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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Laptop%20SE | The Surface Laptop SE is a laptop computer manufactured by Microsoft. Unveiled on November 9, 2021, it is an entry-level model in the Surface Laptop series positioned exclusively towards the education market. It was released on 9 November 2021.
Specifications
The Surface Laptop SE has a plastic body and shares some components (such as the keyboard) with the Surface Laptop Go. Microsoft stated that it was designed to be more repairable than other Surface models, with replacement parts (such as batteries, displays, keyboards, and motherboards) to be available through its service partners for on-site repairs.
The device uses an Intel Celeron CPU, with configurations using either a Celeron N4020 with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage, or the N4120 with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage. It has two USB ports, one of which is USB-C. Unlike other Surface models, the Laptop SE uses a round, non-magnetic power connector. It includes a 10.1-inch screen at 1366×768 resolution, and a one-megapixel webcam.
It ships with Windows 11 SE, a variant of the operating system with optimizations for the education market.
Timeline
References
External links
SE
Computer-related introductions in 2021
Educational hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20data%20in%20Iran | Iranian government of Islamic Republic has developed Open dataset/datasheet catalog system part of its Electronic "Data governance حکمرانی داده - Open data ecosystem" government program.
Transparency system of Iranian Information Technology Organization portal has data regarding government funding, financial transparency documents, government auction bids data, businesses data, address books, and other data with the aim of discovering government corruption.
Sites
Data.gov.ir
References
Open data by location |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider%20Euro%20PC | The Schneider Euro PC was a PC compatible home computer, introduced in 1988 by the Schneider Computer Division.
A follow-up to the success of the Schneider CPC series, the Euro PC offered an inexpensive entry into the emerging market for home PCs. The computer used a Siemens 8088 processor (clocked at 4.77, 7.15 or 9.54 MHz according to a BIOS setting or key combination), had 512 KB of RAM (expandable to 640 KB), and was shipped with MS-DOS 3.3 and Microsoft Works 1.0.
As with many other home computers of its time, the computer circuit board was built into the keyboard housing. A 12" amber monochrome monitor (MM12) and a 14" color monitor (CM14) were available for the system. The Euro PC had a graphics chip that could be switched between monochrome Hercules and color CGA modes. The power supply was external, an unusual feature for a PC.
A 3-inch floppy disk drive (720 KB) was installed as a mass storage device. An external 3-inch floppy disk drive with 720 KB (FD720), a 5-inch floppy disk drive with 360 KB (FD360), and a 20 MB hard disk (XT Attachment, similar to IDE / ATA ) were available as accessories. This could not be replaced by any other model, as the drive parameters were permanently programmed into the BIOS. However, it was possible to operate other hard drives with a corresponding controller in the expansion slot.
The computer was sold through large mail-order companies at a price of 1,800 DEM. The highly competitive PC market left little room for new machines, but the Euro PC was still sold in considerable numbers thanks to its very low price and slim, home computer-like appearance.
An updated version, the Euro PC II introduced in 1989, had 768 KB RAM and a 8087 mathematical coprocessor. Another version with further expansions was called EURO XT.
The Euro AT offered a 80286 processor, 1MB of RAM, and a EGA graphics card. The Euro SX, introduced in 1992, came with a 80386SX processor.
Technical details
See also
PC compatible
PC AT
Sinclair PC200
References
Schneider Electric
Home computers
IBM PC compatibles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moveworks | Moveworks is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company develops an AI platform, designed for large enterprises, that uses natural language understanding (NLU), probabilistic machine learning, and automation to resolve workplace requests.
Moveworks’ customers include Autodesk, Broadcom, and other firms. Employees converse with the Moveworks chatbot to submit their requests, which Moveworks analyzes and then resolves via integrations with other software applications. Moveworks is available in business communication tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, as well as through online platforms such as ServiceNow and SharePoint.
As of its Series C financing round in June 2021, Moveworks is valued at $2.1 billion and has raised $315 million in total funding. The company’s investors include Tiger Global, Alkeon Capital, and other firms.
History
Moveworks was founded in 2016 by Bhavin Shah (CEO), Vaibhav Nivargi (CTO), Varun Singh (Vice President of Product), and Jiang Chen (Vice President of Machine Learning).
Prior to Moveworks, Shah had served as CEO of startup and iOS app Refresh.io, which was acquired by LinkedIn; Nivargi had founded ClearStory Data, a big data and analytics company; and Singh was a product management leader at Facebook, where his work focused on machine learning and chatbots. Chen had spent nearly six years on a natural language processing (NLP) research team at Google, whose search engine was considerably more sophisticated than the enterprise search systems that most companies employed at the time.
The founders recognized the potential of an AI-powered chatbot to resolve a significant portion of employees’ support issues, without involvement from a corporate help desk. This model would enable self-service for employees with common requests or questions.
After working with a group of lighthouse customers to automate IT support use cases, Moveworks came out of "stealth mode" in April 2019, following a $30 million Series A investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Bain Capital. The company raised a $75 million Series B round in November 2019 and a $200 million Series C round in June 2021.
Moveworks initially solved employees’ IT support issues. In March 2021, the company expanded its Employee Service Platform to address issues concerning other lines of business, including HR, finance, and facilities. Moveworks also released an internal communications solution that allows company leaders to send interactive messages to employees.
Moveworks was recognized as the Best Chatbot Solution at the 2021 AI Breakthrough Awards, named to the Forbes AI 50 in 2019, 2020, and 2021, and selected as one of the Most Innovative Tech Companies of the Year at the 2021 American Business Awards.
Technology
The Moveworks platform comprises a multitude of specialized machine learning models, such as variants of the BERT language model. These models are trained on historical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo%20Dubnov | Shlomo Dubnov is an American-Israeli computer music researcher and composer. He is a professor in the Music Department and Affiliate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering and a founding faculty of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute in the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 2003. He is the Director of the Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning (CREL) at UC San Diego's Qualcomm Institute.
Biography
Born in Ukraine in 1962, Shlomo Dubnov is a researcher and composer. Dubnov's education bridges electrical engineering (at the Technion), computer science (at the Hebrew University), and music (at the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem). Dubnov was familiar with electroacoustic music when he learned about computer music as a field of research during a workshop by Jonathan Berger around 1990. In 1994, he founded the "Israel Computers and Music Forum".
Dubnov graduated from Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in composition and did his PhD in computer science in Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a graduate of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Talpiot program. Prior to joining UCSD, he served as a researcher at IRCAM, Paris, and headed the multimedia track for the Department of Communication Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He received fellowships from Natural Science's Distinguished Scientist (Dozor Program), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2019, the IdEX Excellence in Research, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France, 2016, Heiwa-Nakajima-Zaidan, Keio University, Japan 2014, Chateaubriand, IRCAM, 2014, and Eshkol Fellowship, Ministry of Science, Israel, 1993.
Research
He is best known for his research on musical timbre, Machine improvisation. in Computational creativity and Stylometry of music. He is also known for his contributions to the field of Computer Audition by inventing the method of information dynamics and use of Bispectrum and non-linear extensions of Spectral flatness
Selected publications
Dubnov, S., Tishby, N., Cohen, D., (1996), "Polyspectra as measures of sound texture and timbre", Journal of New Music Research 26 (4), 277–314, Best Paper award, Computer Music Association, 1996
P Herrera-Boyer, G Peeters, S Dubnov (2003), "Automatic classification of musical instrument sounds", Journal of New Music Research 32 (1), 3-21
Cont, A., and Dubnov, S.,"GUIDAGE: A Fast Audio Query Guided Assemblage", ICMC Best Presentation Award, 2007
References
External links
Living people
University of California, San Diego faculty
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esterel%20%28disambiguation%29 | Esterel is a programming language.
Esterel or Estérel may also refer to:
Esterel Technologies, a software company
Estérel, Quebec, a city in Canada
Massif de l'Esterel, a mountain range in France
MV Esterel, a British ship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Golub | Benjamin Golub (also known as Ben Golub) is an American economist who is a professor of economics and computer science at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the economics of networks. He was named the winner of the 2020 biannual Calvó-Armengol International Prize, which recognizes a “top researcher in [e]conomics or social sciences younger than 40 years old for contributions to the theory and comprehension of the mechanisms of social interaction.”
Career
Golub received a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 2007. He received his PhD in economics from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2012. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows, and then a faculty member at the Harvard University Department of Economics, as an Assistant Professor from 2015 to 2019, and then as an Associate Professor. He is now a Professor in the departments of Economics and Computer Science at Northwestern University, where he has been since 2021.
Golub received the Calvó-Armengol International Prize in a ceremony in Andorra in November 2021.
Research
Golub's research focuses on social and economic networks. He has been recognized for his contributions to the study of social learning, particularly the DeGroot model. Golub's studies highlight the importance of network structure for the quality of learning, and how homophily in social networks causes polarization of opinions. He has also done research on contagion of failure in financial networks.
References
External links
Official website
Living people
21st-century American economists
Year of birth missing (living people)
California Institute of Technology alumni
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni
Northwestern University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogtwitter | #Frogtwitter is a network of loosely-connected pseudonymous Twitter accounts. The name itself likely derives from the Pepe the Frog meme. Josh Vandiver speculates that it could also derive from Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs for the circle around far right social media personality Bronze Age Pervert, although BAP's book was not published until 2018.
Definitions and descriptions
Definitions and descriptions of Frogtwitter vary depending by source and perspective. BuzzFeed simply refers to it as "Alt Right on Twitter." Jacob Siegel writing for The Baffler calls it a group "with a similar blend of post-libertarian, reactionary politics" and interviewed an anonymous member who describes it as "a lot of it is just having fun with words on the internet... intellectualizing while wanting to communicate serious ideas in a very high-noise environment (...) the thesis of most of this part of the alt-right is that there's a decadence, a decline and eventually it will be followed by something else." Ben Schreckinger writing for Politico described it as "a network of similar, pseudonymous accounts with names like Just Loki and 17thCenturyShytePost that revel in mythic, aristocratic pasts while trafficking in racism and anti-Semitism." Park MacDougald of Tablet Magazine calls Frogtwitter "[the] corner of social media", notable for "[bringing] the world campy, far-right Nietzschean" "Bronze Age Pervert."
Andrew Sabisky writing for International Business Times UK reported on a wave of Frogtwitter Twitter bannings in early 2017 and reviewed a one-time Frogtwitter art exhibition in London in which he quoted "Kantbot" summarising Frogtwitter as "the last bastion of indiscriminate and all-embracing cultural criticism"; a space not for ideology, but for pure, truly unfiltered critique. It is an anti-political sphere, in many ways, or perhaps one of a politics of pure aesthetics." Sabisky himself lauds Frogtwitter for "the magic of frogtwitter [that] lies in the balance between the darkness of their nihilism and the joyous, majestic, life-affirming vitality with which they express it, buttressed by a fierce intelligence." Ben Sixsmith writing for The American Conservative notes that trying to define Frogtwitter could lead to embarrassment, but he tries by saying "its inhabitants tend to be young, male, white, and nationalistic, but also less fixated on race than the alt-right and more cynical, literary, esoteric, and mischievous. They love to walk the line between satire and seriousness, to get a reaction as with other trolls, but also to deconstruct what they see as artificial forms of social meaning." Dan DeCarlo writing for Claremont Institute's American Mind sums up Frogtwitter as a short-lived, bizarro right-wing avant-garde, and lauds it as a nihilistic collective art project that struggles with the end of liberalism and "a spiritual mutiny against the religion of progressive liberalism."
According to popular member "Bronze Age Pervert", as quoted by Tara Is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massoia%27s%20lutrine%20opossum | Massoia's lutrine opossum (Lutreolina massoia) is a species of opossum native to South America.
Taxonomy
It was formerly considered a disjunct population of the big lutrine opossum (L. crassicaudata), but a 2014 study determined it to be a distinct species and described it as such. It is possible that climatic changes in the past led to an expansion of vegetation in the Dry Chaco, allowing the ancestral Lutreolina to cross it, with the later aridification of the Chaco isolating both species and leading to their divergence.
This species was named after Argentine zoologist Elio Massoia, who made significant contributions to the knowledge of South American mammal diversity, and was among the first researchers to notice the distinctiveness of the Lutreolina populations of the Yungas.
Distribution
It ranges from south-central Bolivia south to northern Argentina, where it is restricted to the Yungas region just east of the Andes. It has a different habitat from L. crassicaudata, being found primarily in lowland savanna grasslands. It seems to primarily use areas with dense ground cover and aquatic environments.
Description
L. massoia is smaller in size than L. crassicaudata, and differs in the size and shape of the skull, as well as in the dentition.
References
Opossums
Marsupials of South America
Mammals of Argentina
Mammals of Bolivia
Mammals described in 2014
Southern Andean Yungas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IoMT | IoMT may refer to:
Internet of Military Things, networked devices for combat operations and warfare in the Internet of things
Internet of Media Things, networked digital media systems in the Internet of things using the international standard ISO/IEC 23093 of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
Internet of Medical Things, networked medical devices in the Internet of things |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20J.%20Patterson | Donald J. Patterson (born April 11, 1972) is a professor of computer science at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is an expert on topics including cryptocurrency, health technology, and technology in the context of civilizational collapse.
Education
Dr. Patterson earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Cornell University before spending four years in Japan and Sardinia as a naval operations officer. He earned a doctorate in computer science from the University of Washington and has been recognised for his work on collapse informatics and abstract object usage.
Research & Career
Based on his research, he co-founded more than four startup companies. He previously worked at the University of California, Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, where he earned tenure and served as director of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction.
Most cited articles
Kestenbaum B, Sampson JN, Rudser KD, Patterson DJ, Seliger SL, Young B, Sherrard DJ, and Andress DL. Serum phosphate levels and mortality risk among people with chronic kidney disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 16:520–528, 2005.
Philipose M, Fishkin KP, Perkowitz M, Patterson DJ, Fox D, Kautz H, Hahnel D. Inferring activities from interactions with objects. IEEE pervasive computing. 2004 Oct;3(4):50-7.
Liao L, Patterson DJ, Fox D, Kautz H. Learning and inferring transportation routines. Artificial intelligence. 2007 Apr 1;171(5-6):311-31.
Patterson DJ, Liao L, Fox D, Kautz H. Inferring high-level behavior from low-level sensors. InInternational Conference on Ubiquitous Computing 2003 Oct 12 (pp. 73–89). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Patterson DJ, Fox D, Kautz H, Philipose M. Fine-grained activity recognition by aggregating abstract object usage. In Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'05) 2005 Oct 18 (pp. 44–51).
External links
Google Scholar - Donald J. Patterson
References
Cornell University alumni
University of Washington alumni
Living people
1972 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PB286LP | The PB286LP, released in 1989, was Packard Bell's first laptop computer. The laptop featured an 80C286 processor clocked at 12 MHz and 1 MB of RAM, along with a single ISA expansion slot. Packard Bell released the PB286LP in 1989 among a slew of products aimed at the corporate market. Technology writers gave it mostly positive reviews, although some noted its 16-lb weight as hefty and its monochrome LCD as somewhat flawed. Originally only capable of CGA-mode graphics, the laptop was updated in 1990 to support VGA. Packard Bell discontinued the PB286LP in 1991, in favor of more-compact, notebook-sized computers.
Development and specifications
The PB286LP was the first laptop of Packard Bell, a defunct trademark of Teledyne Technologies revived as a computer manufacturer by Beny Alagem, Alex Sandel and Jason Barzilay in 1986. The laptop was announced in November 1988 amid a barrage of computers aimed at the corporate market. The PB286LP, which features an 80C286 processor clocked at 12 MHz—downclockable to 6 MHz—was marketed to existing buyers of 80286-based personal computers. It arrived stock with 1 MB of RAM SIMMs, expandable up to 5 MB. Packard Bell included a single full-length ISA expansion slot to offer users a means of expanding and upgrading the laptop. The laptop carries a 1.44 MB floppy disk drive and was optioned with either a 20 MB or a 40 MB hard disk drive. Conner and TEAC manufactured the hard and floppy drives respectively. In addition the PB286LP had an optional 2400-bit/s modem.
The systems chipset of the PB286LP was manufactured by Intel, while the BIOS was provided by Award. The PB286LP's video chipset was designed in-house by Packard Bell and has an interface eight bits wide and support for both double-scan CGA and MDA. The laptop's monochrome LCD measures 9.7 inches diagonally with an aspect ratio of 1.6:1. Its removable nickel–cadmium battery had a claimed battery life of three hours in 1990. Packard Bell allowed users to enable a battery-conservation feature that turns off the laptop's LCD and spins down the hard disk drive after several minutes without use.
The laptop's dimensions measured 3.2 in by 12.8 in by 13.5 in (height, width and depth). Its nominal weight on announcement was originally under 15 lb, later 7 lb. However, after production, the laptop had grown to between 16 and 18 lb— in one reviewer's write-up, the laptop weighed 20 lb. The Ni-Cd battery takes up roughly 3.5 lb of the weight.
In April 1990, the laptop received an update in the form of the PB286LP-VGA, bumping the stock RAM from 1 MB to 2 MB and adding VGA support to its video chipset. Both the PB286LP and PB286LP-VGA were manufactured in Taiwan.
Reception
Reviewers of the PB286LP frequently noted its heft; Bruce Brown of PC Magazine called it "on the high side" for a clamshell laptop in its processor class but wrote that its long battery life warranted it. He found it a strong contender for a 286 laptop and called its LCD "exceptionally clear" a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva%20%28Bolivia%29 | Empresa de Telecomunicaciones Nuevatel PCS de Bolivia S.A., doing business as VIVA, is a Bolivian wireless network operator and telecommunications company. It was founded in 1999. It is currently among the largest companies in the country. Viva is the third-largest wireless carrier in Bolivia, with a market share of 12.9%.
