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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20provinces%20and%20territories%20by%20historical%20population | This is a list of Canadian historical population by province and territory, drawn from the Canadian census of population data and pre-Confederation censuses of Newfoundland and Labrador. Since 1871, Canada has conducted regular national census counts. The data for 1851 to 1976 is drawn primarily from Historical Statistics of Canada, 2nd edition. Data for 1981 through 2021 are from the respective year's respective census. Newfoundland and Labrador pre-Confederation data is from the 1945 Census of Newfoundland and Labrador, volume 1. Data for 1841 and some 1851 data drawn from the 1931 Canadian census. With the exception of Nunavut prior to 1996, the population figures largely reflect modern provincial boundaries; prior to 1996, the population of modern Nunavut is reported with Northwest Territories. Although the census has worked to count First Nations populations since 1871, the it is likely Indigenous Canadians are undercounted by the census. Shaded blocks indicate periods before the province or territory joined the Canadian Confederation. Instances where the reported figure came from a different year's population count (primarily pre-1861 and for Newfoundland) are noted. Total Canadian population row includes the population of Newfoundland and Labrador.
1700 to 1825
Estimates from The Canada Year Book (1867) based on various provincial census records.
1841 to 1931
1941 to 1991
1996 to 2021
Notes
References
Canadian Provinces by Historical Population
Population, Historical
Canada, population, historical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amelia%20Project | The Amelia Project is a comedy fiction podcast created, written, directed, produced and edited by Philip Thorne and Øystein Ulsberg Brager for Imploding Fictions and The Fable and Folly Network. The series stars Alan Burgon as "The Interviewer", an employee of the Amelia Project, an institution dedicated to helping individuals fake their deaths, as he interviews potential clients to decide if and how he would make them disappear and give them a new life.
Julia C. Thorne and Julia Morizawa co-starred alongside Burgon since the series' launch, with Benjamin Noble, Torgny G. Aanderaa, Jordan Cobb, Erin King, and Hemi Yeroham later joining the main cast. Although it originally heavily focused on episodic comedy, the series later developed longer story arcs, while also including mystery, fantasy, and more dramatic elements, notably diving into the elusive origins of the organization. The series also has material made available only to supporters on Patreon, including several exclusive episodes and a prequel miniseries, The Alvina Chronicles, focused on Thorne's character.
Cast
Main
Alan Burgon as The Interviewer, the Amelia Project employee tasked with interviewing potential clients and planning their disappearances and new lives. Obsessed with cocoa and hearing stories, he is moody and only willing to help clients he finds interesting. Very little is originally known about him, but the series later extends on his past, revealing that he is an ageless being who has been alive for three thousand years, and whose birth name is Maine Móepirt Arthur, son of Athramail.
Julia C. Thorne as Alvina Wright, another employee of the Amelia Project and The Interviewer's closest associate, who often has to indulge his mood swings and keep him focused; she is in charge, among other things, of outreach. She is later revealed to be a former client of the company, whose original name before her fake death was Julia Thorpe.
Julia Morizawa as Amelia, the leader of the Amelia Project. Morizawa is technically featured in the first two seasons via the opening message featured in the intro of every episode; instead of being credited for portraying a specific character, she is simply credited as "Julia Morizawa on the answerphone". The character of Amelia eventually makes her actual debut in the season 2 finale, in which she is revealed to be the voice on the interphone. She is the granddaughter of Martha Plum, a famous pilot the company is named after, and its former leader.
Benjamin Noble as Agent Haines (guest season 1; main season 2-present), an MI5 agent and Cole's partner, tasked with investigating the Amelia Project. The two become increasingly obsessed with the case as they investigate it.
Torgny G. Aanderaa as Agent Henry Cole (guest season 1; main season 2-present), an MI5 agent and Haines' partner.
Jordan Cobb as Jackie Williams (season 3-present), an FBI agent and Fox's partner; they often butt heads with Haines and Cole, having also been tasked with inv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Adventures%20of%20Tintin%20%28soundtrack%29 | Music from the Motion Picture: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is the soundtrack for the 2011 computer-animated action/adventure film The Adventures of Tintin directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, based on Belgian cartoonist Hergé's comic book series of the same name. The film score is composed by John Williams, which is the first time he had composed the score of a film since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) as well as his first score for an animated film. The score was released on 21 October 2011 by Sony Classical Records. Williams received a nomination for Best Original Score at the 84th Academy Awards for his work in the film.
Production
Most of the score was written while the animation was still in the early stages, with Williams seeking to employ "the old Disney technique of doing music first and have the animators trying to follow what the music is doing". Eventually, several cues had to be revised during the editing of the film, when the editor Michael Kahn shown the rough cut. The composer decided to employ various musical styles, with "1920s30s European jazz" for the opening credits and "pirate music" for the battle at sea.
Track 13, "Presenting Biance Castafiore," quotes music from The Barber of Seville, specifically the aria "Una voce poco fa."
Track list
Accolades
Reception
James Christopher Monger of AllMusic stated that, "Williams does not exaggerate the effects for comic purposes as he does, for example, in his Indiana Jones scores. Rather, this is ear candy for a movie that is equally sweet." Author Brad Kamminga wrote: "John Williams score for The Adventures of Tintin lacks the glorious and splendorous themes that defined many of Williams famous scores. Aside from that The Adventures of Tintin is an excellent score. John Williams, in his old age, proves once again that he has not lost his touch and remains to be a truly unrivaled composer [...] If you are a huge fan of John Williams and his complex works, this is definitely a score you need to purchase, but if you only enjoy the brilliant main theme songs Williams has composed in the past, don’t expect to hear them in this score."
Filmtracks.com wrote "if there is no substitute for John Williams' intellectual superiority over his peers, for even when approaching 80 years old, his comedic adventure techniques dazzle you with complexities of structure and instrumentation not heard elsewhere". Writing for the Limelight (magazine), Francis Merson summarised the review as "John Williams takes on a cartoon legend". Soundtrack Geek-based Jorn Tilnes wrote "John Williams is well and truly back ladies and gentlemen and you can really hear it in the score how terrific a composer he is. It's so full of energy, adventure and action and is perhaps only let down by a slight inconsistency. It doesn't sound like vintage John Williams from start to finish, but there are a lot of fun to be had and although the themes aren't as good as Wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Pickers | Irish Pickers is a reality television series launched in the UK and Ireland by Blaze (TV channel) in 2020 as the network's second piece of original content. Narrated by Father Ted's Ardal O'Hanlon, the series follows Irish antique dealer Ian Dowling and his team as they search for antiques and collectables on the island of Ireland. Dowling and his team "travel to prestigious, interesting and historic places" to buy quirky or unusual objects.
Dowling's 'picking' career developed from a young age. While attending a church fete aged 10, he purchased a baby monitor for 50p. He placed a free ad in a local traders magazine and sold it for £25. Ian described the feeling of becoming "hooked" after this experience and has been 'picking' ever since. The series is based around Dowling's business ‘Rare Irish Stuff’, which essentially sources rare Irish antiques and collectibles for clients. The business specializes in items for display in pubs and home bars.
Episodes have included Boston-born celebrity tattooer Mark Mahoney, who purchased an antique Irish medal for display at his Shamrock Social Club in Hollywood, and a bar where Oliver Reed once drank. The show's executive producer and co-creator of American Pickers and Salvage Hunters, Rob Carey, said: "Escapist TV is important to people at the moment, and this is a chance to vicariously head out on the open road, meet some extraordinary people and see some extraordinary places."
References
External links
Television in Ireland
Irish reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilionanthe%20tricuspidata | Papilionanthe tricuspidata is a species of epiphytic orchid endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Its status remains an enigma and some individuals were identified as hybrids involving Papilionanthe teres. The species was described as difficult to flower and only producing small flowers. It occurs sympatric with Vanda limbata and supposedly with "Vanda purpurea", which does not appear to be any known species or synonym. Like all members of the genus, this species bears terete leaves on a slender stem.
References
tricuspidata
Orchids of Indonesia
Orchids of the Lesser Sunda Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story%20Television | Story Television is an American digital broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting that airs programming which is related to history, normally older programs which are licensed from other networks.
The formation of the network was announced on February 14, 2022. Weigel president Neal Sabin stated: “As we looked at the landscape, we looked at what genre works really well for advertisers and viewership that isn’t currently on the air right now." The genre which was chosen would be history-oriented programming. The name "Story" directly came from "history", the word that will play in the shows' taglines.
The network was launched on March 28, 2022 on stations owned by Weigel, Hearst Television, Maranatha Broadcasting Company, Marquee Broadcasting and others, along with national cable distribution through providers such as Spectrum where no affiliate exists.
Programming
Each day of the week has a different theme.
Monday: Military and Combat
Tuesday: Tech and Innovation
Wednesday: World Events
Thursday: American History
Friday: Modern Marvels
Saturday: Unexplained Phenomena
Sunday: Biography
The channel rebroadcasts programming that originally aired on cable networks such as A&E and History Channel.
Affiliates
Note: This list may not be complete
References
External links
Weigel Broadcasting
Television channels and stations established in 2022
Television channels and networks about history
Story Television
Television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei%20Computer%20Emergency%20Response%20Team | Brunei Computer Emergency Response Team (), commonly known as BruCERT, is a computer emergency response team and national cybersecurity organization of Brunei Darussalam. Affiliated with the OIC Computer Emergency Response Team, the Asia Pacific CERT (APCERT), Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) and other international organizations in the information technology sector, it is tasked with preventing, analysing, and maintaining cybersecurity in addition to serving as a national research centre for IT infrastructure in the country.
It has maintained a network for coordination with global organizations to identify cybercrime in the country with prime focus on computer and internet-related incidents within the jurisdiction of Brunei. BruCERT acquires data on information technology and security threats and shares acquired findings or detected risks. It makes these findings accessible to the general public for increasing cybersecurity awareness in the country.
History
BruCERT was established on 1 May 2004 by the government of Brunei and tasked with improving security in coordination with the Department of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). BruCERT is entrusted with dealing with cyberterrorism and security incidents.
Brunei Computer Emergency Response Team is headquartered in Simpang 69, Jalan E-Kerajaan, Gadong, Brunei. Its host organization is the Information Technology Protective Security Services.
References
Further reading
2004 establishments in Brunei
Computer emergency response teams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan%20Government%20CERT | Azerbaijan Computer Emergency Response Team, officially known as Azerbaijan Government CERT (), is a computer emergency response team of the Republic of Azerbaijan responsible for cybersecurity and gathering data concerning information technology. It operates under the Special Communication and Information Security State Service of the government of Azerbaijan. It collects data within its framework from relevant sources, including internet users, computer engineering groups, individuals or organizations and software developers. It coordinates with the foreign countries for gathering and analysing data from cybersecurity incidents involving both software and hardware tools designed for the prevention of internet and computer security.
Azerbaijan CERT develop a framework for suggesting recommendations for software designed to maintain software and hardware tools entrusted with preventing unauthorised access to devices consisting personally identifiable information of the users. It operates within the scope of generalization and issues advisory in addition to providing technical support to users in the country. It also prevents cyberterrorism by spreading cybersecurity awareness. As national computer security agency, it provides assistance to the state governments concerning investigation of the computer incidents.
Duties and responsibilities
Headquartered in Special Communication & Information Security State Service of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Computer Emergency Response Team is entrusted with issuing advisory on specific software and hardware tools in collaboration with public and private vendors. It also coordinates with foreign CERTs in information technology sector, including cybercrimes. It also conduct research in collaboration with state authorities for obtaining data on cybersecurity incidents and assist them in preventing cyberattacks and malicious softwares and disruption of IT network system. The agency is also tasked with preventing denial-of-service attack within the jurisdiction of Azerbaijan.
References
Further reading
2008 establishments in Azerbaijan
Organizations based in Baku
Government agencies of Azerbaijan
Computer emergency response teams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923%20%28TV%20series%29 | 1923 is an American Western drama television series that premiered on December 18, 2022, on Paramount+. The series is a prequel to the Paramount Network series Yellowstone and serves as a sequel to the series 1883, with Isabel May reprising her role from the latter as narrator Elsa Dutton. In February 2023, the series was renewed for a second season of eight episodes.
Premise
The series follows a generation of the Dutton family in 1923, during a time of various hardships including Prohibition, drought, and the early stages of the Great Depression, which affected Montana long before the 1929 Stock Market Crash.
Cast
Main
Helen Mirren as Cara Dutton, the wife to Jacob Dutton and Dutton family matriarch. Having no children, Jacob and Cara raised John Sr. and Spencer Dutton as their own.
Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton, the patriarch of the Dutton family, and the older brother of James Dutton (portrayed by Tim McGraw in 1883).
Brandon Sklenar as Spencer Dutton, the younger son of James and Margaret Dutton. Spencer has witnessed the horrors of World War I and travels Africa tracking big game. Charlie Stover portrayed Spencer Dutton as a child during flashbacks set in 1893 in two episodes of the fourth season of Yellowstone.
Julia Schlaepfer as Alexandra, a freethinking woman from the British upper class who encounters Spencer in Africa.
Jerome Flynn as Banner Creighton, a Scottish sheepherder and adversary of the Duttons.
Darren Mann as Jack Dutton, John Dutton Sr.'s son and only child, James Dutton's grandson, and great-nephew to Jacob Dutton. He is a dedicated rancher who is deeply loyal to his family.
Isabel May as the Narrator, Elsa Dutton. May also portrayed Elsa Dutton in 1883.
Brian Geraghty as Zane Davis, the fiercely loyal ranch foreman of the Dutton Ranch.
Aminah Nieves as Teonna Rainwater, a rebellious young woman from the Crow people who was taken from her family and placed in an Indian residential school for girls, which is funded by the United States Federal Government, but has an extremely cruel and sadistic Roman Catholic priest as headmaster.
Michelle Randolph as Elizabeth "Liz" Strafford, a feisty and capable young woman and Jack Dutton's fiancée.
Timothy Dalton as Donald Whitfield, a powerful, wealthy business tycoon who is accustomed to getting what he wants.
Recurring
Robert Patrick as Sheriff William McDowell, the sheriff of Gallatin County and a friend of the Dutton family.
Jennifer Ehle as Sister Mary, a ruthless and abusive Irish Catholic nun who teaches at a Catholic boarding school for American Indians, often coming into conflict with Teonna.
Sebastian Roché as Father Renaud, a narcissistic French Roman Catholic priest and the sadistic headmaster of the Catholic boarding school.
Marley Shelton as Emma Dutton, the wife of John Dutton Sr. and the mother of Jack Dutton.
Leenah Robinson as Baapuxti, an American Indian student at the Catholic boarding school and Teonna's cousin.
Caleb Martin as Dennis, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Dehghantanha | Ali Dehghantanha is an academic-entrepreneur in cybersecurity and cyber threat intelligence. He is a Professor of Cybersecurity and a Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence.
Dehghantanha is a pioneer in applying machine learning techniques toward cyber threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence, and enterprise risk management. His research is highly cited in both academic and industrial settings. He is the Founder and Director of Cyber Science Lab.
Education
After completing his Diploma in Mathematics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET), Dehghantanha attended Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch, from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering in 2005. He earned his Master's and Doctoral degrees in Security in Computing from University Putra Malaysia in 2008 and 2011, respectively.
Career
Dehghantanha started his academic career as Sr. Lecturer of Computer Science and Information Technology at the University Putra Malaysia in 2011, and later on joined the University of Salford as Marie Curie International Incoming Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in 2015. From 2017 to 2018, he held appointment as Sr. Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. Following this appointment, he joined the University of Guelph (UoG), Ontario, Canada, as an Associate Professor and Director of Master of Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence program. He became a Tier 2 NSERC Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence at the University of Guelph (UoG) in 2020. He also holds a concurrent appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor in Schulich School of Engineering's Department of Electrical & Software Engineering at the University of Calgary since 2020. He has developed two Master's programs in cybersecurity, one in the University of Guelph – Canada, and another in the University of Salford.
Research
Dehghantanha is among highly cited researchers in cybersecurity. He is well-recognized for his research in cyber threat intelligence, and in several fields of cyber security including malware analysis, Internet of Things (IoT) security, and digital forensics.
Application of AI in Cyber Threat Hunting and Attribution
Dehghantanha was among the first to introduce some major security and forensics challenges within the Internet of Things (IoT) domain. He also reviewed previous studies published in this special issue targeting identified challenges. In 2016, he proposed a two-layer dimension reduction and two-tier classification model for anomaly-based intrusion detection in IoT backbone networks. He has influenced the IoT/ICS network defense field by creating an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for IoT networks, a secret sharing method of encryption key exchange in vehicular IoT networks, and a method for secret key sharing and distribution between IoT devices. He conducted experiments using NSL-KDD dataset, and prove |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-In-a-Box | A Network-In-a-Box (NIB) is the combination of multiple components of a computer network into a single device (a 'box'), which are traditionally separated into multiple devices.
Examples
In 2021, the company Genie launched a 5G Network-In-a-Box to run as an on-premise service.
In August 2021, Tecore Networks launched a 5G Network-In-a-Box, which also supported 3GGP and LTE.
History
In 2014, an open-source hardware Network-In-a-Box based on OpenBTS was deployed in West-Papua, Indonesia.
References
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20Women%20for%20Rights%20and%20Peace | The Network of Women for Rights and Peace (, RFDP) is a women's rights organization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Founded in 1999, it gives judicial support to victims of sexual violence, raises awareness about human rights and democracy, and works to increase women's literacy through a network of grassroots organizations, the Comités d’Alerte pour la Paix (CAP).
RDFP was founded by the activist Vénantie Bisimwa, who is its Executive Secretary. Based in Bukavu, the RFDP is a founder member of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence in the DRC ().
Publications
(with the Network of Women for Development ()) Women’s Bodies as a Battleground: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls During the War in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 2005
References
Women's rights organizations
Feminist organisations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Organizations established in 1999
1999 establishments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
South Kivu
Violence against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BookBrainz | BookBrainz is a free and open source bibliographic database. It aims to store data about every book, magazine, journal or other publication ever written. It is a MetaBrainz Foundation project that is allied with MusicBrainz. It has been endorsed by the Open Data Institute and participates in the Google Summer of Code yearly.
BookBrainz uses UUIDs for entities and allows for detailed relationships between entities such as authors, works, editions and publishers. It also catalogs identities like Wikidata, OpenLibrary, Goodreads, LibraryThing and ISBN IDs for entities.
