human Trafficking, the latter co-authored with Tina Miranda. She has also written numerous articles and given speeches on the topics of AI, law, international relations, AI ethics and AI for business and government transformation.
Education
Firth-Butterfield graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in law and social science from the University of Sussex. She attended St. Mary's University for her further studies, where she received a Master's degree in international relations and a Master of Laws.
Career
Firth-Butterfield started her career as a barrister and part-time judge in the United Kingdom. Over time, she began to research more topics about the future of law, including the impact of AI, and specialized more at the intersection of AI and policy. More recently, she has served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin, where she co-founded the Responsible AI Institute. Firth-Butterfield is currently an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.
She has advised governments, think tanks, and nonprofits about artificial intelligence law, ethics, and policy. She established an AI ethics advisory panel at Lucid.ai in 2014, which has since included AI experts like Murray Shanahan, Max Tegmark, and Derek Jinks. Since 2015, she has served as the Executive Committee Vice Chair of IEEE's Global Initiative on Ethical Considerations in the Design of AI and Autonomous Systems. She has also served on Lord Chief Justice’s advisory panel on AI and law, the advisory board for UNESCO's International Research Centre on AI, and AI4ALL's advisory board.
Selected awards and honors
2017 – Most Important 25 Women in Robotics
2018 – 12 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics
2020 – VentureBeat Women in AI Awards Responsibility & Ethics of AI Nominee
2020 – 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Hall of Fame Honoree
2020 – Forbes Women Defining The 21st Century AI Movement
2021 – The New York Times 10 Women Changing the Landscape of Leadership
References
Living people
English barristers
Artificial intelligence ethicists
Alumni of the University of Sussex
St. Mary's University School of Law alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot%20Kaminski | Margot E. Kaminski is an American professor who works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, privacy, information governance, and online civil liberties. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School and the Director of Privacy Initiative at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Her research examines the impacts of new technologies, including autonomous systems, on individual rights to help shape policy and regulation of AI.
Prior to joining Colorado Law, Kaminski was a lecturer at Yale Law School, an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law from 2014 to 2017, and had served as a law clerk to Andrew Kleinfeld, senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kaminski was selected as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2020.
Education
Kaminski graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Harvard University in 2004, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson. She graduated from Yale Law School in 2010. While at Yale, she co-founded the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic and was a Knight Law and Media Scholar.
Career and research
After graduation from Yale Law School, Kaminski clerked for Andrew Kleinfeld of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and served as the executive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School for three years. Then, she joined the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law as an Assistant Professor in 2014, specializing in privacy, intellectual property, and technology law. There, she was selected to serve as fellow of the DC Center for Democracy & Technology.
Margot Kaminski is currently an associate professor at the University of Colorado Law School and Director of the Privacy Initiative at Silicon Flatirons.
In 2019, Kaminski co-authored Algorithmic Impact Assessments under the GDPR with Giancludio Malgieri. The paper attempted to link the risks of profile algorithms, automated decision-making with the EU General Data Protection Regulation tools towards more accountability. Both presented their paper to the U.S. Senate. Her works have also been published in The New York Times, The Economist, and The Atlantic.
Selected awards and recognition
2016 - Featured in Lawfare's List of Female Technology Experts
2019 - Received 10th Annual Privacy Paper for Policymakers Award from the Future of Privacy Forum
2019 - Received Provost Faculty Achievement Award for AI, Data Privacy, and Human Decision-making
2020 - 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Hall of Fame Honoree
References
Living people
Harvard University alumni
Yale Law School alumni
University of Colorado Law School faculty
Artificial intelligence ethicists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peraton | Peraton Inc. is a privately held American national security and technology company formed in 2017. It is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. Its service areas include space, intelligence, cyber, defense, homeland security, citizen security, and health. The company's applied research organization, Peraton Labs, is sited in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
As of 2021 the company had more than 150 offices across the United States. Peraton then employed over 5,000 people in the D.C. area and approximately 18,000 worldwide.
Peraton says its name is "a construct of the prefix per, which means thoroughly, and the word imperative, reflecting the importance of its customers' missions".
History
Peraton was established and has grown due to acquisitions made by New York-based private-equity firm Veritas Capital. In 2017, Veritas acquired Harris Corporation's government IT services division and renamed it Peraton. In 2019, Peraton acquired Solers, Inc.; the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. In 2021, Veritas acquired the federal IT and mission support business of Northrop Grumman for $3.4 billion. In May 2021, Perspecta (a 2018 merger of DXC Technology's U.S. public sector spin-off, Vencore, Inc., and KeyPoint Government Solutions), was acquired by Veritas for $7.1 billion and placed under Peraton.
Peraton was awarded a $2.69 billion contract by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concerning Data Center and Cloud Optimization Support Services. Peraton also captured a $1B contract from the Pentagon to counter "misinformation".
References
Information technology companies of the United States
American companies established in 2017
Companies based in Fairfax County, Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeduliLindungi | SatuSehat (Indonesian for "one health"), formerly PeduliLindungi (roughly "care to protect"), is a national integrated health data exchange platform, jointly developed by the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Kemenkominfo), in partnership with Committee for COVID-19 Response and National Economic Recovery (KPCPEN), Ministry of Health (Kemenkes), Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (KemenBUMN), and Telkom Indonesia. The SatuSehat platform aims to facilitate data accessibility and service efficiency for health providers and the government, and assist the public as a tool to access their own electronic medical record data. This app was the official COVID-19 contact tracing app used for digital contact tracing in Indonesia, and originally known as TraceTogether but later changed because Singapore had its app using the same name.
Implementation
On 23 August 2021, Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investments Affairs, Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, encouraged the government to make this app a mandatory requirement before using public transportations, such as train, bus, ferry, and plane. Furthermore, citizen must have installed the app before entering shopping malls, factories, and sport venues. Every person who have received at least a dose of vaccine will receive a vaccine card and vaccination certificate which can be downloaded from the app.
In December 2022, with the revocation of PPKM (Community Activities Restrictions Enforcement) starting from 1 January 2023, Ministry of Health issued a statement that the usage of the app is not a governmental mandatory requirement as it used to be.
Transition into a citizen health app
On 7 September 2022, it was announced that the app would be modified to become a citizen health app, capitalising on the reach of the app and the existing work done around the app. On 28 February 2023, the authorities announced that the app was rebranded to SATUSEHAT Mobile (), with existing users needing to update the PeduliLindungi app and re-synchronise their COVID-19 related health information. The re-branded app would eventually be an all-in-one health service and records retrieval app for Indonesians.
Controversy
It was reported that the app requires access to the phone's files & media and GPS at all time, which quickly drains the battery. Giving location access only during use or no access will make the app unusable. This is in stark contrast to COVID-19 apps used in other countries which only use Bluetooth and do not require any additional permissions.
In September 2021, stored personal data of at least 1.3 million Indonesian residents were leaked online, including the vaccine certificate of President Joko Widodo. The data leak was also reported on eHAC (electronic Health Alert Card), a mandatory app used for air passengers.
See also
COVID-19 surveillance
COVID-19 apps
References
Mobile applications
COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
2020 software
COVID-19 contact tracing apps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettascale%20computing | Zettascale computing refers to computing systems capable of calculating at least "1021 IEEE 754 Double Precision (64-bit) operations (multiplications and/or additions) per second (zettaFLOPS)". It is a measure of supercomputer performance, and is a hypothetical performance barrier. A zettascale computer system could generate more single floating point data in one second than was stored by the total digital means on Earth in the first quarter of 2011.
Definitions
Floating point operations per second (FLOPS) are one measure of computer performance. FLOPS can be recorded in different measures of precision, however the standard measure (used by the TOP500 supercomputer list) uses 64 bit (double-precision floating-point format) operations per second using the High Performance LINPACK (HPLinpack) benchmark.
Forecasts
In 2018, Chinese scientists predicted that the first zettascale system will be assembled in 2035. This forecast looks plausible from the historical point of view as it took some 12 years to progress from the terascale machines (1012) to petascale systems (1015) and then 14 more years to move to exascale computers (1018).
Scientists forecast that the zettascale systems are likely to be data-centric; this proposition means that the system components will move to the data, not vice versa, as the data volumes in the future are anticipated to be so large that moving data will be too expensive. It is also forecasted that the zettascale systems are expected to be decentralized—because such a model can be the shortest route to achieving zettascale performance, with millions of less powerful components linked and working together to form a collective hypercomputer that is more powerful than any single machine. Such decentralized systems may be designed to mimick complex biologic systems, and the next cybernetic paradigm may be based on liquid cybernetic systems with embodied intelligence solutions.
Potential configuration
China’s National University of Defense Technology propose the following metrics:
Power consumption: 100 MW
Power efficiency: 10 teraflops/watt
Peak performance per node: 10 petaflops
Communication bandwidth between nodes: 1.6 terabits/second
I/O bandwidth: 10 to 100 petabytes/second
Storage capacity: 1.0 zettabyte
Floor space: 1000 square meters
Problems
As Moore's law nears its natural limits, supercomputing will face serious physical problems to move from exascale to zettascale systems, making the decade after 2020 a vital period to develop key high-performance computing techniques. Many forecasters, including Gordon Moore himself, expect Moore's law to end by around 2025. Another challenge for reaching zettascale performance can be enormous energy consumption.
Applications
Zettascale computers will be able to accurately forecast global weather for 2 weeks in the future.
Zettascale calculations will also be able to significantly reduce the time required for astrophysical simulations of such rare phenomena as black hol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEE%20TV | SEE TV is a Ugandan television network based in the Naguru neighborhood of Kampala.
Overview
The channel was launched in July 2021. It started broadcasting on 1 August 2021
The station is known for its focus on News, politics, also has a series of business, edu-entertainment, Lifestyle, sports, and entertainment shows.
Notable programs
Pm Edition
Enjuba Egoloobye
Brunch Request Live
411 Paparazzi
Sunrise at SEE
The Big Debate
The Grill
Impact Show
Seetuation Ku Ground
The Booth
Presenters
Adams Mayambala
Melissa Mboha
Bux Munira
Ramlah Katumba
Kalaki Brian
Simon Chris Makanga
Amelia Martha Nakitimbo
Gabriel Iguma
Auma Shivan Shiela
Apollo Sarah
Aggie Uwase
Starborn Timkash
Shamim Mayanja
Aaliyah Nanfuka aka Kabejja
Privah Eliberz
References
External links
Official site
Television stations in Uganda
English-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2021 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigger%202 | Rigger 2 is a role-playing game supplement published by FASA in 1997 for the second edition of the dystopian cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun.
Description
In the role-playing game Shadowrun, a "rigger" is someone who interfaces with vehicles and other machinery via a neural link, similar to a "console cowboy" in William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk Sprawl trilogy. Rigger 2 is a supplement which provides 2nd-edition rules for standard vehicle operation, vehicle combat, drones, security riggers, vehicle design and customization.
Publication history
FASA published Shadowrun in 1989, and followed it with many supplements and adventures, including Rigger Black Book in 1991. When FASA published a second edition of Shadowrunner, they also announced they would be releasing a second edition update of Rigger Black Book. However, when the lead developer for the Shadowrun line, Tom Dowd stepped down in 1994, the project was put on hiatus. At the time, Jon Szeto was an officer in the U.S. Army who had played Shadowrun for a number of years, and was contributing articles about riggers to the Scrawls from the Sprawls APA. This brought him to the attention of FASA, and when Szeto left the Army in 1996, FASA hired him to write Rigger 2. The result was a 172-page softcover book released in 1997 with cover art by The Edwards, and interior illustrations by Janet Aulisio-Dannheiser , Thomas M. Baxa, Peter Bergting, Joel Biske, Douglas Chaffee, Thomas Gianni, Fred Hooper, Mike Jackson, Scott James , Jeff Laubenstein , John Paul Lona , Kevin Long , Jim Nelson, Mark A. Nelson , Zak Plucinski , Loston Wallace , and Shane White.
The supplement proved popular enough that FASA published updated versions for the 3rd, 4th and 5th editions of Shadowrunner.
Reception
Rigger 2 was reviewed in Pyramid #29 (Jan./Feb., 1998), which said "Author Jonathan Szeto has turned riggers from the archetype that no one ever played to a popular and intriguing roleplaying option."
Guide du Rôliste Galactique noted that this book was a successor to Rigger Black Book rather than a sequel, saying, "Indeed, if it describes in detail the machines available, the accent is now placed on the associated rules. Thus, the entire vehicular combat system is overhauled and supplants that of the base book."
Other reviews and commentary
Backstab #7 (in French)
Envoyer #20
Casus Belli #112
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1997
Shadowrun supplements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raggie | Raggie (; ) is a 2020 Estonian-Danish computer-animated fantasy film directed by Meelis Arulepp and Karsten Kiilerich, based on the 1962 children's book of the same name by Estonian children's author Eno Raud.
Premise
When six-year-old Ruby's older brother Mark has to return to school after the summer holidays end, she befriends a magical doll which comes to life.
Voice cast
Estonian voice cast
Ott Sepp as Sipsik
Jan Uuspõld as Rat Boy
Merle Palmiste as Moon and woman in taxi
Nikolai Bentsler as Taxi driver
Ago Anderson as Father
Hilje Murel as Mother
Helene Vannari as Grandmother
Piret Krumm as Kristel Adrienne
Elo-Mirt Oja as Anu
Eliise Mööl as Kaara
Tobias Turk as Mattias
Hugo Malmsten as Mart
Danish voice cast
Jesper Asholt as Pjalte
Ella Daisy Anthony-Collins as Ida
Louis Næss-Schmidt as Mark
Rebecca Rønde Kiilerich as Mor, Rottemor and Måne
Tom Jensen as Far and Rottedreng
Vigga Bro as Bedste
Siff Ahrens as Mellanie, Vicky and Christel
Malik Hansen Addington as Mathias
Mia Lerdam as Fugl, Rottepige and woman in taxi
Peter Zhelder as Taxachauffør and Rottefar
Production
TBA
Reception
TBA
Release
Raggie was released in Estonian cinemas on 19 February 2020, and made €481,402 from 107,496 admissions, making it the third highest-grossing film in Estonia of 2020.
References
External links
2020 films
2020 animated films
Estonian animated films
Estonian-language films
Danish animated films
2020s Danish-language films
Films based on works by Estonian writers
Films directed by Karsten Kiilerich
2020 multilingual films
Estonian multilingual films
Danish multilingual films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleos%20Space | Kleos Space S.A. was a Luxembourg based space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance company that delivered global intelligence and geolocation data as a service. Kleos Space used its clusters of nanosatellites to detect and locate radio frequency transmissions on land and sea to uncover hidden or illegal activity in key areas. The data collected by the constellation enables up to six antenna pairs to be used in proprietary multilateration algorithms. These algorithms uncover data points of human activity on land and sea for government and commercial use and are delivered to Kleos’ customers, which include various analytics and intelligence entities. Such entities can, for example, detect ships used for unlawful purposes, such as piracy, drug smuggling, and illegal fishing. Their technology can pick up on transmissions independent of other systems, allowing it to provide data when imagery is unclear or targets are out of normal aircraft patrol range.
Kleos’ business model allows for access to the geolocation intelligence data via single user, team, or enterprise licenses, providing Kleos with recurring revenue. Subscribers can purchase additional data from specific areas of interest as Kleos builds out the constellation further. Since customers are licensing to access the data, not to own the data, all intellectual property and historical datasets remain with Kleos.
History
Founded in 2017 by CEO Andy Bowyer and CIO Miles Ashcroft, Kleos is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: KSS). In April 2021, the company signed a distribution agreement with the US Government IT solutions provider Carahsoft Technology Corporation. In June 2021, Kleos secured €7.9 million in capital from new and existing investors, including Perennial Value Management and Thorney Investment Group. The finance will allow Kleos to expand its engineering and customer satisfaction teams in Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, and Denver to meet customer needs, and to further scale its offering. As of July 2021, the company reported over 160 prospects in its business pipeline, including defense entities, naval forces, coast guard, border control, and national security agencies from several countries.
Facing financial difficulties, on 3 May 2023 the trading of the company was suspended on the ASX. On 26 July 2023 the company announced that its main creditor, Pure Asset Management Pty Ltd., was no longer willing to provide cash, and that the company was going to file for bankruptcy.
Satellite constellation
The Kleos Scouting Mission (KSM1) satellite cluster launched in November 2020 is the world’s first four satellite clusters flown in a formation targeting a precision geolocation capability. The Scouting Mission satellites, launched into a 37-degree inclination, cover key areas of maritime interest, such as the Strait of Hormuz and the South China Sea.
Their next cluster of four satellites, the Polar Vigilance Mission (KSF1), launched into a 525km Sun Synchronous orbi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth%20%281981%20film%29 | Macbeth is a 1981 television film consisting of a recording of the stage play at the Vivian Beaumont Theater and shown on the ARTS cable network. Philip Anglim plays Macbeth and Maureen Anderman plays Lady Macbeth. The stage play was directed by Sarah Caldwell while Kirk Browning directed the film. The original production played from January 23, 1981, to March 8, 1981.
Cast
Philip Anglim as Macbeth
Maureen Anderman as Lady Macbeth
J. Kenneth Campbell as Macduff
John Vickery as Malcolm
References
External links
1980s biographical drama films
1980s historical drama films
1981 films
Films based on Macbeth
Television shows based on Macbeth
1980s English-language films
Films directed by Kirk Browning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Barrett | Maria Lodi Barrett is a United States Army lieutenant general who serves as the Commanding General of the United States Army Cyber Command since May 3, 2022. She most recently served as Commanding General of the Network Enterprise Technology Command in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. She is the elder sister of Major General Paula Lodi. Barrett and Lodi are the United States Army's first ever sister General Officer tandem.
Early life
Barrett grew up in Franklin, Massachusetts, outside of Boston. She is the daughter of Ruston Lodi, an Italian immigrant, World War II veteran, Silver Star recipient, and school teacher; and Clara Lodi, an educator.
Barrett graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations. She also earned a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (Eisenhower School), and a Master of Arts in Telecommunications Management from Webster University.
Military career
Barrett received a commission in the United States Army as a second lieutenant through the Army ROTC program in 1988.