History
Nuevatel PCS was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Western Wireless Corporation with 72% and COMTECO (a telecommunications cooperative from Cochabamba) with 28%, and began operations a year later.
On January 9, 2005, Western Wireless entered into a merger agreement with Little Rock-based telecommunications provider Alltel, in which Alltel agreed to pay $6 billion in shares and cash to Western Wireless shareholders. Western Wireless shareholders voted on July 29, 2005, to accept a $4.4 billion offer in shares and cash from Alltel. The merger was completed on August 1, 2005. Western Wireless founders, John W. Stanton and Theresa Gillespie, founded Trilogy International Partners and retained Nuevatel as part of their assets.
On March 28, 2022, Trilogy, which inherited Nuevatel from co-founder Western Wireless, sold its 71.5% stake to Balesia Technologies. COMTECO owns the remaining 28.5% since the company's inception.
References
External links
Telecommunications companies of Bolivia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Sharing%20Limited | Time Sharing Limited (TSL) was the United Kingdom's first time sharing computer services company.
1st. Generation System
Time Sharing Limited was founded in 1967 by Richard ("Dick") Evans who had been impressed by Digital Equipment Corporation's minicomputers. It started service from a small office on Great Portland Street, London, with a dual, fault-tolerant system consisting of a front-end switch directing traffic to two units, each consisting of a PDP-7 and a PDP-8. The PDP-7 interpreted messages and the PDP-8 ran the appropriate application. A PDP-9 controlled access to persistent storage based on NCR CRAM Memory. The system used the TELCOMP interpretive language that had been developed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman.
Customers leased a modem from the General Post Office (later British Telecom) and a Westrex Teletype Model 33 from TSL. Line speeds were limited to 110 Baud (about 10 characters per second [CPS]). Customers were charged for each minute that they were logged onto the system. The initial persistent storage system was based on NCR CRAM units, which used magnetic cards hanging from a digitally addressed set of rods.
Applications
TSL quickly developed a range of applications for business, scientific and engineering customers. The most highly used were the PERT application, for critical path network planning, and an embryonic corporate modeling tool that could be regarded as a forerunner to spreadsheets. TSL soon licensed programs from other DEC customers, including the Nastran finite element modeling system and an early Database Management System called Oliver. TSL's Consultancy Division also developed applications, or modified services, for its customers. The most advanced applications used the MACRO-10 assembly language.
2nd. Generation System
TSL introduced its first high throughput system in early 1970, based on a PDP-10, later known as the DECSystem-10, housed in London offices at the corner of Great Portland Street and Devonshire Street. The service eventually had two powerful systems for continuous service and a third, smaller system as a backup. Storage consisted of disk drives, tape decks and Bryant magnetic drums for swap space. The operating system was TOPS-10. The new service could support batch, remote job entry, time sharing and real-time loads. It was accessible via a range of terminal devices, including 30 CPS Texas Instruments Silent 700 portable units with an acoustic modem to Tektronix storage tubes, which ran at around 2,400 CPS. Fortran II was added in addition to TELCOMP III. Multiplexers were set up in Birmingham and Edinburgh to reduce line charges. Customers were charged for connect time, application usage, file storage, tape and card deck transfers and line printer output.
Customers and Acquisition
By 1973 TSL was well established, with customers that included the Greater London Council, Foster Wheeler, Baring Bros., British Shipbuilding Research Association, Mather & Platt, London Weekend Television, t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20Stankovic | John Anthony Stankovic is an American computer scientist. He is currently the BP America Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia and the director of the Link Lab at the university's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Stankovic received a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Brown University in 1970. After graduating, he worked at Bell Labs in Whippany, New Jersey. Stankovic returned to Brown for graduate studies, completing an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in 1975 and 1979 under the mentorship of Andries van Dam.
Prior to joining the University of Virginia, Stankovic taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists
University of Virginia faculty
Brown University alumni
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion%20polling%20for%20the%20next%20Australian%20federal%20election | In the run-up to the next Australian federal election, it is expected a number of polling companies will conduct regular opinion polls for various news organisations. These polls will collect data on parties' primary vote, and likely contain an estimation of the two-party-preferred vote.
Graphical summary
Primary vote
Two-party preferred
Voting intention
2023
2022
Preferred prime minister and leadership polling
Graphical summary
The following graphical summaries illustrate results from opinion polling for preferred Prime Minister and their respective approval ratings based on data below that is documented in the tables.
Preferred Prime Minister
Leadership approval ratings
Note: Green line means Satisfied, Pink line means Dissatisfied and Grey line means Don’t Know
Albanese
Dutton
Preferred Prime Minister and leadership polling table
2023
2022
Sub-national polling
New South Wales
Graphical summary
Polling
Victoria
Graphical summary
Polling
Queensland
Graphical summary
Polling
Western Australia
Graphical summary
Polling
South Australia
Graphical summary
Polling
Tasmania
Graphical summary
Polling
See also
Opinion polling for the 2022 Australian federal election
References
Australia
2025
Federal elections in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape%20of%20practice | A landscape of practice (LoP) is a social sciences concept introduced by Etienne Wenger-Trayner and Beverly Wenger-Trayner in a 2014 book.
The concept is related to networks of practice (often abbreviated as NoP), originated by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. This concept, related to the work on communities of practice by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, refers to a number of related communities working on a body of knowledge (BoK). Participation in a LoP involves members of related CoPs developing competence in their area of interest and keeping up to date with knowledgeability relevant to the LoP.
See also
Body of knowledge (BoK)
Community of practice (CoP)
Knowledge management
Network of practice (NoP)
Organizational learning
Virtual community of practice
References
Further reading
2014 introductions
Bodies of knowledge
Types of communities
Collaboration
Community building
Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Index%20%28academia%29 | The General Index is a free-to-use database, which when compressed takes up 8.5 terabytes. It was created by technologist Carl Malamud and his nonprofit foundation Public Resource. , it contains words and phrases from more than 107 million academic papers.
It consists of a table of n-grams (a contiguous sequence of n items) derived from the full text of the articles along with tables of associated keywords and metadata. It is intended to ease computerized analysis of the scientific literature, which has been hindered by widespread copyright restrictions limiting access by researchers to the full text.
The initial version, comprising the raw database tables without any search engine front-end, was released by the Internet Archive on October 7, 2021.
See also
Machine learning
Open access
References
External links
Internet Archive projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ina%20Koch | Ina Koch (born 1958) is a German bioinformatics researcher who holds the Chair of Molecular Bioinformatics at Goethe University Frankfurt, in the faculty of mathematics and computer science. She has published research on the use of maximum common subgraphs and Petri nets to model problems in biology, and on the prediction of deleterious alleles.
Education and career
Koch was born in 1958 in East Berlin, and studied quantum chemistry at Leipzig University, working there with . She became a researcher in the Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processing of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, and after the German reunification in 1990, became a researcher for the from 1992 to 1996, and completed a doctorate in theoretical computer science.
After postdoctoral research with Jens Reich at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, and with Martin Vingron at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, she took a professorship in 2002 at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology. She moved in 2005 to the University of Jena, and again in 2010 to her present position in Frankfurt.
References
External links
1958 births
Living people
Computational biologists
German bioinformaticians
Women bioinformaticians
German biologists
German computer scientists
German women biologists
German women computer scientists
Leipzig University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Jena
Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop%20Dogg%20Presents%20Algorithm | Snoop Dogg Presents Algorithm (or simply titled Algorithm) is a compilation album by American rapper Snoop Dogg. Some publications described the recording as a compilation album, but the rapper's official website describes it as a studio album. Released on November 19, 2021 by Doggy Style Records and Def Jam Recordings and featured contributions from various artists including Method Man & Redman, Eric Bellinger, Usher, Blxst, Fabolous, and Dave East.
Background
Following his appointment as executive creative consultant at Def Jam Recordings in June, Snoop Dogg officially announced the album on October 26, 2021. He subsequently released the singles "Big Subwoofer" on October 20 and "Murder Music" on November 5. He appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on September 27 to tease the album, and he also appeared on the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience on November 12 in promotion of the album.
Critical reception
Algorithm received positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 70, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on nine reviews.
Commercial performance
Algorithm debuted at number 166 on the US Billboard 200, becoming his 26th entry on the Billboard 200. The album debuted at number 8 on the US Compilation Albums, marking Snoop Dogg's first album on the chart.
Track listing
Track listing adapted from Genius.
Charts
References
2021 albums
Snoop Dogg albums
Def Jam Recordings albums
Albums produced by Poo Bear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandra%20Przegali%C5%84ska | Aleksandra Katarzyna Przegalińska-Skierkowska (born 18 January 1982) is a Polish futurist. She is an associate professor of management and artificial intelligence as well as a vice-rector at Kozminski University.
Life
Przegalińska is a research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research and the Center for Collective Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also a visiting scholar at the Labor & Worklife Center at Harvard University.
In 2014, she defended her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Warsaw, focusing on phenomenology of virtual entities.
Her recent works include Collaborative society (MIT Press), a 2020 book with Dariusz Jemielniak, in which she discusses the cooperative turn in the society enabled by technology, and Wearable Technologies in Organizations: Privacy, Efficiency and Autonomy in Work (2019, Springer), in which she discusses the privacy and efficiency aspects of wearables in organizations.
She is a host of a radio show about the future and technology, "Coś Osobliwego" (verbatim Something Particular, a wordplay in Polish meaning also Something Singular, referring to singularity).
She is a frequently invited expert in the Polish media, with interviews, among others, for Forbes, Gazeta Wyborcza, TVN, Bankier, Onet, Forsal, or Krytyka Polityczna.
References
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1982 births
Living people
Academic staff of Kozminski University
Futurologists
21st-century Polish philosophers
Polish women philosophers
Polish social scientists
21st-century Polish women scientists
21st-century Polish scientists
University of Warsaw alumni
Women social scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity%20and%20inclusion%20in%20education | Equity and inclusion in education refers to the principle or policy that provides equal access for all learners to curriculum and programming within an educational setting. Some school boards have policies that include the terms inclusion and diversity. Equity is a term sometimes confused with equality. Equity and inclusion policy provide a framework for educators and academic administrators that guides training and delivery of instruction and programming. School boards use equity and inclusion principles to promote the use of resources that reflect the diversity of students and their needs.
Children have the inherent right to education as determined by the Goal 4 targets of the United Nations. In the past, equity and inclusion referred primarily to students with mental and/or physical challenges that prevented them from learning in regular classrooms. The principle now applies to marginalized students who live with any type of intersectionality based on their social identity. The capabilities approach introduced by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen supports the ideal that each learner should be offered the freedom to choose from the alternative ways they learn and to do it as a shared experience, with the interaction of their peers.
It has been shown that schools that are able to implement inclusive and equitable practices tend to be more successful if they have endorsement or support at the regional and national levels of government. Besides the need for infrastructure and resources, cultural attitudes and beliefs strongly influence the creation and sustainability of effective programming in schools.
Defining terms
In education, diversity refers to quantifying the number of different social groups represented in a school or schools within a school board. Examples of social groups could include LGBTQ+, females, and non-binary youth. Inclusion speaks to the qualitative experience that students have. Inclusion means students are able to express their authentic selves in the learning space and still have access to all learning opportunities. Equity refers to the concept of providing fair access to programming and learning opportunities based on the differing needs of each student. Equality refers to all students having access to programming and learning opportunities.
History
In 1990, the United Nations created the Education for All (EFA) Declaration. This was a recognition of the inequalities faced by children all over the world in the provision of quality education. Inequalities are created by cultural, geographic, and political factors that continue today to impede equal access to education. In 1994, the World Conference on Special Needs in Salamanca, Spain put a focus on the aims of the EFA principles by recommending educational policy reform. The United Nations has encapsulated educational reform as target goals to be reached by 2030. These goals encompass all aspects of creating access to education: infrastructure, programs, teacher train |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla%20Seatzu | Carla Seatzu (born 1971) is an Italian electrical engineer whose research concerns discrete-event simulation, Petri nets, fault detection and isolation, and networked control systems, with applications in manufacturing and transportation. She is an ordinary professor (equivalent to full professor) in the faculty of engineering at the University of Cagliari.
Education and career
Seatzu earned a laurea in electrical engineering in 1996 at the University of Cagliari, at the same time passing the state examination in engineering. She completed her doctorate at the University of Cagliari in 2000. Her dissertation, Decentralized control of open-channel hydraulic systems, was supervised by Elio Usai.
After working as a research assistant and researcher at the University of Cagliari from 2000 to 2011, she became an associate professor there in 2011, and earned a habilitation in 2012–2013. She has been a full professor since 2017.
References
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1971 births
Living people
Italian electrical engineers
Italian women engineers
Control theorists
Academic staff of the University of Cagliari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Fox%20Kids%20%28block%29 | This is a list of all programming that aired on the Fox Kids U.S. children's television block on Fox.
Former programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Programming from PBS Kids
Special programming
Acquired programming
See also
List of programs broadcast by Jetix
Fox Family Channel
Fox Kids
Jetix
4Kids TV
Notes
References
Fox Kids |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnyRoad | AnyRoad is an American company that makes Experience Relationship Management (ERM) software for other companies. The AnyRoad platform technology provides data management, analytics and experiential marketing tools for online and in-person experiences.
The company's headquarters are in San Francisco, California with offices in Portland, Oregon and Athens, Greece.
History
AnyRoad was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Yaffe and Daniel Yaffe.
In April 2017, AnyRoad closed a seed round of funding of an undisclosed amount from investors including Marc Benioff.
In June 2019, AnyRoad raised $9.2 million in Series A round funding. Andreesen Horowitz’s David Ulevitch joined AnyRoad’s board of directors.
In March 2021, AnyRoad raised $10 million in Series A-1 financing led by Andreessen Horowitz.
In February 2022, AnyRoad raised a $47 million Series B round led by BlackRock.
References
2014 establishments in California
Companies based in San Francisco
American companies established in 2014
Internet properties established in 2014
Online companies of the United States
Event management companies of the United States
Privately held companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Protocol%20Virtualization | Network Protocol Virtualization or Network Protocol Stack Virtualization is a concept of providing network connections as a service, without concerning application developer to decide the exact communication stack composition.
Concept
Network Protocol Virtualization (NPV) was firstly proposed by Heuschkel et al. in 2015 as a rough sketch as part of a transition concept for network protocol stacks. The concept evolved and was published in a deployable state in 2018.
The key idea is to decouple applications from their communication stacks. Today the socket API requires application developer to compose the communication stack by hand by choosing between IPv4/IPv6 and UDP/TCP. NPV proposes the network protocol stack should be tailored to the observed network environment (e.g. link layer technology, or current network performance). Thus, the network stack should not be composed at development time, but at runtime and needs the possibility to be adapted if needed.
Additionally the decoupling relaxes the chains of the ISO OSI network layer model, and thus enables alternative concepts of communication stacks. Heuschkel et al. proposes the concept of Application layer middleboxes as example to add additional layers to the communication stack to enrich the communication with useful services (e.g. HTTP optimizations)
The Figure illustrates the dataflow. Applications interface to the NPV software through some kind of API. Heuschkel et al. proposed socket API equivalent replacements but envision more sophisticated interfaces for future applications. The application payload is assigned by a scheduler to one (of potentially many) communication stack to get processed to network packets, that get sent using networking hardware. A management component decide how communication stacks get composed and how the scheduling scheme should be. To support decisions a management interface is provided to integrate the management system in software-defined networking contexts.
NPV has been further investigated as a central element of LPWAN Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios. Specifically, the deployment of applications that are agnostic to the underlying transport, network, link and physical layers was explored by Rolando Herrero in 2020. In this context, NPV becomes a very successful and flexible tool to accomplish the deployment and management of constrained sensors, actuators and controllers in massive IoT access networks.
Implementations
Currently there is just one academic implementation available to demonstrate the concept. Heuschkel et al. published this implementation as demonstrator in 2016.
The last iteration of this code is available under AGPLv3 on Github.
See also
Application virtualization
Hardware virtualization
Virtualization
References
External links
An introduction to Virtualization
MAKI
VirtualStack (NPV Prototype)
Computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenotypic%20response%20surfaces | Phenotypic response surfaces (PRS) is an artificial intelligence-guided personalized medicine platform that relies on combinatorial optimization principles to quantify drug interactions and efficacies to develop optimized combination therapies to treat a broad spectrum of illnesses.
Phenotypic response surfaces fit a parabolic surface to a set of drug doses and biomarker values based on the understanding that the relationship between drugs, their interactions, and their effect on the measure biomarker can be modeled by quadric surface. The resulting surface allows for the omission of both in-vitro and in-silico screening of multi-drug combinations based on a patients unique phenotypic response. This provides a method to utilize small data sets to create time-critical personalized therapies that is independent of the disease or drug mechanism. The adaptable nature of the platform allows it to tackle a wide range of applications from isolating novel combination therapies to predicting daily drug regimen adjustments to support in-patient treatments.
History
Modern medical practice since its inception in the early 19th to 20th centuries has been seen as "a science of uncertainty and art of probability" as mused by one of its founders, Sir William Osler. The lack of a concrete mechanism for the relationship between drug dosing and its efficacy led largely to the use of population averages as a metric for determine optimal doses for patients. However, this issue is further compounded by the introduction of combination therapies as there is an exponential growth in number of possible combinations and outcomes as the number of drugs increases. Combinatory therapy treatments provide significant benefits over monotherapy alternatives including greater efficacies and lower side effects and fatality rates, making them ideal candidates to optimize. In 2011 the PRS methodology was developed by a team led by Dr. Ibrahim Al-Shyoukh and Dr. Chih Ming Ho of the University of California Los Angeles to provide a platform that would allow for a comparatively small number of calibration tests to optimize multi-drug combination therapies based on measurement of cellular biomarkers. Since its inception the PRS platform has been applied to a broad range of disease areas including organ transplants, oncology, and infectiology. The PRS platform has since become the basis for a commercial optimization platform marketed by Singapore based Kyan Therapeutics in partnership with Kite Pharma and the National University of Singapore to provided personalized combination therapies for oncological applications.