References
External links
BookBrainz
MusicBrainz
Social cataloging applications
Free-content websites
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Xcover%20FieldPro | The Samsung Galaxy Xcover FieldPro is an Android-based smartphone announced by Samsung. This phone has 5.1 inches QHD display and 12MP main camera.
References
Android (operating system) devices
Samsung mobile phones
Samsung Galaxy
Samsung smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2019
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olam%20%28network%29 | Olam (stylized OLAM) is a network of Jewish and Israeli organizations that work in the fields of global service, international development and humanitarian aid. It was launched in 2015 by the Alliance for Global Good, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies and the Pears Foundation.
OLAM, whose name is "an allusion to the Hebrew term tikkun olam (repairing the world), one of the central tenets of Jewish tradition", brings together more than fifty Jewish and Israeli organizations working in international development and humanitarian relief. According to its website, OLAM seeks: to inspire, educate, and empower Jewish leaders to become champions for global service, international development, and humanitarian aid; to bring together Jewish and Israeli global service, international development, and humanitarian aid practitioners to network, learn, and pursue ethical best practices; and to increase the visibility of its partners and global issues in the Jewish community.
OLAM's chief executive officer, since 2015, is Dyonna Ginsburg, who previously worked at the Jewish Agency for Israel. Its staff are based in the United States, Israel and the United Kingdom.
References
External links
2015 establishments in Israel
International development agencies
International organizations based in Israel
International volunteer organizations
Jewish organizations established in 2015
Non-profit organizations based in Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassali | Bissali is a village in Rawalpindi, Punjab on Chak Beli Khan Rawat road. It is located at 33.3963° N, 73.1372° E E with an altitude of 682 meters.
Telecommunication
The PTCL provides the main network of landline telephone. Many ISPs and all major mobile phone, Wireless companies operating in Pakistan provide service in Bassali.
Languages
Punjabi is the main language of Bassali, other languages are Urdu Pothohari , and rarely spoken language Pashto.
References
Villages in Rawalpindi District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20New%20Reality%20%28TV%20program%29 | The New Reality is a Canadian television newsmagazine series, which premiered on Global in 2020. The network's return to dedicated newsmagazine programming following the cancellation of 16×9 in 2016, the series features long-form investigative and documentary reports. Dawna Friesen, the network's chief anchor on Global National, hosts the program; unlike some newsmagazine series, however, The New Reality does not have its own dedicated staff, but airs work by all of the Global News team.
The series received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best News or Information Segment at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, for Mike Armstrong's report "Betty's Story".
References
2020 Canadian television series debuts
2020s Canadian television news shows
2020s Canadian documentary television series
Global Television Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%2056%20Gun%20Fire%20Control%20System | Mark 56 Gun Fire Control System (Mk.56 GFCS) is a gun fire-control system made up of AN/SPG-35 radar tracker and the Mark 42 ballistic computer.
Overview
The directional board is maneuverable, equipped with an X-band radar Mk.35 (later renamed AN/SPG-35 based on the naming convention for military electronic equipment) and an optical sight, and is manned with two operators on board. It was an expression. Target tracking by the operator's optical sight is also possible, but fully automated tracking is the basic operation, and blindfire is also possible for the first time as a practical aircraft of the US Navy.
Mark 42 Ballistic Computer
First, the target is captured by a spiral scan that slowly scans the space by swinging the beam at an angle of 6 degrees, and then a conical scan that quickly measures and distances by narrowing the beam swing angle to 0.5 degrees. Track the target by scanning. The speed of the tracking target is obtained by the gyroscope of the directional board and the tachometer generator of the distance tracking servo system. Ballistic calculation was performed by the Mk.42 ballistic computer housed in the ship, and it was possible to aim two types of guns at the same target by adding a ballistic calculation housing. In addition, during the war, there were many cases where radar tracking could not catch up with the attack aircraft that rushed in at high speed, so Admiral Ernest King, Chief of Naval Operations, equipped with additional optical equipment.
AN/SPG-35 Radar Tracker
The first model of this model was delivered in August 1945, and has been in operation since the 1950s. Performance improvements continued after the war, and it became possible to start shooting in 2 seconds from the start of tracking for subsonic aircraft. Initially, a 5"/38 cal gun was used as the gun to command, but this became the standard when a rapid-firing twin Mark 33 3"/50 cal gun was developed after the war. Mk.68 GFCS was the standard for the Mark 42 5"/54 cal gun, but this machine was also used as a secondary directional board. Well known electric engineer Ivan A. Getting was involved in the creation of AN/SPG-35.
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force requested the equipment of this model with the Harukaze-class destroyer, which was the first domestic escort ship after the war, but it was not approved by the US side, and the actual equipment was in the Second Defense Build-up Plan. There is a history of becoming a Yamagumo-class destroyer or later.
On board ships
United States Navy
Midway-class aircraft carrier
Essex-class aircraft carrier
Des Moines-class cruiser
Worcester-class cruiser
Juneau-class cruiser
Boston-class cruiser
Baltimore-class cruiser
Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
Bronstein-class frigate
Brooke-class frigate
Garcia-class frigate
Hamilton-class cutter
Kilauea-class ammunition ship
Mars-class combat stores ship
Sacramento-class fast combat support ship
Maritime Self-Defense Force
Yamagumo-class d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20G.%20Robinson | David G. Robinson may refer to:
David G. Robinson (theatre pioneer) (19th century), theatrical pioneer in Northern California
David G. Robinson (data scientist) (fl. 2010s–2020s), American data scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20F.%20Allen | James F. Allen may refer to:
James F. Allen (computer scientist) (born 1950), professor of computer science
James F. Allen (businessman) (born 1960s), with Hard Rock International and Seminole Gaming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral%20Barbas | María del Coral Barbas Arribas (or Arriba) is a professor at the Universidad CEU San Pablo in Madrid, Spain who is known for her research on metabolomics and integration of chemical data.
Education and career
Barbas has a Ph.D. from Complutense University of Madrid. From 2005 until 2006 she was a Marie Curie fellow at King's College London. As of 2022 she is a professor of analytical chemistry at the Universidad CEU San Pablo and is the president of the Madrid section of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry.
Research
Barbas is known for her research on metabolomics, a field she was first introduced to while she was a Marie Curie fellow. Her early research centered on the analysis of vitamins and development of chemical methods to analyze compounds such as caffeine. Her subsequent research has developed methods to analyze organic compounds in pharmaceutical drugs and foods, and defined biomarkers for diseases such as leukemia and Parkinson's disease. She is also known for defining quality assurance protocols for metabolomics data analysis and establishing workflows to analyze metabolomics data.
Selected publications
Awards and honors
The Analytical Scientist named Barbas to their 2016 Power List in recognition of her contributions to chemistry. In 2017, she was honored by Acta Sanitaria for her chemical research linking diabetes and obesity. In 2018, she received the International Award of the Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
References
External links
Analytical chemists
Women chemists
Living people
Spanish scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UpSet%20Plot | UpSet plots are a data visualization method for showing set data with more than three intersecting sets.
UpSet shows intersections in a matrix, with the rows of the matrix corresponding to the sets, and the columns to the intersections between these sets (or vice versa). The size of the sets and of the intersections are shown as bar charts.
History
UpSet plots were first proposed in 2014. The first prototype was implemented as an interactive, web-based application. UpSet plots are related to Mosaic Plots, although Mosaic plots are designed for categorical instead of set data.
UpSet plots became popular as they became available as an R -library based on Matplotlib, and were subsequently re-implemented in various programming languages, such as Python, and others. As of May 2022, UpSetR has been downloaded from CRAN more than 1 million times. UpSet plots are now frequently used instead of Venn diagrams, especially in life sciences.
Usage
UpSet plots visualize intersections between sets in a matrix. In a vertical UpSet plot, the columns of the matrix correspond to the sets, the rows correspond to the intersections. For each row, the cells that are part of an intersection are filled in. If there are multiple filled-in cells, they are connected with a line, to emphasize the reading direction of the plot. As sets vary in size, the size of the set is plotted as bar charts on top of the columns. The size of the intersections are shown aligned with the rows, also as bar charts. This layout facilitates the comparison between the sizes of individual intersections, as the size of the bars is easy to compare. UpSets can be used horizontally and vertically.
UpSet plots can be sorted in various ways. A common sorting approach, for example, is to sort by cardinality (the size of an intersection), which places the biggest intersections on top. Alternative sortings are by the degree of the intersection, or by sets.
UpSet plots can also be used to visualize attributes about the intersections by placing attribute visualizations next to the bar charts. Common choices for these attribute visualizations are compact visualization approaches for distributions, such as box plots, or violin plots.
Advanced features of UpSet plots include querying, grouping and aggregating data. These features tend to be available only in interactive, web-based implementations of UpSet.
Benefits and Limitations
UpSet plots tend to perform better than Venn diagrams for larger numbers of sets and when it is desirable to also show contextual information about the set intersections. For visualizing diagrams with less than three sets, or when there are only few intersections, Venn and Euler diagram are generally preferred, because they tend to be more familiar and intuitive to read.
UpSet plots are limited to displaying 20-30 sets, though specifics depends on the actual data. An alternative approach for larger datasets is to show a co-occurrence heat map, though these cannot sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITSUNE | KITSUNE (Kyutech standardized bus Imaging Technology System Utilizing Networking and Electron content measurements) was a nanosatellite developed by the HAK consortium, which consists of Haradaseiki Kogyo, Addnics Corporation, and Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech). The spacecraft was a 6U CubeSat, and carried a high-resolution camera for Earth observation. KITSUNE was carried to the International Space Station (ISS) on board Cygnus NG-17, and was deployed from the ISS's Kibō Module on 24 March 2022 12:10 UTC. The deployment service of KITSUNE was provided by Mitsui Bussan Aerospace.
Mission
KITSUNE conducted several missions while in orbit, including observing Earth with a resolution of 5 m, and communicating in C band. It also conducted store and forward, collecting data from ground-based sensor terminals.
Its optics was based on an smc PENTAX-DA* 300mm F4ED[IF]SDM lens.
SPATIUM-II
In the SPATIUM-II (SPATIUM : Space Precision Atomic-clock TIming Utility Mission) mission, a UHF signal would be sent from ground stations, and KITSUNE's on board software-defined radio and Raspberry Pi computer would calculate the signal delay time. From the signal delay time, the integral value of the charge density between the satellite and ground station (total electron content) could be calculated. The SPATIUM-II mission aimed to demonstrate detecting signal delay time by an accuracy of 100 nanoseconds.
See also
Aoba VELOX-IV
Birds-1
Birds-2
References
Satellites of Japan
2022 in Japan
Spacecraft launched in 2022
Spacecraft which reentered in 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna-Assunta%20Sansone | Susanna-Assunta Sansone is a British-Italian data scientist who is professor of data readiness at the University of Oxford where she leads the data readiness group and serves as associate director of the Oxford e-Research Centre. Her research investigates techniques for improving the interoperability, reproducibility and integrity of data.
Early life and education
Sansone is from Italy. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Naples Federico II. She earned her bachelor's degree in molecular biology and a PhD in microbiology at Imperial College London, where she worked in St Mary's Hospital, London. Her thesis investigated the role of the cofactored enzyme superoxide dismutase in the virulence of Salmonella.
Research and career
After earning her doctorate, she moved to Microscience Ltd, where she characterised vaccine strains. In 2001, Sansone joined the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) where she worked in research data management. Sansone joined the University of Oxford in 2010. She became concerned that whilst there were vast amounts of data in the public domain, the majority of it was not reusable. To make data reusable, Sansone encourages researchers to combine their data with metadata: a description of what the data means. Sansone has described data reproducibility as “the foundation of every scientific field,”.
Sansone's research investigates strategies to enable the creation of research objects that are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). She co-founded the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Data in 2013, and serves as chair of the Research Data Alliance. She co-authored the FAIR data principles in 2016, a set of guidelines for the scientific ecosystem. FAIR principles have since been adopted by funding bodies, scientific publishers and the private sector. Sansone works with partners to deliver data stewardship and data governance training and to develop guidelines to make data more accessible. She is one of the co-creators the FAIR Cookbook, an online resource for life scientists to enable them to keep FAIR data. Her research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the European Union.
Selected publications
Her publications include
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
ArrayExpress--a public database of microarray experiments and gene expression profiles
The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration
The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification
MetaboLights—an open-access general-purpose repository for metabolomics studies and associated meta-data
COVID-19 pandemic reveals the peril of ignoring metadata standards
ISA software suite: supporting standards-compliant experimental annotation and enabling curation at the community level
Toward interoperable bioscience data
Modeli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Socialist%20Network | The National Socialist Network (NSN) is an Australian neo-Nazi political organisation allegedly formed from two far-right organisations, the Lads Society and the Antipodean Resistance, in 2020. The organisation, based in Melbourne, claims to be active in all six state capitals and several regional cities. The group has used the protests against COVID-19 policies and other methods, such as media manipulation and attention-grabbing, to recruit new members.
The organisation, whose membership is unknown, is led by Thomas Sewell, former ADF member, Neo-Nazi, and convicted criminal. The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) released a report on 5 October 2022, in which it classified the National Socialist Network as a "white nationalist," "antisemitic," and "neo-Nazi" group.
The National Socialist Network often collaborates with the European Australian Movement, also led by Sewell.
Activities
2020
The group, adhering to its proclaimed methods of gaining attention and membership, has had numerous physical and intentionally provocative incidents. In 2020 a group of NSN members in Melbourne did a Nazi salute with a neo-Nazi flag at Swinburne University. A photo of the salute on their Facebook page read: "NSN would like to thank the student body and faculty for letting us promote National Socialism on campus without opposition. Swinburne for the White man!" A university spokesperson responded: “Swinburne University of Technology abhors the comments, and the symbols depicted in the photograph taken on our campus. The views and ideas of groups such as this run counter to everything our university stands for, and we condemn them in the strongest possible terms.”
2021
2022
2023
In early January 2023, flyers belonging to the National Socialist Network were found in East Brisbane, Queensland.
On 13 January 2023, a Melbourne Magistrates Court sentenced Thomas Sewell to 150 hours of community service to be completed in 18 months.
On 26 January 2023, members of the NSN held a protest in Coburg, Victoria, where they displayed banners.
On 18 March 2023, approximately 30 members of the NSN, including Thomas Sewell, attended a rally in Melbourne in support of British anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who spoke at the rally while visiting the city on her Australian and New Zealand tour. Members of the NSN marched down Spring Street, displayed a banner, performed Nazi salutes on the stairs of Parliament House, and referred to transgender people as paedophiles. A counterprotest in support of transgender rights, attended by many students, transgender activists, and socialists, clashed with the group. While the police, including several mounted officers, attempted to separate the two groups, there were some interactions (many of which were violent), and it was reported that pepper spray was used at least once. The events were condemned by the Labor Party, the Liberal Party and the Greens.
On 13 May Neo-Nazi and anti-fascist groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powo | Powo may refer to:
Kingdom of Powo, a former Tibetan kingdom
Plants of the World Online, a botanical database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor%20network | A contributor network (or contributor platform) is an arrangement in which an online publication releases articles authored by freelance writers, known as contributors, who are not part of its staff. Depending on the program, contributors may be paid or unpaid; paid contributors are typically compensated based on the volume of articles they produce or the amount of web traffic their articles generate.
Online publications use contributor networks to inexpensively expand their content selection. Because contributors are freelancers, publications can increase or decrease the number of contributors in their networks more easily than they can hire or fire employees. Some publications that use the contributor model exercise limited editorial oversight. For example, online articles written by Forbes contributors are not reviewed by editors prior to publication.
Contributor networks are vulnerable to conflicts of interest. Public relations agents and marketing companies have advertised their clients by submitting promotional articles to the contributor networks of Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Forbes, HuffPost, Inc., Insider, and Mashable.
See also
Content marketing
Self-publishing
Stringer (journalism)
User-generated content
Vanity press
References
Journalism
Electronic publishing
Temporary employment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha%20Pynn | Samantha Pynn is a Canadian interior designer, best known as a host of programming for HGTV Canada.
She was a regular contributor on home design to the daytime talk show CityLine in the 2000s, before debuting on HGTV as the host of Pure Design in 2008. She subsequently hosted Summer Home and Open House Overhaul, and was featured as one of the participating designers in the "all-star" HGTV shows Home to Win and Family Home Overhaul, before replacing Sabrina Smelko as the cohost of Save My Reno with Sebastian Clovis in 2020.
In 2015, she launched her own home decor collection with the La Maison Simons department store.
Pynn and Clovis received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Host in a Lifestyle Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
References
External links
Canadian interior designers
Canadian television hosts
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian people of Filipino descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak%20%28disambiguation%29 | Squeak is a programming language.
Squeak may also refer to:
Squeak!, a 2003 children's television series
Squeak, a fictional character from the Doctor Who episode "Survival"
Squeak, a fictional character from the comic strip Garfield
"Squeak", a song by Squarepusher (credited as Tom Jenkinson) from Bubble and Squeak
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20distributions%20transform | The normal distributions transform (NDT) is a point cloud registration algorithm introduced by Peter Biber and Wolfgang Straßer in 2003, while working at University of Tübingen.
The algorithm registers two point clouds by first associating a piecewise normal distribution to the first point cloud, that gives the probability of sampling a point belonging to the cloud at a given spatial coordinate, and then finding a transform that maps the second point cloud to the first by maximising the likelihood of the second point cloud on such distribution as a function of the transform parameters.
Originally introduced for 2D point cloud map matching in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and relative position tracking, the algorithm was extended to 3D point clouds and has wide applications in computer vision and robotics. NDT is very fast and accurate, making it suitable for application to large scale data, but it is also sensitive to initialisation, requiring a sufficiently accurate initial guess, and for this reason it is typically used in a coarse-to-fine alignment strategy.
Formulation
The NDT function associated to a point cloud is constructed by partitioning the space in regular cells. For each cell, it is possible to define the mean and covariance of the points of the cloud that fall within the cell. The probability density of sampling a point at a given spatial location within the cell is then given by the normal distribution
.
Two point clouds can be mapped by a Euclidean transformation with rotation matrix and translation vector
that maps from the second cloud to the first, parametrised by the rotation angles and translation components.
The algorithm registers the two point clouds by optimising the parameters of the transformation that maps the second cloud to the first, with respect to a loss function based on the NDT of the first point cloud, solving the following problem
where the loss function represents the negated likelihood, obtained by applying the transformation to all points in the second cloud and summing the value of the NDT at each transformed point . The loss is piecewise continuous and differentiable, and can be optimised with gradient-based methods (in the original formulation, the authors use Newton's method).
