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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolamba%20Ithaliya | Colomba Ithaliya () is a Sri Lankan comedy-drama television series, broadcast on Independent Television Network. It is directed by Jayaprakash Sivagurunathan, produced by Sudharma Jayawardhana and written by Nilantha Perera. It airs every weekday from 9:00 pm to 9:30 pm onwards. The series started on 31 May 2021. It has received negative reviews from critics, particularly on screenplay and performances.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Shanudrie Priyasad as Andrea
Sampath Jayaweera as Chandana
Chanuka Prabuddha as Sulalitha
Anuradha Edirisinghe as Priyanwada aka Princy
Gayathri Dias as Asha Balasuriya
Lal Kularatne
Janak Premalal
Ananda athukorala
Nilmini Kottegoda
Supporting cast
Udeni Nadika
Rohan Wijetunga
Madushan Nanayakkara
Nethalie Nanayakkara
Amaya Wijesooriya
Kavinda Madushan
Rathna Sumanapala
Dayasiri Hettiarachchi
Gamini Jayalath
Dev Surendra
Minor cast
Aloka Sampath
Janet Anthony
Kulasiri Mallikarachchi
Ranjan Suriyakumara
Ananda S. Kapuge
Kumuduni Adikari
Dayananda Dewage
Ranjith Kadupitiya
Nilantha Mahawewa
Pabasara Sulochana
Upul Gunawardena
Indika Madurage
Dimuthu Jayasinghe
Anura Weerasinghe
See also
ITN
References
2021 Sri Lankan television series debuts
Sri Lankan television shows
Independent Television Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie%20Hollister | Valerie Dutton Hollister (née Valerie Dutton; born 1939) is an American artist, known for her paintings, printmaking, and artist books. She frequently has used computer technology in aspects of her work.
Biography
Valerie Dutton Hollister was born December 29, 1939, in Oakland, California; to parents Betty (née Hines) and Gayle R. Dutton. Hollister was raised in Spokane, Washington and Palo Alto, California; where her parents had been active in the founding of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. She graduated from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane.
She studied at Stanford University, receiving an A.B. degree in 1961 and a M.A. degree in 1965. In 1964, she married Robinson G. Hollister, a classmate from Stanford University who became an economics professor. She took additional art classes at San Francisco Art Institute, and studied in Paris. In the late 1960s, she was working in Washington, D.C. and was tangential associated with the Washington Color School. Hollister moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania in 1971.
In 1968, Hollister was featured in Mademoiselle magazine in the article, "For Art's Sake". In the 1970s, Hollister was working with portraits in a flat, reduced form.
In 1966, she showed her work alongside artist Eric Rudd at Jefferson Place Gallery. In 1967, her work was part of the Corcoran Gallery of Arts' juried group exhibit, the 30th Corcoran Biennial; and she was included in the 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Hollister has work in public museum collections, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Williams College Museum of Art.
References
1939 births
Living people
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women artists
Stanford University alumni
San Francisco Art Institute alumni
Artists from Spokane, Washington
Artists from Palo Alto, California
American women printmakers
American women painters
Artists from Oakland, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nagbabagang%20Luha%20episodes | Nagbabagang Luha is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It aired on the network's Afternoon Prime line up and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV from August 2, 2021, to October 23, 2021.
Series overview
Episodes
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References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Gu%C3%A9rin | Paul Guérin (8 March 1830 – 23 June 1908) was a French priest, professor of philosophy, writer and encyclopedist.
He was gifted as a compiler, and is best known for being the author of the series Les Petits Bollandistes: vie des saints, with fifteen volumes (1866–1869) that were republished several times.
Biography
Paul Guérin was born in Buzançais to parents with modest income.
He studied in Buzancais at the municipal superior school.
In 1842 he entered the minor seminary in Saint-Gaultier, then, around 1849, the major seminary of Bourges.
At the end of his studies he returned to Saint-Gaultier as a fourth grade teacher.
He was then appointed to the Saint-Dizier college, where he taught for 13 years.
At the same time as his teaching, he wrote and translated foreign works: for example, in 1857, Paradise Lost by John Milton.
In 1858–1859 he published, by subscription, 4 volumes of Giry's Vie des saints.
Dictionary of dictionaries
Paul Guérin edited and issued, under his secular name, the six volumes of the Dictionnaire des dictionnaires. Lettres, sciences, arts, encyclopédie universelle (1884–1890), with a revised edition in 1892, to which an important Illustrated Supplement was added in 1895.
As its title indicated, this work aimed to bring together “the substance of all the dictionaries […] the summary of human knowledge".
The author announced that writing the articles had been entrusted "to special men, both scholars and popularizers".
In fact, Paul Guérin surrounded himself with brilliant specialists, such as Camille Saint-Saëns for music and Frédéric Godefroy for lexicography.
The editor, Frédéric Loliée, a literary writer, wrote the introduction.
The scientific part of the work counterbalances in places the traditional view of religious and theological articles.
Instead of limiting itself, like its predecessors, to the forms in use in France, this dictionary opens up the description of the French language to the dialects of Belgium, French-speaking Switzerland and particularly Quebec.
Biographies of authors and important articles were accompanied by a bibliography.
In spite of these qualities, the new encyclopedia faced competition from La Grande Encyclopédie, launched in 1886 by Marcellin Berthelot, and above all the Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle published by Pierre Larousse.
Unable to dominate the market, the company had to reduce its ambitions and each new volume of the encyclopedia became a little smaller than the previous one.
Later dictionaries and encyclopedias largely copied the Dictionaries of dictionaries, as Alain Rey reports; “when I read the twentieth century encyclopedia ... except for several elements ... these large pompous volumes reproduced the text of the Dictionary of dictionaries, created under Prothonotary Guérin, whose name had disappeared ... ”.
Driven into bankruptcy and then into breach of trust to finance his dictionary, Guérin was sentenced to prison and went into hiding at the end |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20aversion | Algorithm aversion is "biased assessment of an algorithm which manifests in negative behaviours and attitudes towards the algorithm compared to a human agent." It describes a phenomenon where humans reject advice from an algorithm in a case where they would accept the same advice if they thought it was coming from another human.
Algorithms, such as those employing machine learning methods or various forms of artificial intelligence, are commonly used to provide recommendations or advice to human decisionmakers. For example, recommender systems are used in E-commerce to identify products a customer might like, and artificial intelligence is used in healthcare to assist with diagnosis and treatment decisions. However, humans sometimes appear to resist or reject these algorithmic recommendations more than if the recommendation had come from a human. Notably, algorithms are often capable of outperforming humans, so rejecting algorithmic advice can result in poor performance or suboptimal outcomes.
This is an emerging topic and it is not completely clear why or under what circumstances people will display algorithm aversion. In some cases, people seem to be more likely to take recommendations from an algorithm than from a human, a phenomenon called algorithm appreciation.
Examples of algorithm aversion
Algorithm aversion has been studied in a wide variety of contexts. For example, people seem to prefer recommendations for jokes from a human rather than from an algorithm, and would rather rely on a human to predict the number of airline passengers from each US state instead of an algorithm. People also seem to prefer medical recommendations from human doctors instead of an algorithm.
Factors affecting algorithm aversion
Various frameworks have been proposed to explain the causes for algorithm aversion and techniques or system features that might help reduce aversion.
Decision control
Algorithms may either be used in an advisory role (providing advice to a human who will make the final decision) or in an delegatory role (where the algorithm makes a decision without human supervision). A movie recommendation system providing a list of suggestions would be in an advisory role, whereas the human driver delegates the task of steering the car to Tesla's Autopilot. Generally, a lack of decision control tends to increase algorithm aversion.
Perceptions about algorithm capabilities and performance
Overall, people tend to judge machines more critically than they do humans. Several system characteristics or factors have been shown to influence how people evaluate algorithms.
Algorithm Process and the role of system transparency
One reason people display resistance to algorithms is a lack of understanding about how the algorithm is arriving at its recommendation. People also seem to have a better intuition for how another human would make recommendations. Whereas people assume that other humans will account for unique differences between situations, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20George%20in%20the%20Forest | Saint George in the Forest is an oil painting on parchment, mounted on linden wood by German artist Albrecht Altdorfer, datable to 1510 and held in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
Description
The picture shows in the lower quarter the black armored saint on a white horse and next to it a rather inconspicuous red dragon. The horse is frightened of the monster, which George is staring at with his lance lowered. Most of the remaining space is filled with foliage; in the lower right half of the picture, the forest thins out and reveals a landscape with fields and mountains. The small-format picture is painted in oil on parchment; such a combination is quite unusual. Altdorfer uses the Alla Prima technique, known since the 16th century, which dispenses with layered structure, like underpainting and glaze, since only the yellow-green leafy scrolls are painted in the dark and the highlights are heightened.
The legendary episode of Saint George on horseback fighting with the dragon appears in this painting in fact more as a pretext, since its relegated to the lower end of the table, to represent instead the magic of the wooded, harsh and wild landscape, which evokes an arcane atmosphere full of suggestions, in which the human figures, overturning the traditional relationship, appear small and subordinated to natural forces. The colors are in accordance with the green and brown tones, while a sudden landscape opens in an unusual position, at the bottom right, where the gaze can sweep away towards the mountains that are lost in the distance.
See also
List of landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer
References
1510 paintings
Paintings by Albrecht Altdorfer
Collection of the Alte Pinakothek
Paintings of Saint George (martyr)
Horses in art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms2%20%28software%29 | ms2 is a non-commercial molecular simulation program. It comprises both molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation algorithms. ms2 is designed for the calculation of thermodynamic properties of fluids. A large number of thermodynamic properties can be readily computed using ms2, e.g. phase equilibrium, transport and caloric properties. ms2 is limited to homogeneous state simulations.
Features
ms2 contains two molecular simulation techniques: molecular dynamics (MD) and Monte-Carlo. ms2 supports the calculation of vapor-liquid equilibria of pure components as well as multi-component mixtures. Different Phase equilibrium calculation methods are implemented in ms2. Furthermore, ms2 is capable of sampling various classical ensembles such as NpT, NVE, NVT, NpH. To evaluate the chemical potential, Widom's test molecule method and thermodynamic integration are implemented. Also, algorithms for the sampling of transport properties are implemented in ms2. Transport properties are determined by equilibrium MD simulations following the Green-Kubo formalism and the Einstein formalism.
Applications
ms2 has been frequently used for predicting thermophysical properties of fluids for chemical engineering applications as well as for scientific computing and soft matter physics. It has been used for modelling both model fluids as well as real substances. A large number interaction potentials are implemented in ms2, e.g. the Lennard-Jones potential, the Mie potential, electrostatic interactions (point charges, point dipoles and point quadrupoles), and external forces. Force fields from databases such as the MolMod database can readily be used in ms2.
See also
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
List of Monte Carlo simulation software
List of free and open-source software packages
References
External links
Molecular dynamics software
Computational chemistry
Molecular modelling software
Molecular dynamics
Force fields (chemistry) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilize%20%28company%29 | Mobilize is an American technology platform and network that allows volunteers to sign up for events such as rallies, virtual meetings, canvassing, phone banking, and get out the vote. Founded in May 2017 by Allen Kramer and Alfred Johnson, the platform is used by Democratic Party candidates, progressive organizations, and non-profits to recruit and mobilize volunteers.
First used during the 2017 Virginia House of Delegates elections, the platform has expanded its user base to include more than 4 million volunteers. Most of the candidates in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries used the platform, including Joe Biden who continued to use the platform until his election in the 2020 U.S. presidential race. In late November 2020, Mobilize was acquired by EveryAction, the parent company of NGP VAN.
History
Mobilize was founded as MobilizeAmerica in May 2017 by Allen Kramer and Alfred Johnson. Kramer previously worked for Bain & Company and on the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. Johnson previously worked in the financial technology sector after working on the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign and joining the Obama administration. Until the company's acquisition in 2021, Kramer served as president of the company, and Johnson as CEO.
MobilizeAmerica allows volunteers to sign up for political campaign events such as canvassing, door-knocking, phone banking and get out the vote. It started with seed funding from Higher Ground Labs, a progressive technology accelerator based in Chicago and chaired by Ron Klain. Kramer and Johnson recruited a team of engineers and organizers to create the platform, and first launched with Democratic Party campaigns in the 2017 Virginia House of Delegates elections. Ten out of the eleven candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates who used the platform in 2017 won their elections with the Democratic Party gaining a new majority in the legislature.
The platform was next used by the successful campaign to elect Conor Lamb from Pennsylvania to the House of Representatives in a special election, and Mobilize quickly spread after that. Several political groups also began using the platform including MoveOn, Swing Left and Indivisible. In the 2018 election cycle, Democratic Party candidates from all levels of government used the Mobilize platform to manage volunteer work. By November 2018, Mobilize was serving 515 campaigns and more than 640 organizations, including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
In January 2020, Mobilize raised $3.75 million in a Series A funding led by Higher Ground Labs. Among other investors were Lowercase Capital and Reid Hoffman. Mobilize was used by 20 candidates in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, including Joe Biden's campaign which continued to use the platform through the general election.
With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, by March 2020, almost all volunteer campaign work switched to virtual events over Zoom with volunteer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBFS%20%28disambiguation%29 | DBFS or dBFS can refer to:
Databricks File System, a distributed file system used for storing and querying data in Databricks
Decibels relative to full scale, a unit of measurement for amplitude levels in digital systems which have a defined maximum peak level
Oracle Database File System, a file system interface on top of Oracle Database tables for storage of XML files, later renamed Oracle Content Management SDK. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20Debug%20Wire%20Protocol | In computing, the Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) is a communication protocol which is part of the Java Platform Debugger Architecture. It is used for communication between a debugger and the Java Virtual Machine, which it debugs. It allows to debug processes on a different computer. It can work over a network socket or through shared memory.
The protocol is implemented in the software library libjdwp. It can be activated using the -Xrunjdwp parameter of Java.
Metasploit includes a module for JDWP. It can exploit it using various scripts, which have functions such as injecting a Java class that executes a shell command, returns operating system details or injects an arbitrary class.
References
External links
Java Debug Wire Protocol - Java SE Documentation
Hacking the Java Debug Wire Protocol by IOActive
Patent US20110138359A1 - Modified implementation of java debug wire protocol
JDWP Misconfiguration in Container Images and K8s
Debugging
Communications protocols
Java (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp%20PC-7000 | The Sharp PC-7000 is a luggable portable computer released by Sharp Electronics in 1985. The PC-7000 was Sharp's second entry into the IBM PC-compatible portable computer market, their first being the PC-5000.
The PC-7000 eschewed the PC-5000's clamshell design, battery operation, and lighter weight— for the PC-7000 versus the PC-5000's . The compromise was an LCD display with electroluminescent backlighting, as well as an increased display line count—25 for the PC-7000 versus the PC-5000's eight. Sharp also replaced the predecessor's Intel 8088 processor with an 8086 running at a user-switchable 7.37 MHz and bumped the stock memory from 128 to 320 KB. These improvements led to higher performance and near-true IBM PC compatibility, in turn leading to a wider range of software that could be used with the computer.
Sharp released the PC-7000 in October 1985 to high praise. It spawned a series of luggable computers featuring improvements to the original PC-7000's hardware. Sharp sold hundreds of thousands of units under this series—including the original—over the years, before discontinuing it in 1990.
Specifications
Construction
The Sharp PC-7000's case sports the luggable form factor for portable computers; journalists compared it to a portable radio, a toaster, and a lunchbox. Its keyboard detaches from the display and serves as protection of the latter. The computer's case measures and weighs almost . The computer's chassis was fabricated from steel and provides much of the weight.
The PC-7000's dimensions, when closed, were compliant with the contemporaneously revised restrictions on carry-on luggage set by the Federal Aviation Administration. The same was true even with the computer's optional printer attached. To further assist travelers, Sharp offered a carrying case through mail order.
Components
On the right side of the Sharp PC-7000 are two half-height, 5.25-inch floppy disk drives, mounted vertically and with shock absorption. These drives were manufactured by Canon and were designed as one piece, making it impossible to replace the unit with a hard disk drive while retaining one of the original floppy disk drives. On the back of the computer are ports for parallel and RS-232 serial. Additional ports for RGBA video output and an internal modem—should these parts have been ordered—are also located on the back.
The PC-7000 uses an Intel 8086 processor, by default running at clock speed of 7.37 MHz, switchable to the IBM PC standard 4.77 MHz. A stock PC-7000 comes with 384 KB of RAM, only 320 KB of which is available to the user. Sharp offered through mail order a memory expansion card which increases the RAM to 704 KB with 640 KB available to the user. A socket for a 8087 coprocessor is included on the mainboard.
The PC-7000's display measures diagonally with an aspect ratio of 2.1:1. Its display resolution is 640 by 200 pixels, making it compatible with up to the CGA standard only. The portable computer was one of the first to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone%20%28company%29 | Backbone is an American technology company located in Vancouver, Washington. The company is known for consumer electronics and computer software products for gaming on Apple iOS and Android devices. Backbone operates the Backbone app, a social and content creation hub for mobile devices.
History
Backbone began as a startup by founder and CEO Maneet Khaira in 2018 while working at Google. Khaira wanted to develop a more cohesive way to play games on mobile platforms. The company financed the production of its first product, Backbone One, with investments from MrBeast, Preston Arsement, Kwebbelkop, Typical Gamer, Night Media, Nadeshot, and Ludlow Ventures, as well as Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures. Backbone launched the Backbone One controller on October 27, 2020 and made it immediately available for purchase via limited drops.
In September 2021, Apple announced the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max models featuring larger camera units. While the Backbone One was still compatible with the new models, some users voiced a desire for a more comfortable fitment. Backbone introduced an optional adapter for their device and released a free open-source 3D printable file for users to print at home within days of the iPhone release.
In November 2021, Backbone launched the Backbone+ service. The service gives users access to premium software features of the Backbone app, including the ability to stream to Twitch, enhanced recording options, and Xbox app integrations. The service offers users in-app perks such as free trials to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and Google Stadia.
On February 23, 2022, Backbone announced it had raised $40 million in its Series A funding round led by Index Ventures. Other notable investors in the round included Jason Citron (Discord), Nick Fajt (Rec Room), Patrick Spence (Sonos), The Weeknd, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Sound Ventures, and Nico Wittenborn’s Adjacent.