Methodology
The PRS platform utilizes a neural network to fit data sets to a regression function resulting in a parabolic surface that provides a direct quantitative relationship between drug dose and efficacy. The governing function for the PRS platform is given as the following:
where:
E is the combination efficacy as a function drug dose and time, given as a biomar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cassette%20tape%20data%20storage%20formats | Many early microcomputer and home computer systems used cassette tapes as an inexpensive magnetic tape data storage system. This article lists some of the historically notable formats.
As interoperability between platforms was difficult, there was little purpose to, or effort expended on, using standardized formats. The main exception to this rule was the Kansas City standard, which was supported by most S-100 bus based computers and was later adopted by a few other vendors like the BBC Computer and MSX. It also saw use as an exchange medium in some magazines and even broadcast over the radio in Europe.
RCA COSMAC
One of the earliest efforts to develop a microcomputer for home use was carried out in the early 1970s at RCA and led to the COSMAC processor design. As part of this process, a cassette interface was developed. This used a frequency-shift keying (FSK) system, with binary zeros ("space") represented by one cycle of a 2 kHz signal, and ones ("mark") as a cycle of 0.8 kHz. Bytes were written with a single mark bit, eight data bits, and a final odd parity bit. Files were prefixed with four seconds of space signals to provide clock recovery, and then all of the data written in a single stream. There was no support for reading and writing the data in the basic operating system; users had to type in their own loader program to do so, although the hexadecimal example version of the code was provided and is quite small.
HITS
The Hobbyist Interchange Tape System (HITS) was introduced by Jerry Ogdin in a September 1975 article in Popular Electronics magazine. In contrast to almost every other system of the era, HITS did not use FSK for its storage mechanism; instead it used pulse-width modulation, or PWM. Any suitable carrier frequency could be used, with 2000 Hz being suggested. The article goes on to note that the basic concept works well at any frequency and that the system is capable of recording at data at a rate of about of the carrier. This means that a 10 kHz carrier allows about 2,500 bit/s speeds.
Zeros were recorded as short pulses, and ones long, with the overall bit time being a nominal 2.5 milliseconds when used at 2 kHz. The pulse lengths were measured by recording the time between the off-to-on transition when the carrier turned on and the on-to-off transition when it dropped again. This was compared to the time between the on-to-off and the next off-to-on marking the start of the next bit. If the on portion of the pulse was shorter than the off period, it was a 0; if the on portion was longer than off, it was 1. This meant every bit in the recording was self-timed, allowing it to easily survive tape stretch and other problems that changed the frequency or playback speed.
Assembler code programs for reading and writing on Intel 8080 machines were provided.
Kansas City Standard
The Kansas City Standard (KCS) was one of the few cassette formats that was standardized to any degree. It was created by a group of S-100 bus manufa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUI%20%28desktop%20environment%29 | UKUI is a desktop environment for Linux distributions and other UNIX-like operating systems, originally developed for Ubuntu Kylin, and written using the Qt framework.
UKUI (Ultimate Kylin User Interface) is a desktop environment initially developed to work on Ubuntu Kylin, a Linux distribution that is one of Ubuntu's official flavors. UKUI is a fork of the MATE Desktop Environment.
It is a lightweight desktop environment, which consumes few resources and works with older computers. It has been developed with GTK and Qt technologies. Its visual appearance is similar to Windows 7, making it easier for new users of Linux.
Gallery
References
Free desktop environments
Ubuntu derivatives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tishiko%20King | Tishiko King is originally from Yorke Island in the Torres Strait Islands of Australia. She is the campaign director at Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network and took part in the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, where she also represented the Torres Strait island organization, Our Islands Our Home.
Early life and education
King, an Indigenous Australian, which belong to Kulkalaig group who lived in Masig Island (Yorke Island) and has strong family connections with Badu Island, also in the Torres Strait. Kulkalaig is an indigenous people who lived in Central Island which located in Torres Strait Island. Kulkalaig divided into people who lived in Masig, Nagir and Tud Island. She left her home to attend a boarding school at a young age and grew up in a mining town, seeing the impact the mining had on the traditional owners. After one year of undergraduate study, she dropped out of university and worked at a resort on Moreton Island, north east of Brisbane, which strengthened her love of the ocean. Her decision to pursue a career as a marine biologist was further influenced by Cyclone Hamish in 2009 which caused damage to the MV Pacific Adventurer ship, resulting in spillage of fuel and containers of ammonium nitrate into the Coral Sea, which washed ashore on Moreton Island and surrounding areas. King was part of the clean-up crew on Moreton Island, enabling her to see first-hand the damage caused to the coastline and to the marine life. King is getting her Bachelor of Science from Griffith University.
Career and activism
Some years later, King returned to university, to study ocean science at Griffith University in South East Queensland with sponsorship from CSIRO, the Australian agency responsible for scientific research. She then worked as an indigenous liaison officer with a bauxite mining company in Weipa, on the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. She then became the campaign director at Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network and also works as a volunteer impact coordinator with Environmental Film Festival Australia. She is also community organizer for Our Islands Our Home.
King represented Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network and Our Islands Our Home at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in November 2021. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was one of relatively few Australians to participate. She first became aware of the impact of climate change when she saw the impact of sea erosion on the graveyard of her ancestors on Masig Island, assisting with picking up their bones for reburial, and also noticed that fish were disappearing from traditional fishing grounds. She condemned the federal government of Australia for failing to make reference to indigenous people in its plan to reach net zero emissions by 2050, released shortly before the COP26 meeting.
King's participation at the summit was made possible by crowdfunding. On completion of the Summit she published an article entitled Empty words, no action: C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Sheppard%20%28broadcaster%29 | David Thomas Sheppard (born 6 November 1981), sometimes known as Shep, is an English broadcaster.
As of 2022, he currently presents a nightly regional show for BBC South West, networked across BBC Radio Devon, Cornwall, Guernsey and Jersey.
He has presented regular shows on BBC Radio Berkshire, and Oxford and hosted a long running afternoon show on BBC Radio Devon. He has also worked at BBC Radio Solent and Bristol, mostly presenting regional programmes for the South and West.
From 2018 he became the male voice of Great Western Railway, heard on trains and stations throughout the network. Other voiceover credits include BBC1 and BBC2 television, BBC Radio 1, Kerrang!, Vue Cinemas and Brilliant TV.
He studied at University of Oxford and University of Bristol, beginning his radio career at the latter in 2001 while running Burst Radio, the student radio station.
Other Appearances
Sheppard's addiction to coffee was documented in a BBC2 television documentary The Truth About Food, in which he and former Tomorrow's World presenter Maggie Philbin were tested for the effects of caffeine deprivation.
From the age of 16 he was also a daily contributor to BBC Radio 2's Wake Up to Wogan, under the guise of the Assistant to the BBC's (then) Director-General, Greg Dyke.
Sheppard owns several vintage vehicles including a coach which he has restored himself, and is a trustee and director of the Thames Valley & Great Western Omnibus Trust.
References
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BBC radio presenters
English radio DJs
Male actors from Reading, Berkshire
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Television personalities from Berkshire
1981 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Bristol
English male radio actors
21st-century English male actors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon%20Computer%20Systems | Canon Computer Systems, Inc. (CCSI), sometimes shortened to Canon Computer, was an American subsidiary of Canon Inc. formed in 1992 to develop and market the parent company's personal computers and workstations. The subsidiary also assumed the responsibility of marketing Canon's printers and photocopiers, which were formerly sold by other Canon divisions. It went defunct in January 2001.
History
Canon entered the computer industry in the 1970s, starting with the AX-1 in October 1978. It sported the form factor of a desktop calculator and was fully programmable. This was followed up with the AS-100 in 1982, which was a more-traditional albeit heavier personal computer that ran a Intel 8088 and ran MS-DOS. Canon entered the home computer market in 1984 with the V-20 and V-10 in 1984 and 1985 respectively. In 1987, the company released the Canon Cat—the brainchild of Jef Raskin who pioneered Apple's original Macintosh. In 1989, the company took a large stake in NeXT, a computer hardware company founded by Steve Jobs in 1987 after he resigned as CEO of Apple in the mid-1980s.
In April 1992, Canon spun off their computer manufacturing into Canon Computer Systems, a new subsidiary that also assumed the responsibility of marketing their parent company's printers and photocopiers. The subsidiary initially comprised 100 employees in October 1992, 50 based in Costa Mesa, California. Yasuhiro Tsubota, who founded Epson America in 1978, was named president. Several other higher-ups came from Epson America; Tsubota left Epson for NeXT 1990, to serve as a consultant for Jobs. The subsidiary's first offerings were a line of desktop computers and notebooks, branded as the Innova and Innova Book respectively. The company expected $125 million in revenue by October 1993. They allocated $10 million of their initial budget on advertising, hiring the newly formed Hajjar/Kaufman (a spinoff of Dentsu) as their advertising agency.
Most if not all of the notebooks in the Innova Book line were produced offshore by Taiwanese OEMs. Canon repeatedly turned to Chicony of Taipei, who lent their designs to Canon for their Innova Book 10 and Innova Book 200LS. The former, released in 1994, was a subnotebook four pounds in weight, while the latter, released in 1995, sported the largest screen of any laptop up to that point, at 11.3 inches diagonal. Canon Computer collaborated with IBM's Japanese subsidiary to produce the Canon NoteJet, a notebook computer with a built-in inkjet printer, introduced to market in 1993. In March 1994, Canon Computer took the reins of the NeXTstation after NeXT ceased manufacturing hardware in 1993. They later released the Object.Station, an x86-based workstation based on the NeXTstation design.
Although Canon Computer set a goal of $1 billion sales by 1997 in 1994, they were considered late newcomers to the market of personal computers. Innovas and Innova Books continued to be sold until January 1997, when the company quietly left the desktop an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify%20Wrapped | Spotify Wrapped is a viral marketing campaign by Spotify. Released annually since 2016, every early December, the campaign allows Spotify users to view a compilation of data about their activity on the platform over the past year and invites them to share it on social media.
Spotify Wrapped typically includes the five musicians a user has listened to most often, the songs which they have listened to most, and their favourite music genres. Producers of content on the platform also have access to a version of Spotify Wrapped, which includes the number of times their content has been streamed that year. In addition to individualized data, Spotify Wrapped also includes information about activity on the Spotify platform as a whole. While Spotify Wrapped is commonly referred to as an annual collection of data, only activity from January 1 to somewhere around October/November is counted for any given year.
Spotify Wrapped is shared widely on social media each year and has led millions of people to promote Spotify on their social media accounts. Its release in early December each year, generally accompanied by billboards and television advertisements, has historically correlated with a boost to Spotify's app store ranking. The marketing campaign has been both praised and criticized for effectively providing Spotify with free advertising and has been discussed in connection with broader questions about data and Spotify's use of it. Commentators have also analyzed the effects of Spotify Wrapped on the music industry and contrasted it with offerings by other streaming services.
Purpose
Spotify Wrapped is a marketing campaign intended to promote Spotify. In addition to promoting the music streaming service by encouraging users to share about it on social media, the campaign has developed into a unique feature that is different from the offerings of rivals including Apple Music. In 2019, Spotify's head of marketing described this phenomenon as a "FOMO effect" which has encouraged people to use Spotify over other music apps.
Structure
Spotify Wrapped allows both Spotify users and producers on the platform to view a compilation of data about trends on the platform as well as their activity on the platform over the past year, then invites them to share it on social media including Instagram. Structurally, it consists of a series of sequential screens of information, with the last one containing the invitation to share the previous pages. Users can view information about their most-listened-to songs and artists as well as their favorite music genres; producers are invited to share the number and location of streams of their content. The data is organized in a visually appealing way, intended to boost engagement and encourage viewers to share the campaign on social media, which benefits Spotify.
While Spotify Wrapped is commonly referred to as an annual collection of data, Billboard and Newsweek have reported that only activity from between January 1 and Oc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna%20Donatelli | Susanna Donatelli (born 1960) is an Italian computer scientist specializing in discrete-event simulations and their specification, modeling, and analysis using Petri nets, stochastic Petri nets, stochastic process algebras, and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). She is a professor of computer science at the University of Turin.
Education and career
Donatelli earned a laurea in computer science at the University of Turin in 1984, before coming to the US for graduate study. She earned a master's degree in computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1987, and then returned to the University of Turin for a doctorate in 1989.
She worked as a researcher at the University of Turin from 1990 until 1997, before obtaining an associate professorship there in 1998. In 2002 she took her current position as a full professor at the university.
Books
Donatelli is the coauthor of the book Modelling with Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets, with G. Balbo, Marco Ajmone Marsan, G. Franceschinis, and G. Conte, published with Wiley in 1995. She is also the editor of multiple edited volumes in her research area.
References
External links
Home page
1960 births
Living people
Italian computer scientists
Italian women computer scientists
University of Turin alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Academic staff of the University of Turin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria%20Customs%20Broadcasting%20Network | The Nigeria Customs Broadcasting Network (NCBN) is the media wing of the Nigerian Customs Service. Planned to operate radio and television stations in major cities across the country, it currently only broadcasts on radio (106.7 MHz FM) and television in Abuja.
In 2020, the NCS entered into a technical partnership with a private company to assist it in the development of FM radio and television services in each of the country's six geopolitical zones, with the goal of "rebranding the NCS, promoting business opportunities and increasing security awareness in Nigeria", per a spokesperson for the agency. Television and radio operations in Abuja and Lagos were listed as the highest priority.
References
External links
Radio stations in Nigeria
2020 establishments in Nigeria
Radio stations established in 2020
Television channels and stations established in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelis%20Duker | Fidelis Duker is a Nigerian filmmaker and film festival organiser.
Career
Duker started his career in the year 1988 writing dramas for NTA, Nigeria's public broadcast television network.
In 2003, Duker birthed the idea of the Abuja International Film Festival (AIFF), one of Africa's biggest and longest-running film festivals held yearly in Abuja of Nigeria, for which he sits on the board as the Founder of the event holding for its 18th time in 2021.
Nominations and recognitions
In 2016, Duker won a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award,’ at the Best of Nollywood Award (BON) held in Aba.
In March 2023, Duker was named as one of the members of jury for the Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, FESPACO.
Filmography
Ese Atijo – Yoruba – 1993
Skeleton – Igbo – 1994
Nemesis – English – 1995
Not My Will – English – 1996
Nemesis 2 – English - 1996
Scandals – English - 1997
Destined To Die 1 – English – 1997
Scandals 2 – English - 1998
Destined To Die 2 – English - 1998
Blood Brothers – English - 1998
Visa To Hell – English - 1999
King Of Money – English - 1999
Doctor Death - English - 2000
Enemy Within - English – 2001
Pure Love – English - 2002
Hot Passion – English – 2002
Baka Boys – English - 2003
Night Nurses - English - 2003
Jesu Mushin – English – 2004
Paradise In America - 2005
London Blues – English – 2006
A Means To An End – English 2007
Senseless – English - 2008 starring Segun Arinze, Bimbo Akintola, Kanayo Kanayo, Femi Branch, Ngozi Ezeonu
Cash And Carry – English - 2009
Asiri Ile – Yoruba - 2009
Onyeama – Igbo – 2010
Sade Oloso – Yoruba - 2011
Dada Oni Paki – Yoruba - 2012
TV productions
Images – TV series – 2001
Eldorado – TV series – 2005
Girls Next Door – 2007
Kids Alone – 2008
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Nigerian Roman Catholics
Nigerian film producers
Nigerian television writers
Nigerian film directors
Nigerian television producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owuraku%20Ampofo | Owuraku Ampofo is a Ghanaian sports journalist and writer known for his use of data in journalism. He is former presenter of Prime Sport on Joy News and the current sports anchor at TV3 Ghana.
Early life and education
Owuraku Ampofo was born on October 9, 1996 in Ghana. He is Akan and grew up in Koforidua, a city in the Eastern Region of Ghana. From 2009 to 2011, Ampofo attended Faith Montessori School for his general studies. He studied journalism at Ashesi University. He earned a Computer Science bachelor's degree from the esteemed Ashesi University. He is also an alumnus of Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School where he had his high school education.
Career
During his time in college in 2018, Owuraku started out as a football player, competing for Koans FC in the Ashesi League's third division. Before interning and starting his full-time job as a sports journalist at Joy FM (Ghana), he started off writing for sports start-ups like the Ghana Fans blog, Sportskeeda, and others. In 2017, he began working there full-time. Owuraku resigned from his role as host of Prime Sport at Joy News in 2022 to join TV3 Ghana the same year.
Recognition
In 2019, he was one of 100 invitees to a conference supported by the British Council. He was named the Ubora Sports Man of the Year during his time at Ashesi University. In 2021, Owuraku was announced as one of Avance Media's 50 Most Influential Young Ghanaians.
In 2022, Owuraku Ampofo was named sports influencer of the year 2022 at the Pulse Influencer Awards.
References
External links
Living people
Ghanaian radio journalists
Ghanaian sports journalists
Ghanaian sportswriters
Ghanaian television journalists
1996 births
Ghanaian journalists
Sports journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makati%20pedestrian%20underpasses | The following article details the pedestrian underpasses of Makati, all of which are in the city's Central Business District (CBD). The underpasses are part of Makati's pedestrian walkway network which consist of underpasses, covered sidewalks, and elevated walkways.