In order to reduce the effect of cell discretisation, a technique consists of partitioning the space into multiple overlapping grids, shifted by half cell size along the spatial directions, and computing the likelihood at a given location as the sum of the NDTs induced by each grid.
References
Sources
External links
Computer vision
Pattern matching |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhihong%20Chen | Zhihong Chen is a Chinese-American nanoelectronics engineer known for her research on the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.
Education and career
Chen graduated from Fudan University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in physics. She went to the University of Florida for graduate study in physics, earning a master's degree in 2002 and completing her Ph.D. in 2003.
After postdoctoral research for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, she became a permanent research staff member at the center in 2006. She moved to Purdue University as an associate professor in 2010, and was promoted to full professor in 2017.
Recognition
In 2022, Chen was named an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to the understanding and applications of low-dimensional nanomaterials".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
American nanotechnologists
American women engineers
Chinese electrical engineers
Chinese nanotechnologists
Chinese women engineers
Fudan University alumni
University of Florida alumni
Purdue University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers%3A%20EarthSpark | Transformers: EarthSpark is a computer-animated television series based on the Transformers toyline by Hasbro. It was developed by Dale Malinowski, Ant Ward and Nicole Dubuc for the streaming service Paramount+, and it has since been licensed to Netflix. The series is produced by Hasbro Entertainment in partnership with Nickelodeon Animation Studio, with animation services provided by Icon Creative Studio. The series premiered in November 2022 and has been renewed for a second season. A video game adaptation, subtitled Expedition, was released on October 13, 2023.
Premise
Fifteen years after the space bridge to Cybertron is destroyed, ending the civil war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, the Malto family relocates from Philadelphia to the small town of Witwicky, Pennsylvania. There, young Robby and Mo Malto witness the birth of a new breed of Earth-born Transformers called Terrans, who become emotionally bonded to the two via special cyber-sleeves on their arms. Now adopted into the family and being mentored by Bumblebee, the Terrans work with the Autobots, the former Decepticon leader Megatron, the organization G.H.O.S.T., and the children to protect their new life from the remaining rogue Decepticons and other villains while finding their place in the world.
Characters
Terrans
Twitch Malto (voiced by Kathreen Khavari) is an inquisitive and competitive Terran Transformer and Robby's partner. She transforms into a flying Cybertronian drone and her weapons are a pair of laser blades.
Thrash Malto (voiced by Zeno Robinson) is a fun-loving and impulsive Terran Transformer and Mo's partner. He transforms into a motorcycle with a sidecar that also serves as a shield and a throwing disk.
Hashtag Malto (voiced by Stephanie Lemelin) is an excitable media-savvy second-generation Terran Transformer. She transforms into a G.H.O.S.T. surveillance van. While she does not have a weapon, she makes up for it with the ability to hack into electronic systems via wireless networks.
Jawbreaker Malto (voiced by Cyrus Arnold) is a sensitive second-generation Terran Transformer. He transforms into a Stygimoloch (now referred to as a younger Pachycephalosaurus) making him the Dinobot of the group. Though he does not have a weapon, he makes up for it with brute strength and durability.
Nightshade Malto (voiced by Z Infante) is a creative and scientifically minded second-generation Terran Transformer. Nightshade is the first character in a Transformers cartoon to be identified as non-binary. They transform into a Northern hawk-owl and their weapons are a pair of greaves on their forearms that function as blades and dart launchers while also having clawed fingers.
Autobots
Optimus Prime (voiced by Alan Tudyk) is the leader of the Autobots. He transforms into a semi-trailer truck.
Bumblebee (voiced by Danny Pudi) is a former Autobot scout and currently Autobot veteran in hiding who becomes the Terrans' mentor. He transforms into a yellow sports car with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatalla%20caudata | Spatalla caudata, the woolly-hair spoon, is a flower-bearing shrub that belongs to the genus Spatalla and forms part of the fynbos. The plant is native to the Western Cape Province of South Africa, where it is found in the Cederberg, Groot Winterhoek Mountains and Hex River Mountains.
The shrub grows 1.0 m tall and flowers from August to October. Fire destroys the plant but the seeds survive. The plant is bisexual and pollination takes place through the action of insects . The fruit ripens, two months after flowering, and the seeds fall to the ground where they are spread by ants. The plant grows in sandstone sand along streams or streams at elevations of 910-1250 m.
References
External links
http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=805-7
http://biodiversityexplorer.info/plants/proteaceae/spatalla_caudata.htm
https://www.proteaatlas.org.za/spoon2.htm
https://www.proteaatlas.org.za/PROTEA_ATLAS_main_part2.pdf
caudata
Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces
Fynbos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabin | Anabin is a database of the German government that provides information about the accreditation and acceptance of foreign third-level degrees. It is the binding reference for German administrations, employers and private individuals to validate degrees. Within the European Union, all degrees by all member countries are inter-acceptable therefore Anabin is a reference mostly for non-European degrees.
History
The database was first launched as a cooperation of three German-speaking countries:
Germany, the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts
together with the former Central Agency for Foreign Education (ZAB),
Austria, the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs, and
Luxembourg, the Federal Ministry of Economy.
The data are made available online since 2000 by the Kultusministerkonferenz, a round table of the Secretaries of Education of all 16 German federal states. The database provides documentation of the education systems jn 180 countries and offers detailed insights about there existing third-level education systems and degrees and how they value in comparison to the German system. With this source, the owner of a foreign degree can have a first assessment about the possible accreditation of it in Germany. For many employers this database is the first reference checking the validity of foreign degrees.
Accreditation
Anabin accredites in two steps: First, foreign institutions itself. This list provides insight whether a foreign institution is rated as providing equivalent education and research skills as the standard German institution. The institutions are put into three brackets:
H+ means the institution is seen as equivalent to a German Hochschule (institute of higher education).
H- means the accreditation is neither not yet or never will be rated as equivalent to a German institution of higher education.
H+/- means the institution’s degrees are accredited on a case to case-basis and offers degrees that are equivalent to the German education standard and others that are not.
Practical implications might be that a German hospital may only hire and have working a medical professional with an accredited education from an accredited institution. The database is also a reference for public employees with foreign degrees to confirm their eligibility for higher positions. The database is also the first reference for applicants of a Blue Card. If individuals are unsure about the status of their degree they can request an official evaluation of their degree.
References
Academia Europaea
Accreditation
Accreditation organizations
Databases in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovations%20in%20Theoretical%20Computer%20Science | The Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science is an academic conference about theoretical computer science. The conference was initiated by Andrew Yao in 2010, and was originally called Innovations in Computer Science. The proceedings were hosted online in 2010 and 2011, were published in the ACM Digital Library from 2012 to 2016, and were published as open access in the LIPIcs collection from 2017 onwards.
As of 2022, the conference is listed by Google Scholar as the 8th venue in theoretical computer science according to the h5-index metric. It is indexed by the DBLP bibliographical database.
External links
Website
DBLP entry
References
Theoretical computer science conferences
Recurring events established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20data%20science | Biomedical data science is a multidisciplinary field which leverages large volumes of data to promote biomedical innovation and discovery. Biomedical data science draws from various fields including Biostatistics, Biomedical informatics, and machine learning, with the goal of understanding biological and medical data. It can be viewed as the study and application of data science to solve biomedical problems. Modern biomedical datasets often have specific features which make their analyses difficult, including:
Large numbers of feature (sometimes billions), typically far larger than the number of samples (typically tens or hundreds)
Noisy and missing data
Privacy concerns (e.g., electronic health record confidentiality)
Requirement of interpretability from decision makers and regulatory bodies
Many biomedical data science projects apply machine learning to such datasets. These characteristics, while also present in many data science applications more generally, make biomedical data science a specific field. Examples of biomedical data science research include:
Computational genomics
Computational imaging
Electronic health records data mining
Biomedical network science
Training in Biomedical Data Science
The National Library of Medicine of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) identified key biomedical data scientist attributes in an NIH-wide review: general biomedical subject matter knowledge; programming language expertise; predictive analytics, modeling, and machine learning; team science and communication; and responsible data stewardship.
University Departments and Programs
Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering offers biomedical data science training at the undergraduate, master's, and PhD levels. They were the first university to offer programs at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine houses the Department of Biomedical Data Science where Quantitative Biomedical Sciences programs are available at the master's and PhD levels.
Imperial College London’s Faculty of Medicine and Data Science Institute offer an MRes in Biomedical Research (Data Science).
Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine offers a Master of Science in Biomedical Data Science.
Stanford University’s Department of Biomedical Data Science offers multiple biomedical informatics graduate programs (MS, PhD, and MD/PhD).
The University of Exeter’s College of Healthcare and Medicine offers an MSc in Health Data Science.
Biomedical Data Science Research in Academia
Scholarly Journals
The first journal dedicated to biomedical data science appeared in 2018 – Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science. “The Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science provides comprehensive expert reviews in biomedical data science, focusing on advanced methods to store, retrieve, analyze, and organize biomedical data and knowledge. The scope of the journal encompasses informatics, computational, and statistica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%20e-Government%20Computer%20Incident%20Response%20Team | The Bangladesh e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-Gov CIRT; ) is the state-run agency of the government of Bangladesh responsible for maintaining cybersecurity in the country. Works under the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, it is the national computer emergency response team (CERT) with prim focus on receiving and reviewing, and responding to cybersecurity incidents in the country.
BGD e-Gov CIRT conduct research in the field of cybersecurity and issues advisory on security-oriented vulnerabilities in coordination with various government and non-government organizations, including critical infrastructures, financial organizations, law enforcement agencies, academia and civil society. It works within its framework for providing assistance for the improvement of national defense system of Bangladesh. It has maintained a network with foreign organizations and communities for transborder cybersecurity-related matters.
Service components
BGD e-Gov CIRT has 8 active service components designed for various cybersecurity matters, including computer systems, networks, capacity building and internet security awareness among others.
Incident Handling Unit
Digital Forensic Unit
Cyber Awareness and Capacity Building Unit
Cyber Sensor Unit
Cyber Range Unit
Cyber Risk Assessment Unit
Critical Information Infrastructure Unit
Cyber Audit Unit
History
It was originally introduced by the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) in 2015 under the supervision of the now defunct LICT Project. BGD e-GOV CIRT became operational in February 2016 and was formally established by the federal government after the Bangladesh Bank robbery incident took place.
It also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on 8 April 2017 and remained the member of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team until 7 April 2022. It is also a permanent member of the OIC Computer Emergency Response Team. In September 2018 BGD e-Gov CIRT became a trusted introducer incorporated by the European Computer Incident Response Team.
References
Further reading
Computer emergency response teams
National cyber security centres
2016 establishments in Bangladesh
Government agencies of Bangladesh
Information technology in Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona%20Demaidi | Mona Nabil Demaidi (), is an entrepreneur and women’s rights advocate. She was born in December 14, 1988 in Nablus, Palestine. She obtained her Ph.D. in Advanced Software Engineering and Machine Learning, MSc with distinction in Software Engineering and Data Management from the University of Manchester, UK. Dr. Mona joined an-Najah National University in 2016, to become the youngest female with a Ph.D. certificate at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology in Palestine. In 2014, she became a member of Women in Engineering, and Arab Women in Computing.
Biography
In 1993 she moved with her family to Dundee, UK and did her primary school at Hawkhill School and Park Place School.
Demaidi finished high school and undergraduate studies in computer engineering in Palestine.
Mona Demaidi took her Bachelor of Science (BSs) in Computer Engineering at An-Najah National University located in Nablus, Palestine. After getting her Master of Science degree in Advance Software Engineering and Data Management in 2010/11 at The University of Manchester, she pursued her education and obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in Artificial Intelligence till 2015.
Experience
Mona Demaidi is the founder of STEMpire which is powered by PALMEC International. STEMpire empower future innovators through STEM education, bootcamps, and hackathons. In addition, Dr Mona is the deputy chairwoman and advisory board member of Intersect Innovation Hub which is powered by Bank of Palestine. Moreover, she’s a committee member for both ABET and Innovation and Entrepreneurship as well as being an assistant Professor at An-Najah National University. Also, Demaidi plays an important role in the IEEE Palestine Subsection as she’s the Chairwoman, Student Branch Counselor and a previous judge at the end of 2019. In addition to that, she was or currently is a judge in several foundations including the Hult Prize Foundation, flow accelerator and Code Your Future. Mona is also a Co-Founder for VTech Road and a Co-Managing Director for Girls in Tech, Inc. Demaidi is the Chairwoman of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Palestine and was the first woman to be granted an award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior membership). She also became the co-managing director for Girls in Tech in Palestine. Demaidi is also a researcher as she has issued six journal papers and a book Terminological Ontology Evaluator in eLearning on constructing online learning platforms using machine learning. Mona Demaidi developed the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Palestine in 2022.
Recognition
Since 2014, Demaidi has been a board member with Women in Engineering and Arab Women in computing. In 2017, “she became the first female chair for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Palestine.” Later she became the first woman to be awarded the senior membership from IEEE. In 2019, she became the Co-Managing Director for Gir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20D.%20Manning | Christopher David Manning (born September 18, 1965) is an Australian computer scientist, best known for co-developing GloVe word vectors and the bilinear or multiplicative form of attention in artificial neural networks and for his books Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing (1999) and Introduction to Information Retrieval (2008). He is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning and a professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at Stanford University. He was previously President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2015) and he has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam (2023).
Manning received a BA (Hons) degree majoring in mathematics, computer science, and linguistics from the Australian National University (1989) and a PhD in linguistics from Stanford (1994), under the guidance of Joan Bresnan. He was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University (1994–96) and a lecturer at the University of Sydney (1996–99) before returning to Stanford as an assistant professor. At Stanford, he was promoted to associate professor in 2006 and to full professor in 2012.
Manning's linguistic work includes his dissertation Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations (1996), a monograph
Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in LFG (1999), and his work developing Universal Dependencies,
from which he is the namesake of Manning's Law. He has also led development of open source computational linguistics software including CoreNLP, Stanza, and GloVe.
Manning's PhD students include Dan Klein, Richard Socher, and Sepandar Kamvar. In 2021, he joined AIX Ventures as an Investment Partner. AIX Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in artificial intelligence startups.
Bibliography
References
1965 births
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Australian National University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Stanford University faculty
Natural language processing researchers
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Academic staff of the University of Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20F.%20Harris%20II | Kenneth F. Harris II is an African-American mechanical engineer who works with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Harris' work focuses on protecting satellites from cyberthreats and malicious interference in low-Earth orbit. Over his career, Harris has worked on space security through to next-generation observatories. Harris is also a science communicator.
Early life and education
Harris grew up in Prince Georges County Maryland. Initially he became interested in engineering as a child after spending time with his father in the office and laboratory.
Harris attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School, graduating in 2010. He has highlighted how two high school teachers, Hubert Willoughby and Troy Bradbury, helped him through his high school experience. In 2014, Harris received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's College of Engineering after a struggle with course and laboratory work. Harris gives credit to his former engineering professor, Anne Spence, for assisting him. In 2017 he received a master's degree in Engineering Management from Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering.
Career
During summer 2007, Harris worked as a janitor, cleaning the school building for incoming students. In 2008, Harris started his career at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Since then he has worked on several flight projects including the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Satellite studying the effects of radiation on components, the Global Precipitation Measurement Satellite contributing to the deployable solar array hinges, and the Joint Polar Satellite System leading the database team. Harris has said his most memorable mission was serving as the deputy lead integration engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope Integrated Science Instrument Module, which houses the computing and electrical resources for the satellite. Harris led the team to integrate the main payload of the satellite that will detect the light from stars billions of light years away. The media has portrayed him as a "Face of NASA" saying: "He has worked on five different satellite missions since he started working at NASA at age 16" and he is "one of the youngest African-Americans to lead integration efforts on the telescope."
During the 2020 general election, Harris was elected onto the Board of Education in Prince George's County Maryland.
References
External links
African-American engineers
African-American politicians
1992 births
Living people
People from Prince George's County, Maryland
American engineers
Johns Hopkins University alumni
University of Maryland, Baltimore County alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensions%20%28database%29 | Dimensions is a database of abstracts and citations and of research grants, which links grants to resulting publications, clinical trials and patents. Dimensions is part of Digital Science (or Digital Science & Research Solutions Ltd) - a technology company headquartered London, United Kingdom. The company focuses on strategic investments into startup companies, that support the research lifecycle.
Dimensions was launched in 2018. It is accessible free-of-charge at app.dimensons.ai.
Two studies published in 2021 compared Dimensions with its subscription-based commercial competitors, and both concluded that Dimensions.ai provided broader temporal and publication source coverage than Scopus and Web of Science in most subject areas, and that Dimensions was closer in its coverage to free aggregation databases, such as The Lens and Google Scholar. As of July 2023, Dimensions.ai covers nearly 140 million publications with over 1.8 billion citations.
References
External links
Dimensions official website
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Scholarly search services
Online databases
Citation indices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaming%3A%20Essays%20on%20Algorithmic%20Culture | Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture is a book of five essays on video game studies by Alexander R. Galloway. The essays are a critical analysis of the medium of video games, and its aesthetic and political impact.
Summary
The first chapter, "Gamic Action, Four Moments", outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the book. Proceeding from the premise that "video games are actions", and that they are a collaboration between player and computer, Galloway offers two axes of analysis: operator (i.e., the player)<-->machine (i.e., the computer); and diegetic (i.e. "in-universe")<-->non-diegetic (i.e., "out of character"). For example, firing a weapon is a diegetic operator action; ambience is a diegetic machine action; pausing the game is a non-diegetic operator action; and network lag is a non-diegetic machine action. These four modes of action can also be used to describe individual games: Galloway gives the examples of Tekken, Myst, Warcraft III, and Dance Dance Revolution, respectively.
The fourth chapter, "Allegories of Control", uses video games, as "uniquely algorithmic cultural objects", to think through new possibilities for critical interpretation. The critical framework for this chapter is Gilles Deleuze's "Postscript on the Societies of Control", a short essay from 1990 that builds on Michel Foucault's work on "disciplinary societies". Galloway writes that "what Deleuze defines as control is key to understanding how computerized information societies function." In particular, this chapter focuses on Sid Meier's Civilization, showing how, since electronic networks of control are both visible to players and essential to gameplay, video games have a certain kind of political and critical transparency - that is, because of their nature as a collaboration between player and computer, video games make obvious some elements that other media, such as film, deliberately try to conceal. Galloway argues that this characteristic of video games problematizes ideological critique, because everything in the game must first be codified as a mathematical variable. His remark, "the more one begins to think that Civilization is about a certain ideological interpretation of history ... or even that it creates a computer-generated 'history effect', the more one realises that it is about the absence of history altogether, or rather, the transcoding of history into specific mathematical models", has attracted criticism from historians in games studies like Tom Apperley and Adam Chapman.