Partnerships
In March 2021, Backbone partnered with Nvidia to integrate their cloud gaming service GeForce Now with the Backbone platform and listed Backbone One as a recommended device for the service.
In June 2021, the company partnered with Microsoft to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to iOS devices. The Backbone One controller was added to the designed for Xbox partner hardware program and is available for purchase from the Microsoft Store. The packaging for the Backbone One was redesigned with Xbox branding.
In October 2021, Backbone partnered with Iconfactory to bring exclusive Backbone-themed in-game cosmetics to the Apple Arcade exclusive second installment of the Frenzic series, Frenzic: Overtime. Players who connect a Backbone One controller to play the game will receive an alternate version of DoBot featuring Backbone branding.
In November 2021, Backbone and Twitch announced a partnership to integrate Twitch features within the Backbone+ service. IGDB, Twitch’s game database, is used with the Backbone platform to display richer content within the app. The an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina%20Ayman | Dina Ayman (born January 9, 1994) is an Egyptian-American computer engineer and advocate for diversity and inclusion in engineering.
Education and career
Ayman has a bachelor's (2017) and master's (2018) degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Following this she worked at Intel and for the city of Austin, Texas. As of 2022, she is a software engineering program manager at Microsoft, the first Egpytian woman to hold this level of position, and is an adjunct professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Ayman works to encourage and empower women in the engineering, and is associated with the Haya Karima project to reduce poverty and provide jobs in villages in Egypt.
In 2022 she became the first women with a hijab to compete for Miss Universe, and was named to Forbes' 30 under 30 list.
References
External links
1994 births
Living people
Microsoft employees
New Jersey Institute of Technology alumni
Computer engineers
American people of Egyptian descent
Engineers from New Jersey
Intel people
American computer specialists
Beauty pageant contestants from New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Alberta | The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta.
Data
2020
March 1–7
In a March 4 statement, Hinshaw said that there were no confirmed presumptive COVID-19 cases in Alberta, and the risk at that time was low. Hinshaw advised Albertans to prepare in case COVID-19 should arrive here in Alberta by having "three days’ worth of essential items like food, water and medicine on hand in the event of any emergency." She cautioned against panic buying and advised Albertans to "plan ahead".
On March 5, Hinshaw reported Alberta's first presumptive COVID-19 case. On February 21, a woman who was in her 50s, and had been on the Grand Princess Cruise ship had returned to the Calgary zone—an area that includes Calgary, Nanton, Canmore and Claresholm on February 21 and had tested positive. Hinshaw said that more positive cases were found as a result of the work of public health teams who had contacted the 44 Albertans repatriated from the Grand Princess.
March 8–14
On March 9, 2020, Hinshaw said that tests had revealed the fifth, sixth, and seventh cases of COVID-19 in Alberta. Case five was an older woman who had been on the Princess Cruise. Case 6, in the Calgary zone, was a young man who had travelled to Ukraine, Netherlands and Turkey. Case seven was a woman who was on the MS Braemar Caribbean cruise ship. Hinshaw said that, COVID-19 "can spread person-to-person by larger droplets, like from a cough or sneeze…or by touching contaminated objects or surfaces, then touching your eyes, nose or mouth." Hinshaw acknowledged the work of Health Link, and Alberta's public health laboratory, among others. The laboratory "dramatically increased" capacity for running tests for COVID-19. On March 7 300 tests were performed and on March 8 alone they performed 700 tests. Since all of the cases tested in Alberta were subsequently confirmed, "positive samples tested by Alberta laboratories no longer require further confirmation" from the Winnipeg-based National Microbiology Laboratory (NML).
By March 10, there were 7 new confirmed cases that brought the total to 14 in Alberta. One person had travelled on the same MS Braemar cruise ship in the Caribbean as case seven.
By March 11, there were 5 new cases, bringing the total to 19 confirmed cases in the province. At her daily briefing, Hinshaw drew attention to the World Health Organization's (WHO) official declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic earlier on March 11.
On March 12, Hinshaw said that, faced with the "rapidly evolving global threat", the provincial government had adopted "aggressive new public health measures to limit the spread of this virus." The Emergency Management Cabinet Committee approved Hinshaw's "recommendation that all large gatherings of more than 250 people, or international events" in Alberta be cancelled. She made a number of recommendations regarding how to communicate with children about this virus.
In her response to the March 11 decision by the World Health Organizat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulit%20TV | Sulit TV (, stylized in lowercase) is a Philippine ISDB-Tb digital terrestrial television provider owned and operated by TV5 Network. The service distributes digital set-top boxes with free-to-air digital TV channels, multimedia player, video recorder, broadcast markup language, and emergency warning broadcast system features available in select areas in the Philippines. Sulit TV launched on September 10, 2021.
Channel lineup
UHF Channel 18 (497.143 MHz)/UHF Channel 51 (695.143 MHz)1
1 For Mega Manila only, channel and frequency varies on regional stations.
Channel and frequency
See also
Digital terrestrial television in the Philippines
ABS-CBN TV Plus Digital TV Receiver
GMA Affordabox
Easy TV (defunct)
References
TV5 Network
Digital television in the Philippines
Products introduced in 2021
2021 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife%20Disaster%20Network | The Wildlife Disaster Network (WDN) is an American organization focusing on aiding wild animals suffering due to natural disasters. It was created in October 2020, as a partnership between the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. The network is made up of rehabilitation centers, veterinarians, trained animal care volunteers, wildlife biologists and ecologists.
History
The WDN was modelled after the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, which was started at UC Davis for rescuing birds and other marine animals from oil spills. It is led by Jamie Peyton, Eric Johnson, Deana Clifford and Michael Ziccardi.
In 2021, it was one of 29 recipients of a grant from the Dave and Cheryl Duffield Foundation to rescue and rehabilitate animals injured by the Caldor Fire.
Work
The network operates a hotline where they receive calls from people who find injured wild animals. It then requests authorization from officials to rescue the animals, who after being found are captured and transported to rescue facilities where they receive care for their injuries.
References
External links
2020 establishments in California
Animal welfare organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 2020
Wildlife rehabilitation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami%20Haddadin | Sami Haddadin (born 26 June 1980) is an electrical engineer, computer scientist, and university professor in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Since April 2018, he has been the executive director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich and holds the Chair of Robotics and Systems Intelligence.
Life
Sami Haddadin was born in Neustadt am Rübenberge, the eldest of three children to a Jordanian doctor and a Finnish nurse. He grew up with his sister and brother in his birthplace Neustadt am Rübenberge. He is married and has three children. He completed his Abitur in 1999 in Stolzenau at the local high school and studied electrical engineering and informatics at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover, the University of Hagen, the University of Oulu in Finland and in Munich. He holds degrees in electrical engineering, computer science and technology management from the Technical University of Munich and the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM), a joint institute of the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. After that, he worked in various functions as a research assistant at DLR. He received his doctorate summa cum laude from RWTH Aachen University in 2011. From April 2014 to April 2018, Haddadin held the chair of the Institute of Automatic Control at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover. In 2018, he accepted the call as professor and director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He has published more than 200 scientific articles. He is one of the founders of the German-based robotic firm Franka Emika GmbH. His patent "Tactile Robot" is the latest entry in the collection "Milestone made in Germany" (DPMA). The invention Panda Robotic Arm was included in the list of "The 50 best inventions of 2018" of Time magazine and in the September 2020 issue of the National Geographic magazine ("Meet the Robots"). Sami Haddadin and his team conceived the exhibition KI.ROBOTIK.DESIGN, in which the emergence, present and future of robotics and AI are presented at the Pinakothek der Moderne
Awards
In 2021 Sami Haddadin was accepted as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina For 2019, Haddadin was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize. Also in 2019 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). On November 29, 2017, together with his brother Simon and Sven Parusel, he was awarded the German Future Prize, endowed with 250,000 euros, by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The Prize was awarded for the concept "inexpensive, flexible and intuitively operable robots", which turn automats into helpers to humans. In 2015, Haddadin was awarded the Alfried-Krupp Sponsorship Award for Young University Teachers. The prize granted Haddadin 1 million euros over a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesonula%20mundata | Gesonula mundata is a species of short-horned grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Subspecies
These subspecies belong to the species Gesonula mundata:
Gesonula mundata laosana (Rehn, 1952)
Gesonula mundata mundata (Walker, 1870) (Common Gesonula)
Gesonula mundata pulchra (Rehn, 1909)
Gesonula mundata vietnamensis Storozhenko, 1992
Gesonula mundata zonocera (Navás, 1904)
References
External links
Oxyinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive%20miner | Inductive miner belongs to a class of algorithms used in process discovery. Various algorithms proposed previously give process models of slightly different type from the same input. The quality of the output model depends on the soundness of the model. A number of techniques such as alpha miner, genetic miner, work on the basis of converting an event log into a workflow model, however, they do not produce models that are sound all the time. Inductive miner relies on building a directly follows graph from event log and using this graph to detect various process relations.
Definitions
A directly follows graph is a directed graph that connects an activity A to another activity B if and only if activity B occurs chronologically right after activity A for any given case in the respective event log. A directly follows graph is represented mathematically by:
Where
(activities in the log)
(directly follows relation)
The inductive miner technique relies on the detection of various cuts on the directly follows graph created using the event log. The core idea behind inductive miner lies in the unique methodology of discovering various divisions of the arcs in the directly follows graph, and using the smaller components after division to represent the execution sequence of the activities.The inductive miner algorithm uses the directly follows graph to detect one of the following cuts.
Exclusive OR cut: The exclusive OR cut groups the activities such that the activities belonging to different groups have no relations between them.
is an exclusive OR cut iff:
Sequence cut: The sequence cut groups activities such that activities between them have a directly follows relation from previous group to next group but not the other way around.
is a sequence cut iff:
Parallel cut: Parallel cut groups activities such that each group has a start activity and an end activity, and the activities between the groups have directly follows relations between them.
is a parallel cut iff:
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Redo loop cut: A loop cut groups elements into two parts. A do part and a redo part. The activities in the event log from a redo loop cut can start and end only with the activities from the do part.
is a redo loop cut iff:
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Types
Inductive miner with fall through: The complex event log sometimes would make it impossible to detect any cuts using the above techniques. In that case, there are additional fall throughs that can be applied to obtain better representation of process tree instead of a flower model.
Inductive miner frequency-based: The less frequent relations in the event log sometimes creates problems in detecting any type of cuts. In that case, the directly follows relations below a certain threshold are removed from the directly follows graph and the resultant graph is used for detecting the cuts.
Inductive miner for big data: This includes an improvement on the existing inductive miner to handle big data sets.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cupcake%20Girls | The Cupcake Girls is a Canadian reality television series, which premiered on W Network in 2010. The series centres on Heather White and Lori Joyce, two women who are partners in a cupcake business in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The series aired for three seasons, concluding in 2012.
The series won the Gemini Award for Best Reality Series at the 25th Gemini Awards.
References
External links
2010s Canadian reality television series
2010 Canadian television series debuts
2012 Canadian television series endings
Television series by Force Four Entertainment
Gemini and Canadian Screen Award for Best Reality Series winners
W Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solana%20%28blockchain%20platform%29 | Solana is a blockchain platform which uses a proof-of-stake mechanism to provide smart contract functionality. Its native cryptocurrency is SOL.
Solana was launched in 2020 by Solana Labs, which was founded by Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal in 2018. The blockchain has experienced several major outages, was subjected to a hack, and a class action lawsuit was filed against the platform.
Solana's total market cap was in January 2022. However, by the end of 2022, this had fallen to around $3 billion following the bankruptcy of FTX. Following the general rise of the cryptocurrency market in 2023, its market cap rose to $7 billion.
Characteristics
According to the company's white paper, Solana runs on a proof of stake model. The New York Times and Financial Times described the coin as an alternative to Ethereum.
History
Solana was first opened to the public in March 2020, with its first block being created on 16 March 2020. The Solana blockchain was designed to support smart contracts and decentralized apps in particular. Large numbers of simultaneous transactions have contributed to several outages of the Solana blockchain.
In June 2021, Solana Labs sold $314 million worth of its native cryptocurrency, SOL, to a group of funds led by Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital.
On 1 July 2022, a class action lawsuit was filed against Solana. The lawsuit accused Solana of selling unregistered securities tokens in the form of Solana from 24 March 2020, onward and that Solana deliberately misled investors concerning the total circulating supply of SOL tokens. According to the lawsuit, Anatoly Yakovenko, the founder of Solana Labs, lent a market maker more than 11.3 million tokens in April 2020 and failed to disclose this information to the public. The lawsuit claimed that Solana stated it would reduce the supply by this amount, but it only burned 3.3 million tokens.
On 3 August, 2022, 9,231 Solana wallets were hacked and four Solana wallet addresses stole approximately $8 million from victims. The Solana Foundation stated that the hack was caused by digital wallet software from Slope Finance.
In April 2023, Solana Mobile, a subsidiary of Solana Labs, began selling the Solana Saga, an Android smartphone with several Solana-based decentralized apps preinstalled.
In June 2023, the SEC sued Coinbase, alleging that Solana and twelve other currencies offered by the platform failed the Howey Test and qualified as securities. The suit accuses Coinbase of illegally evading requirements for disclosure by offering these tokens. The SEC had previously issued a Wells notice to Coinbase in March.
In September 2023, Visa announced that along with payment processors Worldpay, Inc. and Nuvei, it had added support for the Solana blockchain to send payments to merchants using the stablecoin USD Coin (USDC), rather than fiat currency via bank wire.
Market value
The value of Solana tokens has fluctuated greatly since the system's inception. The market capitaliz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaze%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | Blaze is a British English language free-to-air television channel owned by A&E Networks UK, a joint venture between A&E Networks and Sky Group. This channel allows UK A&E to use its programming for the complete "lifecycle".
A+E Networks Italy launched its Blaze on Sky Italy on March 22, 2017. In Spain and Portugal, a version of Blaze channel was launched by AMC Networks International in joint-venture with A&E Networks to replace the A&E channel on 18 April 2018, but closed and replaced with AMC Break on 19 April 2022.
Format and programming
The channels' programming is a best of A&E shows Blaze was the first channel launched in the UK by A&E Networks that did not borrow its name from one of the company's U.S. channels. The abbreviation "A&E" is commonly used to mean "Accident and Emergency unit" in the UK, so the company decided not to use that brand for the channel.
Having original only aired imported and rerun programming, Blaze commissioned its first original programme, Flipping Bangers, in 2017. It premiered on 6 April 2018 as a part of the Car Night programming block. A second season was later commissioned.
Staff
Elena Anniballi was appointed director of Blaze in April 2017. In February 2019, A&E Networks appointed Dan Korn as head of Blaze.
Programs
Initial programs
Pawn Stars (2016–)
Mountain Men (2016–)
American Restoration (2016–)
Exclusive A&E programming (April 2019—)
Pawn Stars
Storage Wars
Counting Cars
Original programming:
Flipping Bangers(6 April 2018—) Just Might TV, Car Night programming block, two seasons
Spiky Goldhunters Pango Productions
Outback Truckers (seventh season—) Prospero Productions
References
A&E Networks
Television channels in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20recovery%20mode | The Android recovery mode is a mode of Android used for installing updates and wipe data. It consists of a Linux kernel with ramdisk on a separate partition from the main Android system.
Recovery mode can be useful when a phone is stuck in a bootloop or when it has been infected with malware.
Enablement
The way of entering recovery is different for every vendor.
Examples:
Zebra and symbol devices: left scan/action button
Nexus 7: Volume Up + Volume Down + Power
Samsung Galaxy S3: Volume Up + Home + Power
Motorola Droid X: Home + Power
Samsung Galaxy A10s: Volume Up + Power
Features
Features of the recovery mode usually include:
Applying updates using the Android Debug Bridge
Applying updates from the SD card
Factory
resetting
Mounting partitions
Run system test
Custom recovery
The recovery that is preinstalled on Android can be replaced by other software, such as TWRP or ClockWorkMod. It can include features such as:
Full backup and restore functionality
Applying unsigned update packages
USB mass storage access to SD cards
Full ADB access, with ADB running as root
See also
Bootloader unlocking
Qualcomm EDL mode
References
Android (operating system) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Amplifier | Sound Amplifier is an accessibility mobile application developed by Google for the Android operating system. It acts like a hearing aid using internet and artificial intelligence.
History
Google launched Sound Amplifier in 2019 for Android 6.0 and above.
References
External links
Google software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafetyNet%20API | The SafetyNet API consists of several application programming interfaces (APIs) offered by the Google Play Services to support security sensitive applications, such as DRM. Currently, these APIs include device integrity verification, app verification, recaptcha and web address verification.
Attestation
The SafetyNet Attestation API, one of the APIs under the SafetyNet umbrella, provides verification that the integrity of the device is not compromised.
In practice, non-official ROMs such as LineageOS fail the hardware attestation and thus restrict the user from enjoying a pure Android implementation (without the Google Services) while being able to use third-party apps (mainly banking).
Due to this, some consider this a monopolistic practice deterring the entrance of competing mobile operating systems in the market.
The SafetyNet Attestation API (one of the four APIs under the SafetyNet umbrella) has been deprecated. Google expects to fully replace it with the Play Integrity API by the end of January 2025. Like the SafetyNet APIs, the Play Integrity API is offered by Google Services and thus is not available on free Android environments (AOSP). Therefore, apps that require the API to be available may refuse to execute on AOSP builds.
References
External links
Protect against security threats with SafetyNet
How does Universal SafetyNet Fix work?
SafetyNet Attestation API deprecation timeline
Play Integrity API Documentation
Play Integrity API Migration Guide
Android (operating system)
Computer security
Digital rights management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra%20Hirche | Sandra Hirche (born 1974) is a German control theorist and engineer. She is Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Technical University of Munich, where she holds the chair of information-oriented control. Her research focuses on human–robot interaction, haptic technology, telepresence, and the control engineering and systems theory needed to make those technologies work.
Education and career
Hirche was born in 1974 in Freiberg. She became a student of aerospace engineering at the Technical University of Berlin, earning a diploma in 2002. She completed her doctorate (Dr.Ing.) at the Technical University of Munich in 2005.
After postdoctoral research at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and University of Tokyo, she joined the Technical University of Munich as an associate professor in 2008. She was named Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professor and given the chair of information-oriented control in 2013.
Recognition
Hirche was named an IEEE Fellow in 2020 "for contributions to human-machine interaction and networked control".