Background
Makati's underpasses were developed jointly by the Ayala Land, and its estate association, Makati Commercial Estates Association (MCEA). The first of these underpasses was the one in Legazpi Street, built in 1995. This was a response to the heavy traffic congestion in the 1990s.
The underpasses are also noted for its murals in its interiors.
Summary
References
Pedestrian infrastructure in the Philippines
Pedestrian tunnels in the Philippines
Buildings and structures in Makati
Transportation in Metro Manila
Makati Central Business District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Source%20Computer%20Museum | The System Source Computer Museum, located in Hunt Valley, Maryland, USA, exhibits notable computing devices from ancient times until the present. Over 5,000 objects are on display and many of the computation devices are operational. STEM activities are offered to organized tour groups. Since 2022, admission is free. The museum is open weekdays from 9:00am until 6:00pm and at other times by appointment. Docents are available to lead tours.
History
The museum's origins date to 1981 when a Baltimore ComputerLand franchise had computers in inventory that instantly became historic artifacts with the introduction of the IBM Personal Computer.
The museum was incorporated as a non-profit 501(c)(3) in 2018 as the Maryland Technology Museum with the trade name the System Source Computer Museum. In 2021, the museum became the new home of the DigiBarn Computer Museum.
Exhibits
Apples: Apple 1, Apple II, Apple ///, Apple Lisa and most other Apple products
Cray Computer: Cray-1, Cray-2, Cray T90
DEC Computers: PDP-5, PDP-8, LINC PDP-12, VAX
Computer Memory: Delay-line memory Magnetic-core memory
Pre-Industrial Computers: Abacus, Quipu, Napier's bones, Slide rule
Tic-Tac-Toe and Computers: Charles Babbage, Relay Tic Tac Toe Machine, Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine (MENACE)
UNIVAC: UNIVAC 490, UNIVAC 418
Xerox: Xerox Alto
STEM programs
Hardware Workshop
Programming a Virtual PET
Squeak (Etoys Programming)
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Museums established in 1981
Museums in Baltimore County, Maryland
History museums in Maryland
Computer museums in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Solla | Sara A. Solla is an Argentine-American physicist and neuroscientist whose research applies ideas from statistical mechanics to problems involving neural networks, machine learning, and neuroscience. She is a professor of physics and of physiology at Northwestern University.
Education and career
Solla is originally from Buenos Aires, and earned a licenciatura in physics in 1974 from the University of Buenos Aires. She completed a Ph.D. in physics in 1982 at the University of Washington.
She became a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University and at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM Research. Influenced to work in neural networks by a talk from John Hopfield at Cornell, she became a researcher in the neural networks group at Bell Labs. She took her present position at Northwestern University in 1997.
Recognition
Solla is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Division of Biological Physics, "for applications of statistical physics to problems concerning learning, adaptation, and information coding in neural systems".
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Living people
Argentine physicists
Argentine women physicists
American physicists
American women physicists
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University of Washington alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
Northwestern University faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20for%20Black%20Lives | Data for Black Lives (D4BL) is an American non-profit organization with the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of black people. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Data for Black Lives was founded by Yeshimabeit Milner and Lucas Mason-Brown. Milner attended Brown University; having encountered discrimination towards the black community, she organized a group of scientists to combat the mistreatment of black people within data algorithms.
History
D4BL began in November 2017 as statistical research project, and expanded into working with a team of people on data analysis. The formation of D4BL was initiated by Yeshimabeit Milner, who witnessed racial discrimination, watching her peers suffer from police brutality. Milner discovered through research that black children were getting suspended at a much higher rate than white children. After graduating from Brown University, Milner incorporated her passion for data science into social activism.
D4BL has regional organization chapters, including a group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Additionally there is a community of other organizations working towards the same goals, including Data and Society, Algorithmic Justice League, and the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR).
Between 2019 and 2021, D4BL was awarded a grant by the MacArthur Foundation for broad operating support.
See also
Algorithmic Justice League
Black in AI
References
Non-profit organizations based in Massachusetts
Data activism
Data and information organizations
Think tanks established in 2017
Social justice organizations
Politics and technology
Ethics of science and technology
Diversity in computing
Information ethics
2017 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Vovk | Vladimir Vovk is a British computer scientist, and professor at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the co-inventor of Conformal prediction. He is the co-director of the Centre for Machine Learning at Royal Holloway University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
Career
Vovk started working as a researcher in the Russian Academy of Sciences, then became a Fellow in the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He was appointed as a professor of Computer Science at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, where he currently serves as co-director of the Centre for Machine Learning.
Early in his career, Vovk was heavily involved in the development of the foundations of probability, along with Glenn Shafer. Their work has resulted in a book, Probability and Finance: It's Only a Game!, published in 2001, which was subsequently translated into Japanese in 2006 by Masayuki Kumon and edited by Kei Takeuchi. In 2005, he co-invented the Conformal prediction framework with Alexander Gammerman.
Vovk has delivered speeches all around the world. In 2021, he was invited to deliver a series of memorial lectures to Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in India. On the 20-year anniversary of The Society for Imprecise Probability (SIPTA) in 2019, he was invited to deliver a talk on "Game-theoretic foundations for imprecise probabilities" in Belgium. In 2016, he delivered a seminar about "Probability-free theory of continuous martingales" at Imperial College in the UK. In 2014, he delivered a seminar at University of Hawai'i in the USA.
Vovk has written 9 books, more than 280 research papers, and has an estimated h-index of 53. He holds fellowship positions at Stanford University (USA), Arizona State University (USA) and Yandex (Russia).
Selected books
Game-theoretic foundations for probability and finance (2019), Wiley, .
Conformal Prediction for Reliable Machine Learning: Theory, Adaptations and Applications (2014), Morgan Kaufmann, .
Algorithmic Learning in a Random World (2005), Springer, .
Probability and finance: it's only a game (2001), Wiley, .
References
External links
Vovk's Personal Website
Vovk's University Website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Ukrainian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Fellows of the Royal Statistical Society
Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London
Moscow State University alumni
British computer scientists
Machine learning researchers
Mathematical statisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20ThinkPad%20T30 | The IBM ThinkPad T30 is a laptop computer manufactured by IBM.
Hardware
This model was equipped with mobile implementation of Pentium 4 CPU, and high power consumption of Intel chip was a reasonable point for designing this model as the heaviest and most bulky T series ThinkPad of IBM era.
ThinkPad T30 was the last classic ThinkPad with a battery with bottom placement, was the first 14.1" ThinkPad with screen option and first T series ThinkPad with touchpad option.
The new platform with Intel processor also include the new Intel 845MP Chipset, and ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 video controller with 16 MB graphics memory, and up to 1 GB PC2100 RAM (maximum according to IBM manual, but it has been reported to accept 2 GB of RAM) with 256 MB as standard memory. When the processor ranging from 1.6 GHz to 2.0 GHz, A T30 may accommodate up to a 2.4 GHz processor only with the latest BIOS and Embedded Controller upgrades. Graphics are provided by ATI Radeon, which supports external Full-HD resolutions: users have even reported success with output resolutions of 1920 × 1200 via DVI on the optional Port Replicator II docking station, although IBM officially claims a limit of 1280 × 1024 due to a weak TMDS transmitter. Features available include the embedded security subsystem, a 20, 40 or 60 GB hard disk, Ultrabay Plus drive or additional battery option instead of DVD-ROM, wireless (with miniPCI slot usable for a wireless card), and Bluetooth.
Reception
The notebook was favorably received by TechRepublic; and the ZDnet praises the good performance and relatively compact case for a NetBurst-based laptop.
See also
ThinkPad A30 series - 15" contemporary models
ThinkPad R30 series - 14" low-cost contemporary model
References
ThinkPad T30
T30 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20current%20champions%20in%20CyberFight | CyberFight is a professional wrestling promotion based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company promotes several championships and title reigns are either determined by professional wrestling matches or are awarded to a wrestler, as a result of the culmination of various scripted storylines.
CyberFight was founded as an umbrella promotion for four promotions which are regarded as brands, in a similar manner to the WWE brand extension. The four promotions are DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW) and Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro).
There are currently 20 championships in CyberFight. DDT features six active singles championships, one active tag team championship, one active six-man tag team championship and one active ten-man tag team championship. Four of those titles carry the letters "KO-D", standing for "King of DDT", and are regarded as the promotion's primary titles. Noah features four active singles championships and two active tag team championships, all of which carry the letters "GHC", after Noah's governing body, Global Honored Crown. TJPW is a women's professional wrestling promotion that features two active singles championships and one active tag team championship. GanPro currently features one singles championship and one tag team championship. DDT and GanPro's titles are open to anyone, regardless of gender.
As of , , among the four current brands, 30 wrestlers officially hold championships. This list includes the number of times the wrestler has held the title, the date and location of the win, and a description of the winning bout.
Current champions
DDT
Noah
TJPW
GanPro
See also
Champions in CyberFight lists
List of Ironman Heavymetalweight Champions
Personnel of CyberFight lists
List of DDT Pro-Wrestling personnel
List of Pro Wrestling Noah personnel
References
External links
CyberFight official website
DDT official website
Noah official website
TJPW official website
GanPro official website
Professional wrestling champion lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella%20and%20the%20Secret%20Prince | Cinderella and the Secret Prince, also known as Cinderella 3D, is a 2018 American 3D computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Lynne Southerland from a screenplay by Francis Glebas, Alice Blehart, Stephanie Bursill and Russell Fung, based on the Brothers Grimm version of the fairytale "Cinderella". Internationally, it grossed $12,143,896 against a budget of $20,000,000.
Premise
During the Royal Ball, Cinderella meets the prince in hopes of marrying him. However, he turns out to be incredibly rude and mean-spirited. She and her three mice friends then discover that the real prince has in fact been turned into a mouse by an evil witch and replaced by a fraud; now she and her mice have to rescue him and turn him back into a human before it's too late.
See also
List of American theatrical animated feature films (2000-2019)
References
External links
2018 animated films
2018 films
2018 3D films
American children's fantasy films
American children's adventure films
American children's animated fantasy films
American romantic fantasy films
American animated feature films
Animated films about mice
Animated romance films
Animated films about princesses
Animated films about royalty
Films about weddings
Animated films set in palaces
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng%20Chu | Feng Chu (, born 1965) is a Chinese-French computer scientist and operations researcher whose research applies Petri nets to combinatorial optimization problems arising in inventory control, manufacturing, and transportation. She is a distinguished professor at the University of Évry Val d'Essonne, where she is director of the AROBAS (Algorithmics, Operational Research, Bioinformatics and Statistical Learning) team within the IBISC (Computer Science, Bio-Informatics and Complex Systems) laboratory, and head of the Chinese mission in the office of the president of the university.
Education
Chu graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Hefei University of Technology in China in 1986. After coming to France for graduate study, she earned a diplôme d'études approfondies (master's degree) in 1991 in metrology, automatic control and electrical engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine, and a doctorate in 1995 in automatic control, computer science, and production management from Paul Verlaine University – Metz; both institutions are now part of the University of Lorraine.
Career
She was a researcher for the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) from 1992 to 1995, became a researcher and then maître de conférences at the University of Technology of Troyes from 2009, while earning a habilitation in 2006 through the University of Technology of Compiègne. She joined the University of Évry Val d'Essonne in 2009, and was named a distinguished professor (professeur de classe exceptionnelle des universités) in 2017. She also held a chair professorship at Hefei University of Technology from 2013 to 2018.
References
External links
Home page
1965 births
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
French computer scientists
French women computer scientists
French operations researchers
Hefei University of Technology alumni
University of Lorraine alumni
Academic staff of the University of Évry Val d'Essonne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster%20Hernandez | Buster Hernandez (born 1987 or 1988) is a sexual extortionist, child pornography producer and cyberterrorist from Bakersfield, California. He used the internet extensively to target hundreds of underage girls under many pseudonyms, most notoriously Brian Kil and Purge of Maine. In 2017, he was arrested after falling for a social engineering and hacking scheme by the FBI and Facebook, and in 2021, he was convicted and sentenced to 75 years in prison.
Criminal history
Starting from 2012, Hernandez, an unemployed man in his 20s who lived in Bakersfield with his girlfriend and his grandmother, committed a series of crimes on the internet from his home. He extorted ("sextorted") high school-age girls for sexual photographs, who numbered at least 375 and ranged across at least ten American states. To pressure his victims, he threatened to murder, rape and abduct them, and to commit mass killings at their schools. These threats caused multiple local schools and businesses to shut down temporarily. Furthermore, Hernandez would strategically post media online which he had already received to extract more sexual content from his targets.
In 2015, the FBI noticed his case after a report from police in Plainfield, Indiana. Facebook, a platform he used to communicate with his victims, had been investigating him for years in the hope of exposing his identity. He was hard to catch because he used Tails, an anonymity-focused operating system, so Facebook paid an external company to co-develop an exploit that could de-anonymize him. Exploiting a security hole in the Tails video player, Facebook transferred the custom-made hacking tool to an unnamed party, which in turn transferred it to the FBI. He downloaded and watched a video that appeared to be extracted from one of his victims, which was coded to reveal de-anonymizing information. According to Facebook developers, this was the only case in the history of Facebook where it pursued a criminal by sending a malicious file. This method was described in the news and technology press as "virus-like" and "hacking".
Arrest and conviction
After this, Hernandez was identified and arrested in 2017. He was charged federally on 41 counts and in 2021 was sentenced to 75 years in prison. , he is imprisoned in the high-security United States Penitentiary, Tucson, Arizona.
References
Living people
American people convicted of child pornography offenses
American extortionists
Criminals from California
21st-century American criminals
Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunerth%27s%20algorithm | Kunerth's algorithm is an algorithm to determine the modular square root of a number.
The algorithm does not require the factorization of the modulus, and only has one modular operation that is often easy if the cipher is a prime.
To find
do the following steps
1) find the modular square root of This step is quite easy, no matter how big the original modulus is, if is a prime.
2) solve a quadratic equation associated with the modular square root of . Most of Kunerth's examples in his original paper solve this equation by having C be a natural square and thus setting z to zero.
Expand out the following equation to obtain the quadratic
if then
You can always ensure that the quadratic can be solved by adjusting the N term(modulus) in the above equation. Thus
will ensure a quadratic of
You can then adjust F to ensure that C+F is a square. Quite large modula, such as can have their square roots taken quickly via this method.
The parameters of the polynomial expansion are quite fluid, in that can be done, for instance. It is quite easy to set X and Y so that is a square. The modular square root of can be taken this way.
3) Having solved the associated quadratic equation we now have the variables w and set v=r (if C in the quadratic is a natural square).
4) Solve for two more variables, alpha and beta by the following equation
alpha == w (v + w beta )
This is not a modular operation and that alpha and beta could have many paired answers.
5) Obtain a value for X via a factorization of the following polynomial.
obtaining an answer like
(-37 + 9 x) (1 + 25 x)
6) Obtain the modular square root by the equation. Remember to set X so that the term above is zero. Thus X would be 37/9 or -1/25.
Example
To obtain first obtain
Then expand out the following polynomial
which is
Since, in this case the C term in the quadratic is a natural square then
Set and (If z had a value then set )
Solve for alpha and beta in the following equation involving W and V
alpha == W (V + W* beta)
getting the answer alpha=15 and beta = -2. (There may be many paired answers to this equation)
Then factor the following polynomial
obtaining
Then obtain the modular square root via
Verify that
In the case that has no answer then can be used instead.
See also
Methods of computing square roots
Adolf Kunerth, "Sitzungsberichte. Academie Der Wissenschaften" vol 75 ,II, 1877, pp. 7-58
Adolf Kunerth, "Sitzungsberichte. Academie Der Wissenschaften" vol 82, II, 1880, pp. 342-375
References
Mathematics articles needing expert attention
Algorithms
Cryptographic algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcgravia%20caudata | Marcgravia caudata is a species of Marcgravia native to Bolivia. It belongs to Marcgraviaceae family.
References
caudata
Plants described in 1862 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20Positive%20%28TV%20series%29 | False Positive is a 2022 Philippine television drama comedy fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Irene Villamor, it stars Glaiza de Castro and Xian Lim. It premiered on May 2, 2022 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Widows' Web. The series concluded on May 27, 2022 with a total of 19 episodes. It was replaced by Bolera in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Glaiza de Castro as Alyanna "Yannie" Ramirez-dela Guardia
Xian Lim as Edward dela Guardia
Supporting cast
Herlene Budol as Maganda
Buboy Villar as Malakas
Yvette Sanchez as Paulina Dare
Dianne dela Fuente as Maritess Soto
Rochelle Pangilinan as Bernice Siodora
Dominic Roco as Froilan Siodora
Luis Hontiveros as Devon Rosales
Tonton Gutierrez as Rodrigo dela Guardia
Alma Concepcion as Marla dela Guardia
Nova Villa as Mamerta "Mema" Ramirez
Episodes
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Production
Principal photography commenced on November 27, 2021. Filming resumed in January 2022.
References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doing%20Optimality%20Theory | Doing Optimality Theory: Applying Theory to Data is a 2008 book by John McCarthy in which the author provides a practical introduction to optimality theory.
Reception
The book was reviewed by Kyoko Yamaguchi, Walcir Cardoso, Sam Hellmuth and Eulàlia Bonet.
References
External links
Doing Optimality Theory
2008 non-fiction books
Phonology books
Linguistics textbooks
Optimality Theory
Books on linguistic typology
Wiley-Blackwell books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20Shuttle%20Bus | The Internal Shuttle Bus is a network of bus routes that operate within the National University of Singapore Kent Ridge campus and between the Kent Ridge and Bukit Timah campuses.
