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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zymergen | Zymergen is an American biotechnology company based in Emeryville, California. The company applies genomics and machine learning to research and design chemical producing genetically modified organisms. It claimed that its manufacturing process was safer and cheaper than traditional manufacturing, but was unable to demonstrate this. Shortly after going public in 2021, it was reported that the company was facing difficulties in manufacturing and struggling to make revenue. In July 2022, Ginkgo Bioworks agreed to acquire Zymergen for $300 million.
History
Zymergen was founded in 2013. by investment banker Joshua Hoffman, biophysicist Zach Serber, and biochemist Jed Dean. All three met while working at Amyris, Inc. The company uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to study and modify microbes which ferment carbon to produce chemicals used in manufacturing consumer goods and pharmaceuticals. Part of its research was into the production of alternatives to petroleum products. The company claimed that it would be able to biologically produce materials more safely and at a lower cost than traditionally manufactured petroleum products, but was unable to demonstrate the performance of its materials.
The company raised $2 million in 2013, $44 million in 2015, $130 million from SoftBank's Vision Fund in 2016, $400 million in 2018, and $300 million in 2020. The company reportedly included DARPA and Fortune 500 companies among its customers by 2016. In 2018, Zymergen acquired fellow biotechnology firm Radiant Genomics. According to an insider source reported by Forbes, the company was failing to generate revenue by this point but continued to attract investment. By April 2020, the company had begun to lay off between 10% and 15% of its employees.
The company released its first product, Hyaline, in December 2020. Hyaline is a bio-manufactured polyimide film made from diamine monomers. The material was transparent and flexible, and was marketed for use with consumer electronics such as flexible smartphones and tablets. In April 2021, the company went public with a $500 million IPO. The IPO was led by JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs.
Regulatory filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in July revealed that the company had made only $13 million in revenue during 2020, and had lost over $262 million. The filings also revealed that the company was struggling to produce Hyaline, and that two of its companies had complained that it did not work with their manufacturing process. When these operational problems became public it resulted in a sharp reduction in market capitalization and shareholder lawsuits were filed shortly after.
In August 2021, the company revealed that Hyaline was not successful with customers, its foldable screen did not have as large of a market as anticipated, and it did not have any sources of revenue that year. This disclosure and Hoffman's resignation as CEO that month caused Zymergen's stock to plunge. He was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20R.%20Gamazon | Eric R. Gamazon is a statistical geneticist in Vanderbilt University, with faculty affiliations in the Division of Genetic Medicine, Data Science Institute, and Center for Precision Medicine. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University after election to a Visiting Fellowship (2018).
Research and career
Eric Gamazon has developed computational methods that can be used to identify genes and mechanisms underlying complex diseases. He was a developer of the transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) methodology (PrediXcan), which integrates gene expression and genome-wide association study data to identify disease-associated genes. Subsequent work integrated Mendelian randomization into TWAS. As of December 2021, he has authored 160 peer-reviewed publications in human genetics, functional genomics, and statistical genetics. He was a co-chair of the Genome-Wide Association Studies Working Group of the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) program that developed a transcriptome and expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) reference resource for the scientific community. He leads a research initiative to integrate large-scale DNA biobanks and functional genomics to further precision medicine in diverse populations.
He has identified genes associated with neuropsychiatric disorders. He leads a National Institute on Aging funded international consortium that aims to identify new treatments for Alzheimer's disease using genetic and molecular data.
Awards and honors
Gamazon was a recipient of the inaugural National Institutes of Health Genomic Innovator Award, which is awarded to investigators in genome biology and genomic medicine with “outstanding records of productivity as they pursue important research areas, including new directions as they arise." He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge in 2018. In 2021, he was appointed a standing member of the National Institutes of Health Review Panel for Biostatistical Methods and Research Design (BMRD), which reviews and makes recommendations on (grant) "applications which seek to advance statistical and mathematical techniques and technologies applicable to the experimental design and analysis of data in biomedical, behavioral, and social science research.”
Selected publications
Smemo, Scott, Juan J. Tena, Kyoung-Han Kim, Eric R. Gamazon, Noboru J. Sakabe, Carlos Gómez-Marín, Ivy Aneas et al. "Obesity-associated variants within FTO form long-range functional connections with IRX3." Nature 507, no. 7492 (2014): 371–375. doi:10.1038/nature13138.
Gamazon, Eric R., Heather E. Wheeler, Kaanan P. Shah, Sahar V. Mozaffari, Keston Aquino-Michaels, Robert J. Carroll, Anne E. Eyler et al. "A gene-based association method for mapping traits using reference transcriptome data." Nature Genetics 47, no. 9 (2015): 1091–1098. doi:10.1038/ng.3367.
Gamazon, Eric R., Ayellet V. Segrè, Martijn van de Bunt, Xiao |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Harper | Richard Harper may refer to:
Richard Harper (politician), English local politician
Richard H. R. Harper, British computer scientist and author |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash%20Course%20Manual | Crash Course Manual is a 1989 role-playing game supplement for Paranoia published by West End Games.
Contents
Crash Course Manual is a supplement in which the Computer has crashed in the Alpha Complex.
Publication history
Crash Course Manual was edited by Doug Kaufman, with a cover by Robert Larkin, and was published by West End Games in 1990 as a 96-page book.
Shannon Appelcline commented that metaplots for Paranoia "kicked off with the 'Secret Society Wars' in The DOA Sector Travelogue (1989), which seemed OK, but then things took a dramatic wrong turn with Crash Course Manual (1989), which introduced MegaWhoops Alpha Complex where the Computer was gone!"
Reception
James Wallis reviewed Crash Course Manual for Games International magazine, and gave it a rating of 3 out of 10, and stated that "If you still play Paranoia, you'll want this, but if your copy is gathering dust on a shelf, Crash Course Manual is not a good enough reason to pick it up again."
References
Paranoia supplements
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20Institute%20of%20Technology%20School%20of%20Cybersecurity%20and%20Privacy | The School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP) is an academic unit located within the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This interdisciplinary unit draws its faculty from the College of Computing as well as the College of Engineering, the School of Public Policy, the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, the Scheller College of Business, and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). Faculty are engaged in both research and teaching activities related to computer security and privacy at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The school's unifying vision is to keep "cyberspace safer and more secure."
History
The School of Cybersecurity and Privacy was founded in 2020 and Richard DeMillo was appointed as the school's founding chair. The creation of the school represented an enlargement and continuation of the vision held by the Institute for Information Security & Privacy (IISP), the former organizing locus of cybersecurity research at Georgia Tech.
Degrees offered
The School of Cybersecurity and Privacy offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees in several fields. These degrees are technically granted by the School's parent organization, the Georgia Tech College of Computing, and often awarded in conjunction with other academic units within Georgia Tech.
Doctoral degrees
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Master's degrees
M.S. in Computer Science
M.S. in Cybersecurity
Bachelor's degrees
B.S. in Computer Science
Research
The faculty and students of the school lead and conduct a variety of research in areas including Cyber-physical systems, information security, Internet of Things (IoT), networking, and policy. Notable labs include the GTRI Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory (CIPHER) founded in 2010, and the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) founded in 1998.
Location
The School of Computational Science & Engineering's administrative offices, as well as those of most of its faculty and graduate students, are located in the CODA Building.
See also
Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
References
Cybersecurity
Universities and colleges established in 2020
2020 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Computer security organizations
Information technology schools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gharjistan%20University | Gharjistan University () is a university located in Pul-e-Sorkh, Kabul, Afghanistan established in 2010.
Faculties
Economics and management
Law and political science
Computer science
Social science
See also
List of universities in Afghanistan
References
Universities in Afghanistan
Universities and colleges in Kabul
Educational institutions established in 2010
2010 establishments in Afghanistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal%20Team%20%28film%29 | Seal Team is a 2021 South African computer-animated action comedy film co-directed by Greig Cameron and Kane Croudace, produced by Triggerfish Animation Studios and Cinema Management Group oversees worldwide distribution. The film stars the voices of J. K. Simmons, Jessie T. Usher, Matthew Rhys, Patrick Warburton, Kristen Schaal, Sharlto Copley, John Kani, Dolph Lundgren, and Seal. It tells the story of a group of misfit Cape Fur Seals who come together to fight a gang of ruthless sharks.
The film was released in cinemas in the Netherlands on 13 October 2021, followed by Belgium in 27 October, Czech Republic one day later, and in West Asian Arab countries on 4 November. Netflix acquired the rights for the film for release on 31 December 2021 in many other territories.
Plot
During the 1980s, near the Cape of Storms, an animal military unit called H.M.M.F. (Hydro Marine Military Force), consisting of two South African cape fur seals: veteran Claggart and tech genius Switch, and a celebrity striped dolphin named Dolph, are tasked by their human superiors with trying to defuse a naval mine. Due to a seal's color-blindness, Claggart ends up cutting the wrong wire, and the mine immediately blows up once hauled onto their ship, the Good Boy. This causes a portion of the ship to be destroyed and the ship to wrecked on a rock, while the H.M.M.F. all survive unscathed, though Claggart loses his name tags which drifts off to rest near Seal Island, an island endlessly full of seals. Over time, the now retired H.M.M.F. drift apart: Claggart stays behind on the wreck of the Good Boy, Switch goes insane and lives on his own wreck that he turns into a lab with his imaginary friend, Senior Echo, and Dolph goes into show business in his own popular superhero show titled: Dial Eck-Eck-Eck-Eck For Action.
In the present day, Claggart's name tag is found by a bold cape fur seal named Quinn and his nervous best friend Benji while hunting for a fish, before they are chased off by sharks, whom their community lives in fear of, but their fear is always scoffed at by their elder leader, Brick. Due to the shortage of food, the seals are all forced to eat bad-tasting barnacles while having to wait for the annual sardine run. After retrieving the name tag, Quinn and Benji both share each of the name tags, and go out at night to search for food amongst the human shipwrecks with no luck, afoul of a great white shark named Grimes and his remora associates, who tries to eat them. Quinn manages to survive by hiding in the wreck, he calls for Benji to join him, but learns he has been eaten by Grimes after seeing his part of the name tag snagged on his teeth, who then goes for him next, but Quinn is then saved by an elderly Claggart, who drives off Grimes and brings him back to the surface and reclaims his name tag before leaving Quinn. After he comes to, he is found by three cape gannets named Diving Dee, Roger, and Mayday, who has been trying to eat a starfish that has been st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos%20Oruguitas | "Dos Oruguitas" (; "Two Little Caterpillars") is a Spanish-language song from Disney's 2021 computer-animated musical feature film Encanto. Released by Walt Disney Records as part of the film's soundtrack on November 19, 2021, the song was written by American musician Lin-Manuel Miranda and performed by Colombian singer-songwriter Sebastián Yatra.
The song is played in the film over a flashback depicting the life and death of Pedro Madrigal, the grandfather of Encanto protagonist Mirabel. The lyrics are in Spanish, but an English-language version of the song, titled "Two Oruguitas", plays over the end credits. Music critics praised the song for its sentiment, production, lyrics, and Yatra's vocal performance, and often named it as the best song from Encanto. Commercially, "Dos Oruguitas" entered the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100 and marked Yatra's first-ever appearance on the chart. The song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 94th Academy Awards.
Background and release
Encanto is an American computer-animated musical fantasy film, the 60th film by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The song is featured as the sixth track on the film's soundtrack. It was written and composed by American singer-songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda, who also wrote the seven other songs of the soundtrack. He previously worked on Disney's 2016 animated film, Moana, as well. It is sung by Sebastián Yatra, who grew up in the US but was born in Colombia. He was invited to join the Encanto soundtrack and sing the song after Miranda heard Yatra's song "Adiós".
Composition and development
"Dos Oruguitas" was the first song Miranda wrote completely in Spanish. This amount of Spanish was far outside his comfort zone. Miranda said "It was important to me that I write it in Spanish, rather than write it in English and translate it, because you can always feel translation". His goal was to write a Colombian folk song that "felt like it [had] always existed," which he thought would make the painful family history depicted in the accompanying animated sequence easier to watch. He was inspired in particular by composers Antônio Carlos Jobim and Joan Manuel Serrat.
The song and accompanying sequence were originally planned to be in the prologue, but the filmmaking team decided they would fit better toward the end of the film.
Lyrics and context
"Dos Oruguitas" is a non-diegetic song, which plays during a flashback. In this flashback, Mirabel learns about her grandmother's Alma's past and the hardship she went through: her romance with her husband Pedro, and how Pedro's self-sacrifice when they were fleeing a war allowed Alma to escape. This story helps reconcile Mirabel and her grandmother. Co-director Byron Howard said about the song: "It's probably the most critical bit of musical storytelling in the whole film because it has to do with the history of the family and Mirabel understanding her grandmother." The song itself is about two caterpillars falling in love and hav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Latin%20Pop%20Airplay%20number%20ones%20of%202022 | The Billboard Latin Pop Airplay is a subchart of the Latin Airplay chart that ranks the most-played Latin pop songs on Latin radio stations. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
References
United States Latin Pop
2022
2022 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202022 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores, verifiable sales from concert venues and track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units in the United States.
Chart history
References
United States Regional Albums
2022 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBS%20College%20for%20Cybersecurity%20and%20Advanced%20Technologies | The Prince Mohammed Bin Salman College for Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technologies () is a higher education technological college in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Established by Saud al-Qahtani in 2018, it is named after Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia since 2017. It is the first academic institute in Saudi Arabia dedicated for the study of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
Just prior to its inauguration, it was renamed after the country's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman after getting assent for the proposal put forward by Saud al-Qahtani – a top aide to the crown prince. Since its inception, it has signed pacts with some of the renowned institutions around the world, including Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Draper University, Booz Allen Hamilton and SANS Institute.
History
In March 2018, the then President and Chairman of the Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones Saud al-Qahtani issued a decision to establish the College of Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technologies in Riyadh. Prior to its official inauguration in April 2018, the college was renamed as the Prince Mohammed bin Salman College for Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technologies after getting the crown prince's assent for the renaming proposal put forward by the Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones. Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Dahlawi serves as the institute's inaugural and acting dean. In April 2018, the college signed a memorandum of understanding with Columbia, Maryland-based cybersecurity firm Chiron Technology Services, Inc. In June 2018, the college signed a memorandum of understanding with San Francisco's Stanford University to contribute to the design of academic content of the institute.
In July 2018, the college signed a partnership with IronNet Cybersecurity – an American private sector cybersecurity firm founded by retired four-star general of the United States Army Keith B. Alexander who was the first head of the U.S. Cyber Command. In January 2019, the college announced that it will soon offer bachelors program in cybersecurity in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University. In April 2019, the college signed a cooperation agreement with Redmond-based DigiPen Institute of Technology. In August 2019, the college signed an agreement with Chinese information technology conglomerate Inspur Group. In September 2019, the college signed an agreement with British multinational arms, security, and aerospace company – BAE Systems.
References
Education in Saudi Arabia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Costa | Lisa A. Costa is an American computer scientist and defense official who has served as the deputy chief of space operations for technology and logistics of the United States Space Force. She is a recognized expert in operationalizing a broad array of science, technology, and research into global use for effect. A member of the Senior Executive Service, Level 3, she is the first Chief Technology and Innovation Officer (CTIO) of the world's first space military service. The Space Force CTIO role is unique in the Department of Defense (DoD) and serves as the chief scientist, chief analytics officer, chief data and A/I officer, chief information officer, and chief technology officer of the Service. She previously served as the first female director of systems and the chief information officer (CIO) of the United States Special Operations Command. In November 2020, she joined the board of directors of CarParts.com.
