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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20N.%20Klein | Philip N. Klein is an American computer scientist and professor at Brown University. His research focuses on algorithms for optimization problems in graphs.
Klein is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a recipient of the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991). He is a recipient of Brown University's Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Sciences (2007) and was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2015-16). He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard with an A.B. in Applied Mathematics and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT.
Key contributions
In 1991, Klein and his then-students Ajit Agrawal and R. Ravi gave an approximation algorithm for network design that is considered "the first highly sophisticated use of the primal-dual method in the design of approximation algorithms". In 2023, this research received the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) 30-year Test of Time Award.
In 1994, Klein and Robert E. Tarjan gave a randomized linear-time algorithm to find minimum spanning trees, based on a sampling technique due to David Karger.
In 2005, Klein gave a linear-time algorithm to find a nearly optimal traveling salesman tour in a planar graph.
Books
Klein has published two textbooks:
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Harvard University alumni
Harvard University faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Brown University faculty
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Columbia%3A%20An%20Untold%20History | British Columbia: An Untold History is a Canadian documentary series, which aired on Knowledge Network in 2021. Directed by Kevin Eastwood, the four-episode series highlights some of the lesser-known stories in the history of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The project portrays a diverse perspective of B.C.'s shared past, as told by those who have lived and/or studied it, and features the voices of authors, historians, elders, activists, community leaders, and descendants of historical figures, many of whom are members of Indigenous, Chinese, Japanese, South Asian, and Black communities.
Synopsis
The four-part documentary examines British Columbia’s dramatic history from the late 18th century through to the present, as told through interviews with figures who have lived and studied it, and presented with archival photos, recreations and aerial footage of the B.C. landscape. Indigenous, Asian, Black and European stories are interwoven to present a diverse look at the sometimes lesser-known events that define B.C. as it is known today.
Awards
British Columbia: An Untold History won five Leo Awards: Best Documentary Series (Trish Dolman and Leena Minifie), Best Direction in a Documentary Series (Kevin Eastwood), Best Screenwriting in a Documentary Series (Eastwood), Best Picture Editing (Eddie O. and Tanya Maryniak) and Best Sound in a Documentary Series (Velcrow Ripper, Ramsay Bourquin, Kaitlyn Redcrow, Brent Calkin and J. Martin Taylor). The series also received an award of merit from the BC Historical Federation for its "significant contribution to the study or promotion of British Columbia history".
The series received five Canadian Screen Award nominations from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022: for Best History Documentary Program or Series, Best Direction in a Documentary Series (Eastwood), Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Factual Series (Alfonso Chin and Michael Bourquin), Best Editorial Research (Leena Minifie and Jennifer Chiu), and Best Visual Research (Lanna Lucas, Casey Lees, Ben Mussett, Leah Siegel, Don Bourdon and Emma Metcalfe Hurst).
Cast
Interviews
Stephanie Allen
Joe Alphonse
Clifford Atleo
Jean Barman
John Belshaw
Tzeporah Berman
Lara Campbell
Donna Cranmer
Bill Cranmer
Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Sara Florence Davidson
John Elliot
Corky Evans
Mark Forsythe
Daniel Francis
Hamar Foster
Masako Fukawa
Don Gayton
Naveen Girn
Guujaaw
Marianne Ignace
Khelsilem
Valerie Langer
Mark Leier
Corrina Leween
Imogene Lim
Kevin Loring
Johnny Mack
Daniel Marshall
Joe Martin
Albert (Sonny) McHalsie/Naxaxalhts’i
Geoff Meggs
Charles Menzies
Rod Mickleburgh
Fran Morrison
Lou-Ann Neel
Walrus Oakenbough
Lorene Oikawa
Adele Perry
Jonathan Peyron
Adam Rudder
Lillian Sam
Calvin Sandborn
Sharanjit Sandhra Kaur
Andrew Scott
Bev Sellars
Paul Spong
Veronica Strong-Boag
Coll Thrush
Rex Weyler
David Wong
T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss
Henry Yu
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External links
2020s Canadian docu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolata%20Kabonesa | Consolata Kabonesa is an Ugandan gender activist with a specialised experience in the women and gender programming, gender training, project and research within the decentralized system. She is also an Assoc. Prof at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University.
Background and education
Career
Academic experience
In 1984, Consolata worked as a student teacher at Pearse Vocational College in Dublin, Ireland. She then became a part-time lecturer for Literary Criticism in the department of literature at Makerere University between 1989 and 1991.
In 1992, she worked as a research assistant at The Nation of Tomorrow Project, which was funded by Kellogg Foundation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign shortened as UIUC for two years. She then continued as a teaching assistant under department of Human and Community Development, UIUC between 1991 and 1997.
In 1997, she became a graduate assistant for U of I Afro-American studies and research program, UIUC. She started lecturing at Makerere University in 1999 under the department of women and gender studies, later on in 2007, she was a research affiliate at Health Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba, Canada.
In 2007, she also became a senior lecturer at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University to present.
Administrative experience
Awards
Consolata won the Meritorious award and Cash Award, American Embassy, Uganda in 1988 and 1990 respectively. She again in 1993 won the John W. Price, International Understanding Award, UIUC and in 2005, she was nominated and won the Outstanding Lecturer award, at the Faculty of Social science, Makerere University.
She won The Role Model Diva Awards in 2011 and went straight to win two more in 2012 and 2013 respectively.
Publications
Awareness and attitudes towards anthrax and meat consumption practices among affected communities in Zambia: A mixed methods approach.
Stillbirths in sub-Saharan Africa: unspoken grief.
Gender analysis of agricultural extension policies in Uganda: informing practice?
Gender symbolism and technology uptake: a literature review.
Reflections on a collaborative experience: using ICT in a trans-cultural women's health module
References
External links
Website of Makerere University School of Women and Gender Studies
Makerere University alumni
Academic staff of Makerere University
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ugandan human rights activists
Stonehill College alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Gender studies academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipestela%20candelabra | Pipestela candelabra is a species of sponge belonging to the family Axinellidae.
The species was first described in 2008.
References
External links
Pipestela candelabra occurrence data from GBIF
Axinellidae
Sponge genera
Taxa described in 2008
Taxa named by John Hooper (marine biologist)
Taxa named by Rob van Soest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipestela%20rara | Pipestela rara is a species of sponge belonging to the family Axinellidae.
The species was first described in 2008.
References
External links
Pipestela rara occurrence data from GBIF
Axinellidae
Sponge genera
Taxa described in 2008
Taxa named by John Hooper (marine biologist)
Taxa named by Rob van Soest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuya%20Inc. | Tuya Inc. (; dba Tuya Smart) is a Chinese artificial intelligence and Internet of things (IoT) platform as a service provider founded in 2014. The company provides a cloud development and management platform to developers, brands, and OEMs to program, manage, and monetize smart home and IoT devices.
Tuya is supported by New Enterprise Associates and Tencent. In March 2021 it raised $915 million in the U.S. initial public offering and trades on the NYSE. It launched a global offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in July 2022, giving itself dual primary listings in Hong Kong and New York. Tuya was incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
Internationally, Tuya partners with companies including Schneider Electric, Lenovo, and Philips. It is a member on the board of directors of the Connectivity Standards Alliance and has committed to supporting the Matter connectivity standard.
References
External links
Companies of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr%20Kogan | Alexandr Kogan may refer to:
Aleksandr Kogan (artist) (born 1980), Russian singer and artist
Aleksandr Kogan (politician) (born 1969), Russian politician
Aleksandr Kogan (scientist) (born 1986), data scientist involved in the Cambridge Analytica scandal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Fontana | Robert E Fontana is an engineer, physicist, and author who is noted for his contributions in the areas of magnetic recording and data storage on hard disk drives (HDD) and on digital tape recorders. His work has concentrated on developing thin film processing techniques for nano-fabrication of magnetic devices including Giant Magnetoresistance read heads now used universally in magnetic recording. Much of his career was with IBM in San Jose, California. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Background and education
Fontana grew up in Champaign, Illinois. He received a Bachelor's, a Master's, and a Ph.D. degrees all from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Electrical Engineering in 1969, 1971, and 1975, respectively. Fontana completed his Ph.D. on the optical and magnetic properties of thin films under the direction of Professor David J. Epstein.
Career
Fontana joined Texas instruments in Dallas, Texas, in 1975 to work on magnetic bubble memory devices. He had been originally introduced to magnetic bubble memory in 1970 in an IEEE lecture by Andrew Eschenfelder of IBM. He was encouraged in this work by Dennis Bus who was also a visiting scientist at MIT and by Dean Toombs, the VP in charge of bubbles at TI
In 1981, Fontana joined the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, to work on thin film magnetic recording heads. He made significant contributions in the development of processing of both inductive write heads and three generations of magnetoresistive read heads. These included Anisotropic Magnetoresistance (AMR) heads, Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) heads. and Tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) heads. Fontana's colleagues and collaborators included Ta Lin Hsu, Ching Tsang, Christopher Bajorek, Heiner Sussner, Prakash Kasiraj, Bob Scranton, Rick Dill.
From 2003 to 2007, Fontana worked for Hitachi GST (a result of Hitachi's purchase of IBM's disk-drive division). His work at Hitachi GST at that time focussed on nano structure e-beam fabrication and on novel flux detecting sensors including all-metal CPP GMR sensors that scale well to very small device sizes.
In 2008, Fontana re-joined the IBM Almaden Research Center to work on heads for magnetic tape recording. In particular he contributed to the development and implementation of TMR read heads suitable for the harsh tape recording environment. In addition, Fontana published several papers with S. Hetzler and G. Decad examining the global market and technology outlook for data storage technologies in general comparing solid-state, optical, hard disk drive, and tape.
During his career, Fontana played an important role in several technical societies including the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council. In particular, he played an influential role with the IEEE Magnetics Society encouraged by Denis Mee, Mark Kryder, and Dave Thompson. Fontana ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableson | Ableson is a surname. People with the surname include:
Bruce Ableson (born 1963), American computer programmer and website developer
Andrew Ableson, actor in the film, Boyfriends
Brad Ableson, film director who worked on Minions: The Rise of Gru and Legends of Chamberlain Heights''
See also
Abelson (a surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl%20in%20the%20Shed%3A%20The%20Kidnapping%20of%20Abby%20Hernandez | Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez is a Lifetime television network film that aired as part of its "Ripped from the Headlines" feature films and starring Lindsay Navarro, Ben Savage, and Erica Durance. It is based on the true story of the kidnapping of Abby Hernandez at the hands of Nathaniel Kibby. The film premiered on Lifetime on February 26, 2022.
Plot
When she was 14 and days away from her 15th birthday, Abby Hernandez accepts a ride from a stranger while on her way home from school. This mistake results in her being kidnapped and held captive by Nathaniel Kibby. For 9 months, Nathaniel keeps her locked in a storage container located on his property and repeatedly abuses her. Abby carefully thinks of a plan to gain the trust of her abductor in order to survive and make it back home.
Meanwhile, her mother Zenya goes to the police to try to find Abby. When the police are unable to help her, Zenya takes action for her own search of Abby and struggles to keep up the hope of reuniting with her daughter.
Cast
Filming
Lindsay stated playing Abby in the film was emotionally and physically difficult.
Reception
References
2022 films
Crime films based on actual events
Drama films based on actual events
Films about abuse
Films about kidnapping
Films about kidnapping in the United States
Lifetime (TV network) films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium%20Network | The Helium Network is a decentralized wireless Internet of Things (IoT) network using the LoRaWAN system, tied to the cryptocurrency Helium Network Token (symbol HNT). Nodes on the network are generally owned and placed by individuals in their homes or offices, and they are rewarded for their participation in the network in payments of HNT. The network aims to provide connectivity to IoT sensor devices in areas, where wireless or mobile coverage is minimal, or requires too much power.
History
The Helium Network was begun by Helium, Inc. in 2013, as a network of LoRa gateway hotspots which could be deployed throughout an area by agreements with building owners, typically paid in conventional currency. In 2017, the company's funds were running low, so it switched to a new strategy: offering individuals payment in cryptocurrency to operate individually owned nodes in their homes or offices. These individually owned nodes are purchased at costs of up to $500 each, and the payments to owners vary based on data usage but can be as low as $.10 a month. Hotspot operators would also have a vote in the operation of the network. In 2022, Helium Inc. rebranded to Nova Labs Inc. and raised $200million in a funding round led by Tiger Global Management and Andreessen Horowitz.
Reports in July 2022 revealed that Helium had falsely claimed Lime and Salesforce as two of their major customers for years, despite neither company having a formal relationship with Helium or using the network.
See also
LoRa
FreedomFi
References
External links
2018 establishments
Internet of things companies
Cryptocurrency projects
Currencies introduced in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal%20O%27Kelly | Donal O'Kelly (born 1958) is an Irish playwright and actor.
Early life
O'Kelly was born in Dublin in 1958. He worked in the Irish Civil Service as a computer programmer, before quitting to become active in theatre and politics.
Career
O'Kelly's first play was Silicon Sweethearts (1984). In 1993, he co-founded Calypso Productions, dedicated to staging work that deals with human rights. He is a longtime activist and an associate director of Afri.
O'Kelly was elected to Aosdána in 2007; he resigned in 2011 after Dunamaise Arts Centre refused to hang one of Mannix Flynn's works and was accused of censorship by Aosdána; O'Kelly did not agree.
Donal O'Kelly's 1995 play Catalpa won a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the 1996 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Critics' Prize at the 1997 Melbourne International Festival in 1997. In 1999 he won the Irish American Cultural Institute Butler Literary Award.
In 2014 his music-drama serial Francisco won the gold medal for Best Drama Special at the New York Festivals Radio Awards.
O'Kelly's film appearances include Jimmy's Hall, The Van and Kings, for which he was nominated for an IFTA. On TV, he has appeared on Paths to Freedom, Ballykissangel and The Clinic.
References
External links
1958 births
Living people
Irish male dramatists and playwrights
Aosdána members
People from Dublin (city)
21st-century Irish dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Irish actors
21st-century Irish actors
Actors from Dublin (city)
Irish stage actors
Irish film actors
Irish television actors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twila%20Moon | Twila Moon is a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center known for her work on the Greenland ice sheet.
Education and career
Moon has a B.S. from Stanford University (2004) and an M.S. from the University of Washington (2008). She earned her Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Washington where she worked on ice mass loss from a Greenland glacier. Following her Ph.D. she did postdoctoral work at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the University of Oregon before joining the National Snow and Ice Data Center as a research scientist in 2017.
Research
Moon is best known for her research on the Greenland ice sheet. Her early research examined the position of the ice sheet, and the change in the movement of the glacier. She has examined how water produced at the bottom of icebergs contributes to the freshwater found in Greenland's fjords, and defines the impact of the loss of the Greenland ice sheet on sea level rise. She is part of the group working to establish long-term observations of the Greenland ice sheet. Moon has examined the data quantifying the loss of ice from the Greenland ice sheet, and shares these results via conversations with the media and the United States House of Representatives. She speaks on climate change with multiple venues in the media, and is a co-author of Arctic report card. Moon has spoken about the border between being a scientist and being an activist in the realm of climate science.
Selected publications
References
Living people
Women climatologists
Women glaciologists
University of Washington alumni
Stanford University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret | Caret is the name used familiarly for the character , (the circumflex and a circumflex accent) provided on most QWERTY keyboards by typing . The symbol has a variety of uses in programming and mathematics. The name "caret" arose from its visual similarity to the original proofreader's caret, a mark used in proofreading to indicate where a punctuation mark, word, or phrase should be inserted into a document. The formal ASCII standard (X3.64.1977) calls it a "circumflex".
History
Typewriters
On typewriters designed for languages that routinely use diacritics (accent marks), there are two possible ways to type these: keys can be dedicated to precomposed characters (with the diacritic included); alternatively a dead key mechanism can be provided. With the latter, a mark is made when a dead key is typed but, unlike normal keys, the paper carriage does not move on and thus the next letter to be typed is printed under the accent. The symbol was originally provided in typewriters and computer printers so that circumflex accents could be overprinted on letters (as in or ).
Transposition into ISO/IEC 646 and ASCII
The incorporation of the circumflex symbol into ASCII is a consequence of this prior existence on typewriters: this symbol did not exist independently as a type or hot-lead printing character. The original 1963 version of the ASCII standard used the code point x5E for an . However, the 1965 ISO/IEC646 standard defined code point x5E as one of five available for national variation, with the circumflex diacritic as the default and the up-arrow as one of the alternative uses. In 1967, the second revision of ASCII followed suit.
Overprinting to add an accent mark was not always supported well by printers, and was almost never possible on video terminals. Instead, precomposed characters were eventually created to show the accented letters. The freestanding circumflex (which had come to be called a caret) quickly became reused for many other purposes, such as in computer languages and mathematical notation. As the mark did not need to fit above a letter any more, it became larger in appearance such that it can no longer be used to overprint an accent.
In Unicode it is encoded as , and in HTML may be inserted with .