She has command experience at the company, battalion, and brigade level. Barrett served as deputy director of Current Operations, J-3, United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), Deputy Commanding General for the Joint Force Headquarters—Cyber (JFHQ-C) with United States Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER), and Deputy Commander (Operations) for Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), USCYBERCOM. She also served as Commander, 160th Signal Brigade, Third United States Army, Chief Information Officer/Director, J-6 with United States Southern Command at Doral, Florida and Director, J-3 with White House Communications Agency. She has served in army assignments in the United States, Kuwait, the Republic of Korea, Germany, and Saudi Arabia. She is a veteran of Operation New Dawn, Enduring Freedom and Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Barrett was promoted to brigadier general on December 2, 2015, and to major general on August 2, 2018.
Personal life
Barrett is married to retired Lieutenant Colonel Brian T. Barrett, a former Signal Corps Officer. She has four siblings. Her younger sister, Paula Lodi, is a United States Army major general.
Awards and commendations
Army Distinguished Service Medal
Defense Superior Service Medal
Legion of Merit
Bronze Star Medal
Defense Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster
Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters
Army Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster
Joint Service Achievement Medal
Army Achievement Medal
Joint Meritorious Unit Award
Signal Regiment's Bronze Order of Mercury.
References
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Living people
Military personnel from Boston
Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Army generals
United States Army personnel of the Gulf War
United States Army personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ting%20Mobile | Ting Mobile is an American mobile virtual network operator owned by Dish Wireless. Originally established in February 2012 by Tucows, Ting provides cellular service in the United States using the T-Mobile network, while some grandfathered accounts use the Verizon network. The service is sold off-contract with billing that adjusts the cost of service based on actual customer usage (usage-based billing).
In August 2020, Dish Network acquired key Ting Mobile assets. As part of the agreement, Tucows will serve as the provider of backend services for Dish Network's wireless businesses.
History
The company first announced support for devices that functioned on Sprint or its subsidiaries. A public beta was then launched on December 6, 2011, offering official support for seven Sprint-branded smartphones; the announcement also included links to a substantial list of other compatible devices and a new discussion area for users attempting to activate them. Ting Mobile officially launched in February 2012. In late 2014 the company expanded into the gigabit-broadband market.
On December 9, 2014, Ting Mobile announced GSM services going live in February 2015 using "a major US network provider", being the T-Mobile network. Ting customers can have phones on either network within the same account. The GSM service allows the majority of US cellphones to be brought to Ting. On February 24, 2015, Ting Mobile offered public beta access to their GSM network with the official product launched a few months later. , the service has approximately 250,000 subscribers. Ting Mobile gained 19,000 new customers in the first half of 2017, a bump attributed to its rival RingPlus shutting down, in part.
On July 10, 2019, Ting Mobile announced that it would not renew its network agreement with T-Mobile after December 19, 2019, citing uncertainties over its proposed merger with Sprint, and announced it would partner with Verizon. According to Business Insider, Ting "decided to switch its US service from T-Mobile to Verizon after T-Mobile faced delays in its merger with Sprint, failing to offer the promised benefits of a combined network." However, Ting then renewed its network agreement with Sprint for an additional year until September 2020, and before the start of 2020, agreed to offer T-Mobile services for at least three more years.
On August 3, 2020, key Ting Mobile assets were acquired by Dish Network Corporation, which was in the process of launching a national wireless carrier and using prepaid assets (including Boost Mobile) sold by Sprint as a condition of their 2020 merger with T-Mobile (which also includes an agreement for use of their network for seven years). As part of the agreement, Dish agreed to subcontract backend services (including provision and billing) for its wireless business to Tucows. The sale did not include the Ting branding or Ting Internet division; Dish received a two-year transitional license to the Ting branding, with the option to acquire it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idols%20South%20Africa%20%28season%2017%29 | The seventeenth season of South African Idols premiered on 11 July 2021 and concluded on 21 November 2021 on the Mzansi Magic television network. The season was won by Berry Trytsman and the runner-up was Karabo Mathe.
The season saw judge Somizi Mhlongo being asked to "take time off" from the show to deal with domestic abuse allegations against him. This resulted in him only appearing in the first few pre-recorded episodes and none of the live ones. He was replaced by a guest judge each week for the rest of the season.
After 17 and 11 years as judges respectively, it was announced shortly before the start of the eighteenth season that Randall Abrahams and Unathi Nkayi would not be returning to the show.
Finalists
Weekly Song Choice and Result
Top 16: The Biggest Hits of Today
Group A (29 August)
Guest Judge: Lady Du
Group B (5 September)
Guest Judge: Buhle Mda
Top 10 (Top 9): Battle of the DJs (19 September)
This round saw contesants perform hit songs by five DJs: DJ Cleo, Prince Kaybee, Sun-El Musician, De Mthuda and DJ Sumbody.
Ithana Conjwa withdrew from the competition due to health reasons a day before performing in the non-elimination round broadcast on 12 September. This meant that the top 10 round immediately became the top 9 round.
Top 8 (26 September)
Guest Judge: Dineo Ranaka
Top 7
Top 7: Mzansi Greats (3 October)
Guest Judge: Zahara
Top 7: Showstopper (11 October)
On 11 October, it was announced that there would be no elimination that week, and would resume the following week. All seven contestants went on to perform their prepared showstopper songs.
Guest Judge: Thembi Seete
Top 6: Oskido's Playlist & Max Martin's Songbook (17 October)
Guest Judge: Oskido
Top 5: Mzansi Gay Choir (24 October)
Guest Judge: Khaya Dladla
Top 4: Judges' Picks & SAMA Winners (31 October)
Guest Judge: Kelly Khumalo
Top 3: Gospel Duet (7 November)
Guest Judge: Judith Sephuma
Before his elimination, Kevin Maduna got a chance to perform his gospel duet song "Ukuhlala Kuye" with Dumi Mkokstad.
Top 2 (14 November)
Guest Judge: Msaki
Before her elimination, S'22kile performed her single "Falling".
Elimination Chart
Colour key
References
Season 17
2021 South African television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%20of%20the%20National%20Cyber%20Director | The Office of the National Cyber Director is an agency in the United States Government statutorily responsible for advising the President of the United States on matters related to cybersecurity. It was established in 2021.
History
The position of National Cyber Director was established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 on the recommendation of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a congressionally-authorized panel convened in 2019 and chaired by United States Senator Angus King and Representative Mike Gallagher. Situated within the Executive Office of the President of the United States, it is statutorily charged with "programs and policies intended to improve the cybersecurity posture of the United States, ... diplomatic and other efforts to develop norms and international consensus around responsible state behavior in cyberspace" and other matters related to cybersecurity.
Authorizing legislation for the office permitted the hiring of up to 75 staff, however, failed to appropriate any funds to do so. By August 2021, the White House was able to identify $250,000 in contingency funding to hire a few personnel to support inaugural director Chris Inglis. Later in 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided $21 million in funding for the ONCD.
On March 2, 2023, the office published a national cybersecurity strategy.
Current staff
National Cyber Director: Kemba Walden (acting Director)
Chief of Staff: Michael Hochman
Principal Deputy National Cyber Director: Kemba Eneas Walden
Deputy National Cyber Director for Federal Cyber Security: Chris DeRusha
Deputy National Cyber Director for National Cyber Security: Neal Higgins
Deputy National Cyber Director for Strategy and Budget: Rob Knake
Deputy National Cyber Director for Technology and Ecosystem Security: Camille Stewart Gloster
List of National Cyber Directors
See also
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
References
Executive Office of the President of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%20State%20University%20Preparatory%20Academy | Arizona State University Preparatory Academy (also known as ASU Preparatory Academy or ASU Prep) is a public charter university-preparatory school network; it consists of K-12 schools chartered by Arizona State University.
As of August 2021, ASU Prep's network of tuition-free charter schools include about 3,300 students in four metro Phoenix locations, plus ASU Prep Digital, a K–12 online school that reaches out to over 42,000 nationwide and global learners. ASU Prep's campus school locations include:
ASU Preparatory Academy Casa Grande (Grades 9-12), Casa Grande, Arizona
ASU Preparatory Academy Phoenix (Grades K-12), Phoenix, Arizona
ASU Preparatory Academy Polytechnic (Grades K-12), Mesa, Arizona
ASU Preparatory Academy South Phoenix (Grades K-12), Phoenix, Arizona
Curriculum
ASU Preparatory Academy includes K-12 curriculum as well as college-level extension classes from Arizona State University. The schools are accredited by Cognia, and some of them are STEM-certified.
History
ASU Preparatory Academy was originally founded as University Public Schools, Inc. (UPSI). In 2008 it opened its first campus in Mesa, Arizona. In 2009, the school moved onsite at ASU Polytechnic. The school later became known as ASU Preparatory Academy Polytechnic.
In 2009, ASU Prep opened its downtown Phoenix location in collaboration with the Phoenix Elementary School District.
In 2016, a third location opened in Casa Grande, Arizona, in collaboration with Barça Residency Academy.
In 2017, ASU Prep launched ASU Prep Digital, built on the same college preparatory framework with class offerings all online for part–time or full–time high school students anywhere in the world. In 2020, ASU Prep Digital expanded to also include grades K-8. The digital school's office is with its corporate office in Tempe, Arizona.
In 2018, ASU Prep announced its merger with Phoenix Collegiate Academy, beginning operations of the ASU Preparatory Academy South Phoenix Primary/Intermediate and ASU Preparatory Academy South Phoenix High School campuses.
References
External links
University-preparatory schools
Schools in Phoenix, Arizona
Arizona State University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Hall%20%28scientist%29 | Dorothy K. Hall is a scientific researcher known for her studies on snow and ice, which she studies through a combination of satellite data and direct measurements. She is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
Education and career
Hall grew up near Washington, D.C. and was interested in the space program, astronomy, and geology. By high school, she had her pilot's license and was taking photographs from planes. In college, she combined these interests to pursue a degree in geographic sciences at the University of Maryland. Hall also earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland where she combined field measurements and satellite data to measure aufeis in Alaska.
Hall was a scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency's (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center, where she served as a scientist in the hydrology division from 1975 until 2003, with a promotion to Senior Scientist in 1989. Hall worked in the cryospheric sciences laboratory at NASA where she led the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer snow and ice imaging program. After retiring from NASA, Hall spent two years at Michigan State University before taking a visiting scientist position at the University of Maryland.
In 2018, Hall was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for pioneering, innovative, and sustained research for 44 years on global remote sensing of the Earth's cryosphere".
Research
Hall is known for her research measuring the temperature of the snow and sea, and mapping its spatial extent. While at NASA, Hall worked on the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on the Terra satellite where she focused on the measurements of snow from space. Hall has also used the MODIS instruments on Terra and Aqua to measure the temperature of the ice surface. Hall's research on the surface temperature and extent of ice melt in Greenland has revealed widespread melting of Greenland ice over short periods of time. Her work during field expeditions includes direct measurements of snow and ice, which increases confidence in measurements made from space. Hall's research includes tracking of annual changes in snow levels and the timing of melt in areas including Wyoming, California, and Great Salt Lake in Utah.
Selected publications
Awards and honors
Exceptional Service Medal, NASA (2009)
Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2018)
References
University System of Maryland alumni
University System of Maryland faculty
Fellows of the American Geophysical Union
NASA people
Living people
Women space scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Chicken%20%28season%2011%29 | The eleventh season of the stop-motion television series Robot Chicken began airing in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, on September 7, 2021. Recently, 12 episodes have been released on every week of September 2021, while the rest of the episodes in the season would be released from February 21 to April 11, 2022.
The eleventh season is the first season of the show not to be produced by Sony Pictures Television.
Episodes
Notes
References
2021 American television seasons
2022 American television seasons
Robot Chicken seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20blockmodeling%20of%20binary%20networks | Generalized blockmodeling of binary networks (also relational blockmodeling) is an approach of generalized blockmodeling, analysing the binary network(s).
As most network analyses deal with binary networks, this approach is also considered as the fundamental approach of blockmodeling. This is especially noted, as the set of ideal blocks, when used for interpretation of blockmodels, have binary link patterns, which precludes them to be compared with valued empirical blocks.
When analysing the binary networks, the criterion function is measuring block inconsistencies, while also reporting the possible errors. The ideal block in binary blockmodeling has only three types of conditions: "a certain cell must be (at least) 1, a certain cell must be 0 and the over each row (or column) must be at least 1".
It is also used as a basis for developing the generalized blockmodeling of valued networks.
References
See also
homogeneity blockmodeling
binary relation
binary matrix
Blockmodeling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Telum%20%28microprocessor%29 | The Telum is a microprocessor made by IBM for the IBM z16 series mainframe computers. The processor was announced at the Hot Chips 2021 conference on 23 August 2021. Telum is IBM's first processor that contains on-chip acceleration for artificial intelligence inferencing while a transaction is taking place.
Description
The chip contains 8 processor cores with a deep superscalar out-of-order pipeline, running with more than 5 GHz clock frequency which is optimized for the demands of heterogenous enterprise class workloads. The cache and chip-interconnection infrastructure provides 32 MB cache per core and can scale to 32 Telum chips. The cache design has been described as "revolutionary" in 2021, by creating a system where the L2 cache of one core can be used as virtual L3 and L4 caches for another core.
See also
z/Architecture
IBM System z
Mainframe computer
References
IBM microprocessors
IBM mainframe technology
Computer-related introductions in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20moments%20%28electromagnetics%29 | The method of moments (MoM), also known as the moment method and method of weighted residuals, is a numerical method in computational electromagnetics. It is used in computer programs that simulate the interaction of electromagnetic fields such as radio waves with matter, for example antenna simulation programs like NEC that calculate the radiation pattern of an antenna. Generally being a frequency-domain method, it involves the projection of an integral equation into a system of linear equations by the application of appropriate boundary conditions. This is done by using discrete meshes as in finite difference and finite element methods, often for the surface. The solutions are represented with the linear combination of pre-defined basis functions; generally, the coefficients of these basis functions are the sought unknowns. Green's functions and Galerkin method play a central role in the method of moments.
For many applications, the method of moments is identical to the boundary element method. It is one of the most common methods in microwave and antenna engineering.
History
Development of boundary element method and other similar methods for different engineering applications is associated with the advent of digital computing in the 1960s. Prior to this, variational methods were applied to engineering problems at microwave frequencies by the time of World War II. While Julian Schwinger and Nathan Marcuvitz have respectively compiled these works into lecture notes and textbooks, Victor H. Rumsey has formulated these methods into the "reaction concept" in 1954. The concept was later shown to be equivalent to the Galerkin method. In the late 1950s, an early version of the method of moments was introduced by Yuen Tze Lo at a course on mathematical methods in electromagnetic theory at University of Illinois.
In the 1960s, early research work on the method was published by K. Mei and J. Van Bladel. and J. H. Richmond. In the same decade, the systematic theory for the method of moments in electromagnetics was largely formalized by Roger F. Harrington. While the term "the method of moments" was coined earlier by Leonid Kantorovich and Gleb P. Akilov for analogous numerical applications, Harrington has adapted the term for the electromagnetic formulation. Harrington published the seminal textbook Field Computation by Moment Methods on the moment method in 1968. The development of the method and its indications in radar and antenna engineering attracted interest; MoM research was subsequently supported United States government. The method was further popularized by the introduction of generalized antenna modeling codes such as Numerical Electromagnetics Code, which was released into public domain by the United States government in the late 1980s. In the 1990s, introduction of fast multipole and multilevel fast multipole methods enabled efficient MoM solutions to problems with millions of unknowns.
Being one of the most common simulation techniqu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lak%20wettability%20index | In petroleum engineering, Lak wettability index is a quantitative indicator to measure wettability of rocks from relative permeability data. This index is based on a combination of Craig's first rule. and modified Craig's second rule
where
: Lak wettability index (index values near -1 and 1 represent strongly oil-wet and strongly water-wet rocks, respectively)
: Water relative permeability measured at residual oil saturation
: Water saturation at the intersection point of water and oil relative permeability curves (fraction)
: Residual oil saturation (in fraction)
: Irreducible water saturation (in fraction)
: Reference crossover saturation (in fraction) defined as:
and and are two constant coefficients defined as:
and if
and if
and if
To use the above formula, relative permeability is defined as the effective permeability divided by the oil permeability measured at irreducible water saturation.
Craig's triple rules of thumb
Craig proposed three rules of thumb for interpretation of wettability from relative permeability curves. These rules are based on the value of interstitial water saturation, the water saturation at the crossover point of relative permeability curves (i.e., where relative permeabilities are equal to each other), and the normalized water permeability at residual oil saturation (i.e., normalized by the oil permeability at interstitial water saturation).
According to Craig's first rule of thumb, in water-wet rocks the relative permeability to water at residual oil saturation is generally less than 30%, whereas in oil-wet systems this is greater than 50% and approaching 100%. The second rule of thumb considers a system as water-wet, if saturation at the crossover point of relative permeability curves is greater than water saturation of 50%, otherwise oil-wet. The third rule of thumb states that in a water-wet rock the value of interstitial water saturation is usually greater than 20 to 25% pore volume, whereas this is generally less than 15% pore volume (frequently less than 10%) for an oil-wet porous medium.
Modified Craig's second rule
In 2021, Abouzar Mirzaei-Paiaman investigated the validity of Craig's rules of thumb and showed that while the third rule is generally unreliable, the first rule is suitable. Moreover, he showed that the second rule needed a modification. He pointed out that using 50% water saturation as a reference value in the Craig's second rule is unrealistic. That author defined a reference crossover saturation (RCS). According to the modified Craig's second rule, the crossover point of relative permeability curves lies to the right of RCS in water-wet rocks, whereas for oil-wet systems, the crossover point is expected to be located at the left of the RCS.
Modified Lak wettability index
Modified Lak wettability index exists which is based on the areas below water and oil relative permeability curves.
where
: modified Lak wettability index (index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentz%27s%20algorithm | In mathematics, Lentz's algorithm is an algorithm to evaluate continued fractions and compute tables of spherical Bessel functions.
The version usually employed now is due to Thompson and Barnett.
History
The idea was introduced in 1973 by William J. Lentz and was simplified by him in 1982. Lentz suggested that calculating ratios of spherical Bessel functions of complex arguments can be difficult. He developed a new continued fraction technique for calculating the ratios of spherical Bessel functions of consecutive order. This method was an improvement compared to other methods because it started from the beginning of the continued fraction rather than the tail, had a built-in check for convergence, and was numerically stable. The original algorithm uses algebra to bypass a zero in either the numerator or denominator. Simpler Improvements to overcome unwanted zero terms include an altered recurrence relation suggested by Jaaskelainen and Ruuskanen in 1981 or a simple shift of the denominator by a very small number as suggested by Thompson and Barnett in 1986.