Education
1986 Bachelor of Science, Mathematics & Computer Science, Rollins College Winter Park, FL
1990 Master of Business Administration, Tampa College, Tampa, FL
1993 Doctorate of Computer Science and Engineering Management, Union Institute Cincinnati, OH
Career
1. September 2001-August 2010, Director, Non-traditional Information & Knowledge Exploitation Cell, Tampa, FL
2. September 2010-September 2013, Executive Director of Enterprise Integration, MITRE National Security Engineering Center, Washington, DC
3. September 2013-March 2017, Director of Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction and Violent Extremism, Washington, DC
4. March 2017-March 2018, Vice President of Intelligence and Chief Scientist, PlanteRisk, Washington, DC
5. March 2018-October 2018, Senior Director of Innovation & Technology, Engility Corporation, Washington, DC
6. October 2018-present, Director of Communications Systems and the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Special Operations Command, MacDill AFB, FL
Awards and decorations
Costa is the recipient of the following awards:
1993 Best Paper Award in Technical Track – Evaluation of X-Based Desktops
1998 Special Recognition Award – Integrated Survey Program
1998 Program Recognition Award – Collaborative Contingency Targeting
2000 MITRE Technology Innovation Director’s Award
2001 MITRE Senior Vice President General Manager Award
2002 Special Operations Joint Interagency Collaboration Center
2002 AFCEA International Meritorious Service Award
2002 MITRE Corporation President’s Knowledge Management Award – Intelligence Analysis Cell Initiative
2003 AFCEA International Meritorious Service Award
2004 AFCEA International Meritorious Services Award – Engineering
2005 AFCEA International Commendation Award – Mid-Career Intelligence Contributions
2008 Special Programs Award – Working in the Shadows
2011 Program Recognition Award – Social Network Analysis Reachback Capability
2011 Director DIA Award – Intelligence Transformation in Afghanistan
2013 Officer’s Award – Scientific Contribution to MITRE’s Techni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cision%20Media%20Contacts%20Database | The Cision Media Contacts Database (formerly known as Bacon's Media Directories) gathers information on media contacts and outlets (currently over 1.6 million, updating daily). Though a commercial resource, it has often been exploited for academic research applications.
The database is useful for marketing and public relations work. It has also been recommended for use in academic research and has indeed been leveraged as a key data source in peer-reviewed studies. As summarized by professor Philip M. Napoli, these directories are "widely regarded as the best-available commercial database for identifying media outlets and media workers in the United States," especially as "[t]he scale and scope of the data contained within Cision far exceed what can generally be gathered by academic researchers...". However, some scholars critique the use of Cision in such research because its method of gathering data "sweep[s] up problematic actors," such as bots, when aggregating data on media contacts.
See also
Media studies
Cision
References
Media studies
Journalism |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Day%20at%20the%20Races%20%28video%20game%29 | A Day at the Races is a 1989 video game published by Team Software.
Gameplay
A Day at the Races is a game in which the database has room for 500 horses and 50 jockeys, both named and customized by the player. The game is a horse racing simulation that allows wagers and payoffs, and for each racing session players can select the number of races, the track conditions, how many horses are in each race and other aspects of the racing card for the day, or allow the computer to select them randomly. The game is multi-player and allows up to 15 players to compete, although each race has a minimum of 4 horses with the computer controlling any not played by humans. Each player has a $1000 bankroll at the beginning of a meet that can be used for betting, or obtaining new horses at auction or by purchasing horses.
Reception
Brian Walker reviewed Omni-Play Horse Racing and A Day at the Races for Games International magazine, and gave it a rating of 9 out of 10, and stated that "If anything, there is almost too much information to digest in ADAR. In the betting version of the game, ADAR probably wins by a length."
Ken Warner for STart appreciated the game's attention to details, and called it "an absorbing simulation with its faithful and detailed recreation of horse-racing handicapping information".
Joystick Hebdo found the game boring and felt that naming all the horses and jockeys took too much time.
References
1989 video games
Atari ST games
Atari ST-only games
Horse racing video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR%20Systems | OCR Systems, Inc., was an American computer hardware manufacturer and software publisher dedicated to optical character recognition technologies. The company's first product, the System 1000 in 1970, was used by numerous large corporations for bill processing and mail sorting. Following a series of pitfalls in the 1970s and early 1980s, founder Theodor Herzl Levine put the company in the hands of Gregory Boleslavsky and Vadim Brikman, the company's vice presidents and recent immigrants from the Soviet Ukraine, who were able to turn OCR System's fortunes around and expand its employee base. The company released the software-based OCR application ReadRight for DOS, later ported to Windows, in the late 1980s. Adobe Inc. bought the company in 1992.
History
OCR Systems was co-founded by Theodor Herzl Levine ( 1923 – May 30, 2005). Levine served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II in the Solomon Islands, where he helped develop a sonar to find ejected pilots in the ocean. After the war, Levine spent 22 years at the University of Pennsylvania, earning his bachelor's degree in 1951, his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1957, and his doctorate in 1968. Alongside his studies, Levine taught statistics and calculus at Temple University, Rutgers University, La Salle University and Penn State Abington. Sometime in the 1960s, Levine was hired at Philco. He and two of his co-workers decided to form their own company dedicated to optical character recognition, founding OCR Systems in 1969 in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
OCR Systems's first product, the System 1000, was announced in 1970. OCR Systems entered a partnership with 3M to resell the System 1000 throughout the United States in March 1973. This was 3M's entry into the data entry field, managed by the company's Microfilm Products Division and accompanying 3M's suite of data retrieval systems. It soon found use among Texas Instruments, AT&T, Ricoh, Panasonic and Canon for bill processing and mail sorting. Later in the mid-1970s an unspecified Fortune 500 company reneged on a contract to distribute the System 1000; later still a Canadian company distributing the System 1000 in Canada went defunct. Both incidents led OCR Systems to go nearly bankrupt, although it eventually recovered.
By the early 1980s, however, the company was almost insolvent. In 1983 Levine had only $8,000 in his savings and became bedridden with an illness. He left the company in the hands of Gregory Boleslavsky and Vadim Brikman, two Soviet Ukraine expats whom Levine had hired earlier in the 1980s. Boleslavsky was hired as a wire wrapper for the System 1000 and as a programmer and beta tester for ReadRight—a software package developed by Levine implementing patents from Nonlinear Technology, another OCR-centric company from Greenbelt, Maryland. Boleslavsky in turn recommended Brikman to Levine. The two soon became vice presidents of the company while Levine was bedridden; in Boleslavsky's case, he worked 14-hour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20for%20Empowered%20Aid%20Response | The Network for Empowered Aid Response, often called the NEAR Network, is a group of humanitarian civil society organisations based in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
The Network increases collaboration between its members and advocates for the a higher percentage of funding to be given to local humanitarian organizations.
Activities
The Network for Empowered Aid Response advocates for not for profit humanitarian organizations in low income countries, increase collaboration between organizations. It runs a funding programme for local humanitarian initiatives, and an online platform called South-to-South that helps share learning between local and national humanitarian organizations.
Following a pledge to improve localisation made at the Word Humanitarian Summit, NEAR Network was launched in 2016 and incubated by Adeso with $50,000 funding from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
In 2017 and 2018, NEAR Network was critical of government donors failure to comply with 2016 commitments made as part of the Grand Bargain to fund local organizations directly.
In 2019, NEAR Network launched the Localisation Performance Measurement Framework to help harmonize systems of reporting to government donors.
Key people
Executive Director, Hibak Kalfan
Chair, Sema Genel Karaosmanoğlu
Alix Masson, Advocacy lead
See also
Localisation (humanitarian practice)
References
External links
Official website
Humanitarian aid organizations
Organizations based in Africa
Organizations established in 2016
Humanitarian aid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager-EUS2 | Voyager-EUS2 is a supercomputer built by Microsoft Azure, capable of 39.531 petaflops, and is ranked 14th in the TOP500 as of November 2022. Voyager-EUS2 runs from Microsoft Azure East US 2 region and it utilizes 253,440 cores on AMD EPYC CPUs along with an NVIDIA A100 GPU with 80GB memory and a Mellanox HDR Infiniband for data transfer running on Linux distribution.
See also
TOP500
References
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabs%20Hill | Crabs Hill is a village in Saint Mary Parish, Antigua and Barbuda.
Demographics
Crabs Hill has one enumeration district, ED 81800 CrabbHill.
Census Data (2011)
Source:
Individual
Household
There are 48 households in Crabs Hill.
References
Saint Mary Parish, Antigua and Barbuda
Populated places in Antigua and Barbuda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnsons%20Point | Johnsons Point is a town in Saint Mary Parish, Antigua and Barbuda.
Demographics
Johnsons Point has one enumeration district, 81700 JohnsonsPoint.
Census Data (2011)
Individual
Households
Johnsons Point has 81 households.
References
Saint Mary Parish, Antigua and Barbuda
Populated places in Antigua and Barbuda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YugabyteDB | YugabyteDB is a high-performance transactional distributed SQL database for cloud-native applications, developed by Yugabyte.
History
Yugabyte was founded by ex-Facebook engineers Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Karthik Ranganathan, and Mikhail Bautin. At Facebook, they were part of the team that built and operated Cassandra and HBase during a period of significant growth in workloads such as Facebook Messenger and Facebook's Operational Data Store.
The founders came together in February 2016 to build YugabyteDB, believing that the trends they experienced at Facebook – microservices, containerization, high availability, geographic distribution, APIs, and open-source – were relevant to all businesses, especially as they move from on-premise to cloud-native operations.
YugabyteDB was initially available in two editions: community and enterprise. In July 2019, Yugabyte open sourced previously commercial features and launched YugabyteDB as open-source under the Apache 2.0 license.
The rapid evolution of the product led to being named as a 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Management.
Yugabyte launched Yugabyte Cloud, now renamed YugabyteDB Managed, a fully managed database-as-a-service offering of YugabyteDB, in September 2021.
Funding
Six years after the company's inception, Yugabyte closed a $188 Million Series C funding round to become a Unicorn start-up with a valuation of $1.3Bn
Architecture
YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database that aims to be strongly transactionally consistent across failure zones (i.e. ACID compliance]. Jepsen testing, the de facto industry standard for verifying correctness, has never fully passed, mainly due to race conditions during schema changes. In CAP Theorem terms YugabyteDB is a Consistent/Partition Tolerant (CP) database.
YugabyteDB has two layers, a storage engine known as DocDB and the Yugabyte Query Layer.
DocDB
The storage engine consists of a customized RocksDB combined with sharding and load balancing algorithms for the data. In addition, the Raft consensus algorithm controls the replication of data between the nodes. There is also a Distributed transaction manager and Multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) to support distributed transactions.
The engine also exploits a Hybrid Logical Clock that combines coarsely-synchronized physical clocks with Lamport clocks to track causal relationships.
The DocDB layer is not directly accessible by users.
YugabyteDB Query Layer
Yugabyte has a pluggable query layer that abstracts the query layer from the storage layer below. There are currently two APIs that can access the database:
YSQL is a PostgreSQL code-compatible API based around v11.2. YSQL is accessed via standard PostgreSQL drivers using native protocols. It exploits the native PostgreSQL code for the query layer and replaces the storage engine with calls to the pluggable query layer. This re-use means that Yugabyte supports many features, including:
Triggers & Stored Procedures
PostgreSQL exten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20Krawczyk | Hugo Krawczyk is an Argentine-Israeli cryptographer best known for co-inventing the HMAC message authentication algorithm and contributing in fundamental ways to the cryptographic architecture of central Internet standards, including IPsec, IKE, and SSL/TLS. In particular, both IKEv2 and TLS 1.3 use Krawczyk’s SIGMA protocol as the cryptographic core of their key exchange procedures. He has also contributed foundational work in the areas of threshold and proactive cryptosystems and searchable symmetric encryption, among others.
Education
Krawczyk acquired a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Haifa. Later he received his Master of Science and Ph.D. in computer science from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology with Oded Goldreich as doctoral thesis advisor.
Career
Hugo Krawczyk is a Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Between 2019 and 2023 he was a Principal Researcher at the Algorand Foundation and part of its founding team. Prior to that, he was an IBM Fellow and Distinguished Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York as a member of the Cryptography Research group from 1992 to 1997, and again from 2004 to 2019. He was an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion in Israel from 1997 until 2004.
Krawczyk has published over 100 papers with more than 30,000 citations, and is an inventor in 30 issued patents.
His research includes both theoretical and applied elements of cryptography, with a focus on internet security, privacy, and authentication. His most recent projects in the area include: TLS 1.3, the new-generation SSL/TLS; HKDF, the standard for key derivation embraced by TLS 1.3, Signal, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and others; and OPAQUE, a password authentication protocol being standardized by the IRTF and recently deployed by Facebook in its implementation of end-to-end encrypted chat backups for WhatsApp.
Krawczyk is the author of many other cryptographic algorithms and protocols including the HMQV key-exchange protocol, the LFSR-based Toeplitz Hash Algorithm, the Shrinking Generator encryption scheme, the UMAC message authentication code, and the randomized hashing scheme for strengthening digital signatures.
Other influential work includes threshold and proactive cryptosystems (including distributed key generation), searchable symmetric encryption, and theoretical contributions to secure cryptographic communications, password protocols, zero knowledge and pseudorandomness.
Awards
Krawczyk has won the RSA Conference Award for Excellence in Mathematics in 2015, the Levchin Prize for Contributions to Real-World Cryptography in 2018, and two IBM corporate awards. He is a Fellow of the International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) and the recipient of the 2019 NDSS Test-of-Time award for his 1996 paper, “SKEME: A versatile secure key exchange mechanism for internet”, a precursor of KEM-based key exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LA%20Cyber%20Lab | The Los Angeles Cyber Lab, a 501(c) nonprofit organization, founded in August 2017, with Cisco Systems, is a "public-private cybersecurity initiative designed to help the (small and mid-sized) business community stay ahead of security threats"
In 2018, Department of Homeland Security awarded LA Cyber Lab a $3 million grant.
In 2019, with the backing of IBM, it added a threat-intelligence Web portal and an app for Android and IOS.
Cyber NYC, is New York City's similar cybersecurity initiative. New York City Cyber Command is a city government agency.
Zimperium enterprise mobile security apps are sponsored by State of Michigan, NYC Cyber Command and Los Angeles Metro Rail.
References
External links
LA Cyber Lab
Cybersecurity Stakeholder Agencies - Los Angeles Area Fire Chiefs Association
Impressionist Films. LA Cyber Lab - Ad Spot 1 - Vimeo
Non-profit organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Argentina%20Hot%20100%20number-one%20singles%20of%202022 | The Billboard Argentina Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the Argentina. Its data, published by Billboard Argentina and Billboard magazines and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and BMAT/Vericast, is based collectively on each song's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as the amount of airplay received on Argentine radio stations and TV and streaming on online digital music outlets.
Chart history
See also
List of Billboard Argentina Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2022
References
2022
Argentina Hot 100 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown%20distillery | A crown distillery () was one of the state-operated distilleries in Sweden between 1775 and 1824.
Establishment
The network of crown distilleries was established in 1775, when King Gustav III, acting on the advice of his finance minister , declared a state monopoly over the production and sale of alcoholic spirits, with the twofold goal of raising extra revenues for the state while also reducing alcohol consumption and its accompanying health and social problems. It therefore became illegal to obtain spirits by any means other than from the new Crown Distilleries, and as such the importation of spirits from abroad was banned, as was the distillation of spirits by private individuals.
Distilleries
Some 50-60 Crown Distilleries were established across the kingdom, including the following:
, Södermalm (Stockholm)
Strömsbro Crown Distillery, Gävle
, Södermalm (Stockholm)
Closure
The state monopoly was hugely unpopular, especially among the common people, as it banned the longstanding Swedish tradition of (roughly translatable as 'distillation for household needs'), though many people flouted the restrictions and continued to distil spirits illegally (). Moreover, the Crown Distilleries themselves failed to turn a profit. Gustav III was therefore forced to lift the monopoly at the of the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament), and most of the Crown Distilleries were shut down over the next couple of years. However, a few of the more profitable ones remained in operation for some time thereafter, and the last did not close until as late as 1824.
See also
Gustav III of Sweden
Systembolaget
References
Industrial history of Sweden
Alcohol monopolies
18th century in Sweden
Alcohol in Sweden
Distilleries
Alcohol law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobbs%20Cross | Cobbs Cross is a village in Saint Paul Parish, Antigua and Barbuda.
Demographics
Cobbs Cross has one enumeration district, ED 71700 CobbsCross.