References
External links
Home page
Living people
German electrical engineers
German women engineers
Control theorists
Technical University of Berlin alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
Fellow Members of the IEEE
1974 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXL%20100 | The EXL 100 is a computer released in 1984 by the French brand Exelvision, based on the TMS 7020 microprocessor from Texas Instruments. This was an uncommon design choice (at the time almost all home computers either used 6502 or Z80 microprocessors) but justified by the fact that the engineering team behind the machine (Jacques Palpacuer, Victor Zebrouck and Christian Petiot) came from Texas instruments.
It was part of the government Computing for All plan and 9000 units were used in schools.
The design is unusual compared with similar machines of the time, as it had a separate central processing unit. Two keyboards are available: one with rubber keys and another with a more standard touch. Keyboard and joystick were not connected to the central unit by a cable but by infrared link, and are battery powered. Many extensions were available: modem, floppy disk drive and a 16 KB CMOS RAM powered by an integrated lithium battery.
Its TMS 5220 sound processor was capable of French speech synthesis, another unusual feature.
The machine came with a BASIC version on cartridge named ExelBasic.
Specifications
Release price: 3,190 French Francs
CPU: TMS 7020 at 4.9 Mhz
Graphics chip: TMS 3556 (40 x 25 character text mode, 320 x 250 pixel graphics mode, 8 colors)
Sound: TMS 5220 (with speech synthesis in French)
Storage: cartridge port, cassettes, optional floppy disk drive
Memory: 34KB RAM (2KB RAM + 32KB Shared VRAM), 4 to 32KB ROM
Variants: A version with an integrated V23 modem named Exeltel was released in 1986
References
Lists of computer hardware
Computer companies of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20Bahia%20de%20Televis%C3%A3o | Rede Bahia de Televisão (also called as RBT or Rede Bahia) is a Brazilian statewide TV Globo-affiliated commercial broadcast television network owned by Rede Bahia. The network is headquartered at 123 Prof. Aristídes Novis Street in Salvador, Bahia. Rede Bahia is the only statewide television network in Bahia, covering all the 417 cities of the state.
Rede Bahia has six owned-and-operated stations throughout Bahia: TV Bahia in Salvador, TV Oeste in Barreiras, TV Santa Cruz in Itabuna, TV São Francisco in Juazeiro, TV Subaé in Feira de Santana, and TV Sudoeste in Vitória da Conquista.
History
The network began to be formed on March 10, 1985, when it was founded, by entrepreneurs ACM Júnior and César Mata Pires, the TV Bahia in Salvador. The station was affiliated with Rede Manchete from its foundation to January 23, 1987, when it became an Rede Globo affiliate. On November 5, 1988, TV Santa Cruz was inaugurated in Itabuna, being the first television station owned by Rede Bahia in the interior of the state, also affiliated with Rede Globo. TV Sudoeste was the second, being inaugurated on March 31, 1990, in Vitória da Conquista. TV São Francisco signed on in December 1 of the same year in Juazeiro, with the branding TV Norte, and TV Oeste was the last to be founded by the group, wenting on air on February 2, 1991, in Barreiras.
TV Subaé signed on the air on June 1, 1988, at Feira de Santana, being the first Rede Globo-affiliated station in the interior of Bahia, but it was not founded by Rede Bahia. Its founder was the businessman Modesto Cerqueira, and the station was part of Grupo Modesto Cerqueira. It was only in 1998 that the station became part of the statewide network, when the local group sold part of its shares to business partners of Grupo TV Bahia.
On July 2, 1998, the network adopted the nomenclature Rede Bahia de Televisão. The change took place at the same time that the conglomerate was renamed Rede Bahia.
In 2012, the quotas belonging to César Mata Pires in Rede Bahia were sold to the Coutinho Nogueira family, owner of the EP Group, owner of the regional television network based in cities of São Paulo and one city of Minas Gerais, EPTV, also an Globo affiliate.
In 2014, the network was the winner in the category "Biggest Audience" of Rede Globo's National Programming Award, among the participating affiliates of the National Television Panel. It was also one of the three finalists in the categories "Best Calls" (with the call of the match between Juazeirense and Juazeiro) and "Regional Line Programs" (with the local entertainment show Mosaico Baiano).
In May 2019, a process of dismissals was initiated at the network's stations, from journalists to employees, after financial losses suffered by the group in 2018. TV Oeste, from Barreiras, and TV São Francisco, from Juazeiro, stopped the production of local news programs due to the dismissal of employees. On the Juazeiro station, 16 were fired. The stations continued to produce repo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Fiction%20Awards%20Database | The (SFADB) is an index of science fiction, fantasy, and horror awards compiled by Mark R. Kelly and published by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Known formerly as the Locus Index to SF Awards, it has been cited as an invaluable science fiction resource, and is often more up-to-date than the awards' own websites (according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction).
History
The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards was established in 2000 by Mark R. Kelly, the founder of Locus Online. The Cornell University Library has described it as a comprehensive listing of science fiction awards, including "reader polls, fan awards, inactive awards, academic awards, award statistics, and more". Despite the title, the index has always covered fantasy and horror in addition to science fiction. In 2012, coincident with Kelly's retirement as an aerospace software engineer, the website received a redesign and expansion, and was renamed the Science Fiction Awards Database (SFADB).
Reception
The index has received praise from authors and editors of speculative fiction, including Jo Walton and Gardner Dozois. Walton has said that her book An Informal History of the Hugos would not have been possible without the existence of the index. The Orion Publishing Group called it "extraordinary, and to our mind, criminally under-appreciated", and cited it as a primary source for Gollancz's SF Masterworks and SF Gateway series of books.
Writing in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Peter Nicholls and David Langford called the index invaluable, and noted that it was often more up-to-date than the awards' official websites. Locus Online, which hosted the index, received the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Website.
Contents
The SFADB compiles over 100 literary awards for science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from 1951 to date. It includes both nominees and winners, with a separate page for each person and award. Awards are displayed as three groups: Major Career Awards, Major Awards and Other Awards, and can be sorted chronologically, by nominee, and by category.
Statistics such as "Total Wins", "Total Losses" and "Never-Winners" are also listed. The following table lists a subset of 29 awards that are featured in the "Awards" dropdown (as of 2021):
The SFADB also has a citations directory for each author, containing a list of critical works and reading guides where their books have been cited. In 2018, it added indexes for "Year's Best" anthologies of short fiction, with contents linked to the individual author pages.
References
Sources
External links
Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards (archive)
Science Fiction Awards Database
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Library 2.0
Online databases
Speculative fiction websites
Internet properties established in 2000
Science fiction awards
Fantasy awards
Horror fiction awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N850%20highway | National Route 850 (N850) is a , two-four lane, circumferential national secondary route that forms part of the Philippine highway network. It connects the whole island of Bohol. The route is composed of Tagbilaran North Road from Tagbilaran to Trinidad and Tagbilaran East Road from Trinidad to Tagbilaran again.
History
Route description
Tagbilaran to Trinidad
The route starts as Tagbilaran North Road. After reaching Trinidad, the road ends in a three-way intersection with Loay Interior Road and Tagbilaran East Road.
Trinidad to Tagbilaran
The route continues as Tagbilaran East Road. After reaching Tagbilaran again it ends in the kilometer 0 of Bohol.
Incidents
This highway had many bridges and sections of Tagbilaran North Road and Tagbilaran East Road damaged during the 2013 Bohol earthquake. A few bridges were reconstructed with the Mabey Compact 200.
On April 27, 2022, the old bridge over the Loboc River in Loay collapsed, killing 4 people and injuring 15. The bridge was damaged during the 2013 earthquake and still being used while a new replacement bridge was under construction next to it. One possible cause was the stationary traffic on the bridge that exceeded its capacity.
References
Roads in Bohol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge%20Steve%20Harvey | Judge Steve Harvey is an American arbitration-based reality court comedy show hosted by Steve Harvey. The series premiered on ABC on January 4, 2022. Unlike most courtroom programming which airs in the daytime television bracket, Judge Steve Harvey airs in prime time. Also in contrast to most courtroom programming, which typically airs a new episode for each weekday, Judge Steve Harvey takes the approach of a sitcom television schedule, airing one new episode per week.
Casting for Judge Steve Harvey was conducted in September 2021 and filming for the series ran from October to November 2021. The show is produced by Den of Thieves in association with Disney Branded Television.
In April 2022, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on May 9, 2023.
On-air feel and format
Episode openings
The courtroom set takes on a ritzy, majestic display, Harvey's bench extending vastly from one side to the other, taking up most of the courtroom. In similar vein, the courtroom is filled with flashy spotlights with Harvey wielding a gold-colored gavel, and the program's opening theme decorated with extravagant pomp and circumstance. As part of the title sequence, Harvey introduces himself show-offishly while talking the talk: he declares his judicial handling is without the need of legal degrees or law backgrounds, just his unique brand of commonsense. Harvey adds to that how he has transcended the wearing of a judge's robe, instead, donning a swanky all-black suit. A grand entrance into the courtroom follows the title sequence in which the walls of the courtroom separate for Harvey to enter through, smoke filling the scene around him. Rubin Ervin hypes up the crowd and introduces Harvey with emphatic expression as raucous music sounds.
Case proceedings
Proceedings begin with Harvey instructing litigants that they have thirty seconds to summarize their case for the viewing audience before he moves deeper into interrogating the parties. Before and during the proceedings, the audience is heard freely hooting, hollering, standing, cheering, whooping, and booing at the proceedings. This is all prompted by Harvey's satire, derision, and ridicule at the parties before him. Harvey spends most of the cases engaged in his antics and mischievous behaviors, such as writing out signs and raising them up in the air, in one case, raising up a "WTF" sign at a misbehaved litigant repeatedly speaking out of turn. Harvey's mischievous approach, teasing, and satire typically expose the follies and foolishness of the guests in regards to their testimonies.
Demanding acknowledgment for the parody nature of the program, Harvey openly jeers at guests who take the proceedings too seriously by acting as though they are in a real court of law, Harvey going so far as scolding the parties to stop pretending that they are in a real court and to remember and recognize they are in a TV studio. Establishing some early catchphrases, Harvey follows each verdict with the re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20decision-making | Automated decision-making (ADM) involves the use of data, machines and algorithms to make decisions in a range of contexts, including public administration, business, health, education, law, employment, transport, media and entertainment, with varying degrees of human oversight or intervention. ADM involves large-scale data from a range of sources, such as databases, text, social media, sensors, images or speech, that is processed using various technologies including computer software, algorithms, machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, augmented intelligence and robotics. The increasing use of automated decision-making systems (ADMS) across a range of contexts presents many benefits and challenges to human society requiring consideration of the technical, legal, ethical, societal, educational, economic and health consequences.
Overview
There are different definitions of ADM based on the level of automation involved. Some definitions suggests ADM involves decisions made through purely technological means without human input, such as the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (Article 22). However, ADM technologies and applications can take many forms ranging from decision-support systems that make recommendations for human decision-makers to act on, sometimes known as augmented intelligence or 'shared decision-making', to fully automated decision-making processes that make decisions on behalf of individuals or organizations without human involvement. Models used in automated decision-making systems can be as simple as checklists and decision trees through to artificial intelligence and deep neural networks (DNN).
Since the 1950s computers have gone from being able to do basic processing to having the capacity to undertake complex, ambiguous and highly skilled tasks such as image and speech recognition, gameplay, scientific and medical analysis and inferencing across multiple data sources. ADM is now being increasingly deployed across all sectors of society and many diverse domains from entertainment to transport.
An ADM system (ADMS) may involve multiple decision points, data sets, and technologies (ADMT) and may sit within a larger administrative or technical system such as a criminal justice system or business process.
Data
Automated decision-making involves the use of data as an input, either to be analysed within a process, model or algorithm, or for learning and generating new models. ADM systems may use and connect a wide range of data types and sources depending on the goals and contexts of the system, for example sensor data for self-driving cars and robotics, identity data for security systems, demographic and financial data for public administration, medical records in health, criminal records in law. This can sometimes involve vast amounts of data and computing power.
Data quality
The quality of the data that is available and able to be used in ADM systems is fundamental to the outcomes and is o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%206 | Uppland Runic Inscription 6 (U 6) is the Rundata designation for a runestone that was discovered in several different pieces on the island of Björkö in Stockholm County, Sweden (within the historic province of Uppland). The 10 extant pieces have been placed together and are displayed in the Birka Museum on the island of Björkö.
Discovery
Different fragments of the stone had been found on Björkö for over 100 years. The first fragments were discovered by Hjalmar Stolpe in 1873 and additional pieces were found in 1893, 1992, and 2012. Originally, researchers thought the pieces belonged to several different runestones, but after the most recent find, they were able to piece together all fragments into one stone. Many of the pieces had been used in the construction of local buildings.
Owing to the various discoveries over the years, the miscellaneous finds were originally designated separately as U 6, U 7, U 8, and U Fv 1993:230. The Swedish History Museum has the pieces inventoried as numbers 5208, 30573:1-4, 30574:1-3, and 35206.
Description
The stone's design includes two quadrupeds, a rider and a large cross. The runic inscription is badly fragmented, although it is known that at least two people were commemorated. The carving was done by runemaster Östen, who is known for his stones in the Södertälje area.
Inscription
Transliteration of runic text into Latin letters
× þorst… … …stain × rais… … -str-- …-… …uk × eftiʀ × ¶ …tunba… × … × a… …ʀ… …ain × …
Translation into English
Þorsteinn (and)… -steinn raised… (in memory of) Ástriðr (?)… And in memory of… Eysteinn (?)…
References
Uppland Runic Inscription 6 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Marry%20Me%2C%20Marry%20You%20episodes | Marry Me, Marry You is a Philippine drama romantic comedy television series broadcast by Kapamilya Channel, A2Z and TV5. It aired from September 13, 2021 to January 21, 2022 on the network's Primetime Bida evening block and worldwide via The Filipino Channel, replacing Init sa Magdamag. The series also received low ratings, GTV (Philippine TV network) cartoon block bested the series.
Series overview
iWantTFC shows two episodes first in advance before its television broadcast.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotrope%20Foundation | The Allotrope Foundation is a consortium of pharmaceutical companies, instrument vendors and software companies to simplify the exchange of scientific electronic data. It publishes the Allotrope Foundation Ontology (AFO) which is a controlled vocabulary to structure data, the Allotrope Data Models (ADM) and the Allotrope Data Format (ADF) based on HDF5 which incorporates those for use in practice. Standardization aims at the goal of FAIR data.
References
Foundations based in Washington, D.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Alexa | Marc Alexa is a professor of computer science at TU Berlin working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing.
Life
Alexa studied computer science at TU Darmstadt, receiving a Diplom in 1997 and a PhD in 2002. After his graduation, he spent time as a postdoctoral researcher with Greg Turk at Georgia Tech, returning the same year to become assistant professor at TU Darmstadt. In 2005, he became an associate professor for computer graphics at TU Berlin, transitioning to the full professorship in 2010. He conducted research at Caltech, Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Research, ETH Zurich, and the University of Toronto. From 2018 to 2021, he was the editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics.
Awards
Alexa received numerous best paper awards at conferences, in particular the Symposium on Geometry Processing. Other noteworthy distinctions:
2022: ERC Advanced Grant
2018: Fellow of the Eurographics Association
2014: Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award
2012: Engineering Sciences Prize of the Academy, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2010: ERC Starting Grant
2003: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis of the German Research Foundation
References
External links
Living people
1974 births
Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
German computer scientists
Computer graphics researchers
European Research Council grantees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie%20Boldo | Sylvie Boldo is a French mathematician and computer scientist. Her research combines automated theorem proving and computer arithmetic, focusing on the formal verification of floating-point arithmetic operations and of algorithms based on them. She is a director of research for the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), affiliated with the Formal Methods Laboratory at Paris-Saclay University and the INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France Research Centre, where she co-leads the Toccata project for formally verified programs, certified tools and numerical computations. She is also the founding jury president for the French agrégation in computer science.
Education and career
Boldo completed her Ph.D. at the École normale supérieure de Lyon in 2004, and has been affiliated with INRIA Saclay since 2005. She completed her habilitation at Paris-Sud University in 2014, with the habilitation thesis Deductive Formal Verification: How To Make Your Floating-Point Programs Behave.
In 2021, France began offering an agrégation in computer science, and selected Boldo as the founding president of its jury.
Books
Boldo is the author of books including:
Computer Arithmetic and Formal Proofs: Verifying Floating-point Algorithms with the Coq System (with Guillaume Melquiond, ISTE Press / Elsevier, 2017)
Une introduction à la science informatique pour les enseignants de la discipline en lycée (with Dowek, Archambault, Baccelli, Bouhinou, Cegielski, Clausen, Guessarian, Lopes, Mounier, Nguyen, Quessette, Rasse, Rozoy, Timsit, Viéville, and Vincent, CRDP Paris, 2011)
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French computer scientists
21st-century French mathematicians
French women computer scientists
French women mathematicians
ENS Fontenay-Saint-Cloud-Lyon alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Pakistan | Below you can find many detailed tables and graphs that show the historical spread and trends of COVID-19 in Pakistan. Data (covering the national and provincial level) from 26 February 2020 (the day of the first two cases) – 9 March 2020 was taken by compiling news reports about the pandemic in Pakistan that minutely covered the pandemic. From 10 March 2020 – 2 April 2020, data was taken from the NIH's daily reports on COVID-19 that were published from 11 March – 3 April (these reports were published early in the day and thus reflected the previous day's cases). Since 3 April 2020, data has been taken from the federal government's live tracker. A more detailed list of sources and data covering the national and provincial levels can be found here. Sources regarding the district level can be found in their subsection.
National
Daily new confirmed cases
Daily new deaths
Case statistics
The three line graphs below give a detailed overview of the current and historical case, recovery, and death counts throughout the Pakistan. The first two show the exponential growth of the pandemic in the country by using a linear scale for their Y-Axes. The third plot uses a Logarithmic scale for its Y-Axis to show relationships between the trends. On a Logarithmic Scale, data that shows exponential growth will plot as a straight line. Each major division is a factor of ten. This makes the slope of the plot the relative rate of change anywhere in the timeline, which allows comparison of one plot with the others throughout the pandemic.