This caret is not to be confused with other chevron-shaped characters, such as the turned v or the logical AND, which may occasionally be called carets.
Uses
Programming languages
The symbol has many uses in programming languages, where it is typically called a caret. It can signify exponentiation, the bitwise XOR operator, string concatenation, and control characters in caret notation, among other uses. In regular expressions, the caret is used to match the beginning of a string or line; if it begins a character class, then the inverse of the class is to be matched.
ANSI C can transcribe the caret in the form of the trigraph , as the character was originally not available in all character sets and keyboards.
C++ addition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Benini | Luca Benini is a computer scientist who is a Professor of Electronics at University of Bologna and the Chair of Digital Circuits and Systems at ETH Zurich.
Biography
Benini received Laurea in Electrical engineering from University of Bologna in 1994 and in 1997, he received his PhD on the same topic from Stanford University under the supervision of Giovanni De Micheli and Teresa Meng.
Benini has served as a Chief Architect of the Platform 2012 project at STMicroelectronics in Grenoble, France from 2009 to 2013.
He was awarded the Fellow of ACM (2016) for his contributions to the design of low power multi- processor systems. He also became a Fellow of the IEEE (2007) for his contributions to design technologies for low power design of integrated circuits and systems. Benini is also a member of HiPEAC.
In 2019, a team of researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Bologna led by Benini developed a nano-drone named PULP Dronet, which is only few centimeters in diameter and light-weight, capable of operating indoors and outdoors. In 2019, Benini joined LowRISC C.I.C. as a board member and serves in the board of directors.
Publications
Selected publications
Benini, L., & De Micheli, G. (2002). Networks on chips: A new SoC paradigm. computer, 35(1), 70–78.
Bertozzi, D., Jalabert, A., Murali, S., Tamhankar, R., Stergiou, S., Benini, L., & De Micheli, G. (2005). NoC synthesis flow for customized domain specific multiprocessor systems-on-chip. IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems, 16(2), 113–129.
Benini, L., & De Micheli, G. (2000). System-level power optimization: techniques and tools. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 5(2), 115–192.
Ye, T. T., De Micheli, G., & Benini, L. (2002, June). Analysis of power consumption on switch fabrics in network routers. In Proceedings of the 39th annual design automation conference (pp. 524–529).
Bertozzi, D., & Benini, L. (2004). Xpipes: A network-on-chip architecture for gigascale systems-on-chip. IEEE circuits and systems magazine, 4(2), 18–31.
References
External links
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
Italian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt%20Futures | Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic venture founded by Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt in 2017. The philanthropy funds science and technology research and talent networking programs. The organization's grants include large-scale "moonshots". Schmidt Futures is based in New York City with offices in Washington, D.C., and London.
Scope of work
Schmidt Futures funds basic research for the public good in science, technology, and society. The organization searches for talented people and focuses them on hard problems through networks and competitions, new research or policy organizations, and scholarships and fellowships. In addition to basic science, Schmidt Futures also funds innovations toward basic societal needs such as internet access, COVID-19 relief, poverty relief, and relief for emigrants from recent war in Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Programs
Science and technology
Advanced computing for scientific research and development
Artificial intelligence
Awards for excellence in science communication
Convergent Research
Open data and open software
Schmidt Science Fellows
Science polymath program
Synthetic biology
Technology innovation policy
Society and talent
Assistance to recent Afghan emigrants and Ukrainian emigrants
Associate product manager program, based on the Google APM program
Community-based innovation and growing the middle class
Entrepreneur in residence program
Families and workers affected by COVID-19
High-speed internet access; Reimagine New York for digital equity in New York State
International strategy forum
Innovation fellows
Learning engineering including the Futures Forum on Learning tools competition
Quad fellowship for scientists and technologists from Australia, India, Japan, and the United States
Rise global scholarships for young people
Defense Industry
Center for a New American Security
Notable people
Stuart Feldman, chief scientist
Thomas Kalil, chief innovation officer
Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, executive director of Rise
James Manyika, senior advisor
Eric Schmidt, cofounder
Wendy Schmidt, cofounder
Fareed Zakaria, senior advisor
See also
Schmidt Family Foundation
Schmidt Ocean Institute
References
External links
Charities based in New York City
Educational foundations in the United States
Development charities based in the United States
Information technology charities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Kraska | Tim Kraska is a German computer scientist specializing in data systems and the intersection of systems and machine learning. He is currently an associate professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education
Kraska received his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich in 2010, his Master's of Science degrees from University of Münster in Germany and University of Sydney in 2006, and a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems also from University of Münster in 2004.
Career
Kraska was at the University of California-Berkeley's AMPLab as a post-doctoral scholar from 2010 to 2012. Kraska joined Brown University's computer science department as an assistant professor in January 2013. During this time, his focus was on big data management and hybrid human/machine data base systems. He was later promoted to adjunct professor in January 2018.
Kraska co-founded Einblick Analytics, a startup based on the Northstar research project, which builds a collaborative data platform to enable teams to work together.
Kraska has been involved in the development of numerous data systems, such as building a database on S3, which proposed for a first time the separation of compute and storage for cloud database systems as now used by Snowflake and many other systems; Tupleware, a compilation framework for data analytic workflows; CrowdDB, a database system that automatically uses crowd-sourcing for data cleaning tasks; and Northstar, an interactive data science system. Kraska co-founded Einblick Analytics in 2010, a startup based on Northstar, which builds a collaborative data platform to enable teams to work together.
Kraska developed the concept of Learned Indexes, which he developed while at Google. It is now used as a part of Google BigTable, has been integrated into RocksDB, and has been used in other applications such as DNA sequence alignment and internet packet classification.
Kraska has also developed the first Instance Optimized Database Systems.
Kraska has published more than 150 scholarly articles, has been cited more than 8,500 times and has an h-index of 43.
Awards
Kraska received the Siemens Prize and the Master of Information Technology Scholarship for outstanding achievement from the University of Sydney, both in 2005. Kraska received a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship in 2006. Kraska received a Swiss National Science Foundation Prospective Researcher Fellowship in 2010. Kraska received the VLDB best demo award in 2011 and the VLDB Early Career Award in 2018.
Kraska received the NSF Career Award in 2015, the Google Faculty Research Award in 2015 for his proposal “Human-In-the-Loop Data Exploration”, the VMware Systems Research Award in 2017, and the Intel Outstanding Researcher Award in 2021.
Kraska was the PC Track Chair for the 2016 SIGMOD conference, and he was the Program Vice Chair for the 2019 conference. Kraska was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship for computer scienc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral%20hashing | Spiral hashing, also known as Spiral Storage is an extensible
hashing algorithm. As in all hashing schemes, spiral hashing stores records in a varying number of buckets, using a record key for addressing. In an expanding Linear hashing file, buckets are split in a predefined order. This results in adding a new bucket at the end of the file. While this allows gradual reorganization of the file, the expected number of records in the newly created bucket and the bucket from what it splits falls to half the previous number. Several attempts were made to alleviate this sudden drop in space utilization. Martin's spiral storage uses a different approach. The file consists of a number of continuously numbered buckets. The lower-numbered (left) buckets have a higher expected number of records. When the file expands, the left-most bucket is replaced by two buckets on the right. Some variants of this idea exist.
Spiral hashing requires a uniform hash function of the keys of the records into the unit interval . If the hash file starts at bucket , the key is mapped into a real number . The final address is then computed as where is the "extension factor". When is incremented, approximately new buckets are created on the right. Larson conducted experiments that showed that Linear hashing still had superior performance over Spiral Hashing.
See also
Extendible hashing
Linear hashing
References
Search algorithms
Hashing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Feminism | Data Feminism is a book written by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein as part literature review, part call to action, Data Feminism provides a framework for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. Through seven chapters Data Feminism provide examples of data biases and injustices, as well as strategies to redress them. In doing so, D’Ignazio and Klein suggest data feminism as "a way of thinking about data, both their uses and their limits, that is informed by direct experience, by a commitment to action, and by intersectional feminist thought". The chapters are organised according to seven guiding principles (see below): examine power, challenge power, elevate emotion and embodiment, rethink binaries and hierarchies, embrace pluralism, consider context, and make labor visible.
The starting point for data feminism is something that has gone mostly unacknowledged in data science: power is not distributed equally in the world. Data science is a form of power, and it can be used to uphold existing hierarchies or, alternatively, to discover and redress injustices. The book therefore consistently emphasises why data never, ever “speak for themselves", and how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. The authors explain how, for example, a better understanding of emotions challenges and improves ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor exposes the significant human efforts behind technologies and data-related work.
The authors apply an intersectional feminist framework to data science. Using this framework the authors examine intertwined structural forces of power such as sex, race, sexuality, and class. The authors therefore also explicitly focus on data justice, as opposed to data ethics, arguing that data ethics and its focus on fairness and biases create structures that protect dominant powers.
Principles of Data Feminism
According to D'Ignazio's and Klein's book Data Feminism, data feminism consists of seven principles:
Principle #1 of Data Feminism is to Examine Power.
Data feminism begins by analyzing how power and privilege operate in the world. It examines systems of power and how it intersects with other issues, including racism and sexism. Examining power means naming and explaining the forces of oppression that are part of our daily lives, and into the datasets, databases, and algorithms they use. These are so much a part of our lives that we often don’t even see them as such.
Principle #2 of Data Feminism is to Challenge Power.
Data feminism commits to challenging unequal power structures and working toward justice. Taking action against unequal power takes many forms, but D'Ignazio and Klein offer four starting points: (1) Collect: Compiling counterdata—in the face of missin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20Air%20%285th%20generation%29 | The iPad Air (5th generation), colloquially known as the iPad Air 5, is a tablet computer designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It was announced by Apple on March 8, 2022. Pre-orders began on March 11, 2022, and shipping began on March 18, 2022. It succeeded the 4th generation iPad Air and is available in five colors: Space Gray, Starlight, Pink, Purple, and Blue.
Features
Hardware
The fifth-generation iPad Air uses the M1 SoC; the same chip used in the iPad Pro (5th generation). The chip has an 8-core CPU, an 8-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine which can process more than 11 trillion operations per second. Apple claims the CPU is up to 60 percent faster and the GPU has 2x faster graphics compared to its predecessor. It has 64 GB or 256 GB of internal storage, and 8 GB of RAM.
It has a 10.9-inch 2360 by 1640 Liquid Retina Display display with 3.8 million pixels. The display is laminated and has an anti-reflective coating, as well as wide color, True Tone and 500 nits of brightness.
The fifth-generation iPad Air features a 12 MP rear camera and an ultra-wide 12 MP front camera with Center Stage, which automatically tracks users to keep them in frame. Both cameras have Smart HDR 3.
It has Touch ID integrated into the Sleep/Wake button on the top right edge of the device, and stereo speakers with dual-channel sound in landscape mode.
Connectivity
The fifth-generation iPad Air includes a USB-C port that is used for charging as well as connecting external devices and accessories. The port is capable of transferring up to 10 Gbit/s (ten billion bits per second, 1.25 GB/s or 1.25 billion bytes per second), allowing for fast connections to cameras and external storage, as well as support for monitors with up to 4K resolution. For wireless connection, the device comes with Bluetooth 5.0 and Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) support. Cellular models support sub-6 GHz 5G with peak speeds of up to 3.5 Gbit/s in ideal conditions.
Timeline of iPad models
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Air 5
IOS
Tablet computers
Touchscreen portable media players
Tablet computers introduced in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20Studio | The Mac Studio is a small-form-factor workstation made by Apple Inc. It is one of four desktop computers in the Mac lineup, sitting above the consumer-range Mac Mini and iMac, and positioned below the Mac Pro. It is configurable with either the M2 Max or M2 Ultra system on a chip.
Overview
The Mac Studio was announced on March 8, 2022, alongside the Apple Studio Display, and released on March 18. At the time of launch, customers reported shipping delays for the Mac Studio as late as May 2022. The delay has been attributed to the global chip shortage.
The Mac Studio is designed as a higher-grade machine than the Mac Mini but lower than the Mac Pro, and is positioned similarly to the now-discontinued iMac Pro. There are two models which are driven by ARM-based SoC: the M1 Max or the M1 Ultra, which combines two M1 Max chips in one package. The Mac Studio has an identical width and depth to the Mac Mini, both about , but is around tall. It has four Thunderbolt 4 (USB 4) ports, two USB 3.0 Type-A ports, HDMI (up to 4K @ 60 Hz), 10Gb Ethernet with Lights Out Management and a headphone jack. The front panel has two USB-C ports (Thunderbolt 4 in M1 Ultra models) and an SD card slot (that supports SDXC cards and UHS-II bus), making it the first desktop Mac since the 2012 Mac Pro to have I/O on the front. It is cooled by a pair of double-sided blowers and a mesh of holes on the bottom and back of the case, which helps reduce the noise of fans spinning. Nevertheless, there have been extensive early reports of excessive fan noise.
Mac Studio models with the M1 Ultra are heavier than those with the M1 Max as they are equipped with a larger copper heat sink. Apple says the Mac Studio performs 50 percent faster than a Mac Pro with a 16-core Intel Xeon processor.
The Mac Studio supports up to four 6K monitors connected via Thunderbolt, and a fifth monitor via HDMI. It was introduced alongside the Apple Studio Display, a 27-inch 5K monitor with an integrated 12 megapixel camera, six-speaker sound system with spatial audio and Dolby Atmos support and a height adjustable stand.
On June 5, 2023, during WWDC, Apple introduced updated Mac Studio models based on the M2 Max and M2 Ultra chips. Updates include Bluetooth 5.3, Wi-Fi 6E, the capability of running up to six Pro Display XDRs, and support for 8K displays over Thunderbolt and HDMI.
Repairability
Mac Studio has two removable flash storage ports, with one or two of them in use, the latter in models with 4 or 8 TB of storage. While it is possible to swap the flash storage card between same size models, with an Apple Configurator restore, upgrading is not supported yet. Some reviewers have criticized this decision as unfriendly for right to repair, while Ars Technica notes this limitation may be due to the design of Apple silicon that implements the SSD controller into the system on a chip rather than the drive itself for encryption purposes. The positioning of components such as the SSD beneath an expos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmin%20Vossoughian | Yasmin Vossoughian is a television journalist employed by NBCUniversal as a news anchor for their cable news network, MSNBC. She is the host of MSNBC’s weekend rolling news program, Yasmin Vossoughian Reports, airing from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET on weekends.
She graduated from Occidental College.
Vossoughian’s regular anchoring time slots are on Saturdays and Sundays, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET, when she hosts her namesake weekend program. Vossoughian regularly fills- in for José Díaz-Balart, Andrea Mitchell, and Chris Jansing on weekday editions of MSNBC Reports.
Previously, she was the anchor of Morning Joe First Look, the now-cancelled pre-show for MSNBC’s flagship weekday morning show, 'Morning Joe'. Prior to joining MSNBC, she was employed by CNN for CNN's sister channel HLN (formerly CNN Headline News), working as a correspondent.
Vossoughian is married and has two sons.
References
MSNBC people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eun%20Jung%20Kim%20%28parameterized%20complexity%29 | Eun Jung Kim () is a South Korean computer scientist and graph theorist specializing in parameterized complexity, parameterized algorithms for constraint satisfaction problems, and width parameters in graphs and matroids. She is a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), associated with Paris Dauphine University.
Education and career
Kim studied industrial engineering at KAIST in Korea, obtaining a master's degree, and then completed her Ph.D. in computer science in 2010 at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her dissertation was supervised by Gregory Gutin.
After postdoctoral research in Montpellier, France, at the Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, she became a CNRS researcher in 2011, affiliated with the (LAMSADE) at Paris Dauphine University.
Recognition
In 2017, Kim was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
South Korean computer scientists
South Korean women computer scientists
21st-century South Korean mathematicians
South Korean women mathematicians
Theoretical computer scientists
Graph theorists
KAIST alumni
Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London
French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Studio%20Display | The Apple Studio Display (stylized and marketed as Studio Display) is a 27-inch flat panel computer monitor developed and sold by Apple Inc. It was announced on March 8, 2022, alongside the Mac Studio desktop, and was released on March 18, 2022. It is Apple's consumer display, sitting below the Pro Display XDR.
Overview
The Studio Display is the first Apple-branded consumer display released since the Apple Thunderbolt Display, which was released in 2011 and discontinued in 2016. In the interim, Apple worked with LG to design the Thunderbolt 3-enabled UltraFine line, consisting of a 21.5-inch 4K and a 27-inch 5K display.
The Studio Display features a 27-inch, 5K LED-backlit panel, with 5120×2880 resolution at 218 pixels per inch and 600 nits of brightness, an increase from the 500 panel used in the LG UltraFine and 27-inch iMac. The panel also supports P3 wide color and True Tone technology. It does not support HDR content. It also includes a six-speaker system with force-cancelling woofers that support spatial audio and Dolby Atmos, and a three-microphone array that supports "Hey Siri". On the rear of the display is a Thunderbolt 3 port that supports DisplayPort 1.4 with Display Stream Compression (DSC) 1.2 and provides up to 96 W of host charging for connected laptops, and three downstream 10 Gbit/s USB-C ports.