Census Data (2011)
Source:
Individual
Household
Cobbs Cross has 103 households.
References
Populated places in Antigua and Barbuda
Saint Paul Parish, Antigua and Barbuda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattersons | Pattersons is a village in Saint Paul Parish, Antigua and Barbuda.
Demographics
Pattersons has one enumeration district, ED 72600.
Census Data (2011)
Individual
Household
There are 149 households in Pattersons.
References
Populated places in Antigua and Barbuda
Saint Paul Parish, Antigua and Barbuda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh%20Village | Marsh Village is a village in Saint Paul Parish, Antigua and Barbuda.
Demographics
Marsh Village has one enumeration district, ED 72100 MarshVillage.
Census data (2011)
Compiled from
Individual
Household
Marsh Village has 104 households.
References
Populated places in Antigua and Barbuda
Saint Paul Parish, Antigua and Barbuda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20marriage%20rate | The following article details the number of marriages per 1,000 population by country. The numbers are according to the Economist data.
List
See also
List of countries by age at first marriage
References
Fertility
Marriage rate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20D.%20Owens | John D. Owens is an American computer engineer, known for his work in GPU computing. He is Child Family Professor of Engineering and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis.
Education
John Owens received his Ph.D in electrical engineering in 2003 from Stanford University under the supervision of William J. Dally and Pat Hanrahan.
Awards and honors
Owens was inducted as an IEEE Fellow in 2022 "for contributions to heterogeneous parallel computing". In 2021 he was also inducted as a AAAS Fellow "for fundamental contributions to commodity parallel computing, particularly in the development of GPU algorithms, data structures, and applications."
In 2007, his paper "Scan Primitives for GPU Computing" won the Best paper award at Graphics Hardware.
Selected publications
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References
External links
Google scholar profile
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
University of California, Davis faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall%20Street%20Wizard | Wall Street Wizard is a 1988 German video game later published in 1990 by Data Liberation in English.
Gameplay
Wall Street Wizard is a stock trading game in which the action on the stock exchange floor is the focus, in which the player has 48 shares from around a dozen sectors using fictional companies.
Reception
John Harrington reviewed Wall $treet Raider and Wall Street Wizard for Games International magazine, and gave it a rating of 7 out of 10, and stated that "In the end, choosing between the two may come down to that hoary old question of what is preferable: game or simulation. Wizard puts the emphasis on fun and plays better than Raider as a solo game, and would therefore better suit the 'seat of the pants' style of player.."
The reviewer from Aktueller Software Markt felt that people playing stock market games just for fun would enjoy Wall Street Wizard thanks to the lively design.
The reviewer from German magazine ST Computer felt that the game did a good job of emulating the market atmosphere, and liked its many options and features, commenting that the graphics were good for a strategy game but bemoaned the lack of sound.
The reviewer from German magazine Joystick felt that it was a well done and realistic real time German stock market simulation, and that the comprehensive German manual included with the software package was really helpful.
References
1988 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Business simulation games
DOS games
Video games developed in Germany
Video games set in 1988
Video games set in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille%20Fran%C3%A7ois | Camille François is a French researcher working on digital disinformation and cyber security, and the chief innovation officer at Graphika, a company providing insights on social media landscapes. She tracks how states are using social media for disinformation and misinformation.
Some of her research focused on individual accounts from people working for troll farms such as the Internet Research Agency, and she provided testimonies on Russian electoral influence operations for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Education and career
François holds a master's degree from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and a master's degree in international security from Columbia University in 2013. She worked at Jigsaw, a unit within Google dedicated to exploring threats to open societies. She is a Fulbright fellow and served as the special advisor to the CTO of France within the prime minister's office.
She was featured as a Time 100 Next fellow in 2019 and as an innovator under 35 by theTechnology Review.
She is an affiliate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and joined Niantic in 2021 as their global director of trust & safety.
References
Sciences Po alumni
Columbia University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20New%20Zealand%20%282022%29 | This article documents the timeline of transmission of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand throughout 2022.
Transmission timeline
Data about the previous day is extracted from the Institute of Environmental Science and Research's database at 9:00 am daily and is publicly released by the Ministry of Health around 1:00 pm.
January
On 2 January, two new deaths were reported at Auckland City Hospital within the past 48 hours.
On 8 January, two new locations of interests were identified in Rotorua including a Burger Fuel restaurant and BP Connection petrol station.
On 10 January, two new locations of interests were identified in Queenstown including a SkyCity casino.
On 12 January, the Ministry of Health reported two new deaths. These fatalities included a man in his 30s who died at home on 5 January and a man in his 60s who died at Middlemore Hospital on 9 January.
On 19 January, health authorities confirmed that two COVID-19 positive individuals in Auckland (an Auckland Airport worker and a household contact of an MIQ worker) had the Omicron variant.
By 20 January, the Hawke's Bay region had reported a total of six cases in the region, five of them linked to a positive case who visited a fitness class.
On 21 January, nine cases were reported in Motueka in the Nelson–Marlborough Region.
By 22 January, the number of cases in Hastings had risen to 13.
On 27 January, 34 new Omicron cases were reported, bringing the total number of Omicron community cases to 90. That same day, the Soundsplash music festival which took place in Hamilton between 21 and 23 January was identified as a location of interest. Five attendees had tested positive for COVID-19, with one testing positive for the Omicron variant. By 28 January, 68 people were considered close contacts of the infected, with health experts warning that the Soundsplash festival could become a superspreader event.
On 28 January, 15 new Omicron cases were reported, bringing the total number of Omicron community cases to 105.
On 30 January, the Health Ministry confirmed that a patient in their 70s at North Shore Hospital had died from COVID-19, bringing the death toll to 53. Due to technical issues, the Health Ministry had not included 40 new cases in Auckland for the daily report.
February
On 4 February, New Zealand reported a record 209 new community: 21 in Northland, 99 in the Auckland Region, 51 in Waikato, 15 in Rotorua, 15 in Bay of Plenty, three in Hawke's Bay, four in Tairāwhiti and one in MidCentral. In addition, 64 cases were reported in managed isolation.
On 7 February, several schools reported positive cases among students and staff including Te Mata Primary School (four students) in Hastings' Havelock North suburb, Hamilton Boys' High School (one student), Hamilton Christian School (one student), Rototuna Junior and Senior High School (one student), Melville Intermediate School (one student) and Prospect School (one staff member) in Auckland's Glen Eden suburb. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Ontario%20%282022%29 | The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario throughout the first half of 2022 as daily reports were replaced with weekly reports on Thursdays beginning in June 17, 2022.
Data
Timeline
January
On January 3, the Ontario Government announced that Ontario would be moving into modified Step 2 from January 5 for a period of at least 21 days (January 26; this may be extended based on public health trends); closing indoor dining, gyms, movie theatres and schools.
February
The government announced that COVID-19 boosters would be available for youth 12 to 17 years old.
March
On March 3, Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health, said the actual number of COVID-19 cases in the province is likely ten times the reported figure based on limited testing.
On March 21, Ontario dropped its mask mandate for schools, restaurants, bars, gyms, and several other public settings.
April
On April 22, 2022, Ontario announced that the remaining mask mandate restrictions would be extended until June 11, 2022, due to a rising number of new cases.
May
On May 11, Ontario reported a total of 13,000 deaths.
On May 22, Ontario reported under 1,000 hospitalizations for the first time ever since January with the province reporting 809 hospitalizations.
On May 23, Ontario reported under 1,000 cases for the first time in months with the province reporting 668 new cases.
June
On June 11, Ontario's mask requirements were lifted on public transit and hospitals.
On June 17, Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore announced that the province would switch to weekly reporting of COVID-19 data on Thursdays, ending the practice of publishing daily reports.
References
Ontario
Coronavirus
2022 in Ontario
Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian%20Olympiad%20in%20Informatics | The Romanian Olympiad in Informatics (, ) is an annual competitive programming contest for secondary school students in Romania. It gathers about 300 high-school students (9th to 12th grade) and about 160 gymnasium students (5th to 8th grade).
The contest takes place over two days, in sessions of 3–5 hours each, and consists of providing computationally efficient solutions to one to four problems of an algorithmic nature. Contestants compete individually. To participate, students must first qualify within their school, then town/city, then county. At the end of the Olympiad, a special contest further selects the top ~20 students for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). Since 1990, Romanian students have won 32 gold medals at the IOI, ranking the country #4 worldwide.
History
The first Romanian Olympiad in Informatics was held in 1978 and consisted of a hand-written portion, and a computer portion, the latter giving a choice of programming language among Fortran, COBOL and ASSIRIS.
Other editions included:
2017 - Brașov, 340 high-school students, 20–25 April
2016 - Bucharest, 21–24 April (gymnasium)
2015 - Târgovişte, 330 high-school students, 3–8 April
2014 - Slobozia, 220 gymnasium students, 10–14 April
2013 - Timisoara, 30 March – 5 April
2010 - Slatina, 126 gymnasium students, 30 January – 2 February, and Constanta, 287 high-school students in April
See also
International Olympiad in Informatics
Central European Olympiad in Informatics, founded by and often hosted in Romania
References
External links
olimpiada.info
Programming contests
European student competitions
Information technology organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Afrobeats%20Chart%20Top%2020%20songs%20of%202020 | The UK Afrobeats Singles Chart, is a chart that ranks the best-performing Afrobeats singles in the UK. Its data is published and compiled by Official Charts Company, from digital downloads, physical record sales, and audio streams in UK retail outlets. At the end of a year, OCC will publish an annual list of its 20 most successful Afrobeats songs, throughout that year on its website, and BBC Radio 1Xtra's website. For 2020, the list was published on 28 January 2021, by Rob Copsey, and calculated with data from August 1, 2020, to December 26, 2020.
History
Darkoo's "Gangsta", led the end year chart, at number one. The song was among the first record to receive the UK Official Number 1 Award.
Year-end list
See also
2020 in British music
UK Afrobeats Singles Chart
References
British record charts
2020 record charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202022%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
ARIA Charts
2022 in music
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Digital%20Song%20Sales%20number%20ones%20of%202022 | The Billboard Digital Song Sales chart is a chart that ranks the most downloaded songs in the United States. Its data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each song's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a song by an act for a summarized figure.
Chart history
References
External links
Current Digital Song Sales chart
United States Digital Songs
2022
Number-one digital songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohere | Cohere is a Canadian multinational technology company focused on artificial intelligence for the enterprise, specializing in large language models. Cohere was founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst, and is headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with offices in Palo Alto and London.
History
In 2017, a team of researchers at Google Brain, which included Aidan Gomez, published a paper called "Attention is All You Need," which introduced the transformer machine learning architecture, setting state-of-the-art performance on a variety of natural language processing tasks. In 2019, Gomez and Nick Frosst, another researcher at Google Brain, founded Cohere along with Ivan Zhang, with whom Gomez had done research at FOR.ai. All of the co-founders attended University of Toronto.
Gomez has served as the company's CEO since its founding. On December 13, 2022, it was announced that Cohere hired former YouTube CFO Martin Kon as their new president and chief operating officer.
In November 2021, Google Cloud announced that they would help power Cohere's platform using their robust infrastructure, and Cloud's TPUs would be used by Cohere for the development and deployment of their products.
In June 2022, Cohere launched Cohere For AI, a nonprofit research lab and community dedicated to contributing open-source, fundamental machine learning research. It is led by Sara Hooker, a former research scientist at Google Brain.
In December 2022, Cohere released a multilingual model for understanding text that would work with over 100 languages, to help users search for documents by meaning instead of with keywords. This type of process was not previously widely available in languages other than English.
On June 13, 2023, Oracle announced a partnership with Cohere to provide generative AI services to help organizations automate end-to-end business processes. As a result, Cohere's technology is integrated into Oracle's business applications, including Oracle Fusion Cloud, Oracle NetSuite, and Oracle industry-specific applications. On July 18, 2023, McKinsey announced a collaboration with Cohere, to help organizations integrate generative AI into their operations. In 2023, Cohere collaborated with software company LivePerson to offer customized large language models for businesses.
On September 12, 2023, it was announced that Cohere had become one of 15 tech companies to agree to voluntary White House measures on testing, reporting, and research on the risks of AI. On September 27, 2023, it was announced that Cohere had also signed Canada's voluntary code of conduct for AI, to promote the responsible development and management of advanced generative AI systems.
Products
Considered an alternative to OpenAI, Cohere is focused on generative AI for the enterprise, building technology that businesses can use to deploy chatbots, search engines, copywriting, summarization, and other AI-driven products. Cohere specializes in large language models: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20network%20TV%20morning%20news%20programs | This is a list of current and former American television network morning programs.
Morning news programming begins at 4 a.m., 7 a.m., or later Eastern Time Zone/Pacific Time Zone. On cable television, news starts at 6 a.m., earlier, or later ET/PT.
Current
All times Eastern Time Zone/Pacific Time Zone—see effects of time on North American broadcasting for explanation.
Former
Broadcast networks
CBS
CBS This Morning (November 30, 1987 – October 29, 1999 as the first incarnation and January 9, 2012 – September 6, 2021 as the second incarnation; replaced with CBS Mornings, CBS Saturday Morning, and CBS News Sunday Morning)
The Early Show (November 1, 1999 – January 7, 2012)
Cable/satellite
BBC World News
GMT (February 1, 2010 – November 1, 2019)
World News Today (July 03, 2006 – January, 31 2010)
CNN
American Morning (September 12, 2001 – December 30, 2011)
New Day (June 17, 2013 – October 31, 2022; replaced with CNN This Morning)
Starting Point (January 2, 2012 – March 29, 2013; cancelled due to poor ratings of the show and replaced with New Day)
HLN
Morning Express with Robin Meade (2005 – December 5, 2022; replaced with CNN This Morning simulcast)
Notes
d Times may vary by their stations.
References
Lists of American television series
American television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2C%20%28disambiguation%29 | R2C may refer to:
Bessa-R2C, 35mm still camera
Curtiss R2C, racing aircraft
Regency Systems R2C, Z80-based microcomputer
See also
RC (disambiguation)
RRC (disambiguation)
RCC (disambiguation)
RC2 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurnTable%20End%20of%20the%20Year%20Top%2050%20of%202021 | The TurnTable End of the Year Top 50 of 2021 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles in Nigeria. Its data, published by TurnTable magazine, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. At the end of a year, TurnTable publishes an annual list of the 50 most successful songs throughout that year on its top 50 charts based on the information published on 30, and 31 December 2021 in TurnTable, and calculated with data from January 4, 2021, to December 13, 2021.
TurnTable, Clout Africa, and Triller hosted an End Year roundtable countdown. The year-end countdown was broadcast live on 27 December, and 28 December at 18:00 WAT on Triller TV. Its first roundtable edition features includes Chuka Obi, Fawehinmi “Foza” Oyinkansola, Daniel Owolabi, Titi Adesanya, Adeayo Adebiyi, Ini Baderinwa, Edwin Okolo, and Kolapo Oladapo on its two episodes.
History
On 30 December 2021, TurnTable magazine editors Kayode Babatola and Temitope Babatola released the highlights of the TurnTable Top 50 in 2021. Davido emerged as artist of the year in 2021, for the second time in a role, after leading TurnTable End of the Year Top 50 of 2020. Omah Lay became 2021 top songwriter, and his song "Godly", became 2021 top song of the year, top YouTube song, top Afro-pop song, top Nigerian song on Kenya radio, top Boomplay song, and top television song. CKay's "Love Nwantiti" was the top global Nigerian song of 2021.
Cheque, and Fireboy DML "History", became 2021's top melodic Rap/Trap song. Ladipoe, and Buju "Feeling", became 2021's Hip-Hop/Rap song, top Spotify song, and top Audiomack song. Olamide, became 2021's top Hip-Hop/Rap artist, top Audiomack artist, and top Boomplay artist. Davido became 2021's top YouTube artist, top Afro-pop artist, top airplay artist, top television artist, and top radio artist. Fave "Baby Riddim" became 2021's top song by emerging artist. Dai Verse's "Your Body (Cocaine)" became 2021's top song by an emerging artist (male). Seyi Vibez became 2021 top emerging artist. Wizkid became 2021's top Apple Music artist, and his song "Essence" became top R&B song, top Nigerian song on South Africa radio, and top Apple Music song. Wizkid's "Ojuelegba" became 2021's top catalog radio song (Nigeria).