The system is operated by ComfortDelGro and is entirely free of charge. Route information and live bus tracking is available with the NextBus app. The services are known for being extremely busy at peak times.
The buses used are Volvo B9Ls, Zhongtong N12s and BYD B12s.
History
The NUS NextBus app was introduced in 2012.
A driverless bus, dubbed the NUSmart Shuttle, was introduced as a trial in 2019. It carried passengers until April 2020 when the service was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It continued operating without passengers until January 2021.
In 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the routes were altered to allow students at Kent Ridge MRT station to reach different areas of campus without mixing with each other.
In July 2021, bus routes were changed. One major change was to services A1 and A2 which now terminate at Kent Ridge Bus Terminal instead of Prince George's Park residences. In November 2021, it was announced that the contract with ComfortDelGro Bus had been renewed and that the entire fleet would be replaced with electric buses. The first electric buses are expected to be introduced in the third quarter of 2022.
Routes
There are several internal shuttle bus routes that run throughout NUS and link to both Kent Ridge MRT station and Botanic Gardens MRT station. There is also a bus route which links the Kent Ridge and Bukit Timah campuses and the Botanic Gardens MRT station.
References
Bus transport in Singapore
National University of Singapore
University and college bus systems
Year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Eagle | IBM Eagle is a 127-qubit quantum processor. IBM claims that it can not be simulated by any classical computer. It is two times bigger than China's Jiuzhang 2. It was revealed on the 16th of November 2021 and was claimed to be the most powerful quantum processor ever made until November 2022, when the IBM Osprey overtook it with 433 qubits. It is almost twice as powerful as their last processor, the 'Hummingbird', which had 65 quantum bits and was created in 2020. IBM believes that the processes used in creating the 'Eagle', will be the backbone for their future processors. Their roadmap indicates that in 2023 the 'Condor' will be released with 1,121 qubits. They have also started development on IBM Quantum System Two, as the first one (IBM Quantum System One) is not powerful enough to keep up with the upscaling of their processors.
References
External links
IBM’s roadmap for scaling quantum technology
Quantum computing
IBM products
IBM microprocessors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex%20Cloud | Yandex Cloud is a public cloud platform developed by the Russian internet company Yandex. Yandex Cloud provides private and corporate users with infrastructure and computing resources in an ‘as a service’ format.
History
Yandex's plans to enter the public cloud market have been known since 2016, but the first news about the development of the service appeared in 2017 when Yan Leshchinsky, who had previously worked on cloud platforms at Microsoft, Salesforce and AWS, joined the company. Closed testing of Yandex Cloud began in April 2018 with the participation of over 50 large Russian and international companies, including Tinkoff Bank, X5 Retail Group, S7 and Skyeng. The platform was presented in a technical preview in September 2018. The user base and revenue of the platform grew consistently, so in October 2020, Yandex moved Yandex Cloud from an experimental direction to an independent business unit.
Structure
The Yandex Cloud platform uses the same infrastructure as the main Yandex services and is located in the same data centers. Many Yandex Cloud components are based on the company's internal tools, originally developed for in-company use. Open-source software is also used: KVM for the hypervisor, Tungsten Fabric (OpenContrail) for software-defined networking, etc. As the first Russian partner of Nvidia GPU Cloud (NGC), Yandex Cloud provides access to specialized applications which are optimized for Nvidia GPUs[6] for working with artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks and high-performance computing.
Services
Yandex Cloud includes infrastructure and data management services, tools for developing cloud applications and machine learning models, as well as proprietary ML-based services:
Infrastructure and Network
Compute Cloud (VMs and disks)
Object Storage (scalable data storage)
Cloud Interconnect (dedicated network connections)
API Gateway (integration with Yandex Cloud services via the API)
Network Load Balancer
Application Load Balancer
Virtual Private Cloud (cloud network management)
DDoS Protection
Сloud DNS (domain name management)
Data Platform
Yandex Managed Service (MS) for PostgreSQL
MS for ClickHouse
MS for MySQL
MS for Redis
MS for MongoDB
MS for Elasticsearch
MS for Apache Kafka.
MS for SQL Server
MS for Greenplum
Data Proc (Apache Hadoop cluster management)
Data Transfer (database migration)
Message Queue (queues for messaging between applications).
Container-based Development
Managed Service for Kubernetes (Kubernetes cluster management)
Container Registry (docker image management)
Serverless Computing
Cloud Functions (running code as a function)
Database (distributed, fault-tolerant NewSQL DBMS)
Yandex IoT Core (Internet of Things solutions)
Security
Key Management Service (encryption key management)
Certificate Manager (TLS certificate management)
Lockbox (creation and storage of confidential information)
Resources and Management
Monitoring (gathering and visualiza |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status%20key | In computing, a status key is a keyboard key that causes an operating system and/or a program to output status information on a terminal when it is pressed. In the event that a program on a terminal produces no indications that it is running, typing the status key will reveal the program's state and activity. Older implementations produced only a quick one-line status report for the current job when the status key was pressed. Newer implementations support sending a signal to the current process to allow the application to report on status as well.
Operating System-Level Implementations
Several different operating systems have a status key feature implemented in the kernel or other low-level component.
TENEX
TENEX has the feature since at least 1971: "Another terminal Interrupt character, control-T is serviced by the EXEC. It interrupts a user's EXEC process to type out total CPU and console time used, and status of the fork being run under the EXEC."
DEC RSTS/E
RSTS/E is documented as having a status key at least as far back as 1977 and it continued to have one into at least the 1980s. Typing the status key results in output that is represented by the following example:
18 GARP::KB32 SYSTAT+BAS4F ^C(0R) 11(16)K+ 16K 3.3(+5)
DEC TOPS-10
On TOPS-10 when the CTRL/T (control-T) key is pressed, the monitor prints status information pertaining to the job on the terminal. Typing CTRL/T displays a job's progress without interrupting its execution. No representation of a control-t character is displayed on the terminal, just the status information.
DAY: :05:43 RUN:0.48 RD:75 WR:8 SOS 12+19p ^C Ctx:1 PC:400275
Incremental values in the table below indicate that the value is the accumulation since login or last CTRL/T whichever was shortest.
DEC TOPS-20
TOPS-20 reports a shorter list of information than its predecessors:
09:36:35 TEST Running at 404157 Used 0:00:35.8 in 0:30:39, Load 4.04
MIT ITS
ITS copied the idea from TOPS-20, but used the key sequence .
19:29:10 3 RMS HACTRN EMACS1 130566
VSI OpenVMS
OpenVMS has a status key which can be customized and works with remote processes. The default output includes these items:
NODE22::SMITH 16:21:04 (DCL) CPU=00:03:29.39 PF=14802 IO=18652 MEM=68
BSD UNIX
4.3BSD-Reno and BSD systems derived from that version and OSF/1 have a status key which defaults to Ctrl-T and can be assigned to any key. It sends SIGINFO to the current process which is ignored by default but can be configured to call a function which can display status information from the program.
load: 0.10 cmd: sleep 1594 [nanslp] 1.33r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 1864k
Apple macOS
Because XNU has a FreeBSD kernel which has been modified to be a Mach server process, the terminal driver includes a status key which is inherited.
load: 3.04 cmd: sleep 719 waiting 0.00u 0.00s
Application-level Implementations
It addition to implementing a status key in the kernel or related OS component, some applicatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll%3A%20The%20Tale%20of%20a%20Tail | Troll: The Tale of a Tail () is a 2018 Norwegian-Canadian computer-animated high fantasy adventure film directed by Kristian Kamp and co-directed by Kevin Munroe. A co-production between the Norwegian Sagatoon and Canadian Blue Bug Entertainment, the film was released on 25 December 2018, for a worldwide gross of $1,080,895. With a budget of 120 million Norwegian krone, it is one of the most expensive Norwegian films ever made.
Premise
Trym, the prince of the trolls, and a small group of friends have to embark on a journey to Draugen to save his father, King Grom, who has been turned into stone and had his tail stolen by an evil tyrant.
Production
Production for the film lasted 15 years, beginning in 2003 and concluding in 2018. The budget of 120 million Norwegian krone was financed entirely by private investors. According to director Kamp, he wanted to do everything in Norway, however it did not work out financially. Kamp went to look elsewhere for funding for the film, and traveled to India, Germany and the United States, before ending up in Canada, where the studio Blue Bug Entertainment agreed to help finance the film.
Release and reception
The film was released in Norwegian theatres on 25 December 2018, and grossed $199,547 in its opening week for a total of $725,387 during its entire theatrical run. It grossed $1,080,895 worldwide.
Einar Aarvig of gave the film four out of six stars, saying: "As soon as one accepts that Troll: The Tale of a Tail does not have much to do with either Norwegian folklore or Asbjørnsen and Moe's management of it, it turns out to be a pretty fun children's film."
Troll: The Tale of a Tail was nominated for "Best Children's Film" at the 2019 Amanda Awards, but lost to Psychobitch.
References
External links
Troll: The Tale of a Tail at the Norwegian Film Institute (in Norwegian)
Norwegian animated films
2018 films
Norwegian children's films
2010s children's films
Animated films about trolls
2018 animated films
Animated films about princes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20Little%20Submarine%3A%2020000%20Leagues%20under%20the%20Sea | Happy Little Submarine: 20000 Leagues under the Sea () is a 2018 Chinese computer-animated adventure film directed by Shen Yu from a screenplay by Cindy McKay, Liu Qiling, Xia Tianran and Lin Gaofeng. It is the sixth film in the Happy Little Submarine film series, following Happy Little Submarine Magic Box of Time (2015). Released in China on 1 June 2018, the filmed grossed .
Premise
Ali, Beibe and Meisha, submarines, have befriended a group of adorable sea creatures at the bottom of the ocean. After they tell Ali about a frightening legend of a mysterious sea monster that supposedly disrupted the ecological balance of the ocean, he leads an expedition team with Beibe and Meisha to find the creature and return the balance.
Voice cast
The submarine characters are:
Fan Churong as Ali, a courageous submarine who leads the expedition to find the sea monster
Hong Haitian as Babe, who accompanies Ali on the expedition
Li Ye as Bobo, Ali's best friend who accidentally gets into the expedition with Ali and Babe
Release and box office
20000 Leagues under the Sea was released in China on 1 June 2018, opening with for an opening week gross of . By the end of its theatrical run, the film had grossed . The film was also released in South Korea on 9 June 2019, where it grossed $318,567.
Critically, the film received positive reviews, with particular praise aimed towards its strong environmental and ecological messages, plot and characters. However, on Douban, the aggregated user rating score for the film is 4.0 out of 10.
References
External links
2018 films
2018 computer-animated films
2010s adventure films
2010s children's animated films
Chinese children's films
Chinese computer-animated films
Environmental films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAH%20%28AM%29 | CHAH is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 580 AM in Edmonton, Alberta. The station airs a multilingual programming format branded as My Radio 580 and is owned by 1811258 Alberta Ltd.
History
On January 6, 2017, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved an application by 1811258 Alberta Ltd. for a broadcasting licence to operate an ethnic commercial AM radio station in Edmonton. The new station would operate on the frequency of 580 kHz with a power of 10,000 watts fulltime.
AM 580 was a frequency in Edmonton that was once occupied by CKUA from 1927 until it went off the air in 2013.
On September 28, 2020, after on-air testing began in the summer, the station officially signed on the air as My Radio 580.
References
External links
My Radio 580
History of CHAH - Canadian Communications Foundation
HAH
HAH
Radio stations established in 2020
2020 establishments in Alberta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETUT | ETUT (European Training network in collaboration with Ukraine for electrical Transport) is a research project funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 program under the Marie Sktodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Networks (MSCA- ITN) scheme. The project, undertaken by a collaborative effort of the University of Twente, the University of Nottingham, and Dnipro National University of Railway Transport, aims to develop efficient interfacing technology for more-electric transport amidst the ever-increasing demand in transportation systems which contribute to increased carbon dioxide emissions. The project has employed 12 Early Stage Researches (doctoral candidates) who will work closely with six industrial partners to improve upon the existing electrical and energy storage systems that will help in alleviating the reliance on non-renewable energy sources for large-scale transportation systems such as railways and maritime transport. The project is segregated into two main groups with one focusing on power electronics for efficient use of energy resources in power delivery, and the other on electromagnetic compatibility of such systems.
History
With the increasing use of solid-state devices in transportation systems, a number of electromagnetic interference and interoperability problems are occurring which could hinder the electrification of transport on a global scale. This requires a closer inspection of the interaction of power electronic converters with equipment of the information and communications technology. With this in mind, MSCA ETUT brought together researchers from different academic backgrounds spanning all over the globe to contrive innovative ways of countering these problems. Jan Abraham Ferreira (IEEE Fellow, former President of IEEE Power Electronics Society ), Frank Leferink (IEEE Fellow and Director EMC at Thales Nederland), Patrick Wheeler (IEEE Fellow and Global Director of the University of Nottingham's Institute of Aerospace Technology ), Gert Rietveld (IEEE Senior Member, Chief Metrologist at Van Swinden Laboratorium), Dave Thomas (IEEE Senior Member and Head of the George Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research ), Thiago Batista Soeiro (IEEE Senior Member) are some of the prominent members of this programme. The project officially started on March 1, 2021, and is set to culminate on February 28, 2025. Shortly after the commencement, J.A. Ferreira, a pioneering member of the project passed away.
Universities, Industrial Partners and Personnel
Universities
University of Twente
University of Nottingham
Dnipro National University of Railway Transport
Industrial Partners
Network Rail
Thales
Prydniprovska Railway
Lambda Engineering
VSL - Dutch Metrology Institute
MM Tech Ltd.
Transautomatic Ltd.
References
College and university associations and consortia in Europe
Engineering university associations and consortia
Research projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Stewart%20Lowndes | Julia Stewart Lowndes is a marine ecologist and advocate for the open science movement and kinder, better science. The focus of her work is promoting openness to data in the scientific community, and helping fellow researchers learn how to work with open data and the processes surrounding it. She seeks to use this method to promote scientific communities and research.
Career and experience
Stewart Lowndes is the founder and co-director of Openscapes, a mentorship program that teaches researchers how to use data and code in their labs, work with open-source software, and network with peers in the same field. She also is an instructor for The Carpentries, as well as the co-founder of the groups Eco-Data-Science and R-Ladies Santa Barbara. Lowndes was a Mozilla Fellow. She has led the Ocean Health Index science program in the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, where she currently works. Lowndes frequently speaks at conferences regarding the use of data in science and the promotion of open scientific communities, recently including SORTEE and Cascadia R Conference.
Education
She received her PhD from Stanford University. Her dissertation, completed in 2012, was on the Humboldt squid; she observed the drivers and impact of the species with relation to the changing climate.
References
External links
Openscapes - official site
American ecologists
Women ecologists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Wikipedia Student Program
Stanford University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantification%20%28machine%20learning%29 | In machine learning and data mining, quantification (variously called learning to quantify, or supervised prevalence estimation, or class prior estimation) is the task of using supervised learning in order to train models (quantifiers) that estimate the relative frequencies (also known as prevalence values) of the classes of interest in a sample of unlabelled data items.
For instance, in a sample of 100,000 unlabelled tweets known to express opinions about a certain political candidate, a quantifier may be used to estimate the percentage of these 100,000 tweets which belong to class `Positive' (i.e., which manifest a positive stance towards this candidate), and to do the same for classes `Neutral' and `Negative'.
Quantification may also be viewed as the task of training predictors that estimate a (discrete) probability distribution, i.e., that generate a predicted distribution that approximates the unknown true distribution of the items across the classes of interest. Quantification is different from classification, since the goal of classification is to predict the class labels of individual data items, while the goal of quantification it to predict the class prevalence values of sets of data items. Quantification is also different from regression, since in regression the training data items have real-valued labels, while in quantification the training data items have class labels.
It has been shown in multiple research works
that performing quantification by classifying all unlabelled instances and then counting the instances that have been attributed to each class (the 'classify and count' method) usually leads to suboptimal quantification accuracy. This suboptimality may be seen as a direct consequence of 'Vapnik's principle', which states:
In our case, the problem to be solved directly is quantification, while the more general intermediate problem is classification. As a result of the suboptimality of the 'classify and count' method, quantification has evolved as a task in its own right, different (in goals, methods, techniques, and evaluation measures) from classification.
Quantification tasks
The main variants of quantification, according to the characteristics of the set of classes used, are:
Binary quantification, corresponding to the case in which there are only classes and each data item belongs to exactly one of them;
Single-label multiclass quantification, corresponding to the case with classes and each data item belongs to exactly one of them;
Ordinal quantification, corresponding to the single-label multiclass case in which a total order is defined on the set of classes.
Most known quantification methods address the binary case or the single-label multiclass case, and only few of them address the ordinal case.
Binary-only methods include the Mixture Model (MM) method, the HDy method, SVM(KLD), and SVM(Q).
Methods that can deal with both the binary case and the single-label multiclass case include probabilistic class |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20ThinkPad%20X220 | The Lenovo ThinkPad X220 is a laptop computer from the ThinkPad series that was manufactured by Lenovo.
It uses a 12.5 inch IPS or TN display.
A tablet version was also released.
Modifications
The keyboard from the X220 has been retrofitted in a X230.
References
External links
Arch Linux wiki - X220
Thinkwiki.de - X220
Lenovo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho%27s%20Women%20of%20Influence | Idaho's Women of Influence is a database originally compiled in 2014 by researchers Annie Gaines and Mike Bullard. The women listed are considered by the university to be some of the most accomplished in Idaho's history. It is a living database continually updated by librarians, educators, museum staff, tribal authorities, women’s organizations. The database is provided by the University of Idaho Library, and is open to credibly sourced submissions from the general public.