Initial work
This theory was initially motivated by Lentz's need for accurate calculation of ratios of spherical Bessel function necessary for Mie scattering. He created a new continued fraction algorithm that starts from the beginning of the continued fraction and not at the tail-end. This eliminates guessing how many terms of the continued fraction are needed for convergence. In addition, continued fraction representations for both ratios of Bessel functions and spherical Bessel functions of consecutive order themselves can be computed with Lentz's algorithm. The algorithm suggested that it is possible to terminate the evaluation of continued fractions when is relatively small.
Algorithm
Lentz's algorithm is based on the Wallis-Euler relations. If
etc., or using the big-K notation, if
is the th convergent to then
where and are given by the Wallis-Euler recurrence relations
Lentz's method defines
so that the th convergent is
and uses the recurrence relations
When the product approaches unity with increasing , it is hoped that has converged to .
Applications
Lentz's algorithm was used widely in the late twentieth century. It was suggested that it doesn't have any rigorous analysis of error propagation. However, a few empirical tests suggest that it's at least as good as the other methods. As an example, it was applied to evaluate exponential integral functions. This application was then called modified Lentz algorithm. It's also stated that the Lentz algorithm is not applicable for every calculation, and convergence can be quite rapid for some continued fractions and vice versa for others.
References
Special hypergeometric functions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strat-O-Matic%20Computer%20Baseball | Strat-O-Matic Computer Baseball is a 1986 video game published by Strat-O-Matic.
Gameplay
Strat-O-Matic Computer Baseball is a game in which the Strat-O-Matic Baseball board game is adapted.
Reception
Duane E. Widner reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "For statistical accuracy, few games have ever reached the level enjoyed by Strat-O-Matic."
Win Rogers reviewed version 3.0 of the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Any baseball enthusiast with a strong interest in statistics should take a look at this absorbing program, if only to understand other computer simulations better. In fact, those who have no interest in graphics and simply want a satisfying statistical simulation may find Strat-O-Matic Computer Baseball (Version 3.0) to be the best baseball program of all."
Reviews
Computer Gaming World #94
Game Players PC Entertainment (May 1993)
Electronic Entertainment (April 1994)
References
1986 video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Madagascar | Time in Madagascar is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00). Madagascar does not observe daylight saving time.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Madagascar is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Indian/Antananarivo, which is an alias to Africa/Nairobi. "MG" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Madagascar directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
See also
Time in Africa
List of time zones by country
List of UTC time offsets
References
External links
Current time in Madagascar at Time.is
Time in Madagascar at TimeAndDate.com
Time in Madagascar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandryk | Mandryk is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Nataliia Mandryk (born 1988), Ukrainian Paralympic wheelchair fencer
Regan Mandryk (born 1975), American computer science professor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpirates%21 | Cyberpirates! is a 1997 role-playing game supplement for Shadowrun published by FASA.
Contents
Cyberpirates! is a supplement in which pirates have access to cyberware and magic.
Reception
Cyberpirates! was reviewed in the online second version of Pyramid which said "As with the Underworld Sourcebook, this excellent title gives a whole new direction for Shadowrun campaigns."
Reviews
Backstab #7
Envoyer (German) (Issue 16 - Feb 1998)
Envoyer (German) (Issue 23 - Sep 1998)
Casus Belli #112
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1997
Shadowrun supplements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren%20Madsen | Loren Madsen (born 1943) is an American sculptor. Madsen has been cited for his innovations in representing data through sculpture. Madsen has created a carved wood sculpture that visualized the American defense budget, A 1994 work titled CPI visualized changes in the consumer price index.
His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. His personal papers are held in the Archives of American Art.
References
Living people
1943 births
20th-century American sculptors
21st-century American sculptors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold%20hypothesis | The manifold hypothesis posits that many high-dimensional data sets that occur in the real world actually lie along low-dimensional latent manifolds inside that high-dimensional space. As a consequence of the manifold hypothesis, many data sets that appear to initially require many variables to describe, can actually be described by a comparatively small number of variables, likened to the local coordinate system of the underlying manifold. It is suggested that this principle underpins the effectiveness of machine learning algorithms in describing high-dimensional data sets by considering a few common features.
The manifold hypothesis is related to the effectiveness of nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques in machine learning. Many techniques of dimensional reduction make the assumption that data lies along a low-dimensional submanifold, such as manifold sculpting, manifold alignment, and manifold regularization.
The major implications of this hypothesis is that
Machine learning models only have to fit relatively simple, low-dimensional, highly structured subspaces within their potential input space (latent manifolds).
Within one of these manifolds, it’s always possible to interpolate between two inputs, that is to say, morph one into another via a continuous path along which all points fall on the manifold.
The ability to interpolate between samples is the key to generalization in deep learning.
The information geometry of statistical manifolds
An empirically-motivated approach to the manifold hypothesis focuses on its correspondence with an effective theory for manifold learning under the assumption that robust machine learning requires encoding the dataset of interest using methods for data compression. This perspective gradually emerged using the tools of information geometry thanks to the coordinated effort of scientists working on the efficient coding hypothesis, predictive coding and variational Bayesian methods.
The argument for reasoning about the information geometry on the latent space of distributions rests upon the existence and uniqueness of the Fisher information metric. In this general setting, we are trying to find a stochastic embedding of a statistical manifold. From the perspective of dynamical systems, in the big data regime this manifold generally exhibits certain properties such as homeostasis:
We can sample large amounts of data from the underlying generative process.
Machine Learning experiments are reproducible, so the statistics of the generating process exhibit stationarity.
In a sense made precise by theoretical neuroscientists working on the free energy principle, the statistical manifold in question possesses a Markov blanket.
The Tower of Babel Paradox
Motivated by fundamental problems in theoretical neuroscience, some scientists in the free energy principle community have tried to
model synesthesia using predictive coding at the computational level. However, it is unknown whether there |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Djibouti | Time in Djibouti is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00). Djibouti does not observe daylight saving time.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Djibouti is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Djibouti, which is an alias to Africa/Nairobi. "DJ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Djibouti directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
See also
Time in Africa
List of time zones by country
List of UTC time offsets
References
External links
Current time in Djibouti at Time.is
Time in Djibouti at TimeAndDate.com
Time in Djibouti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinaci%C3%B3n%20de%20Mujeres%20del%20Paraguay | The Coordinación de Mujeres del Paraguay (Coordinating Body of Paraguayan Women, CMP) is a network of feminist organisations in Paraguay. The CMP was founded in 1987 or 1988.
History
At its inception the CMP consisted of fifteen Paraguayan women's groups. The initiative to form the CMP, led by Mercedes Sandoval de Hempel, has been characterised as a significant turning point in the articulation of women's rights after three decades of violent dictatorship under Alfredo Stroessner.
After the dictatorship, the CMP showed a new professionalism in making the case for gender equality. On behalf of the CMP, Sandoval drafted Law 1/92, the law relating to marriage, of the Paraguayan Civil Code. In the 1998 Paraguayan general election the CMP presented a 13-point platform of feminist policy proposals. In 1999 the CMP lobbied for a law explicitly outlawing domestic violence against women, resulting in legislation in 2000.
Groups under the umbrella of the CMP today are Aireana - Group for Lesbian Rights, the Trinidad Association, the Community Support Educational Base (BECA), the Documentation and Studies Center (CDE), Kuña Róga, and United in Hope (UNES). The group also includes individual members. Members have included Line Bareiro, Gloria Rubin. and Mirta Moragas.
References
External links
CMP's Facebook page
Feminist organisations in Paraguay
1987 establishments in Paraguay
Organizations established in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Burt%20Kimberly | Warren Burt Kimberly was a compiler and author of several histories of Australian towns in the late 1890s. He was American, and came to Australia from Chicago in the mid-1880s. Kimberly worked with Melbourne journalist Pascoe, and the books they compiled were published by Messrs. Niven and Co.
In 1894 they published Ballarat and Vicinity which was well received, with the Ballarat Star saying 'Mr. Kimberly and Messrs, Niven and Co. must be complimented for their enterprise in presenting residents with such a high-class production'.
In 1895 they published Bendigo and Vicinity. The Bendigo Advertiser said that '" Bendigo and Vicinity" will more than compare with "Ballarat and Vicinity" Mr. Kimberly and Messrs. Niven and Co. must be complimented for their enterprise in presenting residents with such a high-class production.' The book had 170 pages and had illustrations using the "Crisp photo" process.
After that they went to Western Australia. Kimberly proposed doing a similar book to John Forrest, who agreed to purchase 100 copies of the book. In 1897 they published the History of West Australia which was also well received. The Geraldton Advertiser said that 'the compiler, who has of course had full access to all documents and records, presents a clear, readable and fairly exhaustive account of the history of Westralia'. Pascoe and Kimberly travelled from Fremantle to Geraldton and back again during their work on the book.
Kimberly said of the book: 'In compiling the history my editor has fortunately been able to glean here and there—from occasional official records, from original books of exploration, and by means of the evanescent memory of pioneers—a connected narrative of the early days.'
In 1899 Kimberly was back in the eastern states of Australia. He went from Sydney to Hobart in April 1899 and appeared to be in the process of compiling a history on Tasmania, which was published in The Mercury. It was alleged that he had passed several valueless cheques and then departed to Melbourne in July. He was arrested there and brought back to Hobart. In August he was sentenced to three months' jail on one charge and committed to trial on the other. Kimberly, with his massive, well-dressed form, entered the gaol and appeared so distinguished that three of the warders saluted him and were very surprised to find out he was a prisoner. He was so large that they could not find a prison uniform that fitted him so he had to be kept in bed until a uniform could be made for him. In November 1899 Francis Henry Furner, proprietor of the Grand Hotel, accused him of passing another valueless cheque. Kimberly stayed at the Grand Hotel with his wife, son and a Mr Giles in June 1899 for a few weeks. Several days later in November it was reported that Kimberly had funds in the bank to cover one of the so-called valueless cheques, and the bench discharged him. The Tasmanian News reported it under the headline 'Looks like persecution'.
In 1901, Pascoe publishe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Curry | Christopher or Chris Curry may refer to:
Christopher Curry (businessman) (born 1946), British businessman, co-founder of Acorn Computers
Christopher Curry (actor) (born 1948), American actor
Chris Curry, the pen name of Tamara Thorne (born 1957), American writer
See also
Chris Currie, the victim of a 2005 manslaughter in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-Man%20and%20the%20Masters%20of%20the%20Universe%20%282021%20TV%20series%29 | He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is a computer-animated superhero television series developed by Rob David and is a reimagining of the 1983 series of the same name. The series premiered on Netflix on September 16, 2021. A second season was released on March 3, 2022. The third season was released on August 18, 2022.
Plot
On the planet Eternia, an amnesiac Prince Adam has been separated from his father King Randor during the treachery of his uncle Keldor. Upon being part of a Tiger Tribe with his best friend Krass'tine, Prince Adam later finds a Power Sword that transforms him into He-Man, the most powerful man in the universe. With Cringer, Krass'tine, and their new allies Teela and Duncan, known as Man-At-Arms, they work to fight the forces of Keldor upon his transformation into the evil Skeletor, and his minions Evil-Lyn, Beast Man, and Trap Jaw.
Voice cast
Yuri Lowenthal as Prince Adam / He-Man and Tuvar
Max Stubington as young Prince Adam
Kimberly Brooks as Teela / Sorceress and Teela-Na / Eldress
Judy Alice Lee as Krass'tine / Ram-Ma'am / Rampage
David Kaye as Cringer / Battle Cat
Antony Del Rio as Duncan / Man-at-Arms
Benjamin Diskin as Keldor / Skeletor
Roger Craig Smith as Kronis / Trap Jaw and General Dolos
Grey Griffin as Evelyn / Evil-Lyn and Mo'squita-ra
Trevor Devall as R'Qazz / Beast Man / Skele-Beast
Fred Tatasciore as King Randor and Baddrah
Tom Kenny as Ork-0 and various RK drones
Zeno Robinson as King Stratos
Stephen Fry as Man-E-Faces
Bobcat Goldthwait as Gary the Dragonfly
Dee Bradley Baker as Webstor
Kevin Smith as Tri-Klops
Stephanie Sheh as Justine, Tri-Klops' host
Alan Oppenheimer as King Grayskull
George Takei as Mer-Man
Wallace Shawn as Orko the Great
Kevin Conroy as Hordak
Max Mitchell as Kitty
Episodes
Season 1 (2021)
Season 2 (2022)
Season 3 (2022)
Production
On December 18, 2019, Netflix announced two new Masters of the Universe projects to be in development: an adult-oriented anime series described as a direct sequel to the 1983 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe television series titled Revelation, and a CGI series aimed at children. Pre-production was handled by House of Cool in Canada while animation services was done by CGCG Inc. in Taiwan.
Release
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was released on September 16, 2021, on Netflix. A trailer was released on August 19. The second season was released on March 3, 2022. The third season was released on August 18, 2022.
Reception
Critical response
The show has been received generally positive reviews from critics and fans alike. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 80% approval rating with an average rating of 6.8/10, based on 5 critic reviews.
References
External links
House of Cool Inc. page
2020s American animated television series
2021 American television series debuts
2022 American television series endings
Masters of the Universe television series
English-language Netflix original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winstein | Winstein is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bruce Winstein (1943–2011), American physicist and cosmologist
Keith Winstein, American computer scientist and journalist
Saul Winstein (1912–1969), Canadian chemist
Grunwald–Winstein equation, physical organic chemistry equation, developed with Ernest Grunwald |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese%20immigration%20in%20Bhutan | There are no authentic account of the immigration of Nepalese to Bhutan. The data are based on British account and oral evidences. It is believed that settlement of Nepalese in Bhutan took place after Anglo-Bhutan war in 1865 via Sikkim.
The settlement were mainly confined in three southern regions of Bhutan.
Samchi settlement
It is the western settlement in the area of Sibsu, Chamurchi and Drokha area. Nepalese came to settle in this area mainly to quarry limestone.
Dalchand Gurung had made a contract with Paro Penlop of the area for mining, which included all area of Samchi district except Sibsu. Sibsu was controlled by the Bhutanese king himself. Per arrangement, Gurung recruited settlers from eastern Nepal with authority from Nepal government. Gurung had to pay royalty tax to Penlop once a year. The king of Bhutan had no control of the area, and Gurung's family was the de facto ruler of the region until the death of last Paro Penlop in 1946.
In 1891, the king of Bhutan offered Laxmi Das Pradhan, the leading figure of Nepalese community from Darjeeling to administer the Sibsu area at an annual cash payment of NPR 20,000. Sibsu area was eventually administered by the descendents of Gurung's family and integrated in Samchi area.
The Gurungs were eventually dismissed by the king, and they were awarded a pension of NPR 4000 for their lifetime.
Tsirang settlement
The eastern settlement was done in the Tsirang District. The settlement was initiated by Kaji Ugyen Dorji, the grandfather of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck in the 1900s to cultivate the area. The process continued for three decades by with 35,000 Nepalese were living in the area. In 1945, the immigration was stopped and by 1958, the settlement was about 75,000.
The Tsirang was administered by Dorji by paying annual tax to the Bhutanese king. Dorje collected taxes from the Nepalese settler. By 1958, the tax surmounted to about NPR 500,000 which was a significant portion of Bhutans's state revenue.
Central settlement
The internal migration led to settlement in the central area of Bhutan. By 1958, the Nepalese population in Tala and Dagana reached about 60,000.
Aftermath
Nepali congress and India Gorkha League
During late 1940s, Nepali Congress and Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League collaborated to bring propagate the idea of democracy in Bhutan after successful overthrow of Rana regime in Nepal. Members of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League started collecting money from Nepalese settlers in Bhutan to fight against Bhutan government. Sensing the situation, the king of Bhutan banned the activities and abandoned the league members (including Bhutanese members) to live in Assam. The league asked Nepal government to look at the situation of Nepalese in Bhutan. The government of Nepal took a political pressure in Bhutan and was successful to return some abandoned members of the League to return to Bhutan.
Formation of Bhutan state congress
Bhutan state congress was formed in 1952 in Assam to protect the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina%20Fattore | Gina Fattore (born June 18, 1968, in Kankakee, Illinois, USA) is an American producer known for her creation of USA Network series Dare Me. She was also a producer and writer for popular TV shows such as Dawson's Creek, Gilmore Girls, and Parenthood.
Biography
Fattore grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana. She graduated from Columbia University in 1990 as an English major. Her classmates included television writers Jeff Rake and Academy Award-winning film producer Dede Gardner. After college, she worked at the New York Public Library's fundraising office under Judy Daniels, whose son Greg Daniels would later become creator of The Office. She was encouraged by her then boss to work for her son as an assistant. Fattore accepted the job and relocated to Los Angeles and began her career in the entertainment industry.
Her first assignment was Daniels' King of the Hill, where she got her first writing credit as staff writer. She then joined the crew of Dawson's Creek and rose from a writer to the show's co-executive producer for Season 5 and 6. She wrote the episode titled "True Love," in which a scene showing a crying Dawson Leery became the subject of a longstanding internet meme.
She went on to work on other hit series and became a co-producer and writer of such hit TV shows as Gilmore Girls, Parenthood, and Californication.
In 2012, she signed an overall deal with Universal TV to produce content for the channel and sold a multi-cultural family drama titled Holiday to the network.
In April 2020, she published a novel titled The Spinster Diaries, which follows the life of a fictional Los Angeles television writer as she navigates work, love life, and the diagnosis of a benign tumor that drew parts of the plot from her own life.
In August 2020, Fattore signed an overall deal with Universal Content Productions to create and develop scripted fare for all platforms for the studio.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
Fattore was nominated for a 2010 Producers Guild Award for her work on Californication and a 2016 Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series for writing Better Things.
References
External links
American women screenwriters
People from Valparaiso, Indiana
1968 births
Living people
Columbia College (New York) alumni
American film producers
American women film producers
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad%20Raduege | Chad D. Raduege is a United States Air Force brigadier general who served as the Director of Command, Control, Communications and Computers/Cyber and Chief Information Officer of the United States European Command. He previously was the Director of Cyberspace and Information Dominance of the Air Combat Command.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Air Force generals
Date of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploddy%20the%20Police%20Car%20on%20the%20Case | Ploddy the Police Car on the Case (; also released as Bold Eagles) is a 2013 Norwegian 3D computer-animated adventure film directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen and Rune Spaans from a screenplay by Arthur Johansen. A sequel to Ploddy the Police Car Makes a Splash (2009), it is the third film to be based on the Norwegian children's character Pelle Politibil (Ploddy the Police Car).