The Studio Display includes an Apple A13 Bionic system on a chip to power audio and webcam processing. The built-in webcam supports Center Stage, introduced with the iPad Pro (5th generation), which pinpoints the positions of the users and automatically tracks the camera view accordingly to perspectively center them. The display also is reported to contain 64 GB of internal storage but only using 2 GB at a time. It is possible this is simply a side effect of the use of the A13 chip, likely the one found in the base model iPhone 11.
The Studio Display comes with three mounting options: a tilt-adjustable stand, a tilt- and height-adjustable stand similar to the Pro Display XDR, and a VESA mount. The mounts are built into the display and are not user interchangeable, but can be reconfigured by an Apple Store or authorized service provider after purchase. Like the Pro Display XDR, it can also be configured with the optional laser-etched "nano-texture" glass finish to reduce glare.
The Studio Display has a proprietary power cable, which requires a special tool to separate from the display. The display comes with a braided Thunderbolt 3 cable, and longer braided Thunderbolt 4 Pro cables in lengths of and are available separately.
Compatibility
The Studio Display is compatible with all Macs with Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 4 running macOS Monterey 12.3 and later:
MacBook Pro (2016 or later)
MacBook Air (2018 or later)
Mac Mini (2018 or later)
iMac (2017 or later)
iMac Pro (2017)
Mac Pro (2019)
Mac Studio (2022)
The Studio Display works with other systems supporting DisplayPort, including Windows-based systems, but only suppor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Pop%20%28TV%20series%29 | This Is Pop is a Canadian documentary television series, which aired on CTV Television Network in 2021. Produced by Banger Films and similar to the format of the company's earlier documentary series Metal Evolution, Rock Icons and Hip-Hop Evolution, the eight-episode series presents a history of pop music.
The series was designed thematically rather than chronologically, so that episodes could be viewed in any order; when the series was added to Netflix for international distribution, it was designed so that whichever episode the service's algorithms deemed most likely to be of interest to each individual viewer was recommended first.
The series premiered March 6, 2021 on CTV, and was released internationally by Netflix in June.
The series received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, for Best Biography or Arts Documentary and Best Direction in a Documentary Series (Jared Raab for "Auto-Tune").
Episodes
References
External links
2021 Canadian television series debuts
2020s Canadian documentary television series
2020s Canadian music television series
CTV Television Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday%20Night%20Baseball | Friday Night Baseball is a live broadcast of Major League Baseball (MLB) games on Apple TV+ that debuted during the league's 2022 season. The weekly broadcast is produced by MLB Network, featuring a doubleheader with pregame and postgame analysis. The broadcast is available in the North American market consisting of the United States, Canada and Mexico as well as select overseas markets including Australia, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom, with plans to expand availability of the broadcast to more regions in the future.
History
Apple Inc. signed a seven-year deal with MLB for the broadcast for US$85 million per year, a total value of $595 million. This includes an annual $55 million rights fee as well as $30 million for Apple advertising. Apple has the right to exit the agreement after the first or second year. The deal was the first sports broadcasting contract ever acquired by Apple. Plans for the broadcast were formally announced on March 8, 2022, at Apple's Peek Performance event and later in an online press release.
The first broadcast date was initially made uncertain as the deal was signed amidst the 2021–22 MLB lockout and the threat of cancelled games. After the lockout was resolved, MLB announced that the first games would air on April 8, 2022, with a doubleheader of New York Mets–Washington Nationals and Houston Astros–Los Angeles Angels as the inaugural matchups. Apple also announced that Friday Night Baseball will be free-of-charge for its first 12 weeks of broadcasts, although this was later extended for the rest of the inaugural season.
On April 7, 2022, Apple announced that Melanie Newman, Chris Young, Hannah Keyser, and Brooke Fletcher would be the inaugural broadcast crew for east coast games, while Stephen Nelson, Hunter Pence, Katie Nolan, and Heidi Watney would be the broadcast crew for west coast games. Lauren Gardner was announced as the pregame and postgame studio host, along with a rotation of MLB Network studio analysts including Carlos Peña, Cliff Floyd, and Yonder Alonso. Former MLB umpire Brian Gorman was also hired as a rules analyst.
On September 23, 2022, St. Louis Cardinals designated hitter Albert Pujols hit the 700th home run of his career during a Friday Night Baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
With the announcement of the Friday Night Baseball schedule for the first half of the 2023 MLB season, Apple announced that they had signed a deal with DirecTV to distribute Friday Night Baseball to their commercial subscribers, ensuring availability to venues (such as bars and restaurants) that were not readily equipped to handle streaming-only broadcasts. DirecTV had previously signed similar deals with Amazon Prime Video for their Thursday Night Football broadcasts, as well as with Apple for MLS Season Pass broadcasts. Apple also announced that they would add alternative audio feeds allowing viewers in the United States and Canada to listen to local radio broadcasts from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini%20Challenger | The Gemini Challenger was a Motorola 68000 based computer, released in 1985 and designed by Gemini Microcomputers based in Chesham. This was Gemini's first non Z80 computer and their last.
It was designed to look like an ordinary PC-compatible computer, with a Wyse WY-50 remote terminal for monitor. Four operating systems were available (MBOS, aimed for business and supporting multiuser; Mirage, another multiuser OS; TDI p-System, a version of UCSD p-System including Pascal; CP/M 68k), along with an advanced optional graphic card (based on the Hitachi HD63484) with a maximum resolution of 1024 x 1024 pixels and 16 million available colours.
References
Computers designed in the United Kingdom
68k-based computers
Computer-related introductions in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annick%20De%20Houwer | Annick De Houwer (born 3 January 1958) is a Belgian linguist, academic, researcher and author. She is the Initiator and Director of the Harmonious Bilingualism Network (HaBilNet).
De Houwer's research has focused on early child bilingualism and the role of input in bilingual acquisition and on bilingual families' well-being. She has authored the books Bilingual Development in Childhood; Bilingual First Language Acquisition; An Introduction to Bilingual Development; and The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth: a Case Study. She was co-series editor of Trends in Language Acquisition Research and series editor of IMPACT: Studies of Language in Society. She has also co-edited several books, most recently The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism (2019). Her writings have been published in Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
De Houwer has been a residential fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS). She is a member of the TalkBank advisory board at Carnegie Mellon University, and has been a member of the scientific advisory board of MultiLing at the University of Oslo.
Education
De Houwer completed her bachelor's degree in Germanic linguistics and literature in 1977 at the Free University of Brussels, and her MA in general and English linguistics at the University of Antwerp in 1979, where she also received a High School Teaching Certificate. In 1980, she obtained a Certificate of Specialisation in psycholinguistics from the Catholic University of Louvain and studied child language and psycholinguistics at Stanford University from 1980 to 1981. She received her PhD in linguistics from the Free University of Brussels in 1988.
Career
De Houwer began her academic career in 1981, as a part-time Dutch instructor at Stanford University. She was a lecturer for English linguistics from 1981 to 1988 at the Free University of Brussels, after which she became a lecturer for child language until 1989, at the University of Antwerp. From 1991 to 1992, she was an assistant professor for English linguistics at the Free University of Brussels. After that, she held a part-time position at the University of Antwerp, first as an assistant professor for communication Sciences (until 1997), and then as an associate professor (until 2000). Concurrently she held research positions, first as a postdoctoral fellow (1993–1999) and one year as a tenured research scientist (1999–2000). These positions were first with the Belgian National Science Foundation (until 1996) and afterwards with the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). De Houwer was appointed associate research professor at the University of Antwerp in 2000. She left Antwerp in 2009 to take up a position of professor of linguistics at the University of Erfurt, Germany, from which she retired in 2021.
De Houwer was the director of the Language Center at the University of Erfurt from 2009 to 2012. Since 2018, she has been the initiator and director of the Harmonious Bilingual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moley | Moley is a British computer-animated television series directed by Leon Joosen and produced by Tony Nottage at Nottage Productions, based on the stories written by James Reatchlous. The show revolves around Moley, an anthropomorphic mole who lives in MoleTown with his friends and other animals. A 30-minute special, Master Moley by Royal Invitation, aired in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa on Warner Bros. Discovery Boomerang UK channels in November 2020. After boomerang MENA and CEE becoming Cartoonito, moley does air from 4 September on cartoonito mena and 18 March on cartoonito cee and france
Production and broadcast
Moley was initially produced as a 30-minute TV special titled Master Moley by Royal Invitation, which first aired on WarnerMedia channel Boomerang in EMEA territories on 28 November 2020.
The TV series, titled Moley, premiered with the first 26 11-minute episodes of a 52-episode season across WarnerMedia EMEA's Boomerang channel in over 119 countries in October 2021, with a further 26 episodes due for release in the spring of 2022. In the United States, the series premiered on 7 July 2023 on Peacock. In July 13, 2023, the show started releasing episodes in the Talking Tom and Friend’s YouTube channel.
The show made its free-to-air debut on Pop during Christmas 2022, starting with the special, the show was expected to fully debut on Pop in January 2023, but didn’t air, in August of 2023, it became listed on the Pop website, and it began airing on October 2, 2023..
Plot
The series follows Moley, a charming, optimistic young mole who lives deep in a burrow in the bustling city of MoleTown. Accompanied by a magical book named Manny, Moley travels around MoleTown learning about new mole cultures and sharing his knowledge of the human world above.
Though Moley is viewed by the citizens of MoleTown as wise and knowledgeable, he's no smarter than the average mole, and often finds himself on entertaining misadventures. His best friends Mona Lisa, Dotty, Mystic Mole, and Mishmosh always come to his rescue.
Characters
Moley (voiced by Warwick Davis)
Manny the Magic Book
Dotty (voiced by Jessica Henwick)
Mona Lisa (voiced by Gemma Arterton)
MishMosh (voiced by Stanley Tucci)
Mystic Mole (voiced by Togo Igawa)
The Gardener (voiced by Richard E. Grant)
Squirm (voiced by Brigitta Nicas)
Lester (voiced by Trevor Dion Nicholas)
Episodes
References
External links
Boomerang (TV network) original programming
2020s British animated television series
2020s British children's television series
2020 British television series debuts
British children's animated comedy television series
English-language television shows
Animated television series about animals
British computer-animated television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiuling%20Li | Xiuling Li is an distinguished electrical and computer engineering professor in the field of nanostructured semiconductor devices. She is currently the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 3 in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Fellow of the Dow Professor in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, she was a Donald Biggar Willet Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interim Director of the Nick Holonyak Jr. Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Education
Li attended Peking University and graduated with her B.S in Physical Chemistry in 1986. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles from 1989 to 1993, where she completed her PhD research under the supervision of Nathan S. Lewis.
Career
After completing her PhD, Li worked as a postdoctoral research associate at California Institute of Technology from 1994 to 1998 under the supervision of Nathan S. Lewis. In 1994, she began a postdoctoral research position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of James S. Coleman of the Semiconductor Laser Laboratory at the Nick Holonyak Jr. Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. At the time, she was the only female engineer working in the MNTL cleanrooms.
Li was promoted to research assistant professor at UIUC in 1998, where she remained until 2001.
EpiWorks Inc.
In 2001, Li left the university to work as senior engineer at EpiWorks, a semiconductor manufacturing startup in Champaign-Urbana that focuses on developing novel high-performance III-V epitaxial semiconductor materials and devices. In 2003 she was promoted to R&D Manager, where she remained until 2007.
University of Illinois
Li returned to the University of Illinois faculty in 2007 with dual appointments as a faculty affiliate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering. In 2015, she was promoted to full professor and Willet Faculty Scholar; in 2020 she was named the Donald Bigger Willet Professor in Engineering. During her time at UIUC, she was the recipient of numerous faculty and research honors, including Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2021), Fellow, Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program (2020), fellow, Optical Society of America (2019), fellow, American Physical Society (2018), fellow, IEEE (2017), deputy editor, Applied Physics Letters (2015- ), board of governors, IEEE Photonics Society (2014–2016), Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellow, Inaugural, College of Engineering, UIUC (2015-2016),Campus Excellent Teacher ranked by students, UIUC (2015, 2020), A. T. Yang Research Award, ECE, UIUC (2013),Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, College of Engineering, UIUC (2012), ONR Young Investigator Program Award (2011, 2014), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2009-2011), and NSF Career Award (2008-2013).
University of Texas at Austin
In 2021, Li left the University o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaas%20de%20Boer%20%28astronomer%29 | Klaas Sjoerds de Boer (born 1941 in Groningen) is a Dutch astronomer and astrophysicist as well as Professor at the University of Bonn. His research mainly consisted of using data obtained with satellites and from Earth bound telescopes.
Education
De Boer studied astronomy and physics at the University of Groningen and obtained his PhD there along with Stuart Pottasch on Interstellar Absorption Lines in the Ultraviolet.
Research and teaching career
From 1974 to 1977 he was at the Institute for Space Research at the University of Groningen. From 1978 to 1981 he was a research associate at the Astronomy Department of the University of Wisconsin (USA) in Madison. Between 1981 and 1985 he was postdoc at the University of Tübingen and worked in 1985 for the University of Groningen in the collaborative project of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of the observatory on La Palma, being based at Royal Greenwich Observatory in Herstmonceux. Research periods brought him to the Astronomy Department of the Princeton University (USA) und and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch (New Zealand).
He became 1986 full Professor of Astronomie at the Sternwarte of the University of Bonn, successor of Hans Schmidt.
Main research areas see: Interstellar Gas, Stars of the horizontal branch, Kinematics in the Milky Way, Structure of the Magellanic Clouds and Dwarf Galaxies, all areas with as guiding principle ‘’investigation of the three-dimensional Structure of the local Universe’’.
He authored or co-authored over 250 publications, half in refereed journals. He organised conferences and was editor of proceedings and published books. In addition, he wrote over 25 popular articles and some 30 essays for the internet.
Committees
De Boer was Member and chairman of several committees, among them International Ultraviolet Explorer Programme Committee of the ESA (1986–1994), of the Gutachterausschusses Verbundforschung Astronomie und Astrophysik of the DLR (1991–1993 and 1995–2001), the Science Advisory Group of Gaia-Project (1998–2000) and of the Board of Directors of the international journal Astronomy & Astrophysics (2001–2011).
He worked with his colleagues in Bonn toward a merger, in 2005, of the Sternwarte sich 2006 with Radioastronomischen Institut and the Institut für Astrophysik und extraterrestrische Forschung to form the Argelander Institute for Astronomy.
References
Dutch astronomers
Dutch astrophysicists
1941 births
Living people
Scientists from Groningen (city)
University of Groningen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bonn
Dutch expatriates in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Gayle | Phil Gayle (born 6 April 1964) is an English newsreader, broadcaster and journalist who has worked for networks including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, broadcasting the news on both television and radio. As well as presenting on programmes including The Big Breakfast, Crimewatch Daily, London Today and London Tonight, Gayle has also competed on the second series of Dancing on Ice. Since 2015, he has been a presenter for DW News, an international English-language news channel which broadcasts from Germany. Gayle can also be heard as the voice of the in-flight announcements for easyJet.
Life and career
Career beginnings and radio
Gayle was born on 6 April 1964 in Birmingham to parents from Jamaica and is the older brother of journalist and novelist Mike Gayle. Before working in television, he worked as a DJ on local radio stations. Between 1986 and 1988, he worked at BRMB Radio, Birmingham and presented overnight, late night and early morning shows. In 1988, he moved on to Signal Radio, Stoke, presenting a live weekday three-hour night time phone-in five nights a week. He also co-presented the Saturday afternoon sports programme which also included live interviews and music. During 1995, he moved to Rock FM, as a Preston Music DJ on the Sunday evening, post Network Chart show along with two weekend overnight shows and presented a live current affairs and lifestyle phone-in on BBC Radio Newcastle in 1995 and 1996, breaking several stories which were picked up by national press. The shows would often feature one-on-one interviews, panel discussions, on-the-road reports and live audience debates. Between 2010 and 2015, he hosted a radio show on BBC Radio Oxford.
Television
In 1997, Gayle joined Channel 4 where he was employed as a newsreader on The Big Breakfast. Gayle took over from Peter Smith and presented for three years before being succeeded by Jasmine Lowson, but returned to the show for its final broadcast in 2002. He would also go on to present other programmes for Channel 4 such as First Edition (1997–2002), a 30-minute current affairs programme aimed at school age children and was the second presenter on the Channel 4 News. In 1998, he co-presented an original broadcast pilot of Find A Fortune on ITV, surprising people with inheritances they did not know about, providing situation updates throughout the show and presenting recorded reports in the field.