Fatality rates
The chart below displays the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of COVID-19 within Pakistan. The two different trendlines represent different methods of measuring CFR during a pandemic. The first line shows the CFR when calculated using the most common method (Dividing the total number of deaths by the number of confirmed cases) and the second line shows the CFR when deaths are divided by the number of closed cases (the number you get when you add the number of recoveries and the number of deaths). By the end of the pandemic, barring any major demographic shifts, the Case Fatality Rate should end up somewhere between the two values (as they stand currently). The latest data on the graph below pertains to 22 May 2021
Testing statistics
The two charts below display historical COVID-19 testing data since 3 April 2020, when reliable testing data became available in Pakistan. The first chart covers raw data of numbers of cumulative tests, new tests, and cumulative confirmed cases and new confirmed case counts for comparison with testing numbers. It can be viewed on a linear or logarithmic scale. The second chart shows different types of test positivity rates in Pakistan since the same date. In the second chart, the total positivity rate (Cumulative Confirmed Cases ÷ Cumulative Tests Performed), the daily positivity rate (Daily New Confirmed Cases ÷ Daily New Performed Tests), and a Seven-Day Positivity Rates (Confirmed Ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasawt | Ultrasawt () is an Arabic media network founded in 2015. It publishes content in Arabic curated from a pool of journalists and writers from different Arab countries. The website describes itself as "a news media project that seeks to provide a comprehensive digital space for discussing various issues of interest to Arab audiences, with a commitment to providing the necessary context to the latest news, while keeping up with the utmost standards of professional media values and practices". Additionally, more than 1000 writers and translators contributed to the website since it was launched.
Ultrasawt published a series of localised sub-sites with a focus on engaging Arab audiences in specific countries, including Palestine, Tunisia, Sudan, Algeria, and Iraq.
Censorship
The website has been banned in several Arab countries, including Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and lately in the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian authorities blocked the website and 58 other websites, claiming that they publish images and media that "threaten national security and civil peace, disturb public order and morals and inflame Palestinian public opinion". The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) issued a statement condemning blocking the website, and accusing the authorities of "denying Palestinians their right to receive information from a variety of sources". The move to block the websites was also condemned by Reporters Without Borders.
References
External links
Arabic-language websites
Palestinian news websites
Tunisian news websites
Sudanese news websites
Algerian news websites
Iraqi news websites
Technology websites
Internet properties established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Terrorism%3A%20Attributes%20of%20Terrorist%20Events | The International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events project, commonly known as ITERATE, records data regarding transnational terrorist groups and their activities. It is one of the most comprehensive databases of its type; most academic research in the field stems from either ITERATE or the Global Terrorism Database. Published by Vinyard Software, it is available as a qualitative textual chronology from 1960-present and a quantitative numerically coded database from 1968-present.
Data
The quantitative data set contains one main file and three complementary files. The main file ("Common File") is the most extensive, recording 42 different variables such as location, type of attack, perpetrator(s), and casualties. The "Fate File" records 14 variables relating to the fate of the terrorist group(s) involved where at least one failed to escape. The "Hostage File" records 41 variables specific to events involving hostage-taking. The "Skyjack File" records 27 variables specific to instances of skyjacking. The files are designed to be used together with almost all incidents recorded in the Common File and supplementary variables recorded where appropriate.
The qualitative file provides a textual account of each incident. All files in both qualitative and quantitative data sets utilize the same incident codes for cross-referencing.
Each data set is updated daily.
ITERATE predominately utilises open-source data collection such as academic research and media articles. It also uses intelligence from government agencies as well as interviews with academics, government officials, and victims
History
ITERATE was originally created by CIA analyst Dr Edward Mickolus who co-founded Vinyard Software, ITERATE's publisher, with Dr Calvin Andrus.
Strengths and Limitations
Definition of terrorism
The definition of terrorism used by ITERATE differs to that used by other databases. This is not unique to ITERATE as all 5 of the most prominent terrorism databases utilize their own definition. ITERATE defines terrorism as:"...the use, or threat of use, of anxiety-inducing, extra-normal violence for political purposes by any individual or group, whether acting for or in opposition to established governmental authority, when such action is intended to influence the attitudes and behavior of a target group wider than the immediate victims and when, through the nationality or foreign ties of its perpetrators, its location, the nature of its institutional or human victims, or the mechanics of its resolution, its ramifications transcend national boundaries."ITERATE does not record instances of domestic terrorism, focusing exclusively on international/transnational terrorism, thus excluding the majority of terrorist incidents. It differentiates between these as follows."International terrorism is such action when carried out by individuals or groups controlled by a sovereign state, whereas transnational terrorism is carried out by basically autonomous non-st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20%289th%20generation%29 | The iPad (9th generation), also referred as iPad 9, is a tablet computer developed and marketed by Apple Inc. as the successor to the eighth-generation iPad. It was announced on September 14, 2021.
Features
The ninth-generation iPad has the same design as the seventh- and eighth-generation iPads, although all color options now come with a black screen bezel, and the gold option has been removed. It is compatible with the Apple Pencil (1st generation), and the Smart Keyboard and Smart Connector for keyboard attachments. It uses the A13 Bionic chip which was previously seen in the iPhone 11 in 2019, which Apple claims gives a 20% CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine increase in performance compared to its predecessor. It features a 10.2-inch retina display identical to the previous models, with 1620 by 2160 pixels at a density of 264 PPI, and includes True Tone technology, meaning the display can adjust its color temperature based on the surrounding lighting temperature. A new 12 MP front camera (122 degree wide-angle) is fitted in place of the 1.2 MP camera of previous models, which features Center Stage technology that detects the user and moves the camera view accordingly during video recording and calls. The rear 8 MP camera is from the earlier iPad Air 2. The base storage is doubled to 64 GB. iPadOS 15 is pre-installed at release.
Reception
The New York Times called the 9th-generation iPad "the best tablet for almost anyone" in 2022, praising its price, performance and features.
Timeline
Notes
References
9
IOS
Tablet computers
Touchscreen portable media players
Tablet computers introduced in 2021 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20Mini%20%286th%20generation%29 | The sixth-generation iPad Mini (stylized and marketed as iPad mini and colloquially referred to as iPad Mini 6) is a tablet computer in the iPad Mini line, designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It was announced on September 14, 2021, and released on September 24, 2021, alongside the ninth-generation iPad, iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro. Its predecessor, the fifth-generation iPad Mini, was discontinued on the same day. It is available in four colors: Space Gray, Starlight, Pink, and Purple.
It is the first major redesign of the iPad Mini, and resembles the fourth-generation iPad Air in design and with its top button Touch ID (removing the home button), with a larger 8.3-inch display, USB-C port (replacing the Lightning port), and support for the second-generation Apple Pencil.
Features
Hardware
It is the first redesign of the iPad Mini since the iPad Mini 4 in 2015, and the first major redesign since its introduction in 2012. Externally, it is essentially a smaller version of the 4th-generation iPad Air and third-generation and newer iPad Pro. It lacks a Smart Connector for a keyboard, likely due to its smaller size. Internally, it has an A15 Bionic SoC which is underclocked to 2.92 GHz instead of the iPhone models' 3.23 GHz. The chip has a six-core CPU, a 5-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine.
It has an 8.3-inch 2266x1488 Liquid Retina display, taller and slightly narrower than previous models while maintaining the pixel density of 326 PPI, which is the same on all iPhones with Retina LCDs since the iPhone 4, excluding the Plus models. The display is laminated and has an anti-reflective coating, as well as wide color and True Tone. A 12 MP front camera was implemented in the iPad, replacing the older 7 MP camera, and features the Center Stage technology that detects the user and moves the camera view accordingly during video recording and video calls using on-device processing, while the rear camera is upgraded to 12 MP with a True Tone flash and 4K video recording at up to 60fps, replacing the 8 MP camera, which the module is identical to the third-generation iPad Pro.
The Home Button is removed, with the Touch ID sensor relocated to the Sleep/Wake button. The volume control buttons have been moved to the top edge of the device to accommodate the second-generation Apple Pencil. Landscape stereo audio effect is also added to the system's audio recording system.
Connectivity
The sixth-generation iPad Mini discontinues the proprietary Lightning port in favor of a universal USB-C port that is used for charging as well as connecting external devices and accessories. All models have Bluetooth 5.0 and Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) wireless capabilities while the cellular models support 5G connectivity but lack mmWave support unlike the iPad Pro (5th generation).
Accessories
The sixth-generation iPad Mini is compatible with Apple Pencil (2nd generation and USB-C). Compatibility with Magic Keyboard for iPad or the Smart Keyboard Folio isn't possi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boulet%20Brothers%27%20Dragula%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula premiered on the Hey Qween Network streaming service on October 31, 2016, and concluded on February 20, 2017. The series featured nine contestants, from all over California, competing for the title of World's First Drag Supermonster and a cash prize of $10,000. Guest judges included director Darren Stein, and drag performers Peaches Christ and Heklina. It ran for seven episodes, including a special episode incorporating unutilized footage. The season was subsequently remastered, and was distributed by OutTv, Amazon Prime, and SBS Viceland.
The winner of first season of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula was Vander Von Odd, with Frankie Doom and Melissa Befierce as the runner-up. Frankie Doom and Loris returned later to compete in The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Resurrection, a competition between contestants from previous seasons of Dragula, with the winner returning for the fourth season of Dragula.
Contestants
Ages, names, and cities stated are at time of filming.
Notes:
Contestant progress
Legend:
Exterminations
Guest judges
Episode summary
References
2016 in LGBT history
2016 television seasons
2017 in LGBT history
2017 television seasons
The Boulet Brothers' Dragula |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After%20the%20Verdict%20%28TV%20series%29 | After the Verdict is a six-part Australian drama television series which premiered on Nine Network on 10 August 2022.
Premise
Four people finish jury duty on a high-profile murder case, however, once back in their regular day-to-day lives, they start to question their verdict and begin their own investigations. That obsession with the case begins to impact their personal lives.
Production
The series was first announced at Nine's 2022 upfronts in September 2021, Lincoln Younes, Sullivan Stapleton, Michelle Davidson and Magda Szubanski were confirmed to star in the series.
Cast
Lincoln Younes as Ollie
Sullivan Stapleton as Daniel
Magda Szubanski as Margie
Michelle Lim Davidson as Clara
Tess Haubrich as Heidi Lang
Nicholas Brown as Paul
Coco Jack Gillies as Zoe
Richard Brancatisano as Dom
Vivienne Awosaga as Tamara
Emma Diaz as Eliza
Virginia Gay as Trish
Hazem Shammas as Detective Sarti
Brielle Flynn as Detective Mills
Holly Leonard as Mia
Hudson Fisher as Jamie
Episodes
References
External links
After the Verdict on 9Now
Nine Network original programming
2020s Australian drama television series
2020s crime drama television series
Thriller television series
Crime thriller television series
2022 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal%20prediction | Conformal prediction (CP) is a machine learning framework for uncertainty quantification that can produce prediction regions (prediction intervals) for any underlying point predictor (where statistical, machine or deep learning) only assuming exchangeability of the data. CP works by computing nonconformity scores on previously labeled data, and using these to create prediction sets on a new (unlabeled) test data point. A transductive version of CP was first proposed in 1998 by Gammerman, Vovk, and Vapnik, and since, several variants of conformal prediction have been developed with different computational complexities, formal guarantees, and practical applications.
Conformal prediction requires a user-specified significance level for which the algorithm should produce its predictions. This significance level restricts the frequency of errors that the algorithm is allowed to make. For example, a significance level of 0.1 means that the algorithm can make at most 10% erroneous predictions. To meet this requirement, the output is a set prediction, instead of a point prediction produced by standard supervised machine learning models. For classification tasks, this means that predictions are not a single class, for example 'cat', but instead a set like {'cat', 'dog'}. Depending on how good the underlying model is (how well it can discern between cats, dogs and other animals) and the specified significance level, these sets can be smaller or larger. For regression tasks, the output is prediction intervals, where a smaller significance level (fewer allowed errors) produces wider intervals which are less specific, and vice versa – more allowed errors produce tighter prediction intervals.
History
The conformal prediction first arose in a collaboration between Gammerman, Vovk, and Vapnik in 1998; this initial version of conformal prediction used E-values, though the version of conformal prediction best known today uses p-values and was proposed a year later by Saunders et al. Vovk, Gammerman, and their students and collaborators, particularly Craig Saunders, Harris Papadopoulos, and Kostas Proedrou, continued to develop the ideas of conformal prediction; major developments include the proposal of inductive conformal prediction (a.k.a. split conformal prediction), in 2002.
A book on the topic was written by Vovk and Shafer in 2005, and a tutorial was published in 2008.
Theory
The data has to conform to some standards, such as data being exchangeable (a slightly weaker assumption than the standard IID imposed in standard machine learning). For conformal prediction, a n% prediction region is said to be valid if the truth is in the output n% of the time. The efficiency is the size of the output. For classification, this size is the number of classes; for regression, it is interval width.
In the purest form, conformal prediction is made for an online (transductive) section. That is, after a label is predicted, its true label is known before the next pred |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission%20Database%20for%20Global%20Atmospheric%20Research | The Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) is a joint project of the European Commission Joint Research Centre and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency which estimates emissions of all greenhouse gases, air pollutants and aerosols.
References
Air pollution
European research networks
Greenhouse gas inventories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke%20Signal%20Broadcasting | Smoke Signal Broadcasting, Inc. (SSB), later known as Smoke Signal, was an American computer company founded in 1976 by Frederic Jerome "Ric" Hammond of Hollywood, California. The company earned its reputation by offering expansions for the Southwest Technical Products (SWTPC) 6800 microcomputer. It later manufactured its own line of computers, called the Chieftain. Though it remains little-known, Smoke Signal was an early and important manufacturer of multi-user computer systems.
Hammond, an enthusiast of radio who worked at CBS as a programming director, set out his company to act as a consulting business for broadcast entities but quickly leaned into the computer industry. According to Byte, Smoke Signal Broadcasting was the first third-party company to offer expansions for SWTPC. Their floppy disk drive system expansion and accompanying OS-68 operating system proved such a success that it spurred the development of the Chieftain, itself running OS-68. While later iterations of the Chieftain won praise for technical merit, the refusal to invest in a centralized source of software turned off some customers.
Following the company's poor performance in the mid-1980s, Hammond relegated Smoke Signal Broadcasting to the status of a support line for existing customers before disestablishing it in 1991. He formed another corporation in 1987, this time in the real estate industry, but this proved short-lived after the housing market collapsed in Ventura County. Hammond later revisited his original passion of radio in a couple of professional settings before his death in 2012.
1976–1980: Foundation, expansions, and microcomputers
Ric Hammond, graduate of the Thacher School and UC Santa Barbara, founded Smoke Signal Broadcasting in 1976. The company was first headquartered in Hollywood, California. Hammond had been an enthusiast of radio since at least the early 1960s; he was named president of the Thatcher School's Amateur Radio Club when it opened up in 1962. During Smoke Signal's founding years, he simultaneously worked as programming director at CBS Radio's KNX-FM station in Los Angeles. He started Smoke Signal as a consulting business for broadcast entities. Hammond maintained a keen interest in computers since the early 1970s, having taken a three-day course at Motorola to learn how to build a computer at the board level, but intended to keep Smoke Signal relevant to his interest in radio. However, after learning about the dearth of memory expansion and peripherals for the SS-50 bus used by the highly popular Southwest Technical Products 6800 microcomputer, Hammond rectified this by designing the M-16-A, a 16 KB static RAM board, marketing it as a Smoke Signal product.
Released in late 1976, according to Byte magazine, the M-16-A was the first expansion board manufactured independent of Southwest Technical Products for the SWTPC 6800. It was an instant success, with Hammond quickly becoming overwhelmed with orders for the board. By 1977, the c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C3%A0 | Vià (stylised as vià) is a French television network. It started as a southern regional network in 2010, before going national in 2018, and subsequently contracting again due to economic problems.
History
Origins
When its national network Antennes Locales did not take off, Paris-based sold off its television stations to various regional investors.
In 2009 TéléMiroir, based in the southern city of Nîmes, was sold to Christophe Musset and his associate Pierre-Paul Castelli, who had previously partnered with GHM in free print publications.
In 2010, Musset founded an umbrella company called ), and acquired more stations in the southern cities of Montpellier, Perpignan, and Marseille (the latter went off the air in 2016). Consequently, Musset's stations adopted the common branding , followed by the name of their specific submarket.
Musset also served as president of Télévision Locales de France, a trade association of French local televisions, between 2013 and 2017.
Expansion
In 2016 Musset proposed a new channel, tentatively named TVSud Toulouse and serving the eponymous regional capital. To gain access to his largest market yet, he secured an investment in Médias du Sud from :fr:Bruno Ledoux, leading shareholder in print magazine Le Nouvel Économiste and local TV channel Télif (short for Télévision Ile-de-France). Shortly before the Toulouse launch in September 2017, the TVSud channels were rebranded as ViàOccitanie (after the southern region of Occitanie where all four are based). Ledoux's Télif was similarly rebranded as ViàGrand Paris.
Médias du Sud further expanded in May 2018 through the acquisition of Antilles Télévision (ATV), an embattled regional network consisting of three stations based in the French overseas departments of Guadeloupe, Guyane and Martinique. The channels were to be managed in cooperation with martiniquais businessman Xavier Magin. In an effort to cut down costs, the financially crippled Guadeloupe and Guyane channels switched to simulcasting the Martinique broadcast, but they remained nominally separate entities, with a possible return to original programming at a later date. The ATV channels would transition to the Vià branding in October 2018.
National network
Ledoux and Musset's next step was the creation of ViàRéseau, a network that would aggregate their own channels with independent stations under the Vià brand to form a true national footprint, allowing for the mutualization of certain production efforts and advertising sales.
The business plan was viewed as ambitious, since local programming in France has historically been dominated by France 3 (previously France Régions 3), a heavily subsidized public network.
On July 4, 2018, the new network was officially launched, boasting a reach of 32 million potential viewers across 22 affiliates.
In March 2019, Médias du Sud and Magin opted to cut their losses in the French Antilles market by officially closing down their offices in Guadeloupe and Guyane, rather t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20J.%20Larson | Erik J. Larson (born 1971) is an American writer, tech entrepreneur, computer scientist. He is author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do.
He has written for The Atlantic, The Hedgehog Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Wired, and professional journals. His other projects include two DARPA-funded startups, the most recent a company that provides influence rankings for colleges and universities using an influence ranking algorithm.