Related Topics
Algorithmic Culture
Further reading
References
Bibliography
External links
(Open-access version of Chapter 4)
Press website
Project MUSE link
JSTOR link
English-language books
2006 non-fiction books
University of Minnesota Press books
Books about games
Books about video games
Books about media theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%20School%20of%20Cyber%20Technology%20and%20Engineering | The Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering (ASCTE) is an American high school located in Huntsville, Alabama. Founded in 2018, it is the first tuition-free residential high school focused on the integration of cyber technology and engineering across all academic disciplines. The school puts a focus on the teaching various topics relating to cyber, technology, and engineering, integrating such topics into core classes. The school is a state-owned magnet school that requires an application. Funds are provided through sponsorship of major companies, in exchange for internships that the students complete their senior year.
Academics
ASCTE offers core classes, as well as additional topic-specific classes related to cyber, technology, and engineering. These classes include Mathematics, Science, English, History, Cyber, and Engineering. There are three terms in a school year, and each class (except for 401 classes) takes two terms to complete. This allows students to do four years of classes in three years.
The last year of a students time at ASCTE is spent doing an internship at one of ASCTE's several sponsors. Notable sponsors include Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Leidos, and Raytheon. This is preceded by a capstone project, which is chosen by the student.
Student life
ASCTE students can choose to either live on campus in a dormitory, or to migrate themselves to and from the school. Residential students do not have to pay for boarding unless they live near the ASCTE building. Food is also provided for all students free of charge, as well as tuition. Activities are regularly hosted, although most events are exclusive to residential students.
References
High schools in Huntsville, Alabama
Educational institutions established in 2018
Schools in Madison County, Alabama
2018 establishments in Alabama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig%20Latin%20%28disambiguation%29 | Pig Latin is a linguistic game that makes use of the English language.
Pig Latin may also refer to:
Pig Latin, the programming language used by Apache Pig
"Pig Latin", a song by Baboon on the album Something Good Is Going to Happen to You |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%20Broadcasters | Grant Broadcasters is an Australian regional radio network. Founded in 1942, by 2019 it owned 53 radio stations. In 2022, it sold 46 to Here, There & Everywhere, retaining shareholdings in seven in Canberra, Geelong, Goulburn and Perth.
History
Grant Broadcasters was founded by Walter Grant in 1942 when he bought 2DU in Dubbo. In 1972, a shareholding in 2ST in Nowra was purchased followed in 1979 by 2PK in Parkes and in 1982 2MG in Mudgee. In 1986, 2DU, 2PK and 2MG were sold with full ownership taken of 2ST. Over the next three decades, the company expanded through acquisition, purchasing radio stations in all states and territories of Australia, owning 53 stations by November 2021. In November 2021, Grant Broadcasters agreed terms to sell 46 stations to Here, There & Everywhere (HTE). The deal was finalised on 4 January 2022, with HTE integrating the stations purchased into its ARN Regional business. As part of the sale, Grant Broadcasters took a 12% shareholding in HTE.
Radio stations
Grant Broadcasters owns two radio stations outright:
Bay FM, Geelong
K Rock 95.5, Geelong
It also owns 50% in five stations in a joint venture with Capital Radio Network.
Eagle FM, Goulburn
2CA, Canberra
2CC, Canberra
GNFM, Goulburn
6IX, Perth
Investments
Here, There & Everywhere (12%)
References
External links
Company website
Australian radio networks
Companies based in Sydney
Mass media companies established in 1942
1942 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20encryption | Structured encryption (STE) is a form of encryption that encrypts a data structure so that it can be privately queried. Structured encryption can be used as a building block to design end-to-end encrypted databases, efficient searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) and other algorithms that can be efficiently executed on encrypted data.
Description
A structured encryption scheme is a symmetric-key encryption scheme that encrypts a data structure in such a way that, given the key and a query , one can generate a query token with which the encrypted data structure can be queried. If the STE scheme is dynamic then it also supports update operations like inserts and deletes. There are several forms of STE including response-revealing STE where the response to the query is output in plaintext and response-hiding where the response to the query is output in encrypted form. STE schemes guarantee that no information about the data or queries can be recovered from the encrypted data structure and tokens beyond a well-specified and "reasonable" leakage profile.
STE schemes with a variety of leakage profiles have been designed for a wide array of abstract data types and data structures including arrays, multi-maps, dictionaries and graphs.
STE is closely related to but different than searchable symmetric encryption. The purpose of SSE is to encrypt document collections in such a way that keyword search can still be executed on the encrypted documents whereas the purpose of STE is to encrypt data structures in such a way that queries can still be executed over the encrypted structure. Certain types of STE schemes like multi-map encryption schemes can be used to design sub-linear and optimal SSE schemes.
References
Cryptographic primitives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20Age%3A%20Scrat%20Tales | Ice Age: Scrat Tales is an American computer-animated series of shorts produced by Blue Sky Studios, which premiered on Disney+ on April 13, 2022. It is a spin-off of the Ice Age franchise and the first series of shorts in the franchise. It is also the final production from Blue Sky Studios to be released by 20th Century Studios following the studio's closure on April 10, 2021. The series focuses on Scrat, a saber-toothed squirrel who discovers that he has a son.
Cast
Chris Wedge as Scrat
Kari Wahlgren as Baby Scrat
Production
Development
On February 22, 2022, which would have been Blue Sky Studios's 35th anniversary, the series was officially announced, with a release date of April 13, 2022. A teaser poster, the cast and crew, and promotional stills were also revealed and provided in press reports.
Animation
Unlike most Blue Sky Studios projects which use the studio's in-house software CGI Studio, the series was produced using Pixar RenderMan, becoming the first and only confirmed Blue Sky Studios production to utilize the software, as CGI Studio was being phased out in favor of RenderMan. In an interview, Michael Knapp added that as a result, they had to remodel Scrat by re-furring, re-materializing and re-rigging the character. Production was also impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing animators to work remotely. Knapp also went on to state that they were aware of The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild being produced without the involvement of the studio around the same time production on the series occurred.
Music
Batu Sener composed the musical score, with John Powell composing the end titles; Sener was also a composer on the Ice Age film The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022), while Powell composed the Ice Age films The Meltdown (2006), Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), and Continental Drift (2012). The soundtrack was released on March 25, 2022, by Hollywood Records.
Release
The series was released as a Disney+ original series on April 13, 2022.
"The End"
On April 13, the same release date that had been announced for the series, an unlisted video, simply titled The End, was uploaded by a former Blue Sky Studios employee onto YouTube, whose account went under the name Finale. The short, which was separate from the series, ended the infamous running gag by featuring Scrat finally achieving his dream of eating an acorn with no catches, and then scurrying off screen, presumably to find adventure elsewhere. The short was allegedly the final piece of animation made by Blue Sky Studios before their closure in 2021, made by a small team of animators to serve as "a send off on their own terms." The scene quickly went viral on the Internet which led to widespread coverage from major news sites, as they had reported that it finally left closure to Scrat's 20-year on-screen battle, in-which he ultimately accomplished his goal.
Episodes
Every short is directed by Donnie Long, but co-directors are credited alongside him.
Reception
Critical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr%20Skowron | Piotr Skowron is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw. He is known for his research in artificial intelligence (AI) and theoretical computer science, especially for his work on social choice, and committee elections.
Biography
Piotr Skowron received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Warsaw in 2015. His doctoral dissertation won the runner-up for IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford (2016), and at the Technical University of Berlin (2017), where he was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2018, he joined the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at University of Warsaw as a faculty member.
Research and awards
In 2022, Piotr Skowron won the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, given yearly since 1971 to an outstanding AI researcher under the age of 35, for "his contributions to computational social choice, and to the theory of committee elections".
References
External links
Home page at the University of Warsaw.
Citations on Google Scholar.
Living people
1985 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%C3%A3o%20da%20Globo | Plantão da Globo is the title of the breaking news segment of TV Globo that, normally, interrupts the programming of the broadcaster to report last-minute news, that have some importance to society. In accordance with the original format, it is produced and presented by journalists that are on duty in the broadcaster and that are called for that.
The title sequence consists of a 3D animation of several news microphones and cameras orbiting around and then flying towards the screen, with the Plantão theme music playing along.
Due to the relatively rare occurrence of this format (normally seen only a few times a year), the alarming music, and the wide cultural association of Plantão breaking news title with shocking events or disasters, it is largely feared by Brazilian viewers.
Exhibition
The current format, with characteristic music and title sequence, was first transmitted on August 19, 1991, bringing news that the United States had ceased all economic aid to the USSR. Currently, the Plantão has technical collaboration from Globo News, mainly during dawn and in weekends. Currently, the program is exhibited simultaneously in both channels at once, under the supervision of the Globo Journalism Directorate.
The program is transmitted live across Brazil, even in states with different time zones to Brasilia Time that transmit the normal programming in a shifted time. Because of this, there has been occurrences where the bulletin has interrupted a time-shifted newscast, in which the presenter of said newscast is the presenter of the Plantão.
Impact
It is the oldest and most famous known extra (journalistic language) in Brazil, having reported almost all major news events of the last 30 years, such as wars, deaths, natural disasters, accidents, sequesters, historical occurrences, terrorist attacks, political events, across the world. Along with the audio - inspired in the title sequence of Repórter Esso, from Rede Tupi, composed by then maestro of TV Globo, João Nabuco, the title sequence and outro, created by Hans Donner, is iconic and known characteristic of the newscast, that has a certain influence over journalism and national behavior. Normally, everything that is shown in the Plantão is shown on other newscasts. Images made live in Brazil have already been retransmitted by big international news channels, such as CNN's Breaking News during the kidnapping of bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro and in the TAM 3054 accident in São Paulo. Among all of the facts broadcast to this day, the most remembered is the September 11 attacks, both by the impact of the news, as well as for the "mystery" of which program was interrupted that day by the newscast, with many urban legends saying the program interrupted was an episode of Dragon Ball Z (though there is a lack of evidence for this, suggesting it's a case of the Mandela Effect).
With the advent of social media, the Plantão da Globo has become the most talked about subject from the moment it's put on air, b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia%20Fahmy | Sonia Amin Fahmy is a computer scientist specializing in computer networking, including network architectures and communication protocols, and particularly known for her work on clustering in wireless ad hoc networks. She is a professor of computer science at Purdue University.
Education and career
Fahmy studied computer science as an undergraduate at The American University in Cairo, graduating in 1992. After working for two years as a software engineer in Egypt, she went to the Ohio State University for graduate study in computer science, earning a master's degree there in 1996 and completing her Ph.D. in 1999. Her dissertation, Traffic Management for Point-to-Point and Multipoint Available Bit Rate (ABR) Service in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Networks, was supervised by Rajendra Jain.
She joined the Purdue University faculty as an assistant professor in 1999, earned tenure as an associate professor there in 2005, and was promoted to full professor in 2011. She was named a University Faculty Scholar for 2015–2020.
Recognition
In 2022, Fahmy was named an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to design and evaluation of network protocols and sensor networks".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Computer networking people
The American University in Cairo alumni
Ohio State University alumni
Purdue University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%20in%20Spanish%20television | This is a list of Spanish television related events in 1984.
Events
16 January: TV3, Catalonia’s Regional Television channel is launched. It is the second time a Television Network other than the State-owned TVE broadcasts in Spain, after Euskal Telebista.
5 May: Bravo represent Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984, hold in Luxembourg ranking 3rd with their song Lady, Lady which receives 106 points.
Debuts
Television shows
La 1
Ending this year
La 1
Foreign series debuts in Spain
Births
24 January - Belén Cuesta, actress
3 February -
Sara Carbonero, journalist
Silvia Laplana, meteorologist
15 June - Javier Hernández, actor
18 June - Sara Rancaño, journalist
22 June - José Yélamo, journalist
24 June - Javier Ambrossi, actor, producer and director
6 July - Andrea Ropero, journalist
14 July - Adriana Abenia, actress & hostess.
30 July - Marco Martínez, actor
16 August - Sofía Nieto, actress
18 August - David Carrillo, actor & host
20 October - Elio González, actor
28 December - Maggie Civantos, actress
30 December - David Broncano, host
Cristina Cruz Mínguez, actress
Sara Rancaño, journalist
Deaths
13 April - Mary Delgado, actress, 67
23 August - Héctor Quiroga, journalist, 51
10 September - Ismael Merlo, actor, 66
See also
List of Spanish films of 1984
References
1984 in Spanish television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Query | Power Query is an ETL tool created by Microsoft for data extraction, loading and transformation, and is used to retrieve data from sources, process it, and load them into one or more target systems. Power Query is available in several variations within the Microsoft Power Platform, and is used for business intelligence on fully or partially self-service platforms. It is found in software such as Excel, Power BI, Analysis Services, Dataverse, Power Apps, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Dynamics 365, and in cloud services such as Microsoft Dataflows, including Power BI Dataflow used with the online Power BI Service or the somewhat more generic version of Microsoft Dataflow used with Power Automate.
ETL is closely related to data modeling, and for transformation, Power Query can be used to develop a logical data model in those cases where the data does not already have one, or where there is a need to further develop the data model.
History
Power Query was included as an additional feature in Power Pivot (used for making pivot tables, and more) in Excel 2010 and 2013. In Excel 2016, the function was renamed Get & Transform for a short time, but has since been named Power Query again.
M Formula language
Power Query is built on what was then a new query language language called M. It is a mashup language (hence the letter M) designed to create queries that mix together data. It is similar to the F Sharp programming language, and according to Microsoft it is a "mostly pure, higher-order, dynamically typed, partially lazy, functional language." The M language is case-sensitive.
Much of the user interaction with Power Query can be done via graphical user interfaces with wizards, and this can be used for many common or basic tasks. It is also possible to use the advanced editing mode where the developer can write in the M formula language; this gives greater expressive power, more possibilities, and can also be used to change the code generated by the graphical wizards.
Let function
A Power Query written in M consists of a let expression where data and expressions can be referenced between each other, and an in expression which contains the output. Lines in the let expression (which are also called steps) are separated by a comma at the end of each line, except for the last line. Comments are written in C-style, with inline comments beginning with a forward slash (/) symbol, while block comments which can span multiple lines are delimited by /* and */. The M language is powerful and is sometimes necessary for performing certain forms of queries, but for many common tasks, however, users can also often interact with Power Query through the graphical user interfaces without directly working with the M language.
DirectQuery
In Power BI, use of M-code is somewhat limited in DirectQuery, as opposed to Import which has all capabilities. This is due to the requirement that M-code in DirectQuery has to be translated into SQL at runtime.
Query Folding
Query |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror%20descent | In mathematics, mirror descent is an iterative optimization algorithm for finding a local minimum of a differentiable function.
It generalizes algorithms such as gradient descent and multiplicative weights.
History
Mirror descent was originally proposed by Nemirovski and Yudin in 1983.
Motivation
In gradient descent with the sequence of learning rates applied to a differentiable function , one starts with a guess for a local minimum of and considers the sequence such that
This can be reformulated by noting that
In other words, minimizes the first-order approximation to at with added proximity term .
This squared Euclidean distance term is a particular example of a Bregman distance. Using other Bregman distances will yield other algorithms such as Hedge which may be more suited to optimization over particular geometries.
Formulation
We are given convex function to optimize over a convex set , and given some norm on .
We are also given differentiable convex function , -strongly convex with respect to the given norm. This is called the distance-generating function, and its gradient is known as the mirror map.
Starting from initial , in each iteration of Mirror Descent:
Map to the dual space:
Update in the dual space using a gradient step:
Map back to the primal space:
Project back to the feasible region : , where is the Bregman divergence.
Extensions
Mirror descent in the online optimization setting is known as Online Mirror Descent (OMD).
See also
Gradient descent
Multiplicative weight update method
Hedge algorithm
Bregman divergence
References
Mathematical optimization
Optimization algorithms and methods
Gradient methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook%20Pro%20%28Apple%20silicon%29 | The MacBook Pro with Apple silicon is a line of Macintosh notebook computers first introduced in November 2020 by Apple Inc. It is the higher-end model of the MacBook family, sitting above the consumer-focused MacBook Air, and is currently sold with 14-inch and 16-inch screens. All models use Apple-designed M series systems on a chip.
The first MacBook Pro with Apple silicon, based on the Apple M1, was released in November 2020.
The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros were released in October 2021. Powered by either M1 Pro or M1 Max chips, they are the first to be available only with an Apple silicon system on a chip. These models re-introduced elements from previous revisions which were removed in the 2016 Touch Bar MacBook Pro, such as MagSafe and hardware function keys.
13-inch with Touch Bar (2020–2023)
On November 10, 2020, Apple introduced a 13-inch MacBook Pro with two Thunderbolt ports based on the Apple M1 system on a chip, launched alongside an updated MacBook Air and Mac Mini as the first Macs with Apple's new line of custom ARM-based Apple silicon chips. The M1 13-inch MacBook Pro is externally identical to the previous Intel model. It adds support for Wi-Fi 6, USB4, and 6K output to run the Pro Display XDR. The number of supported external displays was reduced to one, as the previous Intel-based models supported two 4K displays. The FaceTime camera remains 720p but Apple advertises an improved image signal processor that came with the M1 for higher quality video.
On June 6, 2022, at WWDC 2022, Apple introduced the 13-inch MacBook Pro with two Thunderbolt ports based on the Apple M2 chip, instead of last generation M1. This launched alongside an updated MacBook Air, with a new design, and also with the M2 chip. The specifications of the M2 MacBook Pro are almost the same, but it supports up to 24 GB of unified memory. The 13-inch Touch Bar MacBook Pro was discontinued on October 30, 2023.
Reception
CNN's review of the M2 MacBook Pro was generally positive, praising it as "one of the fastest laptops ever", but criticized some aspects of the design, noting the lower-priced M2 MacBook Air has a higher-resolution webcam, larger display and MagSafe charging. Testing by reviewers found the Solid-state drive in the base 256 GB M2 model to be significantly slower (read speeds 50% slower and write speeds 30% slower) than the 256 GB M1 model due to only having one NAND chip as opposed to two. Apple later confirmed to The Verge that the M2 MacBook Air with the same 256 GB storage also lacked a second NAND chip.