Gayle presented several programmes on the BBC. Between 2000 and 2001, he co-presented Crimewatch Daily, a daily live morning show on crime which included live studio and telephone interviews on BBC One. In the same year, he also presented a segment on walking holidays in the Lake District on the BBC One programme Holiday on a Shoestring. In 2001, Gayle moved to rival broadcaster ITV and had a major role in the show That's Esther, where he was the on-the-road reporter for the half-hour consumer affairs and human-interest series. He would also act as the main reporter on anti-scalding campai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofinno | Ofinno is a research and development lab based in Reston, Virginia. It develops and patents technologies for 5G wireless networking, next generation WiFi, integrated circuit, and video compression. It was founded by Esmael Hejazi Dinan in 2011.
Ofinno have sold more than 500 patents to companies in the consumer electronics, automotive, and telecommunications industries including Honda, Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Comcast—its biggest client. As of August 2021, Ofinno has 313 active patents in its portfolio.
In November 2020, Samsung Electronics acquired 40 US patents and 31 US patent applications pertaining to wireless technologies from Ofinno.
In May 2021, Honda bought 37 patents from Ofinno. The purchase comprised more than 100 assets pertaining to wireless technologies.
In July 2021, Xiaomi bought 46 patents pertaining to wireless technologies from Ofinno.
In 2022, Ofinno received the Stevie American Business Awards.
As of October 2022, Ofinno is ranked as the first patent producer based on "Patent Quality Scores" of the seventy-four patents issued by the company during the first quarter of 2022 calculated and assigned by Patent Bots.
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Companies based in Reston, Virginia
Research and development in the United States
Research organizations in the United States
Telecommunications companies of the United States
2011 establishments in Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications%20Network%20%28album%29 | Communications Network is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Clifford Thornton. The two-part composition titled "Communications Network" was recorded on January 22, 1972, at ABC Stage City in New York City, and features Thornton on electric piano and cornet, along with Lakshinarayana Shankar on violin, Sirone on bass, and Jerome Cooper on percussion. The remaining piece, "Festivals And Funerals," based on Jayne Cortez's poem of the same name, was recorded on April 17, 1972, at the Festival of African American Music at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, and features Thornton on cornet, Cortez as reciter, Nathan Davis on soprano saxophone, Jay Hoggard on vibraphone, Andy González on bass, Jerry González and Vincent George on congas and percussion, and Nicky Marrero on timbales and percussion. The album was released by Third World Records later in 1972.
Reception
AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars. Reviewer Michael G. Nastos called it "potent."
In a review for The Hum, Bradford Bailey called the album "an incredible display of the diverse range in [Thornton's] abilities. The first side is a rising tide of sound and energy – Free-Jazz with the brakes removed, while the second is more delicate and restrained, laced with poetry by Jayne Cortez... It's a lovely album that I can't recommend enough."
Writing for Black World/Negro Digest, Ron Welburn praised the album's "musical inventiveness" but criticized its sound quality. He also stated that Shankar "must be heard for his vision-inspired playing," and expressed hope that Thornton would work with a large orchestra at some point.
Track listing
All compositions by Clifford Thornton.
"Communications Network Part 1" – 11:46
"Communications Network Part 2" – 5:29
"Festivals And Funerals" (poem by Jayne Cortez) – 24:45
Personnel
Clifford Thornton – electric piano (tracks 1 and 2), cornet (all tracks)
Lakshinarayana Shankar – violin (tracks 1 and 2)
Sirone – bass (tracks 1 and 2)
Jerome Cooper – percussion (tracks 1 and 2)
Jayne Cortez – voice (track 3)
Nathan Davis – soprano saxophone (track 3)
Jay Hoggard – vibraphone (track 3)
Andy González – bass (track 3)
Jerry González – congas, percussion (track 3)
Vincent George – congas, percussion (track 3)
Nicky Marrero – timbales, percussion (track 3)
References
1972 live albums
Clifford Thornton live albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusta | Rusta may refer to:
Rusta, Iran, a village in Miankuh-e Moguyi Rural District, Iran
Monte Rusta, mountain of the Veneto, Italy
RUSTA, network of private institutions in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
See also
Rosta (disambiguation)
Rousta (disambiguation)
Rustah (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202022%20%28Panama%29 | This is a list of the number-one songs of 2022 in Panama. The charts are published by Monitor Latino, based on airplay across radio stations in Panama using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time, with its chart week running from Monday to Sunday.
In 2022, fifteen songs reached number one in Panama, with ten songs being collaborations; a sixteenth single, "Tacones Rojos" by Sebastián Yatra began its run at number one in November 2021. In fact, twenty-five acts topped the chart as either lead or featured artists, with thirteen—Ed Sheeran, Camilo, Rosalía, Natti Natasha, Maria Becerra, Los Legendarios, Chencho Corleone, Quevedo, Bizarrap, Emil, Ir Sais, Eix, Beéle and Maffio—achieving their first number-one single in Panama.
Karol G became the first artist in Panama to replace herself at number one as "Provenza" knocked off her collaboration with Becky G, "Mamiii". Maluma, Karol G and Emil are the only acts to have more than a number-one song in 2022, with two each.
Chart history
Number-one artists
References
Panamanian music-related lists
Panama
2021 in Panama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Scheidt | Jeffrey S. Scheidt is a United States Navy rear admiral who has served as the senior military advisor for cyber policy to the under secretary of defense for policy and deputy principal cyber advisor to the secretary of defense since June 2021.
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Navy rear admirals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internetowy%20System%20Akt%C3%B3w%20Prawnych | The Internetowy System Aktów Prawnych ( in Polish), shortly ISAP, is a database with information about the legislation in force in Poland, which is part of the oldest and one of the most famous Polish legal information systems, and is publicly available on the website of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland.
References
External links
Computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%2090s%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV 90s is a British pay television music channel owned by Paramount Networks UK & Australia that launched on 31 March 2022 replacing MTV 80s MTV Base. It was first launched as a temporary rebrand of MTV Classic from 27 May to 24 June 2016. It is temporarily replaced by MTV Xmas in the run up to and throughout Christmas each year. The first video to be broadcast at 6am on the 31st of March 2022 was Say You'll Be There by Spice Girls No Matter What by Boyzone
International version
In 2020, MTV 90s began broadcasting. The international version of the channel is registered with broadcasting regulators in Czech Republic.
Broadcasting
Satellite
Sky UK: Channel 352
MNC Vision: Channel 149
Cable
Virgin Media: Channel 283
Temporary rebrands
MTV Pride: From 27 June to 4 July 2022. A first temporary rebrand of MTV 90s due to the closure of MTV Classic.
MTV Xmas: From 07 November to 27 December 2022.
Programmes
20 Songs from the Musicals!
90s Reggae Party: Top 20!
ABBA Gold : The 90s Tracklisting!
Artist: Brand New Vid!
Betty Boo
Artist! Just Because...
Will Smith
Artist: Official 90s Top 10
Janet Jackson
Artist Vs Artist!
Vengaboys Vs Aqua
Bon Jovi...in the 90s!
Britpop Battle! Artist vs Artist!
Oasis vs Blur
Classic R&b Of The 90s!
Clubbers Guide To The 90s! Top 100
Clubbers Guide To The 90s! Top 50
Easy Like A 90s Sunday Morning!
Every Number One of the 90s
Feel Good Friday! 100 Songs That Defined Your 90s!
Guitar Hits & Indie Anthems
Happy Birthday Artist!
Lisa Stansfield
Iconic 90s Videos That Made MTV
Movie Marathon: 100 Soundtrack Hits!
Non-Stop 90s Hits!
Now & Then
Official Rewind Chart
Pop Goes the 90s!
Remember These? 20 Tracks from 90s Ads!
Robbie Williams: Let The 90s Entertain Us!
Sing-Along Sunday! 100 No. 2s!
Sing-Along Sunday! 100 Songs That Defined Your 90s!
The 30 Greatest Songs Of Year
The 40 Greatest Girl Group Songs!
The 40 Greatest One Hit Wonders!
The Best 90s Saturday Night Party Ever
This Is How We Do a 90s Houseparty!
Ultimate 50 90s No 1s From The Boys
Ultimate 50 90s Sing-Along
Ultimate 50 R&B & Hip-Hop Hits Of The 90s
Whigfield's 90s Eurodance Top 20
Year: Every Official Number 1!
1991
MTV Pride
20 Steps of LGBT+ Anthems
50 Steps of LGBT+ Anthems
A Little Respect: 80s Pride Anthems
Adam Lambert's Fierce Pride Anthems!
Artist: Proud Ally!
Becky Hill
Charli XCX
Harry Styles
Kylie Minogue
Lady Gaga
Lizzo
Madonna
Artist: Pride Icon!
Boy George
Elton John
Freddie Mercury
George Michael
Janelle Monae
Lil Nas X
Miley Cyrus
Sam Smith
Troye Sivan
Baga Chipz's Much Betta Hits
Born This Way: Pride Anthems of the 10s!
Gender Defiers Of The 80s!
Kim Petras' Wooh-Ah! Top 20
Let the Music Play!
Love is Love! Pride Icons
Munroe Bergdorf's Pride Mixtape
Olly Alexander's Prideography!
Out and Proud in the 80s!
Queerpiphany
Rupaul's Lip-Sync Extravaganza
Treat People With Kindness: Pride Anthems of the 20s!
Turn Up The Sass!
We Are Beautiful: 00s Pride Anthems!
Vogue: 90s Pride Anthems!
MTV Xmas
10s vs 20s: Christmas Hits!
100% Xmas Cl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%202022 | This is a list of Brazilian films released in 2022.
Films
References
External links
Brazilian films of 2022 at the Internet Movie Database
2022
Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20SOE%27s%20Prosper%20Network | The Prosper Network, also called the Physician Network, was the most important network in France of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in 1943. SOE was a secret British organization in World War II. The objectives of SOE were to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in occupied Europe and Asia against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents in France allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from Britain.
An SOE network in France (also called a circuit or a reseau) usually consisted of three agents: an organizer and leader, a courier, and a radio operator. However, Prosper, based in Paris, grew to be much larger. The Prosper Network began in September 1942 when Andrée Borrel parachuted into France, followed by leader Francis Suttill a few days later. Based in Paris, Suttill had early success in finding French supporters willing to oppose the German occupation of France. Prosper soon had links from the "Ardennes to the Atlantic" in northern France with 30 SOE agents and hundreds of French associates. The destruction of Prosper began with the capture by Germans of Suttill and others in June 1943 and continued for months afterwards. SOE French Section headquarters in London, headed by Maurice Buckmaster and Nicolas Bodington, was slow to recognize that Prosper had been destroyed and that its radios were controlled by the Germans. Most of the captured SOE agents and many of their French associates were executed. SOE agents captured by the Germans were customarily treated with the Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog) policy by which they disappeared without a trace into German concentration camps or were executed with no records being kept as to their fate.
The literature about the Prosper network is large and theories, often conspiratorial, abound about the reasons for the fall of Prosper and its aftermath. The conclusions of M.R.D. Foot in his official history of SOE's F (French) Section were that the disaster was caused by the incompetence by SOE agents in France and gullibility by SOE leaders in London, plus the work of a "turncoat" (Henri Déricourt). Sarah Helm's conclusions were that the errors were due to "terrible incompetence and tragic mistakes". Mark Seaman cited also the "efficient practices" of the German security forces. The opposing theory is that Prosper was deliberately sacrificed by the British intelligence services as part of Operation Cockade to mislead the Germans about allied plans for the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. The reasoning behind the deception was that if the Germans anticipated an invasion of France in 1943, they would maintain or expand their occupation forces in western Europe, rather than sending resources east to combat the advancing Soviet Army.
1942
8 September. Itinerate French pilot France Henri Déricourt arrived in the United Kingdom after being smuggled out of France by the Pat O'Leary Escape Line. He was inve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison%20Woodruff | Allison Gyle Woodruff is an American computer scientist whose work concerns human–computer interaction, information visualization, algorithmic fairness, sustainability, citizen science, and environmental monitoring. She is a user experience researcher in the Google Security & Privacy team.
Education and career
Woodruff majored in English at California State University, Chico, and has master's degrees in both linguistics and computer science from the University of California, Davis. She completed her Ph.D. in computer science in 1998 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Data Lineage and Information Density in Database Visualization supervised by Michael Stonebraker.
Before joining Google, she worked for Xerox PARC from 1998 to 2004, and then for Intel Research Berkeley.
Recognition
Woodruff was named to the CHI Academy in 2021.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
California State University, Chico alumni
University of California, Davis alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Scientists at PARC (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoral%20and%20Environmental%20Network%20in%20the%20Horn%20of%20Africa | The Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA) is an international non-governmental organisation, founded in 1989 by professionals and development workers from the Horn of Africa to address pastoral and agro-pastoral development from a regional perspective and provide cross-learning at a global level. With headquarters in London, PENHA has established country offices in Ethiopia and Somaliland, with close organisational partnerships in Eritrea, Sudan and Uganda.
PENHA's founding director and Global Reconciliation's Desmond Tutu Fellow, Zeremariam Fre, is active on the Board of Trustees, alongside other longstanding members, who serve as Senior Advisers. These include Mitiku Haile, from Mekelle University, who was awarded the 2021 World Agriculture Prize by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for the Agricultural and Life Sciences (GCHERA). As patron of PENHA, Joanna Lumley has been a tireless supporter.
Mission
In 2020, PENHA launched its five-year strategy, Building Sustainable Futures. It operates on three complementary and overlapping fronts: (i) policy and advocacy; (ii) program creation; (iii) research; and (iv) consultancy and networking, at the local, national, regional, and international levels, in close collaboration with partners. Given PENHA's local, regional, and international mandates, the organization is reinforcing its work with young refugees and asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, investigating the links between migration, climate change, future aspirations, and social integration in a rapidly changing world.
PENHA's key goals are gender equality, peacebuilding, and community cohesiveness. According to Danida's appraisal of the 'Women in Africa' regional assistance effort, PENHA has assisted women organizations in Uganda, Sudan, and Somaliland through its Women Economic Empowerment Programme (WEEP).
Projects
Ethiopia
PENHA opened a new office in Addis Ababa in 2020, having had a regional office at Addis Ababa University from 1994-98. PENHA currently works with its partner Tropenbos International on drylands restoration and strengthening livelihoods. Among other activities, in 2022, Ethiopia's first national dryland strategy was endorsed by the government as a result of this collaboration.
From 2018 to 2021, PENHA was part of a research consortium with the Development Planning Unit (DPU) at University College London (UCL), Adigrat University (ADU) in Ethiopia, and the Knowledge Platform on Inclusive Development Policies (INCLUDE), based in the Netherlands. The consortium carried out action research with pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the Afar Region of Ethiopia as part of the Social Protection for Inclusive Development in Afar (SPIDA) research project, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The project evaluated existing social protection policies and practices, including the Ethiopian government’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain.js | Brain.js is a JavaScript library used for neural networking, which is released as free and open-source software under the MIT License. It can be used in both the browser and Node.js backends.
Brain.js is most commonly used as a simple introduction to neural networking, as it hides complex mathematics and has a familiar modern JavaScript syntax. It is maintained by members of the Brain.js organization and open-source contributors.
Examples
Creating a feedforward neural network with backpropagation:
const net = new brain.NeuralNetwork();
net.train([
{ input: [0, 0], output: [0] },
{ input: [0, 1], output: [1] },
{ input: [1, 0], output: [1] },
{ input: [1, 1], output: [0] },
]);
console.log(net.run([1, 0]));
Creating a recurrent neural network:
const net = new brain.recurrent.RNN();
net.train([
{ input: [0, 0], output: [0] },
{ input: [0, 1], output: [1] },
{ input: [1, 0], output: [1] },
{ input: [1, 1], output: [0] },
]);
let output = net.run([0, 0]); // [0]
output = net.run([0, 1]); // [1]
output = net.run([1, 0]); // [1]
output = net.run([1, 1]); // [0]
Train the neural network on RGB color contrast:
const net = new brain.NeuralNetwork();
net.train([{
input: {
r: 0.03,
g: 0.7,
b: 0.5
},
output: {
black: 1
}
},
{
input: {
r: 0.16,
g: 0.09,
b: 0.2
},
output: {
white: 1
}
},
{
input: {
r: 0.5,
g: 0.5,
b: 1.0
},
output: {
white: 1
}
}
]);
const output = net.run({
r: 1,
g: 0.4,
b: 0
}); // { white: 0.99, black: 0.002 }
console.log(output)
External links
References
Neural networks
JavaScript libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2054%20%28Poland%29 | National road 54 () is a route belonging to the Polish national road network. The highway is a GP-class road, long, located in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. This route connects the Expressway S22 at the Braniewo-Południe junction near Chruściel with the Gronowo-Mamonovo border crossing near Russia.
Major towns and villages along the route
Glinka
Prątnik
Braniewo
Młoteczno
Gronowo
Axle load limit
National road 54 has an axle limit restrictions.
The allowed axle limit is up to 11.5 tons, which is a standard limit on Polish national roads.
References
54 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne%20Hansford | Dianne Carol Hansford (born 1964) is an American computer scientist known for her research on Coons patches in computer graphics and for her textbooks on computer-aided geometric design, linear algebra, and the mathematics behind scientific visualization. She is a lecturer at Arizona State University in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, and the cofounder of a startup based on her research, 3D Compression Technologies.