Larson also publishes articles on the Substack Colligo.
Education
Larson graduated from Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington in 1994 as an All America Scholar Athlete. He earned a PhD in philosophy from The University of Texas at Austin in 2009, where his dissertation was a hybrid combining work in computer science, linguistics, and philosophy.
Career
In the early 2000s, Larson worked for Cycorp, home of the Cyc artificial intelligence project, on a knowledge-based approach to network security. He then researched and published articles on knowledge base technology, ontology, and the Semantic Web for the Digital Media Collaboratory, a research lab founded by American businessman George Kozmetsky affiliated with the Innovation, Creativity, and Capital Institute, at The University of Texas at Austin. He founded his first company, Knexient, in 2009 with funding from DARPA to process open source text documents using his Hierarchical Document Classifier algorithm. Larson later co-founded Influence Networks after developing an algorithm to produce web-based rankings of colleges and universities with funding from DARPA. The algorithm is the foundation for the AcademicInflunce.com InfluenceRanking Engine. In 2020 Larson joined Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. in College Station, Texas as a Research Scientist specializing in natural language processing.
Larson has also written articles for The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Wired magazine, and The Hedgehog Review, as well as for The Metro Silicon Valley and Inference: International Review of Science.
Larson is a Fellow with The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia and has also been a visiting researcher at The Santa Fe Institute.
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence
Larson's book, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do ( ) was published by Harvard University Press on April 6, 2021. In the book, "Larson argues that AI hype is both bad science and bad for science. A culture of invention thrives on exploring unknowns, not overselling existing methods. Inductive AI will continue to improve at narrow tasks, but if we want to make real progress, we will need to start by more fully appreciating the only true intelligence we know—our own."
In his endorsement of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, venture capitalist Peter Thiel wrote "If you want to know about AI, read this book...it shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Baja%20California%20Sur | This is a list of radio stations in the state of Baja California Sur, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, location, ownership, names, and programming formats.
Notes
References
Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20learning%20in%20earth%20sciences | Applications of machine learning in earth sciences include geological mapping, gas leakage detection and geological features identification. Machine learning (ML) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables computer systems to classify, cluster, identify and analyze vast and complex sets of data while eliminating the need for explicit instructions and programming. Earth science is the study of the origin, evolution, and future of the planet Earth. The Earth system can be subdivided into four major components including the solid earth, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere.
A variety of algorithms may be applied depending on the nature of the earth science exploration. Some algorithms may perform significantly better than others for particular objectives. For example, convolutional neural networks (CNN) are good at interpreting images, artificial neural networks (ANN) perform well in soil classification but more computationally expensive to train than support-vector machine (SVM) learning. The application of machine learning has been popular in recent decades, as the development of other technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), ultra-high resolution remote sensing technology and high-performance computing units lead to the availability of large high-quality datasets and more advanced algorithms.
Significance
Complexity of earth science
Problems in earth science are often complex. It is difficult to apply well-known and described mathematical models to the natural environment, therefore machine learning is commonly a better alternative for such non-linear problems. Ecological data are commonly non-linear and consist of higher-order interactions, and together with missing data, traditional statistics may underperform as unrealistic assumptions such as linearity are applied to the model. A number of researchers found that machine learning outperforms traditional statistical models in earth science, such as in characterizing forest canopy structure, predicting climate-induced range shifts, and delineating geologic facies. Characterizing forest canopy structure enables scientists to study vegetation response to climate change. Predicting climate-induced range shifts enable policy makers to adopt suitable conversation method to overcome the consequences of climate change. Delineating geologic facies helps geologists to understand the geology of an area, which is essential for the development and management of an area.
Inaccessible data
In Earth Sciences, some data are often difficult to access or collect, therefore inferring data from data that are easily available by machine learning method is desirable. For example, geological mapping in tropical rainforests is challenging because the thick vegetation cover and rock outcrops are poorly exposed. Applying remote sensing with machine learning approaches provides an alternative way for rapid mapping without the need of manually mapping in the unreachable areas.
Reduce time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARE%20Principles%20for%20Indigenous%20Data%20Governance | The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance were created to advance the legal principles underlying collective and individual data rights in the context of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). CARE was created by the International Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group, a group that is a part of the Research Data Alliance.
CARE is an acronym which stands for Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics.
While CARE can be considered part of the open data movement, it aims to build on other standards such as FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) by considering power differentials and historical contexts. The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance are 'people and purpose-oriented, reflecting the crucial role of data in advancing Indigenous innovation and self-determination'.
The CARE principles have been embedded into the Beta version of Standardised Data on Initiatives (STARDIT).
See also
FAIR data
Data sovereignty
References
External links
CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance (including links to PDFs of full description and short summaries)
Data management
Indigenous rights
Canadian federal legislation
Indigenous politics in Canada
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith%20Eazy%20PC | The Eazy PC (stylized as eaZy pc) is an all-in-one IBM PC compatible computer manufactured by Zenith Data Systems (ZDS) starting in 1987. This small-form-factor XT-compatible system has some distinctive features, such as using an NEC V40 CPU. The Eazy PC was designed to be a simple, cost-effective computer for the home. This was a departure for ZDS, who had historically avoided the retail consumer market to focus on customers such as businesses, universities, and government agencies.
Specifications
Construction and components
The Eazy PC is an all-in-one system: the CRT monitor and its tilt/swivel base are permanently attached to the base unit and cannot be upgraded. The monitor also houses the computer's power supply. The screen measures diagonally. It generates only a gray scale display, using a warm white phosphor. The graphics chip supports CGA video with a maximum resolution of 640 by 200 pixels which is double-scanned to 400 vertical pixel resolution, providing crisp characters in text mode.
The lower case holding the mainboard measures in width, depth, and height respectively. The single or dual 3.5-inch floppy drives are accessed from the computer's right side. The included detached keyboard plugs into a 5-pin DIN connector on the left side.
On the rear of the system unit are a DE-09M port for a serial mouse, a DB-25F parallel port, and a proprietary "option" port that is a 64-pin two row pin header for external modules. The mouse port is a serial port with functions unnecessary for mouse operation disabled.
The CPU in the Eazy PC is an NEC V40 microprocessor running at a clock speed of 7.16 MHz, but able to be slowed to the 4.77 MHz speed of a standard XT. Like the NEC V20, the V40 is object-code compatible with the Intel 8088, but the V40 includes some integrated peripherals that would otherwise require additional circuitry on the mainboard. Base system memory is 512 KB of RAM. The BIOS used was both designed and supplied by Vadem.
The mainboard was noteworthy among contemporary IBM PC compatible systems of its class for its extensive use of large scale integration (LSI) ICs and low-power CMOS chips—as ZDS had been using in their portable computers. Locating the system power supply inside the monitor permitted a smaller mainboard enclosure.
ZDS offered the Eazy PC in three configurations:
Once purchased, the configuration of the drives could not be modified—even to add a second floppy drive to a Model 1—except by ZDS themselves. Models 1 and 2 were equipped with lower-wattage power supplies unable to support the addition of a hard drive. The components inside Models 1 and 2 were also arranged differently from the Model 3, in a way that makes it impossible to install an aftermarket hard drive.
Expansion
Unlike most other PC compatibles, there are no internal ISA expansion slots. Omitting these slots, combined with the use of LSI and CMOS electronics, kept the system's total power dissipation low enough to eliminate the nee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Poland | The first trolleybus network in Poland opened in Poznań in 1930. There were 7 municipal systems operational after World War Two, partially inherited after the Germans; the trolleybus transportation reached its climax in the early 1960s, with some 130 vehicles in Warsaw alone. Most systems were closed in the 1970s. Currently there are 3 networks in service, in Gdynia, Lublin and Tychy. The total number of vehicles operational is about 260.
History
The first trolleybus line in Poland was opened in Poznań in 1930, though in what is now Poland the first line briefly operated in Breslau (now Wrocław) in 1912-1913. During World War Two new systems, mostly reduced to single lines, were opened in Allenstein (now Olsztyn), Gotenhafen (before and now Gdynia), Landsberg (now Gorzów Wielkopolski), Liegnitz (now Legnica), and Waldenburg (now Wałbrzych), with other openings planned. The network in Gorzów was discontinued, but the other ones kept operating also after 1945.
In the early post-war period there were 7 municipal trolleybus systems operational: except the ones opened earlier, new networks were launched in Warsaw (1946) and Lublin (1953). Though the Legnica network was closed in 1956, the trolleybus transportation enjoyed its heyday in the early 1960s, when the total number of vehicles exceeded 300: some 130 trolleybuses served in Warsaw, 40-60 in Gdynia, Lublin and Wałbrzych each, and around 20 in Olsztyn and Poznań each.
In the late 1960s the trolleybus transportation in Poland went into decline. The networks started to shrink; the Poznań one was closed in 1970 (after 40 years of service), the Olsztyn one in 1971 (after 32 years), the Wałbrzych one in 1973 (after 29 years) and the Warsaw one in 1973 (after 27 years). Existing systems in Gdynia and Lublin were being reduced, kept deteriorating and local municipal authorities considered scrapping them altogether.
In the 1980s trolleybus networks were opened or re-opened in Dębica, Tychy, Słupsk and Warszawa. Most of them proved ephemeral and reduced to few lines except Tychy, where the system survived and following the period of stagnation it started to grow. The trolleybus transportation turned the corner in the 1990s: new lines were being opened and fleets were getting renewed. Today all 3 networks are deemed indispensable components of municipal public transport systems. However, except Olsztyn no other city considered launch of a new trolleybus network.
Currently operational systems
As of 2020 there were 3 trolleybus networks operational in Poland, in Gdynia (with 3 lines reaching to Sopot), Lublin and Tychy. In all cities public transport is provided also by buses and trains.
See also
Trolleybuses in Gdynia
Trolleybuses in Lublin
Trolleybuses in Tychy
Footnotes
Further reading
Marcin Połom, Tadeusz Palmowski, Rozwój komunikacji trolejbusowej w Gdyni, Pelplin 2009, ISBN 978-83-7380-776-1, p. 58
Anna Powałka, Maria Tkocz, Zlikwidowane sieci trolejbusowe w Polsce, [in:] Acta Ge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Campeche | This is a list of radio stations in the Mexican state of Campeche, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, location, ownership, names, and programming formats.
Notes
References
Campeche
Campeche |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C3%B3chitl%20G%C3%A1lvez | Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz (; born 22 February 1963) is a Mexican computer engineer, businesswoman and politician. From 2015 to 2018 she served as mayor of the Miguel Hidalgo borough of Mexico City. Since 2018, she has served as a senator in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress. As senator she caucuses with the center-right National Action Party, but often adheres to progressive politics on social issues such as abortion, drug policies and social spending. She completed her studies in computer engineering at UNAM's School of Engineering. In 2023, she was named the candidate of the Broad Front for Mexico for the 2024 Mexican presidential election.
Early years
Gálvez was born on 22 February 1963 in the town of Tepatepec, Hidalgo, to an Otomi father and a mestizo mother, also of partial Otomi ancestry. She claims that, as a child, she sold desserts at the local market to support her education and family. She moved to Mexico City to study computer engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), first working as a call center agent and later earning a position as a research assistant at UNAM's College of Engineering. She would obtain her degree in Computer Engineering in 2010, as per the information in the National Registry of Professionals (). A few years into her computer engineering degree, she started working as a programmer and later as a systems analyst at the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (INEGI). She was also director of telecommunications at the Mexico City World Trade Center.
From 2000 to 2006, she was head of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples, during the administration of Vicente Fox.
In the 2010 Hidalgo state elections, she was a candidate for governor of the state for the "Hidalgo Unites Us" coalition, made up of the National Action Party (PAN), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), the Labor Party (PT) and Convergencia. Gálvez came in second place, with 47% of the votes in her favor.
Businesses and philanthropy
In 1992 she founded the company High Tech Services, dedicated to the development of technology projects aimed at designing intelligent buildings, energy savings, process automation, security and telecommunications. She was also founder and CEO of the OMEI company, dedicated to the operation and maintenance of intelligent infrastructures.
She won the Sé Líder Foundation award, the Zazil award in the social and humanitarian area, the recognition of "Commitment to Others" granted by the Mexican Center for Philanthropy and the "Pericles Medal", awarded by the Museo Amparo of Puebla for social merit.
In 1999, she was recognized by the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, as one of the "100 Global Leaders of the World's Future". In 2000, Business Week magazine named her one of the 25 Latin American's New Business Elite. With the profits from her companies, in 1995 she created the Porvenir Foundation, which is dedicated to combating child malnutrition and hel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematic%20scientific%20visualization | Cinematic scientific visualization (CSV) is the visual presentation of scientific data in a way that is typically associated with non-scientific filmmaking techniques including cinematography, lighting, and composition. Cinematic scientific visualizations are often created for purposes of science communication to the general public, e.g. through museum exhibits and documentary films. CSV is considered a subfield of scientific visualization, although the creation methods and visual outputs differ due to CSV's heavy emphasis on aesthetics and design.
Differences from traditional scientific visualization
Traditional scientific visualization and cinematic scientific visualization differ in a number of important ways:
History
The first large scale broadly-distributed cinematic scientific visualization appeared in the IMAX film Cosmic Voyage in 1996, though at the time this was simply referred to as a "scientific visualization" without the "cinematic" qualifier. The term "cinematic scientific visualization" was first published by Donna Cox in 2008 referring to work created by the Advanced Visualization Lab and was popularized by Kalina Borkiewicz of the same lab who published a series of papers, conference presentations, and interviews on the topic beginning in 2017. The term is now widely used to describe work done by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, Siemens Healthineers, NVIDIA, and others.
In 2014, the film Interstellar featured a cinematic scientific visualization of a physically-accurate black hole in a science fiction film.
References
Visualization (graphics)
Visualization (research) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Chiapas | This is a list of radio stations in the Mexican state of Chiapas, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, location, ownership, names, and programming formats.
Defunct stations
XHTAK-FM 103.5, Tapachula
XHUE-FM 99.3, Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Notes
References
Chiapas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Chip%20Electronics | Blue Chip Electronics, Inc., later Blue Chip International was an American computer company founded by John Rossi in 1982. Founded to develop peripherals for Commodore home computers, the company in 1986 began selling low-cost IBM PC compatibles.
1982–1986: Foundation and Commodore peripherals
Blue Chip Electronics was founded by John Rossi, an Arizona native who graduated from Arizona State University in the early 1970s. While in university, he married his high school sweetheart Rosita Rossi. After graduation, both Rosita and John Rossi spent three years in Saudi Arabia, the former landing a job teaching English to residents of villages near a gas–oil separation plant during the 1973 oil crisis. Taking an interest in international business during his stay in Saudi Arabia, John Rossi moved back to the United States in the mid-1970s for a Bachelor of Global Management at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He graduated in 1980, and by the end of the year he had launched his career in technology working for GTE Microcircuits. John Rossi turned over to Commodore Business Machines shortly after that, moving to Europe and earning the title of sales manager for Commodore's market in that continent.
Rosita Rossi expressed exasperation with the long hours John had been working: "The company was going through great growth, and they didn't care about the families—just their business." John Rossi himself was dissatisfied with Commodore's management during the mid-1980s, when the company underwent three changes of chief executive officer (CEO), which removed its founder Jack Tramiel from office. In 1986, Rossi referred to Commodore as a "well-known revolving door". The two had considered moving to Germany, Scotland, and Hong Kong before settling in Dallas, Texas, in the United States. There, John Rossi incorporated Blue Chip Electronics as a side business in the early 1980s. By 1982, the company relocated to and formally incorporated itself in Scottsdale, Arizona, after Rosita began attending Thunderbird to earn a business degree for herself. John hired another employee to help him devise the company's first products, while Rosita completed school. Although she had planned to work elsewhere, she became Blue Chip's third employee after graduating from Thunderbird in 1983.
Blue Chip offered its first products in 1983 with a line of RS-232 serial and HP-IB parallel high-resolution dot-matrix printers for computers such as the Commodore 64 and the IBM PC. Later that year Blue Chip introduced a daisy wheel printer, the BCD-4015, that supports both cut-sheet and tractor-feed stationery, 5 to 15 inches wide. In 1984 the company released a lower-resolution dot-matrix printer, the M120/10, compatible only with the C64, in direct competition with Commodore's own dot-matrix printers.
By early 1986, the company had moved to Tempe. In late 1985, Blue Chip released the BCD/5.25, a direct-drive 5.25-inch floppy disk drive, directly competing against the Commodore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68th%20Cyberspace%20Squadron | The 68th Cyberspace Squadron (68 CYS) is a United States Space Force unit assigned to Space Operations Command's Space Delta 6. It provides information with regards to further protecting and adding additional layers of defense of space-based systems. It is headquartered at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado. It was activated on 4 November 2022.
List of commanders
Lt Col Tori Leigh Touzin, 4 November 2022–present
See also
Space Delta 6
References
External links
Military education and training in the United States
Squadrons of the United States Space Force |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFIS%20%28disambiguation%29 | EFIS may refer to:
electronic flight information system
École Franco-Indienne Sishya, Adyar, Chennai, India; a French international school
Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service
Estonian Film Database (EFIS), part of the Estonian Film Foundation
European Federation of Immunological Societies, publisher of the European Journal of Immunology
See also
FIS (disambiguation)
EFI (disambiguation)
FI (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Olsztyn | The tram network in Olsztyn, Poland, is operated by the city-owned Olsztyn Municipal Transport Company () Sp. z o.o. The system contains three lines, with an additional two under construction along a single route. The network operates 27 trams, acquired in two orders of 15 and 12, respectively. The rolling stock was manufactured by the Polish company Solaris Bus & Coach and the Turkish company Durmazlar. The current tram system began construction in September 2012 and revenue service in December 2015. A separate tram system operated from 1907 to 1965, when it was replaced by bus service. The new Olsztyn tram network is one of two networks built in Poland after World War II (the other being the Częstochowa tram network, opened in 1959) and the only one to be rebuilt after being dismantled, although its routes do not follow those of the pre-1965 network.
History
Former system
Trams in Olsztyn (then Allenstein, East Prussia, German Empire) first ran in December 1907. The network was entirely single track, , and powered by 600 V DC overhead lines. It consisted of two routes: route 1 connecting Olsztyn Główny railway station with (then Hauptbahnhof–Remontemarkt) through Old Town and (then Hohes Tor) and route 2 connecting 1 Maja with (along Wojska Polskiego near the Forest Stadium, then Guttstädter Straße–Jakobsberg, Waldstadion). A depot and a traction substation powering the tram network was located on this route not far from the railway line, and another depot was built near the Jakubowo terminus.