Chike became 2021's top R&B artist. Tems became 2021's top Alternative artist, and her song "Damages" became 2021's top Alternative song. DJ Kaywise "High Way", became 2021's top Airplay song, and top Radio song. Mariah Carey "All I Want for Christmas Is You" became 2021's top catalog radio song (International). Burna Boy "Anybody" became 2021's top Nigeria song on Tanzania radio. Patoranking "Abule" became 2021's top Nigeria song on Ghana radio. King Promise "Slow Down" became 2021's top African television song. Jae5 "Dimension" became 2021's top International television song. Gyakie "Forvever (remix)" became 2021's top African song (radio), and top International song.
Justin Bieber became |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onze%20Lieve%20Vrouwe%20Gasthuis | Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (English: "Our Lady Hospital") is a major clinical hospital situated near Oosterpark in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Founded in 1898, it is now part of OLVG, a network of hospitals formed by the merger of the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis with the former Sint Lucas Andreas hospital, and is now known as OLVG, West Location.
References
External links
Hospitals in the Netherlands
1898 establishments in the Netherlands
19th-century architecture in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20Sports%20on%20USA%20Network | Following the dissolving of USA Sports into NBC Sports after the 2007 Masters, USA Network began deemphasizing sports. During this time NBC Sports properties generally only aired on USA in special cases, such as during the Olympics, Stanley Cup Playoffs or the final week of the English Premier League season.
On January 22, 2021, an internal memo sent by NBC Sports president Pete Bevacqua announced that NBCSN would cease operations by the end of the year, and that USA Network would begin "carrying and/or simulcasting certain NBC Sports programming," including the Stanley Cup Playoffs and NASCAR races, before NBCSN's shutdown. The move was cited by industry analysts as a response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sports and television industries, the acceleration of cord-cutting, as well as formidable competition from rival sports networks such as ESPN and Fox Sports 1, noting the company saw an overall revenue drop by 19% to $6.72 billion.
History
USA Sports (2004–2007)
In 2003, General Electric agreed to merge NBC and its sibling companies with Vivendi Universal's North American-based filmed entertainment assets, including Universal Pictures and Universal Television Group in a multibillion-dollar purchase, renaming the merged company NBC Universal. GE retained an 80% ownership stake in the new company, while Vivendi retained a 20% stake. NBC Universal officially took over as owner of USA and its sibling cable channels (except for Newsworld International) in 2004. USA Sports continued to be used as the branding for coverage of the PGA Tour, The Masters, the Ryder Cup, and the US Open tennis tournament.
In early 2006, it was announced that USA was outbid by Golf Channel for its early-round PGA Tour rights, with USA's final season being 2006. NBC Universal traded away the network's Friday Ryder Cup coverage through 2012 to ESPN for the rights to sign Al Michaels for its new Sunday Night Football. However, USA did renew its Masters contract for an additional year. USA would televise the 2007 Masters before being outbid by ESPN for future coverage. Also in 2006, USA carried some coverage of top level hockey by cooperating with NBC's coverage of ice hockey at the Winter Olympics.
Special cases (2007–2021)
Following the dissolving of USA Sports into NBC Sports after the 2007 Masters, USA Network began deemphasizing sports. During this time NBC Sports properties generally only aired on USA in special cases, such as during the Olympics, Stanley Cup Playoffs or the final week of the English Premier League season.
USA Network offered daily coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics through NBC Sports. This would be the USA Network's last Summer Olympics until 2020 because in 2011, Comcast acquired majority control of NBC's parent company NBC Universal from General Electric. This included to rebranding of Versus as NBC Sports Network, which would replace USA Network's summer Olympic coverage.
The Ryder Cup contract, which stipulated cable cov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20Sports%20on%20CNBC | CNBC occasionally serves as an outlet for NBC Sports programming. Mainly, this has occurred on weekends, especially the afternoon, and its coverage is purposefully limited away from any part of the American trading day on weekdays.
Consistent programming includes the Premier League and the Olympics.
History
AMA Supercross
In 2022, ten AMA Supercross Championship races will air on CNBC.
College football
In 2016 and 2017, CNBC aired The Game, the annual college football game between Harvard University and Yale University as part of NBC Sports' Ivy League television contract. In 2022, CNBC is scheduled to air the first ever HBCU New York City Football Classic between Howard University and Morehead State University.
Cycling
In 2015, CNBC aired portions of the 2015 UCI Road Cycling World Championships.
In 2020, CNBC aired Stage 14 and Stage 15 of the Tour de France.
In 2022, CNBC aired stage 8 of the Paris–Nice.
In 2022, CNBC will air portions of the Women's Tour de France.
Formula 1
In 2016, CNBC aired the Russian Grand Prix.
Golf
In 2001, CNBC began a four-year deal to televise events from the Senior PGA Tour, either live or tape delayed, with early-round coverage broadcast on cable feeds of Pax. CNBC president Bill Bolster stated that the decision was meant to help reduce CNBC's reliance on paid programming on weekends. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem also felt that golf and business audiences were "extremely compatible" with each other.
In 2019 and 2021, CNBC aired coverage of the final two days of the Amundi Evian Championship, as part of the LPGA Tour. It will do the same in 2022.
Horse racing
In 2012, CNBC aired the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes and the Arkansas Derby.
In 2021, CNBC aired portions of the Royal Ascot and Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series.
In 2022, CNBC aired the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes from Gulfstream and the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes from Santa Anita, as part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby.
IMSA
IndyCar
In 2016 and 2017, CNBC aired IndyCar races from Mid-Ohio. In 2017, CNBC also aired the IndyCar race from Toronto.
Major League Baseball
Beginning with the 1997 World Series, NBC would utilize CNBC for their post-game analysis programming.
NASCAR
In 2016, CNBC broadcast several NASCAR races (as part of the NASCAR on NBC package) due to scheduling conflicts with other NBCUniversal channels during the 2016 Summer Olympics.
In 2021, CNBC aired the NASCAR Xfinity Series race from Watkins Glen.
In 2020, the 2020 YellaWood 500 was bumped to CNBC after the race ran long and it interfered with other programming
On August 28, 2022, due to a rain out the previous night, CNBC aired the 2022 Coke Zero Sugar 400 at 10AM ET. The race was originally intended to be shown on NBC in primetime.
National Basketball Association
During the NBA Finals, additional coverage would be immediately available on CNBC, in which the panelists provided an additional half-hour of in-depth game discussions, after the NBC broadca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut%20Grove%2C%20St.%20John%27s | Nut Grove is a village in Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda.
Demographics
Nut Grove has one enumeration district, 12700 Nut Grove.
Census Data (2011)
Individual
Household
There are 79 households in Nut Grove.
References
Populated places in Antigua and Barbuda
Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomlinson%2C%20Antigua%20and%20Barbuda | Tomlinsons is a village in Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda.
Demographics
Tomlinsons has two enumeration districts.
33301 Tomlinsons_1
33302 Tomlinsons_2
Census data (2011)
Individual
Household
Tomlinsons has 249 households.
References
Populated places in Antigua and Barbuda
Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branns%20Hamlet | Branns Hamlet is a village in Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda.
Demographics
Branns Hamlet has two enumeration districts.
34800 Branns Hamlet-North
34900 Branns Hamlet-South
Census data (2011)
Source:
Individual
Household
References
Populated places in Antigua and Barbuda
Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel%2C%20Antigua%20and%20Barbuda | Emmanuel is a village in Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda.
Demographics
Emmanuel has two enumeration districts.
34201 Emmanuel_1
34202 Emmanuel_2
Census Data (2011)
Individual
Household
There are 145 households in Emmanuel.
References
Populated places in Antigua and Barbuda
Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Salic | Thomas Salic (born 1998 in Saint-Brieuc) is a French entrepreneur.
Education
Thomas Salic obtained his baccalaureate in Computer Science in 2017 at the Lycée Sacré Coeur. He got 2 years after a BTS in Management of Commercial Units from the Lycée Notre-Dame in Guingamp.
Career
In June 2014, then 15 years old, Thomas Salic started selling online services to generate his first income.
In January 2017, he created his own company, called Footycase and specialized in selling of football-themed phone cases.
He started with the creation of customizable cases in the colors of the big Ligue 1 clubs. Then he extended the project to cover the other big European leagues. In October 2018, he succeeded in obtaining an official license from AS Saint-Étienne. Months later, he also became an official partner of FC Nantes, OGC Nice and En Avant Guingamp.
Thomas Salic has announced that several professional players have been offered his phone cases, including Alassane Pléa, Neymar, Ousmane Dembelé and Kylian Mbappé:
Before the 2018 FIFA World Cup, having learned of the French Football Federation's desire to put an end to unlicensed cases and regulate the market, Thomas Salic seized the opportunity and contacted the marketing department of the federation. He succeeded in passing to the testing phase by offering more than 100 cases in premium packaging 3 days before departure for Russia. Feedback from players (notably Mendy, Mbappé and Areola) was positive and a one-year license agreement was reached. By winning this contract, Thomas Salic made the headlines and the subject of a France 3 report.
By winning the title, FootyCase released a new collection of cases. They contained the name of the player, the acronym of the FFF and two stars in reference to two World Cups won in the history of the Blues. In this operation, Thomas Salic recorded a great increase in sales, especially thanks to the phone cases of Kylian Mbappé and Antoine Griezmann.
In December 2019, Thomas Salic sold his shares in the company and settled in Dubai. He then created OhMyCase, which also manufactures and markets customizable phone cases, and which has become the number 1 website for customizable cases in France.
Thomas Salic decided to start a career as an e-commerce consultant and offered his services to brands and companies. Through his company SpaceBrands, he supported more than 250 entrepreneurs in developing their brands.
In 2021, he launched Metabillionaire, the world's first NFT project for entrepreneurs, which allows entrepreneurs around the world to connect and exchange in a new world linked to the metaverse. The project launch was a success with all parts sold (7777).
Thomas Salic is increasingly focusing on the field of cryptocurrencies. He also invests in art and startups, including Legion Farm and Baubap.
Awards and recognition
In 2017, he received the Medal of Honor from the city of Ploumagoar for his entrepreneurial initiatives.
References
1998 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20processing%20machine | Data processing machine may refer to:
Component or equipment used as part of a Data processing system
Accounting machine
Tabulating machine
Computer, in certain legal contexts
Data processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RavenDB | RavenDB is an open-source fully ACID document-oriented database written in C#, developed by Hibernating Rhinos Ltd. It is cross-platform, supported on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. RavenDB stores data as JSON documents and can be deployed in distributed clusters with master-master replication.
History
Originally named "Rhino DivanDB", RavenDB began in 2008 as a project by Oren Eini (aka Ayende Rahien) and is developed by Hibernating Rhinos Ltd. The company claims it was the first document database to run natively in the .NET Framework. It was an early document database to offer ACID guarantees.
In 2019, Hibernating Rhinos began offering RavenDB as a cloud service named RavenDB Cloud.
Version history
Red: Not supported
Green: Supported
System architecture
Data is stored as schemaless documents in JSON format. Documents are grouped into collections, with each document having exactly one collection.
Databases can be deployed on a distributed cluster of servers (called ‘nodes’) using multi-master replication. Some operations at the cluster level require a consensus of a majority of nodes; consensus is determined using an implementation of the Raft algorithm called Rachis. Tasks are distributed to the different nodes in a balanced way.
Versions 1.0 through 3.5 supported sharding, but versions 4.x do not.
RavenDB originally used the ESENT storage engine. Version 3.0 replaced it with a new open-source storage engine called Voron.
Clients are supported for C#, C++, Java, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, and Go.
Main features
Cluster-wide ACID Transactions - ACID transactions can be executed at the scope of a cluster (in addition to single node transactions). The transaction will only be persisted if it is confirmed by a consensus of nodes; if it is not, the transaction is cancelled and rolled back.
Distributed counters
Indexes and querying
Queries are expressed in LINQ or with a custom query language named RQL (stands for Raven Query Language) with syntax similar to SQL.
Dynamic indexes - in RavenDB is that queries can only be satisfied by an index; if no appropriate index exists, a new index is created to satisfy the query.
Graph querying - related documents can be treated as vertices in a graph, with the connections treated as edges. This makes it possible to create recursive queries.
Projection - indexes can be configured to transform indexed data, perform calculations, perform aggregations, and execute JavaScript code on the server side.
Full-text search - at a low level, data is indexed with Lucene.net, which means indexes support full-text search.
Document extensions
Documents can be extended with other data types less suited to JSON. These extensions can be loaded, modified, and stored independently of the document itself.
Attachments - documents can have multiple attachments of any data type, such as images, audio, or pure binary.
Time Series - numerical data associated with specific times and ordered chronologically.
RavenDB Cloud
Rave |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo%20Youtz | Cleo S. Youtz (1909–2005) was an American statistician who worked for many years at Harvard University as the research assistant, collaborator, computer, and coauthor of Frederick Mosteller, as manager of Mosteller's other staff, and as the historian of the Harvard statistics department. Youtz was hired by Mosteller in 1957 when he was appointed chair of the newly formed department, and continued working with Mosteller after he retired from teaching in 1987, until he finally left Harvard in 2003.
Selected publications
Although Mosteller did not list Youtz as a coauthor on all of his publications, she was listed on many, including:
One of the few publications crediting her as a contributor but not written with Mosteller was a festschrift for Mosteller's 70th birthday, A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller's Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy (1990), which listed her as a collaborator on its title page and stated that "but for her
modesty" she should have been listed as one of its editors.
References
1909 births
2005 deaths
American statisticians
American women statisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimond%20ring | A Dimond ring or Dimond ring translator was an early type of computer memory, created in the early 1940s by T. L. Dimond at Bell Laboratories for Bell's #5 Crossbar Switch, a type of early telephone switch.
Structure
Large-diameter magnetic ferrite toroidal rings with solenoid windings, through which are threaded writing and reading wires.
Uses
It was used in the #5 Crossbar Switch and TXE (prior to version 4) telephone exchanges.
See also
Core rope memory, a later development
References
Computer memory
Non-volatile memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Mirabito | Antonio Mirabito (alias Frederico Baryndo; July 1, 1886 - August 18, 1977) was a notorious Italian immigrant who was believed to be the boss of a network of Black Hand gangs located in the Northeastern Region of the United States in the early 20th century. He was the first person in New England to be arrested for crimes associated with Black Hand. His arrest was widely publicized and he was punished heavily in hopes of demoralizing others who were participating in the growing practice, which was a predecessor to the Mafia. He left his career in crime after he married and had 9 children.
Early life
Mirabito was born on July 1, 1886, in Malfa, Province of Messina in the region of Sicily, in Southern Italy. He spent his childhood there, and immigrated to the United States at the age of 16. He arrived in New York, and swiftly moved into the Greater Boston area. He likely lived between Watertown, Massachusetts and Boston, Massachusetts. His life would not be well documented until his early twenties, when his Black Hand activity was discovered. However, earlier accounts of his interactions with the law can help provide some information.
Early crime
As a teenager, Antonio Mirabito was known for committing various forms of petty theft. He was “well known” for this in his communities within both Boston and Watertown, and received his first criminal sentencing on May 10, 1905, for the larceny of a bicycle. This early crime was not believed to be associated with any criminal organization. He may have begun to get involved with criminal establishments around late 1905 with his commission of a sham marriage between himself and a woman named Elsie Nicklon. The falsely married couple lived in Boston's neighborhood of Allston, and only remained together briefly. They separated about a year before Mirabito's Black Hand imprisonment due to the actions of his brother, Pasquale Mirabito, who received an adultery charge for seducing Nicklon to leave him. Following this, Antonio Mirabito rapidly developed a Black Hand crime network that he would later become known for on a national level.