Education and career
Hansford is a 1986 graduate of the University of Utah. She went to Arizona State University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1988 and completing her Ph.D. in 1991. Her dissertation, Boundary Curves with Quadric Precision for a Tangent, Continuous Scattered Data Interpolant, was supervised by Robert E. Barnhill.
She became a Fulbright Scholar in German, doing postdoctoral research at the Technical University Darmstadt, and then worked in the computing industry for several years, including co-founding 3D Compression Technologies in 2000, before returning to Arizona State as a research scientist in 2004. She became an associate research professor in 2006 and a lecturer in computing in 2016.
Selected publications
Hansford's books, coauthored with Arizona State University professor Gerald Farin, include:
The Geometry Toolbox for Graphics and Modeling (A K Peters, 1998); revised as Practical Linear Algebra: A Geometry Toolbox (A K Peters, 2005; 4th ed., CRC Press, 2021)
The Essentials of CAGD (CRC Press, 2000)
Mathematical Principles for Scientific Computing and Visualization (A K Peters, 2008)
She is also the author of a highly cited paper on Coons patches:
References
External links
Home page
1964 births
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of Utah alumni
Arizona State University alumni
Arizona State University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri%20Klein | Teri E. Klein is an American professor of Biomedical Data Science and Medicine (and of Genetics, by courtesy) at Stanford University. She is known for her work on pharmacogenomics and computational biology.
Education
Klein has a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1980) and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco (1987). In 2000 she started a position at Stanford University where, as of 2022, she holds the position of professor (research).
She is a co-founder of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing and is a Principal Investigator for PharmGKB, Clinical Pharmacogenomics Implementation Consortium (CPIC), The Pharmacogenomic Clinical Annotation Tool (PharmCAT), and Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen).
Selected publications
Awards and honors
Klein was named a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 2001. In 2021, she was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
References
External links
Helix Group website at Stanford University
Living people
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Stanford University faculty
University of California, San Francisco alumni
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
American pharmacologists
Women medical researchers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsus%24 | Lapsus$, stylised as LAPSUS$ and classified by Microsoft as Strawberry Tempest, is an international extortion-focused hacker group known for its various cyberattacks against companies and government agencies. The group was globally active, and has had members arrested in Brazil and the UK.
The composition of the group was described by City of London Police, with at least two of the members being teenagers. Lapsus$ uses a variety of attack vectors, including social engineering, MFA fatigue, SIM swapping, and targeting suppliers. Once the group has gained the credentials to a privileged employee within the target organisation, the group then attempts to obtain sensitive data through a variety of means, including using remote desktop tools. Attempts at extortion follow. The messaging app Telegram had been used for communications to the public, including recruitment and posting sensitive data from their victims, although that usage has diminished.
The first major cyberattack attributed to Lapsus$ was against the Brazilian Health Ministry's computer systems in December 2021. In March 2022, Lapsus$ gained notoriety for a series of cyberattacks against large tech companies, including Microsoft, Nvidia, and Samsung. Following these attacks, the City of London Police announced that it had made seven arrests in connection to a police investigation into Lapsus$. Although the group had been considered inactive by April 2022, the group is believed to have re-emerged in September 2022 with a series of data breaches against various large companies through a similar attack vector, including Uber and Rockstar Games, with subsequent arrests again by City of London Police, and Brazilian police. The group appears to have become inactive after September 2022, with members perhaps dispersing to other groups, and the conviction of two British members.
Attacks
Brazil's Ministry of Health (2021)
The first known cyberattack committed by Lapsus$ was against Brazil's Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health website was taken down on Friday, 10 December around 1 AM. Lapsus$ left a message on the homepage of the website of the ministry ,,Contact us if you want your data back", apparently with 50 TB of data exfiltrated and deleted on internal servers. In the message were also included their Telegram and e-mail addresses. By Friday afternoon the message had been removed, but the website was still dysfunctional and user data in the ConectSUS app that provides Brazilians with Covid vaccination certificates had been deleted, causing disruption for travelers.
On October 19, 2022 a Brazilian citizen believed to be a Lapsus$ member was arrested by the police in Feira de Santana, Bahia and subsequently accused of the attack on the Brazil Ministry of Health and other cybercrimes after operation Dark cloud. Lapsus$ attacks includes dozens of other targets from the Brazilian Federal Government bodies and entities, like the Ministry of Economy, the Comptroller General of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Bakeover | Project Bakeover is a Canadian reality television series, which debuted on Food Network in 2021. Hosted by chocolatier Steve Hodge and designer Tiffany Pratt, the series features the duo helping struggling bakery businesses to transform their menu and decor.
The first season, consisting of ten episodes, ran as a split, with five episodes airing weekly beginning February 4, 2021, and five more episodes airing from May 27, 2021. A second season premiered in 2022.
The series received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, for Best Direction in a Lifestyle or Information Program or Series (Naela Choudhary) and Best Editing in a Documentary Program or Series (Otto Chung).
Season 1
Episodes
Season 2
Episodes
References
External links
2021 Canadian television series debuts
2020s Canadian reality television series
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Television series by Entertainment One |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPNLab | VPNLab was a VPN service that catered to cyber criminals. The service was shut down by following a seizure Europol in January 2022.
History
VPNLab was created in 2008. The service advertised VPN servers in multiple countries and offered double encryption. The service was known for providing services to cyber criminals, specifically ransomware authors. The site accepted a variety of payments, including WebMoney and Bitcoin. The "DoubleVPN" service was offered at $129 dollars a year. The owners advertised the website on the dark web.
Raid and shutdown
On January 17, 2022, Europol, along with other national law enforcement agencies seized VPNLab's domain. As of January 19, 2022, no arrests were made. Along with Europol, the FBI (United States), Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (France), and National Crime Agency (United Kingdom) were involved in the site raid.
References
Security companies
Defunct websites
Internet services shut down by a legal challenge
Virtual private network services
Internet properties established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Heinemann | George Heinemann (9 December 1918 – 21 August 1996) was an American television producer. He was a recipient of Peabody Award which he received for producing children-related programming in 1971.
Career
In 1971, he received the Peabody Award. He also received Emmy Award nominations; for NBC Children's Theatre in 1966 and Tut: The Boy King in 1978.
Notable work
Ding Dong School
Take a Giant Step
Watch Your Child/The Me Too Show
References
1918 births
1996 deaths
American television producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polina%20Golland | Polina Golland (born 1971) is an Israeli-American computer scientist specializing in medical image computing and biomedical image analysis. She is Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and heads the medical vision group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Education and career
After studying computer science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and earning bachelor's and master's degrees there, Golland went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for doctoral study, earning a Ph.D. in 2001 with the dissertation Statistical Shape Analysis Of Anatomical Structures supervised by Eric Grimson. She joined the MIT faculty in 2003.
Recognition
Golland was named Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor in 2018. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2021, "for outstanding contributions to the development of novel techniques for biomedical image
analysis and understanding".
References
External links
Home page
1971 births
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Bustamante%20%28TV%20personality%29 | Carlos Bustamante is a Canadian television personality, who has been an entertainment reporter for Entertainment Tonight Canada since 2017. Prior to joining ET Canada he was a host of programming for YTV, including The Zone (2002–2018) and The Next Star.
Early life
Born in Manila, Philippines, Bustamante moved to Canada at a young age, with his family first settling in Calgary, Alberta. After a few years, his family lived between Vancouver and Toronto. Bustamante also lived in Burlington, Ontario, and was a tap dancer in his youth.
Awards
Bustamante won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Host in a Pre-School, Children's or Youth Program or Series at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for The Next Star, and was a nominee in the same category at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015. He was a dual nominee at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, receiving nods for Host of a Talk Show or Entertainment News Program alongside Cheryl Hickey and Sangita Patel for the ET Canada Favourite Canadian Countdown, and Host in a Web Program or Series alongside Hickey, Patel, Roz Weston, Keshia Chanté and Morgan Hoffman for ET Canada Live.
References
External links
Canadian television hosts
Canadian infotainers
Canadian people of Filipino descent
Canadian male dancers
People from Burlington, Ontario
Living people
Canadian Screen Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20Television | People's Television may refer to:
People's Television Network, a state-owned television station in the Philippines
PTV (Thailand), a former satellite television station in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamalini%20Dutt | Kamalini Nagarajan Dutt is an Indian producer and Bharatnatyam dancer. She has worked mostly for Doordarshan and has been the major reason behind the restoration of old and decaying database (performances and Interviews of different Notable Artistes).
References
Living people
Indian dancers
Kathakali exponents
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walta%20%28disambiguation%29 | Walta is an Ethiopian commercial media conglomerate
Walta may also refer to:
Walta (Dogu'a Tembien), a municipality of Ethiopia
Walta TV, an Ethiopian television network
Leo Walta, a Finnish professional footballer
See also
Valta (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior%20Chef%20Showdown | Junior Chef Showdown is a Canadian reality cooking competition television series, which premiered in 2020 on Food Network Canada. The series is a competition for emerging chefs between the ages of 9 and 13, judged by Jordan Andino, Anna Olson and Lynn Crawford.
The first season aired in 2020 and was won by Audrey MacKinnon of Brantford, Ontario, and the second season aired in 2021 and was won by Nazaree Arandjelovic of Toronto.
The series received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, for Best Casting in a Non-Fiction Series (Meredith Veats) and Best Writing in a Lifestyle or Reality/Competition Program or Series (Elvira Kurt).
Season 1
Contestants
Audrey
César
Christian
Élie
Katie
Katlin
Kinza
Imal
Matthew
Mia-Rose
Noah
Nyasia
Patrick
Sophia
References
External links
2020 Canadian television series debuts
2020s Canadian cooking television series
2020s Canadian reality television series
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Reality cooking competition television series
Television series about children
Television series about teenagers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrizia%20Gianni | Patrizia M. Gianni (born 1952) is an Italian mathematician specializing in computer algebra. She is known for her early research on Gröbner bases including her discovery of the FGLM algorithm for changing monomial orderings in Gröbner bases, and for her development of the components of the Axiom computer algebra system concerning polynomials and rational functions.
Gianni is a professor of algebra in the mathematics department of the University of Pisa. She earned a laurea from the University of Pisa, and has worked for IBM Research as well as for the University of Pisa.
References
External links
Home page
Living people
Italian mathematicians
Italian women mathematicians
University of Pisa alumni
Academic staff of the University of Pisa
Algebraists
1952 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Budiman | Daniel Ridwan "Budi" Budiman (born May 25, 1983, in Flensburg) is a German presenter. He was a presenter at GIGA from 2003 to 2006 and then developed the computer game show Game One together with Simon Krätschmer, where he hosted and produced from 2006 to 2014. He is co-founder and presenter of the media production company Rocket Beans Entertainment GmbH, founded in 2011, of which he was co-managing director until 2014.
Life
Budiman was born as the third child of an Indonesian family. He has one sister and one brother.
He attended the German International School in Jakarta and the Immanuel Kant High School in Bad Oeynhausen, where he graduated from high school. In the high school, he was active as a student representative and in the school choir.
Parallel to his hosting of Game One, Budiman studied philosophy for two semesters at the University of Hamburg.
References
Living people
1983 births
German television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balitang%20Southern%20Tagalog | Balitang Southern Tagalog (also known as GMA Regional TV Balitang Southern Tagalog; ) is a Philippine regional news broadcasting television show broadcast by GMA Network in the Southern Tagalog region. It is currently presented by Ivy Kristina Saunar-Gasang and Ace Medrano. It premiered on February 14, 2022. The newscast airs Monday to Friday at 5:10 PM to 5:40 PM on GMA TV-12 Batangas and relayed to GMA TV-44 Jalajala, GMA TV-13 Occidental Mindoro & GMA TV-7 Romblon.
Overview
The newscast, conceptualized and produced by GMA Regional TV and GMA News and Public Affairs, covers the significant and comprehensive news reports, making it the 2nd regional news program delivered in Filipino language after One North Central Luzon.
The newscast covers news and features in CALABARZON and MIMAROPA through the network's news teams from Batangas City and news stringers across the region.
The pilot episode of the newscast also marked the debut of GMA Batangas as an originating station.
The newscast airs from Monday to Friday at 5:10 PM to 5:40 PM on GMA TV-12 Batangas, GMA TV-44 Jalajala Rizal, GMA TV-7 Romblon and GMA TV-13 Occidental Mindoro, with international broadcasts through GMA News TV.
History
GMA Network began their preparations in building a regional hub for the Southern Tagalog region in 2021 and conceptualized a regional for the area.
It became the second GMA Regional TV newscast in Southern Luzon, after Bicol Region's Balitang Bicolandia, which premiered a year earlier. The newscast covers news and features in CALABARZON and MIMAROPA through its news teams from Batangas City and news stringers across the region. It is the second regional news program delivered entirely in Filipino language after One North Central Luzon.
Since its pilot episode, the newscast is anchored by former TV Patrol Palawan anchor and CNN Philippines correspondent Ivy Saunar-Gasang and Ace Medrano, together with Andrew Bernardo (from TV Patrol Southern Tagalog), Lorenzo Ilagan and Ilonah Manalo as the inaugural set of regional correspondents. Charm Ragiles from Balitang Bicolandia arrived later. Executive producer & supervising producer Dyan (pronounced "Dianne") Loquellano was also a correspondent of TV Patrol Southern Tagalog (Bernardo's colleague).
On April 29, 2022, GMA Batangas welcomed former TV Patrol Southern Tagalog host and correspondent Paul Hernandez (Bernardo's colleague in TV Patrol) on the newscast, replacing Ilonah Manalo.
Saunar-Gasang of Balitang Southern Tagalog from GMA Batangas in (South Luzon) is part of One of the Top Remaining News Anchors of GMA Regional TV newscasts. Alongside are Cris Zuñiga of One North Central Luzon from GMA Dagupan in (North Central Luzon), Kate Delovieres of Balitang Bicolandia from GMA Naga in (Bicol Region), Alan Domingo and Cecille Quibod-Castro of Balitang Bisdak from GMA Cebu in (Central and Eastern Visayas), Gerthrode Charlotte Tan of One Western Visayas from GMA Iloilo in (Western Visayas) and Sarah Hilome |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThincLab | ThincLab is a network of startup incubators created by the University of Adelaide in South Australia, the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and other partners, including Primary Industries and Regions SA.
The ThincLab main offices are in Pulteney Street, in Adelaide city centre. Other locations include the Waite Campus of Adelaide University, in the Adelaide suburb of Urrbrae; Loxton in the Riverland of South Australia; Singapore; Christchurch, New Zealand; and France.
The incubator supports startups in several industries, including agricultural technology, space industry, social enterprise, the food industry, and high-tech.
Startups assisted by ThincLab include:
Inovor Technologies, which launched the first Australian-built satellite in over 15 years
Taboo, which makes sanitary products for women
Taste Studios, manufacturer of branded food products for businesses
See also
Lot Fourteen
Innovation Collaboration Centre
References
External links
Business incubators of Australia
Organisations based in Adelaide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20Global%20200%20singles%20of%202021 | The Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. US are charts that ranks the best-performing singles globally and globally excluding the United States, respectively. Its data is published by Billboard weekly and based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as streaming. At the end of a year, Billboard publishes an annual list of the 200 most successful songs throughout that year on the Global 200 and Global Excl. US charts based on the information. For 2021, its first year, the list was published on December 2, calculated with data from November 21, 2020, to November 13, 2021.
Year-end list
See also
2021 in music
List of Billboard Global 200 number ones of 2021
References
United States Hot 100 Year end
Billboard charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollongren | Ollongren is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alexander Ollongren (born 1928), Dutch astronomer and computer scientist
Kajsa Ollongren (born 1967), Dutch-Swedish politician, daughter of Alexander |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Line%3A%20All%20In | County Line: All In is an American action film, which aired on the INSP network in November 2022, before it was released exclusively onto streaming platform Vudu in December. Tom Wopat returns as Sheriff Alden Rockwell, in the second film of the County Line trilogy.
Plot
A lawyer widely known for his corrupt activities and representing the worst criminals in the county is found dead. His death occurs on the county line between Maksville County and York County, bringing the two sheriffs into conflict over the case. Alden Rockwell (Tom Wopat) is the Sheriff of Maksville County, with newly appointed Sheriff Joanne Porter (Kelsey Crane) in York County.
The sheriffs have different methods on how the case should be solved, Alden follows his instincts, while Porter takes a more methodical approach. Alden crosses the county line while pursuing a person of interest, bringing their hostilities to a head. Another lawyer turns up dead in mysterious circumstances, the trail taking an unexpected and dangerous turn. Sheriffs Rockwell and Porter must find a way of working together to solve the case.
Cast
Tom Wopat as Alden Rockwell
Kelsey Crane as Joanne Porter
Denim Richards as Dante Hill
Patricia Richardson as Maddie
Abbi Butler as Ember Rockwell
William Shockley as Sam Tate
Brett Rice as Hugh Jenkins
Ric Reitz as Zack Van Zant
Production & release
Production on the sequel to County Line was announced in 2021, with filming taking place in Wilmington, North Carolina. Senator Roy Cooper included County Line: All In as part of his announcement into the growing film production industry in the state.