Premise
Ploddy the Police Car is assigned to guard the largest attraction in the brand new Eagle Park in Bodø; an endangered eagle and her egg. However, two thieves steal the eagle and Ploddy ends up hatching the egg under his hood, and it is up to him to save the eagle all while taking care of her newly-hatched baby.
Release
The film was released on 3 March 2013 in Norway, and grossed $2,102,960 from 158,029 admissions, for a worldwide total of $2,220,689.
References
Notes
External links
Films directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Partisans | Cyber Partisans (, ) is a Belarusian decentralized anonymous activist/hacktivist collective emerged in September 2020, known for its various cyber attacks against the authoritarian Belarusian government. The group is part of the broader Belarusian opposition movement.
Membership and aims
Cyber Partisans consists of a group of Belarusian IT workers who live abroad. In an August 2021 interview to Bloomberg, hackers shared some details about themselves: they are 15 people, none of whom are professional hackers; of them, only 3 or 4 perform the hacks, others deal with the analysis of obtained data; and some group members were penetration testers before joining the group. Members are anonymous even to each other. The group describes its activities as ethical hacking, as it goes only against the state and do not harm to ordinary citizens. In late January 2022, the group reportedly consisted of some 30 people. Its spokesperson, Yuliana Shemetovets, is based in New York.
An anonymous spokesperson for the group told in an interview to MIT Technology Review: "What we want is to stop the violence and repression from the terroristic regime in Belarus and to bring the country back to democratic principles and rule of law." In 2021 and 2022, the group affirmed that it was not collaborating with any foreign government, but "we are not against it, as long as it aligns with our depicted goals, to change the regime."
History and actions
The Cyber Partisans originated in September 2020 after the 2020 Belarusian presidential election and subsequent protests against its falsification by Alexander Lukashenko. The protests were brutally suppressed by the government's police and security forces.
Initially, actions by the group were symbolic: group members hacked state news websites (All-National TV, Belarus-1) and streamed videos showing scenes of police brutality, and inserted the names of Lukashenko and the minister of Internal Affairs, Yury Karayeu, to a police most wanted list. The group also hacked government websites to add the white-red-white flag, which is favored by the Belarusian dissidents, over the official red and green flag of the country.
Cyber Partisans work together with the BYPOL group, which consists of former Belarusian police officers working against Lukashenko's government. Their knowledge of database structure helps to plan and execute the Partisans' moves.
In July 2021, Cyber Partisans hacked the Ministry of Internal Affairs' most sensitive databases. The group obtained a large volume of material, includes the archive of almost 2 million minutes of secretly recorded phone conversation audio; lists of alleged police informants; personal information about top government officials; and video footage gathered from police drones and detention centers. The group also obtained the databases for passports, all registered motor vehicles, recordings from the cameras in the Okrestina prison's isolation cells, and mortality statistics. The group shared |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czajka%20%28surname%29 | Czajka is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Eugeniusz Czajka (1927–2011), Polish field hockey player
Jerzy Czajka (born 1942), Polish field hockey player
, Polish computer scientist
See also
Polish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploddy%20the%20Police%20Car%20Makes%20a%20Splash | Ploddy the Police Car Makes a Splash (; also released as Police Patrol) is a 2009 Norwegian 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen from a screenplay by Arthur Johansen. It is the second film to be based on the children's character Pelle Politibil (Ploddy the Police Car), and the first to be animated. It was followed by a sequel in 2013 titled Ploddy the Police Car on the Case.
Premise
Two brothers determined to steal the water supply of a village wreak havoc to the local environment, and it is up to the local police enforcement's Ploddy the Police Car to try and stop them.
Release
The film had its world premiere in Oslo on Christmas Day, 2009, and was released in Norwegian cinemas on 8 January 2010, grossing $1,524,396 from 120,816 admissions for a worldwide total of $1,883,189.
References
External links
Films directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen
2009 films
Norwegian animated films
Films about automobiles
Norwegian children's films
2000s Norwegian-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Edge%20%282021%29 | The Motorola Edge (2021) is an Android smartphone developed by Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Lenovo.
References
External links
Mobile phones introduced in 2021
Android (operating system) devices
Motorola smartphones
Mobile phones with multiple rear cameras
Mobile phones with 4K video recording |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N830%20highway | National Route 830 (N830) is a secondary route that forms part of the Philippine highway network from Samboan to Barili in Cebu, Philippines. There are four components of the route, namely Natalio Bacalso Avenue (in Samboan), Santander–Barili–Toledo Road, Carcar–Barili Road and Carcar–Barili–Mantapuyan Road.
Route description
The route starts as Natalio Bacalso Avenue (Cebu South Road) from a route change from National Route 8 (N8) at the Santander–Samboan boundary. Shortly, the road is changed to Santander–Barili–Toledo Road. It then traverses the western coastal municipalities of Ginatilan, Malabuyoc, Alegria, Badian, Moalboal, Alcantara, Ronda, Dumanjug, and Barili.
In Barili, it veers to the east away from Cebu's western coast towards the city proper, where it transitions as Carcar–Barili Road at its intersection with Felix Paras Street in poblacion. The route then meets its northern end at the intersection with Toledo–Pinamungahan–Alonguinsan–Mantalongon Road in Barangay Mantalongon.
History
The predecessors of N830 are Highway 301 from Samboan to Barili and Highway 918 in Barili that existed during the 20th century.
During the addition of National Routes by the Department of Public Works and Highways in 2014, the roads Natalio Bacalso Avenue (in Santander), Santander—Barili–Toledo Road, Carcar–Barili Road and Carcar–Barili–Mantapuyan Road were designated components of N830.
References
Roads in Cebu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue%20heterogeneity | Tissue heterogeneity refers to the fact that data generated with biological samples can be compromised by cells originating from other tissues or organs than the target tissue or organ of profiling. It can be caused by biological processes (such as immune cell infiltration), sample contamination, or mistakes in sample labelling. Tissue heterogeneity affects commonly used, reference gene expression datasets such as the Genotype-Tissue Expression Project (GTEx).
Cancer samples often display varying degree of heterogeneity, because they consist of tumor cells of multiple subclones, immune cells, and other cell types. Beyond cancer, many gene expression studies are affected by tissue heterogeneity. The prevalence of tissue heterogeneity in publicly available gene-expression studies is estimated between 1% and 40%, varying by tissues of origin.
Detected tissue heterogeneity may be used to weight samples in differential gene-expression analysis to reduce the impact of the heterogeneity. Alternatively, the gene expression profile may be analyzed by cellular deconvolution algorithms to infer the composition of cell types.
References
Tissues (biology) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%3A%20Princess%20Adventure | Barbie: Princess Adventure is a 2020 computer-animated musical adventure comedy children's streaming television film directed by Conrad Helten and written by Ann Austen which was first released on Netflix in the United States on September 1, 2020.
The 37th entry in the Barbie film series, this is the first Barbie-branded production produced by Mattel Television since their mid-2019 rebrand from Mattel Creations and also Mainframe Studios since their announcement to return to their naming origins as Mainframe Entertainment on 16 March 2020 as part of a rebrand from their previous name, Rainmaker Studios. It is the second television film in the Barbie media franchise after Barbie: Dolphin Magic from late 2017 and would be the catalyst for Mattel shifting the focus of the franchise to television forays.
Production
It is the first film adaptation of the TV series, Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures, as Dolphin Magic was marketed by Mattel as its "spiritual" pilot.
Plot
Barbie takes a road trip to the Kingdom of Floravia, having been invited by Floravia's princess Amelia. Barbie discovers that Amelia, whose life is rigidly controlled by her royal advisor Alfonso, wants to switch places with her for a week because the two look almost identical. Barbie agrees, and Amelia goes on to enjoy a week of freedom before her coronation. Amelia is kidnapped by her fiancé Prince Johan, who uncovers the ruse and wants to force Amelia to marry him so he can rule both his country and Floravia. Barbie rescues Amelia, and they foil Johan's plot. Afterwards, Amelia is crowned, and both Barbie and Amelia agree to remain true to themselves.
Voice cast
The voice cast are as follows:
Other characters include Rose Ross, Snowy and Morning Star as well as Barbie's puppies; Taffy, Honey, DJ and Rookie.
Soundtrack
The eponymous soundtrack album was released on August 28, 2020 on multiple digital music streaming services.
Reception
Jennifer Green of Common Sense Media gave the film a positive review, saying "it's hard not to admit that these animated adventures offer upbeat fun." Screen Rant noted that the film bore many similarities to The Princess Switch film series.
See also
List of Barbie films
Barbie (media franchise)
Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures
Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper
Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar
References
External links
Production website
2020 television films
2020 computer-animated films
English-language Netflix original films
Barbie films
2020s Canadian films
2020s American animated films
Canadian children's animated films
American children's animated adventure films
American children's animated musical films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regal%20Studio%20Presents | Regal Studio Presents is a Philippine television drama anthology broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on September 11, 2021 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up.
Cast and characters
That Thin Line Between
Sanya Lopez as Gemma Rose
Ken Chan as Julius
Shanelle Agustin
Sandro Muhlach
Raya Sirena
Sofia Pablo
Allen Ansay
One Million Comments, Magjo-jowa na Ako!
Gabbi Garcia as Ana Marie
Khalil Ramos as Prince Matt
Ikaw si Ako, Ako si Ikaw
Shaira Diaz as Janice
Kokoy de Santos as Marco
Analyn Barro
Darwin Yu
The Signs
Bianca Umali as Moira
Prince Carlos as Paul
Gab Moreno as Patrick
Carlo San Juan as Niel
Promises to Keep
Mikee Quintos as Jenny
Kelvin Miranda as Eloy
Tyrone Tan
Angel Guardian
My Birthday Wish
Barbie Forteza as Joanna
Royce Cabrera
Julián Roxas
Sarah Edwards
The Truth About Jane
Joyce Ching
Ashley Ortega
Kiray Celis
Anna Vicente
Karinderya Queens
Maxine Medina as Dayanara
Casie Banks as Sushmita
Derrick Monasterio as Dante
Magkaibigan, Nagkaibigan
Lexi Gonzales as Lanelle
Kim De Leon as Jared
Anjay Anson as Arjun
Anyare Sa'Yo
Rita Daniela
Jak Roberto
Bros B4 Rose
Kim Domingo
Jeric Gonzales
Rob Gomez
Isn't She Lovely?
Jelai Andres as Lovely
David Licauco as Stephen
Nikki Co as Winston
Rob Gomez as Andrew
Dustin Yu as Matt
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of Regal Studio Presents earned a 10.4% rating.
References
External links
2021 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine anthology television series
Television series by Regal Entertainment
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%20computing%20technology%20smuggling | Soviet computing technology smuggling, both attempted and actual, was a response to CoCom (Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls) restrictions on technology transfer.
History
Mainframe successes
Initially the Soviet Union focused on mainframe computing technology, particularly the IBM 360 and 370. Between 1967 and 1972 much effort went into reverse engineering what they "acquired." Their first IBM-like machine was based on a 360/40 smuggled in via Poland. The second Soviet-built machine was from a 370/145. Their focus subsequently shifted to super-minicomputers. Failure in 1983 to import a VAX-11/782 did not stop their efforts. "Reverse-engineered and copied Apple IIe parts" brought microcomputers to the Soviet Union; it also brought computer viruses too. IBM PC compatible computers were also smuggled in.
Production of Iron curtain mainframes, at one point, was estimated to be 180 per year.
VAX failures
The failure of the Soviets to acquire a VAX-11/782, a dual-processor variation of the VAX-11/780, the original VAX, unraveled much of their smuggling system. U. S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger made a public display of the system, about which The Washington Post headlined "Seized Computer Put on Display" in later 1983. The computer had been exported from the United States to South Africa, from which it was to clandestinely be reshipped; it was seized "moments before its scheduled shipment to the Soviet Union." Weinberger stated at a news conference that the VAX was intended for assisting production of "vastly more accurate . . . and more destructive weapons."
Like the 360/40, the smuggling process involved multiple shipments. The 360 had been disassembled and placed in a large number of suitcases. A smaller number of "huge containers of parts" held the 782. The latter's route involved transhipping, some more than half via Sweden, others via West Germany. A U.S. official describe potential "military uses, including the operation of a missile guidance system."
The exact configuration was not released even by over a year later: APnews, which noted that the smuggling operation
was spread across ten countries, cited $1.1 million as the system's price The Los Angeles Times described the same system's price as $1.5 million. The New York Times wrote "between $1.5 and $2 million."
Another VAX-smuggling attempt, five years later, involved a VAX 8800; this too ended in a failure. This time also, the computer involved was a dual-processor system. American government wiretapping revealed that some of the parties involved considered even settling for a VAX 8700, a uni-processor system.
See also
Toshiba–Kongsberg scandal
References
Further reading
Technobandits, by Linda Melvern, David Hebditch, and Nick Anning
History of computing hardware
History of international relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N815%20highway | National Route 815 (N815) is a national secondary route that forms part of the Philippine highway network, connecting the city of Cebu and the municipality of Balamban. There are four components of the route, namely: Juan Luna Avenue, Pope John Paul II Avenue, Salinas Drive, Veterans Drive and the Cebu–Balamban Transcentral Highway.
History
Route description
N815 begins as Juan Luna Avenue from a junction with Sergio Osmeña Avenue (N840) in the North Reclamation Area within Mabolo.
The route continues as Pope John Paul II Avenue after crossing M.J. Cuenco Avenue/Cebu North Road (N8). It continues as Salinas Drive after passing underneath the Archbishop Reyes–M. Cuenco flyover through the Lahug-Kasambagan border.
N815 passes a junction with Wilson Street, which is used to access the partially-restricted Lower Torralba Street inside of Camp Lapu-Lapu, the regional military headquarters.
The route continues as Veterans Drive after a three-way intersection with Salinas Drive and Gorordo Avenue. It traverses the Central Cebu Protected Landscape and continues as the Cebu-Balamban Transcentral Highway once it leaves the boundary limits of Cebu City, entering Balamban. It terminates within the Balamban municipality proper at a junction with Toledo–Tabuelan–San Remigio Road (N820).
Hazards
This road has many turns and is prone to accidents. It is also notorious for landslides that often happen during or after heavy downpours. One of the landslides left 11 vehicles damaged in 2017. The road has numerous stretches of ascending and descending portions. A bus fell off a ravine after a sharp turn; the accident killed 21 foreign medical students.
References
Roads in Cebu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A1%C4%BE%20%28surname%29 | Kráľ (meaning king) is a Slovak surname that may refer to the following notable people:
Daniel Kráľ (born 1978), Czech mathematician and computer scientist
Janko Kráľ (1822–1876), Slovak romantic poet
Miroslav Kráľ (born 1947), Slovak football player
Viktor Kráľ (born 1994), Slovak football forward
Slovak-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Croods%3A%20Family%20Tree | The Croods: Family Tree is an American computer-animated television series that is produced from DreamWorks Animation under DreamWorks Animation Television. The series is based on the 2013 animated film The Croods, taking place after the events of the 2020 film, The Croods: A New Age. The series was released on September 23, 2021, with a second season premiered April 5, 2022, and a third season premiered on June 2, 2022. A fourth season premiered on August 31, 2022. A fifth season premiered on November 25, 2022. A sixth season premiered on March 30, 2023, A seventh season premiered on July 27, 2023, while the eighth and final season will premiere on November 9, 2023.
Plot
After the events of the sequel, the Croods and Bettermans must learn to get along in the Betterman treehouse.
Cast
Kiff VandenHeuvel as Grug Crood and Lighting Bolt (season 4)
Ally Dixon as Eep Crood
Darin Brooks as Guy
A. J. Locascio as Thunk Crood
Amy Landecker as Ugga Crood
Artemis Pebdani as Gran Crood
Dee Bradley Baker as Sandy, Chunky, Belt, and Sash
Matthew Waterson as Phil Betterman
Amy Rosoff as Hope Betterman
Kelly Marie Tran (season 1-5) and Abby Trott (seasons 5-present) as Dawn Betterman
TBA as Hwam (season 5)
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2021)
Season 2 (2022)
Season 3 (2022)
Season 4 (2022)
Season 5 (2022)
Season 6 (2023)
Season 7 (2023)
Production
On August 31, 2021, DreamWorks announced a CGI animated series titled The Croods: Family Tree, based on The Croods: A New Age, and would stream September 23 on Hulu and Peacock. Tran reprises her role as Dawn, while A. J. Locascio reprises his role as Thunk from Dawn of the Croods. The new voice cast features Amy Landecker as Ugga, Kiff VandenHeuvel as Grug, Ally Dixon as Eep, Artemis Pebdani as Gran, Darin Brooks as Guy, Matthew Waterson as Phil, and Amy Rosoff as Hope. Mark Banker (from The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, Adventure Time, Go, Dog, Go!) and Todd Grimes (from The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants) serve as executive producers and showrunners for the series. Like all DreamWorks Animation Television programs, the series is animated by Mikros Animation under Technicolor Animation Productions. From season 5 on, Kelly Marie Tran was replaced by Abby Trott as Dawn.
References
External links
2020s American animated television series
2021 American television series debuts
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated comedy television series
American children's animated fantasy television series
American computer-animated television series
English-language television shows
Hulu original programming
Hulu children's programming
Peacock (streaming service) original programming
Peacock (streaming service) children's programming
Television series by DreamWorks Animation
Television series by Universal Television
Animated television shows based on films
Animated television series about families
Television series about cavemen
Television series se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Chile | This article consists of various statistical charts related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Chile.
Daily report
The following table includes the data reported daily by the Ministry of Health, based on the information available at 21:00 the day before the report is released.
On 9 June 2020, the Ministry of Health announced a new process to count the number of fatalities, based on the data recorded by the Civil Registry and Identification Service the day before. That method was changed again on 17 July; from that day, the deaths were counted using the data from the Department of Statistics and Health Information (DEIS) of the Ministry of Health. Due to the process of detection of deaths, the daily reports included deaths from several days prior, creating a gap between the date of report and the official date of death.