This list is not to be confused with the East Idaho Women of Influence, sponsored by the East Idaho Business Journal and the Adams Publishing Group.
Inductees
References
External links
University of Idaho Library – Idaho's Women of Influence
Women in Idaho
Women in Idaho politics
Wikipedia missing topics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal%20Malkin | Tal Geula Malkin (born 1970) is an Israeli-American cryptographer who works as a professor of computer science at Columbia University, where she heads the Cryptography Lab and the Data Science Institute Cybersecurity Center.
Education and career
Malkin graduated summa cum laude from Bar-Ilan University in 1993, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science. She earned a master's degree in computer science from Weizmann Institute of Science in 1995, with the master's thesis Deductive Tableaux for Temporal Logic supervised by Amir Pnueli, and completed a Ph.D. in 2000 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the dissertation A Study of Secure Database Access and General Two-Party Computation supervised by Shafi Goldwasser.
As a doctoral student, she also worked as an intern for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and as a research scientist for AT&T Labs, continuing there through 2002. In 2003 she joined Columbia University as an assistant professor of computer science, earning tenure there in 2009.
Recognition
Malkin was named as a 2020 Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, "for foundational contributions, including black-box separations, multiparty computation, and tamper resilience, and for service to the IACR".
References
External links
Home page
1970 births
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
American cryptographers
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Israeli cryptographers
Bar-Ilan University alumni
Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Columbia University faculty
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOST | NOST – The Nostalgia Network is an American broadcast and digital television network. The network was founded in 2020 under the name Classic Reruns TV. The channel was rebranded as NOST in April 2023, becoming a movie-centric network.
History and description
Founded in 2020, the then-Classic Reruns TV featured legendary American TV shows from the 1950s to 1970s including The Patty Duke Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Ozzie & Harriet, Dragnet and Bonanza. It was founded in 2020 as a Roku video on demand channel and then in 2021 as a 24/7 over the air channel. On April 3, 2023, the channel became "NOST – The Nostalgia Network", and moved away from classic tv shows, instead airing legendary films stretching from the 1940s up to the early 1980s.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2020
Classic television networks
Nostalgia television in the United States
2020 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20Azerbaijani%20Canadians | The Network of Azerbaijani Canadians (NAC, , ) is a fully community-funded and the largest grassroots Azerbaijani advocacy organization in Canada. Founded in 2020, the organization advocates on behalf of Azerbaijani Canadians in matters of public policy. The organization is based in Toronto; board members and organization members are spread across Canada including Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver. The Network of Azerbaijani Canadians is a registered non-profit and managed by its board of directors.
History
The Network of Azerbaijani Canadians was founded in September 2020. The organization's foundation was motivated by the desire of members of the Azerbaijani community in Canada to create a platform for representation and increase political awareness within Canada of the Second Karabakh War. The NAC sought to raise public awareness about displaced Azerbaijanis that took place during the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The NAC also urged the Prime Minister of Canada – Justin Trudeau - and Global Affairs Canada to condemn Armenia's actions following the 2020 Barda missile attacks.
Advocacy initiatives
The organization seeks to strengthen Canada–Azerbaijan relations. With regard to the recent conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the organization advocates the signing of a peace agreement between the two countries. Following the 2020 war, the NAC Executive team worked to activate the Azerbaijani Canadian community to become more politically involved. It encouraged the community to engage more actively in electoral district issues and MP campaigns during the 2021 Canadian federal election and organizing meetings with Canadian government officials.
Some of the recent initiatives of NAC included calling for the de-mining of the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and Canada's support to this end. NAC also seeks to draw attention to the 1992 Khojaly Massacre. NAC filed a petition (e-3780) to the Government of Canada in January 2022. In a response by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada signed by MP Rob Oliphant, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister, the Government of Canada reaffirmed Canada's recognition of all UN Security Council resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders.
The members of NAC's Board of Directors have held meetings at high level with the members of Cabinet on numerous occasions to inform the Ministers on the matters and initiatives the Azerbaijani Canadians stand for.
On November 8, 2021 and November 9, 2022, the colours of the Flag of Azerbaijan were projected on Niagara Falls on the initiative of NAC.
On November 10, 2022, the organization brought together the leaders of Jewish and Azerbaijani communities in Canada joined by the distinguished members of Canada's parliament to celebrate Azerbaijan's Jewish heritage.
References
Political advocacy groups in Canada
Azerbaijan–Canada relations
2020 es |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS%20%28retail%20company%29 | DNS Retail (Russian: OOO «ДНС Ритейл», also known in English as CSN Retail LLC) is the owner of a Russian retail chain specialising in the sale of computers, electronics, and household goods, and also a manufacturer of computer hardware including laptops, tablets and smartphones. In 2019, it became the 6th-largest retail company in Russia, and in 2021, DNS was the 22nd-largest private company in Russia. As of 2021, there are more than 2,000 branches across Russia, and in May 2021, the first branches were opened in Kazakhstan. The company's headquarters are located in Vladivostok.
The general director of the company is Aleksei Popov. Popov is also the general director and co-owner of the parent company DNS Group.
History
DNS (short for Digital Network System) was founded in 1998 in Vladivostok, after the founders' previous business specialising in corporate computer services ended in bankruptcy. The company initially sold computers assembled by hand inside a retail store.
In 2005, the company began to expand its retail presence nationally, opening branches in Nakhodka and Khabarovsk. In 2006, a further branch was opened in Irkutsk. By 2009, there were DNS stores in cities across Russia, including Chita, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg and Rostov on Don. At the same time, further branches were opened in regions where the company already had a presence.
By July 2013, the chain consisted of more than 700 stores located in over 200 cities across Russia. In addition, the company owns 10 distribution sites, a computer and laptop manufacturing plant in Artyom, and computer assembly plants in Moscow Oblast and Novosibirsk.
In April 2014, the company acquired the Computer World retail chain (consisting of 21 stores in Saint Petersburg and a further 11 in the Northwestern Federal District). In March 2019, the company further acquired the St. Petersburg-based retail chain .
In May 2021, DNS expanded its retail network beyond Russia for the first time, opening branches in Kazakhstan.
Business activities
In the first half of 2011, the company assembled 193,000 personal computers, making it the largest PC assembler in Russia. The company also produces laptops, desktop computers, monitors, smartphones, computer power supplies and computer accessories under the brands DNS, DEXP, and Ardor (ZET Gaming).
Company structure
The company was founded by 10 acquaintances and residents of Vladivostok, who had experience working in the computer industry. As of 2015, 9 of them continue to work for the company; the remaining founder died and passed his share of the company on to his family.
Prior to 2018, the company consisted of more than 50 legal entities, each of which was registered in a different region but connected to the company by their common owners. In March 2018, however, the company was restructured and all legal entities were merged into the limited liability company DNS Retail (also known as CSN Retail in English).
References
External links
Offici |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%20C.%20Martinez | Marion C. Martinez (born January 24, 1954) is a Chicana visual artist who repurposes discarded computer hardware in the production of her artwork.
Biography
Martinez was born in Española, North of Santa Fe, New Mexico and was raised in Los Luceros. While a college student, she lived near and worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. That experience inspires her work. As a trained psychotherapist, she worked closely with Hispanic and Native American families.
Art
Martinez began creating art with technology discards in the 1980s after experimenting with video art. Martinez's artwork portray traditional Latino cultural iconography. Much of her art, portray the Virgin de Guadalupe because of her deep connection to her.
Martinez works in series or collections based on iconography. One series or collection presents the Virgen of Guadalupe icon. A second series or collection present the Sacred Heart or Milagros, which are icons typically used for healing. A third series or collection, Martinez titles, AzTechna. Icons in this series, present Martinez's interpretation of cultural legends and myth combined with contemporary technological materials. Martinez's work was featured in the 2022-2023 exhibit Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and her work is also part of the Center's permanent collection.
References
External links
• Martinez’s Website
1954 births
Living people
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women artists
Artists from New Mexico
People from Española, New Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanhee%20Paik | Hanhee Paik is a South Korean experimental quantum computing researcher who works for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where she helps develop superconducting devices for storing and operating on qubits.
Education and career
Paik has a master's degree from Yonsei University in South Korea, and completed a doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park.
After postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland Laboratory for Physical Sciences, she took a position at Yale University. In 2012 she left academia to become a researcher for BNN Technology PLC, and in 2014 she began her present position at IBM research. At IBM, her work has been included in the IBM Quantum Experience and IBM Q System One projects.
Recognition
In 2021, Paik was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Forum on Industrial & Applied Physics, "for pioneering a novel superconducting qubit architecture that catalyzed the commercialization of superconducting quantum computing, and for contributions to advance quantum computing research in the industry".
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
South Korean women engineers
South Korean physicists
South Korean women scientists
Women physicists
Quantum physicists
Yonsei University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Yale University faculty
IBM employees
Fellows of the American Physical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl%20Phillips | Cheryl Phillips may refer to:
Cheryl Phillips (journalist), data journalist and professor
Cheryl Phillips (politician) (born 1962) South African politician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrios%20Peroulis | Dimitrios Peroulis is an American electrical engineer and educator. He is currently Reily Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Senior Vice President for Purdue University Online. From 2019 to 2023, he was Michael and Katherine Birck Head of Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University College of Engineering. Peroulis was elected IEEE Fellow in 2017 for his "contributions to MEMS-based tunable filters". He received, together with Andrea Alu and Mona Jarrahi, 2014 IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award for "outstanding early career contributions to the microwave profession”. In 2013, Peroulis was inducted into the Purdue Book of Great Teachers which "honors outstanding teaching faculty who have demonstrated sustained excellence in the classroom". He was the recipient of a 2008 A. A. Potter Best of Engineering Teaching award and a 2010 Charles B. Murphy award, Purdue's highest undergraduate teaching honor.
Peroulis earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. His undergraduate degree is from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Peroulis is an inventor on 11 patents for reconfigurable RF systems and wireless sensor technologies.
Books
Electrical Engineering: Hands-on Learning (2012) Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, .
First Designs in Electrical Engineering (2016) Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, .
References
External links
Purdue University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American electrical engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Conversation%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Conversation is a reality television series that premiered on March 15, 2020 on Zeus Network.
Series synopsis
The Conversation captures raw, real and explosive confrontations from notable personalities in the world of business, fame and celebrity, using unfiltered footage, without the intervention of mediators.
Development
The first teaser was released on March 1, 2020 and features Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood stars Ray J and Princess Love. A trailer for the fourth and fifth episodes was released on June 28, 2020 and features Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood stars A1 Bentley and Lyrica Anderson as well as their mothers Pam Bentley and Lyrica Garrett. Filming of the sixth and seventh episodes occurred on August 30, 2020 when former Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood star Hazel E took to Instagram live following an altercation with co-star Masika Kalysha. On November 8, 2020, a teaser for the eighth and ninth episodes was released and featured former Bad Girls Club cast members: Jada Cacchilli, Natalie Nunn, Sarah Oliver, Christina Rome, Rocky Santiago and Shannon Sarich.
Episodes
References
External links
Official Show Website
2020s American reality television series
2020 American television series debuts
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%20Angies | 4 Angies (; ; ) is a 2006 Thai computer-animated comedy cartoon series produced by Anya Animation and released by Channel 3 HD and Homerun Entertainment. Four Angies, loosely based on the TV show of the name by Women to women. There are 4 women in different characters, the story of cartoon, four naughty girls is the three-dimensional animation about 4 Thai naughty girls in school (respectively voiced by Pui, Kai, Nina and Kalamare)
And for a while, Four Angies aired on Canal J, a top-rated France kids TV show. After France has the copyright, "Four Angies, four naughty girls" changed to "KaNiKaZo, Super Angies".
Plot
separate into the season as follows
Season 1
Main characters meet at elementary school. They were late, so became punished by the headmaster. In the end, four girls are classmate and then they were friend.
Season 2
An evil villain disguises himself as a teacher at the elementary school, wants to destroy the world. Another teacher is a wizard trying to stop this, so he recruits the Four Angies to help because his power has been damaged.
Season 3: The Wonders of the 7 Notes
The Four Angies are trying to search for a snowman. Additionally, there were seven notes that went missing in their music box, which must be found in order to stop the villain.
Special season: Explore the wonderful world
Only lists when this special season was aired, on November 19, 2010, on channel 3 Thailand. Additionally, the air time was 6:00-6:30 p.m.
Cast
Main
Pui: one of the Four Angies, and is named after the host of the program “Pimonwan Hunthongkham”. The animated character has a stingy personality and likes to hoard things in her pocket. She carries around storage bags called "magic bag" which is ready to use for any situation. And also everyone refers she as "The Auntie" because she often slow and mature.
Kai-Chan: one of the Four Angies and is named after another program host “Mee Suk Chaengmee Suk”. Kai-Chan's personality is neat and very sweet. This character is afraid of teddy bears in season 1. She had mind control called "a heart-melting wink-wink eyes" magical power, where if people stare at her they will be put under a trance and agree with her.
Nina one of the Four Angies and is named after a host of the program “Kunndadda Patchimsawat”. The animated character has a personality that is very neat and holds high responsibility. Because of her responsibility, she easily gains the trust of teachers. However, one flaw she had is that she cannot control her dancing whenever she hears music which is "Nina Dance Tornado" magical power.
Kalamare one of the Four Angies and is named after one of the hosts “Patcharasri Benchamas”. The personality of Kalamare is harsh and straightforward. She likes to use force and talk very loudly so she has a "surround voice" magical power. She is confident to do morally right things and love her friends.
Supporting characters
Captain J: the last man in the Mars that survive from the Wizard Doo Hoo's d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20Portugal | Cable News Network Portugal (known as CNN Portugal and abbreviated as CNN PT) is a Portuguese basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by Media Capital, launched on 26 February 2009 as TVI 24, the 24-hour news channel of the terrestrial network Televisão Independente. The network's name was changed to CNN Portugal on 22 November 2021. Media Capital has a licensing agreement with the American CNN Global, which is currently owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
Its competitors include SIC Notícias, RTP3 and CMTV.
History
As TVI 24
TVI 24 was on TVI's drawing board for several years but plans for its official launch officially commenced in 2008. It was initially expected to launch on February 20, 2009, TVI's anniversary, but weeks before the launch, it was postponed to February 26 to focus on the celebration of TVI's sixteenth anniversary. The network was assigned channel 7 on most pay television lineups.
In 2011, José Alberto Carvalho became director of the channel and also TVI's overall news director. TVI24 received a refresh on January 9, 2012, where it became more competitive with its direct competitors and affirmed itself as the largest multimedia news channel in Portugal.
With the change, all news blocks on the channel were rebranded as Notícias 24, except for programs like Discurso Direto, SOS24, 21ª Hora, 25ª Hora and 2ª Hora, where in addition to news updates there are discussion, interactivity and analysis components. Between 2015 and 2019, the 21ª Hora is the main program of the channel. Filling in this place currently is another generic Notícias 24 bulletin. On weekdays, after SOS24, the journalists Ana Sofia Cardoso, José Alberto Carvalho and Judite Sousa take turns presenting bulletins.
From 20 February 2017, the network's news programming was broadcast from a refreshed TVI news studio.
As CNN Portugal
On 24 May 2021, it was announced that Media Capital signed a memorandum of understanding for a licensing agreement with CNN and as a result, TVI 24 would be rebranded as CNN Portugal. The rebrand commenced on 22 November 2021 at 21:00 GMT.
Programming
Novo Dia
CNN Hoje
CNN Meio Dia
CNN Prime Time
Agora CNN
CNN Fim de Tarde
CNN Desporto
Jornal da CNN
CNN Sábado
CNN Domingo
Ratings
References
In March 2022, CNN Portugal was the most-watched paid channel - and the 4th most watched channel, in general - in Portugal, with a share of 4.7%. CNN Portugal dethroned crime and sensacionalist news/generalist channel CMTV - which had been leading among paid channels for 62 months -, but CMTV got the lead again in the following month of April.
External links
CNN Portugal – Official Website
CNN Portugal online broadcast
Portugal
2021 establishments in Portugal
24-hour television news channels in Portugal
Televisão Independente
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Turner Broadcasting System Portugal
Warner Bros. Discovery networks
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galamiguitos | Galamiguitos (English: "Gala's Little Friends") is an American children's programming block that airs on the Spanish language television network Galavisión, which debuted on June 6, 1999 and aired until December 15, 2002. The one-hour block – which airs Monday to Friday mornings and Saturday and Sunday mornings from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time and Pacific Time – features live-action aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 8.
Programs featured on the block consist almost entirely of Spanish-dubbed versions of series that were originally produced and broadcast in English. All shows featured on Galamiguitos are designed to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) via the Children's Television Act.
History
On June 6, 1999, Galavisión announced that it would debuted children's program block, called Galamiguitos within aimed at preschools the fulfilled educational programming requirements defined by the Federal Communications Commission's Children's Television Act and children between the ages of 2 and 8. The preschool block's initial lineup consisted within three/four live-action shows of the 90-minute weekday block of children's programming, the entering the agreement with production company by Nine Network in Australia (Here's Humphrey) and Radical Sheep Productions (The Big Comfy Couch), Spanish-language and dubbed American, Canadian and European children's programs.
Galamiguitos was the final time on the channel. However, the block was discontinued on December 15, 2002.
Programming
Current programming
Former programming
See also
Planeta U - The weekend morning children's block on Univision
Toonturama - The Saturday and Sunday morning cartoon block on UniMás (formerly known as TeleFutura)
Univision y Los Niños - The Monday to Friday and Saturday morning block on Univision from 1989 to 1990.
La Piñata Loca - The host of George Ortuzar from Saturday and Sunday morning block on Univision from 1996 to 2000.