In May 2022, Imagicomm Entertainment released the first official trailer for the film.
The film aired on American television on INSP on November 19, 2022.
Reception
ActionReloaded gave the film a positive review, stating "County Line: All In is a fun movie that has a strong family dynamic." The Dove Foundation, which rates films based on family friendliness, gave the film 4/5 for integrity, but received negative marks for violence & drug-related content.
References
INSP Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SXM%20%28socket%29 | SXM (Server PCI Express Module) is a high bandwidth socket solution for connecting Nvidia Compute Accelerators to a system. Each generation of Nvidia Tesla since P100 models, the DGX computer series and the HGX boards come with an SXM socket type that realizes high bandwidth, power delivery and more for the matching GPU daughter cards. Nvidia offers these combinations as an end-user product e.g. in their models of the DGX system series. Current socket generations are SXM for Pascal based GPUs, SXM2 and SXM3 for Volta based GPUs, SXM4 for Ampere based GPUs, and SXM5 for Hopper based GPUs. These sockets are used for specific models of these accelerators, and offer higher performance per card than PCIe equivalents. The DGX-1 system was the first to be equipped with SXM-2 sockets and thus was the first to carry the form factor compatible SXM modules with P100 GPUs and later was unveiled to be capable of allowing upgrading to (or being pre-equipped with) SXM2 modules with V100 GPUs.
SXM boards are typically built with four or eight GPU slots, although some solutions such as the Nvidia DGX-2 connect multiple boards to deliver high performance. While third party solutions for SXM boards exist, most System Integrators such as Supermicro use prebuilt Nvidia HGX boards, which come in four or eight socket configurations. This solution greatly lowers the cost and difficulty of SXM based GPU servers, and enables compatibility and reliability across all boards of the same generation.
SXM modules on e.g. HGX boards, particularly recent generations, may have NVLink switches to allow faster GPU-to-GPU communication. This as well reduces bottlenecks which would normally be located within CPU and PCIe. The GPUs on the daughter cards are just using NVLink as their main communication protocol. For example a Hopper-based H100 SXM5 based GPU can use up to 900GB/s of bandwidth across 18 NVLink 4 channels, with each contributing a 50GB/s of bandwidth; This compared to PCIe 5.0, which can handle up to 64GB/s of bandwidth within a x16 slot. This high bandwidth also means that GPUs can share memory over the NVLink bus, allowing an entire HGX board to present to the host system as a single, massive GPU.
Power delivery is also handled by the SXM socket, negating the need for external power cables such as those needed in PCIe equivalent cards. This, combined with the horizontal mounting allows cooling options of higher efficiency which in turn allows the SXM based GPUs to operate at a much higher TDP. The Hopper-based H100, for example, can draw up to 700W solely from the SXM socket. The lack of cabling also makes assembling and repairing of large systems much easier, and also reduces the possible points of failure.
The early Nvidia Tegra automotive targeted evaluation board, 'Drive PX2', had two MXM (Mobile PCI Express Module) sockets on both sides of the card, this dual MXM design can be considered a predecessor to the Nvidia Tesla implementation of the SXM socket.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olwyn%20Byron | Olwyn Byron is a British physicist who is Professor of Biophysics at the University of Glasgow and Chair of the British Biophysical Society. She was a member of the Physics of Life UK Network steering group who were awarded the 2020 Institute of Physics Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize.
Early life and education
Byron was an undergraduate student at Durham University. She moved to the University of Aberdeen as a graduate student, where she earned a master's degree in biophysics. Byron moved to the University of Nottingham, where her doctoral research considered structure-property investigations into B72.3.
Research and career
In 1992, Byron joined the faculty at the University of Leicester, where she worked in applied bimolecular technology. She joined the University of Glasgow in 1997 and was promoted to Professor in 2016.
Byron studies the solution behaviour of macromolecules and complexes. She is interested in the solution shape of molecules and the strength of the complexes that they form. She serves on the steering group of the Physics of Life network, a team of biologists and physicists who look to develop a comprehensive understanding of biological processes across multiple length scales, from molecules to systems. These findings will help to inform a new generation of vaccines against influenza. Byron was elected Chair of the British Biophysical Society in 2018.
Awards and honours
2020 Institute of Physics Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize Physics of Life UK Network (PoLNET) steering group
Selected publications
References
Living people
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Alumni of Durham University
British physicists
21st-century British scientists
British women scientists
20th-century British scientists
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Bangladesh%20Television | This is the list of all programming currently or has aired on the state-owned Bangladesh Television.
Domestic
International
A Disney Christmas Gift
Akbar The Great
Amazon
Alif Laila
Babar
Barney & Friends
Brum
Bananas in Pyjamas
Beethoven
Bionic Six
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Care Bears
Charlie Chaplin
Dallas
Dark Justice
Earth: Final Conflict
Faerie Tale Theatre
Family Ties
Feluda
Godzilla: The Series
Hatim
Hawaii Five-O
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Knight Rider
Kung Fu
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Looney Tunes
MacGyver
Miami Vice
Mysterious Island
Mortal Kombat: Conquest
Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book
Mr. Bean
Oshin
Ocean Girl
Perfect Strangers
Peter Pan
Raven
Ripley's Believe It or Not! (2000-03)
RoboCop: The Series
Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
Samurai X
Sky Trackers
Spellbinder
Spenser: For Hire
Tales of the Gold Monkey
Team Knight Rider
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The A-Team
The Adventures of Sinbad
The Bill Cosby Show
The Bionic Woman
The Crystal Maze
The Equalizer (TV series)
The Fall Guy
The Girl from Tomorrow
The Lost World
The Miraculous Mellops
The New Adventures of Jonny Quest
The New Adventures of Robin Hood
The New Woody Woodpecker Show
The Real Ghostbusters
The Smurfs
The Three Stooges
The Twilight Zone
The Sensitive Samurai (Ude ni oboe ari)
The Sword of Tipu Sultan
The Wizard
The X-Files
Thunder Cats
Thunder in Paradise
Time Trax
Tom and Jerry
Twin Peaks
Woody Woodpecker
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Wild Wild West
The Saint
WWE Afterburn
References
Bangladesh Television
Programmes
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato%20Networks | Cato Networks is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based network security company that develops Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) technology, which combines enterprise communication and security capabilities into a single cloud-based platform. The company was founded in 2015. After an October 2021 funding round, the company was a tech unicorn valued at $2.5 billion.
History
Cato Networks was founded in 2015 in Tel Aviv, Israel by Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Checkpoint and Imperva, and Gur Shatz, a co-founder of networking company Incapsula. Cato was initially funded with a $20 million Series A from U.S. Venture Partners and Aspect Ventures. Kramer became CEO, and Shatz became president and COO. It secured a Series B round of $50 million in September.
The company officially launched in February 2016. Its first products were designed to protect customers' WAN connections and mobile devices with services including next-generation firewalling, URL filtering, application control and VPN access.
In June 2018, the company added threat hunting capabilities to its networking service.
In 2019, the company secured a $55 million Series C funding round.
In April 2020, the company raised $77 million in a Series D. In November, the company announced a $130 million Series E funding round, led by return investors Lightspeed Partners, with participation from Greylock Partners, U.S. Venture Partners, Aspect Capital, Singaporean fund Singtel's subsidiary Innov8, and hedge fund Coatue Management. The investment reportedly valued the company at over $1 billion, making it a tech unicorn.
In June 2021, the company launched a new version of its managed detection and response (MDR) platform, used to detect security threats on its network. In October, the company announced it had raised $200 million at a $2.5 billion valuation. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with the participation of existing investors Greylock, Acrew Capital, Coatue, Singtel Innov8, and CEO Kramer.
In February 2022, the company added cloud access security broker (CASB) capabilities to protect cloud applications. Also in February, the company announced it was planning on going public within the next two years. Cato reached $100 million ARR since their founding. This made them one of the fastest growing enterprise network security startup.
Products
Cato Networks develops a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform, which combines SD-WAN, managed security service and global backbone services into a cloud-based service offering. Its products are designed to help IT staff manage network security for distributed workforces accessing resources across the wide area networks (WANs), cloud and Internet that connects them. The company's Cato SASE Cloud platform supports more than 73 points of presence in over 150 countries. The company's managed detection and response (MDR) platform combines machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) models to process network traffic data and identify threats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivestOS | DivestOS is an operating system based on the Android mobile platform. It is a soft fork of LineageOS that aims to increase security and privacy with support for end-of-life devices. As much as possible, it removes unnecessary proprietary Android components and includes only free-software.
DivestOS builds are signed with release-keys so bootloaders may be re-locked on many devices. An automated CVE patcher is used to patch the kernels against many known vulnerabilities.
DivestOS includes few default applications. F-Droid is included with options for selecting several custom F-Droid repositories as well. DivestOS supports using Orbot and Tor Browser as privacy-enhancing features.
History
The DivestOS project began in 2014, with the first properly signed builds being released in 2015.
The project is the work of one primary developer with contributions from numerous other developers.
Public release of DivestOS was announced on F-Droid forums in June 2020.
Supported devices
DivestOS primarily supports devices that have been supported by LineageOS.
History
In February 2022, TechTracker.in said DivestOS is one of few custom ROMs focusing on security and privacy, with monthly and incremental updates.
GNU/Linux.ch Linux and Freie Software News called DivestOS "relatively new and ambitious" and said it supports many devices, both newer and older.
DevsJournal called DivestOS 18.1 one of the best custom ROMs for the One Plus One phone.
DivestOS' Hypatia malware scanner for Android, and how to use their F-Droid repository, was reviewed by Gadget Hacks in March 2021. In November 2021, the Kuketz Security blog said Hypatia was the only malware scanner without tracking libraries of several they reviewed, but said its functionality was limited.
In March 2023, the 2022 Free Software Foundation Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor went to Tad (SkewedZeppelin), chief developer of the DivestOS project.
In a review in June 2023, the Kuketz Security blog said DivestOS "is so far the only custom ROM that has managed to fully document all network connections – at this point they deserve a lot of praise for it", and DivestOS "leaves an extremely privacy-friendly impression." He stated "DivestOS does not support Google Play Services," which must be taken into account, and the project is a "One-man army". He concluded DivestOS is not only for users with older devices, but also "those who value privacy and security (assuming they have an up-to-date device)".
See also
Comparison of mobile operating systems
List of custom Android distributions
Security-focused operating system
Tor Phone
References
External links
Android (operating system) forks
ARM operating systems
Computing platforms
Custom Android firmware
Embedded Linux distributions
Free mobile software
Free and open-source Android software
Linux distributions
Linux distributions without systemd
Mobile Linux
Mobile operating systems
Operating systems
Operating system families
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga%20Khan%20Agency%20for%20Habitat | The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) was established in 2016 and is part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). It is an umbrella of AKDN agencies and programs that have provided aid and delivered training on habitat and disaster preparedness since the 1990s.
History and Purpose
AKAH operates in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Syria, Pakistan and India. It bridges various AKDN initiatives, including Focus Humanitarian Assistance, and the Aga Khan Planning and Building Services.
The Agency has provided emergency aid to communities who have suffered the consequences of hurricanes, cyclones, avalanches, tsunamis, flooding, earthquakes and civil conflict. It also works alongside communities occupying high-risk areas to safety plan by providing preparation and response training on natural and man-made disasters, as well as the effects of climate change.
Onno Rühl currently serves as General Manager of the Agency.
AKAH advocates for equitable access to safe physical settings with reduced exposure to the effects of natural disasters regardless of socioeconomic status. To allow for progression and an improved quality of life, the Agency also ensures that these settings are equipped with accessible social and financial resources.
Disaster Preparedness and Response
AKAH trains volunteer teams to warn and safely evacuate people before disasters strike and respond with first aid, search and rescue, and emergency relief post-disaster.
These volunteers are called Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs). Presently, a network of 162 CERTs and 36,000 volunteers serve as first responders. More than 50% of the volunteers are women.
In response to disasters, emergency survival relief consists of safe drinking water, temporary shelter, nutritional food, clothing, blankets and basic household items.
The Agency has distributed food and established rehabilitation camps to be used as quarantine sites within the geographic regions it operates in as a response to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Water and Sanitation
To aid with access to clean water and sanitation, AKAH collaborates with local communities through the Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP), a flagship programme that has been in operation since 1997. More than 500,000 people have benefitted from the building of the water supply systems.
Safe and Sustainable Construction
After consultation with local communities, the Agency has pooled resources with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for solutions to design and construct green, energy-efficient and seismically resilient structures.
References
Aga Khan Development Network
International development agencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Twitter%20features | Twitter, currently rebranding to X, is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets" (currently rebranding to "posts"). Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, and read those that are publicly available.
Twitter structure
Posts
Posts are publicly visible by default, but senders can restrict message delivery to only their followers. Users can mute users they do not wish to interact with, block accounts from viewing their tweets and remove accounts from their followers list. Users can tweet via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries. Users may subscribe to other users' tweets—this is known as "following" and subscribers are known as "followers" or "tweeps", a portmanteau of Twitter and peeps. Individual tweets can be forwarded by other users to their own feed, a process known as a "retweet". In 2015, Twitter launched "quote tweet" (originally called "retweet with comment"), a feature that allows users to add a comment to their retweet, nesting one tweet in the other. Users can also "like" (formerly "favorite") individual tweets.
The counters for "likes", "retweets", and replies appear next to the respective buttons in timelines such as on profile pages and search results. Counters for likes and retweets exist on a tweet's standalone page too. Since September 2020, quote tweets, formerly known as "retweet with comment", have an own counter on their tweet page. Until the legacy desktop front end that was discontinued in 2020, a row with miniature profile pictures of up to ten liking or retweeting users was displayed (earliest documented implementation in December 2011 overhaul), as well as a tweet reply counter next to the according button on a tweet's page.
Twitter allows users to update their profile via their mobile phone either by text messaging or by apps released for certain smartphones and tablets. Twitter has been compared to a web-based Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. In a 2009 Time magazine essay, technology author Steven Johnson described the basic mechanics of Twitter as "remarkably simple":
According to research published in April 2014, around 44% of user accounts have never tweeted.
The first tweet was posted by Jack Dorsey (creator) at 12:50 pm PST on March 21, 2006, and read "just setting up my twttr". In 2009, the first tweet was sent from space. US astronauts Nicola Stott and Jeff Williams took part in a live 'tweetup' from the International Space Station with around 35 members of the public at the NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
In March 2021, Jack Dorsey listed his first tweet for sale. The highest bid for the tweet, $2.5 million, came from a Malaysian businessman, Sina Estavi. Along with the metadata of the original tweet, the buyer was to receive a certificate that was digitally signed and verified by Dorsey.
Content
S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20financial%20registry | A global financial registry (also known as an international financial registry) is a proposed central database on worldwide ownership of financial assets. The database would be compiled from data from large Western central securities depositories (CSDs), such as the US Depository Trust Company, Euroclear, and Clearstream. Advocates for a registry say it would improve tax compliance, combat money laundering, hinder organized crime, and increase compliance with sanctions. Prominent advocates for a global financial registry include the Tax Justice Network and José Antonio Ocampo, as well as economists Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman.
References
International finance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali%202002 | Bali 2002 is an Australian-Indonesian historical drama television series. Developed by Screentime and Endemol Shine Australia for a co-commission between Stan and Nine Network, the four-part drama revolves around the 2002 Bali bombings. The series premiered on 25 September 2022.
Cast
Main
Supporting
Episodes
Production
Development
Bali 2002 is the first original series co-commission between Stan and 9Network. Peter Andrikidis and Katrina Irawati Graham are directing the series, and Kerrie Mainwaring of Screentime is producing. Executive producers include Tim Pye, Sara Richardson of Endemol Shine Australia, Michael Healy and Andy Ryan of 9Network, and Amanda Duthie and Cailah Scobie of Stan. Scobie stated the series had been developed by creatives in Australia and Indonesia "and in consultation with those directly impacted". Writers include Justin Monjo, Kris Wyld, Marcia Gardner, and Michael Toisuta with Ketut Yuliarsa as story editor.
Casting
The cast playing local Balinese as well as Australian and British tourists was announced alongside the series announcement, with, Rachel Griffiths, Richard Roxburgh, Claudia Jessie, Sean Keenan, Ewen Leslie set to star alongside Arka Das, Anthony Brandon Wong, Paul Ayre, Maleeka Gasbarri, Gerwin Widjaja, and Sri Ayu Jati Kartika.
Filming
Principal photography began at the beginning of March 2022 in Western Sydney where set replicas of Paddy's Pub and the Sari Club were constructed. Production is receiving support from Screen NSW.
Release
Banijay Rights are handling international distribution, which launched sales for the series at its 2022 London Screenings showcase.