Black hand conviction
In 1908, at age 22, Mirabito's leading role in the Northeast's Black Hand operations became exposed through police intervention into one of his attempted extortions.
Tracked mail
The first letter in the series of correspondence that resulted in Antonio Mirabito's arrest was sent around December 1907 to Benjamin Piscopo, a hotel owner in the Italian neighborhood of Boston's North End. It was part of a group of three letters, sent and received over the course of three months, demanding that $1000 (nearly $30,000 in today's money) be forfeited in the form of a certified check. This method of payment was chosen to allow Mirabito to cash the check anywhere, with little ties to the banking process. He also ordered Piscopo not to reveal the demand to anyone, and threatened that he would murder both him and his family if the request was not fulfilled.
After recei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsik%20Pe%27er | Itsik Pe'er is a computational biologist and a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University.
Research and career
Pe'er has created computational tools for the analysis of high-throughput DNA sequence data. In particular, he has developed an approach to map copy number variation from whole exome sequencing data. He has published approaches to quantify hidden relatedness and infer population structure using DNA data. He has conducted studies on the genetics of complex traits in Ashkenazi Jews, historically a relatively isolated population enabling identification of genetic risk factors for common disorders in all populations. He is generating a comprehensive resource of genetic variants in the population for precision public health.
Selected publications
Estimation of the multiple testing burden for genomewide association studies of nearly all common variants. I Pe'er, R Yelensky, D Altshuler, MJ Daly Genetic Epidemiology. 32(4):381-5. doi:10.1002/gepi.20303
Evaluating and improving power in whole-genome association studies using fixed marker sets. I Pe'er, PIW de Bakker, J Maller, R Yelensky, D Altshuler, MJ Daly Nature Genetics. 38(6):663-667. doi:10.1038/ng1816
Sequencing an Ashkenazi reference panel supports population-targeted personal genomics and illuminates Jewish and European origins. Shai Carmi, Ken Y Hui, Ethan Kochav, Xinmin Liu, James Xue, Fillan Grady, Saurav Guha, Kinnari Upadhyay, Dan Ben-Avraham, Semanti Mukherjee, B Monica Bowen, Tinu Thomas, Joseph Vijai, Marc Cruts, Guy Froyen, Diether Lambrechts, Stéphane Plaisance, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Philip Van Damme, Herwig Van Marck, Nir Barzilai, Ariel Darvasi, Kenneth Offit, Susan Bressman, Laurie J Ozelius, Inga Peter, Judy H Cho, Harry Ostrer, Gil Atzmon, Lorraine N Clark, Todd Lencz, Itsik Pe’er. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/ncomms5835
Personal life
Itsik Pe'er is married to Dana Pe'er, a computational biologist at Sloan Kettering Institute.
References
External links
Faculty page, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University
Statistical_geneticists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Columbia University faculty
Tel Aviv University alumni
American bioinformaticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Global%20200%20number%20ones%20of%202022 | The Billboard Global 200 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs globally. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by MRC Data, is based on digital sales and online streaming from over 200 territories worldwide. Another similar chart is the Billboard Global Excl. US chart, which follows the same formula except it covers all territories excluding the US. The two charts launched on September 19, 2020.
On the Global 200, eleven singles reached number one in 2022. Nineteen artists reached the top of the chart, with sixteen—Gayle, Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz, Glass Animals, Harry Styles, Kate Bush, Bizarrap, Quevedo, Blackpink, Sam Smith, Kim Petras, and 21 Savage—achieving their first number-one single. Blackpink scored two number-one singles, the only act to achieve multiple number ones in 2022. Harry Styles spent the most weeks at the top spot with 15 non-consecutive weeks at number one for his single "As It Was", which became the longest reigning number-one song in the chart's history.
On the Global Excl. US, eleven singles reached number one in 2022. Fourteen artists reached the top of the chart, with nine—Gayle, Glass Animals, Anitta, Harry Styles, Kate Bush, Bizarrap, Quevedo, Sam Smith and Kim Petras—achieving their first number-one single. Blackpink scored two number-one singles, the only act to achieve multiple number ones in 2022. Harry Styles spent the most weeks at the top spot with 13 non-consecutive weeks at number one for his single "As It Was", which became the longest reigning number-one song in the chart's history.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2022 in music
Billboard Year-End Global 200 singles of 2022
List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2022
List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2022
References
Global 200
2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius%20Network | Celsius Network LLC is a bankrupt cryptocurrency lending company. Headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, Celsius maintained offices in four countries and operated globally. Users could deposit a range of cryptocurrency digital assets, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, into a Celsius wallet to earn a percentage yield, and could take out loans by pledging their cryptocurrencies as security. As of May 2022, the company had lent out $8 billion to clients and had almost $12 billion in assets under management.
In June 2022, the company gained notoriety when it indefinitely paused all transfers and withdrawals due to "extreme market conditions", resulting in steep declines in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. On July 13, 2022, Celsius filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Business model
The company facilitated lending and borrowing for its users. Depositors earned interest by depositing qualifying cryptocurrencies, with the rate of interest dependent upon the cryptocurrency deposited (e.g., up to 6.2% interest on bitcoin). The company paid the interest in cryptocurrencies, including in its own CEL token. Borrowers paid between zero and 8.95% on bitcoin-backed loans, depending on the loan-to-value ratio. Some of the money that Celsius used to fund the loans came from hedge funds that were looking for higher yields than banks pay.
Celsius generated revenue from token sales, lending, bitcoin mining, and discretionary trading of cryptocurrencies. Celsius claimed that up to 80% of its revenue was returned to its user community through interest payments on deposits made through its platform. The company did not charge any fees to its users.
On July 7, 2022, former investment manager Jason Stone sued Celsius, alleging that the company ran a Ponzi scheme. On August 23, Celsius sued Stone, alleging that he lost or stole tens of millions of US dollars' worth of cryptocurrency. The independent examiner's report filed on January 31, 2023, as part of the bankruptcy filing, said that an insider at Celsius described aspects of the business model as "very ponzi like". In an internal memo, coin deployment specialist Dean Tappen stated "that his title at Celsius should be 'Ponzi Consultant.'"
History
Celsius was founded in 2017 by Alex Mashinsky, Daniel Leon, and Nuke Goldstein.
Growth
In March 2018, Celsius raised $50 million in its initial coin offering (ICO) of the CEL digital currency. In April 2018, the CEL cryptocurrency began trading on cryptocurrency exchanges. In advance of the ICO, Celsius listed its currency as a security. In June 2018, Celsius launched its mobile app. In 2019, Celsius completed a $24 million equity round at $140 million valuation.
Celsius was a major buyer of its own token, buying CEL interest it owed to customers on the open market. Crypto analysis firm Arkham Intelligence estimated Celsius had spent $350 million on purchases since July 2019.
In August 2020, Celsius raised $20 million via an equity crowdfunding to support |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Ferm%C3%A9 | Eduardo Fermé is an Argentinian computer scientist and philosopher known for his work in belief revision and non monotonic reasoning. He is Full Professor at the University of Madeira.
Career
Fermé studied Computer Science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, graduating in 1991. After that, he obtained a doctoral degree in Computer Science from the Universidad de Buenos Aires under supervision of Carlos Alchourrón and Sven Ove Hansson in 1999. In 2011 he obtained a doctoral degree in philosophy from the Kungliga Tekniska högskolan under supervision of John Cantwell.
He has more than 70 publications in the area of belief revision, including the book Belief Change: Introduction and Overview with Sven Ove Hansson.
He was Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires from 1997 to 2002. From 2002 is Professor at the University of Madeira.
He is the coordinator of the Pole of NOVA LINCS at the University of Madeira. Fermé served as a member of the steering committee of the workshop series International Workshops on Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR) since 2018. He is an member of the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Logics, CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology and Journal Argument and Computation.
References
Argentine computer scientists
Living people
University of Buenos Aires alumni
Academic staff of the University of Madeira
1964 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem%20Player | The Stem Player is an audio remix device and music streaming platform developed by British technology company Kano Computing in collaboration with American artist Kanye West. The device was launched in August 2021 in conjunction with the release of West's 10th studio album Donda.
The Stem Player has four touch-sensitive haptic sliders that adjust individual stems for tracks, and six hardware buttons for volume and effects. The device's service uses artificial intelligence to split tracks into four stems (sometimes isolated vocals, bass, and drums) with each track being able to be manipulated using a front slider. Users can add tracks to the device by uploading an audio file to the device through an official online web application.
In February 2022, West made an announcement that he would begin releasing music exclusively to the device, commencing with his album Donda 2 that month.
History
In January 2019, following an encounter within the company's booth at CES Technology Show in Las Vegas, West met company CEO Alex Klein and invited him over to his Calabasas home for breakfast. In a 2019 interview with journalist Zane Lowe for Apple Music, West confirmed he was working on developing a portable stem player.
On 25 August 2021, the Stem Player launched for pre-sale with the initial name of "Donda Stem Player". The device began shipping to purchasers in October that year, pre-loaded with three tracks not available on streaming platforms, including "Life of the Party" and other remixes that appeared on the Donda album.
As of February 2022, sixteen tracks from Donda 2 are available for the player.
In January 2023, in light of West’s antisemitic remarks, Kano announced that their collaboration with West has ended, and that the Donda Stem Player would be discontinued after they sold through the remaining stock of 5,000 units. At the same time, Kano announced a new variant of the Stem Player developed in collaboration with Ghostface Killah that would not include Donda 2 or any other content from West.
As of April 8, 2023, a J DILLA skin for the Stem Player is available to pre-order for $30 USD. It comes with a 1-year subscription to all current and upcoming J DILLA-related content on the Stem Player website, including previously unreleased instrumentals from the producer.
In June 2023, Kano Computing Ltd, the company that developed the Stem Player, went into administration, and the business was acquired in a pre packaged transaction by Alex Klein. In August 2023, the newly established Stem company launched an exclusive device and song with the artists Lit Killah, Bhavi, Duki, and Milo J.
Service
The Stem Player mainly features a service that splits chosen songs into stems that can then be freely customized and manipulated using the device's touch-sensitive sliders and buttons; emulated versions of the service were widely circulated online in early 2022 following criticism of the Stem Player's expenses. It features controls for vocal isolation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2023–24 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the prime time hours from September 2023 to August 2024. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2022–23 television season. The schedule was affected by strikes undertaken by the Writers Guild of America (which began on May 2 and ended on September 27) and SAG-AFTRA (which began on July 14 and is still ongoing). Programming impacts on the 2023–24 season itself were limited in comparison to previous television seasons affected by Hollywood labor disputes.
CBS was the first to announce its initial fall schedule on May 10, 2023, via press release (without an upfront presentation). However, as a result of the ongoing strikes, a revised schedule for CBS was released on July 17 (with its premiere dates announced on August 3). This was followed by NBC, which also announced its initial schedule on May 12 (with their upfront presentation at 11 a.m. Eastern Time on May 15), but later announced its revised schedule on July 19 and August 29 (along with the premiere dates), and ABC which announced its initial schedule on May 16 (with their upfront presentation at 4 p.m. that day) but later announced part of its revised schedule (along with its premiere dates on August 21), with its Tuesday and Monday schedule (along with its premiere dates) on September 12 and 18 respectively. The CW announced its initial fall schedule on May 18 (their upfront presentation of the original schedule was held at 11 a.m. that day), before it was revised on June 6 with the release of its summer schedule for the previous season, and its replacement programming was announced on July 12 (along with their premiere dates). Fox announced its programming on May 15 via press release that morning (with their upfront presentation at 4 p.m. that day), but released its Sunday schedule (along with its release dates) on July 10, along with the rest of its prime-time schedule (which was revised due to the strike, however its original schedule wasn't announced) (with their premiere dates) on July 11.
PBS is not included, as member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedule and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Ion Television and MyNetworkTV are also not included since both networks' schedules consist of syndicated reruns and live sports.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows releasing in May 2024 is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.
Beginning this season, The CW began airing encores during the first hour of primetime on Sundays.
Impact of the 2023 Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes
On May 2, the Writers Guild of America went on strike, followed by SAG-AFTRA on July 13. The absence of working writers and actors through the summer has led scripted television production to shut down completely. The Writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Hwa%20Lo | Yu-Hwa Lo is a physicist, engineer, academic and researcher. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California at San Diego (UCSD).
Lo has published over 500 articles and owns 50 patents. His research interests include biophotonics, nanophotonics, single photon detectors, condensed matter physics for advanced device concept, microfluidics, and biomedical devices and instruments.
Lo is the Founding Director and Executive Committee Member of San Diego Nanotechnology Infrastructure (SDNI) and is the site director for NSF National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure.
Education
Lo received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1981. At the University of California, Berkeley, he completed his master's degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and 1987 respectively.
Career
After working at Bellcore from 1987 to 1990 as a member of technical staff, Lo became an assistant professor at Cornell University in 1991 for the School of Electrical Engineering where later, he was appointed associate professor in 1996. At the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) since 1999, he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he was awarded the Distinguished William S. C. Chang Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Bioengineering Department, National Chia-Tung University, Taiwan since 2012.
Among his non-academic positions, Lo has held the position of the CTO and board of director of Nova Crystals, the Director of San Diego Nanotechnology Infrastructure (SDNI), which is a Center for National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI), and the co-founder and advisor of NanoCellect Biomedical, a biotech company.
Research
Lo's research is focused on two areas, the first one being on condensed matter photonics and optoelectronic materials and devices with an emphasis on devices and novel physical mechanisms for ultrasensitive light detection with applications in imaging, LiDAR, and medical and bioimaging. The second area of focus is microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip devices, and biomedical and biophotonic devices for single cell analysis, diagnosis, and drug discovery.
Photonic Devices
Lo invented the direct wafer fusion (i.e. bonding of two semiconductors without an intermediate layer) process with Raj Bhat. The process was licensed to industry to produce high brightness light emitting diodes (LEDs), which commenced the transition of traffic lights (red and ember colors) and automobile lighting from incandescent light to solid state lighting. He formulated and demonstrated the concept of compliant substrate to enable growth of epitaxial layers beyond the Matthew and Blakeslee's critical thickness limit.
Along with his group, Lo invented and theorized the self-quenching and self-recovering mechanisms for semiconductor detectors capable of detecting single photons. He disc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiSTer | MiSTer (also known as MiSTer FPGA) is an open-source project that aims to recreate various classic computers, game consoles and arcade machines, using modern FPGA-based hardware. It allows software and video game images to run as they would on original hardware, using peripherals such as mice, keyboards, joysticks and other game controllers.
History
The MiSTer project was created by Alexey “Sorgelig” Melnikov, and was introduced on GitHub in June 2017. MiSTer originated as a port of the MiST project, a similar project that started as an FPGA recreation of the Amiga and Atari ST computers. When Sorgelig was developing and porting cores for MiST, he often struggled to get a picture on any of his monitors or televisions. The hardware used for MiST only featured analog video output, while all his monitors and TVs used HDMI. This led him to think about ways to get HDMI directly from an FPGA board, which eventually led to the MiSTer project.
Unlike MiST, which used a custom-built FPGA board from Lotharek, Sorgelig decided his open-source project should be based on a mass-produced board – one that anyone could pick up with ease. He figured it would not only make development more straightforward but cheaper, and he eventually settled on Terasic's DE10-Nano which is built around the Intel SoC FPGA.
MiSTer was initially named after the MiST project, whose name stands for "AMiga/ST". MiSTer's name originally stood for "MiST on Terasic board". However, MiSTer is currently only a simple name without anything underneath. The project is licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public Licence.
Hardware
The MiSTer project revolves around a general-purpose printed circuit board by Terasic called the DE10-Nano, which incorporates a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Contributors of the project developed various "cores" designed to run on the DE10-Nano, written in a hardware description language. Each core is designed to configure the FPGA into a specific computer, (handheld) game console, or arcade system board. Unlike a software-based emulator MiSTer's cores replicate systems through hardware emulation. This approach essentially matches the original hardware gate for gate.