A graphic with the active cases as shown on the official data page of the Ministry, which are based on retroactively adjusted information rather than on daily reports, is also displayed.
Charts
Cases
Deaths
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Medical care situation
Daily progress of cases
Vaccination program
Types of vaccines used (percentage of the total doses applied)
Distribution per region
Summary
Confirmed cases and PCR+ deaths, updated as of 15 October 2021.
All COVID-19 related deaths (including suspected deaths without PCR+), updated as of 11 October 2021.
Cases by day
Charts
For these charts, the regions of Chile has been grouped as:
North: Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama and Coquimbo regions.
Center: Valparaíso, O'Higgins, Maule and Ñuble regions.
Metropolitan: Santiago Metropolitan Region.
South: Biobío, Araucanía, Los Ríos and Los Lagos regions.
Extreme South: Aysén and Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica regions.
Distribution per commune
Summary
Notes
References
COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeMonkey%20%28software%29 | CodeMonkey is an educational computer coding environment that allows beginners to learn computer programming concepts and languages. CodeMonkey is intended for students ages 6–14. Students learn text-based coding on languages like Python, Blockly and CoffeeScript, as well as learning the fundamentals of computer science and math.
The software was first released in 2014, and was originally developed by Jonathan Schor, Ido Schor and Yishai Pinchover, supported by the Center for Educational Technology in Israel.
Development history
CodeMonkey software program in form of a game for children was developed by three software engineers from Haifa, Israel: the brothers Jonathan and Ido Schor and Yishai Pinchover. The trio set up a start-up company CodeMonkey Studios Ltd., supported by the Center for Educational Technology. The game was launched in May 2014 and is currently available in 23 languages. The company has offices in Israel and USA. Since 2014, CodeMonkey launched several additional programming tools in form of games including Coding Adventure, Game Builder, Dodo Does Math, Banana Tales, CodeMonkey Jr. and Beaver Achiever. In 2018, the software company was acquired by TAL Education Group, a Chinese holding company, but remained active as its independent subsidiary also retaining its software development team.
In June 2020, CodeMonkey joined UNESCO distance learning initiative and offered free courses for all schools that were forced to close during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Overview and functionality
The game does not require prior programming experience and is intended for children from the age of 6. It allows the user to make his first steps in programming but also progresses to more advanced topics. The teaching method is experiential, in accordance with the principles of Game-based learning: the children control the figures of animals and direct them to collect bananas, overcoming various obstacles. One of the salient features of the game is that it requires writing actual textual code, as opposed to games that work in a method that represents commands using graphical blocks.
Supported language
The programming languages are Python and CoffeeScript, chosen mostly due to a friendly syntax. Some games like CodeMonkey Jr. and Beaver Achiever rely on block-based coding using Blockly.
Integration of the game in schools
The games are intended for individual use and for educational classrooms and have been selectively applied by schools and school centers in several countries including Israel, United States, UK, China, India and Bhutan, among others. CodeMonkey was also integrated in the Israeli Cyber Championship for Elementary Schools (Skillz Olympics) and a high school software program also called Skillz, where CodeMonkey games are a part of coding competition for young students.
See also
Educational programming language
References
Computer science education
Educational programming languages
Pedagogic integrated development environments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudoeuraphia | Caudoeuraphia is a genus of star barnacles in the family Chthamalidae. There is one described species in Caudoeuraphia, C. caudata.
References
Barnacles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dug%20Days | Dug Days (also known as Up: Dug Days) is an American computer-animated television series of shorts created, written, and directed by Bob Peterson and produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Disney+. The series is set immediately after the 2009 film Up, following its main characters, dog Dug, voiced by Peterson, and his owner, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen, voiced by Ed Asner in one of his last performances before his death.
The series was announced in December 2020, during Disney's Investor Day, with Peterson pitched the series centering on Dug following his work on Forky Asks a Question. The animators created new animation rigging, textures, and hair for the characters in order to update their original designs due to advances in CG animation ever since the original film's release. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, most of the final results from the animating process were done from the crew's homes, and the cast remotely recorded their dialogue.
Dug Days premiered with five episodes on September 1, 2021, on Disney+. It received generally positive reviews for its voice performance, message, role models, humor and emotional depth.
On December 19, 2022, it was announced that the final planned episode, titled Carl's Date, would premiere exclusively in theaters as an independent short film with Pixar's Elemental on June 16, 2023.
Premise
After the events of Up, Golden Retriever Dug and his owner, Carl Fredricksen, move to a new house in the suburb after Carl sells the Spirit of Adventure dirigible to afford it. The miniseries revolves around the adventures of Dug and Carl experienced in their house and neighborhood.
Voice cast
Bob Peterson as Dug
Ed Asner as Carl Fredricksen
Jordan Nagai (unused recordings) as Russell (episode "Science")
Neketia Henry as the Neighbor (episode "Puppies")
Simon Helberg as the Squirrel (episode "Science")
Jeff Pidgeon as the Fly (episode "Science")
Sarayu Blue as the Bluebird/Blue jay (episode "Science")
Heather Eisner as the Snail (episode "Science")
Moon Choe as Russell's mother (episode "Science")
Episodes
All episodes are directed and written by Bob Peterson.
Production
Development
The series was announced on December 10, 2020, during Disney's Investor Day. It was produced by Pixar, with Bob Peterson as its creator, director, and writer. It premiered on Disney+, with five episodes, on September 1, 2021. Peterson pitched the series following his work on Forky Asks a Question, as he wanted to revisit the characters from Up, and felt a short series centering on Dug was the appropriate format. Kim Collins joined as producer after Peterson wrote the series. Up director and Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter was an executive-producer for the series; Docter supervised the series so it would be faithful to the original film.
Casting
In addition to writing and directing the series, Peterson reprises his role as Dug from the film. Ed Asner, voice actor of Carl Fredricksen from both the film and t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padang%20Ganting | Padang Ganting is a district () of Tanah Datar Regency, in the West Sumatra province of Indonesia.
It is subdivided into two (villages): Padang Ganting and Atar.
References
Districts of West Sumatra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atar%2C%20Padang%20Ganting | Atar is a nagari (village) in Padang Ganting, Tanah Datar Regency, in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra, with a population of just under 5,000 people.
Geography and administration
Atar is located approximately away from the regency capital at Batusangkar, and is one of two nagari in Padang Ganting. It is the larger nagari, although less populated, making up out of area of Padang Ganting. Atar is further subdivided into three or neighborhoods: Lareh Nan Panjang, Taratak VIII, and Taratak XII.
In the past, Atar was merged with Padang Ganting as one nagari, although it later split off. During the Padri War, Muslim clerical forces based in Atar would launch raids against traditional Minangkabau aristocrats in Padang Ganting.
Demographics
Atar has a population of 4,908 in 2019 according to Statistics Indonesia, making up 1,393 households. The gender ratio is 92. The largest proportion of the workforce is employed in agriculture, with natural rubber being a common commodity.
Economy
There is a large diaspora of migrants from Atar, especially in West Java, which engage in the photocopier industry - namely, operating photocopy shops typically serving government offices and schools/universities. The trend was initiated by a man named Yuskar, who migrated to in 1974 and established a stationery and photocopier store. It was estimated that out of around 3,000 migrants from Atar, nearly all are engaged in the trade, and there is a monument of a photocopier to commemorate the tradition in the nagari.
Facilities
There are five public elementary schools in Atar, and one middle school, although there are no high schools, with the only one in the district being located in Padang Ganting nagari. There are also three in the nagari.
References
Villages in West Sumatra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Pott | Julia Pott (born 13 June 1985) is a British animator, illustrator, screenwriter, producer, and voice actress. She is the creator of Cartoon Network's Summer Camp Island, as well as the voice of Susie McCallister.
Early life and education
Pott, having an American mother, spent her childhood summers in The Hamptons and from the age of 6 was regularly drawing, telling people she wanted to be a cartoonist and work for Disney.
She completed a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Chelsea College of Arts in 2004, and studied Animation and Illustration at Kingston University, completing her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in 2007. While at Kingston, her short animation My First Crush gained her attention and by 2012 had received nearly 1.5 million views on YouTube.
After graduating from Kingston, Pott made animated visuals for musical groups The Decemberists and Bat for Lashes, then enrolled in an MA in animation from the Royal College of Art, where she directed the animated shorts Howard (2010) and Belly (2011). After graduating with honors in 2011, she moved to Brooklyn and then to Los Angeles.
Career
Pott's films have competed at festivals around the world, including Sundance and SXSW. After working as a writer on the animated television series Adventure Time, Pott developed her own series Summer Camp Island which debuted on Cartoon Network in 2018 and is now shown on HBO Max.
The series was based on a short film by the same name which appeared at Sundance and focuses on an elephant named Oscar and his best friend Hedgehog and their adventures at a magical summer camp.
In November 2021, Pott also joined production studio Hornet and said she hoped to see her work used in fashion and textiles.
Filmography
Films
Television
References
External links
Alumni of the Royal College of Art
English film producers
British women film directors
British animators
British women animators
Alumni of Kingston University
Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts
1985 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedberg%20Geniza%20Project | The Friedberg Geniza Project (FGP) is a digital preservation project, one of the primary goals of which is to computerize the entire world of Cairo Genizah manuscripts - images, identifications, catalogs, copies, joins, and bibliographic references.
Historical background
At the end of the nineteenth century, a genizah was discovered in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, containing many pages of sacred literature as well as legal and other documents.
In December 1896, Prof. Solomon Schechter, a lecturer in rabbinic literature at the University of Cambridge, arrived at the Cairo Genizah and upon his return to Cambridge, brought with him 220,000 fragments, most of which were then transferred to the Geniza collection at Cambridge. About 100,000 more pieces have been scattered around the world and are now in about 60 libraries and various collections globally. The fragments which were found made a huge contribution to research in all branches of Judaism. By the end of the 20th century, many scholars physically had to set foot in libraries around the world in order to browse the genizah. Most of the material was photographed and is among the microfilms of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.
The Website
In 2008, the Friedberg Project website was launched at the initiative of Canadian researcher and philanthropist Albert Dov Friedberg. The genizah fragments were scanned for the site in excellent quality scan. Prof. Yaacov Choueka, one of the founders of the Responsa Project at Bar-Ilan University, and the lead researcher of the Rav-Milim project was enlisted for the Friedberg Project and implemented it with the help of a team of researchers and programmers. Today, the Geniza website, with over 400,000 digital images is the largest virtual collection of medieval Hebrew manuscripts in the world. The site is equipped with advanced software and research tools, and contains, in addition to the images, close to half a million other data items collected from the fruits of a century of genizah research.
In 2017, the National Library of Israel (NLI) and the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society (FJMS) announced a joint venture in which projects previously affiliated with FJMS, including the FGP, would gradually be integrated into the NLI technological infrastructure. The NLI and the FGP created the International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts, also known as Ktiv. This was a joint effort to digitally preserve multispectral, high-quality digital versions of all 100,000 Hebrew manuscripts which are believed to exist throughout the world today.
Other projects of the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society (FJMS)
The Hachi Garsinan site for variants of the Babylonian Talmud - including pictures and copies of all the witnesses of the Talmudic text: genizah passages, manuscripts and old prints. The site also includes a computerized synopsis for the entire Talmud in a number of viewing options that allo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Flying%20Luna%20Clipper | is a 1987 Japanese computer-animated art film/demo directed by Ikko Ono and produced by Sony. The film was animated entirely using 8-bit MSX computers and was released on Video8, Betamax, VHS, and LaserDisc in Japan. It was mostly unknown until a copy was found in a Japanese thrift store and uploaded to YouTube in December 2015 by journalist Matt Hawkins.
Plot
The film depicts a group of anthropomorphic fruits and other creatures who win a contest for a ticket on the first flight of a newly found Martin M-130 flying boat named the Flying Luna Clipper. Departing from Honolulu, they embark on a journey across the Pacific Ocean and watch short films on a 200-inch screen during the trip.
Background
Ikko Ono is a graphic designer who worked as the cover artist for from 1986. He also had his own column called Ikko's Gallery about using the computer as a tool for illustration. Many of the illustrations he created for the magazine depict characters seen the film. Later he had another column called Ikko's Theatre about short films which served as the basis for The Flying Luna Clipper. It was first announced in the May 1987 issue of the magazine to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the publication, and according to the same magazine, was released via home video on 1 October of that year, and was featured again in Ikko's Theatre the following month.
Legacy
A revived run of MSX Magazine was published between 2002 and 2005. A special limited edition of the magazine published a series of 12 artworks in December 2003 by Ohno featuring characters from the film entitled "The Flying Luna Clipper 2004", followed by a calendar featuring the art for that year. However, a sequel was never created. The film remained obscure until December 2015 when a LaserDisc copy was uploaded online by Matt Hawkins, after which it steadily grew in popularity. In 2019, Hawkins screened it theatrically at the Wonderville arcade in New York City, doing so again a year later in 2020.
In December 2021, an interview with Ohno on the film, conducted by Victor Navarro-Remesal, Marçal Mora-Cantallops, and Yoshihiro Hino, was published in ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories, featuring contributed contributed art, storyboards and promotional material from Ohno's collection. ROMchip noted its distinctive style due to being produced using an 8-bit computer typically used for video games, terming it "chipcinema" and comparing it to later developments such as machinima - narrative films created within specific video games - and demoscene - a computer art scene based around creating advanced art and music on technically limited systems. An article on the film published in Senses of Cinema in January 2022 described it as "absolutely, almost singularly devoted to spectacle" and "a forward-thinking and technological marvel, that far precedes a number of digital artforms that are now dominant in modern media", and describing its style as "proto-vaporwave".
References
External links
Full |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychain%20Capital | Polychain Capital (Polychain) is an American investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm focuses on investments related to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
Background
Polychain Capital was founded in 2016 by Olaf Carlson-Wee. Prior to founding Polychain, Carlson-Wee was an employee of Coinbase where he was Head of Risk.
Investors of Polychain include Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Union Square Ventures and Founders Fund.
In January 2018, the firm considered holding an initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange to raise $325 million but eventually decided not to proceed with it.
The firm claimed $1 billion assets at the start of 2018 but dropped to $591.5 million as of the end of 2018, majorly due to the drop in the value of its holdings.
Companies that Polychain Capital has invested in include Coinbase, Kik Messenger and Tezos.
References
Financial services companies established in 2016
Companies based in San Francisco
Hedge funds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewind%20TV | Rewind TV is an American digital television network owned by Nexstar Media Group, and is a spinoff/sister network of Antenna TV. The network's programming consists of classic television series, primarily sitcoms, from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Rewind TV's programming and advertising operations are headquartered in the WGN-TV studios in Chicago.
History
Origins and launch
In July 2016, Antenna TV owner Tribune Broadcasting was considering adding a sister network which would take shows that draw older audiences, in an arrangement that proposed refocusing Antenna TV around shows targeting younger audiences. By April 26, 2021, this idea had evolved and Nexstar Media - which had bought out Tribune - announced that it would launch a new digital broadcast network - Rewind TV - focusing on sitcoms from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, serving as a complementary sister network to Antenna TV (which now focuses on shows from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s).
Rewind TV began operations at 5 a.m. on September 1, 2021, making the network available to 50 million households in the United States.
The network is available in many media markets via the digital subchannels of over-the-air television stations, and on select cable television providers, such as Xfinity through a local affiliate of the network and IPTV.
Rewind TV broadcasts 24 hours a day in either 480i standard definition or 720p high definition depending on market.
Programming
Rewind's lineup consists of sitcoms, including 227, Becker, Caroline in the City, Dear John, Designing Women, Diff'rent Strokes, The Drew Carey Show, The Facts of Life, Family Ties, It’s a Living, Growing Pains, Head of the Class, The Hogan Family, The John Larroquette Show, Just Shoot Me!, Mad About You, Mork & Mindy, Murphy Brown, My Two Dads, NewsRadio, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Suddenly Susan, Who's the Boss?, and Wings.
Affiliates
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2021
Television networks in the United States
Classic television networks
Nostalgia television in the United States
Nexstar Media Group
2021 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20high%20commissioners%20of%20India%20to%20Kenya | This is a list of Indian high commissioners to Kenya. India has a relatively large diplomatic network, reflecting its links in the world and particularly in neighboring regions: Central Asia, the Middle East, East Africa, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. There are also far-flung missions in the Caribbean and the Pacific, locations of historical Indian diaspora communities.
As a Commonwealth country, Indian diplomatic missions in the capital cities of other Commonwealth member states are known as High Commissions. In other cities of Commonwealth countries. India calls some of its consulates "Assistant High Commissions".
List of high commissioners of India to the Republic of Kenya
The current high commissioner is Dr. Virandar Paul.
References
Kenya
India and the Commonwealth of Nations
Kenya and the Commonwealth of Nations
India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20for%20All | The Computing for All plan (Plan Informatique pour Tous - IPT) was a French government plan to introduce computers to the country's 11 million pupils. A second goal was to support national industry. It followed several introductory computer science programs in schools since 1971. The IPT plan was presented to the press on January 25, 1985 by Laurent Fabius, Prime Minister at the time. It aimed to set up, from the start of that school year, more than 120,000 machines in 50,000 schools and to train 110,000 teachers. Its estimated cost was 1.8 billion francs, including 1.5 billion for equipment. The plan was abandoned in 1989.
Description
The selection of industry partners was entrusted to Gilbert Trigano, co-founder of Club Méditerranée, connected with French companies such as Exelvision, Léanord, SMT Goupil, Thomson, Bull, LogAbax, etc. This choice was political because its initiator, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, had indicated his preference for Macintosh, which would be specially modified for the plan. In return, Apple would install a manufacturing unit in France rather than in Ireland. The agreement negotiated at the highest level with Apple included a complete transfer of technology for an assembly plant with the highest global standards in terms of productivity. But instead Thomson, a nationalized company in difficulty, was chosen. The choice was made without a call for tenders.
The Computing for All plan popularized the Nanoréseau: a RS422 based computer network of modest size (up to 32 workstations, at 500 kbit/s) which included nano-machines (Thomson MO5, Thomson TO7/70 or Thomson MO5NR ) and a PC compatible server (most often a Bull Micral 30, but Goupil 3, Léanord Sil'z 16, LogAbax Persona 1600 and CSEE 150 were also used). The PC was equipped with two 5¼ inch floppy disk drives, one used for the operating system (MS-DOS 2.11), the other with data for the Thomsons. The server also gave access to a shared printer.