References
External links
(1)
(2)
2020s Australian television miniseries
2022 Australian television series debuts
2022 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Indonesian-language television shows
Nine Network original programming
Stan (service) original programming
Television shows filmed in Australia
Television series based on actual events
Television series set in 2002
Television shows set in Indonesia
Television series by Endemol Australia
Television series by Screentime
2002 Bali bombings
Terrorism in television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Murderers | "Computer Murderers" is a song by American rapper Lil Durk. It was released through Only the Family, Alamo Records, and Sony Music on March 18, 2022, as the fifth single from his seventh studio album, 7220, as the only new addition to the re-release of the album on the same day. Durk wrote the song with producers Touch of Trent and TrillBans. Three days before its release, he teased it by posting a screenshot of the song recording with the then title, "Computer Murders", through an Instagram story with the caption: "Niggas pissed me off again", possibly alluding to another single from the album, "Pissed Me Off" from 2021.
Composition and lyrics
On "Computer Murderers", Durk takes shots at the FBG rap group from his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. He addresses FBG Wooski being shot in the head at a funeral in 2018 and FBG Cash taking a picture in front of a mural of Durk's late Only the Family artist, fellow rapper King Von. On the first verse of the song, Durk raps: "Check on your mans, I heard he got hit in his head (Hello?) / But he almost died, so I can say his name 'cause he ain't dead (Wooski) / How you let a nigga vouch for you who just got out the feds? / Sneakin' pics by Von mural like lil' bro won't come out and spin (Grrah, grrah) / He ain't hurt a fly, so he ain't count, I still'll give him ten (Still'll give him ten)". Throughout the song, he sends more threats to his opponents, while boasting about his hedonistic lifestyle.
Music video
The official music video for "Computer Murderers", directed by Jerry Productions, premiered alongside the song on March 18, 2022. It sees Durk flexing huge stacks of cash, while partying in a penthouse in New York City.
Charts
References
2022 songs
2022 singles
Lil Durk songs
Songs written by Lil Durk
Sony Music singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Mallary | Michael L. Mallary is an engineer, physicist, inventor, and author who is noted for his contributions in the areas of magnetic recording and data storage on hard disk drives (HDD). His work has concentrated on developing and optimizing magnetic components to maximize data storage density. In particular, he is responsible to inventing the 'trailing-shield' write head used universally in modern HDDs. Mallary is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and recipient of the IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award.
Background and education
Michael (Mike) Mallary was raised in Berkeley, California. His mother was an advertizing executive and his father was the noted sculptor, Robert Mallary. He attended schools in Los Angeles, California and New York City. He attended Archbishop Stepinac High School where he built a Jacob's Ladder and a crude electron microscope as science projects.
Mallary received the S.B. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1966 working under John King. He received his Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1971 writing a thesis on high-energy physics under the direction of Prof Frank J. Sciulli.
From 1972 to 1974, Mallary was a post doctoral fellow at Rutherford Laboratory.
Career
In 1974, Mallary joined the Magnetic Corporation of America in Waltham, Massachusetts, designing large superconducting magnets intended for nuclear fusion, high energy physics, magnetic separation, power generation, etc.
In 1980, Mallary joined Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, as a head modeler and designer to support their effort to produce thin film heads for the RA90 disk drive. Bob Rottmayer was the head of the group. At DEC Mallary came up with the idea of the so-called "Diamond Head". This novel approach basically wrapped the yoke around the coil twice - effectively doubling the number of turns. (Maximizing readback voltage is always of paramount importance. This inductive head design was widely deployed, but it was eventually upstaged by the advent of magnetoresistive heads).
From the early 1990s to 2008, Mallary worked for a succession of HDD companies including Rocky Mountain Magnetics, MKE, Quantum, Maxtor, and Seagate working mainly on head design but also on manufacturing aspects such as servowriting. It was during this period that he became involved with the International Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) on the Extra High Density Recording (EHDR) project working with Mason Williams, Mark Kryder, Dave Thompson and others. The need for continued increases in areal data density led to an intense focus on perpendicular recording which offered the potential of areal-densities up to 1 Terabit per square inch. Earlier at DEC, Mallary had invented the trailing shield (or shielded-pole) write head for perpendicular recording. This design is able to reach higher recording areal-densities because it provides higher |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Ritzhaupt | Albert Dieter Ritzhaupt (born in 1980) is an American educational researcher, author, professor of educational technology and computer science education at the University of Florida, where he has served since 2010. Ritzhaupt serves as the current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Research on Technology in Education since 2018, the official research publication of the International Society for Technology in Education. Ritzhaupt is a member of the Institute for Advanced Learning Technologies, research member of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, and President for the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance, and Instruction (IBSTPI). Ritzhaupt was identified as one of the world's most prolific scholarly authors in the field of educational technology from 2007 to 2017 and again in 2021 for research articles between 2015 and 2019.
Early life and education
Ritzhaupt was born in Dunedin, Florida in 1980 and was raised in Port Richey, Florida. His parents owned a restaurant in Port Richey, Florida called Seaport Inn until its closure in 1998. Ritzhaupt attended Ridgewood High School in New Port Richey, Florida, which was later renamed Wendall Krinn Technical High School. After graduation in 1999, Ritzhaupt attended Valencia College for his associate of arts, the University of North Florida for his bachelor of science in computer and information sciences in 2003 and master of business administration in 2004, and the University of South Florida for his doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in curriculum and instruction with a major in instructional technology and a minor in research and measurement in 2008.
Professional life and accolades
Ritzhaupt has served at multiple institutions of higher education teaching and researching full-time in the fields of educational technology and computer science education since 2006, including St. Johns River State College, University of North Florida, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and University of Florida. Ritzhaupt previously worked as a software developer for several organizations prior to starting his tenure-track academic career. Ritzhaupt has served as both a Director and Past-President of the Florida Educational Research Association (FERA), and in 2019, was selected as the Educational Researcher of the Year Award by FERA. Ritzhaupt has published more than 100 scholarly journal articles in the fields of educational technology and computer science education. Ritzhaupt was awarded the 2016 UF Research Foundation Professors distinction, a term-limited professorship awarded to tenured professors who have a distinguished current record of research at the University of Florida. Ritzhaupt was distinguished as an alumnus of Distinction from his alma mater Valencia College in 2016. Ritzhaupt presently serves as the program coordinator for the computer science education program at the University of Florida.
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External links
Educational researchers
University of Florida facu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Bagwell | Phil Bagwell (died 6 October 2012) was a computer scientist known for his work and influence in the area of persistent data structures. He is best known for his 2000 invention of hash array mapped tries.
Bagwell was probably the most influential researcher in the field of persistent data structures from 2000 until his death. His work is now a standard part of the runtimes of functional programming languages including Clojure, Scala, and Haskell.
His contributions to building the Scala community are remembered in the Phil Bagwell Memorial Scala Community Award.
Publications
"Ideal Hash Trees" (2000), EPFL Technical Report
"Fast Functional Lists, Hash-Lists, Deques and Variable Length Arrays" (2002), EPFL Technical Report
References
2012 deaths
Year of birth missing
Computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN%2091379 | The DIN standard DIN 91379: "Characters and defined character sequences in Unicode for the electronic processing of names and data exchange in Europe, with CD-ROM" defines a normative subset of Unicode Latin characters, sequences of base characters and diacritic signs, and special characters for use in names of persons, legal entities, products, addresses etc. The standard defines a normative mapping of Latin letters to base letters A-Z according to the recommendations of ICAO.
Languages and scripts supported
The subset supports all official languages of European Union countries as well as the official languages of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, and also the German minority languages. To allow the transliteration of names in other writing systems to the Latin script according to the relevant ISO standards
all necessary diacritic signs are provided.
In addition to the normative characters the standard defines subsets of extended characters that contain modern Greek letters for Greece and Cyprus, Cyrillic letters for Bulgaria and special characters for names of products and legal entities.
Conforming applications may support additional characters, however for interface agreements or registers it may be appropriate to support only a final subset of characters and sequences based on this standard.
The text of the former standard, DIN SPEC 91379, explanations and lists of characters and sequences as Excel and XML files can be found in Koordinierungsstelle für IT-Standards (KoSIT). This reference contains also an XML schema file with patterns to check conformance of text to subsets defined in this standard. Lists of characters and sequences of DIN SPEC 91379 and DIN 91379 as plain text files are available via GitHub in DIN 91379 Characters and Sequences. The DIN contains few additional characters and sequences.
Application of the standard
The compliance to this standard will be mandatory for German authorities and organisations in the exchange of data between authorities or with citizens and business from Nov 1, 2024.
The architecture guideline for German federal IT demands the usage of the standard DIN SPEC 91379.
Continuous text and historic letters are not in the scope of this norm.
Structure of the standard
The DIN standard consists of a normative and an informative part.
The requirements in the normative part are binding for all compliant systems.
In the normative part, the letters for processing names with basic Latin letters and diacritics are specified.
All compliant systems must support these letters. Furthermore, a mapping of the normative letters to the basic Latin letters A-Z is defined.
A compliant system may support additional letters in addition to the normative letters.
The recommendations in the informative part are not binding for compliant systems.
The informative part determines a UNICODE subset of extended letters, e.g. for legal entities, product names and for data exchange in the EU. In addition the inf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202016 | Regional Mexican Albums is a record chart published in Billboard magazine that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Number-one albums
References
United States Regional Albums
2016 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Richards%20Graubard | Stephen Richards Graubard (December 5, 1924 – May 27, 2021) was an American historian and author.
Books
Kissinger: Portrait of a Mind (W. W. Norton, 1973)
The Artificial Intelligence Debate: False Starts, Real Foundations (MIT Press, 1988)
Books, Bricks & Bytes: Libraries In The Twenty-First Century
Minnesota, Real & Imagined: Essays on the State and Its Culture (2000)
The Presidents: The Transformation Of The American Presidency From Theodore Roosevelt To George W. Bush (Penguin, 2004)
References
1924 births
2021 deaths
American historians
American writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Phillips%20%28journalist%29 | Graham William Phillips is a British freelance journalist, documentary filmmaker and former YouTuber. He previously worked as a stringer for the Russian state-owned television networks RT (2013–2014) and Zvezda (2014–2015), and from early 2015 on, for his YouTube channel, until his channel was removed in July of 2023. Following the deletion of his YouTube channel, Phillips moved to video platform Rumble.
From March 2022, Phillips has covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine, initially from the Chernihiv area of Ukraine, then from Mariupol, then from Donetsk, and then onto the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR / LNR).
Phillips has been accused of being pro-Russian, and lending 'faux legitimacy' to Kremlin propaganda and Russian conspiracy theories with his 'middle-class English accent'. Phillips himself maintains his reporting is 'independent journalism'. Phillips has been awarded several medals for his work from the separatist republics of Donbas, and organizations in Russia.
In April 2022, Phillips was accused by UK MP Robert Jenrick of committing a war crime after interviewing captured British-born Ukrainian soldier Aiden Aslin. Phillips has, for his part, stated that Aslin himself 'requested the interview'. In July 2022, the government of the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on him, saying that his work "supports and promotes actions and policies which destabilize Ukraine and undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty, or independence of Ukraine.” Phillips became the first British citizen to be added to the sanctions list, although he stated that he is "reporting the truth" about the war in Ukraine.
Biography
Early years
Phillips' place of birth has been listed as either Nottingham, in England, or Dundee in Scotland. He attended Perth High School, and later graduated from the University of Dundee with a dual degree in philosophy and history in the early 2000s. During his student years, Phillips had started to do some freelance journalism, 'faxing articles into The Scotsman. He also tried his hand at stand-up comedy at this time, performing alongside Miles Jupp, and Frankie Boyle. While at university, Phillips led the unsuccessful campaign to have Baywatch actor David Hasselhoff installed as rector.
After university, he moved to London where he worked a number of years for the now-defunct Central Office of Information, as a clerk, reviewing government websites and preparing reports for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, later speaking of his frustration at the mundanity of this work.
In Ukraine (2010–2016)
Phillips first visited Ukraine in 2009 when he travelled to Dnipropetrovsk for an England match. He then moved to Ukraine in 2010, looking for the chance to 'reboot' his life, and do journalistic work. He was 30, and initially began working in Kiev as an English teacher. At this time, Phillips started a blog, Brit in Ukraine, with articles on politics, history, life in Ukraine, UEFA Euro 2012 and sex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminary%20%28podcast%20network%29 | Luminary is a subscription podcast network that launched on 23 April 2019.
History
It was launched by Luminary Media LLC, a venture-backed company, that was co-founded in 2018 by Joe Purzycki, and Matt Sacks. Preceding the launch, the company had raised $100 million in venture capital, from New Enterprise Associates and Sinai Ventures, among others. Nicholas Quah, writing for Vulture.com, described Luminary's launch week as "horrific", with licensing and permission issues, and other controversies. In late 2019, Simon Sutton replaced Matt Sacks as CEO.
In May 2020, Bloomberg News called Luminary a "money-losing podcasting startup" with an app that "has struggled to find an audience since its debut in April 2019. Only about 80,000 people who tried the app have remained paying subscribers" per sources. Bloomberg reported that the company had received "$30 million in a new round" of investment and was looking for additional funding due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nicholas Quah, for Nieman Lab, commented that in light of Bloomberg's report "it would seem that Luminary's fundamental problem is that it didn't end up signing anybody who had a powerful enough pull to drive that many paid listeners. Sure, it assembled a catalog of interesting stuff, but it doesn't have a world-building Howard Stern/Bill Simmons-level asset, plain and simple".
Early 2022, Rishi Malhotra became CEO. In March 2022, Dave Chappelle's Pilot Boy Productions invested in Luminary with an undisclosed sum; Chappelle's podcast is also hosted by Luminary. Later that month, Jacob Kastrenakes, for The Verge, commented that "maybe Luminary's subscription-only podcast model still has legs". However, after scanning "the company's website before my chat with Malhotra, and nearly all of the shows featured on the front page hadn't posted new episodes in the past six months. In fact, if you look around Luminary's website, it's hard to find any shows that have updated recently. That's a tough sell for a service with a monthly subscription fee. [...] Luminary shows will continue to start and stop publishing throughout the year, Malhotra said, being produced in seasons more like a TV show".
The 2023 album Liberation 2 from Talib Kweli and Madlib was released exclusively on Luminary.
Programming
References
Podcasting companies
Companies established in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomaderris%20obcordata | Pomaderris obcordata, commonly known as wedge-leaved pomaderris, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a shrub with densely hairy branchlets, wedge-shaped, narrowly egg-shaped or heart-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white to pink flowers.
Description
Pomaderris obcordata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has its branchlets densely covered with simple and star-shaped hairs. The leaves are wedge-shaped, narrowly egg-shaped or heart-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with stipules long at the base. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the lower surface is covered with woolly, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are white to pink and are borne in groups on the ends of branches, each flower on a hairy pedicel long. The sepals are long, there are no petals and the style is branched at the tip. Flowering mainly occurs from July to September.
Taxonomy
Pomaderris obcordata was first formally described in 1837 by Eduard Fenzl in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel from specimens collected by Ferdinand Bauer. The specific epithet (obcordata) means "inverted heart-shaped".
Distribution and habitat
Wedge-leaved pomaderris grows in mallee scrub, or heath and occurs in south-eastern South Australia, including on the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas and Kangaroo Island. There are two records from far western Victoria, the most recent from 1969, but may be examples of inaccurate locality recording.
References
Flora of South Australia
obcordata
Plants described in 1837
Taxa named by Eduard Fenzl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Rush is a New Zealand television channel owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery, broadcast via the state-owned Kordia transmission network, Sky and on the website ThreeNow. The channel launched on 21 March 2022. Rush focuses on adventure shows such as Man vs Wild, Manhunt With Joel Lambert, Deadliest Catch and Treehouse Masters.
The channel shares its name, partial ownership and some of its programming with Australian TV channel 9Rush.
History
In 2021, Discovery New Zealand announced its plans to restructure several of its TV channels for 2022, including the addition of Rush, intended to reach a younger male audience. Rush launched on 21 March 2022. After the closure of The Edge TV, Breeze TV and the rebranding of Choice TV, Rush (with sister channel eden) started transmission on old Choice TV Freeview channel 14 and Sky TV channel 24.
References
External links
Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific
2022 establishments in New Zealand
Television networks in New Zealand
Television channels and stations established in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today%20FM%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | Today FM was a nationwide Auckland-based New Zealand talkback, news and sport radio network owned and operated by MediaWorks New Zealand. It was formed by the 2022 rebrand of Magic Talk and competed directly against NZME station Newstalk ZB. It was taken off air on 30 March 2023.
History
In November 2021, MediaWorks announced it would replace Magic Talk with a new talk radio network called Today FM. Newshub's political editor at the time, Tova O'Brien, was announced as breakfast host, with broadcasters Duncan Garner, Rachel Smalley, Polly Gillespie, Leah Panapa, Mark Richardson, Lloyd Burr, Wilhelmina Shrimpton, Nigel Yalden, Robett Hollis, Mark Dye, Carly Flynn, Nickson Clark, Dave Letele and Dominic Bowden in the lineup.