In 1930, the network was extended. Route 1's terminus was moved from to Jeziorna (then Jahnweg) on the shore of (then Lang See). At the same time, the track between Jagiełły and Dworzec Zachodni was lifted. In 1940, trolleybus route 2 was inaugurated leading to the discontinuation of tram route 2. From then until 1945, only route number 1 remained in operation.
In March 1945, the front closed on the city and all public transport was suspended. The system suffered extensive damage as a result of the fighting. As part of the Yalta agreement, the southern part of East Prussia became part of Poland. The network and rolling stock needed extensive renovation, but trams on route 1 resumed operation on 30 April 1946 and on route 2 on 28 June 1946. There were no more changes to the network until the end of operation.
The trams last ran on 20 November 1965. The system was closed down because it required major investment that the city could not afford and bus transport was a more economical solution.
Current system
In 2004, the city authorities started considering building a completely new light rail network. The project was approved in 2009 and, after bids by five companies, the construction contract was awarded to the Spanish firm FCC Construcción on 27 June 2011, for approximately 250million Polish złoty (€). Construction started in September 2012 and was scheduled to be completed in June 2014. The system was opened in stages between 19 and 31 Decembe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20Organization%20Registry | Research Organization Registry (ROR) is a community-led dataset that aims to provide a persistent identifier for every research organization in the world. It complements other commonly used identifiers such as ORCID for researchers and DOI for research output.
Initially the registry was seeded by the data from Global Research Identifier Database (GRID). In 2021 it was announced that ROR will take over the role of the leading open organization identifier from GRID. ROR's first release after separating from GRID was published in March 2022.
The data can be accessed via the official website, an open API or as a downloadable data dump. All ROR IDs and metadata are provided under the CC0 license.
References
External links
Official website
Identifiers
Open data
Creative Commons-licensed databases
Metadata
Semantic Web
Library cataloging and classification
Research organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashlie%20Sephus | Nashlie H. Sephus is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur specialized in machine learning and algorithmic bias identification. She is a technology evangelist at Amazon Web Services. Sephus is cofounder and chief executive officer of Bean Path, a nonprofit startup company developing Jackson Tech District, a planned community and business incubator in Jackson, Mississippi.
Life
Sephus was born in Jackson, Mississippi, where she was raised in an all-female household. She attended a two-week sleep away engineering camp for girls that introduced her to computer engineering. Sephus graduated from Murrah High School in 2003. In 2007, she completed a B.S. in computer engineering at Mississippi State University. After graduating, Sephus won a GEM fellowship, which provided her a full-tuition graduate scholarship, internships, and a job placement at Delphi Electronics & Safety upon finishing her Ph.D. She earned a master's degree and Ph.D. (2014) in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering. Her dissertation was titled A framework for exploiting modulation spectral features in music data mining and other applications. Sephus' doctoral advisors were and .
In 2013, Sephus, then a doctoral student, began working part-time for the all black women startup Partpic, where she developed visual recognition algorithms and prototypes. Sephus later worked as a software engineer at Exponent in New York. In 2015, she joined Partpic full time as their chief technology officer. In 2016, Amazon acquired Partpic, and Sephus became leader of the Amazon Visual Search team in Atlanta. Sephus later became a machine learning and applied science manager at Amazon Web Services Artificial Intelligence. Her team develops tools for bias-identification for machine learning models. She is currently a technology evangelist at Amazon.
In 2018, Sephus began plans to create a technology community and business incubator in Jackson, Mississippi as part of her nonprofit startup company Bean Path. She is the company's cofounder and CEO. In 2019, Sephus and Julie Cwikla were awarded an Ada Lovelace Award. On September 11, 2020, Sephus purchased 12 acres next to Jackson State University to create the Jackson Tech District.
See also
African-American women in computer science
Women in engineering in the United States
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Businesspeople from Jackson, Mississippi
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American scientists
21st-century American businesswomen
21st-century American businesspeople
21st-century American women scientists
21st-century American engineers
Mississippi State University alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Technology evangelists
Amazon (company) people
Engineers from Mississippi
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Computer engineers
African-American computer scientists
African-American wom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Princess%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Little Princess is a 2022 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by L.A. Madridejos, it stars Jo Berry in the title role. It premiered on January 10, 2022 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Stories from the Heart. The series concluded on April 22, 2022 with a total of 73 episodes. It was replaced by Raising Mamay in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jo Berry as Princess R. Montivano
Supporting cast
Juancho Trivino as Damien Santiago
Rodjun Cruz as Jaxon Pineda
Angelika Dela Cruz as Elise Reyes
Jestoni Alarcon as Marcus V. Montivano
Geneva Cruz as Odessa Hidalgo-Montivano
Jenine Desiderio as Sunshine Pineda
Gabrielle Hahn as Adrianna Ilustre
Therese Malvar as Masoy
Tess Antonio as Winona
Lander Vera Perez as Donald Santiago
Chuckie Dreyfus as Fermin Garcia
Marx Topacio as Aaron
Melissa Avelino as Melania
Kaloy Tingcungco as Caloy
Hannah Precillas as Hannah
Sheemee Buenaobra as Macy
Lala Vinzon as Jewel
Cherry Malvar as Whitney
Production
Principal photography commenced in October 2021.
Episodes
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Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of Little Princess earned a 5.9% rating.
References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serde | Serde may refer to:
Serde, Tibet
Serialization and deserialization, in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Togo | Time in Togo is given by Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00). Togo has never observed daylight saving time and adopted this time zone in 1907.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Togo is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Lome. "TG" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Togo directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
References
External links
Current time in Togo at Time.is
Time in Togo at TimeAndDate.com
Time in Togo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAP%20Movies | TAP Movies is a Philippine pay television channel dedicated to Hollywood films owned by TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation. It was launched on October 1, 2021.
Programming
Much like other English-language movie channels, TAP Movies mainly carries films from major Hollywood film studios Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, StudioCanal, Millennium Media, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Lionsgate Films.
In addition to movies, the channel also airs TV miniseries and live theatrical musicals.
TAP Action Flix
TAP Action Flix is the secondary movie channel of TAP DMV. It features Hollywood films related to horror, suspense, thriller and action genres.
See also
TAP TV
TAP Edge
TAP Sports
Premier Sports
References
English-language television stations in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 2021
2021 establishments in the Philippines
TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus%20VivoTab%20Note%208 | The Asus VivoTab Note 8 is a tablet computer by Asus.
References
External links
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFM%20R%C3%A9gions | BFM Régions () is a French network of local news television channels, property of Altice. It is partially modeled after the American News 12 Networks, which Altice also owns through its 2016 purchase of Cablevision.
The network is part of the BFM family of news and financial media properties.
Channel roster
BFM DICI Alpes du Sud
BFM DICI Haute-Provence
BFM Grand Lille
BFM Grand Littoral
BFM Paris Île-de-France (formerly BFM Paris)
BFM Lyon
BFM Marseille Provence
BFM Nice Côte-d'Azur
BFM Normandie
BFM Alsace
BFM Toulon Var
History
Origins
At the inception of French digital terrestrial television in the second half of the 2000s, BFM's then parent company NextRadioTV only expressed moderate interest in the local TV market. It did bid for a licence to broadcast in Paris, but was not selected.
However one of the winning channels, Cap 24, found itself on the market in 2010 after parent company Groupe Hersant Media decided to wind down its struggling Antennes Locales network. Cap 24 was first sold to Bernard Krief Consulting, a controversial LBO specialist, then quickly sold again to NextRadioTV.
NextRadioTV did not immediately put a full-fledged local channel in Cap 24's slot. Beginning in November 2010, it broadcast BFM Business Paris, a variant of its non-terrestrial national business news channel BFM Business. It was largely the same as the national version, with three hours of daily local programming thrown in to comply with France's local television mandates.
Expansion
In the summer of 2015, French multinational Altice became a major shareholder in NextRadioTV, with the latter's chairman Alain Weill touting the expanded strategic opportunities afforded by the alliance.
In the fall of 2016, BFM bid for the Toulouse local broadcast licence (left vacant by the previous operator's bankruptcy), but withdrew at the last minute and took a minority participation in the competing project, TV Sud Toulouse (later ViàOccitanie Toulouse), following some pushback from independent television trade groups.
In November 2016, BFM Business Paris was rebranded as BFM Paris, now a true capital region channel built around a majority of local programming.
In October 2018, BFM finally added another local station to its portfolio: TLM (Télé Lyon Métropole). Access to the country's second largest media market formally paved the way for a national network. TLM started broadcasting as BFM Lyon Métropole in September 2019 and just BFM Lyon in January 2020.
In February 2019, the network officially became known as "BFM Régions".
In November 2019, BFM acquired a significant minority share in two local channels owned by Lille area company Groupe SECOM: Grand Lille TV and Grand Littoral TV (the latter serving the Calais-Dunkirk market). In February 2020, both channels officially became BFM Grand Lille and BFM Grand Littoral. In the same transaction, BFM bought a stake in Grand Lille TV's sister radio station Grand Lille Info, which became Radio BFM Grand Lille.
In the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa-Karin%20Boestad-Nilsson | Elsa-Karin Boestad-Nilsson (25 November 1925 – 27 March 2020) was a Swedish computing pioneer who programmed the first and second computers in Sweden, BARK and BESK.
Boestad-Nilsson was born on 25 November 1925 in Stockholm, the daughter of mechanical engineering professor . After earning a degree in mathematics at Stockholm University in 1948, she joined the Swedish National Defence Research Institute (FOA) in the same year, as the only degreed woman there at the time. Her initial work involved using mechanical calculators from the Facit company to solve problems in aerodynamics, and although she found novel methods to speed up these calculations, she did not dare to publish them.
By 1952, these calculators, and the women operating them, had been made obsolete by new analog computers imported from the US and operated by male civil engineers. Instead, she took a course in computer programming and began working as a programmer. Her initial work in this area was on BARK, a programmable electromechanical computer that became the first programmable computer in Sweden. BESK, Sweden's second computer, was based on vacuum tube technology instead of relays, and began operations in 1954, with Boestad-Nilsson as one of its initial programmers. Among other projects, the BESK computer, and Boestad-Nilsson's calculations on it, were used in the Swedish nuclear weapons program. It was through this work that she met Per-Olof (Olle) Nilsson, a scientist in the program, whom she married in 1956.
In 1957, Boestad-Nilsson was named head of the scientific calculation group at FOA. She became head of the department of mathematics and data processing in 1974. At around this time, she became an activist for women's rights, through the Fredrika Bremer Association, in reaction to a 1975 FOA personnel memo that recommended paying all women employees (including managers such as her) equal low rates of pay, in order to prevent them from becoming jealous of each other. She left FOA in 1981 to work for an organization promoting the use of the Ada programming language, and retired in 1990. She died on 27 March 2020.
References
1925 births
2020 deaths
Stockholm University alumni
Swedish computer programmers
Swedish women computer scientists
Scientists from Stockholm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephus | Sephus is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
John Sephus Mack (1880–1940), American businessperson and philanthropist
Nashlie Sephus, American computer engineer and entrepreneur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassida%20circumdata | Cassida circumdata is a species of tortoise beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Indomalaya and the South Pacific islands.
Biology
The incubation period is about 2 to 6 days. Grub undergoes five larval instars. Pre-pupal period is about 4 days, where it later undergo 5 to 7 days of pupal stage. In captivity, the life cycle completed from 38 to 70 days.
The species is often used in biological control of harm plants of Convolvulaceae in the field.
References
Further reading
External links
Cassidinae
Beetles described in 1799 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallihole | Hallihole , is a village situated in Byndoor Taluk, Udupi District . Village has population of 2328 as per census data of 2011, in which male population is 1103 and female population is 1225. Total geographical area of Hallihole village is 2930.23 Hectares. Population density of Hallihole is 1 persons per Hectares. Total number of house hold in village is 495.
As per the Census Data 2011 there are 1111 Femals per 1000 males out of 2328 total population of village. There are 1470 girls per 1000 boys under 6 years of age in the village.
Out of total population total 1548 people in Hallihole Village are literate, among them 816 are male and 732 are female in the village. Total literacy rate of Hallihole is 72.92%, for male literacy is 80% and for female literacy rate is 66.36%.
The village has several primary and middle schools, and one Private school is there GLPS Devarbalu Hallihole. Most of the teaching is done in either English or Kannada.
This village has one Grameena bank Karnataka vikas grameena bank
Village has one Government Primary Healthcare Centre,
See also
Byndoor
Udupi
Kundapura
References
Villages in Udupi district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20Food%20Aid%20Network | The Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) is the UK network of independent food aid providers. Its membership includes over 550 independent food banks as well as other types of food aid provider. A charity since October 2018, IFAN supports and advocates on behalf of its member food aid organisations, collates independent food bank data and campaigns for changes that would end the need charitable food aid in the UK.
History
The network was founded in 2016 based on learning from Canada and is by now the second largest network of food banks in the UK. The network's vision is of "a society without the need for charitable food aid and in which good food is accessible to all" and IFAN advocates for "an adequate social security system, as well as fair wages and job security."
In 2017, a list of independent food banks put together by Sabine Goodwin on behalf of the Independent Food Aid Network revealed the scale of food bank use in the UK at that time. The research found that, together with the largest network of UK food banks (the Trussell Trust) there were over 2,000 food banks regularly giving out emergency food parcels - meaning that, as reported by The Guardian: "the level of food bank use is far greater than headline figures indicate."
Work
IFAN's work has been coordinated by Sabine Goodwin since 2018. In 2018, IFAN started to collate data from independent food banks in Scotland in collaboration with the A Menu for Change project. IFAN's data was used to extrapolate figures for UK-wide food bank use in the 2019 State of Hunger report. In January 2020, IFAN reported that 1,000 emergency food parcels were distributed in Scotland every day. Since the March 2020, IFAN has published data collated from independent food banks across the UK.
Alongside other charities, IFAN campaigned for the measurement of household food insecurity and in February 2019, DWP officials announced that food insecurity questions would be included in the annual Family Resources Survey. In October 2019, IFAN warned of the impact on food banks of a no-deal Brexit. In March 2020, IFAN reported on the impact of COVID-19 panic-buying on food banks. In November 2020, IFAN's Coordinator Sabine Goodwin wrote in The Big Issue that food poverty is not about food and that Marcus Rashford's fight must not be a "missed opportunity" to end poverty for good.
In January 2021, the group wrote to the British Prime Minister to protest the "challenges and risks" posed to food bank volunteers during the pandemic, asking that the Government should not rely on charities "to fill the gaps left by holes in the social security system and inadequate wages." In August 2021, IFAN's Coordinator Sabine Goodwin wrote for the British Medical Journal, that following the policy decision to cut 20 pounds from Universal Credit, UK food banks are facing the "busiest and most difficult winter on record."
In 2020 and 2021, IFAN has worked alongside Feeding Britain and University of York to co-produce a series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicante%2010 | Alicante 10, also known as RSGC6 (Red Supergiant Cluster 6), is a young massive open cluster belonging to the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 2012 in the 2MASS survey data. Currently, eight red supergiants have been identified in this cluster. Alicante 10 is located in the constellation Scutum at the distance of about 6000 pc from the Sun. It is likely situated at the intersection of the northern end of the Long Bar of the Milky Way and the inner portion of the Scutum–Centaurus Arm—one of the two major spiral arms.
The age of Alicante 10 is estimated to be around 16–20 million years. The observed red supergiants are type II supernova progenitors. The cluster is heavily obscured and have not been detected in the visible light. It lies close to other groupings of red supergiants known as RSGC1, Stephenson 2 (RSGC2), RSGC3, Alicante 8 (RSGC4), and Alicante 7 (RSGC5). Alicante 10 is located 16′ southwards of RSGC3. The red supergiant clusters RSGC3, Alicante 7 and Alicante 10 seems to be part of the RSGC3 complex. The mass of the open cluster is estimated at 10–20 thousand solar masses, which makes it one of the most massive open clusters in the Galaxy.
References
Alicante 10
Scutum (constellation)
Scutum–Centaurus Arm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20stock%20market%20capitalization | The following list sorts countries by the total market capitalization of all domestic companies listed in the country, according to data from the World Bank. Market capitalization, commonly called market cap, is the market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares.
Ranking
Historical development of world market cap
See also
List of public corporations by market capitalization
List of stock exchanges
Buffett indicator
References
countries by stock market capitalization
stock market capitalization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trino%20%28SQL%20query%20engine%29 | Trino is an open-source distributed SQL query engine designed to query large data sets distributed over one or more heterogeneous data sources. Trino can query datalakes that contain open column-oriented data file formats like ORC or Parquet residing on different storage systems like HDFS, AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage using the Hive and Iceberg table formats. Trino also has the ability to run federated queries that query tables in different data sources such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka, MongoDB and Elasticsearch. Trino is released under the Apache License.
History
In January 2019, the original creators of Presto, Martin Traverso, Dain Sundstrom, and David Phillips, created a fork of the Presto project. They initially kept the name Presto and used the PrestoSQL web handle to distinguish it from the original PrestoDB project. Simultaneously, they announced the Presto Software Foundation. The foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the Presto open source distributed SQL query engine.
In December 2020, PrestoSQL was rebranded as Trino. The Trino Software Foundation, code base, and all other PrestoSQL assets were renamed as part of the rebrand.
Presto and Trino were originally designed and developed by Martin, Dain, David, and Eric Hwang at Facebook to allow data analysts to run interactive queries on its large data warehouse in Apache Hadoop. Trino shares the first six years of development with the Presto project. To learn more about the earlier history of Trino, you can reference the Presto history section.
In October 2022, Amazon announced that Amazon Athena will use Trino engine.
Architecture
Trino is written in Java. It runs on a cluster of servers that contains two types of nodes, a coordinator and a worker.
The coordinator is responsible for parsing, analyzing, optimizing, planning, and scheduling a query submitted by a client. The coordinator interacts with the service provider interface (SPI) to obtain the available tables, table statistics, and other information needed to carry out its tasks.
The workers are responsible for executing the tasks and operators fed to them by the scheduler. These tasks process rows from the data sources which produce results that are returned to the coordinator and ultimately back to the client.