A later version (NR33) allowed the use of a hard disk by installing the whole system; this allowed a much faster start. All the machines could be controlled remotely (the server in particular thanks to the NR-DOS system) and it was possible to recover a copy of any portion of their memory remotely by an operation called "station looting" (command CLONE in BASIC).
Implementation
The Plan was entirely based on the Nanoréseau. Designed with the first 16-bit Bull Micral PCs as the network head , the Nanoréseau was a computer and educational success. Unfortunately, the choice of Thomson's MO5 8-bit terminals was problematic. Intended to develop the French IT sector based on the LSE language, Minitel and light pen, these solutions didn't become mainstream.
The plan allowed a first access to computers for many students and their teachers, a first approach to programming (in BASIC or in Logo) and the use of a computer with light pen (mouse was uncommon at the time). Yet teacher training was only 50 hours, and the focus was on pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoniphon%20pencei | {{Taxobox
| name = Pence's squirrelfish
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Beryciformes
| familia = Holocentridae
| subfamilia = Holocentrinae
| genus = Neoniphon
| species = N. pencei
| binomial = Neoniphon pencei
| binomial_authority = Copus, Pyle & Earle, 2015
| synonyms =
}}Neoniphon pencei, or Pence's squirrelfish''', is a species of squirrelfish found in the Pacific Ocean in Rarotonga, Cook Islands and Mo'orea, French Polynesia. It differs from other species of the genus Neoniphon'' in number of lateral line scales, scales above and below lateral line, elements of life colour, and in COI and cytochrome b DNA sequences.
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of David F. Pence, the Dive Safety Officer for the University of Hawai‘i, and a member of the deep-diving team that not only discovered this species, but was able to collect the type specimens.
References
pencei
Taxa named by Joshua M. Copus
Taxa named by Richard Pyle
Taxa named by John L. Earle
Fish described in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gays%20With%20Kids | Gays With Kids is a digital media resource and social network space dedicated exclusively to helping gay, bi and trans (GBT) men become dads and navigate fatherhood.
History
Gays With Kids was founded in 2014 with the goal of inspiring, informing and guiding gay, bi and trans men throughout their journey of family building, and supporting them to live their best authentic lives as they explore fatherhood.
The GWK platform was founded by Brian Rosenberg and his husband Ferd van Gameren. The gay couple became first-time dads in 2009 by creating their family through adoption and surrogacy.
See also
LGBT parenting
LGBT community
Surrogacy
Adoption
References
External links
Official website
Gay men's websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franziska%20Michor | Franziska Michor (born 1982) is an Austrian-American computational biologist who is a Professor in the Department of Data Science at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. She serves as Director of the Physical Sciences-Oncology Center and the Center for Cancer Evolution.
Education and early career
Michor was born in Vienna. Her father was a mathematician and her mother was a nurse. As a child she became interested in mathematics, and inspire to follow a scientific career that helped others. Michor was an undergraduate student in mathematics and molecular biology at the University of Vienna. During her degree she spent a year at the University of Trieste, where she studied medical biotechnology. She moved to the Institute for Advanced Study as a graduate student, where she worked in theoretical biology. Michor was a doctoral researcher in Harvard University, where she was based in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. Her thesis considered the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. She identified the time required for the genes within cancer cells to mutate and become protective against cancer.
Research and career
Michor completed her doctoral research in less than three years, after which she was made a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her early work considered the development of a mathematical model to study the evolution of cells that lead to the end stage of chronic myelogenous leukemia. Specifically, Michor sought to understand why certain patients failed to improve after treatment with Gleevec. Michor was the first researcher to be honoured with the Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America (ASciNA) award.
In 2007, Michor was appointed to the faculty at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and as assistant professor at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Her laboratory consider the evolutionary dynamics of cancer, including its initiation, progression, response to therapy, and emergence of resistance. She moved to the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in 2010, where she was promoted to Professor in 2015.
Michor is on the steering committee of the American Association for Cancer Research Cancer Evolution Working.
Personal life
Michor is married to Roland G. Fryer Jr., a professor of economics who, at age 30, became the youngest African-American to be given tenure at Harvard University.
Awards and honors
2004 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award
2005 Elected Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows
2007 Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize of the Society for the Study of Evolution
2008 Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America (ASciNA) Award
2009 Leon Levy Foundation Young Investigator Award
2010 Gerstner Young Investigator Award
2012 Alice Hamilton Award
2012 Speaker at TEDMED
2015 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
2015 Carnegie Corporation of New York Great Immigrants Award
2015 NYSCF - Robertson S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20the%20Comoros | Time in Comoros is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00). Comoros does not observe daylight saving time.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Comoros is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Indian/Comoro, which is an alias to Africa/Nairobi. "KM" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Comoros directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
See also
Time in Africa
List of time zones by country
List of UTC time offsets
References
External links
Current time in Comoros at Time.is
Time in Comoros at TimeAndDate.com
Geography of the Comoros
Comoros
Comoros |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Tanzania | Time in Tanzania is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00). Tanzania does not observe daylight saving time.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Tanzania is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Dar es Salaam, which is an alias to Africa/Nairobi. "TZ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Tanzania directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
See also
Time in Africa
List of time zones by country
List of UTC time offsets
References
External links
Current time in Tanzania at Time.is
Time in Tanzania at TimeAndDate.com
Time in Tanzania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Uganda | Time in Uganda is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00). Uganda does not observe daylight saving time.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Uganda is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Kampala, which is an alias to Africa/Nairobi. "UG" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Uganda directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
See also
Time in Africa
List of time zones by country
List of UTC time offsets
References
External links
Current time in Uganda at Time.is
Time in Uganda at TimeAndDate.com
Time in Uganda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional%20Blockchain%20Caucus | The Congressional Blockchain Caucus is a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives and staff. The caucus was founded during the 114th United States Congress to be a platform for industry and government to study and understand blockchain technology, and the role Congress can play in its development.
History
The Congressional Blockchain Caucus was formed in September 26, 2016, to study blockchain technology. The Congressional Blockchain Caucus was formed by Jared Polis, a Democratic congressman from Colorado, and Mick Mulvaney, a Republican representing South Carolina.
On March 24, 2019, seven congressmen sent a letter to Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council. The letter requested that the administration have a forum on blockchain technology and initiate blockchain technology. The signers of the letter were congressmen Trey Hollingsworth, Darren Soto, Bill Foster, Tom Emmer, Ted Budd, Josh Gottheimer and David Schweikert.
In March 2021, Representatives Darren Soto (D-FL) and Warren Davidson (R-OH) reintroduced the Token Taxonomy Act. The bill's co-sponsors are Ted Budd (R-NC), Scott Perry (R-PA) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ).
In a press release dated June 16, 2021, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, chairwoman of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, announced the formation of a Digital Assets Working Group for Democratic members of Congress. Bill Foster (D-IL), who is Chair of the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and a co-founder of the Congressional Blockchain Group, is a member of this new Digital Assets Working Group. The Congressional Blockchain Caucus focuses on cryptocurrency policy.
Purpose
The caucus was formed to be a platform for industry and government to study and understand blockchain technology.
Co-Chairs
Tom Emmer, (R-Minn)
David Schweikert, (R-Ariz.)
Darren Soto, (D-Fla.)
Bill Foster (politician) (D-Ill.).
Members
Congressman Ted Budd
Congressman Troy Carter
Congressman Jim Cooper
Congressman John Curtis
Congressman Warren Davidson
Congressman Jeff Duncan
Congressman Matt Gaetz
Congressman Greg Gianforte
Representative Anthony Gonzalez
Congressman Josh Gottheimer
Congressman Denny Heck
Congressman Bill Huizenga
Congressman Ro Khanna
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi
Congressman John Larson
Congressman Dan Lipinski
Congressman Frank Lucas
Congressman Stephen F. Lynch
Congresswoman Nancy Mace
Congressman Jerry McNerney
Congresswoman Marie Newman
Congressman Ralph Norman
Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett
Congressman Bryan Steil
Congressman Van Taylor
Congressman Glenn Thompson
Congressman Michael Waltz
Congressman Rob Wittman
See also
CBSCs by country
References
Issue-based groups of legislators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20R.%20Payne | Terry R. Payne is a computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Liverpool. He works on the use of ontologies by Software Agents within decentralised environments. He is best known for his work on Semantic Web Services and in particular for his work on OWL-S.
Education
Dr Payne received his Undergraduate Degree (BSc) in Computer Systems Engineering from University of Kent in 1990, an MSc in Applied Artificial Intelligence from University of Aberdeen in 1994, followed by his PhD from the same institution for his work "Dimensionality Reduction and Representation for Nearest Neighbour Learning".
Between 1998-2002, he worked with Katia Sycara as a Project Scientist at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, before moving to the University of Southampton, and later joining the University of Liverpool in 2008.
Research
He has been conducting research into the Semantic Web since 2000, and was one of the founder members of the OWL-S coalition, jointly responsible for developing the OWL-S ontology within the OWL-based framework of the Semantic Web, that supported the description of Semantic Web Services.
The OWL-S ontology facilitates the discovery, invocation, composition and monitoring of Web resources the offer services. It was built on top of Web Ontology Language (OWL) by the DARPA DAML program.
He has also worked on various uses of decentralised knowledge negotiation in autonomous agent communities.
References
External links
OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services W3C Member Submission (2004)
Living people
British computer programmers
Artificial intelligence researchers
Semantic Web people
Academics of the University of Liverpool
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage%20Euthanasia | Teenage Euthanasia is an adult animated sitcom created by Alyson Levy and Alissa Nutting for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. The series stars Maria Bamford, Jo Firestone, Tim Robinson and Bebe Neuwirth. The series premiered on September 6, 2021.
On March 31, 2022, it was announced the series has been renewed for a second season. A preview of season two was shown during April Fools' Day 2023. The second season premiered on July 27, 2023.
Premise
In the near future, Trophy Fantasy is a teenage mother who left her baby daughter Euthanasia "Annie" Fantasy in the custody of her undertaker mother Baba and her half-brother Pete at their funeral home Tender Endings in Fort Gator, Florida. Following a devastating divorce from her husband and death from an overdose 15 years later, Trophy's corpse is delivered to Euthanasia at Tender Endings as her written demand to those who found her dead. After a freak combination of circumstances that involved Baba's embalming fluid, Annie's tear, and lightning from a thunderstorm that was occurring during the embalming process, Trophy revives as a sentient zombie with paranormal abilities and the use of crotch beetles. Some episodes end with a post-credits stinger.
Voice cast
Jo Firestone as Euthanasia "Annie" Fantasy
Maria Bamford as Trophy Fantasy
Tim Robinson as Uncle Pete
Bebe Neuwirth as Baba
Additional voices
Scott Adsit as Dirk (in "Nobody Beats the Baba"), Mortician (in "Nobody Beats the Baba"), Florida Man (in "Teen Eggs and Scram"), Waiter (in "Teen Eggs and Scram"), Petetini (in "Adventures in Beetle Sitting"), Whiskey Host (in "Adventures in Beetle Sitting"), Coach Crumb (in "Dada M.I.A."), Greek Man (in "Dada M.I.A.")
Ozioma Akagha as Security Guard (in "Suddenly Susan"), Louise (in "Suddenly Susan")
Philip Anthony-Rodriguez as Jogger (in "Dada M.I.A."), Gardener (in "Dada M.I.A.")
Sander Argabrite
Barron B. Bass
Sandra Bauleo as Crying Party Girl (in "The Bad Bang Theory")
H. Jon Benjamin as Gregory Commercial Announcer (in "Adventures in Beetle Sitting")
Kevin Breznahan
Kallee Brookes as Babygirl (in "Adventures in Beetle Sitting")
Aidy Bryant
Sophia Bush
Tiana Camacho as Prison Guard (in "The Bad Bang Theory"), Worker Beetle (in "Adventures in Beetle Sitting")
Jordan Carlos as Lester Cuddlefish (in "Nobody Beats the Baba" and "Teen Eggs and Scram"), Die Fieri (in "Nobody Beats the Baba"), Robocop (in "Teen Eggs and Scram"), Deacon (in "First Date with the Second Coming"), Nipsey Hussle (in "First Date with the Second Coming"), Luke Perry (in "First Date with the Second Coming"), Mail Carrier (in "Adventures in Beetle Sitting" and "Dada M.I.A."), Denzel (in "Adventures in Beetle Sitting"), California Raisin (in "Dada M.I.A.")
Tony Cavalero as Lonny (in "Nobody Beats the Baba" and "Dada M.I.A."), Gator Trainer (in "Dada M.I.A")
Vernon Chatman as Succatach (in "First Date with the Second Coming"), Charlie Pants (in "First Date with the Second Coming")
Chr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edl%20Schamiloglu | Edl Schamiloglu (born 1959) is an American physicist, electrical engineer, pulsed power expert, inventor, and distinguished professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Mexico. He has been known in public media for his expertise in the design and operation of directed-energy weapons. He is also known for his assessment on the possible origins of alleged health damages presumably caused on U.S. embassy personnel in Cuba in 2016 as part of the Havana syndrome incident. He is the associate dean for research and innovation at the UNM School of Engineering, where he has been a faculty since 1988, and where he is also special assistant to the provost for laboratory relations. He is also the founding director of the recently launched UNM Directed Energy Center. Schamiloglu is a book author and co-editor, and has received numerous awards for his academic achievements. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Physical Society.
Early life and education
Schamiloglu was born in The Bronx in 1959 to Tatar parents from Russia who wed in Istanbul in 1957, where their families had independently arrived as political refugees. His only brother, Uli Schamiloglu, is professor and chair of the department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies at Nazarbayev University in Nursultan, Kazakhstan.
Schamiloglu attended Bronx High School of Science. In 1979, he obtained a Bachelor of Science in applied physics and applied mathematics and a Master of Science degree in plasma physics from Columbia University. In 1988, he earned a PhD in engineering (with a minor in mathematics) from Cornell University.
Career
Schamiloglu has been a faculty member at University of New Mexico since 1988. At the UNM School of Engineering, he has successively been Regents’ Lecturer from 1996 to1999, ECE Gardner-Zemke Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (since 2000), and distinguished professor since 2014. Also at the University of New Mexico, he has been associate chair and director of the Graduate Program (2000–2001), director of the School of Engineering Research Center COSMIAC (2015-2017), associate dean for research and innovation (2017-2023), and special assistant to the provost for laboratory relations since 2018. He is also president of the UNM Summa Foundation.
At University of New Mexico, he established a program for research and education in plasma science involving pulsed power and intense beam-driven, high power microwave devices. He founded the Pulsed Power, Beams and Microwaves Laboratory (1989), where for many years his team have been pursuing research in areas such as modeling of electromagnetic systems, directed energy microwaves, and the effects of high power microwaves on systems.
Acting as a principal investigator, or leading multilateral alliances, Schamiloglu's laboratory has received research subsidies of millions of dollars often originating fro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI%20Codex | OpenAI Codex is an artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI. It parses natural language and generates code in response. It powers GitHub Copilot, a programming autocompletion tool for select IDEs, like Visual Studio Code and Neovim. Codex is a descendant of OpenAI's GPT-3 model, fine-tuned for use in programming applications.
OpenAI released an API for Codex in closed beta. In March 2023, OpenAI shut down access to Codex. Due to public appeals from researchers OpenAI reversed course. The Codex model can still be used by researchers of the OpenAI Research Access Program.
Capabilities
Based on GPT-3, a neural network trained on text, Codex was additionally trained on 159 gigabytes of Python code from 54 million GitHub repositories. A typical use case of Codex is for a user to type a comment, such as "//compute the moving average of an array for a given window size", then use the AI to suggest a block of code that satisfies that comment prompt. OpenAI stated that Codex can complete approximately 37% of requests and is meant to make human programming faster rather than to replace it. According to OpenAI's blog, Codex excels most at "mapping... simple problems to existing code", which they describe as "probably the least fun part of programming". Jeremy Howard, co-founder of Fast.ai, stated that "Codex is a way of getting code written without having to write as much code" and that "it is not always correct, but it is just close enough". According to a paper written by OpenAI researchers, when Codex attempted each test case 100 times, it generated working solutions for 70.2% of prompts.
OpenAI claims that Codex can create code in over a dozen programming languages, including Go, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Shell, Swift, and TypeScript, though it is most effective in Python. According to VentureBeat, demonstrations uploaded by OpenAI showed impressive coreference resolution capabilities. The demonstrators were able to create a browser game in JavaScript and generate data science charts using matplotlib.
OpenAI showed that Codex can interface with services and apps such as Mailchimp, Microsoft Word, Spotify, and Google Calendar. Microsoft is Codex's capabilities.
Issues
OpenAI demonstrations showcased flaws such as inefficient code and one-off quirks in code samples. In an interview with The Verge, OpenAI chief technology officer Greg Brockman said that "sometimes [Codex] doesn't quite know exactly what you're asking" and that it can require some trial and error. OpenAI researchers found that Codex struggles with multi-step and prompts, often failing or yielding counter-intuitive behavior. Additionally, they brought up several safety issues, such as over-reliance by novice programmers, biases based on the training data, and security impacts due to vulnerable code.
VentureBeat stated that because Codex is trained on public data, it could be vulnerable to "data poisoning" via intentional uploads of malicious code. According to a study b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokio%20%28software%29 | Tokio is a software library for the Rust programming language. It provides a runtime and functions that enable the use of asynchronous I/O, allowing for concurrency in regards to task completion.
Tokio was released in August 2016 for Rust, a general-purpose programming language. Developed by Carl Lerche, Tokio began as a network application framework and supports features such as socket listening and broadcasting, allowing messages to be transferred between computers.
History
Tokio began in August 2016 by Carl Lerche as a network application framework for Rust built on futures, allowing for network-based middleware and a non-blocking, or asynchronous, implementation of readiness interest to the reactor. Tokio was inspired by Finagle, a Scala-based asynchronous remote procedure call (RPC) system developed at Twitter for Java virtual machines (JVM), allowing distributed systems to communicate within a JVM. Tokio utilizes the lower-level Rust crate mio, itself using system calls such as epoll (Linux), kqueue (FreeBSD), and the input/output completion port (IOCP) API (Windows). The name "Tokio" is derived from Tokyo and mio. The preliminary version of Tokio was released in January 2017, followed by a full release in December 2020. In 2017, Tokio received a grant from the Mozilla Open Source Support fund. In April 2021, Tokio funded its first paid contributor, Alice Ryhl, for her work both developing the project and assisting its users.