While the MiSTer platform can be used with just the basic DE10-Nano board, its features can be greatly expanded with the use of additional hardware expansions. Available add-on boards include:
SDRAM add-on board: the 128MB SDRAM add-on board for MiSTer is required for the operation of several of the cores. A cheaper 32MB or 64MB SDRAM board can be used alternatively, however, there are some games on Neo Geo, Game Boy Advance, and a few other cores which might not be compatible with the smaller sized module.
USB hub add-on board: this board provides an OTG USB hub for the MiSTer which has one power-only USB port in the back and 6 USB 2.0 ports on the other 3 sides.
Analog I/O add-on board: this board provides a VGA port for analog video output, which enables you to easily connec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodes | Lodes may refer to:
Lode, an economic mineral deposit
People
Birgit Lodes (born 1967), German musicologist
(1909–2006), German doctor
Places
Cambridgeshire Lodes, a network of artificial drainage channels in England
Lodes, Haute-Garonne, France
, in Tārgale Parish, Latvia
See also
Lode (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude%20Strohm | Gertrude Strohm (July 14, 1843 – November 4, 1927) was an American author, compiler, and game designer of Dayton, Ohio. Between 1875 and 1892, she engaged in various types of compilations including cookbooks, social fireside games, and calendars. Strohm also contributed to magazines. She died in 1927.
Background and education
Gertrude Strohm was born in Greene County, Ohio, July 14, 1843, and always lived in a country home from Dayton, Ohio. She was the oldest of four children. Her paternal grandparents were Henry Strohm, born in Hesse Darmstadt, and Mary Le Fevre, a descendant of the Huguenots. Her mother, Margaret Guthrie, was the daughter of James Guthrie, who went from the Eastern U.S. to Greene County in the early part of the 19th-century. Her mother was Elizabeth Ainsworth, whose first husband was Hugh Andrews. Gertrude's father, Isaac Strohm, was engaged nearly all his life in Government service in Washington, D.C., first in the Treasury Department, then for sixteen years the chief enrolling and engrossing clerk in the Congress, and latterly in the War Department. He wrote much for the press. When a young man, he was a contributor to Horace Greeley's New Yorker, and wrote poems and sketches for Sartain's Magazine, the Southern Literary Messenger, and other periodicals. Gertrude's siblings included Elizabeth, Mary, Harry, and Edwin.
Strohm was educated at home and at Girls' Seminary, Washington, D.C., but her studies were interrupted by ill health.
Career
Stroh engaged in various types of compilations. She also made many reward cards and Sunday school concert exercises.
Game designer
Her first publication was a social game she made and arranged, entitled, "Popping the Question". It was published in Boston and afterward sold to a New York firm, who republished it, and it was again brought out in an attractive edition for the holiday trade of 1891. She made three games for a Springfield, Massachusetts, firm, the last called "Novel Fortune Telling", composed wholly of titles of novels.
Author
Flower Idyls (1871), edited by Strohm, was an adaptation of many flowers to people and their occupations, suggested by poems of well-known writers. It was illustrated by photo-etchings of the different flowers, printed in the colors of the original, and bound in a jacqueminot vellum.
The Universal Cookery Book (New York : White, Stokes Allen. Detroit: Phillips & Hunt; 1887) was largely a selection of the best receipts from standard authorities already approved by the public. Strohm's compilation contained practical recipes for household use from the most eminent authorities, including Marion Harland, Miss Parloa, Mrs. Washington, Thomas J. Murrey, Miss Carson, and others. Containing some 250 pages, it covered the field from soup to confectionery, with an additional chapter on "herb tea" and other "home remedies". Several blank pages were also included whereon a person could inscribe additional recipes. (New York : White, Stokes Allen. Detroit: Phi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Technology%20Airborne%20Computer | The Advanced Technology Airborne Computer (ATAC) was a product of Itek (a division of Litton Industries), used on US naval aircraft, and the NASA Galileo (spacecraft).
The ATAC was built using AMD 2901 4-bit processors and had a basic cycle time of 250 ns. It could be programmed in HAL/S, and could be microprogrammed to add new instructions. The Galileo project added four instructions.
Use on US Naval aircraft
Use by Galileo project
The Galileo Attitude and Articulation Control System (AACSE) was controlled by two Itek Advanced Technology Airborne Computers (ATAC), built using radiation-hardened 2901s. The project wrote their own GRACOS (Galileo realtime Attitude Control Operating System).
The Galileo project had radiation-hardened 2901 processors made (by Sandia National Lab) for the spacecraft.
References
Further reading
Aircraft Research aircraft
Computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Jessup | Elizabeth Redding Jessup is an American computer scientist specializing in numerical linear algebra and the generalized minimal residual method. She is a professor emerita of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Education and career
Jessup is one of three children of an Indianapolis tax attorney. She majored in mathematics at Williams College, and went to Yale University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in applied physics and a Ph.D. in computer science there. Her 1989 dissertation, Parallel Solution of the Symmetric Tridiagonal Eigenproblem, was supervised by Ilse Ipsen; she was Ipsen's first student.
She joined the University of Colorado Boulder faculty in 1989, as the only woman on the computer science faculty. She became chair of the computer science department there twice, taking advantage of the position to focus on improving both faculty diversity and job satisfaction, before retiring in 2019.
Contributions
Jessup is a coauthor of the book An Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing (with Lloyd D. Fosdick, Carolyn J. C. Schauble, and , MIT Press, 1996).
In 2008, she founded a biennial conference, the Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Williams College alumni
Yale University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Penn%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Gerald Penn is an American computer scientist specializing in mathematical linguistics and speech processing. He is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, a senior member of IEEE and AAAI, and a past chair of Association for Mathematics of Language.
Education
Penn received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. His Ph.D. thesis was nominated by Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Career
Penn is a past recipient of the Ontario Early Researcher Award. His joint work with Geoffrey Hinton and Hui Jiang on signal processing with neural networks revolutionized acoustic modelling for speech recognition systems, and received the Best Paper Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has led numerous research projects, including those funded by Avaya, Bell Canada, CAE, the Connaught Fund, Microsoft, NSERC, the German Ministry for Training and Research, SMART Technologies, the U.S. Army and the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
References
American computer scientists
Living people
University of Chicago alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Year of birth missing (living people)
Speech processing researchers
Computational linguistics researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Penn | Gerald Penn may refer to:
Gerald Penn (computer scientist)
Gerald Penn (immunologist) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sang%27gre%20%28TV%20series%29 | Sang'gre (also known as Sang'gre: The Encantadia Chronicles) is an upcoming Philippine television drama fantasy series to be broadcast by GMA Network. The series is a spin-off of the 2016 Philippine TV series Encantadia. Directed by Mark A. Reyes, it stars Bianca Umali in the title role.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bianca Umali as Terra
Faith da Silva as Flamarra
Kelvin Miranda as Adamus
Angel Guardian as Deia
Supporting cast
Glaiza de Castro as Pirena
Kylie Padilla as Amihan
Gabbi Garcia as Alena
Sanya Lopez as Danaya
Production
Background
Encantadia is a television series created by GMA Network in 2005, starring Filipino actresses Sunshine Dizon, Iza Calzado, Karylle and Diana Zubiri. The show had two follow-ups, Etheria (2005–06) and Encantadia: Pag-ibig Hanggang Wakas (2006), featuring the same lead cast. In 2016, the series was rebooted starring Filipino actresses Glaiza de Castro, Kylie Padilla, Gabbi Garcia and Sanya Lopez.
The spin-off was announced on December 31, 2021, for a 2022 release.
Development
The series will be written by Suzette Doctolero, and to be directed by Mark A. Reyes with R.J. Nuevas serving as the creative director. Screenwriters Ricky Lee, Anna Aleta Nadela, Jake Somera, Ays de Guzman and program manager Ali Nokom-Dedicatoria are also a part of the production team.
Casting
In October 2023, Filipino actress Bianca Umali's teaser photo was released at the San Diego Comic-Con. Filipino actor Kelvin Miranda and Filipino actresses Faith da Silva and Angel Guardian were announced in the same month.
Filming
Principal photography commenced in October 2023.
References
External links
Encantadia
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on Philippine television series
Television shows set in the Philippines
Upcoming drama television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20largest%20first%20algorithm | The Recursive Largest First (RLF) algorithm is a heuristic for the NP-hard graph coloring problem. It was originally proposed by Frank Leighton in 1979.
The RLF algorithm assigns colors to a graph’s vertices by constructing each color class one at a time. It does this by identifying a maximal independent set of vertices in the graph, assigning these to the same color, and then removing these vertices from the graph. These actions are repeated on the remaining subgraph until no vertices remain.
To form high-quality solutions (solutions using few colors), the RLF algorithm uses specialized heuristic rules to try to identify "good quality" independent sets. These heuristics make the RLF algorithm exact for bipartite, cycle, and wheel graphs. In general, however, the algorithm is approximate and may well return solutions that use more colors than the graph’s chromatic number.
Description
The algorithm can be described by the following three steps. At the end of this process, gives a partition of the vertices representing a feasible -colouring of the graph .
Let be an empty solution. Also, let be the graph we wish to color, comprising a vertex set and an edge set .
Identify a maximal independent set . To do this:
The first vertex added to should be the vertex in that has the largest number of neighbors.
Subsequent vertices added to should be chosen as those that (a) are not currently adjacent to any vertex in , and (b) have a maximal number of neighbors that are adjacent to vertices in . Ties in condition (b) can be broken by selecting the vertex with the minimum number of neighbors not in . Vertices are added to in this way until it is impossible to add further vertices.
Now set and remove the vertices of from . If still contains vertices, then return to Step 2; otherwise end.
Example
Consider the graph shown on the right. This is a wheel graph and will therefore be optimally colored by RLF. Executing the algorithm results in the vertices being selected and colored in the following order:
Vertex (color 1)
Vertex , , and then (color 2)
Vertex , , and then (color 3)
This gives the final three-colored solution .
Performance
Let be the number of vertices in the graph and let be the number of edges. Using big O notation, in his original publication Leighton states the complexity of RLF to be ; however, this can be improved upon. Much of the expense of this algorithm is due to Step 2, where vertex selection is made according to the heuristic rules stated above. Indeed, each time a vertex is selected for addition to the independent set , information regarding the neighbors needs to be recalculated for each uncolored vertex. These calculations can be performed in time, meaning that the overall complexity of RLF is .
If the heuristics of Step 2 are replaced with random selection, then the complexity of this algorithm reduces to ; however, the resultant algorithm will usually return lower quality solutions compared to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Halcke | Paul Halcke (also: Halcken or Halke), born 1662 in Elmshorn, died 1731 in Buxtehude was a German mathematician, writer, computer, and calendar maker.
He was the brother of writer and computer Johann Halcke and founded, in 1690, together with Heinrich Meißner, the Hamburgischen Kunst-Rechnungs lieb- und übenden Societät, today's Hamburg Mathematical Society. Since about 1687 he was writer and calculator at the city school of Buxtehude.
In 1694 he issued a solution's book to a collection of exercises by Heinrich Meißner, and later he published his own collection of 574 exercises from mathematics and astronomy, entitled Mathematischer Sinnen-Confect ("mathematical mind candy"), which was translated in various languages and remained a seminal textbook for more than a century. The exercises were enriched by poems and descriptions of the solving methods. In particular, exercise 289 on page 256 consists in finding the smallest Euler brick, for which Paul Halcke is most well-known today.
This cuboid has sides and face diagonals of integer lengths {44, 117, 240} and {125, 244, 267}.
He also edited several popular calendars for the years 1705, 1707, 1715, 1716 and 1725.
References
18th-century German mathematicians
18th-century German male writers
1662 births
1731 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimson | Grimson is a surname which may refer to:
Allan Grimson (born 1958), British murderer
Eric Grimson (born 1953), Canadian-born computer scientist, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
George Grimson (1915–1944), Royal Air Force bomber crewman
Gudmunder Grimson (1878–1965), American lawyer, Justice of North Dakota Supreme Court
Jane Grimson (born 1949), Scottish-born computer engineer, Pro-Chancellor of University of Dublin
Matthew Grimson (1968–2018), Canadian musician
Stu Grimson (born 1965), Canadian professional ice hockey player
Grimson, a family of musicians that flourished in London from 1870
See also
Gimson, surname |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebix | Ebix, Inc., previously known as ebix.com, Inc. and formerly Delphi Information Systems, Inc., is an American multinational technology company which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing (SaaS), insurance, finance, healthcare and e-learning. Co-founded by Ken Bitticks in Atlanta, Georgia in 1976, it is traded on Nasdaq as EBIX. The company's global headquarters is located in Johns Creek, Georgia, with offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore and UK.
History
Ebix was co-founded as Delphi Information Systems, Inc. by Ken Bitticks in 1976 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. In 1983, it was reincorporated in Delaware.
In October 1997, Robin Raina was appointed as the firm's new vice president for professional services. He took over as president and then as chief executive officer in 1999. In May 1999, the firm announced the introduction of its first e-commerce portal, ebix.com. Robin became the director in February 2000 and was later appointed as the chairman in 2002. In 2003, he changed the company's name from ebix.com, Inc. to Ebix, Inc. In 2013, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. federal government launched a probe against Raina after the disclosure of his proposed 820 million US dollars deal with Goldman Sachs to take the firm private. In early 2015, it moved its headquarters to Johns Creek, Georgia.
In May 2017, the firm acquired 80% stake in Indian digital payments firm ItzCash for 124 million dollars from Essel Group and later rebranded it as EbixCash. In August 2017, the firm purchased BSE-listed Wall Street Finance Ltd's subsidiary Goldman Securities Ltd, along with its money transfer service scheme business, for $7.4 million. In September 2017, Ebix agreed to acquired BSE-listed Paul Merchants Ltd's international remittance business for $40.7 million. In November 2017, Ebix acquired Indian travel company Via.com for almost $75 million.
References
1976 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Multinational companies headquartered in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oddbods%20episodes | Oddbods (also known as The Oddbods Show) is a Singaporean computer-animated comedy television series produced by One Animation. The series centers on seven characters—Bubbles, Pogo, Newt, Jeff, Slick, Fuse and Zee—wearing furry suits of different colors. The characters make sounds but there is no dialogue, making the series easily translatable and international.
The series debuted in 2013, and the first season ended in 2015. Each season has 60 episodes. Season two followed in 2016. A third season was released on Netflix on April 4, 2022. Each episode is relatively short, and various formats have been broadcast, including one-, five-, and seven-minute episodes.
Series overview
Episode list
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Specials
Notes
References
External links
Oddbods YouTube Channel
Oddbods Facebook Page
Oddbods Instagram Page
One Animation website
Boomerang (TV network) original programming
ITV children's television shows
Disney Channels Worldwide original programming
Computer-animated television series
Singaporean animated television series
2014 Singaporean television series debuts
2010s animated television series
Animated television series without speech |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifetime%20Medical%20Television | Lifetime Medical Television (LMT) was a television service featuring programming directed at doctors. It aired on the Lifetime cable channel in the United States from 1983 to 1993. Co-owned with the network by Hearst-ABC/Viacom Entertainment Services (HAVES), LMT was the longest-running specialist program service for doctors at its closure. Some of its programs were sponsored by a core group of pharmaceutical companies, who also aired advertisements for specific drugs aimed at physicians.
History
In June 1983, the Cable Health Network, one of two predecessors of Lifetime, began to air specialty medical programs that featured advertising directed at physicians. The production of medical programming, interspersed with other shows, continued after Cable Health Network merged into Lifetime on February 1, 1984, and in 1985, the various shows it aired for this audience were consolidated as "Doctors' Sunday", giving rise to Lifetime Medical Television. For a time in 1986, a daily two-hour morning block of medical programs was also shown.
LMT was described as "a succession of talk shows illustrated with explicit surgical footage and interrupted with ads for prescription drugs". Programs with such titles as Internal Medicine Update, Family Practice Update, and Milestones in Medicine presented specialty information, often in a detailed and comparatively dry manner. Physicians' Journal Update was a longer magazine-type program. Writing in The Lancet about the later demise of LMT and other services in the same space, Bruce Dan opined that LMT's "programs themselves lacked much of what television had to offer—i.e., interesting video and animation—featuring only extended professional conversations".