Trino adheres to the ANSI SQL standard and includes various parts of the following ANSI specifications: SQL-92, SQL:1999, SQL:2003, SQL:2008, SQL:2011, SQL:2016.
Trino supports the separation of compute and storage and may be deployed both on-premises and in the cloud.
Trino has a Distributed computing MPP architecture. Trino first distributes work over multiple workers by running ad-hoc partitioning operations or relying on existing partitions in the data of the underlying data store. Once this data has reached the worker, the data is processed over pipelined operators carried out on multiple threads.
See also
Presto (SQL query engine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Miller%20%28chef%29 | Brad Miller (born 1981) is an American professional chef and TV personality. He is the host of the Cooking Channel’s Food Truck Nation. He was a contestant on Season 3 of the Fox Network reality TV show Hell’s Kitchen, finishing 6th.
Miller was born and raised in Ottawa, Illinois, a suburb located southwest of Chicago. He graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute of Scottsdale in Arizona. He is the chef and partner at Inn of The Seventh Ray in Topanga, California, and executive chef of Five Star Senior Living, an organization that operates residential senior communities.
References
Chefs from California
American television chefs
Alumni of Le Cordon Bleu
Chefs from Illinois
1981 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomm | Tomm or TOMM may refer to:
Train of Many Metals, New York Transit Museum nostalgia train
Test of Memory Malingering, visual memory recognition test
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, quarterly scientific journal
Translocase of the outer mitochondrial membrane, protein-encoding human genes
TOMM20
TOMM22
TOMM34
TOMM40
TOMM40L
TOMM70A
People
Tomm Coker (born 1972), American comic book artist and film director/writer
Tomm Kristiansen (born 1950), Norwegian author and journalist
Tomm Moore (born 1977), Irish filmmaker, animator, illustrator and comics artist
Tomm Murstad (1915–2001), Norwegian skier, coach and business man
Tomm Polos (born 1988), American actor, humorist and writer
Tomm Warneke (born 1961), American professional tennis player
Tomm., taxonomic author abbreviation of Muzio Tommasini (1794–1879), Austrian botanist
See also
Tom (disambiguation)
Tommy (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel%20Cruz | Isabel Cruz (aka Isabel F. Cruz, Maria Isabel Cruz) (died 2021) was an American Portuguese computer scientist known for her research on databases, knowledge representation, geographic information systems, AI, visual languages, graph drawing, user interfaces, multimedia, information retrieval, and security. She was a University of Illinois Chicago Distinguished Professor and a Professor Computer Science in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago. She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Life
Cruz was born in Lisbon. completed a MS (1987) and PhD (1993) in computer science at the University of Toronto advised by Alberto O. Mendelzon. She conducted her postdoctoral research at Brown University advised by Paris Kanellakis. She was the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1996. Cruz joined the University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering in 2001. She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019 and was appointed UIC Distinguished Professor in 2020. Cruz's research focused on databases, big data, geographic information systems, Semantic Web, and knowledge representation.
She died on September 19, 2021.
Recognition
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected "for her distinguished contributions to visual query languages, information integration and visualization, geospatial computing and for professional leadership in the data management community".
University of Illinois Chicago Distinguished Professor
University of Illinois Faculty Scholar Award
University of Illinois Chicago Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar Award
University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering Faculty Research Award
University of Illinois Chicago Teaching Recognition Program Award
Association for Computing Machinery Recognition of Service Award
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Personal life
Cruz was married to Roberto Tamassia, also a noted computer scientist.
See also
Women in computing
References
External links
Year of birth missing
2021 deaths
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
University of Illinois Chicago faculty
Portuguese women computer scientists
21st-century Portuguese scientists
21st-century American women scientists
21st-century Portuguese women scientists
Portuguese emigrants to the United States
Portuguese expatriates in Canada
University of Toronto alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbound | Moonbound (German: Peterchens Mondfahrt) is a 2021 computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi with story by Ahadi and Arne Nolting and based on the 1915 children's book Little Peter's Journey to the Moon by Gerdt von Bassewitz.
Plot
When Peter sets out on a magical journey to rescue his little sister Anne, he needs to travel to mysterious territory: the Moon! Anne was kidnapped by the evil Moon Man when she tried to help the beetle Mr. Zoomzeman in search for his wife. On his fantastic adventure, Peter lands on the Star Meadow where he meets the sleepy Mr. Sandman. He knows, only at the Night Fairy’s dinner in the castle in the clouds, they can find out where Anne is – but there aren’t enough seats for everyone. So they join the wild race along the Milky Way against the five Spirits of Nature: Storm Giant, Lightning Witch, Henry Hail, Rainy Robin and Mother Frost…
Cast
Aleks Le as Peter
Howard Nightingall as Mr. Zoomzeman/Rainy Robin
Lilian Gartner as Anne/Shooting Star
Raphael von Bargen as Sandman/Mr. Ladybug (credited as Raphael van Bargen)
Drew Sarich as Moonman/Milkyway Man/Herschel
Cindy Robinson as Nightfairy
Melissa Mabie as Lightning Witch (credited as Mellisa Mabei)
Michael Smulik as Storm Giant
Elisabeth Kanettis as Mother/Shooting Star
Barbara Spitz as Mrs. Zoomzeman
Jim Libby as Bully
Dennis Kozeluh as Henry Hail
Jacob Banigan as Keppler
Magarethe Tiesl as Mother Frost
Bastian Wilplinger as Bouncer 1
Martin Repka as Bouncer 2
Alix Martin as Mrs. Ladybug
Production
The film is a German-Austrian co-production and is produced by Brave New Work in Cologne, Coop99 Filmproduktion in Vienna and Little Dream Entertainment in Hamburg. The animation was a split between Cologne-based Red Parrot Studios and D-Facto Motion in Cologne, Fish Blowing Bubbles in Munich, K-Effects in Vienna, ACHT.STUDIO in Frankfurt and Sophie Animation in Dalian. While the soundtrack was recorded by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Reception
The film received negative reviews, with 17% score on Rotten Tomatoes according to 6 reviews.
See also
Peter in Magicland
References
External links
2021 computer-animated films
2021 films
2020s English-language films
Animated films about bears
Animated films about insects
Animated films about siblings
Animated films based on children's books
Austrian adventure films
Austrian animated films
Austrian comedy films
Austrian fantasy films
Films set on the moon
German adventure comedy films
German animated fantasy films
German fantasy comedy films
German animated comedy films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Zatlyn | Michelle Zatlyn is co-founder, president, and chief operating officer of the cybersecurity firm Cloudflare. She also serves on the company's board of directors.
Early life and education
Zatlyn was born and raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada.
She graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 2001 and then got a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Career
After working at Google and Toshiba, Zatlyn joined the startup I Love Rewards (later Achievers), a global employee rewards program.
Zatlyn co-founded Cloudflare with Harvard Business School classmates Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway in 2009. She sits on Cloudflare's board and serves as the company's president and COO.
In speaking about her co-founding of Cloudflare, she states:When we came up with Cloudflare, I knew nothing about internet security, but I care a lot about liking what I'm doing. I knew if I could help create internet security, that's something I could work hard for and be proud [of]; 10 years later, we have 165 data centres, 12 million domains and more than 800 employees.Zatlyn was appointed to the board of directors for Australian software company, Atlassian, in September 2021. She is a member of the Cybersecurity team of the Aspen Institute.
Awards
Zatlyn was named as one of Forbes magazine's "40 Under 40" (2017) and "50 Self-Made Women" (2021); she was also nominated as C100's "Icon of Canadian Entrepreneurship" (2019). As of 2021, she is a member of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.
References
External links
Cloudflare’s Michelle Zatlyn on getting funding for crazy ideas - TechCrunch Disrupt 2020 interview - September 17, 2020
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
McGill University alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Chief operating officers
Women corporate executives
Canadian women business executives
World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders
Cloudflare people
21st-century Canadian businesspeople
21st-century Canadian businesswomen
Forbes lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20Krawitz%20Kolchin | Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin (1927 - January 25, 2019) was an American mathematician, computer programmer, author, and teacher. She worked at Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University to calculate the orbit of planets, phases of the moon, and trajectories of asteroids using IBM tabulating machines. Her calculations were used in the Apollo program.
Education
Eleanor attended Samuel J. Tilden High School where she took an interest in Euclidean geometry and graduated in 1943. She earned her B.A. in mathematics at Brooklyn College in January 1947. While there, she served as treasurer for Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honor society. After graduating, she applied and was accepted to Columbia University, where she took classes towards her master's degree in mathematics.
Professional work
After high school, Eleanor took a job as a substitute teacher at the high school level at Midwood High School and later at her alma mater, Tilden High.
In 1947, Kolchin was hired to work at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Computing Laboratory at Columbia University. She was hired along with one woman and three men to take on a project at the Watson Laboratory operating tabulating machines for astrophysics. She simultaneously pursued a master's degree in Mathematics at Columbia while working in the laboratory.
Kolchin was tabulating supervisor in the laboratory and taught in Columbia's astronomy department.
She was the first woman to contribute to Columbia Engineering Quarterly.
In 1949, she published an article describing the Watson Lab’s work. It has since been translated into over 20 languages.
Publications
Krawitz, Eleanor, "Punched Card Mathematical Tables on Standard IBM Equipment", Proceedings, Industrial Computation Seminar, IBM, New York (Sep 1950), pp.52-56.
Krawitz, Eleanor, "Matrix by Vector Multiplication on the IBM Type 602-A Calculating Punch", Proceedings, Industrial Computation Seminar, IBM, New York (Sep 1950), pp.66-70.
Green, Louis C., Nancy E. Weber, and Eleanor Krawitz, "The Use of Calculated and Observed Energies in the Computation of Oscillator Strengths and the f-Sum Rule", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.113 No.3 (May 1951), pp.690-696.
Green, Louis C., Marjorie M. Mulder, Paul C. Milner, Margaret N. Lewis, John W. Woll, Jr., Eleanor K. Kolchin, and David Mace, "Analysis of the Three Parameter Wave Function of Hylleraas for the He i Ground State in Terms of Central Field Wave Functions", Physical Review 96, 319, 15 October 1954.
Green, Louis C., Satoshi Matsushima, Cynthia Stephens, Eleanor K. Kolchin, Majorie M. Kohler, Yenking Wang, Barbara B. Baldwin, and Robert J. Wisner, "Effect on the Energy of Increased Flexibility in the Separable Factor of Hylleraas-Type Atomic Wave Functions from H− to O VII", Physical Review 112, 1187, 15 November 1958.
Green, Louis C.; Matsushima, Satoshi; Kolchin, Eleanor K., "Tables of the Continuum Wave Functions for Hydrogen", Astrophysical Journal Supplement, vol. 3, November 1958, p. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera%20Huckel | Vera Huckel (1908–1999) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer and one of the first female "computers" at NACA, now NASA, where she mainly worked in the Dynamic Loads Division.
Life and work
Huckel was born in 1908 and studied math at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1929. After living in California for ten years, she visited a friend in Newport News and was hired as a ''junior computer,'' doing mathematical calculations for other researchers for $1,440 a year (a man with her background typically earned about $2,000 a year). Before the invention of electronic computers, these so-called "computers," who were mostly women, would do the time-consuming calculations necessary for successful flights.
Huckel became one of the first female engineers at NASA and wrote the program for its first electronic computer. She also worked as a supervisory mathematician and aerospace engineer during her time at NACA/NASA. By 1945 she had been promoted to section head in charge of up to 17 other women.
She was involved in helping researchers make the switch from using slide rules to do their complex calculations to super computers. She also worked on theories of aerodynamics. As a mathematician, she was involved in the testing of sonic booms in supersonic flight.
Huckel retired from NASA in 1972 after working there for more than 33 years.
She was active in the Soroptomist Organization, the AAUW, and volunteered with the Hampton United Way.
Huckel died at 90 years of age on March 24, 1999, in Newport News, Virginia, where she had lived for more than 60 years. She was buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
Selected publications
Morgan, Homer G., Harry L. Runyan, and Vera Huckel. "Theoretical considerations of flutter at high Mach numbers." Journal of the Aerospace Sciences 25, no. 6 (1958): 371-381.
Morgan, Homer G., Vera Huckel, and Harry L. Runyan. Procedure for calculating flutter at high supersonic speed including camber deflections, and comparison with experimental results. No. NACA-TN-4335. 1958.
Hilton, David Artland, Vera Huckel, Domenic J. Maglieri, and R. Steiner. Sonic-boom exposures during FAA community response studies over a 6-month period in the Oklahoma City area. No. NASA-TN-D-2539. 1964.
Hilton, David A., Vera Huckel, and Domenic J. Maglieri. Sonic-boom measurements during bomber training operations in the Chicago area. Vol. 3655. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1966.
References
See also
Harvard Computers
1908 births
1999 deaths
American mathematicians
Women mathematicians
NASA people
American women mathematicians
People from Newport News, Virginia
20th-century American mathematicians
20th-century American women scientists
University of Pennsylvania people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.R.A.G.O.N.%20Force | D.R.A.G.O.N. Force is a 1989 computer wargame published by Interstel Corporation for Amiga and MS-DOS. The name is an acronym for "Drastic Response Assault Group Operations Network."
Gameplay
D.R.A.G.O.N. Force is a strategy game in which the player commands a squad of commandos.
Reception
Jesse W. Cheng reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "there is a nice flavor to the game, as one really feels like he or she is in the middle of a firefight with all the chaos and confusion."
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - Jun, 1992
Amiga Power - May, 1991
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Sep, 1990
References
1989 video games
Amiga games
DOS games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about terrorism
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T200%20telex%20and%20data%20switching%20system | The T200 telex switching system produced by Hasler Ltd of Berne broke new ground in the modernization and spread of Telex. During the 1970s and 1980s it pioneered the introduction of digital equipment and the deployment of Stored Program Controlled (SPC) Exchanges, gradually replacing the former electromechanical telex networks.
The first T200 telex exchange went into service in February 1972 in Hong Kong on the telex network of the telecommunications company Cable & Wireless. It was the world's first stored-program-controlled telex switch in public service with call switching over a digital data bus.
A special feature of the T200 was a computer architecture designed to ensure uninterrupted operation based on three synchronously running processors with majority monitoring. (The Apollo Moon landing program also used Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) for failure-critical equipment). Over 50 T200 systems went into in service in 16 countries between 1972 and 2020, with a focus on Hong Kong, Switzerland and the People's Republic of China.
Initial development
In December 1967 Cable & Wireless (London) awarded Hasler Ltd the order for the delivery and commissioning of a Telex switching system with 750 lines in Hong Kong. It was based on a technical description created by Hasler in 1966 entitled Electronic Telex Exchange. Hasler was a world leader in the 1960s with its TOR system (Telex over Radio) and was thus well known to Cable & Wireless. This first T201 exchange went into operation on 2 February 1972.
Hardware
System architecture:
For the purpose of almost 100 percent operational availability, a redundancy concept was implemented with triplicated processors whose signals were constantly monitored using majority circuitry. This prevented hardware errors that might occur in the processors from affecting the behaviour of the system. All other system elements that were important for central operation were duplicated and protected by parity checks.
Technology:
With the exception of the central core memory and the input/output devices, all of the electronic equipment was developed by Hasler using transistor-transistor logic (TTL).
Features:
The memory addressing capacity was 256 kB.
The clock for real-time processing was 10 ms.
The (32-bit parallel) transfer bus allowed the connection of up to 16 line processors, each with 256 lines, i.e. a maximum of 4096 lines.
Software
The TELMOS assembler language developed by Hasler was designed for efficient real-time programming and optimal use of the limited memory capacity of 256 kB. Among the software functions implemented were the operating system, call handling with various signalling types and subscriber services, destination searching and routing, call data recording and utilities. With the exception of the CCITT standards, the functions were originally only described in summary form and had to be defined in detail during development. The development of a completely new, complex real-time software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty%20Maggiacomo | Matty Maggiacomo is a fitness instructor with Peloton and Peloton's Director of Fitness Programming.
Prior to joining Peloton in 2018, he was a founding instructor at Barry's Bootcamp.
Maggiacomo is originally from Rhode Island and was working in journalism prior to pivoting to a career in fitness. He is a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Peloton instructors
LGBT people from Rhode Island
American exercise instructors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Edge%2020 | Motorola Edge 20 is a series of Android smartphones 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/Poly%20Network%20exploit | The Poly Network exploit was an attack conducted by anonymous hackers on August 10, 2021. The attack transferred over $610 million in digital cryptocurrency to the hackers. All assets were returned to Poly Network over the following 15 days. It was one of the largest security incidents in DeFi's history in terms of mark-to-market value.
Background
Poly Network is an interoperability protocol that lets users trade one cryptocurrency for another, such as trading Bitcoin for Ethereum. Before the attack, Poly Network had transferred $10 billion in digital assets between blockchains, with total value of nearly $1 billion.
Attack
The hackers transferred approximately $610 million of the most valuable digital assets to three addresses they controlled on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Polygon.
After the attack, the Poly team asked exchanges and miners to be aware of the flow of stolen tokens and called for the hacker's transactions to be stopped, Tether froze $33 million worth of USDT. In an open letter on Twitter, the Poly team wanted to establish communication with the hackers and urge them to return the stolen tokens.
The hackers announced on August 11, 2021 that they had been planning to return the tokens. They claimed that the purpose of the theft was to reveal vulnerabilities and secure Poly Network. They posted a Q&A to communicate with the public by embedding messages in transactions with their addresses.
The hackers required multi-signature addresses for transfer. Poly Network generated a collection address and started to recover the assets that were returned first on August 11. On August 13, the hackers returned assets worth $340 million and transferred the bulk of the rest to a multi-signature address jointly controlled by them and Poly Network.
After receiving tokens, Poly Network started to address the hackers as "Mr. White Hat" and offered to reward them with a $500,000 bug bounty and the position of "chief security advisor" of Poly Network, as a strategy to ensure safe return of the rest of the affected assets.
The last of the hacked money was returned to Poly Network on August 25.
Reaction
Poly Network's decision to refer to the hackers as "white hats" angered some in the security world who worried that it might set a precedent for criminal hackers to whitewash their actions. White hat hacker Katie Paxton-Fear said that "labelling this hack as a white hat is really disappointing". Charlie Steele, former Department of Justice and FBI official, thought "Private companies have no authority to promise immunity from criminal prosecution," and "in this event where a hacker stole the $600m 'for fun' and then returned most of it, all while remaining anonymous, is not likely to lessen regulators' concerns about the variety of risks posed by cryptocurrencies."