Technical specifications
14-inch and 16-inch (2021–present)
At an online event on October 18, 2021, Apple announced redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models. They are based on the M1 Pro and M1 Max, Apple's second ARM-based systems on a chip and their first professional-focused chips. The new models addressed many criticisms of the Touch Bar MacBook Pro by re-introducing hard function keys in place of the Touch Bar, an HD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook%20Pro%20%28Intel-based%29 | The Intel-based MacBook Pro is a discontinued line of Macintosh notebook computers sold by Apple Inc. from 2006 to 2021. It was the higher-end model of the MacBook family, sitting above the consumer-focused MacBook Air, and was sold with 13-inch to 17-inch screens.
The MacBook Pro line launched in 2006 as an Intel-based replacement for the PowerBook line. The first MacBook Pro used an aluminum chassis similar to the PowerBook G4, but replaced the PowerPC G4 chips with Intel Core processors, added a webcam, and introduced the MagSafe power connector. The unibody model debuted in October 2008, so-called because its case was machined from a single piece of aluminum. It had a thinner, flush display, a redesigned trackpad whose entire surface consisted of a single clickable button, and a redesigned keyboard.
The retina MacBook Pro was released in 2012: it is thinner, made solid-state drive (SSD) standard, added HDMI, and included a high-resolution Retina display. It eliminated Ethernet and FireWire ports and the optical drive. The Touch Bar MacBook Pro - so-called because of its Touch Bar strip with a Touch ID sensor - released in October 2016, adopted USB-C for all data ports and power and included a shallower "butterfly"-mechanism keyboard. A November 2019 revision to the Touch Bar MacBook Pro introduced the Magic Keyboard, which used a scissor-switch mechanism.
The Intel-based MacBook Pros was succeeded by Apple silicon MacBook Pros beginning in 2020 as part of the Mac transition to Apple silicon. On November 10, 2020, Apple discontinued the two-port 13-inch model following the release of a new model based on the Apple M1. The 16-inch and four-port 13-inch models were discontinued on October 18, 2021, following the release of 14-inch and 16-inch models based on the M1 Pro and M1 Max.
Aluminum (2006–2008)
The original 15-inch MacBook Pro was announced on January 10, 2006, by Steve Jobs at the Macworld Conference & Expo. The 17-inch model was unveiled on April 24, 2006. The first design was largely a carryover from the PowerBook G4, but uses Intel Core CPUs instead of PowerPC G4 chips. The 15-inch MacBook Pro weighs the same as the 15-inch aluminum PowerBook G4, but is deeper, wider, and thinner. Other changes from the PowerBook include a built-in iSight webcam and the inclusion of MagSafe, a magnetic power connector designed to detach easily when yanked. These features were later brought over to the MacBook. The optical drive was shrunk to fit into the slimmer MacBook Pro; it runs slower than the optical drive in the PowerBook G4 and cannot write to dual-layer DVDs.
Both the original 15- and 17-inch model MacBook Pro computers come with ExpressCard/34 slots, which replace the PC Card slots found in the PowerBook G4. Initial aluminum 15-inch models retains the two USB 2.0 ports and a FireWire 400 port but drops the FireWire 800, until it was readded in a later revision, the 17-inch models have an additional USB 2.0 port, as well as the Fir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T7%20Bristol%E2%80%93Chepstow | The T7 is a bus service which operated between Bristol and Chepstow. It is part of the TrawsCymru network.
History
The service was introduced as a partial replacement for the Severn Express, which was withdrawn after 14 June 2020. It began operating on 15 June 2020 on a six-month trial basis and was initially numbered X7. It operated during weekdays only and was operated by NAT Group.
Following a tendering process, the route passed from NAT Group to Newport Bus in January 2021. At this time, the route was also renumbered T7 and it began running seven days per week.
From 1 November 2021, Newport Bus started funding a third vehicle on the route in an attempt to improve service reliability. On 30 January 2022, journeys were allowed more time in response to congestion. The following month, the Welsh Government pledged to fund the third vehicle.
Route
The route runs at an hourly frequency from Monday to Saturday, and runs four times in each direction on Sunday. Starting at Chepstow bus station, the route runs through the residential areas of Bulwark and Thornwell and then runs non-stop to Cribbs Causeway via M48 Severn Bridge, M4 and M5. After Cribbs Causeway, the bus runs along the A4018 which takes it through Westbury-on-Trym, across The Downs and Clifton, it then goes past the Bristol Royal Infirmary and then terminates at the end of Marlborough Street in Bristol City Centre.
On weekdays and Saturdays, two early morning journeys towards Bristol start at Magor and call at Rogiet, Caldicot, and Portskewett, before continuing to Chepstow and Bristol, and two evening journeys towards Chepstow continue to Magor. On Sundays, the first journey of the day starts at Magor while the last continues to Magor after Chepstow.
References
Bus routes in England
Bus routes in Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20Agriculture%20Competition | Smart Agriculture Competition is an annual greenhouse challenge and agricultural productivity competition launched by the largest agriculture technology platform Pinduoduo to encourage the use of data-driven tools to improve agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability.
The competition has the support of The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Wageningen University & Research (WUR), which are providing technical guidance. It is co-organized by China Agricultural University and Zhejiang University.
Foundation
Agriculture-focused technology platform Pinduoduo hosted the inaugural competition in 2020, which attracted hundreds of young digital agricultural scientists from over 10 countries as well as many top growers in China to cultivate strawberries using artificial intelligence technology in greenhouses. The competition was judged by experts from countries including the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Italy and China.
According to The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), "In 2020’s inaugural competition, the four technology teams employed data analysis, intelligent sensors and greenhouse automation to grow strawberries, and its output weight was 196% higher than that of the traditional farmers’ team on average. They also outperformed the traditional teams in terms of cost effectiveness by an average of 75.5%. Two of the technology teams have started to commercialize their technology after the competition, resulting in real-life gains in productivity for local farmers."
In 2020’s inaugural competition CyberFarmer-HortiGraph, announced as the winners of the inaugural Pinduoduo Smart Agriculture Competition-2020. It was reported that the "CyberFarmer-HortiGraph team outperformed traditional farmers by using algorithms and state-of-art greenhouse technology to remotely grow the best strawberry crops with the highest economic benefit".
Current competition 2021
In August 2021, The Smart Agriculture Competition-2021 was announced. Four finalist teams TomaGrow, HortiAI, CyberTomato, Hamato have been selected from 15 international teams for the final round of the Smart Agriculture Competition taking place at Pinduoduo's smart greenhouse base. The teams have to grow tomatoes within six months using various technologies such as nutritional modeling, growing environment control, and algorithmic controls to produce high-quality, nutritious, and high-yield tomatoes through green and sustainable practices. The teams must also demonstrate the commercial viability of their solutions.
Among the teams that took part in the competition is one from the University of Southern Denmark. The competition is an opportunity for the Danish agricultural community to learn more about China and contribute to its agricultural modernization drive, according to Thomas Hansen, the Danish Attache for Higher Education, Science, and Innovation to China. A multi-discipline team from Wageningen University & Research, the “knowledge he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lypetske | Lypetske (; ), is a village in Podilsk Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to Podilsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is 3740 people.
History
According to data for 1859 in the state village of Ananyiv District of Kherson Province lived 2542 people (1288 males and 1254 - females), there were 428 households, there was an Orthodox Church.
As of 1886, the former state village of Gandrabur Parish had 3,039 inhabitants, 589 yards, and an Orthodox church and school.
According to the 1897 census, the population grew to 5,446 (2,740 males and 2,706 females), of whom 5,188 were Orthodox.
At least 415 villagers died during the Soviet Holodomor of 1932–1933.
According to the 1989 census of the Ukrainian SSR, the current population of the village was 4,627, of whom 2,028 were men and 2,599 women.
According to the 2001 census of Ukraine, 3740 people lived in the village.
On 24 February 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a military facility in Lipetske was bombed by the Russian military, resulting in the death of 18 people.
Language
Population distribution by mother tongue according to the 2001 census:
Notable people
Kirill Ilyashenko (1915–1980), Soviet Moldavian politician
Vasyl Spinatiev (1920–after 1970), Soviet and Ukrainian cinematographer
References
Villages in Podilsk Raion
Romanian communities in Ukraine
Podilsk urban hromada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20over | Power over may refer to various forms of powering devices over data links:
Power over eSATA (eSATAp), a variant of eSATA also delivering power over the same cable (but not the same wires inside the cable)
Power over Ethernet (PoE), a method to power devices over their Ethernet cable (shared wires for data and power)
Power over fiber (PoF), delivering power over optical (data) links (shared fibers for data and power)
Power over LAN, a PoE-predecessor originally by PowerDsine, now Microsemi (shared wires for data and power)
See also
1-Wire, an electrical interface for power and data transmission over two wires
Phantom power, shared wires for analog electrical signals and power
Power-line communication (PLC), data transmission over mains power supply
PoweredUSB, a proprietary high power delivering variant of USB
USB Power Delivery Specification (USB PD), high power delivery over (standard) USB
Wireless power transfer (WPT), energy transmission via magnetic fields or electromagnetic waves
Overpower |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muki%20Haklay | Muki Haklay FAcSS is Professor of Geographical Information Science at the Department of Geography in University College London (UCL).
Education
Haklay received a BSc in Computer Science and Geography in 1994 and an MA in Geography in 1997 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Haklay was awarded a PhD in Geography in 2002 from UCL.
Career
In 2001 Haklay joined UCL as a lecturer and was promoted to a professor in 2011.
He is recognised for his work in citizen science and on volunteered geographic information, including one of the earliest publication on OpenStreetMap, and a study of the quality of OpenStreetMap data, demonstrating that it is of high quality.
In the field of citizen science, authored a policy report for the Wilson Centre entitled “Citizen Science and Policy: A European Perspective”, and developed the widely cited typology of citizen science activities. The typology was used in policy reports by the UN Environmental Programme and by the European Commission.
Haklay is the Co-director of the Extreme Citizen Science group at UCL, which is dedicated to the development of technologies and methodologies to allow any community, regardless of their literacy, to use scientific methods and tools to collect, analyse, interpret and use information about their area and activities. He also co-founded the social enterprise Mapping for Change, which is dedicated to community mapping and citizen science.
Haklay is the associate Editor-in-chief of the journal Citizen Science: Theory and Practice.
Haklay has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences FAcSS (2021).
Publications
Haklay has authored and co-authored over 250 academic papers and several books including an important comprehensive book about Human-Computer Interaction in Geographic Information science (GIScience), and books about citizen science and VGI including “European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information” (2016), and Citizen Science as well as conference presentations and other output including 5 edited books, 40 chapters in edited collections, 75 peer-review journal publications, and further 45 refereed conference papers.
External links
UCL Extreme Citizen Science group
References
Date of birth missing (living people)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Alumni of University College London
Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
21st-century geographers
OpenStreetMap people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa%20dos%20Campe%C3%B5es%20Mundiais | The Copa dos Campeões Mundiais (), was a tournament organized by the Brazilian television network Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (SBT) with the consent of CBF featuring Brazilian clubs that were previously successful in the conquest of the Intercontinental Cup. The competition was inspired by the same precedents that CONMEBOL used for the Supercopa Libertadores, which contained champions from past editions of the Copa Libertadores.
Despite being considered a friendly tournament, their matches were officially assigned to the CBF calendar for the three years in which the tournament was held.
Eligible clubs
Only four clubs had won the Interncontinental Cup until the tournament came into being realized:
Format
The tournament was played in round-robin in its first stage, followed by a final between the top two clubs. The tournament matches were played mostly in the Brazilian Midwest region, in the cities of Cuiabá, Brasília and Campo Grande. The city of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, also hosted games in the 1995 edition.
The tournament was held during the months of June or July.
List of champions
References
Intercontinental Cup (football)
Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão
Recurring sporting events established in 1995
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Kiriyenko | Vladimir Sergeevich Kiriyenko (; born 27 May 1983) is a Russian business executive and media manager who is the CEO of VK, a popular Russian social networking service. He previously served as vice president of Rostelecom, one of Russia's leading long-distance telephone providers. Kiriyenko is the son of Kremlin official Sergey Kiriyenko.
Early life and education
Kiriyenko was born 27 May 1983, in Nizhny Novgorod. He is the son of Sergey Kiriyenko. Kiriyenko graduated from the Higher School of Economics in 2005. He completed an executive Master of Business Administration from the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in 2014.
Career
From 2005 to 2011, he was the chairman of the board of directors of the VolgaTelecom and a member and chairman of the board of directors of Sarovbusinessbank. From 2008 to 2011, Kiriyenko was head of the board of directors of Nizhegorodpromstroybank. In 2011, he became chairman of Capital LLC, and in 2013 led venture capital (VC) firm Titanium Investments.
In 2016, Kiriyenkov succeeded Larisa Tkachuk as the vice president of Rostelecom. In December 2021, he became CEO of VK following the resignation of .
Sanctions
In February 2022, Kiriyenko was sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury and added to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List.
Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.
On 8 March 2022, Kiriyenko was sanctioned by the European Union.
Personal life
Kiriyenko is married and has a son.
References
1983 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Nizhny Novgorod
Rostelecom
Higher School of Economics alumni
Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO alumni
Russian individuals subject to the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions
Russian individuals subject to European Union sanctions
Russian individuals subject to United Kingdom sanctions
Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List
21st-century Russian businesspeople
Russian people of Jewish descent
Russian people of Ukrainian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Book%20Pro | Samsung Galaxy Book Pro is a notebook computer announced by Samsung Electronics in April 2021. This device has a 13.3 inch display with 1080p display and 720p webcam.
References
Samsung Galaxy
Computer-related introductions in 2021
Samsung laptops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voicemeeter | Voicemeeter is a virtual mixing console and sound card running on the Windows operating system. It allows the processing of any audio signal – whether its source is physical (microphone) or virtual (application) – and its transmission to physical audio devices and/or applications.
Voicemeeter offers many useful features for audio activities: VoIP users, video gamers, users of audio software such as VLC media player, Audacity, etc.
Three versions of the software are available: Voicemeeter (or "Voicemeeter Standard") which offers two physical and one virtual inputs/outputs, Voicemeeter Pro (called "Banana") with three physical and two virtual inputs/outputs, an integrated recorder and additional audio processing, and Voicemeeter "Potato" offering five physical and three virtual inputs/outputs.
Distributed according to the donationware model, the application can be downloaded for free.
Features
Virtual mixing console
As a virtual mixing console, Voicemeeter makes it possible to interconnect and mix audio streams from many audio devices and applications thanks to the concept of physical inputs/outputs (for audio devices) and virtual inputs/outputs (for applications): USB microphone, DVD players, video games, iTunes, VoIP applications, Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), etc.
Aggregation of audio devices and applications
Voicemeeter makes it possible to mix multiple audio sources from different devices, such as a USB microphone or line input, with the sound of PC applications, such as a video player.
Voicemeeter Standard offers two physical inputs and one virtual input.
Voicemeeter Banana offers three physical inputs and two virtual ones.
Voicemeeter Potato offers five physical inputs and three virtual ones.
Mixing and real-time processing
Just like a physical mixing console, Voicemeeter allows you to mix and process the different signals in real time with, in particular, equalizers, compressors and noise gates ("Audibility" button for Voicemeeter Standard), and gain controls materialized by vertical sliders.
For the physical inputs, the Intellipan offers equalizers presented in the form of a two-dimensional panel allowing the rapid and almost instinctive correction of the intelligibility of the voice. In addition, Voicemeeter Banana has an advanced independent equalizer on each of the bus outputs.
Multiple outputs
The generated audio signals can then be sent separately to several physical (speakers, television, Bluetooth ...) or virtual (Skype, Audacity, OBS, Twitch...) playback devices.
Voicemeeter Standard has one physical output and one virtual output.
Voicemeeter Banana has three physical outputs and two virtual outputs.
Voicemeeter Potato has five physical outputs and three virtual outputs.
Voicemeeter thus makes it easy, for example, to change your voice, add music and send all in a conversation via Skype or play 5.1 video games while conversing with your team.
Built-in recording
Voicemeeter Banana integrates an audio recorder, in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20overnight%20broadcasting%20in%20the%20UK | This is a timeline of overnight television broadcasting in the United Kingdom. It focuses on programming between midnight and 6am and includes details of when channels began into the night and 24-hour broadcasting.
1980s
1983
LWT becomes the first station in the UK to begin broadcasting into the night when it launches Nightlife, resulting in LWT staying on air until around 2am on Friday and Saturday nights.
1984
4–12 August – During the second week of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, the BBC extends its live coverage until around 4am. Rather than closing down, the BBC fills the gap with Ceefax Olympics AM which provides news from the Games to fill the gap between the end of live coverage and the start of Olympic Breakfast Time.
1985
No events.
1986
2 April – Central launches a Jobfinder service which airs for one hour after the end of the day's programming. It becomes the first in-vision teletext service to be seen on ITV.
9 August – Yorkshire launches an experimental overnight service, simulcasting the satellite TV channel Music Box. YTV carries Music Box until 6am when there is a brief break in transmission as in 1986, TV-am wasn't starting its broadcast day until 6.15 (weekdays) and 6.55 (weekends).
1987
3 January – Closedowns reappear on Yorkshire when its experiment with 24-hour television is put on hiatus.
13 January – Yorkshire becomes the second ITV region to launch a Jobfinder service which also airs for an hour after closedown.
23 April
Channel 4 starts broadcasting into the early hours on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays when it launches Nightime. One of the programmes is the discussion show After Dark which was broadcast live and with no scheduled end time.
Yorkshire extends broadcasting into the early hours on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights by introducing a Through Till Three strand.
25 April – Central becomes the first station to keep its transmitters on air all night on a permanent basis when it launches More Central. Programmes are shown until around 3am on weekdays and 4am at the weekend, with the rest of the night filled by its Jobfinder service.
1 June – Thames launches Thames Into the Night, broadcasting until around 4am. This programme extension co-insides with the cessation of Thames's end of day epilogue Night Thoughts.
17 August – Thames becomes the first ITV company to launch a full 24-hour service.
28 August
LWT and Anglia begin 24-hour transmissions.
LWT launches the UK's first overnight show Night Network.
7 December – Tyne Tees begins 24-hour broadcasting. It does so by launching a Jobfinder service which airs each night from its usual closedown time until the start of TV-am at 6am.
1988
25 January – TVS launches Late Night Late and gradually extends its broadcast hours over the next few months.
15 February
Channel 4 starts broadcasting into the early hours every night, closing down between 2am and 3am. Previously, Channel 4 had closed down on Sundays to Wednesdays at between midnight and 1am.