References
Univision original programming
Television programming blocks in the United States
1999 American television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
Preschool education television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers%20%26%20Graphics | Computers & Graphics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers computer graphics and related subjects such as data visualization, human-computer interaction, virtual reality, and augmented reality. It was established in 1975 and originally published by Pergamon Press. It is now published by Elsevier, which acquired Pergamon Press in 1991. From 2018 to 2022 Graphics and Visual Computing was an open access sister journal sharing the same editorial team and double-blind peer-review policies. It has since merged into GMOD, the International Journal of Graphical Models.
History
The journal was established in 1975 by founding editor-in-chief Robert Schiffman (University of Colorado, Boulder), as Computers & Graphics-UK. Schiffman, who co-organized the first SIGGRAPH conference in 1974, had the conference proceedings published as the first issue of the journal. He was succeeded in 1978 by Larry Feeser (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). In 1983 José Luis Encarnação (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt) took over. Joaquim Jorge (University of Lisbon) has been Editor-in-Chief since 2007.
Replicability
The journal is working with the Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative to promote replicable results in publication.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology
EBSCO databases
Ei Compendex
Inspec
ProQuest databases
Science Citation Index Expanded
Scopus
Chinese Computer Federation/Recommended List of International Conferences and Journals on CAD & Graphics and Multimedia.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.5.
References
External links
Computer graphics
Computer science journals
Academic journals established in 1975
English-language journals
Elsevier academic journals
Virtual reality
Visualization (research) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic%20card | Plastic cards usually serve as identity documents, thus providing authentication. In combination with other assets that complement the data stored on the card, like PIN numbers, they also serve authorization purposes, most often as bank cards for allowing their holders to do financial transactions. While early and simpler cards feature only hard-to-imitate integrated photographs, security holograms, guillochés, or a magnetic strip on which few bytes of personal data could be stored, smart cards, i.e. those equipped with an electronic chip (storage, or RFID), nowadays serve as high-security active electronic documents that allow their holder to qualify for driving cars (drivers license card), receive medical treatment (health insurance cards), do banking and more.
Industry
In their January 2020 report, the International Card Manufacturers Association's (ICMA) indicates a production increase to a record-high of 37.1 billion cards and $27 billion revenue in 2019. Forecasts predicted market growth at a rate of 8.2% from 2021 to 2028, which was counteracted by losses through the Covid pandemic.
Production
Plastic cards (standard size ID-1) come in various colors and finishings. The laminated mixture of various dyes, paper and plastics (so far mainly PVC and PVCA) and the integration with electronics makes them hard to recycle.
Classification
Type
Range
Contact cards (must be inserted into a suitable reading device, e.g. magnetic stripe cards)
Contactless cards (using Near-field communication or RFID)
Technology
Apart from "regular", i.e. non-electronic cards, there is considerable overlap between "chip-enabled", "digital" and "smart" cards, mostly for historical reasons in the development of the current fully equipped smart cards.
Regular cards
Chip-enabled cards
Smart cards
Digital card
Magnetic stripe cards
Applications
Gift cards
Discount cards
Access cards
Payment cards
Credit cards
Debit cards
Telephone cards
Transportation cards
Government/Health, e.g.
European Health Insurance Card,
Identity card,
Passport card
SIM cards (smaller size contact card only used within mobile phones)
Non-electronic security features
Plastic cards may be printed with the following security-relevant features, some of them also containing personal information, others only serving as anti-forgery devices:
QR code and / or barcode
photograph
signature
security hologram
microprinting
guilloché patterns (similar to bank notes)
See also
Electronic banking
Plastic recycling
Plastic compounding
References
Identity documents
Smart cards
Payment cards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20Atluri | Vijayalakshmi Atluri (born 1956) is an Indian computer scientist specialized in information systems security and database management. She is a professor of management science and information systems at Rutgers Business School – Newark. Atluri is an advisory board member of the computer science department at the University of the People.
Education
Atluri completed a Bachelors of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada in May 1977. She earned a Masters of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering (Controls and Automation) from IIT Kharagpur in June 1979. Atluri graduated in May 1994 with a Ph.D. in Information Technology at George Mason University. Her dissertation was titled Concurrency Control in Multilevel Secure Databases. Her doctoral advisor was Sushil Jajodia.
Career
Atluri was a lecturer at Acharya Nagarjuna University from August 1980 to December 1982 and again from December 1983 to March 1985. She was a lecturer at Andhra University from December 1982 to December 1983. From March 1985 to August 1990, she was an assistant professor in the department of electronics and communication and computer engineering at Nagarjuna University.
Atluri was a research assistant in the center for secure information systems at George Mason University from August 1990 to August 1994.
Atluri joined the faculty of the management doctorate program at Rutgers Business School – Newark in October 1996. In 1996, she won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Atluri was an assistant professor from July 1995 to June 2001 and an Associate professor from July 2001 to June 2006. She became a professor in the management science and information systems department in July 2006. Atluri teaches courses in database management, computer information systems, information systems security, electronic commerce, computer architecture, and computer languages.
In 2010, she joined the advisory board of the computer science department of the University of the People.
Atluri was a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory, Computer Security Division, Systems & Network Security Group from February 2007 to February 2011. From September 2011 to September 2013, she became a program director in the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, Information Integration and Informatics and Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace.
Selected works
References
External links
Living people
1956 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Indian emigrants to the United States
Expatriate academics in the United States
Academic staff of Acharya Nagarjuna University
Academic staff of Andhra University
Rutgers University–Newark faculty
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University alumni
IIT Kharagpur alumni
George Mason University alumni
20th-century Indian women scientists
21st-century Indian women scientis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Nelson%20%28sportscaster%29 | Stephen Nelson (born March 8, 1989) is an American television personality and play-by-play commentator who works for the NHL Network, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Early life and education
Nelson grew up in Southern California and attended Marina High School in Huntington Beach, California. He went on to attend Chapman University, where he majored in broadcast journalism. Nelson was the sports director for Chapman Radio, where he served as the lead play-by-play broadcaster for school sports games.
During his time at Chapman, Nelson interned for KTLA-TV and Fox Sports West. He also worked as a camera operator and in-game production assistant for the Anaheim Angels and Anaheim Ducks.
In 2011, Nelson graduated magna cum laude from Chapman.
Career
After graduating from Chapman, Nelson worked as a multimedia broadcaster for the Rockford IceHogs during the 2011–12 season. Nelson hosted the pre- and post-game shows, as well as the intermission reports, in addition to filling in as a play-by-play broadcaster and color commentator.
From June 2012 to August 2014, Nelson was a sports reporter and anchor for KEZI-TV in Eugene, Oregon.
In August 2014, Nelson joined Bleacher Report as an on-air talent.
In March 2018, Nelson left Bleacher Report to join MLB Network and NHL Network. In March 2021, after MLB Network declined to renew Chris Rose’s contract, Nelson was named the new co-host of Intentional Talk alongside Kevin Millar.
In November 2021, Nelson served as the fill-in play-by-play commentator for three Chicago Blackhawks games on NBC Sports Chicago.
In 2022, Nelson became the primary play-by-play announcer for the MLB Network-produced Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+.
On January 20, 2023, the Los Angeles Dodgers named Nelson to their broadcast team for games on SportsNet LA that are not broadcast by lead play-by-play announcer Joe Davis. Nelson called joining the Dodgers' broadcast team "a defining moment" in his career and personal, as he represents the Asian American Pacific Islander community in sports broadcasting. Upon joining the Dodgers, Nelson was the only Asian American play-by-play broadcaster working for a Major League team.
Personal life
Nelson is half-Japanese through his mother, Flo, and attended a Japanese school while growing up. Nelson used Japanese to introduce Shohei Ohtani at the Commissioner’s Historic Achievement Award ceremony in October 2021.
Nelson is married to news anchor Cori Coffin.
References
1989 births
Living people
American Hockey League broadcasters
American people of Japanese descent
American television sports anchors
American television sports announcers
Chapman University alumni
Chicago Blackhawks announcers
Los Angeles Dodgers announcers
Major League Baseball broadcasters
MLB Network personalities
National Hockey League broadcasters
People from Huntington Beach, California
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20Brain | City Brain (sometimes treated as an improper noun by sources and rendered as city brain; ) is a software system that utilizes artificial intelligence and data collection for urban management. Developed by Chinese tech company Alibaba Group, the City Brain systems have been adopted by local governments throughout the country as well as in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. Currently, these systems are mostly used for traffic management, but they have been used and expanded to cover other needs as well. City Brain systems have been promoted as making cities "smarter" and improving their residents' quality of life. However, the systems have also faced criticism for issues relating to privacy, cost, and their use of surveillance.
History and overview
The first City Brain system was announced and developed in 2016 by Alibaba Cloud for its home city of Hangzhou. First aiming to curb the city's high level of traffic congestion, it was initially "given control" of traffic lights in Xiaoshan District, where it increased traffic speed by 15%. This led to its adoption by the rest of the city in 2017, where it has seen praise for continuing to reduce congestion and aiding first responders to travel faster. In addition to traffic light management, the system also analyzes camera feeds to detect accidents and alert authorities. In the following years, many other local governments in China sought their own such systems. In addition, Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, announced its adoption of a City Brain system in 2018 to deal with traffic. By September 2019, Alibaba stated that 22 Chinese cities, including Macau, as well as Kuala Lumpur, had City Brain systems. The scope of these systems has expanded, with some being used to track pollution, alert authorities to illegal gatherings and possible conflicts of interest/corruption in government outsourcing, and aid in contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some commentators criticized this rapid adoption, pointing out the high cost of the system (often in the range of hundreds of millions of renminbi), questing their usability, especially for smaller communities, and asking if they could be trusted with city residents' personal data and information. Further attention has been brought to issues of privacy, with concerns being brought up over data harvesting, the use of surveillance, and issues with oversight and possible data breaches.
References
External links
Smart cities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Weather%20Radars |
Overview
The majority of Australia's weather radars are operated by the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), an executive agency of the Australian Government. The radar network is continually being upgraded with new technology such as doppler and dual polarisation to provide better now-casting. Doppler radars are able to detect the movement of precipitation, making it very useful in detecting damaging winds associated with precipitation, and determining if a thunderstorm has a rotating updraft, a key indicator of the presence of the most dangerous type of thunderstorm, a supercell.
The new dual polarisation radars give forecasters the ability to:
Detect debris in the atmosphere, leading to more accurate tornado warnings;
Distinguish between different precipitation types, leading to better estimations of hail size and severity;
Better identify areas of heavy rainfall, leading to more accurate flood warnings;
Discern between precipitation and non-meteorological echoes such as chaff, birds, and insects.
The Dual Polarisation Transition
The transition to polarimetric (dual-polarised) radars began in 2017 with the upgrade of 4 Meteor 1500 radars located in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Sydney. The network has further been enhanced through the installation of 8 new polarimetric Meteor 735 radars across WA, NSW & Victoria, and two polarimetric WRM200 radars manufactured by Vaisala, one to replace the radar in Dampier, WA which had been destroyed by severe tropical cyclone Damien in 2020, and one to replace an ageing radar near Gove in the Northern Territory. 4 new Meteor 1700's were also installed in 2021/22, 3 located in QLD, and 1 in Perth, WA, all equipped with dual polarisation technology. All the radars with the model name 'Meteor' were manufactured by Selex ES, now Leonardo.
Specifications for the Meteor 735 can be found here, specifications for the Meteor 1700 can be found here, and specifications for the Vaisala WRM200 can be found here.
Future radar network upgrades
The BoM has plans to;
Build a new radar in Tennant Creek, NT.
Build a new radar in the Toowomba region in SE QLD.
Replace the Marburg radar of SE QLD with a new dual polarised, doppler S-band radar. (replacement is underway)
Replace the radar in Mackay QLD (replacement is underway)
Upgrade the Carnarvon radar in WA to add doppler capabilities
Current plans can be found in these references
Notes
Model names were found in radar metadata and on the Bureau's website.
The number following the hyphen in the radar model name is most likely the diameter of the parabolic dish in feet.
As a direct quote from the referenced website, "The WSR81C radar was simply a WF100-5C system rearranged as a remote weather watch radar system. It used the same basic transmitter/receiver/servo/antenna with the linear receiver omitted, and a shepherd's hook horn feed in an 8 foot antenna." and "the Bureau assembled its own remote weather watch [WSR81] radars by using a Rapic Transmitter fitted to a W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZ%20%28computer%29 | XYZ was the first Universal Digital Machine from the family of early computers built and launched in Poland in 1958. It was ahead of by a few months, while the earlier was not fully launched.
Construction
XYZ computer was built and launched in Warsaw at ul. Śniadeckich 8, at the premises of the Bureau of Calculations and Programs of the Mathematical Apparatus Department of the Polish Academy of Sciences (later the Institute of Mathematical Machines). The team was led by professor .
XYZ was a laboratory model of a utility machine; the series was created on the basis of this computer.
The logical organization was modeled on the simplified IBM 701, but the electronics were based on the dynamic flip-flops of the M-20 machine, requiring twice as few lamps. The design of the flip-flops and gates was derived from EMAL, but the vacuum diodes were replaced with germanium ones. The working memory was also derived from the EMAL machine after the improvement. It was a dynamic serial computer that computes in binary arithmetic.
The machine initially had no permanent memory, only RAM based structurally on ultrasound delay in a mercury-filled tubes. It was later expanded with a drum memory, an input-output system implemented through a primitive control console and a card reproducer (later a tape reader/perforator).
The basic fields of use of XYZ were mathematical calculations, and artillery conversion factors for the needs of the army. Programmer wrote a program for entertainment on it in 1960 - a tic-tac-toe game, using an oscilloscope to present the course of the game. XYZ led to his own win or a draw, because the program includes all the strategies for its conduct. Another demonstrative program written for XYZ was an animation of a dog peeing on a tree (also shown on the oscilloscope screen) created for the visit of the film crew, creating material about the first Polish computer.
Specifications
Organization:
single-address, dynamic serial computer with circuit control
binary arithmetic, notation of numbers sign-module
word length: 36 bits
speed:
650–4500 additions per second (approximately 1000 average)
250–500 multiplications per second (350 average)
Clock generator: approx. 680 kHz
memory:
mercury working memory:
capacity: 2.25 KiB - 512 words (32 pipes of 576 bits)
average access time : 0.4 ms
drum
fixed heads
capacity: 36 KiB (64 tracks of 128 words)
average access time: 20 ms
External devices: reader and perforator card
Technology: 400 electron tubes and 2000 diodes
Programming languages
internal language of the machine
simple PROBIN assembler
SAKO
References
Article was partially translated from Polish wiki article, for original see :pl:XYZ.
External links
Photo and description
PTI Historical Section, Short description of the XYZ-I programmable digital machine, historiainformatyki.pl
Polish inventions
Science and technology in Poland
1950s computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20National%20Highway%20573 | China National Highway 573 runs from Zêkog to Xinghai, both in Qinghai. It is one of the new trunk highways proposed in the China National Highway Network Planning (2013 - 2030).
Route table
See also
China National Highways
References
Transport in Qinghai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Dwolatzky | Barry Dwolatzky (29 April 1952 – 16 May 2023) was a South African software engineer. He was a professor emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand Joburg Centre for Software Engineering. Dwolatzky was on University of the People's computer science advisory board. He was an anti-apartheid activist and in the late 1980s he joined the African National Congress's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe ("spear of the nation").
Education
Dwolatzky completed a Bachelors of Science degree in 1975 and a Ph.D. in 1979, both in electrical engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and GEC Marconi.
Career
In 1989, Dwolatzky joined University of the Witwatersrand as a senior lecturer, becoming a full professor in 2000. He was an emeritus professor at the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering. Dwolatzky was on University of the People's computer science advisory board.
Dwolatzky was a fellow of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers and The Institute of IT Professionals South Africa (IITPSA).
Death
Dwolatzky died in Johannesburg on 16 May 2023, at the age of 71.
References
External links
1950s births
Year of birth uncertain
2023 deaths
Place of birth missing
20th-century South African engineers
South African electrical engineers
Software engineers
21st-century South African engineers
University of the Witwatersrand alumni
Academic staff of the University of the Witwatersrand
University of the People people
South African computer programmers
White South African anti-apartheid activists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anolis%20nemonteae | Anolis nemonteae is a species of anole lizard first found in Ecuador.
References
External links
Reptile Database
Anoles
Reptiles of Ecuador
Reptiles described in 2021 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggar | Jaggar is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:
Alison Jaggar (born 1942), American feminist author
Dave Jaggar (born 1967), New Zealander computer scientist
Thomas Augustus Jaggar (1839–1912), American bishop
Thomas Jaggar (1871–1953), American volcanologist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreak%20High%20%282022%20TV%20series%29 | Heartbreak High is an Australian comedy drama streaming television series created for Netflix, by Hannah Carroll Chapman. It is a soft-reboot of the 1994 series first screened on Network Ten. The series follow the students and teachers of Hartley High as they navigate racial tensions in Australia, high school romances, and all sorts of teen angst. The show premiered on 14 September 2022. A month after it was released, the show was renewed for a second season.
The first season was met with positive critical reviews and received 15 AACTA Awards nominations, including Best Drama Series, winning six.
Premise
After a map detailing the sexual exploits of Hartley High's students is discovered graffitied on the wall of the school, all of the students whose names were on it are forced to attend a new sexual education course called the Sexual Literacy Tutorial (SLT, pronounced "sluts" by the students). The map's creator, Amerie Wadia (Ayesha Madon), becomes a social outcast after taking the fall for its co-author, Harper McLean (Asher Yasbincek), who has stopped talking to her following a tragedy at a music festival they attended.
Cast
Main
Ayesha Madon as Amerie Wadia, a brash, working-class Indian-Australian girl who becomes a pariah at Hartley High.