While Rust has supported asynchronous functions since version 1.39, released in November 2019, it provides no facilities to execute them, requiring an external runtime for that purpose. Tokio provides a runtime that uses a multi-threaded work stealing scheduler. Rust's futures are lazily evaluated, requiring functions to call .await before they do any work. When .await is invoked, Tokio's runtime may pause the original future until its I/O completes, and unpauses a different task that is ready for further processing.
Users of Tokio include the development teams behind Discord and AWS Lambda. The JavaScript and TypeScript runtime Deno uses Tokio under the hood, in comparison to the JavaScript runtime Node.js, which uses the libuv library.
Features
Asynchronous code
Tokio allows for the usage of asynchronous functions in Rust through the creation of an asynchronous runtime. This can be accomplished through the #[tokio::main] macro.
For example:
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<()> {
let url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/";
let text = reqwest::get(url).await?.text().await?;
println!("{}", text);
Ok(())
}
In this example, the reqwest crate is used to request the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) for English Wikipedia. To ensure that the request is not immediately handled, Tokio wraps the function call into an asynchronous runtime, waiting for the request to complete before calling println().
Tokio also includes a version of the Rust standard library that is designed for being used asynchronou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20Declaration | The Toronto Declaration: Protecting the Rights to Equality and Non-Discrimination in Machine Learning Systems is a declaration that advocates responsible practices for machine learning practitioners and governing bodies. It is a joint statement issued by groups including Amnesty International and Access Now, with other notable signatories including Human Rights Watch and The Wikimedia Foundation. It was published at RightsCon on May 16, 2018.
The Declaration focuses on concerns of algorithmic bias and the potential for discrimination that arises from the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in applications that may affect people's lives, "from policing, to welfare systems, to healthcare provision, to platforms for online discourse." A secondary concern of the document is the potential for violations of information privacy.
The goal of the Declaration is to outline "tangible and actionable standards for states and the private sector." The Declaration calls for tangible solutions, such as reparations for the victims of algorithmic discrimination.
Contents
The Toronto Declaration consists of 59 articles, broken into six sections, concerning international human rights law, duties of states, responsibilities of private sector actors, and the right to an effective remedy.
Preamble
The document begins by asking the question, "In a world of machine learning systems, who will bear accountability for harming human rights?" It argues that all practitioners, whether in the public or private sector, should be aware of the risks to human rights and approach their work with human rights in mind – conscious of the existing international laws, standards, and principles. The document defines human rights to include "the right to privacy and data protection, the right to freedom of expression and association, to participation in cultural life, equality before the law, and access to effective remedy"; but it states that the Declaration is most concerned with equality and non-discrimination.
Using the framework of international human rights law
The framework of international human rights law enumerates various rights, provides mechanisms to hold violators to account, and ensures remedy for the violated. The document cites the United Nations Human Rights Committee's definition of discrimination as "any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference which is based on any ground [including but not limited to] race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, and which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by all persons, on an equal footing, of all rights and freedoms."
Governments should proactively create binding measures, and private entities should create internal policies, to protect against discrimination. Measures may include protections for sensitive data, especially for vulnerable populations. Systems shou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenera | Revenera is a division of Flexera, an American computer software company based in Itasca, Illinois.
History
Flexera launched its Revenera division on May 28, 2020. The Revenera division is a business-focused organization which works in software monetization, software composition analysis, and installation (computer programs) software.
Revenera, formerly called Flexera Software, has made several acquitions.
On February 26, 2016, Flexera Software acquired software composition analysis company Palamida.
On February 5, 2020, Flexera Software acquired software usage analytics company Revulytics.
Product history
In July 2021, Revenera announced Software Container Delivery for entitlement-driven delivery of software container images.
In September 2021, Revenera announced that all software monetization, software composition analysis, and installation (computer programs) software will be sold via a subscription model.
In September 2022, Revenera launched enhanced Software Bill of Materials support.
Monetization Monitor
Revenera publishes a series of reports each year named Monetization Monitors. These reports highlight software monetization, piracy, and usage analytics trends.
References
External links
Official website
Software companies based in Illinois
Privately held companies based in Illinois
Companies based in DuPage County, Illinois
2009 establishments in Illinois
Software companies of the United States
Itasca, Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework%20Computer | Framework Computer, Inc. is an American laptop manufacturer. The company positions itself as a proponent of the electronics right to repair movement, and their laptops are designed to be easy to disassemble, with replaceable parts. In November 2021, Time magazine listed the Framework Laptop on their list of the 100 Best Inventions of 2021. In March 2022, Fast Company listed the Framework Laptop on their list of the Most Innovative Companies of 2022. In October 2023, Time magazine listed the Framework Laptop 16 on their list of the 200 Best Inventions of 2023.
History
In January 2020, the company was founded by Nirav Patel, who was the original Head of Hardware at Oculus. In the first half of 2021, the company was funded with a $9 million seed round. YouTuber Linus Sebastian invested $225,000 in the company in September after having previously commended the 11th Gen Intel Framework Laptop 13. In January 2022, the company raised an additional $18 million of financing in a series A round, led by Spark Capital.
Products
Framework Laptop 13
In July 2021, Framework began fulfillment of their first product, the Framework Laptop (retroactively the Framework Laptop 13), with an 11th Gen Intel Core i5 or i7 chip to the US and Canada. In December 2021, Framework opened pre-orders to the UK, Germany and France. In February 2022, pre-ordering became available for Ireland, Austria and The Netherlands. The Framework Laptop received a 10 out of 10 in iFixit's repairability score. The standard Framework Laptop ships as a fully assembled laptop, while the Framework Laptop DIY Edition ships with the RAM, storage, operating system, and in 11th Gen, the WiFi module uninstalled. All of these modules can be ordered with the DIY edition for an additional fee, or left out and purchased separately.
In May 2022, the company launched their second generation Framework Laptop with a 12th Gen Intel Core i5 or i7 chip that ships with an upgraded back panel, alongside their 12 Gen Upgrade Kit, to allow 11th Gen users to upgrade their laptops. In September 2022, pre-ordering became available for Australia.
In September 2022, the company launched a Chromebook edition based on their 12th Gen Intel model for $999. Unlike the standard laptop, the Chromebook's specifications is fixed to an i5-1240P, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD - but it retains the same upgradability as the standard laptop. Framework claims that the Chromebook edition has upgraded speakers and batteries compared to the standard laptop - but the speakers were described as "muffled" by ZDnet and the battery life was rated as quite poor for a Chromebook by ZDnet, Engadget and PCMag. Engadget and PCMag criticise the price relative to other Chromebooks, but the former states that given the hardware it seems fair.
In March 2023, a third-generation laptop was announced, featuring 13th Gen Intel Core and Ryzen 7040 processors. The designation of Framework Laptop 13 was adopted to distinguish it from the concurrently |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Gospel%20Time | TV Gospel Time was an American Sunday morning television gospel music show that ran for three years on NBC network from 1962 to 1965. The show was based out of Chicago, with running time of 30 minutes. TV Gospel Time was the first television show designed to appeal to black audiences, according to Billboard Music Week October 20, 1962, when it launched in six television markets, New York, Washington DC, Augusta, Charleston, Columbus, and Baltimore. The number of cities carrying the show had grown to 20 by January 1963, and 50 markets by 1965. TV Gospel Time was the first television broadcast dedicated to gospel music airing one year before a similar gospel theme broadcast Jubilee Showcase started to air also from Chicago, on ABC network in 1963. TV Gospel Time was also the first TV broadcast of music performed exclusively by black musicians.
The show was produced in one of seven different cities for each episode featuring local talent from that region: Chicago, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Memphis, New York (Newark), Richmond, and Washington DC. The show pioneered the method of TV show crew, hosts and guests traveling to the location of the choir or orchestra, rather than flying the whole musical ensemble and their instruments to the broadcasting city to perform. In addition to the regularly featured choir, the TV audience got to see different black choirs from various cities each week - choirs they might not otherwise have been able to see. At that time travel for black Americans was difficult, with few hotels and restaurant options available to them. Perhaps the most remarkable note about Gospel Time was it was the very first all-black American TV show production. The hosts were black, as were the guests, audience, and the technical crew. Even the advertising that appeared during the weekly broadcasts featured only black personalities and models, which was the first time this happened on American television. When the advertising by Pharmaco Inc for TV Gospel Time reached a cumulative spend across its four brands exceeding one million dollars by 1964, it had become the largest spend of advertising to a targeted black audience demographic in US broadcasting history.
Sixty-six episodes were created, usually recording two episodes on one day in one city, featuring the same host but different supporting guests and a different local gospel choir for both episodes recorded on that day. Typically the guest artist would do two songs. While the theme of the music was religious, there was no preaching during TV Gospel Time, so it was a genuine music show, rather than a religious variety program with music. The hosts all sang during the episodes they hosted, usually with the visiting choir. The show was converted to and distributed on kinescope. Sixteen of those kinescopes are believed to have survived and content from those have been used to create the 2 DVD set. The program was directed by Peter Brysac and the musical director was the Reverend Alfred Mill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Big%20Magic | As of 2023, this is the list of current, former series broadcast by the Hindi entertainment channel Big Magic.
Current programming
Animated
Bandbudh Aur Budbak
Chimpoo Simpoo
Pyaar Mohabbat Happy Lucky
Magic Bhootu
Dhamakedaar Rancho
Lucky aur Yaar: Rahasyon Ka Var
Kailash Ke Rakshak
Bali The Great
Live Action
Maharakshak Aryan
Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke
Yahan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli
Kanha Ki Radhika
Jodha Akbar
Rani Rashmoni
Aapki Antara
Former programming
Animated
Chunki Bunki Aur Shunki
D3 Dino Dharti Dhamaka
Khazaano Ke Khilaadi
Kung fu Pandav
Kaptaan Kallu
Nanhe Ninja
Ninja Panja
Om Jai Jagdish
Pak Pak Pakaak
Sabrina
Tobot
Transformers Prime
Vikram Munja
Bablu Dablu
Comedy series
Actor Calling Actor
Bh Se Bhade
Bhutu
Boyz
Chutki Baja Ke
Comedy Ka Rocket
Deewane Anjane
Fakebook with Kavita
Hazir Jawab Birbal
Ji Sirji!
Lete Hai Khabar Khabron Ki
Love Dosti Aur Dua
Mahisagar
Mania Ki Duniya
Nadaniyaan
Narayan Narayan
Nautanki News
Naya Mahisagar
Neeli Chatri Waale
Pyar Marriage Shhhh (PMS)
Tedi Medi Family
Tera Baap Mera Baap
Happu ki Ultan Paltan
Drama and live action series
Afsar Bitiya
Akbar – Rakht Se Takht Ka Safar
Aladdin – Jaanbaaz Ek Jalwe Anek
Badho Bahu
Bal Gopal Kare Dhamaal
Beta Hi Chahiye
Chhoti Bahu 2
Gangaa
Hum Paanch Phir Se
Chikh
Khakhi Ek Vachan
Kunwara Hai Par Hamara Hai
Pyar Ya Dehshat
Rudra Ke Rakshak
Shorveer Sisters
Shaurya Veer Eklavya Ki Gatha
Shaka Laka Boom Boom
Sonpari
Supergirl (TV series)
Vijayi Bhav
Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hum
Horror/supernatural series
Brahmarakshas
Cheekh..Ek Khauffnakk Sach
Fear Files
Hatim (TV series)
Maharakshak: Devi
Maharakshak Aryan
Naaginn – Waadon Ki Agniparikshaa
Mythological series
Baal Krishna
Buddha
Chakradhari Ajay Krishna
Mahabharat
Paramavatar Shri Krishna
Ganesh Leela
Jai Jai Jai Bajrang Bali
Jai Maa Vindhyavasini
Maa Shakti (2017)
Ramayan
Santoshi Maa
Shaktipeeth Ke Bhairav
Vikram Betaal Ki Rahasya Gatha
Kripa Maa Lakshami Maa Ki
Reality/non-scripted programming
BIG Fame Star
BIG Memsaab
Bollywood Frydays
Chef Vs Fridge
Chutki Shopkeepaa Aur Woh
Dance India Dance Li'l Masters
Family Fortunes
Khullja Sim Sim
India's Best Dramebaaz
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2017
References
Big Magic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharkdog | Sharkdog is a children's computer-animated streaming television series. Created by Singaporean artist Jacinth Tan Yi Ting, the series premiered on Netflix on September 3, 2021. A special, titled Sharkdog's Fintastic Halloween, was released on October 15, 2021.
A second season premiered on June 30, 2022 with Jordan Gershowitz taking over as head writer for Ed Valentine. On January 18, 2023, it was announced the series was renewed for a third season, that premiered on April 27.
Premise
This show is about ten-year-old Max and his best friend Sharkdog, who is half-shark, half-dog, and all appetite. Blissfully unaware of his own strength, stealth and general sharkiness, Sharkdog often leaves a trail of chaos in his wake.
Voice cast
Dee Bradley Baker as Sharkdog (speaking and vocal effects), Smoochers (vocal effects)
Liam Mitchell as Max
Grey Griffin as Mom
Kari Wahlgren as Mia (speaking and vocal effects), Dennis Muckford, Delilah Dourbouche
Aly Mawji as Royce
Judy Alice Lee as Olivia
Meaghan Davies as Annabelle
Donna J. Fulks as Mayor Muckford
Jenny Lorenzo as Christina
Villa Junior Lemanu as Aleki
Jentel Hawkins as Ms. Williams
Max Mittelman as Brody Ceviche
Ian James Corlett as Mr. Heubel
Liz Burnette as Captain Barb Quigley
Debi Derryberry as Hammerhead Pup and Mega Mouth Pup
Audrey Wasilewski as Sausage Pup
Production
The series was first announced in April 2020 by Netflix.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2021)
Season 2 (2022)
Season 3 (2023)
Special (2021)
Release
Sharkdog was released on Netflix on 3 September 2021.
References
External links
at Netflix
2021 American television series debuts
2020s American animated television series
2020s American children's comedy television series
American children's animated comedy television series
American computer-animated television series
English-language Netflix original programming
Netflix children's programming
Animated television series about children
Animated television series about dogs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett%20L.%20Bull | Everett "Rett" L. Bull (born August 16, 1949) is an American computer scientist. He is the Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and held the Osler-Loucks Professor of Science and Professor of Computer Science endowed chair.
Early life and education
Bull earned his bachelor's degree from Pomona College, graduating in 1971 with a degree in mathematics. He then completed a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976.
Career
Bull began teaching at Pomona in 1981.
Personal life
Bull is married to Jill S. Grigsby, a retired sociologist at Pomona.
References
External links
Faculty page at Pomona College
1949 births
Living people
Pomona College faculty
American computer scientists
People from Claremont, California
Pomona College alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky%20%28social%20network%29 | Bluesky, also known as Bluesky Social, is a microblogging social platform and a public benefit corporation based in the United States. Jay Graber serves as the company's CEO, while Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and XMPP creator Jeremie Miller sit on its board of directors.
It emerged from a 2019 initiative within Twitter Inc. to develop what was described as a 'decentralized social network protocol', now known as the AT Protocol, the standard on which the Bluesky platform has been built. Spun out from Twitter, Inc., it hired its first employees in 2021, and was incorporated as an independent public benefit company the same year.
Bluesky is in beta, with registration only available to those with an invite, but the company has outlined its plans for eventual rollout to the general public. In addition to its website, the service is also accessible via apps for iOS and Android. The service is focused on microblogging, and has been called "Twitter-like".
Service history
Bluesky was described in 2021 as an initiative to develop a decentralized social network protocol, in which multiple social networks, each with its own systems of curation and moderation, interact with other social networks through an open standard. Each social network using the protocol would be called an "application". As of 2023, Bluesky operates its own official network, Bluesky Social, a centralized service running on proprietary software for its servers and client apps, whereas part of the protocol implementation has been released under MIT license. Neither the protocol nor service claimed to use blockchain technology in 2022.
Frequent users have called posts on the platform "skeets" (a portmanteau of "sky" and "tweets"), despite CEO Jay Graber pleading with users not to call them that.
The Authenticated Data Experiment (ADX), in mid-2022, was Bluesky's first early protocol release. It used personal data repositories, intended to be controlled by individual users, that social networks would optionally support. The stated purpose was to let users post messages without necessarily affecting their visibility to other users, as primary storage of the data would remain in the personal data repository while networks would handle the distribution to other users. The ATP FAQ later described this distinction as a division between "speech" and "reach" layers. Bluesky released a simplified version as the "AT Protocol" in October 2022, alongside technical documentation.
Bluesky started a waitlist in October 2022 for a service that would use the protocol. At the time of release, Bluesky only addressed interoperability and had not explained how it would address platform moderation and monetization. In February 2023, the Bluesky app was released for iOS as an invite-only beta, and the service was available only to users who had received an invite code, either from the company or from an existing user. Reviewing the app, TechCrunch called it "a functional, if still rather bare-bones, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFLM | AFLM may refer to:
AFLM, a type of Pointer machine in theoretical computer science
AflM, involved in the production of Aflatoxin B1
Australian Football League, an Australian football league sometimes referred to as AFLM (AFL men's), especially when in relation to AFL Women's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-J%C3%B6rg%20Fecht | Hans-Jörg Fecht is Chaired Professor at the University of Ulm, Germany in the departments of Engineering and Computer Science. He is also an Office Director of the EUREKA Cluster Metallurgy Europe in the Same university, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has published over 450 scientific publications, directed numerous national, European, and international research initiatives.
Education
Fecht was born on 8 March 1957 in Germany. He Graduated in Materials Science at the University of Saarbrucken in 1981, followed by his Ph.D. in Materials Science at the same university supervised by Prof. H. Gleiter.
Research and career
Fecht's research interests include non-crystalline and Nanocrystalline materials, non-conventional semiconductors, interface engineering, nanoengineering, electrical engineering materials characterization Optimization of functional materials and layer architectures & micro-structural, electrical, chemical, mechanical, and tri-bological properties. He researched on the Development of high-performance microelectronics, micro-systems, Nano-structure formation on the surface of railway tracks, and sensor materials that are also resistant to harsh environmental conditions, sensors based on magneto-resistance (AG master), Photovoltaic Nanotechnology (AG Mr.) Nanoparticles with magnetic properties (AG Mr).