An ea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty%20Computer%20%28film%29 | Dirty Computer is a 2018 dystopian musical science fiction film. It serves as a visual companion to Dirty Computer, the third studio album by Janelle Monáe. Billed as an "emotion picture", Dirty Computer tells the story of android Jane 57821 and her struggles as she "attempts to break free from the constraints of a totalitarian society that forcibly makes [her] comply with its homophobic beliefs". The film was produced by Wondaland, Monáe's multimedia production company, and was directed by Andrew Donoho and Chuck Lightning, with the music video portions of the film directed by Donoho ("Django Jane"), Lacey Duke ("I Like That"), Alan Ferguson ("Crazy, Classic, Life", "Make Me Feel"), and Emma Westenberg ("Pynk", "Screwed").
Cast
Janelle Monáe as Jane 57821
Tessa Thompson as May Apple #53 / Zen
Jayson Aaron as Ché
Michele Hart as Virgin Victoria
Dyson Posey as Cleaner #1
Jonah Lees as Cleaner #2
Angel Blaise as Computer
Lori Dorfman as David Bowie
Alexis Long as BMX rider
Miesha Moore as Black Girl Magic Dancer
Oliver Morton as Scream Police
Jannica Olin as Dirty Computer
Marlo Su as Dirty
Alex Wexo as Scream Police
Andi Yuma as Punk
Analysis
Dirty Computer was described as a film that explores "humanity and what truly happens to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness when mind and machines merge, and when the government chooses fear over freedom" in a press release announcing the release of the director's cut. The film explores several hallmarks of identity and expression, including gender, personhood, race and sexuality, as well as several motifs commonly found in science fiction films such as androids, dystopian government, and memory erasure.
Release
Dirty Computer had a cross-channel premiere on MTV, BET, and their sister channels on April 26, 2018, one day before the release of its companion album. The film was then made available on YouTube at midnight EST to coincide with the release of the album. YouTube also held a special screening on April 27 at their YouTube Space facility in Los Angeles. The event, which was recorded and later posted on YouTube, featured ushers dressed as the 'Cleaners' from the film, and concluded with a Q&A session with Monáe.
On February 1, 2019, Wondaland released a director's cut of Dirty Computer that added an additional thirteen minutes of interviews with Monáe and the picture's creative teams. The extended cut is available to stream exclusively via Amazon Prime Video and Qello.
Critical response
In a review of the film, Tim Grierson of Rolling Stone called Dirty Computer a "timely new sci-fi masterpiece", noting that the "dazzling" and "visually arresting" release is "filled with sterling electro-pop from the [album], but its dense thematic nods to sci-fi landmarks aren’t meant simply as fun spot-the-reference Easter eggs". In a positive review for Thirty, Flirty + Film, Cate Young wrote that the film and its companion album "complement each other perfectly", adding that the two work t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion%20estimator%20algorithm | The quaternion estimator algorithm (QUEST) is an algorithm designed to solve Wahba's problem, that consists of finding a rotation matrix between two coordinate systems from two sets of observations sampled in each system respectively. The key idea behind the algorithm is to find an expression of the loss function for the Wahba's problem as a quadratic form, using the Cayley–Hamilton theorem and the Newton–Raphson method to efficiently solve the eigenvalue problem and construct a numerically stable representation of the solution.
The algorithm was introduced by Malcolm D. Shuster in 1981, while working at Computer Sciences Corporation. While being in principle less robust than other methods such as Davenport's q method or singular value decomposition, the algorithm is significantly faster and reliable in practical applications, and it is used for attitude determination problem in fields such as robotics and avionics.
Formulation of the problem
Wahba's problem consists of finding a rotation matrix that minimises the loss function
where are the vector observations in the reference frame, are the vector observations in the body frame, is a rotation matrix between the two frames, and are a set of weights such that . It is possible to rewrite this as a maximisation problem of a gain function
defined in such a way that the loss attains a minimum when is maximised. The gain can in turn be rewritten as
where is known as the attitude profile matrix.
In order to reduce the number of variables, the problem can be reformulated by parametrising the rotation as a unit quaternion with vector part and scalar part , representing the rotation of angle around an axis whose direction is described by the vector , subject to the unity constraint . It is now possible to express in terms of the quaternion parametrisation as
where is the skew-symmetric matrix
.
Substituting with the quaternion representation and simplifying the resulting expression, the gain function can be written as a quadratic form in
where the matrix
is defined from the quantities
This quadratic form can be optimised under the unity constraint by adding a Lagrange multiplier , obtaining an unconstrained gain function
that attains a maximum when
.
This implies that the optimal rotation is parametrised by the quaternion that is the eigenvector associated to the largest eigenvalue of .
Solution of the characteristic equation
The optimal quaternion can be determined by solving the characteristic equation of and constructing the eigenvector for the largest eigenvalue. From the definition of , it is possible to rewrite
as a system of two equations
where is the Rodrigues vector. Substituting in the second equation with the first, it is possible to derive an expression of the characteristic equation
.
Since , it follows that and therefore for an optimal solution (when the loss is small). This permits to construct the optimal quaternion by replacing in the Ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woven%20by%20Toyota%2C%20Inc. | Woven by Toyota, Inc. is the mobility technology subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, creating and managing the software for Toyota's vehicle operating system, automated driving, and safety. It has an investment fund, Woven Capital.
Description
Woven by Toyota, a subsidiary of the Toyota Motor Corporation, was formerly the Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development (TRI–AD), which had been established by Toyota in 2018. It was Woven Planet Holdings, Inc. in 2021 and in 2023 it became Woven by Toyota, Inc.
Woven by Toyota develops and maintains a mobility software platform and technologies for Toyota Woven City in Japan. Woven by Toyota former CEO and Representative Director James Kuffner said, "This is a pivotal moment for the industry when software can accelerate our progress toward an advanced mobility society. Woven by Toyota plays a critical role and our unique software platform will enable Toyota not only to build next generation BEVs, but also, expand the value of mobility across every aspect of our lives."
Woven Capital
Woven Capital is an US$800m (€676m) global investment fund, to support the work of Woven by Toyota. The fund is for investment in driverless car technologies, including "autonomous mobility, automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data and analytics, connectivity, and smart cities".
History
Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development (TRI–AD) began in 2018, a joint venture among Toyota, Denso, and Aisin to unify and strengthen Toyota's software for automated driving and safety. James Kuffner became the CEO.
In January 2021, Woven Planet Holdings, Inc. was established.
In April 2021, Woven by Toyota (then Woven Planet Holdings) agreed to acquire Lyft's Level 5 self-driving vehicle division. Financing included US$550 million in cash with $200 million paid upfront and $350 million of payments over five year period. Woven by Toyota CEO and Representative Director James Kuffner said the acquisition assembled "a dream team of world-class engineers and scientists to deliver safe mobility technology for the world".
In July 2021, Woven by Toyota (then Woven Planet Holdings) also acquired CARMERA, Inc. CARMERA "specializes in sophisticated road mapping updates made cheaper and faster by using crowdsourced information obtained in real time from millions of net-connected Toyota vehicles".
In September 2021, Woven by Toyota (then Woven Planet Holdings) acquired Renovo Motors, Inc., a Silicon Valley automotive operating system developer.
In April 2023, Woven Planet Holdings, Inc. was renamed to Woven by Toyota, Inc.
In October 2023, Hajime Kumabe became the CEO.
See also
Artificial intelligence
Automobile safety
Automotive navigation system
Autopilot
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Connected car
Hybrid navigation
List of self-driving system suppliers
Mobility as a service (transport)
Smart camera
Vehicle infrastructure integration
Vehicle safety technology
Woven City
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premio%20Lo%20Nuestro%202022 | The 34th Lo Nuestro Awards ceremony was held at the FTX Arena in Miami on February 24, 2022. Presented and televised by American television network Univision y Las Estrellas, the Lo Nuestro Awards recognized the most popular Spanish-language music of 2021 that was played on Uforia Audio Network during the year in 35 categories. Spanish singer David Bisbal, Mexican-American TV presenter Alejandra Espinoza, Mexican actor Gabriel Soto, and fellow Mexican singer Yuri hosted the ceremony.
Camilo, Christian Nodal, and J Balvin received the most nominations with ten. Bad Bunny received the most awards, with six, including Artist of the Year and Album of the Year for El Último Tour Del Mundo.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 34th Lo Nuestro Awards were announced digitally on January 25, 2022, by Univision. The winners are listed in bold.
General
Pop
Urban
Tropical
References
2022 music awards
2022 awards in the United States
Lo Nuestro Awards by year
2022 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20variance%20reduction | (Stochastic) variance reduction is an algorithmic approach to minimizing functions that can be decomposed into finite sums. By exploiting the finite sum structure, variance reduction techniques are able to achieve convergence rates that are impossible to achieve with methods that treat the objective as an infinite sum, as in the classical Stochastic approximation setting.
Variance reduction approaches are widely used for training machine learning models such as logistic regression and support vector machines as these problems have finite-sum structure and uniform conditioning that make them ideal candidates for variance reduction.
Finite sum objectives
A function is considered to have finite sum structure if it can be decomposed into a summation or average:
where the function value and derivative of each can be queried independently. Although variance reduction methods can be applied for any positive and any structure, their favorable theoretical and practical properties arise when is large compared to the condition number of each , and when the have similar (but not necessarily identical) Lipschitz smoothness and strong convexity constants.
The finite sum structure should be contrasted with the stochastic approximation setting which deals with functions of the form
which is the expected value of a function depending on a random variable . Any finite sum problem can be optimized using a stochastic approximation algorithm by using .
Rapid Convergence
Stochastic variance reduced methods without acceleration are able to find a minima of within accuracy , i.e. in a number of steps of the order:
The number of steps depends only logarithmically on the level of accuracy required, in contrast to the stochastic approximation framework, where the number of steps required grows proportionally to the accuracy required.
Stochastic variance reduction methods converge almost as fast as the gradient descent method's rate, despite using only a stochastic gradient, at a lower cost than gradient descent.
Accelerated methods in the stochastic variance reduction framework achieve even faster convergence rates, requiring only
steps to reach accuracy, potentially faster than non-accelerated methods. Lower complexity bounds. for the finite sum class establish that this rate is the fastest possible for smooth strongly convex problems.
Approaches
Variance reduction approaches fall within 3 main categories: table averaging methods, full-gradient snapshot methods and dual methods. Each category contains methods designed for dealing with convex, non-smooth, and non-convex problems, each differing in hyper-parameter settings and other algorithmic details.
SAGA
In the SAGA method, the prototypical table averaging approach, a table of size is maintained that contains the last gradient witnessed for each term, which we denote . At each step, an index is sampled, and a new gradient is computed. The iterate is updated with:
and afterwards table entry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT%20Army%20of%20Ukraine | The IT Army of Ukraine () is a volunteer cyberwarfare organisation created at the end of February 2022 to fight against digital intrusion of Ukrainian information and cyberspace after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The group also conducts offensive cyberwarfare operations, and Chief of Head of State Special Communications Service of Ukraine Victor Zhora said its enlisted hackers would only attack military targets.
Formation
On 26 February 2022, the Minister of Digital Transformation and First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mykhailo Fedorov announced the creation of the IT Army, which is mainly coordinating its efforts via Telegram and Twitter.
According to Reuters, the Ukrainian government asked for volunteers from the country's hacker underground to help protect critical infrastructure and conduct cyber spying missions against Russian troops. Yegor Aushev, the co-founder of a Ukrainian cybersecurity firm Hacken, wrote, "Ukrainian cybercommunity! It's time to get involved in the cyber defense of our country," asking hackers and cybersecurity experts to submit an application listing their specialties, such as malware development and professional references.
Aims
The volunteers who joined the group are divided into offensive and defensive cyber units. While the offensive volunteer unit would help Ukraine's military conduct digital espionage operations against invading Russian forces, the defensive unit would be employed to defend infrastructure such as power plants and water systems.
The Ukrainian government used Twitter and Telegram to share a list of Russian and Belarusian targets for the army to attack. Russian ransomware operators responded by offering their assistance to counter the Ukrainian effort.
Activities
Fedorov requested the assistance of cyber specialists and tweeted a Telegram with a list of 31 websites of Russian business and state organizations.
On 28 February 2022, the IT Army hacked the website of the Moscow Stock Exchange. The IT Army posted that it had taken them only five minutes to render the website inaccessible.
On the same day, the IT Army hacked the website of Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia. The IT Army had also launched attacks on other Russian and Belarusian sites, including the government websites of Russia and Belarus, the FSB and the Belarusian state news agency BelTA, among others.
According to Reuters, the group targets Russian power grids and railways to prevent Russian infrastructure from reaching Ukraine. This included technologies such as GLONASS.
Eight hundred Russian websites, including Roscosmos, were attacked by the IT Army, from June 27 to July 10. They posted congratulatory messages to Ukrainian Constitution Day on those websites. Besides that, distributed denial of service attacks carried out by the IT army has crippled Russian ability to work on some CRM systems for extended periods.
Ministry of Digital Transformation reported about cyberattack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20motion | In computer science, code motion, also known as code hoisting, code sinking, loop-invariant code motion, or code factoring, is a blanket term for any process that moves code within a program for performance or size benefits, and is a common optimization performed in most optimizing compilers. It can be difficult to differentiate between different types of code motion, due to the inconsistent meaning of the terms surrounding it.
Uses
Code motion has a variety of uses and benefits, many of which overlap each other in their implementation.
Removing unused/useless operations
Code Sinking, also known as lazy code motion, is a term for a technique that reduces wasted instructions by moving instructions to branches in which they are used: If an operation is executed before a branch, and only one of the branch paths use the result of that operation, then code sinking entails moving that operation into the branch where it will be used.
This technique is a form of dead code elimination in the sense that it removes code when its results are discarded or unused, but in contrast to dead code elimination, it can remove pointless instructions even if there is a possible use of that instruction’s results in an execution code path.
Reducing the size of the program
Code Factoring is a term for a size-optimization technique that merges common dependencies in branches into the branch above it. Just like factorizing integers decomposes a number into its smallest possible forms (as factors), code factorization transforms the code into the smallest possible form, by merging common "factors" until no duplicates remain.
Reducing dependency stalls
Global code motion, local code motion, code scheduling, Instruction scheduling and code hoisting/sinking are all terms for a technique where instructions are rearranged (or "scheduled") to improve the efficiency of execution within the CPU. Modern CPUs are able to schedule five or more instructions per clock cycle. However, a CPU cannot schedule an instruction that relies on data from a currently (or not yet executed) instruction. Compilers will interleave dependencies in a manner that maximizes the amount of instructions a CPU can process at any point in time.
On the defunct Intel Itanium architecture, the branch predict (BRP) instruction is manually hoisted above branches by the compiler to enable the branch to be immediately taken by the CPU. Itanium relies on additional code scheduling from the CPU to maximize efficiency in the processor.
Loop-invariant code motion
Loop-invariant code motion is the process of moving loop-invariant code to a position outside the loop, which may reduce the execution time of the loop by preventing some computations from being done twice for the same result.
Compiler examples
LLVM
LLVM has a sinking pass in its single static assignment form. LLVM 15.0 will not sink an operation if any of its code paths include a store instruction, or if it may throw an error. Additionally, LLV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicated%20freight%20corridors%20in%20India | The Dedicated freight corridors in India are a network of broad gauge freight railway lines that solely serve freight trains, thus making the freight service in India faster and more efficient. The Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) is responsible for undertaking planning, development, and mobilisation of financial resources and construction, maintenance and operation of these corridors.
History
The Tenth Five Year Plan (2002–07) projected that freight traffic in India would rise from 489 million tons in 2001-02 to 624 million tons by 2006-07, growing at a rate of 5% annually. The mid-term appraisal of the Tenth Five Year Plan suggested building dedicated freight corridors (DFC) on trunk routes. The objective of the DFC was to separate freight traffic from passenger traffic on high density routes in order to improve operational efficiency, reduce cost of operation and carry higher volumes of freight traffic.
In April 2005, the government proposed building DFCs along the Golden Quadrilateral. The Committee on Infrastructure established a task force in May 2005 to prepare a concept paper on the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) and the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC). The Ministry of Railways appointed RITES in July 2005 to conduct a feasibility and preliminary engineering cum traffic survey for both corridors. The Government also sought support from Japan for technical cooperation to assist in assessing the feasibility of the DFCs. Japan agreed to conduct a feasibility study on the project in November 2005.
RITES submitted its feasibility report on the project in January 2006. The Union Cabinet granted in-principle approval to the project the next month. The Dedicated Freight Corridors Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL), a special purpose vehicle to build and operate the DFCs, was incorporated on 30 October 2006. RITES submitted the preliminary engineering cum traffic survey for the project in January 2007. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) completed a feasibility study on the project in October 2007, and subsequently agreed to provide funding for the WDFC. The Ministry of Railways approached the World Bank to provide funding for the EDFC in 2008. In May 2011, the World Bank agreed to provide funds for a 1,183 km section of the EDFC connecting Ludhiana with Mughalsarai. The Union Cabinet approved both corridors in February 2008 with a target completion date of 2013.
Construction
Under the Eleventh Five Year Plan of India (2007–12), the Ministry of Railways started constructing a new Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) in two long routes, namely the Eastern and Western freight corridors. The two routes cover a total length of , with the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor stretching from Ludhiana in Punjab to Dankuni in West Bengal and the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor from Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai (Maharashtra) to Dadri in Uttar Pradesh. Upgrading of transportation technolo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash%20Code%20%28programming%20competition%29 | Hash Code was a global team programming competition organized by Google. The participants work in teams of 2–4 people solving a programming challenge inspired by software engineering at Google. The first edition was a local event at the Google office in Paris, with 200 participants in attendance. Since then, the competition expanded globally, and reached over 128,000 registered participants in the 2021 edition. The competition consists of a qualification round, after which the top teams are invited to a final event.
In 2023, it was announced that Google Hash Code would not continue.
References
Programming contests
Google events
nmk editer nkbvcjl gcc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinku%20Acharya | Tinku Acharya is an Indian computer scientist, technologist and fellow of IEEE.
Education and career
Tinku Acharya was born in Howrah, West Bengal, India. He received his BSc, BTech and MTech in CS from the Calcutta University in 1987. He completed PhD in Computer Science from the Central Florida University in 1994, USA with specialization in VLSI Architectures and Algorithms for Data Compression.
From 1996 to 2002, Acharya worked at Intel Corporation USA. He led several R&D and algorithm development teams in Intel Corporation (USA) to develop digital camera, electronic imaging systems and reprographics architecture for color photocopiers, and high-performance VLSI architectures. In late 90's, he developed the 'key image processing chain’ to map them into a small foot-print silicon for first dual-mode digital camera (Intel Corporation, USA).