James Majoos as Darren Rivers, a queer and non-binary student who befriends Amerie.
Chloé Hayden as Quinn “Quinni” Gallagher-Jones, Darren's lesbian best friend who is autistic.
Asher Yasbincek as Harper McLean, a punk girl who has had a falling out with Amerie
Thomas Weatherall as Malakai Mitchell, a bisexual Bundjalung basketball jock new to Hartley.
Will McDonald as Douglas “Ca$h” Piggott, an asexual eshay, drug dealer and food delivery driver.
Joshua Heuston as Dustin “Dusty” Reid, a bisexual musician involved with Harper.
Gemma Chua-Tran as Sasha So, a Chinese-Australian lesbian.
Bryn Chapman-Parish as Spencer “Spider” White, the class clown.
Sherry-Lee Watson as Missy Beckett, an Indigenous student involved with Sasha.
Brodie Townsend as Anthony “Ant” Vaughn, an affable, big-hearted student.
Chika Ikogwe as Josephine “Jojo” Obah, English and SLT’s teacher at Hartley High.
Scott Major as Peter Rivers, Darren's father, who reprises his role from the 1994 series.
Rachel House as Principal Stacy "Woodsy" Woods, the performatively woke school principal at Hartley High.
Recurring and notable guest stars
Isabella Gutierrez as Chaka Cardenes, who reprises her role as Australian-Salvadoran from the 1994 series.
Ben Oxenbould as Justin McLean, Harper's dad.
Justin Smith as Jim the Maintenance Man.
Sandy Sharma as Huma Wadia, Amerie's mother.
Tom Wilson, Kye McMaster and Ari McCarthy as Chook, Tilla and Jayden, Ca$h's friends.
Maggie Dence as Nan, Ca$h's grandmother.
Stephen Hunter as Coach Arkell.
Jeremy Lindsay Taylor as Kurt Peterson, who reprises his role from the 1994 series.
Natalie Tran as Rhea Brown, a local author.
Episodes
Production
The series was announced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV9%20Bharatvarsh | TV9 Bharatvarsh, launched on 30 March 2019, is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by the TV9 Network. It became the No. 2 popular Hindi news channel within a year. TV9 Bharatvarsh appointed Barun Das as CEO in 2019. It has been doing 24/7 coverage of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
TV9 Network, also launched Money9, India’s first multilingual personal finance OTT Channel. A unique proposition, the Money9 OTT App is now live on Android and IOS platforms with seven language options of Hindi, English, Bangla, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati and Kannada.
References
External links
Website
24-hour television news channels in India
TV9 Group
Hindi-language television channels in India
Hindi-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2019
Mass media in Mumbai
Mass media companies of India
2019 establishments in Uttar Pradesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2%20Omicron%20variant | Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa on 24 November 2021. It was first detected in Botswana and has spread to become the predominant variant in circulation around the world. Following the original B.1.1.529 variant, several subvariants of Omicron have emerged including: BA.1, BA.2, BA.3, BA.4, and BA.5. Since October 2022, two subvariants of BA.5 called BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 have emerged.
Three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine provide protection against severe disease and hospitalisation caused by Omicron and its subvariants. For three-dose vaccinated individuals, the BA.4 and BA.5 variants are more infectious than previous subvariants but there is no evidence of greater sickness or severity.
Classification
On 26 November 2021, the WHO's Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution declared PANGO lineage B.1.1.529 a variant of concern and designated it with the Greek letter omicron. The WHO skipped the preceding letters nu and xi in the Greek alphabet to avoid confusion with the similarities of the English word "new" and the Chinese surname Xi.
The name of the variant has occasionally been mistaken as "Omnicron" among some English speakers, due to a lack of familiarity with the Greek alphabet, and the relative frequency of the Latin prefix "omni" in other common speech.
The GISAID project has assigned it the clade identifier GR/484A, and the Nextstrain project has assigned it the clade identifiers 21K and 21L, both belonging to a larger Omicron group 21M.
History
Omicron was first detected on 22 November 2021 in laboratories in Botswana and South Africa based on samples collected on 11–16 November, with the first known samples collected in Johannesburg, South Africa on 8 November 2021. The first known cases outside of South Africa were two people who travelled on 11 November: one who flew from South Africa to Hong Kong via Qatar, and another who travelled from Egypt to Belgium via Turkey. On 26 November 2021, WHO designated B.1.1.529 as a variant of concern and named it "Omicron", after the fifteenth letter in the Greek alphabet. As of 6 January 2022, the variant had been confirmed in 149 countries.
Origin hypotheses
Omicron did not evolve from any other variant, but instead diverged on a distinct track, perhaps in mid-2020. Competing hypotheses are being examined.
One origin hypothesis is that various mutations in the Omicron variant, comprising a 9-nucleotide sequence, may have been acquired from another coronavirus (known as HCoV-229E), responsible for the common cold. This is not entirely at times, viruses within the body acquire and swap segments of genetic material from each other, and this is one common means of mutation.
A link with HIV infection may explain a large number of mutations in the sequence of the Omicron variant. Indeed, in order to be affected by such a high number of mutations, the virus must h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teo%20Susnjak | Teo Susnjak (born 23 July 1977) is a New Zealand academic and former professional tennis player. He is a senior lecturer in computer science at Massey University. He has a master's thesis from Massey.
Susnjak, a Croatian-born player, was an Australian Open junior quarter-finalist. Ranked as high as 362 in the world, he had a win over Lleyton Hewitt at the 1997 Perth Challenger and made an ATP Tour main draw appearance at the 1998 Heineken Open in Auckland. He represented the New Zealand Davis Cup team in a 1998 tie against Japan in Miyazaki, where he featured in two singles rubbers.
See also
List of New Zealand Davis Cup team representatives
References
External links
1977 births
Living people
New Zealand male tennis players
Academic staff of Massey University
New Zealand computer scientists
Croatian emigrants to New Zealand
Tennis players from Split, Croatia
Massey University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg%20Rothermel | Gregg Rothermel is an American computer scientist, software engineer and academic. He is Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University.
Rothermel’s research has focused on software engineering and program analysis, with a particular emphasis on the applications of program analysis techniques to problems in the context of software maintenance and testing, end-user software engineering, and empirical studies. He co-founded the ESQuaReD Laboratory at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the Software-Artifact Infrastructure Repository (SIR). He also co-founded the EUSES Consortium, a group of researchers who, with National Science Foundation's support, have led end-user software engineering research.
Rothermel is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.
Education
Rothermel earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Reed College in 1983, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Albany in 1986. He then enrolled at Clemson University and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, under the supervision of Mary Jean Harrold, in 1996.
Career
Rothermel began his academic career as a Teaching Assistant of Computer Science at State University of New York at Albany in 1985. In 1991, he joined Clemson University as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Computer Science, and became a Research Assistant the following year. He then held a brief appointment at the Ohio State University as a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Computer and Information Science through 1996, before joining Oregon State University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. In 2001, he was promoted to Associate Professor at Oregon State. From 2004 through 2018, he served on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln as Professor and Jensen Chair of Software Engineering. Since 2018, he has been serving as Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University.
Research
Rothermel has published over 230 articles, has been cited over 24,000 times, and has a Google Scholar H-index of 75. He holds two U.S. Patents
Rothermel has received recognition for his pioneering contributions in developing and empirically evaluating regression testing techniques. He was among the first researchers to propose and empirically study test case prioritization techniques. He also published a paper highlighting the issues regarding regression test selection techniques, and used these issues as the basis for a framework within which to evaluate the techniques.
Rothermel has also worked on "end-user software engineering". His research is concerned with enabling non-professional programmers to create more dependable systems while developing programs such as spreadsheets, web macros, and web mashups. In 2001, he introduced and explored a methodology to adapt data flow adequacy criteria and coverage monitori |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20liquid%E2%80%93liquid%20phase%20separation%20databases | Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is well defined in the Biomolecular condensate page.
LLPS databases cover different aspects of LLPS phenomena, ranging from cellular location of the Membraneless Organelles (MLOs) to the role of a particular protein/region forming the condensate state. These databases contain manually curated data supported by experimental evidence in the literature and can include related features as presence of protein disorder, low complexity, post-translational modifications, experimental details, phase diagrams, among others.
See also
Biomolecular condensate
MobiDB database
Intrinsically disordered proteins
DisProt database
References
Protein structure
Structural bioinformatics software
Proteomics
Neurodegenerative disorders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ads%20Up%20Refugee%20Network | Australian Diaspora Steps Up, known as Ads Up or Ads Up Refugee Network is a Washington, D.C. non-governmental organization that helps refugees held in indefinite detention in Australia.
Organization
Ads Up USA was co-founded in 2018 in Washington, D.C., by Fleur Wood and Ben Winsor, both Australian expats in the US. It has since grown to 1,700 members, mostly based in Australia, but also including 100 volunteers in America who help with refugee settlement.
Activities
The US organization is run by Australian diaspora who help refugees held in Australian's off shore detention centers in Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
Upon arrival in US refugees are provided with financial support.
References
Refugee aid organizations in the United States
Non-governmental organizations
Humanitarian aid organizations
Organizations based in Washington (state)
2018 establishments in Washington (state)
Organizations established in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Air%20Quality%20Network | The London Air Quality Network (LAQN) is a collection of urban air pollution monitoring stations in London and South East England. Launched in 1993 by researchers at King's College, London, it is currently managed by the Environmental Research Group of Imperial College with funding from local authorities, business improvement districts, Transport for London, and Defra, and has grown to become "the largest air-quality measuring system of its kind in the world".
Each monitoring station consists of automated sensing equipment in a fixed cabin, typically positioned by a roadside or other busy urban area, which takes various pollution samples roughly every 15 minutes, so allowing both short- and long-term analysis of air quality.
The data produced by the network has been used to inform scientific and medical research, public policy, and public understanding of air pollution issues for over three decades. It's also used to generate near-real-time air-quality measurements, pollution maps, statistics, and alerts through a dedicated website (londonair.org.uk), phone app ("London Air"), and Twitter feed (@londonair), as well as bus and tube station "countdown" signs.
References
External links
Air pollution in the United Kingdom
Air pollution organizations
Environment of London
Health in London
Public health in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolls%3A%20Holiday%20in%20Harmony | Trolls: Holiday in Harmony is a 2021 computer-animated musical Christmas special that premiered on NBC on November 26, 2021. Based on DreamWorks Animation's Trolls franchise, this was the second one to be based on the franchise following Trolls Holiday, and is written and directed by Sean Charmatz and Tim Heitz.
A majority of the cast from the two movies reprise their respective roles, including Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Rachel Bloom, and Kenan Thompson; likewise, Lauren Mayhew and Megan Hilty reprise their respective roles as Val Thundershock and Holly Darlin' from TrollsTopia. The special features famous actress and comedian Carol Burnett as the voice of Wind Breeze.
Plot
While going on their first date, Poppy explains to Branch that she is planning a gift exchange, with baskets filled with invitations; each one has the name of another Troll in Troll Kingdom. The Troll has to buy a secret gift for that Troll and will meet in Pop Village in three days time to exchange gifts. Poppy and Branch deliver the baskets all around the kingdom before finishing in Pop Village. When they are done, they pick out the last cards and pull out each other's names, with Poppy excited to have pulled Branch's name and Branch horrified to have pulled Poppy's. Nervously, both part ways.
At Pop Village, Tiny Diamond grabs an invitation and pulls out his father's name "Guy Diamond". He does a rap, but finds it hard to rhyme with "Diamond", believing he has lost his flow. After a few failed attempts to find the perfect rhyme, Tiny heads to the top of a mountain to seek out the monks at the Cloud Temple. When he arrived, Tiny starts to meditate with the Clouds, who helped him realize that he just had to rhyme "daddy" and has his rap sorted.
Back in Pop Village, while Trolls are already gathering and busy, Poppy finishes her touches of her gift to Branch, confident that she has it right. Meanwhile, Branch comes up with the idea for a machine that does Poppy's hair, but after getting her head measurements without her knowing, he sees her gift to him and runs back to his bunker. Panicking that his gift will not be enough, Branch goes over the top and builds his machine, adding more and more functions constantly. After he finishes, he tests out the machine and it explodes, sending him into space then back down to the village. When Tiny finds him on the ground, Branch believes he failed and tells him what happened. Tiny passes on the wisdom he just learnt and tells Branch to look through the clutter. While cleaning up the mess in his bunker, Branch finds a photo of him and Poppy and realizes what he must do.
During the gift swap, Poppy and Branch reveal they got each other's names. Branch presents Poppy with a scrapbook detailing all the events up until that day, which she finds wonderful, as it is only something he could give her. When Poppy opens her gift to Branch, it turns out to be empty, because she knew there was nothing good enough for him. Poppy and Bran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadii%20Rubinstein | Gennadii Shlemovich Rubinstein (rus: Геннадий Шлемович Рубинштейн) was a Russian mathematician. His research focused on mathematical programming and operations research. His name is associated to the Kantorovich–Rubinstein metric, also commonly known as the Wasserstein distance, used in optimal transport.
Gennadii Rubinstein got his doctorate in St. Petersburg State University in 1956, under the supervision of Leonid V. Kantorovich.
Alternate form of the first name: Gennady.
Alternate forms of the last name: Rubinšteĭn, Rubinshtein.
Biography
Selected publications
See also
List of Russian mathematicians
References
External links
A web page about Gennadii Rubinstein's publications
Gennadii Shlemovich Rubinstein (obituary)
Russian mathematicians
Academic staff of Novosibirsk State University
1923 births
2004 deaths
Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Odesa University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%20Tails | Two Tails () is a 2018 Russian 3D computer-animated science-fiction adventure comedy film directed by Victor Azeev and co-directed by Natalia Nilova, from a script by Vasily Rovensky. Produced by Licensing Brands, the film had its world premiere in Russia on 25 May 2018, and was released theatrically in Russia on 31 May to mixed reviews. It had a worldwide gross of $3,390,149.
Premise
Best friends Max, a restless and adventurous cat, and Bob, a serious and determined beaver, embark on a dangerous mission to rescue their friends who were abducted by aliens.
Production
The film was produced by Licensing Brands LLC. Production began in June 2015, and the film was granted funding from the Cinema Foundation of Russia on 14 June 2016.
Release and reception
Two Tails received its world premiere in Russia on 25 May 2018, before being released theatrically in Russia on 31 May by CaroProkat.
Box office
In its opening weekend in Russia, the film grossed 44.660 million Russian rubles ($688,933), entering the top five films of that week. By the end of its theatrical run, it grossed 107 million rubles ($1,682,413). The second highest-grossing country was Poland, where it was the fifth highest-grossing film at their box office in its first and second weeks, with 12,371 and 33,955 tickets sold respectively. At the end of its run, it grossed $438,886 from 99,082 total tickets sold, adding to its worldwide total of $3,390,149.
Critical reception
The film received mixed to average reviews from critics, with particular criticism aimed towards its storyline and clichés, but received positive reviews for its characters and entertainment value for its age demographic.
References
External links
Two Tails at Film.ru (in Russian)
Two Tails at KinoPoisk (in Russian)
2018 films
2018 animated films
2018 computer-animated films
2018 3D films
3D animated films
Russian 3D films
2018 comedy films
2010s children's animated films
Russian adventure comedy films
Animated adventure films
Russian animated comedy films
Animated films about cats
Films about rodents
Animated films about extraterrestrial life
2010s Russian-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Ren%C3%A9%20Descartes | This is the list of things named after René Descartes (1596–1650), a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.
Computer science
Cartesian genetic programming
Cartesian tree
Mathematics
Cartesian closed category
Cartesian geometry
Cartesian coordinate system
Cartesian equations
Cartesian plane
Cartesian tensor
Cartesian monoid
Cartesian monoidal category
Cartesian closed category
Cartesian oval
Cartesian product
Cartesian product of graphs
Cartesian square
Cartesian morphisms
Descartes number
Descartes' rule of signs
Descartes snark
Descartes' theorem
Descartes' theorem on total angular defect
Folium of Descartes
Physics
Cartesian diver
Cartesian vortex theory
Snell–Descartes law
Philosophy
Cartesian anxiety
Cartesian circle
Cartesian doubt
Cartesian dualism
Cartesian materialism
Cartesian other
Cartesian theater
Cartesian Method
Descartes' demon
Robotics
Cartesian coordinate robot
Cartesian parallel manipulators
Other
Blanche Descartes
Cartesian linguistics
Cartesian Meditations
Cartesian Reflections
Descartes (crater)
Descartes-class cruiser
Descartes' Error
Descartes-Huygens Prize
Descartes Island (Antarctica)
Descartes on Polyhedra
Descartes Prize
Lycée René Descartes (Champs-sur-Marne)
Descartes
Descartes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%20United%20States%E2%80%93China%20Cybersecurity%20Agreement | The 2015 United States-China Cybersecurity agreement is an Executive agreement between the United States and the People's Republic of China. The agreement covers several areas of Cybersecurity policy, including on information sharing mechanisms and establishing that neither country will support cyber-enabled Intellectual property theft. The agreement was announced at a joint press conference attended by U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping located at the White House lawn on September 25, 2015.
The agreement has been called ineffective by the Trump administration and others.
See also
Convention on Cybercrime
References
2015 treaties
Treaties concluded in 2015
Treaties entered into force in 2015
Treaties of China
Bilateral treaties of the United States
Computer law treaties
International criminal law treaties
Telecommunications treaties
Cybercrime
China–United States relations
Presidency of Barack Obama
Xi Jinping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASPN | ASPN may refer to:
A common abbreviation of Asporin
American standard pitch notation, a method to specify musical pitch
Arizona Sports Programming Network, now known as YurView Arizona |
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