Aftermath
Poly Network launched the global bug bounty program on Immunefi. The program aims to encourage more security agencies and white hat organizations to participate in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Sussmann | Michael A. Sussmann (born 1964) is an American former federal prosecutor and a former partner at the law firm Perkins Coie, who focused on privacy and cybersecurity law. Sussmann represented the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and retained CrowdStrike to examine its servers after two Russian hacker groups penetrated DNC networks and stole information during the 2016 U.S. elections.
The Trump administration appointed John Durham as special counsel to investigate the origins of the FBI probe into the many suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies. Durham spent three years on the investigation and, in 2021, brought a charge of making false statements against Sussmann, accusing him of having lied to the FBI in one meeting in 2016, with no witnesses. Sussman pleaded not guilty. After a jury trial in May 2022, Sussman was found not guilty.
Early life and education
Sussmann grew up in New Jersey, and attended Rutgers University and then Brooklyn Law School.
Professional career
Sussmann began his career as an associate at the law firm Proskauer Rose. He went on to work for twelve years as a prosecutor at the U.S. Justice Department, eventually specializing in computer crimes. He was a special assistant in the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division, and was later appointed as senior counsel. He worked as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he focused on white-collar and violent crime. He worked for Perkins Coie from 2005, where he was a partner in its privacy and cybersecurity practice, until his resignation in September 2021.
Response to Russian cyber attacks on DNC
On April 28, 2016, DNC CEO Amy Dacy informed Sussmann of a data breach. Sussmann then contacted Shawn Henry, CSO and President of CrowdStrike Services. CrowdStrike discovered that two Russian hacker groups, working independently of each other, had penetrated DNC networks and stolen information, including opposition research on Trump. Other data security groups and U.S. intelligence confirmed these findings.
Durham inquiry
Beginning in 2017, president Donald Trump and his allies alleged the FBI investigation, leading to the Mueller investigation, of possible contacts between his associates and Russian officials was a "hoax" or "witch hunt" that was baselessly initiated by his political enemies. In May 2019 attorney general Bill Barr appointed U.S. attorney John Durham to investigate the origins of the FBI investigation. In September 2020 The New York Times reported Durham had expanded the scope of his inquiry to include an examination of how the FBI had investigated the Clinton Foundation, after no basis for prosecution had been found by the FBI or later by John W. Huber, a special investigator appointed by Trump's first attorney general Jeff Sessions. Attorney General William Barr secretly appointed Durham Special Counsel on October 19, 2020. After more than two years of his investigation, Durham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six%20Immortal%20Women%20Poets | The Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets (女房三十六歌仙 Nyōbō Sanjūrokkasen), is a canon of Japanese poets who were anthologized in the middle Kamakura Period. The compiler and exact date of the canon's construction is unknown, but it's reference is subsequently noted in the Gunsho Ruijū, volume 13.
Five of the 36, Ono no Komachi, Lady Ise, Nakatsukasa, Saigū no Nyōgo and Kodai no Kimi also appeared in an earlier anthology with the similar title Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry which dates from 1113 (late Heian Period). The poet Fujiwara no Kintō chose this original selection that preceded the Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets.
These five women poets from the original publication were included in the Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets and canonized along with others from the Heian and Kamakura eras.
Role of women's court poetry in Heian-era Japan
The women canonized in this compilation are typically noblewomen associated with the imperial court, for example, Lady Ise, consort to Emperor Uda, Inpumon'in no Tayū (literally the Attendant to Empress Inpu), Michitsuna no haha (literally, Michitsuna's mother), Fujiwara no Shunzei no Musume (Literally Shunzei Fujiwara's daughter).
Scholars Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen and Yumiko Watanabe have suggested that the lack of a proper name or singular identity, symbolising broader structural power relations that marginalised court women, may have contributed to their autobiographic impulse to craft poetry.
Pre-modern Japanese Literature professor Roselee Bundy traces the contribution to women's court poetry reaching it's zenith in the mid Heian period as aesthetic communal events, before gradual professionalization of the genre began to exclude women’s voices beginning in the Kamakura period.
List of poets
【1】：Selected in the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry by Fujiwara no Kintō (1113).
【2】：Selected in the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry by ja:Fujiwara no Norikane in the late Heian period.
【3】：Selected in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu by Fujiwara no Teika in the early Kamakura period.
【4】：Selected in the New Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry by Fujiwara no Mototoshi and unknown compilers
Woodblock prints of the Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets by Chōbunsai Eishi
In 1801 the ukiyo-e painter Chōbunsai Eishi made a series of paintings to depict the thirty-six immortal women poets to accompany the calligraphy of each poet's verse, as produced by 36 girls who were students of Hanagata Giryu's (花形義融) calligraphy school "Hanagata Shodo". The album, reproduced with woodblock printing was intended to publicize the school. The 36 portraits are divided into a "left" (左) team and a "right" (右) team where the left team comprised poets who lived between the ninth and eleventh centuries, and the right team was made up of those poets that lived in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
The teams square off in a pair-competition on each spread, which was a practice dating from the Heian period imperial court in the late |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers%20%26%20Geosciences | Computers & Geosciences is a scientific journal published monthly by Elsevier on behalf of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. It contains research and review papers in computing applied to geosciences. Its impact factor is 3.372.
See also
Geocomputation
Geoinformatics
Geomathematics
References
External links
Official source code repository
Computer science journals
Earth and atmospheric sciences journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Epik%20data%20breach | The Epik data breach occurred in September and October 2021, targeting the American domain registrar and web hosting company Epik. The breach exposed a wide range of information including personal information of customers, domain history and purchase records, credit card information, internal company emails, and records from the company's WHOIS privacy service. More than 15million unique email addresses were exposed, belonging to customers and to non-customers whose information had been scraped. The attackers responsible for the breach identified themselves as members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous. The attackers released an initial 180gigabyte dataset on September 13, 2021, though the data appeared to have been exfiltrated in late February of the same year. A second release, this time containing bootable disk images, was made on September 29. A third release on October 4 reportedly contained more bootable disk images and documents belonging to the Texas Republican Party, a customer of Epik's.
Epik is known for providing services to websites that host far-right, neo-Nazi, and other extremist content. Past and present Epik customers include Gab, Parler, 8chan, the Oath Keepers, and the Proud Boys. The hack was described as "a Rosetta Stone to the far-right" because it has allowed researchers and journalists to discover links between far-right websites, groups, and individuals. Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) co-founder Emma Best said researchers had been describing the breach as "the Panama Papers of hate groups".
Epik was subsequently criticized for lax data security practices, in particular failing to properly encrypt sensitive customer data.
Background
Anonymous is a decentralized international hacktivist collective that is widely known for its various cyber attacks against several governments and governmental institutions, corporations, and the Church of Scientology. Primarily active in the late 2000s and early 2010s, Anonymous' media profile diminished by 2018. The group re-emerged in 2020 to support the George Floyd protests and other causes.
In September 2021, Anonymous asked people to support "Operation Jane", an effort by the group to oppose the Texas Heartbeat Act, a six-week abortion ban that went into effect on September 1. On September 4, Epik had begun providing services to a "whistleblower" website run by the anti-abortion Texas Right to Life organization, which allowed people to anonymously report suspected violators of the bill. The website, which moved to Epik after being denied services by GoDaddy, went offline after Epik told the group they had violated their terms of service by collecting private information about third parties. On September 11, Anonymous hacked the website of the Republican Party of Texas, which is hosted by Epik, to replace it with text about Operation Jane.
Data breach
Hackers identifying themselves as a part of Anonymous announced on September 13, 2021 that they had gained acce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogesh%20Singh | Yogesh Singh is an Indian academic who is the current and 23rd Vice-Chancellor of University of Delhi.
Education
He earned his Ph.D. in computer engineering and M.Tech. in electronics and communication engineering from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.
Career and professional activities
He is the former Vice Chancellor of Delhi Technological University (DTU). Prior to joining DTU in 2015, he served as the Director of Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology-NSIT (now known as Netaji Subhash University of Technology) from 2014 to 2017. He served as the Vice-Chancellor of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda from 2011 to 2014. From 2001 to 2006, Professor Singh served as the Dean of Information Technology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon%20704 | The Raytheon 704 is a 16-bit minicomputer introduced by Raytheon in 1970. The basic machine contained 4 kwords (8 kB) of memory and a simple arithmetic logic unit (ALU) running at 1 MHz. It was normally operated with a Teletype Model 33 acting as a computer terminal. It sold for "less than $10,000" ().
A key feature of the design was the ability to expand the central processing unit (CPU) using plug-in cards. Options included a hardware multiply/divide unit, an 8-level vectored interrupt controller, a DMA controller, among others. Memory could also be added using the same cards, allowing up to 32 kW in total. Memory was based on an 18-bit word, not 16-bit, with the extra bits for use with an optional parity check card.
Another unique feature was that general input/output expansion was external, using a daisy chained cable system known as DIO. This allowed devices like lab equipment and low-speed storage like tape drives to be added without requiring an internal card to support it; the device was added simply by connecting it to the nearest free DIO port on the computer or any other DIO device.
The 704 does not appear to have seen widespread use, although passing mentions can be found in many documents and it had a presence in scientific circles. One example is displaying weather radar data for the United States Air Force. It is historically notable as the first computer to be used to run play-by-mail games, when Flying Buffalo Inc purchased one in 1970.
History
When it was launched, the 704 was a competitive machine compared to recently-released systems. The PDP-8/I, of 1968, cost $12,800 for a similar 4 kWord machine, but used smaller 12-bit words and thus had 6 kB of memory compared to the 704's 16-bit words where the same 4 kWord memory was 8 kB. The 704 was also faster, running at 1 MHz rather than the PDP-8's 600 kHz. Another machine aimed more squarely at the 704's instrumentation market was the HP 2116A, another 16-bit design that listed at $22,000.
In spite of these advantages, the 704 faced stiff competition from other newly-introduced machines like the Data General Nova, which had a similar feature set but was less expensive, with a similar configuration costing $7,999. The Nova was slower than the 704, but this was addressed in the SuperNOVA, released in 1970 for $11,700. This sandwiched the 704 between lower-cost, lower-performance solutions, and higher-performance solutions that were only slightly more expensive.
The 704 was used as an onsite seismic processing system by Petty-Ray Geophysical, named the Com*MAND 1, in the early 1970s, equipped with 1/2" tape drives, card reader, Teletype 33 console, and Gould 11" electrostatic plotter. Without an ATP, Vibroseis correlation of a full tape of seismic data would take several hours.
The successor to the 704 was the RDS 500 which was extensively used by seismic acquisition companies such as Petty-Ray Geophysical, named the Com*MAND 2, CGG (company), Seismograph Survey Company (SSC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%20Lothbrok%20%28Vikings%29 | Ragnar "Lothbrok" Sigurdsson is a main character in the historical drama series Vikings, created by Canadian network History. He is portrayed by Travis Fimmel and is based on Ragnar Lodbrok, a 9th-century Viking farmer and warrior who raided Anglo-Saxon villages in England.
Throughout the first four seasons, Ragnar goes on a journey from being a farmer in his homeland, to being a fierce Viking warrior in England and becoming an Earl, to being crowned King of Denmark after the death of King Horik. After his death, the series shifts focus onto his sons.
Development
When the shows creators were looking to cast Ragnar, there were difficulties finding the right actor for his role. The shows producers considered mostly Scandinavian and English actors for the part. In an interview for the series, series creator Michael Hirst said that his wife "wasn't sure about their choice for Ragnar, and convinced him to wait a little longer for the right actor to come along." A few days later, Travis Fimmel sent in his reel, and they decided to cast him for the part.
During development of the series, series creator Michael Hirst originally wanted the series to be a one-off, with only one season airing. The series aimed to end with Ragnar dying after the first season. Hirst said: "When I was writing the show, Ragnar died at the end of season one, But actually when we were making it, I realised by the end of the season we were only on the start of Ragnar's journey." Ragnar would eventually die during the fourth season. Hirst and Fimmel recalled having an argument about the delivery of Ragnar's last speech in "All His Angels". Fimmel initially felt uneasy about it, but he was convinced of its importance and impact on Ragnar's sons, saying: "me and Michael spoke about how the kids will find out what he said. It’s all for them, he doesn’t believe it". Screen Rant commended Hirsts work on adapting Ragnar, saying: "Hirst did an incredible job creating a complex and vibrant character based closely on the historical and mythological stories of Ragnar."
Character history
Season 1
Ragnar and his brother, Rollo, return from a battle in the Baltic lands during which Ragnar has visions of the god Odin and his valkyries. Ragnar takes his son Bjorn to Kattegat, for Bjorn's rite of passage. They later visit Floki, who has been secretly building a new type of longship. Ragnar has yet another vision of Odin, standing on the shoreline. This convinces Ragnar to finally move on with his plan. After gathering volunteers, Ragnar, Rollo, and Floki embark on an unauthorized raid to the west. Lagertha violently objects to Ragnar's refusal to take her along. At sea, the crew are caught in a storm, which a manic Floki interprets as Thor proving his ship unsinkable. On land, monks see the ominous sign of a cloud shaped like a dragon. After a tense voyage, Ragnar's men land on the coast of England, near the monastery of Lindisfarne, which they proceed to sack. They kill most of the monks an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPPL | MPPL may refer to:
Multi Purpose Programming Language, an early name for PL/I
Marine Parade Public Library, a public library in Marine Parade, Singapore
Mount Prospect Public Library, a public library in Mount Prospect, Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prol%C3%B3gica%20Ind%C3%BAstria%20e%20Com%C3%A9rcio%20de%20Microcomputadores | Prológica Indústria e Comércio de Microcomputadores, commonly shortened to Prológica, was an influential Brazilian microcomputer company that reached its peak in the mid-1980s, when it ranked third among national companies in the sector.
History
Founded in 1976, the company initially commercialized machines for accounting use, namely the MCA-100 and Alpha Disk. The first models had an Intel 8080 processor, and in the early months the company even managed to get a partnership with Olivetti.
The company later specialized in producing products similar to the American TRS-80 series of microcomputers, under the general name of "CP" (for "Computador Pessoal" in Portuguese, "Personal Computer" in English).
One of its biggest successes in the professional field was the CP 500, compatible with the TRS-80 Model III.
In 1990, the company was sued by Microsoft for creating SO16 ("Sistema Operativo 16"), an operating system based on MS-DOS.
Line of products
A not extensive list of Prológica's products:
Home computers
NE-Z80 (Sinclair ZX80 clone)
NE-Z8000 (1982, Sinclair ZX81 clone)
CP 200 (1982, Sinclair ZX81 compatible)
CP 200 S (1982, Sinclair ZX81 compatible, alternate case)
CP 300 (1983, TRS-80 Model III compatible)
CP 400 COLOR (1984, Color Computer 2 compatible)
CP 400 COLOR II (better keyboard)
Personal computers
Sistema 600
Sistema 700 (1981, DOS-700 - CP/M-80 compatible)
CP 500 (1982, TRS-80 Model III compatible)
CP 500/M80 (1985)
CP 500/M80C (1986)
Solution 16 (1986, SO16 - MS-DOS 2.11 compatible)
CP 500 Turbo (1987, faster CPU)
SP 16
AT SP 286
AT SP 386
AT SP 486
Peripherals
CP 450 (floppy disk drive interface)
Printer P 500
Printer P 600
Printer P 700
Printer P 720
Printer Antares 400
References
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Defunct computer companies of Brazil
Defunct manufacturing companies of Brazil
Manufacturing companies based in São Paulo
Brazilian brands
Brazilian companies established in 1976
1995 disestablishments in Brazil
Electronics companies established in 1976
Electronics companies disestablished in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashcam%20%28horror%20film%29 | Dashcam is a 2021 computer screen horror film directed by Rob Savage and written by Gemma Hurley, Savage, and Jed Shepherd. The film stars Annie Hardy, Amer Chadha-Patel, and Angela Enahoro. The entire film is shot from the perspective of Hardy's hand-held iPhone, as she livestreams her actions for viewers whose comments on the events are also displayed. The film follows Hardy, playing a semi-fictionalized version of herself, as she visits a friend in London amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and finds herself in a series of nightmarish events after giving a strange woman a ride in her car. The film is produced by Jason Blum through his Blumhouse Productions banner, alongside Douglas Cox, and Savage.
Savage and co-writer Jed Shepherd developed the idea for Dashcam based on a live-streamed video series shared on YouTube by Hardy—singer of the indie rock band Giant Drag—entitled Band Car, in which Hardy would work out song ideas before viewers while driving in Los Angeles. Savage felt the concept would make for a good found footage-style horror film, and ultimately asked Hardy to appear in the film herself.
Dashcam had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival on 13 September 2021, where it was named second runner up for the People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness. It was later released theatrically in the United Kingdom and the United States on 3 June 2022. The film received polarized reviews, with praise for the scares, but criticism for its unlikable lead character.
Plot
Annie Hardy is a right-wing internet personality and musician who live streams out of her car, making music and using her viewers' comments as lyrics. Tired of COVID-19 restrictions and homelessness in Los Angeles, Annie books a flight to London. There, she pays a visit to her former bandmate Stretch, who now works as a food delivery driver, and his girlfriend Gemma's house. Although Stretch is initially pleased to reunite with Annie, Gemma quickly clashes with her over their views on COVID-19 and politics. Annie accompanies Stretch on his delivery job where she frustrates Stretch and antagonizes restaurant owners with her anti-mask views.
Returning home, a furious Gemma attacks Annie. Annie later overhears Gemma forcing Stretch to kick her out. In response, Annie steals Stretch's car and phone before deciding to take a delivery for him, intending to eat it herself. When she arrives at the restaurant, Annie is surprised to find it abandoned before she encounters the owner who offers Annie a large sum of money to transport a frail old woman named Angela to an undisclosed location. Annie reluctantly accepts the offer and begins driving with Angela while live-streaming everything to her fans. Angela defecates herself, forcing the pair to stop at a diner. While cleaning Angela, Annie is surprised to discover an Ariana Grande tattoo on her stomach. A woman soon enters the diner looking for Angela and attacks Annie. Annie fends her off and witnesses Angela ex |
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