At the start of 1989, the American Medical Association, which had previously been a program supplier to Lifetime Medical Television, launched a competing service along the same lines, American Medical Television, which aired on Sundays on The Discovery Channel; whereas LMT had more specialist programming, AMT focused on general practitioners. The next year, LMT expanded to include a new service, HealthLink Television, which supplied monthly video discs to be played in doctor's office waiting rooms.
Though Lifetime Medical Television was always targeted at the medical profession and declared itself as "the network for physicians only", it often drew viewers without a background in medicine. In 1986, a Nielsen Media Research study estimated that LMT had 4 million viewers; three years later, Nielsen found that 17 million viewers, 75 percent of them women, watched at least one minute a month of LMT.
Advertising and sponsorship
Under 1985 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs had to carry the same disclaimers as advertisements to physicians, which generally made it unworkable in a television environment due to the volume of disclaimers. This was, comparatively, less of an issue for the Lifetime Medical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTK%20Computer | DTK Computer is the name for international branches of Datatech Enterprises, a Taiwanese computer manufacturer. Founded in 1981, the company was an early supplier of peripherals for IBM PCs as well as PC compatible motherboards. In the late 1980s, the company switched to developing complete systems under the DTK name as well as serving as an OEM for motherboards and cases, as bought by other small computer companies and systems integrators.
DTK was little-known in its own time but performed well in the marketplace. By 1991, the company was the second-largest computer system manufacturer in Taiwan, behind Acer. It was the 10th and 11th biggest personal computer manufacturer in the world in 1991 and 1992 respectively, according to Electronics magazine.
History
Foundation and expansion (1981–1989)
Datatech Enterprises was established in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1981. The company was founded by eight employees with US$15,000 in start-up capital; in 1982, Datatech raised an additional US$337,000 in capital and expanded to 24 employees. Datatech's president Duke Liao founded the company's United States branch in 1986. This branch was named DTK Computer and was initially headquartered in Rosemead, California. In 1989, DTK moved their headquarters to the City of Industry in California to afford more space for its warehouse of products and to lessen the driving distance for most of its employee base, which in 1993 comprised 100 employees.
Datatech employed 1,000 people globally in 1989. Its research and development lab in Taiwan grew from 45 employees to 72 that year. Employees worked from eight to ten hours on weekdays and four hours on Saturdays. The workplace environment in Taiwan was relatively progressive for the time, with only a single layer of management between engineers and the company presidents, management allowing capable engineers to fully experiment in their departments, and flexible hours with a two-hour grace period for employees' nominal starting times and no punch clock. The R&D lab was cramped for space, however, with workbenches and two-by-four-foot desks arranged in a loose grid, bookshelves being used for equipment storage and small tables being used to store books and papers.
The company manufactured clones for several architectures, including the IBM PC standards, Micro Channel, and SPARC. The R&D lab's Systems Development department, managed by Norman Tsai in 1989, was responsible for creating and maintaining the different divisions for each architecture and hiring employees for those divisions. Most employees in Systems Development had majored in electrical engineering with emphasis in computer architecture while in college. The Institute for Information Industry funded research for DTK, as they had done with other computer companies in Taiwan.
Datatech developed its own chipsets in addition to purchasing ones from VLSI and Chips and Technologies. The company's ASIC division comprised 20 employees under the supervision of Dr. Ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supriyo%20Bandyopadhyay | Supriyo Bandyopadhyay is an Indian-born American electrical engineer, academic and researcher. He is Commonwealth Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he directs the Quantum Device Laboratory.
Bandyopadhyay has authored over 400 research publications on a wide range of topics including spintronics, straintronics, nanoelectronics and related aspects of nanotechnology. He is also the author of three textbooks entitled Physics of Nanostructured Solid State Devices, Introduction to Spintronics, and Problem Solving in Quantum Mechanics: From Basics to Real World Applications for Materials Scientists, Applied Physicists and Device Engineers.
Bandyopadhyay is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The Electrochemical Society, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Education
Bandyopadhyay received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1980. He then earned his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University in 1982, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1985.
Career
Following his Doctoral degree, Bandyopadhyay held a brief appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University before joining the University of Notre Dame in 1987 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. From 1990 till 1996, he served as an Associate Professor there. He subsequently joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1996. In 2001, he joined Virginia Commonwealth University and held a primary appointment as Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and courtesy appointment as a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics. Since 2011, he has been serving as Commonwealth Professor Virginia Commonwealth University.
Bandyopadhyay served as a Jefferson Science Fellow for the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine during 2020–2021, and was a Senior Adviser to the USAID Bureau of Europe and Eurasia in the Division of Energy and Infrastructure at Washington, DC. He is also the founding Chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Technical Committee on Spintronics (Nanotechnology Council), and past-chair of the Technical Committee on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Circuits (Electron Device Society). He was an IEEE Electron Device Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2005 to 2012, and was an IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Lecturer in 2016 and 2017. He is a past Vice President of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council in charge of conferences and is currently serving as a Vice President of the same organization in charge of publications. He served in the IEEE Fellow Committee f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhananjay%20Datar | Dhananjay Datar is an Indian businessman based in the United Arab Emirates. He moved from Mumbai to Dubai where he joined his father, who had set up a small grocery business where Datar interned before taking over the business and expanding it into the retail, spice production and export company Al Adil Group in 1984, becoming a prominent member of the UAE's Indian expatriate business community.
'Masala King'
Datar was born in Maharashtra and brought up by his grandmother in the city of Amaravati from the age of 8 as his father was a sergeant in the Indian Air Force (IAF) and travelled constantly. His father retired and the family moved to Mumbai, from where Datar's father then emigrated to Dubai to set up a small grocery business. Joining him, Datar took out a bank loan and expanded the business, naming it Al Adil group. By 2021, the Group had 43 supermarket outlets across the GCC, operating two factories and two spice mills. Datar has frequently been dubbed as the "Masala King" by media in both the UAE and India and in 2017 was ranked 39th among the 50 Richest Indians in the GCC by Arabian Business. In 2018, he was ranked 29th Forbes Middle East's 'Top 100 Indian Business Leaders' and in 2019 was ranked 27th. He was a recipient of the Udyog Rattan Award for outstanding contribution to the economic development of India in 2011.
References
Living people
Indian businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtime%20%28sports%20network%29 | Overtime is a sports media company geared towards Generation Z sports fans. The company distributes original sports content on social media outlets, including Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube and sells apparel with its logos and branding. In 2021, Overtime launched Overtime Elite, a professional basketball league for 16-19 year-olds. In 2022, Overtime launched OT7, a low-contact, seven-on-seven American football league. In August 2023, Overtime held its first Overtime Boxing (OTX) matches at Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta.
History
Overtime was founded in late 2016 by Dan Porter and Zack Weiner.
Initially, Overtime focused on short-form content of high school athletes captured on iPhone technology developed by Porter and Weiner. Overtime's social content helped grow the popularity of NBA stars including Zion Wiliamson and Trae Young. The company has expanded its offerings to include medium and long-form content. In 2021, Overtime announced the launch of OT Films with docuseries on Cade Cunningham and Justin Fields and a college athlete creator studio with its first project being an original series with Space Jam 2 star Ceyair Wright.
In February 2017, Overtime raised a $2.5 million seed round with Greycroft and former NBA commissioner David Stern contributing.
In February 2018, Overtime raised a $9.5 million Series A round with Andreessen Horowitz, BoxGroup, Kevin Durant, and returning investor Greycroft contributing.
In February 2019, Overtime raised a $23 million Series B round with Spark Capital, MSG Network, Sapphire Ventures, Victor Oladipo, Carmelo Anthony, Baron Davis, and returning investor Andreessen Horowitz contributing.
In March 2019, Overtime announced a partnership with MSG Network to develop simulcasts for NBA games.
In April 2021, Overtime raised an $80 million Series C round with Jeff Bezos, Alexis Ohanian, Drake, Devin Booker, Klay Thompson, Trae Young, and Pau Gasol contributing.
In March 2022, Overtime announced plans to launch a low-contact, seven-on-seven football league, OT7, with Cam Newton investing in the league. OT7 officially launched in June 2022.
In May 2022, Daymond John joined Overtime's board of directors.
In August 2022, Overtime raised a $100 million Series D round with Liberty Media Corporation and returning investor Jeff Bezos contributing.
In September 2022, Overtime announced a partnership with FootballCo to develop branded content for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Overtime Elite
Overtime launched the Overtime Elite professional basketball league in 2021 for high school basketball players and international players between the ages of 16–19. Players receive a minimum salary of $100,000 annually, a signing bonus, and shares in Overtime's larger business. The company provides health and disability insurance and sets aside $100,000 in college scholarship money for each player if they decide not to pursue professional basketball afterwards.
Overtime Elite built a 103,000 square-foot facility in Atlanta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20Flagg%20and%20Sergeant%20Quirt | Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt is an American old-time radio situation comedy. It was broadcast on the Blue Network from September 28, 1941, until January 25, 1942, and on NBC from February 13, 1942, until April 13, 1942.
Format
Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt was based on the play What Price Glory? (1924) by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson. The title characters were Marines who often squabbled over women. Flagg was "portrayed as a dense and gullible officer", which resulted in protests from officials of the U. S. Marine Corps. Writers revised the show, replacing Quirt with a new character, Sergeant Bliss. The series ended six weeks after that change. A spokesman for NBC said, "changing conditions in the war emergency have made it impossible to bring the program within the limits of NBC program policies", resulting in the cancellation. When the cancellation was announced, sponsors said that the program would be revived after the end of the war.
Personnel
Initially, Victor McLaglen portrayed Flagg. Edmund Lowe played Quirt, as they had in the film version of What Price Glory? William Gargan began playing Flagg early in 1942. Fred Shields portrayed Bliss. Cliff Arquette played Ol' Doc.
Mel Williamson was the program's producer, and John P. Medbury was the writer.
Schedule and sponsors
From September 28, 1941, until January 25, 1942, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt was broadcast on the Blue Network at 7:30 on Sundays, sponsored by Mennen toiletries. From February 13, 1942, until April 3, 1942, it was on NBC at 10 on Fridays, sponsored by Brown & Williamson tobacco.
Episodes of the program were recorded for rebroadcast over four radio stations in Alaska so that Army and Navy personnel there could hear them. The rebroadcasts were done in response to a request by the Morale Branch of the War Department.
Reception
John K. Hutchens, writing in The New York Times, contrasted the title characters in this program with their counterparts in What Price Glory?. He described their mellowing "into a pair of jolly pranksters to whom war is a pretty happy-go-lucky proposition". Previously, he explained, "they were cursing war as a brutal if necessary business and now it is a lively escapade full of jokes". He added, "Even if the jokes were funny they would still smack of laughter earned under dubious pretenses".
References
1940s American radio programs
1941 radio programme debuts
1942 radio programme endings
American comedy radio programs
NBC radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA%20transfer%20portal | The NCAA transfer portal is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) application, database, and compliance tool launched on October 15, 2018, to manage and facilitate the process for student athletes seeking to transfer between member institutions. The transfer portal permits student athletes to place their name in an online database declaring their desire to transfer. Athletes enter the portal by informing their current school of their desire to transfer; the school then has two business days to enter the athlete's name in the database. Once an athlete's name is entered in the database, coaches and staff from other schools are permitted to make contact with the athlete to inquire about their interest in visiting the campus and accepting a scholarship. The transfer portal is intended to bring greater transparency to the transfer process and to enable student athletes to publicize their desire to transfer. The transfer portal is an NCAA-wide database, covering transfers in all three NCAA divisions, although most media coverage of the transfer portal involves its use in the top-level Division I.
New regulations were adopted in 2021 allowing student-athletes in Division I football, men's and women's basketball, men's ice hockey, and baseball to change schools using the portal once without sitting out a year after the transfer. This regulation placed all NCAA sports under the same transfer rules, as the so-called "one-time transfer" rule had long been in place for all other D-I sports, as well as all sports in Divisions II and III.
Transfer windows
On August 31, 2022, the Division I board adopted a series of changes to transfer rules, introducing the concept of transfer windows, similar to those used in professional soccer worldwide. Student-athletes who wish to take advantage of the one-time transfer rule now must, under normal circumstances, enter the portal within a designated window for their sport. These windows are slightly different for each NCAA sport, but are broadly grouped by the NCAA's three athletic "seasons".
Fall sports – A 45-day winter window opening the day after championship selections are made in that sport, and a spring window from May 1–15. According to the NCAA, "reasonable accommodations" would be made for participants in football's FBS and FCS championship games (respectively the College Football Playoff National Championship and Division I Football Championship Game), both of which take place in early January. More specifically, participants in those games have a 14-day window opening on the day after the championship game, as well as the spring window.
Winter sports – A 60-day window opening the day after championship selections are made in that sport.
Spring sports – A winter window from December 1–15, and a 45-day spring window opening the day after championship selections are made in that sport.
For sports included in the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program, transfer windows are the same as those for f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20Muthukrishnan%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | S. ("Muthu") Muthukrishnan is a computer scientist of Indian origin, known for his work in streaming algorithms, auction design, and pattern matching. He is vice president of sponsored products, Amazon (company) Advertising.
Previously, he was a professor of computer science at Rutgers University.
Education
Muthukrishnan obtained his Ph.D. in 1994 New York University under the supervision of Krishna Palem and Joel Spencer.
Research contributions
Muthukrishnan was general chair of the 1st ACM Conference on Online Social Networks. He was conference chair of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in 2005 and co-chair of the 15th Annual Combinatorial Pattern Matching Symposium (CPM) in 2004. He was the organizer of the Big Data Program at the Simons Center for Theoretical Computer Science.
Awards and honors
Muthukrishnan was inducted as an ACM Fellow in 2010 "For contributions to efficient algorithms for string matching, data streams, and internet ad auctions". He received the 2014 Imre Simon Test-of-Time Award at the LATIN Conference.
Selected publications
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References
External links
Google scholar profile
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Indian computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
New York University alumni
Rutgers University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202022 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales and digital downloads . The first number one of the year was "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen.
Chart history
See also
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2022
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2022 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202022 | The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales and digital downloads.
Chart history
See also
List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2022
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1
2022 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums
2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NJE | NJE may refer to:
Network Job Entry (NJE), an IBM protocol
Nje, a letter of the Cyrillic script |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCMN-LD | WCMN-LD (channel 13) is a low-power television station licensed to both St. Cloud and Sartell, Minnesota, United States, which primarily broadcasts religious programming. Owned by StarCom, LLC, the station maintains a transmitter on Julep Road (off State Highway 23) in Waite Park, Minnesota.
History
Channel 13 began as K13VS in 1992; it was affiliated with the Main Street TV network and was the first new TV venture in St. Cloud since KXLI channel 41 started in 1982. While it also aired several local shows, it was hindered by a lack of visibility on cable systems. By 1994, the station was purchasing time on a local cable channel to make its weekday evening shows, including a local newscast available to cable homes.
StarCom sold three radio stations to Regent Broadcasting in 2000 so it could purchase and develop channel 13, which had become WCMN-LP in 1996. It returned to the air on August 20, 2001, airing All News Channel with local inserts. When ANC folded in 2002, the station switched to America One and then The Sportsman Channel.
On January 4, 2022, the station filed a license to cover application for digital facilities, stating that it is broadcasting in the ATSC 3.0 format, making it the first such station in Minnesota. It had operated in analog on VHF channel 13 until the FCC-mandated shutdown of analog LPTV stations on July 13, 2021, and did not construct an ATSC 1.0 facility. The station was licensed for digital operation effective September 21, 2022, changing its call sign to WCMN-LD.
References
Low-power television stations in Minnesota
Religious television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1992
1992 establishments in Minnesota
ATSC 3.0 television stations
St. Cloud, Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karmarkar%E2%80%93Karp%20bin%20packing%20algorithms | The Karmarkar–Karp (KK) bin packing algorithms are several related approximation algorithm for the bin packing problem. The bin packing problem is a problem of packing items of different sizes into bins of identical capacity, such that the total number of bins is as small as possible. Finding the optimal solution is computationally hard. Karmarkar and Karp devised an algorithm that runs in polynomial time and finds a solution with at most bins, where OPT is the number of bins in the optimal solution. They also devised several other algorithms with slightly different approximation guarantees and run-time bounds.