During 1998 to 2002, he was an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. And Adjunct Professor at IIT Kharagpur in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering.
Tinku Acharya also served JPEG 2000 Standard Committee of in the US National Body in the International Organization for Standardization. He wrote the first book on JPEG 2000 Standard of this scalable image compression for its VLSI and software implementations.
Acharya started Videonetics in 2008, an artificial intelligence and deep learning-powered video computing platform company selected as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum.
Acharya contributed in modern enterprise-class Video Management System, Intelligent Video Analytics applications, and an Artificial Intelligence-based Unified Video Computing Platform.
Acharya worked at AT&T Labs, USA before joining Intel Corporation. He also served as the Director – IT at Intellectual Ventures from 2008 to 2012.
Acharya has collaborated with Eastman Kodak, Indian Statistical Institute Indian Institute of Science and many more.
Tinku Acharya participates and contributes in many activities promoting and advancement of science and technology in various fields in India. He is a member of the Research Advisory Board of National Council of Science Museums, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India. He is also Governing Body Member of the Technology Innovation Hub at the Indian Institute of Technology Patna.
Invention
Acharya introduced the concept of "Sixel" (Sensory Elements) to unify multiple heterogenous types of sensory data into a single data structure like static image or motion pictures (video) to process all correlated sensory data using single analytical processing framework.
He is an expert in Intelligent Video processing, Artificial Intelligence, Video IoT (Internet of Things) and their pragmatic mapping in various multicore computing architectures and VLSI, actively engaged and influenced the development of today's Intelligent Video Analytics and Scalable Intelligent Video Management System since early 2000's
Awards and r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%20Returns | Gulliver Returns is a 2021 computer-animated comedy film produced by 95 Animation Studio and Gulliver Films. Based on an original idea by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Borys and Serhiy Shefir, and Andriy Yakovlev; It is directed by , with a screenplay by Michael Ryan. The film is a loose adaptation of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
The film premiered on 18 June 2021 at the 2021 Shanghai International Film Festival. It was released in Ukraine on 19 August 2021.
Premise
World traveler and adventurer Gulliver is invited to return to Lilliput, the town he previously saved from the enemy fleet of the neighboring Blefuscu.
When he arrives, he only finds indignation, panic and a hopeless crowd, as the King of Lilliput made his people believe that the legendary Giant Gulliver was returning. Instead, they discover an ordinary man, when the whole town had been getting ready and building accommodation to welcome a giant. Disappointed, the King orders Gulliver's execution. Meanwhile, the invincible Blefuscu armada is at the gates of the city and threatening again.
During his adventure, Gulliver discovers that time moves faster in Lilliput and Blefuscu than anywhere else in the world, meaning that the grown Lilliputians Gulliver met on his first adventure are now elderly or have passed away. The now-adult Lilliputians, like the current king, only remember Gulliver as a giant and have passed on that belief to their children.
Gulliver will prove that it is not necessary to be a giant to do great things, but that friendship and love can prevail… with a little bit of luck, a quirky mind and a disarming smile, a charismatic athletic body trained to be a master of swords…
Voice Cast
Wayne Grayson as Gulliver
Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld as Marcy
Scottie Ray as the General of Blefuscu
Billy Bob Thompson as the King of Lilliput
Marc Thompson as Peters
HD Quinn as Frelok
Yelisaveta Zinovenko as Squick
Tom Wayland as Pablo and a sergeant
Samuel Weintraub as Wesley
Production
Development
Gulliver Returns was originally submitted alongside a film sequel to Servant of the People by Kvartal 95 Studio at the 2016 pitching of the Ukrainian State Film Agency for state funding. However, following a controversy related to a Kvartal 95's performance in Jurmala where Volodymyr Zelenskyy –parodying the then-president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko– referred to the government of Ukraine as "a beggar", the studio withdrew both projects from the event the next day.
According to producer Oleg Khodachuk, the final budget for the film was of $10 million USD, more than half of it coming from his own account.
Animation
A team consisting of 35 Ukrainian animators and 30 foreign animators (from countries such as Germany, Brazil, United States, Canada and Australia) worked on the creation of the animated film, under the supervision of American animator Tony Bonilla.
Release
In 2019, the international rights to the film were acquired by the French-Chinese company All Rights Entertainement, wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam%20Paninski | Liam Paninski (born 1978) is an American computational neuroscientist who specializes in neural data science. He is a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Neuroscience at Columbia University, where he co-directs the Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind. Paninski's research focuses on using statistics to decipher electrical signals from the brain.
Education
Paninski attended Brown University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience in 1999. At Brown, Paninski was introduced to neuroscience research in the lab of John Donoghue. He was also influenced by applied mathematicians on faculty including Stuart Geman and David Mumford. Paninski completed his Ph.D. in neural science at New York University's Center for Neural Science in 2003 under the direction of Eero Simoncelli.
Career
Paninski began teaching at Columbia in 2005.
In 2006 Paninski was named in MIT Technology Reviews list of Innovators Under 35. He received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007.
References
American neuroscientists
Data scientists
Brown University alumni
New York University alumni
Sloan Research Fellows
Columbia University faculty
1978 births
Living people
Computational neuroscience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7090 | 7090 may refer to:
IBM 7090 mainframe computer
IBM 7090/94 IBSYS operating system
NGC 7090 spiral galaxy
A year in the 70th century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Swanson | Dennis Swanson (born February 12, 1938) is an American retired television executive. In a decades-long career in the industry, he worked for all of the Big Four television networks, including positions in their owned-and-operated station groups, and a tenure as president of ABC Sports. He helped to create The Oprah Winfrey Show, and it was his suggestion that led to the Winter Olympics being staged two years after each Summer Olympics.
Early life
After attending high school in Springfield, Illinois, Swanson attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was a student manager for the school's men's basketball team and also worked at WILL radio and television, the university's broadcasting stations. College came at a tough time for Swanson's family; his father was dying, and he won a $500 scholarship for a chemical engineering major, quietly switching to journalism. He waited tables at the Pi Phi sorority house in exchange for meals. As a result of being in the Naval ROTC, Swanson was commissioned and promoted to the rank of captain in the Marines. He then returned to Illinois and earned a master's degree in communication and political science.
Career
Early career
Swanson's broadcasting career began in 1965 as a sports reporter for WMT radio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He took his first Chicago job in 1966 as news producer for WGN radio and television, becoming an assignment editor for the Chicago bureau of NBC News in 1968. Three years later, he moved to NBC's local stations in Chicago, WMAQ radio and television, as a sportscaster and producer; after deciding he did not like on-camera work, he departed that position in 1974 to work for the short-lived Television News Inc. (TVN) service.
ABC local stations
After TVN folded, Swanson turned down a position as sportscaster at WJBK in Detroit to work as the executive producer of the local newscasts at KABC-TV in Los Angeles. In 1977, Swanson was promoted to news director. That same year, a series of reports on police shootings won the station a George Foster Peabody Award. Swanson was named station manager of KABC in 1981.
Swanson then was promoted to general manager of ABC's Chicago station, WLS-TV, in 1983, when its general manager resigned. One of the challenges awaiting Swanson at WLS was filling the vacancy on the station's 6 pm newscast resulting from the death of Fahey Flynn. Another was to find a new host for its morning talk show, A.M. Chicago, which had been losing in its time slot to The Phil Donahue Show. Swanson filled the void by hiring Oprah Winfrey, who had been hosting a talk show at WJZ-TV in Baltimore. Winfrey immediately improved ratings over her predecessor, crediting Swanson for the "bold" selection for the time of a Black woman as host.
By February 1985, Winfrey was pulling double the ratings of Donahue; it was Swanson who suggested that Roger King of King World Productions meet Oprah, which led to her own syndicated talk show. The Oprah Winfrey Show, which the A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Austrian%20motorcycle%20Grand%20Prix | The 2022 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix (officially known as the CryptoData Motorrad Grand Prix von Österreich) was the thirteenth round of the 2022 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season and the fifth round of the 2022 MotoE World Cup. All races (except MotoE race 1 which was held on 20 August) were held at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg on 21 August 2022.
Background
Track layout changes
The Grand Prix used a new layout of the Red Bull Ring, wherein a chicane was added to the previous fast slight-left hander of turn 2. This was done to improve the overall safety of the track by greatly minimizing the speed the riders carry into turn 3. The new variation to the circuit follows safety reviews into the high speed accident on lap 9 of the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix. The final configuration was chosen among 15 proposals, with the track being 30 meters longer than the previous configurations.
Riders' entries
In the MotoGP class, Stefan Bradl continues to replace Marc Márquez in the Repsol Honda Team, Lorenzo Savadori runs as a wildcard with Aprilia for the fourth time in this championship. In the Moto2 class Sam Lowes was forced to miss the Grand Prix due to the dislocation of his left shoulder, and later further checks also revealed a fracture in the upper part of the humerus. To replace him on the Kalex of the Elf Marc VDS Racing Team is the seventeen year old Australian Senna Agius. To replace Gabriel Rodrigo, the Pertamina Mandalika SAG Team has chosen to have the 23 year old Japanese Taiga Hada race on his Kalex from this race until the end of the season. Rory Skinner races for the second consecutive race as a wild card with the American Racing Kalex. In the Moto3 class, Joel Kelso returns to the CIP Green Power KTM, while Nicola Carraro continues to replace Matteo Bertelle on the QJmotor Avintia Racing Team KTM. In the MotoE class, Xavi Cardelús returns to the Avintia Esponsorama Racing's Energica after missing the two races in the Dutch TT.
MotoGP Championship standings before the race
After the British Grand Prix, Fabio Quartararo maintains the lead in the riders' standings with 180 points, plus 22 over Aleix Espargaró. Francesco Bagnaia (winner at Silverstone, 131 points) and Enea Bastianini (118 points), overtake Johann Zarco, now fifth with 114 points. In the constructors' classification, Ducati dominated with 271 points; followed by Yamaha (180 points), Aprilia (175 points), KTM (131 points), Suzuki (110 points) and Honda (88 points). In the team standings, there are only two distances between Aprilia Racing (first at 240 points) and Ducati Lenovo Team (second at 238 points), with the latter having overtaken Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP, now third with 206 points. Prima Pramac Racing and Red Bull KTM Factory Racing are fourth and fifth with 195 and 179 points respectively.
Moto2 Championship standings before the race
The victory in the previous Grand Prix allowed Augusto Fernández to conquer the leadership of the riders' standings and h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TB2 | TB2 may refer to:
Baykar Bayraktar TB2, unmanned combat aerial vehicle
Polikarpov TB-2, Soviet bomber prototype
.tb2, file suffix; see Tar (computing)#Suffixes for compressed files
Tubular Bells II, a 1992 album by British musician Mike Oldfield |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BullSequana | BullSequana is the brand name of a range of high performance computer systems produced by Atos.
The range includes
BullSequana S series - a modular compute platform optimised for AI and GPU-intensive tasks.
BullSequana X series - supercomputers which are claimed to operate at exascale
References
Computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribonucleoprotein%20Networks%20Analyzed%20by%20Mutational%20Profiling | Ribonucleoprotein Networks Analyzed by Mutational Profiling (RNP-MaP) is a strategy for probing RNA-protein networks and protein binding sites at a nucleotide resolution. Information about RNP assembly and function can facilitate a better understanding of biological mechanisms. RNP-MaP uses NHS-diazirine (SDA), a hetero-bifunctional crosslinker, to freeze RNA-bound proteins in place. Once the RNA-protein crosslinks are formed, MaP reverse transcription is then conducted to reversely transcribe the protein-bound RNAs as well as introduce mutations at the site of RNA-protein crosslinks. Sequencing results of the cDNAs reveal information about both protein-RNA interaction networks and protein binding sites.
Strategy
Components
RNA-MaP involves three major components:
Ribonucleoproteins (RNPs): complexes made up of RNAs and RNA-binding proteins (RBPs)
NHS-diazirine (SDA): a cell permeable crosslinking reagent. SDA contains two reactive groups - a diazirine and a succinimidyl ester. The reaction between succinimidyl esters and amine groups (e.g. lysine side chains) results in peptide bonds (or amide bonds). When exposed to UV light with a wavelength of 365 nm, an intermediate broadly reactive toward nucleotide riboses and bases is formed. As a result, proteins are crosslinked with RNA by the SDA linker.
Mutational profiling (MaP): a method using reverse transcriptase with relaxed fidelity to incorporate modified residues at protein-RNA binding sites.
Workflow
Long-wavelength UV and SDA reagents are first supplied to living cells to crosslink protein residues with RNA by forming amide bonds between amine groups of lysine (or arginine) residues and succinimidyl esters. Next, cells containing crosslinked RNPs are lysed and the RNA-bound proteins are digested into peptide adducts. MaP reverse transcription is then performed to label the protein-RNA binding sites through peptide adduct-induced mutations. Sequencing of the mutation-containing cDNA product will reveal the mutation sites (or RNP-MaP sites) and the correlations between the RNP-MaP sites are computationally determined using 3-nucleotide windows.
Analysis
RNP-MaP site identification
RNP-MaP sites are defined as protein bound nucleotides. SDA and UV treated and UV only treated sample sequence reads are aligned and mutations are counted using ShapeMapper2 software. The SDA or RNP-MaP reactivity for a nucleotide is the ratio of the crosslinked (SDA and UV treated) mutational frequency to the un-crosslinked (UV only) mutation frequency. Using differential mutational signatures, RNP-MaP sites are identified based on universal normalization factors and thresholds on each RNA nucleotide (U, A, C, and G) derived from analysis of ribonucleoproteins of known structure.
A nucleotide is identified as a RNP-MaP site if it passes three filters:
The number of mutation events in the SDA + UV-treated sample is at least 50 greater than the UV-treated sample.
Site reactivities must exceed the nucle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECpc | DECpc was a wide-ranging family of desktop computers, laptops, servers, and workstations sold by Digital Equipment Corporation. The vast majority in the family are based on x86 processors, although the APX 150 uses DEC's own Alpha processor. The line was DEC's first big break into the IBM PC compatible market.
Some entries in the desktop DECpc range were built by Olivetti S.p.A. and Tandy Corporation.
Line-up
Explanatory notes
Upgradable with snap-in processor/cache daughtercard
Advanced Power Management–compliant
Desktops
Laptops
Workstations and servers
See also
Digital HiNote, the successor to the DECpc line of laptops
DECstation, concurrent line of workstations
References
DEC workstations
DEC laptops
Computer-related introductions in 1991
IBM PC compatibles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Kong%20Songs | The Hong Kong Songs is a record chart that ranks the best-performing songs in Hong Kong since February 2022. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by MRC Data based collectively on each single's weekly digital streaming and download sales. It was announced on February 14, 2022, as part of Billboards Hits of the World chart collection, ranking the top 25 songs weekly in more than 40 countries around the globe.
Every Tuesday, a new chart is compiled and officially released to the public on its website. Each chart is dated with the "week-ending" date of the Saturday four days later.
2023
List of number-one songs
2022
List of number-one songs
Artist milestones
Most number one winners
Song milestones
Most weeks at number one
References
Hong Kong Songs
Cantopop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Unexplainable%20Disappearance%20of%20Mars%20Patel | The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel is a children's audio drama and science fiction podcast produced by Blobfish Radio, Gen-Z Media, and Pinna.fm Network. The show won a Peabody Award in 2016 and was later adapted into books and optioned for a television show.
Background
The show was produced by Blobfish Radio, Gen-Z Media, and Pinna.fm Network. The voice actors for the main characters are played by middle school children. According to The New York Times, the appropriate age audience for the show is eight to twelve years old. The show originally debuted in 2016, but the episodes were re-released in 2021.
The podcast is a mystery that follows an eleven year old Indian boy named Manu "Mars" Patel and his friends Caddie Pratchett, JP McGowan, and Randall "Toothpick" Lee as they investigate the disappearance of their friends Aurora Gershowitz and Jonas Hopkins. The protagonists suspect that a technology business magnate named Oliver Pruitt is responsible for the disappearances. Throughout the story the characters piece together clues from various mediums such as emails, newspapers, instant messages, and transcripts. Mars Patel and his friends eventually travel to the planet Mars to investigate Oliver Pruitt's space colony.
Cast and characters
Manu "Mars" Patel
Caddie Pratchett
Juniper “JP” McGowan
Randall "Toothpick" Lee
Jonas
Hopkins
Julia “Lost in London
Aurora Gershowitz
Orion
Axel
Daisy
Epica
Oliver Pruitt
Saira Patel
The Computer
Mr. Q
Reception
Melissa Locker of The Guardian, praised the show saying that it was an "adventurous kids podcast, reminiscent of old-time radio dramas." Amanda Hess of The New York Times called the show "the 'Serial' of children's podcasts." Steve Greene of IndieWire praised the show, saying that it was a "mystery investigation with just the right dash of whimsy and a healthy dose of scientific curiosity baked into it."
The show has similar themes to the Netflix original television show called Stranger Things.
The show was used as an educational aid in Warren Township Schools classrooms.
Awards
Adaptions
The book series was written by children's author Sheela Chari and published by Walker Books. The first book is a 287-page adaption of the first season of the podcast, which was published on October 6, 2020. The second book is a 304-page adaption of the second season of the podcast, which was published on October 12, 2021.
The show was optioned for a Disney+ television show.
See also
List of children's podcasts
List of science fiction podcasts
References
External links
Audio podcasts
2016 podcast debuts
2021 podcast endings
Science fiction podcasts
Children's podcasts
Podcasts adapted for other media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja%20Vukovi%C4%87 | Maja Vuković is a computer scientist, doing research in Artificial intelligence, Blockchain and Cloud Software among others.
She has been appointed an IBM Fellow in 2021 and in IBM she responsible for technical and research strategy for AI driven Application Modernization.
Education and career
She received her Bachelor of Science with double major in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of Auckland, New Zealand, a degree in Computer Science from the International University in Germany in 2000, and a PhD in Computer Science from University of Cambridge in 2006, for her work on context-aware service composition using AI Planning.
Research interests
Her research interests span different areas, including: AI for Application Modernization; Cloud Transformation, Infrastructure Discovery, Cloud Automation; AI Planning, Machine Learning; Enterprise Crowdsourcing; Social Web for Disaster Management among others.
Maja is a member of IBM Academy of Technology and an IBM Master Inventor, with over 180 patents granted, including the "Coffee Delivery Drone" patent.
She is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Senior Editor at the ACM Ubiquity journal.
She is a frequent podcaster
and has been interviewed at major conferences.