Fecht is presently a Chaired Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ulm, Germany. Before obtaining his current role, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Senior Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA in the Same Department.
Books
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Advances and Developments in Nano-sized Materials.
Nano–Architectured and Nanostructured Materials: Fabrication, Control and Properties.
The Nano–Micro Interface: Bridging the Micro and Nano Worlds.
Carbon-based Nanomaterials and Hybrids: Synthesis, Properties, and Commercial.
Publications
Nanocrystalline metals prepared by high-energy ball milling.
Structural and thermodynamic properties of heavily mechanically deformed Ru and AlRu.
The mechanism of formation of nanostructure and dissolution of cementite in a pearlitic steel during high pressure torsion.
Containerless processing in the study of metallic melts and their solidification.
Entropy and enthalpy catastrophe as a stability limit for crystalline material.
References
External links
1957 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin
Academic staff of the University of Ulm
German engineers
German metallurgists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q4OS | Q4OS is a light-weight Linux distribution, based on Debian, targeted as a replacement for operating systems that are no longer supported on outdated hardware. The distribution is known for an addon called XPQ4, which adds themes intended to replicate the look and feel of Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
History
Development of Q4OS began in 2014 to coincide with Windows XP's end of extended support in the same year.
LXQt Desktop Environment was included from April 2014 to June 2015.
In 2018 TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment) was included.
In 2019, version 3.8 was released which was based on Debian Buster.
The original KDE based version has been discontinued since around 2018.
As of April 2020, the core developers of Q4OS, initially starting the project in Germany, are now operating in Prague, Czech Republic.
Features
It comes with either the Trinity Desktop Environment, which is a fork of K Desktop Environment 3. or KDE Plasma 5
LookSwitcher, which lets the user switch visual themes
Desktop Profiler, which automatically installs some packages and programs that may be ideal for the user according to the profile that they choose
Q4OS Software Centre, which lets the user install some recommended packages and programs from a list
Q4OS Welcome Screen, which helps the user with some initial tweaks
Releases
Stable versions of Q4OS are derived from Debian's Stable release branch with long-term support that lasts five years after their initial release. Developmental "testing" versions of future releases are derived from the Debian Testing branch.
Reception
SourceForge featured Q4OS as "Community Choice" Project of the Month in April 2020.
In January 2022, TechRadar considered Q4OS as one of the best light-weight Linux distributions of the year for its Windows installer and support for older hardware, notably systems running on 32-bit processors.
Forks
Quarkos
Quarkos (formerly known as Quark) is an official fork of Q4OS that uses an Ubuntu base instead of Debian. It describes itself as a 'user-friendly, desktop oriented operating system based on Ubuntu Linux'. It comes in two variants, one of which uses the same desktop theme as Q4OS, while the other uses a visual theme similar to Windows 10.
Quark 20.04
Quark 20.04 'Focal' was the first release, coming with the same base as Ubuntu 20.04. It was released on the September 25th 2020, featuring only the KDE Plasma 5 desktop. On November 3, 2020, the development team announced that Microsoft Edge was now available for Linux, and users of Quark would be able to install it by downloading a .esh file from the Q4OS GitHub repository.
Quark 20.04.4, released September 24, 2021 added bugfixes from upstream Kubuntu. On October 9, 2021, the development team announced the general availability of the Windows installer for Quark 20.04 Focal.
Quark 20.04.5 was made available on November 28, 2021, bringing bugfixes from Kubuntu and Trinity desktop environment R14.0.11. An updated version of the Quark in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Pro%208 | The Microsoft Surface Pro 8 is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft to supersede the Surface Pro 7. It combines the form factor and exterior design of the Surface Pro X with internal Intel-based hardware of the Pro 7+. It was announced on September 22, 2021 alongside the Surface Go 3, updated Surface Pro X models, a new Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Duo 2, Surface Slim Pen 2, and several other accessories. The tablet is powered by the new Windows 11 operating system.
On 4 Feb, 2022, Microsoft announced the general availability for organisations across industries in the UAE of its Surface Laptop Studio and Surface Pro 8.
Configurations
Hardware
The Surface Pro 8 is the 10th addition to the Surface Pro lineup preceded by the Surface Pro 7+ and Surface Pro X.
An updated design that aligns closer to the previously launched Surface Pro X.
Intel 11th Gen Core i3, i5, or i7 processors
13-inch touchscreen at 267 PPI, 3:2 aspect ratio, and 120Hz refresh rate
Up to 1TB of removable SSD storage
Up to 32GB of memory
4K video camera support
Unlike previous Surface Pro models, a microSD card slot is not included.
The device is the first Surface Pro to include two USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4.
Like previous models, the built-in kickstand unfolds from 0 degrees to 165 degrees.
The 51.5 watt-hour battery offers system runtime of up to 16 hours.
Software
Surface Pro 8 is powered by the new Windows 11 Home operating system (Windows 11 Pro or Windows 10 Pro for business models) with a 30-day trial of Microsoft 365. The device also supports Windows Hello login using biometric facial recognition.
Timeline
External links
References
Tablet computers introduced in 2021
Microsoft Surface
2-in-1 PCs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestar%20Systems | Nestar Systems, Inc., was an early independent manufacturer of pre-internet local area networks for personal computers from 1978 to 1986 and was considered "a pioneer in the industry". It produced three major generations of products:
Cluster/One (September 1979) provided program file sharing for up to 30 Commodore PET, Apple ][, and Radio Shack TRS-80 personal computers. A PET with two 8" floppy disks was the program server that polled for client requests using a daisy-chained flat ribbon cable up to 250 feet long.
Cluster/One Model A (March 1980) provided general communication among Apple ][ and Apple /// personal computers using a parallel flat ribbon cable with arbitrary branching topology up to 1000 feet long. Apple ][ computers served as fileservers (with floppy disks, hard disks, and cartridge tape backup), print servers, and communications servers linking multiple networks over modems. Applications included filesharing, electronic mail, database management, and financial management.
PLAN Series (December 1982) provided general communication among Apple ][ and IBM PC personal computers using Datapoint's ARCNET network and Xerox's XNS networking protocols. Proprietary small, medium, and large servers, using Motorola 68000 microprocessors, served as file servers (including tape backup and shadow servers), spooled print servers, and communications servers. Applications included filesharing, electronic mail, database management, financial management, IBM 3270 terminal emulation to link to mainframes, Telex simulation, and interactive chat.
In 1986 Nestar was sold to Digital Switch Corporation (now DSC Communications) of Plano, Texas, which continued to develop some of the product line for about two years.
Corporate history
Nestar was founded in Palo Alto, California on October 13, 1978. by Harry Saal, Len Shustek, Jim Hinds, and Nick Fortis, to make networks that allowed sharing of centralized services like disks and printers for the then-new personal computers: Commodore PET, Apple ][, and Radio Shack TRS-80. Initial funding was provided by the founders, primarily Saal. By July 1980 the company had 11 employees.
In July 1980, the Rank Organization in the UK purchased a 40% stake in Nestar Systems, and created a wholly Rank-owned subsidiary, Zynar Ltd in Uxbridge, England, to cooperate in the development of future systems. In March 1982 there was a $2.5M second round of financing, and there were over 50 employees. By 1983 Rank had made additional investments which increased their ownership in Nestar to 59%. By October 1984 they owned 85%. Annual revenue had grown from $318.000 in 1979 to $10,032,000 in 1984, but profitability had still not been achieved even though they were one of the top 10 PC local area network vendors
In August 1985 it was announced that Nestar was to be bought by Net America, a Dallas-based startup common carrier founded by Sam Wyly, who also founded University Computing Company and was chairman of Sterlin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Rewind%20TV%20affiliates | The following is a listing of affiliates for Rewind TV, a digital subchannel network owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group, which was launched on September 1, 2021.
Stations are listed in alphabetical order by state and city of license.
A lavender blue background indicates an affiliate originating as a digital subchannel of a low-power station.
A blue background indicates Rewind TV is the station's primary affiliation.
Affiliates
References
External links
Rewind TV affiliates
Rewind TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%20Act | The Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) is a proposed regulation of the European Union. Proposed by the European Commission on 21 April 2021, it aims to introduce a common regulatory and legal framework for artificial intelligence. Its scope encompasses all sectors (except for military), and to all types of artificial intelligence. As a piece of product regulation, it would not confer rights on individuals, but would regulate the providers of artificial intelligence systems, and entities making use of them in a professional capacity.
The proposed EU Artificial Intelligence Act aims to classify and regulate artificial intelligence applications based on their risk to cause harm. This classification primarily falls into three categories: banned practices, high-risk systems, and other AI systems.
Banned practices are those that employ artificial intelligence to cause subliminal manipulation or exploit people's vulnerabilities that may result in physical or psychological harm, make indiscriminate use of real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces for law enforcement, or use AI-derived 'social scores' by authorities to unfairly disadvantage individuals or groups. The Act entirely prohibits the latter, while an authorisation regime is proposed for the first three in the context of law enforcement.
High-risk systems, as per the Act, are those that pose significant threats to health, safety, or the fundamental rights of persons. They require a compulsory conformity assessment, undertaken as self-assessment by the provider, before being launched in the market. Particularly critical applications, such as those for medical devices, require the provider's self-assessment under AI Act requirements to be considered by the notified body conducting the assessment under existing EU regulations, like the Medical Devices Regulation.
AI systems outside the categories above are not subject to any regulation, with Member States largely prevented from further regulating them via maximum harmonisation. Existing national laws related to the design or use of such systems are disapplied. However, a voluntary code of conduct for such systems is envisaged, though not from the outset.
The Act further proposes the introduction of a European Artificial Intelligence Board to promote national cooperation and ensure compliance with the regulation.
Like the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, the AI Act could become a global standard. It is already having impact beyond Europe; in September 2021, Brazil's Congress passed a bill that creates a legal framework for artificial intelligence. The European Council adopted its general approach on the AI Act on 6 December 2022. Germany supports the Council's position but still sees some need for further improvement as formulated in an accompanying statement by the member state. Among the measures likely to be proposed is for AI developers for products such as Open AI's ChatGPT to declare whether copyrigh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202015 | Regional Mexican Albums is a record chart published in Billboard magazine that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Number-one albums
References
United States Regional Albums
2015 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorsport%20Games | Motorsport Games is an American video game developer, publisher and esports event organizer based in Miami, Florida. Motorsport Games is part of the Motorsport Network.
History
Motorsport Games was founded in 2018 and on August 14, 2018, Motorsport Games acquired 53.5% equity interest in 704Games, as a result, Motorsport Games became the official developer and publisher of the NASCAR video game racing franchise. In the same month, Motorsport Games collaborated with Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) to launch the Le Mans esports series competition.
In September 2019, Motorsport Games released the NASCAR Heat 4 game. In May 2020, 704 Games replaced Monster Games as developer for NASCAR Heat 5, which was released on July 10, 2020.
In March 2021 the company announced that it was acquiring Studio 397 and its rFactor 2 sim racing platform. In March 2022 it was announced that rFactor2 had been appointed the official sim racing platform of the all-electric FIA Formula E championship.
In August 2021 Motorsport Games announced that former President of EA Sports and former CEO of Liverpool Football Club Peter Moore had joined the Board.
2020 esports events
In 2020, during the COVID-19 Pandemic Motorsport Games produced several official esports events for NASCAR, 24 Hours of Le Mans, FIA Formula E World Championship and FIA World Rallycross Championship, eNASCAR Heat Pro League and Virtual Race of Champions.
In March 2020, Motorsport Games collaborated with Codemasters and Monster Energy, the sponsor of the FIA World Rallycross Championship, to create the World RX Esports Invitational which was held in April 2020.
In June 2020, Motorsport Games, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and the FIA World Endurance Championship organized the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual race on the rFactor 2 gaming platform as a placeholder for the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans which has been postponed from June to September 2020 as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in France. It was watched by 14.2 million television viewers and reached 8.6 million views, and was the recipient of several awards such as Autosport Pioneering and Engineering Award at the Autosport Awards.
IPO and 2021 acquisitions
Motorsport Games completed its Initial public offering (IPO) in January 2021, ended up raising $69 million which was used for acquiring the remaining equity interest of 704 Games, and for acquiring KartKraft and Studio 397.
In February 2021, Motorsport Games announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire game assets and code of PC kart racing simulator, KartKraft from Black Delta for an undisclosed amount with an aim to form a new studio called Motorsport Games Australia where the development of KartKraft will continue, and completed the deal in March 2021. On March 3, 2021, Motorsport entered into an agreement with Luminis International to acquire Studio 397 the developer of rFactor 2 which was completed two months later.
In July 2021, Motorsport Games announced t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellebrite%20UFED | The UFED (Universal Forensics Extraction Device) is a product series of the Israeli company Cellebrite, which is used for the extraction and analysis of data from mobile devices by law enforcement agencies.
Products
Cellebrite sells various products in the UFED series:
UFED Physical Analyzer
UFED Logical Analyzer
UFED Phone Detective
UFED Cloud Analyzer
Features
On the UFED Touch, it is possible to select extraction of data and choose from a wide list of vendors. After the data extraction is done, it is possible to analyze the data in the Physical Analyzer application.
The Cellebrite UFED Physical Analyzer supports the following features:
Extract device keys which can be used to decrypt raw disk images, as well as keychain items.
Revealing device passwords, although this is not available for all locked devices
Passcode recovery attacks
Analysis and decoding of application data
Generating reports in various formats such as PDF and HTML
Dump the raw filesystem for analyzing it in other applications
History
In 2019, Cellebrite announced a new version of the UFED, called the UFED Premium. The company claimed that it can unlock iOS devices including those running iOS 12.3 and Android phones such as the Galaxy S9.
Resale
Cellebrite does not allow the resale of their products. The original list price of the product is around US$6000, but they have been sold on eBay for around US$100. Some devices that were resold still contained data about criminal investigations.
Security
In 2021, Moxie Marlinspike, creator of the encrypted messaging app Signal, released a blog post on the app's website detailing a number of vulnerabilities in Cellebrite's UFED and Physical Analyzer software that allowed for arbitrary code execution on Windows computers running the software. One exploit he detailed involved the UFED scanning a specially formatted file which could then be used to execute arbitrary code on the computer running the UFED. Marlinspike wrote that the code could then "[modify] not just the Cellebrite report being created in that scan, but also all previous and future generated Cellebrite reports from all previously scanned devices and all future scanned devices in any arbitrary way". Marlinspike also found that Cellebrite software was bundled with out-of-date FFmpeg DLL files from 2012, which lacked over 100 subsequent security updates. Windows Installer packages, extracted from the Windows installer for iTunes and signed by Apple, were also found, which he said raised legal concerns. Cellebrite issued a statement in response, saying the company "is committed to protecting the integrity of our customers’ data, and we continually audit and update our software in order to equip our customers with the best digital intelligence solutions available." The report by Signal followed an announcement by Cellebrite in 2020 that it had developed technology to crack encrypted messages in the Signal app, a claim the company later retracted and downp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N841%20highway | National Route 841 (N841) is a , two-to-four lane national secondary route that forms part of the Philippine highway network, connecting the cities of Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue. It is carried by the Marcelo Fernan Bridge, constructed in 1996 and opened in 1999.
History
The route was assigned the number N841 during the addition of National Routes in late 2016.
An underpass and road widening project for the route's road has been undertaken to ease the traffic congestion caused by the many vehicles traveling to and from the Mactan-Cebu International Airport, but it has instead caused massive amounts of inconvenience as the project remains unfinished. Cebu Provincial Board member Glenn Soco has requested the Regional Development Council (RDC) to cancel the ongoing project in favor of a rotunda (roundabout).
Route description
The route starts as United Nations Avenue in Mandaue. It crosses a major junction with D.M. Cortes Avenue (formerly Plaridel Street) (N840) After crossing the Marcelo Fernan Bridge over the Mactan Channel, the route continues along two exit viaducts, with both viaducts terminating as they both merge with the Manuel Luis Quezon National Highway/Mactan Circumferential Road (N845) in Lapu-Lapu City.
References
Roads in Cebu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Dean%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Thomas L. Dean (born 1950) is an American computer scientist known for his work in robot planning, probabilistic graphical models, and computational neuroscience. He was one of the first to introduce ideas from operations research and control theory to artificial intelligence. In particular, he introduced the idea of the anytime algorithm and was the first to apply the factored Markov decision process to robotics.
He has authored several influential textbooks on artificial intelligence.
He was a professor at Brown University from 1993 to 2007, holding roles including department chair, acting vice president for computing and information services, and deputy provost. In 2006 he started working at Google, where he was instrumental in helping the Google Brain project get its start. He is currently an emeritus professor at Brown and a lecturer and research fellow at Stanford.
Academic and Scientific Contribution
Artificial Intelligence
Control
Dean and Wellman's book Planning and Control provided a much-needed bridge between research in AI on discrete-time symbolic methods for goal directed planning and decision making and continuous-time control theoretic methods for robotics and industrial control systems. Basic control concepts including "observability", "stability", and "optimality" are introduced, and many of the most important theoretical results are presented and explained. In a book review in the Artificial Intelligence Journal, James Hendler wrote that the book serves as a 'Rosetta Stone' for translation between the fields of robotics and AI.
Anytime Algorithms
The term anytime algorithm was coined by Dean and Boddy in the late '80s. The focus of Dean and Boddy's work in this area has been on deliberation scheduling applied to time-dependent planning problems. Deliberation scheduling is the explicit allocation of resources to tasks (in most cases anytime algorithms) so as to maximize the total value of an agent's computation. Time-dependent planning problems are defined to be planning problems where the time available for responding to events varies from situation to situation. In addition to defining the basic concepts, Dean and Boddy provided theoretical analyses and applications in robotics and operations research
.
Markov Processes
Dean played a leading role in the adoption of the framework of Markov decision processes (MDPs) as a foundational tool in artificial intelligence. In particular, he pioneered the use of AI representations and algorithms for || factoring || complex models and problems into weakly-interacting subparts to improve computational efficiency. His work in state estimation emphasized temporal causal reasoning
and the integration with probabilistic graphical models
. His work in control includes state-space partitioning
, hierarchical methods
, and model minimization
. This line of work is clearly summarized by a highly influential paper jointly written with Craig Boutilier and Steve Hanks.
AI |
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