The KK algorithms were considered a breakthrough in the study of bin packing: the previously-known algorithms found multiplicative approximation, where the number of bins was at most for some constants , or at most . The KK algorithms were the first ones to attain an additive approximation.
Input
The input to a bin-packing problem is a set of items of different sizes, a1,...an. The following notation is used:
n - the number of items.
m - the number of different item sizes. For each i in 1,...,m:
si is the i-th size;
ni is the number of items of size si.
B - the bin size.
Given an instance I, we denote:
OPT(I) = the optimal solution of instance I.
FOPT(I) = (a1+...+an)/B = the theoretically-optimal number of bins, when all bins are completely filled with items or item fractions.
Obviously, FOPT(I) ≤ OPT(I).
High-level scheme
The KK algorithms essentially solve the configuration linear program:.Here, A is a matrix with m rows. Each column of A represents a feasible configuration - a multiset of item-sizes, such that the sum of all these sizes is at most B. The set of configurations is C. x is a vector of size C. Each element xc of x represents the number of times configuration c is used.
Example: suppose the item sizes are 3,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4, and B=12. Then there are C=10 possible configurations: 3333; 333; 33, 334; 3, 34, 344; 4, 44, 444. The matrix A has two rows: [4,3,2,2,1,1,1,0,0,0] for s=3 and [0,0,0,1,0,1,2,1,2,3] for s=4. The vector n is [5,5] since there are 5 items of each size. A possible optimal solution is x=[1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,1], corresponding to using three bins with configurations 3333, 344, 444.
There are two main difficulties in solving this problem. First, it is an integer linear program, which is computationally hard to solve. Second, the number of variables is C - the number of configurations, which may be enormous. The KK algorithms cope with these difficulties using several techniques, some of which were already introduced by de-la-Vega and Lueker. Here is a high-level description of the algorithm (where is the original instance):
1-a. Let be an instance constructed from by removing small items.
2-a. Let be an instance constructed from by grouping items and rounding the size of items in each group to the highest item in the group.
3-a. Construct the configuration linear program for , without the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showing%20Up%20for%20Racial%20Justice | Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a network organizing white people for racial and economic justice. SURJ was founded in 2009 amidst the backlash to election of Barack Obama as the first black President of the United States. SURJ seeks to bring more white people into racial justice work and to find mutual interest with movements led by Blacks and persons of color.
History
Black activists and intellectuals from Malcolm X to Toni Morrison have argued for decades that white people bear the primary responsibility for rooting out racism. Carla F. Wallace, SURJ co-founder, said the aim is to engage white people in a larger racial justice movement led by people of color. She asks "what is our mutual interest in working for a different society? ... We must move from it being something that we do when we have time on a Saturday to something that we do because our lives depend on it."
Tactics
One SURJ tactic is deep canvassing, using the power of personal narrative in lengthy non-judgmental conversations to build white support for racial justice. SURJ focuses on “calling in” White people to support racial justice grounded in the vision of Black leaders. SURJ says it’s White people’s responsibility to do anti-racism work and not rely on persons of color to teach White people about racism.
Criminal justice reform
Following the George Floyd protests against police brutality, some have had challenging conversations with family members. SURJ developed a toolkit for discussing protests and police violence. Anger towards the criminal justice system can be used to bring about change if people speak up. Other actions include electoral work, where sheriffs can address reforms in the criminal legal system and mass incarceration. SURJ also works to end cash bail.
Police accountability
SURJ called for police accountability and strengthened oversight in the San Diego County jail. SURJ was part of the Citizens for a Safer Cleveland coalition, whose police accountability initiative created a new Community Policing Commission composed of 13 civilians with final decision-making power regarding discipline in police misconduct cases. In the debate over license plate readers, Melissa Cherry from Nashville chapter of SURJ said she was suspicious of private funding for law enforcement with discussion of defunding the police.
See also
Black Lives Matter
Me and White Supremacy
Anne Braden
References
External links
Showing Up for Racial Justice
Anti-racism in the United States
2009 establishments in the United States
Criminal justice reform in the United States
Social class in the United States
Organizations established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-1%20%28disambiguation%29 | DC-1 or DC1 may refer to:
Douglas DC-1, an American airliner design
Pirs (ISS module), also known as DC-1 (Docking Compartment 1)
C0 and C1 control codes#DC1, computer control codes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone%20X | Zone X is a maze game designed by Derek Johnston and published by Gremlin Graphics in 1985 for the Atari 8-bit home computer.
Gameplay
The player enters a mine to collect all the scattered plutonium samples. His protective suit gives him radioactive protection, which decreases as he carries the plutonium. The player will lose his life if he fails to deposit the plutonium in the container within the allotted time. There are other obstacles in the mine, such as laser doors and robots. The player can also find useful items such as keys used to open locked doors, shovels useful for digging through crumbling walls, or mats that block robots and can be used to confine them in an enclosed area.
To complete each level, the player must dispose all the plutonium into containers and find the exit door.
Reception
Richard Vanner writing for Atari User advised to "forget the cover and enjoy the story". He found the game "a nice offering that should keep the best of gamers occupied for many weeks".
References
External links
Zone X at Atari Mania
1985 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Atari 8-bit family-only games
Gremlin Interactive games
Maze games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droners | Droners is a French animated series that premiered on October 19, 2020. The series is produced by Cyber Group Studios, La Chouette Compagnie and Supamonks Studio, with the participation of TF1, WDR ARD and The Walt Disney Company France, in association with Sofitvcine 6, Sofitvcine 7 and Pictanovo.
Plot
Droners takes place in the world of TerrAqua – which is 95% covered by water. Team Tiki – Corto, Mouse, Enki, and Oro – need to win the Whale Cup, the most intense drone racing competition of all time. They'll compete against other teams of teenagers from all over TerrAqua, flying their G.E.N.I.E.-powered drones through dangerous territory and avoiding even more dangerous creatures. But failure isn't an option for Team Tiki: the fate of their home, Nuï, relies on their victory!
Characters
Main
Corto Heilani is the main character and the pilot for the Tikis. She's hardheaded and confident and a talented pilot who would do anything to save their home of Nuï. She has a crush on Sun. She is 13.
Mouse Anemone Jacintha Ruto is the mechanic for the Tikis. She's also a Shore Scrubber and a part of the Ruto Clan. She is 10.
Enki is the 13-year-old enginerd for the Tikis. He was at least partially raised in the jungle. He has a crush on Flora.
Oro is the G.E.N.I.E. for the Tikis. He powers the drone Maroro. He is one of the only G.E.N.I.Es. who is immune to water, unlike the others who can be dissolved by it.
Recurring
WhaleCorp
Wyatt Whale is the owner and founder of WhaleCorp, a tech manufacturing company that creates drones and uses/creates G.E.N.I.E.s to power them. He's also financing the drone racing competition and promises an internship to the winning team.
Neptune is the G.E.N.I.E. for Wyatt Whale.
Team Pirate
Shark is the pilot (and occasional enginerd) for the Pirates. All three members of the Pirates are Shore Scrubbers.
Max is the enginerd (and occasional pilot) for the Pirates.
Ed is the mechanic for the Pirates.
Patch is the G.E.N.I.E. for the Pirates. He powers the drone Claw.
Team Starfish
Deejay is the pilot for the Starfish. His age is 17.
Debbie is the mechanic/enginerd for the Starfish. Her age is 14.
Shiny is the G.E.N.I.E. for the Starfish. She powers the drone Aquablaster.
Team Mirage
Hannah is the pilot for the Mirages. Their drone, called Fatamorgana, is provided by Teach Tech.
Adam is the mechanic/enginerd for the Mirages. They're working directly for Gavinda Teach, who has asked them to help her uncover to secrets of G.E.N.I.E.s so she can destroy WhaleCorp.
The Tao Twins
Sun is the pilot for the Tao Twins. He's blind and has a crush on Corto.
Monk is the mechanic/enginerd for the Tao Twins.
Lotus is the G.E.N.I.E. for the Tao Twins. They power the drone Wushu.
Team Bee
Flora is the pilot for the Bees. She has a crush on Enki.
Fuzz is the enginerd for the Bees.
Buzz is the mechanic for the Bees.
Jelly is the G.E.N.I.E. for the Bees. They power the drone Bumblebee.
Team Siren
Mina is the pilot for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG-050%20%28Minas%20Gerais%20highway%29 | The MG-050, also called Newton Penido, is a state highway located in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its total length is , and its entire network is paved.
Route
MG-050 passes through the following municipalities:
Belo Horizonte
Betim
Juatuba
Mateus Leme
Itaúna
Igaratinga
Carmo do Cajuru
Divinópolis
São Sebastião do Oeste
Itapecerica
Pedra do Indaiá
Formiga
Piumhi
Córrego Fundo
Pimenta
Capitólio
Passos
Itaú de Minas
Pratápolis
São Sebastião do Paraíso
References
Highways in Minas Gerais |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9ronique%20Gayrard | Véronique Gayrard is a French mathematician specializing in probability and statistical physics, with research topics including Hopfield networks, the long-term behavior of the random energy model and similar glassy systems, and metastability in reversible diffusion. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the Marseille Institute of Mathematics (I2M) operated jointly by CNRS and Aix-Marseille University. At I2M, she is affiliated with the research group on the mathematics of randomness (ALEA), which she headed from 2015 to 2021.
Education
Gayrard earned her doctorate in 1993 through the University of the Mediterranean Aix-Marseille II, now part of Aix-Marseille University. Her dissertation, Contribution à l'étude rigoureuse des modèles de Hoppfiel [Contributions to the rigorous study of Hopfield models], was supervised by Pierre Picco.
Recognition
In December 2021, Gayrard was named as one of the winners of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize, an annual award of the governments of France and Germany honoring outstanding binational contributions in all areas of science. The award was based in part on her long and prolific collaborations with Anton Bovier, a mathematician at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the University of Bonn.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French mathematicians
French women mathematicians
Probability theorists
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%20A8 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 is a tablet computer by Samsung. It was announced on December 15, 2021 and released on January 17, 2022. It is the successor to the Samsung Galaxy Tab A7.
Specifications
The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 is a mid-range tablet with mid-range specifications.
Display Specifications
The display is a 10.5" TFT LCD display with a resolution of 1920 by 1200 and an aspect ratio of 16:10. Certain reviewers have criticized this display for being a slightly lower quality than the Galaxy Tab A7's display.
Speaker Specifications
The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 has a quad-speaker setup that is capable of Dolby Atmos.
Battery Specifications
This tablet has a 7,040 mAh Lithium-ion battery.
Processing Specifications
This tablet has 4 gigabytes of RAM and a Unisoc Tiger T618. The processor has 8 cores, 2 Cortex-A75 and 6 Cortex-A55, and it runs at 2 GHz.
Support
This tablet launched on January 17, 2022, so it launched with Android 11 (One UI 3). It is currently upgradeable to Android 13 (One UI 5.1). It will also get 2 years of security updates after major software support ends.
Other Specifications
The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 has a microSD card slot that can take up to a 1TB microSD card. It has a 6.9 mm thickness.
References
A8
Android (operating system) devices
Samsung Galaxy
Tablet computers introduced in 2021 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20R.%20Burton | Richard R. Burton is an American computer scientist at Acuitus, who previously worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman, and Xerox PARC. A charter Fellow of the ACM, he was awarded their Software System Award in 1994 for his contributions to Interlisp.
References
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex%20Fridman | Lex Fridman (; born 15 August 1983) is a Russian-American computer scientist and podcaster. He hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast.
Early life and education
Fridman was born in Chkalovsk, Tajikistan (at that point the Tajik SSR was part of the Soviet Union). He is of Jewish descent. His father is plasma physicist Alexander Fridman, a professor at Drexel University. His brother is Gregory Fridman, also a researcher in plasma physics.
When he was about 11, Fridman's family moved from Russia to the Chicago area. He attended Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Illinois. He then went on to obtain BS and MS degrees in computer science at Drexel University in 2010, and completed his PhD in electrical and computer engineering at Drexel in 2014. His PhD dissertation, Learning of Identity from Behavioral Biometrics for Active Authentication, was completed under the advisement of engineering educators Moshe Kam and Steven Weber and sought to "investigate the problem of active authentication on desktop computers and mobile devices".
Career
MIT
In 2014, Fridman joined Google but left the company after six months. In 2015, he moved to MIT's AgeLab to work on "psychology and big-data analytics to understand driver behavior."
In 2019, Fridman published a study on Tesla Autopilot finding that drivers using semi-autonomous vehicles stayed focused, contrasting with established research on how humans interact with automated systems. The study's methodology was criticized by Missy Cummings, a professor at Duke University and advisor for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, who described it as "deeply flawed". AI researcher Anima Anandkumar suggested Fridman should submit his study for peer review before seeking press coverage. Following his Tesla Autopilot study, Fridman was invited to Tesla office's for an interview with Elon Musk. The study was later removed from MIT's website.
In 2019, he left AgeLab and took up an unpaid role in the department of aeronautics and astronautics. As of 2023, he is a research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.
Lex Fridman Podcast
Fridman began his podcast in 2018. It was originally titled The Artificial Intelligence Podcast, but changed to The Lex Fridman Podcast in 2020. By April 2023, Fridman had recorded more than 350 episodes which have been described as "hourslong conversations" by Business Insider. Episodes of the podcast have featured, among others, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yuval Noah Harari and Mohammed El-Kurd.
Reception
According to research experts interviewed by Business Insider in April 2023, Fridman "lacks the publications, citations and conference appearances required to be taken seriously in the hypercompetitive world of academia". Computational biologist Lior Pachter said "some scientists and academics fear Fridman is contributing to the 'cacophony of misinformation'", while another AI researcher thought that Fridman may have "abandoned acad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20African%20Planning%20Schools | The Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) is a network of African universities and colleges that offer programmes on urban and regional planning in Africa. The AAPS promotes knowledge exchange among African schools of planning regarding the training and education of planners.
History
The AAPS was founded in 1999 with a mission to transform planning education in an African context, advocating for sustainable, participatory, and inclusive planning practices. The Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) has accumulated more than forty member schools across Africa.
See also
Urban planning in Africa
References
External links
Association of African Planning Schools
Professional planning institutes
Organizations established in 1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet%20%28app%29 | Hornet is a location-based social networking and online dating application for gay, bisexual, and non-heterosexual men, as well as other men who have sex with men (MSM). In 2018, it was seen as "Grindr's chief competitor in the gay app market". As well as featuring other men, the app contains city guide books and LGBT-specific news.
The app is intended to be used in countries where coming out as LGBT is problematic (see LGBT rights by country or territory), but can be used in most countries in the world. Many users of Hornet also use another similar MSM apps, with Grindr, Scruff and Jack'd being the most popular in the United States.
References
External links
LGBT social networking services
LGBT online dating services
Geosocial networking
Social networking services
Mobile social software
Online dating services
Online dating services of the United States
Online dating applications
iOS software
Android (operating system) software
BlackBerry software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitlads | Fitlads is a social networking, dating/hookup website and app for gay, bisexual and non-heterosexual men, as well as other men who have sex with men in the United Kingdom. It was launched in April 2003, and introduced video to the app in 2008.
The website is geared towards stereotypical "straight-acting" working-class "chav" or "scally"-type "lads", as well as those with a fetish for sports kits or bondage. It has a rating system for videos, which is seen by scholar David G. Kreps as communicating more "about sex ... than it is about sex itself".
Between 2014 and 2015, the website was one of those used by the serial killer Stephen Port as a means of initially contacting his victims. He also maintained accounts on Sleepyboy, Grindr, Hornet, Badoo, Gaydar, Flirt, DaddyHunt, PlanetRomeo, Manhunt, Slaveboys and CouchSurfing.
References
LGBT social networking services
LGBT online dating services
Social networking services
Online dating services
Online dating applications |
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