She is currently involved in an open source community for app modernization.
Awards and honors
Maja was awarded Women in Services Computing Award by IEEE in 2018.
References
External links
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
Computer scientists
Women computer scientists
IBM Women
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crakmedia%20Network | Crakmedia Network is a Canadian company headquartered in Quebec City. It specializes in various Internet-related services.
History
Crakmedia Network was founded by Nicolas Chrétien, Xavier Farooghi, and Frédéric Hains in 2006. Chrétien, Farooghi, and Hains had also created a humor site in 2004. After refusing a company purchase offer from Brad Greenspan, they attempted to develop the site into a video sharing platform before eventually focusing on traffic monetization and programming their own statistics and advertising campaign management tool.
Crakmedia Network moved to a new office in the Saint-Roch district of Quebec City in 2014. It collaborated with architectural firm Parka on the new office's layout.
In 2015, Farooghi decided to step down from his position at Crakmedia Network, and Chrétien purchased his shares in the company. By 2016, the company had 17,000 affiliate customers, with 98% of the company’s business coming from abroad.
Crakmedia was ranked 31st in Deloitte’s Canadian Technology Fast 50 and 242nd in its Technology Fast 500 list in 2015.
In 2018, the company won the SME of the year at the Mercuriades gala from Federation of Quebec Chambers of Commerce.
Crakmedia partnered with the Centre Durocher community center to provide Christmas gifts to underprivileged children in Lower Town Quebec in 2021.
Patent lawsuit and controversy
In 2014, Essociate, Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Crakmedia Network, alleging that Crakmedia Network's internet advertising system infringed upon Essociate's ‘660 Patent. Essociate had also sued companies such as Clickbooth for infringement of this patent. In 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled in favor of Crakmedia Network, invalidating Essociate's patent based on Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank.
Awards
Crakmedia was a finalist for the 2015 Prix Rayonnement hors Québec at Fidéides.
Crakmedia was also named one of L'Actualité’s 2015 Leaders, ranked as the 6th-fastest growing company in Quebec. It was also named a Leader by L'Actualité in 2016, ranked as the 16th -fastest- growing company in Quebec.
Crakmedia was a finalist for the 2016 Mercuriades Awards in the category “Contribution to Economic and Regional Development - Large Company.”
References
External links
2006 establishments in Quebec
Canadian companies established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%20and%20Property%20Gazetteer | Land and Property Gazetteer may refer to:
National Land and Property Gazetteer, an address infrastructure in England and Wales
Local Land and Property Gazetteer, an address database maintained by each local authority in the United Kingdom
See also
National Address Gazetteer
National Street Gazetteer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaoshan%20Liu | Shaoshan Liu is a US-based computer scientist, who is also the founder, chairman and CEO of PerceptIn. Presently, he is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM and a member of the editorial board of IT Professional. Additionally, he is the vice chair of IEEE Computer Society's Special Technical Community on Autonomous Driving Technologies.
Liu holds a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on deep learning infrastructure, computer architecture, autonomous driving and robotics. He secured numerous patents on robotics and autonomous driving.
Education and career
Shaoshan Liu took undergraduate and graduate courses at the UCI, where he obtained a Ph.D. in 2010. He earned a M.P.A. from Harvard University.
Prior to his entrepreneur venture, he worked at LinkedIn, Broadcom and Microsoft. In 2016, Liu established PerceptIn, a California-based visual intelligence technology company.
Selected published books
References
Living people
Harvard University alumni
University of California, Irvine alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Computer engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Haber | Stuart Haber is an American cryptographer and computer scientist, known for his contributions in cryptography and privacy-preserving technologies and widely recognized as the co-inventor of the blockchain. His 1991 paper "How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document”, co-authored with W. Scott Stornetta, won the 1992 Discover Award for Computer Software and is considered to be one of the most important papers in the development of cryptocurrencies.
Education
Haber studied at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude in 1978 with a B.A. in Mathematics. Haber earned his PhD at Columbia University in 1987 under the advisement of Zvi Galil with a thesis titled Provably Secure Multi-party Cryptographic Computation: Techniques and Applications.
Career
In 1987, Haber joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) as a research scientist. In 1989, Haber met W. Scott Stornetta, his future scientific partner and collaborator, when Stornetta joined Bellcore. In 1994, Haber and Stornetta co-founded Surety Technologies, a spinoff of Bellcore. In 1995, Surety’s offering constituted the first commercial deployment of a blockchain and is currently the oldest continuously running blockchain.
In 2002, Haber joined HP Labs as a research scientist in the Princeton office, working there for 15 years on cryptography and security related problems.
Haber currently serves as a member of the advisory board for Kadena, a hybrid blockchain platform.
Contributions
Haber's research during his time at Bellcore, along with W. Scott Stornetta, is widely considered to be the foundation for Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Haber and Stornetta are the most cited authors in Satoshi Nakamoto’s original Bitcoin white paper, of the eight citations, three reference their work.
Their 1991 paper "How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document” is where they first describe a system called "Blockchain". In this study, Haber and Stornetta sought to create mechanisms to create digital time stamps, offering a solution for maintaining the integrity of digital records and ensuring that they could not be modified or manipulated.
In 1992, Haber, Stornetta, and Dave Bayer incorporated Merkle trees into their design, improving its efficiency by allowing many document certificates to be collected into one block.
In 2018, Haber joined Kadena as an advisor. Haber is quoted saying "Kadena is working on some of the most promising innovations in proof-of-work blockchain since Bitcoin itself."
References
American cryptographers
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Harvard College alumni
Columbia University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyword | Anyword is a technology company that offers an artificial intelligence platform, using natural language processing to generate and optimize marketing text for websites, social media, email, and ads. The company also offers a complete managed service to publishers and brands to help them increase their revenue through social ads. It is used by National Geographic, Red Bull, The New York Times, BBC, Ted Baker, etc. The company has an office in New York, and Tel Aviv.
History
The company was founded in 2013 — its original name was Keywee Inc.
In 2021, the company rebranded to Anyword and launched its AI copywriting platform. It's often called the world first language optimization platform.
In 2019, Anyword established the first generation of its language model.
In 2020, the first part of ad copy was generated using Anyword's AI.
Reviews report that Anyword's platform works with different marketing projects in 25 languages while the AI settings panel provides many options for promoting content.
In March 2015, Anyword received $9.1 million in the Series A funding round led by a notable group of investors.
In July 2016, the company was selected as an official Facebook Marketing Partner.
In August 2019, Anyword was named Best Content Marketing Platform in the Digiday Technology Award winners.
In November 2021, it raised $21 million in its Series B funding round.
In February 2022, Anyword received the High Performer Winter 2022 Award.
In summer 2022, the company was announced as a leader in the AI Writing Assistant category of G2.
AI writing assistants are tools that use artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) to generate AI-powered content based on the inputs a user gives them.
What is an AI writing assistant?
An AI-powered writing assistant is any software that's designed to automate the process of content creation for marketing, communication or educational purposes. Some examples of writing assistants are Grammarly, Jasper.ai, Anyword and hundreds out there on the internet.
Product
Anyword's AI platform generates and optimized marketing copy for ads, landing pages, product listings, social posts, emails and SMS.
Anyword's Technology: Anyword's AI copywriting platform uses a combination of pre-trained and fine-tuned models, including GPT3, T5 and CTRL, to generate quality marketing copy for its customers.
The platform's proprietary Predictive Performance Score gives use a sense of how a singular piece of copy will perform for any given audience.
The platform also lets users pick specific demographic filters or copywriting formulas to further fine-tune their copy. Power Mode is also available on the platform and lets customers upload a piece of text in their own tone and style, so that the AI can then generate variations that match.
References
Applications of artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossiya%20Segodnya%20%28disambiguation%29 | Rossiya Segodnya is a Russian state-controlled media group.
Rossiya Segodnya (; Russia Today) may also refer to:
RT (TV network), a Russian television network
Russian Federation Today, a Russian-language magazine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald%20Rapids | Emerald Rapids is a codename for Intel's fifth generation Xeon server processors based on the Intel 7 node. Emerald Rapids CPUs are designed for data centers; the roughly contemporary Raptor Lake is intended for the wider public. Nevine Nassif is a chief engineer for this generation.
Features
CPU
Up to 64 Raptor Cove CPU cores per package
I/O
DDR5 memory support up to 8-channel DDR5-5600
Up to 80 PCI Express 5.0 lanes
See also
Intel's process–architecture–optimization model
Intel's tick–tock model
List of Intel CPU microarchitectures
References
Intel products
Intel microprocessors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique%20Dauge | Monique Dauge (born 1956) is a French mathematician and numerical analyst specializing in partial differential equations, spectral theory, and applications to scientific computing. She is an emeritus senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), associated with the University of Rennes 1.
Education and career
Dauge was born on 6 October 1956 in Nantes, and earned a diploma and agrégation in 1978 at the University of Nantes. In 1980 she defended a doctoral thesis at Nantes, Etude de l’opérateur de Stokes dans un polygone : régularité, singularités et théorème d’indice, and in 1986 she completed her habilitation there with the habilitation thesis Régularités et singularités des solutions de problèmes aux limites elliptiques sur des domaines singuliers de type à coins, supervised by Lai The Pham.
Meanwhile, she became junior researcher for the CNRS in 1980, and researcher in 1984, both associated with the University of Nantes. In 1996 she became a director of research for the CNRS, and moved to the University of Rennes. She retired as an emeritus senior researcher in 2021.
Selected publications
Dauge is the author of Elliptic boundary value problems on corner domains: Smoothness and asymptotics of solutions (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1341, Springer, 1988). She is the coauthor of Spectral methods for axisymmetric domains: Numerical algorithms and tests (with Christine Bernardi and Yvon Maday, with contributions from Mejdi Azaïez, Gauthier-Villars, 1999). Her many research publications include the highly cited paper "Vector potentials in three‐dimensional non‐smooth domains" (with Chérif Amrouche, Christine Bernardi, and Vivette Girault, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 1998).
References
External links
Home page
1956 births
Living people
French mathematicians
French women mathematicians
Numerical analysts
University of Nantes alumni
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
People from Nantes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio%20Pammolli | Fabio Pammolli (born January 11, 1965 in Lucca) is an Italian economist, who is professor of finance and data science at Politecnico di Milano, and former president of Constructor University in Bremen, Germany.
Biography
Pammolli graduated in economics at the University of Pisa and did his doctoral studies at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. In 1988-89 he served as an officer and as an instructor in Guardia di Finanza. From 1990 he served as an assistant and then as an associate professor at the University of Siena, while from 2001 he served as full professor at the University of Florence. Research stays have taken him to the Department of Physics at Boston University, where he collaborated with H.E. Stanley. He was then a visiting scientist at STICERD at the LSE, OFCE at Sciences Po, the Department of Economics, Harvard University and LIDS, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2004 to 2013 he served as the founding rector of the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca and worked there as a professor of economics, finance, and data science. In 2015 he served as a senior scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology, where he contributed to conceive and design the strategic plan of the Human Technopole.
In 2022 Pammolli was acting as the President of Constructor University (formerly Jacobs University) in Bremen, Germany. In the year of his presidency, Pammolli has successfully initiated a wealth of advancements at the university: he implemented a new organizational structure, initiated new study programs, and completed the transition from Jacobs to Constructor University. Pammolli was a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of https://constructor.org/science-sit-strategic-advisory-board . In his research, Pammolli combines methods from statistical physics and economics. He has covered a wide range of topics, which includes the analysis of growth, diversification, instability of companies, economies and financial systems.
Institutional Commitments
From 2015 to 2020 he was a member of the Investment Committee of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) at the European Investment Bank. From November 2021 onwards he serves as Chairperson of the Investment Committee of InvestEU, the European Commission's new stimulus plan to provide long-term finance for companies and support EU policies. Since November 2022, he serves as economic adviser to the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance.
Web Links
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qft7FqwAAAAJ&hl=it
Itemizations
↑ Professor Dr. Fabio Pammolli becomes the new President of Jacobs University. In: jacobs-university.de. December 15, 2021, retrieved April 1, 2022 .
↑ European Union InvestEU ( Memento of 3 March 2022 at the Internet Archive )
↑ About SIT | Schaffhausen Institute of Technology. In: sit.org. Retrieved March 3, 2022 (English)
Living people
1965 births
Management scientists
Academic staff of Jacobs University Bremen
Academic staff of the P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Major%20League%20Baseball%20on%20NBC | The following article details the history of Major League Baseball on NBC, the broadcast of Major League Baseball games on the NBC television network.
Early years
1930s
NBC television's relationship with Major League Baseball technically dates back to August 26, 1939. It was on that date that on W2XBS (an experimental television station in New York City which would ultimately become what is now NBC's flagship television station, WNBC), the first-ever Major League Baseball game was televised. With Red Barber announcing, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds played a doubleheader at Ebbets Field. The Reds won the first game 5–2 while the Dodgers won the second, 6–1. Barber called the game without the benefit of a monitor and with only two cameras capturing the game. One camera was on Barber and the other was behind the plate. Barber had to guess from which light was on and where it pointed.
1940s
By 1947, television sets, most with five and seven-inch screens, were selling almost as fast as they could be produced. Because of this, Major League teams began televising games and attracted a whole new audience into ballparks in the process. People who had only casually followed baseball began going to the games in person. In 1948, Major League Baseball's total attendance reached a record high of 21 million.
1947 also saw the first televised World Series. The games were broadcast in the New York City area by NBC's WNBT, CBS's WCBS-TV and DuMont's WABD and sponsored by Gillette and Ford. The 1947 World Series brought in an estimated 3.9 million viewers, becoming television's first mass audience. In addition to New York City, live coverage of the Series was also seen on WRGB in Schenectady/Albany (now a CBS affiliate), WPTZ (now CBS-owned KYW-TV) in Philadelphia, WMAR-TV in Baltimore and WTTG in Washington, D.C.
In 1948 and 1949, the World Series would be carried on the aforementioned stations, as well as on WBZ-TV and WNAC-TV (now WHDH-TV) in Boston, WNHC-TV (now WTNH) in New Haven and WTVR-TV in Richmond, Virginia. In 1949, the World Series was also seen live in other Northeastern and Midwestern cities (Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland, Detroit, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo, Indianapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis) that had been hooked up to network lines over the previous year.
1950s
In 1950, the Mutual Broadcasting System acquired the television as well as radio broadcast rights to the World Series and All-Star Game for the next six years. Mutual may have been reindulging in dreams of becoming a television network or simply taking advantage of a long-standing business relationship; in either case, the broadcast rights were sold to NBC in time for the following season's games at an enormous profit.
By , World Series games could be seen in most of the country, but not all. 1950 also marked the first time that there was an exclusive network television broadcaster (NBC). West Coast viewe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Gebotys | Catherine H. Gebotys is a Canadian computer engineer specializing in the security of embedded systems and in cryptographic algorithms more She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the
Education
Gebotys graduated from the University of Toronto in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in engineering science, and earned a master's degree in electrical engineering there in 1984. She completed her Ph.D. in 1991 at the University of Her dissertation, A Global Optimization Approach to Architectural Synthesis of VLSI Digital Synchronous Systems with Analog and Asynchronous Interfaces, was supervised by
Books
Gebotys is the author of the book Security in Embedded Devices (Springer, 2010). With Elmasry, she is the coauthor of Optimal VLSI Architectural Synthesis: Area, Performance and Testability (Kluwer, 1992).
References
External links
Home page
1960 births
Living people
Computer engineers
Canadian electrical engineers
Canadian women engineers
University of Toronto alumni
University of Waterloo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian%20Museum%20of%20Canada | The Ukrainian Museum of Canada () is a network of museums across Canada that promote Ukrainian cultural life, with a particular focus on experiences of the Canadian Ukrainian diaspora.
Background
The Ukrainian Museum of Canada is a network of museums across Canada that promote Ukrainian cultural life. The headquarters of the network is in Saskatoon, where the first museum was established in 1941 by the Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada. One of the co-founders was the activist and writer Savella Stechishin. Originally it was housed in the Mohyla Ukrainian Institute, before moving to its own building in 1980.
The Edmonton branch was the next to be established, in 1944.
Locations
The museum network has branches in Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver. The museums have collections that specialise in folk art, textiles and social history objects relating to the experiences of Ukrainian Canadians. In 2020 the Toronto branch jointly curated an exhibition on beadwork with the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto.
In 2022, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the museums noted increased visitor numbers and interest in their collections.
List of museums
Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Alberta Branch
Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Calgary Collection
Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Manitoba Branch
Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Ontario Branch
Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Saskatoon
References
Museum associations and consortia
Ukrainian-Canadian culture
Ukrainian museums in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano%20Po%20Legacy%3A%20Her%20Big%20Boss | Mano Po Legacy: Her Big Boss () is a 2022 Philippine television drama romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the second installment of Mano Po Legacy. Directed by Easy Ferrer and Joey de Guzman, it stars Bianca Umali, Ken Chan and Kelvin Miranda. It premiered on March 14, 2022 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on June 2, 2022 with a total of 50 episodes. It was replaced by Love You Stranger in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bianca Umali as Irene Pacheco
Ken Chan as Richard Lim
Kelvin Miranda as Nestor Lorenzo
Supporting cast
Pokwang as Rebecca "Becca" Pacheco
Arlene Muhlach as Adelina "Adeng" Pacheco
Ricardo Cepeda as Alexander "Alex" Lim
Marina Benipayo as Elaine Dy-Lim
Teejay Marquez as Raven Lim
Tyrone Tan as David G. Tan
Blue Cailles as Lemuel "Lem" Carrera
Sarah Holmes as Rachel Lim
Sarah Edwards as Princess Grace Que
Haley Dizon as Charlene Ang
Jem Manicad as "Solenn" Baluyot
Phi Palmos as "April" Ligot
Recurring cast
Maricar de Mesa as Mia Flores
Minnie Aguilar as Natalia Lorenzo
Lime Aranya as Marla Pacheco
Julian Roxas as Nimrod Layco
Peewee O'Hara as Noemi Capistrano
Lotlot Bustamante as Mylene Bautista
Donna Cariaga as Guia Sugcang
Rob Gomez as Joseph Chan
Rolando Innocencio as Froilan Andrade
Shermaine Santiago as Elise Ty
Francis Mata as Atty. Ronaldo Sy
Che Ramos as Millicent Rodrigo
Christian Ty as Elmer
Paul Cervantes as Martin
Shanicka Arganda as Hannah
Yesh Burce as Sophia Wong
Episodes
References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television series by Regal Entertainment
Television shows set in the Philippines |
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