The Today FM brand name has been used in other regions, such as 89.3 Today FM, which was founded as a local station in the Wairarapa by Paul Henry in 1991, and Today 92FM (later Today 99.8FM), which was a local station in Auckland in the 1990s.
Today FM was launched on 21 March 2022 and commenced broadcasting on the former Magic Talk frequencies, plus 90.2 FM in Auckland (moving The Rock to 106.2 FM) and 95.3 FM in Christchurch (moving Mai FM to the low-power frequency of 106.8 FM). The first programme to be aired on the station was First Light, presented by Rachel Smalley.
The station was abruptly taken off air on 30 March 2023, just over a year after it launched. During the mid-morning show Duncan Garner Today, O'Brien and other Today FM staff came on air to announce they were being shuttered. Garner and O'Brien went onto criticise station owners Mediaworks, before the show was replaced by music at 9:25 am that morning. At 5:12 pm, a pre-recorded announcement was aired, confirming the closure of Today FM.
Specialty shows that aired on Today FM such as the Rural Exchange show and coverage of the Blackcaps cricket matches continued after the closure on the same frequencies. REX (Rural Exchange) ran at their normal times until they were moved to Magic on 17 April. For the cricket, the New Zealand versus Sri Lanka game on 8 April 2023 was the final match covered.
News bulletins
News and sports bulletins were broadcast live every hour, on the hour, and produced in a shorter, snappier format with headline summaries as the major stories developed. The news was provided by the station's own newsroom with over 20 news and sports journalists, editors and correspondents. Network newsreaders included Carly Flynn (breakfast) and Wilhelmina Shrimpton (drive), with Bridget Hastie, Geoff Bryan, Aroha Hathaway, Angie Skerrett, Brin Rudkin, KM Adams and Mel Homer.
Frequencies
Today FM broadcast in 26 markets. Most of Today FM's frequencies were reallocated to other MediaWorks radio stations.
References
External links
Today FM website
2022 establishments in New Zealand
2023 disestablishments in New Zealand
Radio stations established in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Berthold | Michael R. Berthold is a German computer scientist, entrepreneur, academic and author. He is a professor, and chair for bioinformatics and information mining at Konstanz University, and an honorary professor at Óbuda University. He is also the co-founder of KNIME, and is serving as a president and CEO of KNIME AG since 2017.
Berthold has authored over 250 publications while focusing his research on usage of machine learning methods for the interactive analysis of large information repositories. He is the editor and co-author of textbooks, including, Guide To Intelligent Data Science, and Intelligent Data Analysis.
Berthold is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the past president of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, and past president of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is an associate editor of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD), Knowledge and Information Systems (KIS), Journal of Cheminformatics (JCIS), and International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IJCIBSB). He has been involved in the organization of various conferences, most notably the IDA-series of symposia on Intelligent Data Analysis.
Early life and education
Berthold was born in 1966 in Stuttgart, Germany. He received his MSc degree in computer science in 1992, and his Dr.rer.nat. degree in 1997, both from Karlsruhe University.
Career
Berthold started his academic career as a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. He then held appointments as a visiting researcher at the University of Sydney in 1994, and as a researcher at the University of Karlsruhe in 1993. From 1997 till 2000, he was a BISC Research Fellow and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2003, he is a full professor, and chair for bioinformatics and information mining at Konstanz University, Germany. In 2017 he took a leave of absence to become full-time CEO at KNIME AG, Zurich, Switzerland.
At IEEE, Berthold served as a president of the IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics Society from 2010 till 2011.
Research
Berthold has focused his research on large, and heterogeneous data sources, with particular focus on methods from AI (rule learning, neural networks, fuzzy logic and general machine learning).
Fuzzy models
Berthold has published on methods to extract fuzzy models from data based on constructive methods to build probabilistic neural networks. He developed similar algorithms for the extraction of fuzzy rule models. He then extended those models beyond classification and invented algorithms to extract regression models, so-called fuzzy graphs from data automatically.
Bisociative knowledge discovery
At Konstanz University, Berthold initiated a European project (EU FP7 BISON) that focused on bisociative methods to create insights from diverse data sources. The consortium created output summarized in the resulting edited volume Bisociative Knowle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20extreme%20temperatures%20in%20Japan | Since the establishment of the first weather station in Hakodate in 1872, Japan has recorded temperature changes across the country. According to the data provided by Japan Meteorological Agency, the maximum recorded temperature in Japan was in Kumagaya on July 23, 2018 and in Hamamatsu on August 17, 2020, while the minimum recorded temperature was in Asahikawa on January 25, 1902. Below is a list of the most extreme temperatures recorded in Japan.
It is worth noting that in the whole of Japan, the place with the lowest annual average temperature is not Hokkaido, but Mount Fuji at the junction of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefecture. The annual average temperature is , which is the average annual temperature of all weather stations in Japan so far. The only area with a negative value, Mount Fuji's extreme maximum temperature was only , which was measured on August 13, 1942.
In contrast, Minami-Tori-shima has the highest annual average temperature in Japan. This is a small island in the Pacific Ocean, some 1850 km from Honshu. It has an annual average temperature of , exceeding the value recorded by all weather stations including Okinawa Prefecture. And the extreme minimum temperature in the region is , which is unique in the whole of Japan, because even in Okinawa Prefecture, the minimum temperature of the year tends to be lower than .
Maximum temperatures
Minimum temperatures
References
External links
Climate of Japan
Weather events in Japan
Weather extremes of Earth
Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20Data | Women in Data is an organisation and movement that aims to empower women and support them through the various stages of their careers in data.
Although women comprise about 50% of the United Kingdom (UK) population, only 20% of professionals in artificial intelligence and data in the UK are women.
Underrepresentation of women in data science can result in serious issues and in some cases, e.g., automobile crashes, actual harm.
With a membership of over 25,000, the organisation seeks to improve the representation of women and girls in data and technology, address some of the key issues, and connect data professionals with partner companies.
Summary
Founded in 2014 by Roisin McCarthy, Women in Data was formed to promote diversity in analytics by encouraging more women to take up careers in the data industry.
The organisation is dedicated to supporting and promoting women in the data and technology fields by providing an expansive platform for female and gender-diverse practitioners to share their technical knowledge and network at various in-person and virtual events.
To date, Women in Data have worked with a broad range of organisations, including some very high-profile businesses, that support diversity within the data and technology sector. The organisation believes that having greater numbers of women within the sector will generate a competitive advantage for UK businesses by mobilising a wealth of untapped talent.
History
In 2014, with over fifteen years’ experience as a recruiter in data science and analytics, Roisin McCarthy observed an industry-wide relative decline in female candidates applying, scaling and remaining in the data sector. The gap in female applicants caused her to examine the underlying issues and potential barriers to women in the data and technology field and led her to collaborate with one of the UK's foremost data experts, Payal Jain. Women in Data was formed to confront these problems and to advocate for change.
To bring awareness to the issues and to do something positive about them, Women in Data
set about creating a community of professionals in which members could network, share ideas, and support and encourage one another. By design, the organisation offers a free membership to provide an opportunity to connect, engage and belong to this community.
Following many media appearances and networking events, in 2015, the organisation held its first major event at the University College London campus.
The movement quickly gained traction, and by 2019, the conference welcomed more than 1,200 attendees to the InterContinental London - The O2. A report in 2019 noted that although women still hadn't been entering the sector at the same increasing rate that men had, there had never been a better time to be a woman in this field. In the following year, thousands more attended a week of virtual Women in Data events and workshops and by 2022, the community had grown to more than 30,000 members.
Twenty in Data & Te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%20Kucherawy | Murray S. Kucherawy is a computer scientist, mostly known for his work on email standardization and open source software.
He originated in Canada where he studied Mathematics, specializing in Computer Science, Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, earning a Bachelor's degree in 1994.
He worked for several Internet companies, including Sendmail, Cloudmark, and Facebook, which is his current employer (as of 2022). At the same time, he lead several IETF working groups, including MARF, WEIRDS, and DMARC. He also wrote several RFCs (see below) and papers. In concert with such activity, he created various open source software packages, including OpenDKIM and OpenDMARC, in the framework of The Trusted Domain Project.
IETF contributions
, Apr 2009, Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication Status
, Aug 2010, An Extensible Format for Email Feedback Reports
, Sep 2010, Authentication-Results Registration for Differentiating among Cryptographic Results
, Apr 2011, Authentication-Results Registration for Vouch by Reference Results
, Sep 2011, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures
, Sep 2011, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Mailing Lists
, Jan 2012, The Multipart/Report Media Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages
, Feb 2012, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Authorized Third-Party Signatures
, Mar 2012, Authentication-Results Registration Update for Sender Policy Framework (SPF) Results
, Apr 2012, Redaction of Potentially Sensitive Data from Mail Abuse Reports
, Jun 2012, Email Greylisting: An Applicability Statement for SMTP
, Jun 2012, Creation and Use of Email Feedback Reports: An Applicability Statement for the Abuse Reporting Format (ARF)
, Jun 2012, Extensions to DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) for Failure Reporting
, Jul 2012, Resolution of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Sender ID Experiments
, Jul 2012, Source Ports in Abuse Reporting Format (ARF) Reports
, Sep 2012, Indicating Email Handling States in Trace Fields
, Sep 2013, Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication Status
, Nov 2013, An Architecture for Reputation Reporting
, Nov 2013, A Media Type for Reputation Interchange
, Nov 2013, A Reputation Query Protocol
, Nov 2013, A Reputation Response Set for Email Identifiers
, Jan 2014, Advice for Safe Handling of Malformed Messages
, Jul 2014, The Require-Recipient-Valid-Since Header Field and SMTP Service Extension
, Sep 2014, Email Authentication Status Codes
, Dec 2014, A Property Types Registry for the Authentication-Results Header Field
, Jan 2015, IAB, IESG, and IAOC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees
, Mar 2015, Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC)
, Aug 2015, Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication Status
, Oct 2018, Zstandard Compression and the application/zst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjeev%20Arora%20%28disambiguation%29 | Sanjeev Arora is a theoretical computer scientist, it may also refer to
Sanjeev Arora (politician) from India
Sanjeev Arora (physician) from USA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/700%20%28disambiguation%29 | 700 is a year. 700 may also refer to:
700 BC
700 (number)
Lenovo IdeaPad 700, a discontinued brand of notebook computers
Remington Model 700, a model of rifle
700 AM
Transportation
BMW 700, a model of car
Tatra 700, a model of car
Volvo 700 Series, a model of car
Jawa 700, a model of car+
Coastliner 700, a bus route in the United Kingdom
See also
700 series (disambiguation)
700 MHz (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan-Byoung%20Chae | Chan-Byoung Chae is a Korean computer scientist, electrical engineer, and academic. He is an Underwood Distinguished Professor, the director of Intelligence Networking Laboratory, and head of the School of Integrated Technology at Yonsei University, Korea.
Chae has published over 200 papers and has been cited 11,000 times. He has 50 patents awarded in US and Europe. His research primarily focuses on the emerging technologies for 6G and molecular communications, with particular attention on nano-communications, MIMO communications, full duplex, and other advanced communications.
Chae is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications. He serves as an editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea.
Education
Chae graduated (ranked first) with a master's degree in electrical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2001. From 2005 till 2008, he was awarded Korea Government Fellowship for his Ph.D. Studies, and subsequently earned his doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2008 under the supervision of Robert W. Heath Jr. From 2008 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Harvard University.
Career
Chae began his academic career as a graduate research assistant at The University of Texas in October 2005. He was also appointed there as a teaching assistant and guest lecturer in 2007. In 2011, he joined Yonsei University, and has been serving there as an Underwood Distinguished Professor, as the director of Intelligence Networking Laboratory, and as head of the School of Integrated Technology since then. At Stanford University, he held appointment as a visiting professor in 2017.
Prior to joining UT, Chae was a research engineer at the Advanced Research Lab., the Telecommunications R&D Center, in and Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea, from 2001 to 2005. While at Samsung, he participated in the IEEE 802.16e and 3GPP standardization, where he made several contributions and filed a number of related patents. He has also served as a member of technical staff (research scientist) at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in US from 2009 to 2011.
Chae is an IEEE Fellow (nominated by ComSoc) and an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for the term 2020–203.
Research
Chae's research spans the fields of next generation (B5G/6G) communication networks, molecular communication networks, applied machine learning, and applied mathematics.
Communication networks
Chae discussed the applications of multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) networks in terms of revealing the unique opportunities arising from a joint optimization of antenna combining techniques with resource allo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20cereal%20production | This is a list of countries by cereal production in 2020 based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world cereal production for 2020 was 2,996,142,289 metric tonnes.
In 1961 production was 877 mln tonnes.
Production by country
The table shows the countries with the largest production of cereals (barley, oats, millet, sorghum, corn, rice, rye and wheat).
World production
References
Lists of countries by production
Cereal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Vaughan%20%28disambiguation%29 | Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008) was an American mathematician and human computer.
Dorothy Vaughan may also refer to:
Dorothy Vaughan (actress) (18901955), American actress
Dorothy Vaughan (social reformer) (1881–1974), Australian social reformer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20rice%20production | This is a list of countries by rice production in 2021 based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world rice production for 2021 was 787,293,867 metric tonnes.
In 1961, the total world production was 216 million tonnes.
Production by country
The table shows the countries with the largest production of rice in 2021 (paddy rice).
Historical statistics
World production
Large producers
References
Lists of countries by production
rice
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20in%20fraud%20detection | Artificial intelligence is used by many different businesses and organizations. It is widely used in the financial sector, especially by accounting firms, to help detect fraud.
In 2022, PricewaterhouseCoopers reported that fraud has impacted 46% of all businesses in the world. The shift from working in person to working from home has brought increased access to data. According to an FTC (Federal Trade Commission) study from 2022, customers reported fraud of approximately $5.8 billion in 2021, an increase of 70% from the year before. The majority of these scams were imposter scams and online shopping frauds.
Tools
Expert systems
Expert systems were first designed in the 1970s as an expansion into artificial intelligence technologies. Their design is based on the premise of decreasing potential user error in decision-making and emulating mental reasoning used by experts in a particular field. They differentiate themselves from traditional linear reasoning models by separating identified points in data and processing them individually at the same time. Though, these systems do not rely purely on machine-learned intelligence.
Information regarding rules, practices, and procedures in the form of "if-then" statements are implemented into the programming of the system. Users interact with the system by feeding information into the system either through direct entry or import of external data. An inference system compares the information provided by the user with corresponding rules that are believed to specifically apply to the situation. Using this information and the corresponding rules will be used to create a solution to the user's query. Expert systems will generally not operate properly when the common procedures for a specified situation are ambiguous due to the need for well-defined rules.
Implementation of expert systems in accounting procedures is feasible in areas where professional judgment is required. Situations where expert systems are applicable include investigations into transactions that involve potential fraudulent entries, instances of going concern, and the evaluation of risk in the planning stages of an audit.
Continuous auditing
Continuous auditing is a set of processes that assess various aspects of information gathered in an audit to classify areas of risk and potential weaknesses in financial Internal controls at a more frequent rate than traditional methods. Instead of analyzing recorded transactions and journal entries periodically, continuous auditing focuses on interpreting the character of these actions more frequently. The frequency of these processes being undertaken as well as highlighting areas of importance is up to the discretion of their implementer, who commonly makes such decisions based on the level of risk in the accounts being evaluated and the goals of implementing the system. Performance of these processes can occur as frequently as being nearly instantaneous with an entry being posted.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20Asset%20Tracker | Russian Asset Tracker is a database launched by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project to track the assets of the oligarchs and other influential Russians who have links to the Russian president Vladimir Putin. The tracker is a global collaboration between 27 media outlets, and it provides an interactive display of the "vast wealth held outside Russia by oligarchs and key figures close" to the Russian president. By April 2022, the project had idenfitied 11 individuals with $17.5 billion in combined assets.
References
External links
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Data journalism
Finance fraud
Investigative journalism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising%20Mamay | Raising Mamay (International title: Raising Mama) is a 2022 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Don Michael Perez, it stars Ai-Ai delas Alas in the title role. It premiered on April 25, 2022 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Little Princess. The series concluded on July 29, 2022 with a total of 70 episodes. It was replaced by Return to Paradise in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Ai-Ai delas Alas as Leticia "Letty / Mamay" Reyes-Sandejas
Supporting cast
Shayne Sava as Abigail "Abby" R. Sandejas
Abdul Rahman as Paolo Ampil
Valerie Concepcion as Sylvia Gonzales-Renancia
Gary Estrada as Randy Renancia
Antonio Aquitania as Bong "Daday" Sandejas
Ina Feleo as Malou Reyes
Joyce Ching as Arma Villasis
Tart Carlos as Wenda Liles
Bryce Eusebio as Christopher Renancia
Raquel Pareño as Berna Gonzales
Orlando Sol as Monching Cruz
Hannah Arguelles as Dwein Liles
Ella Cristofani as Kelly Gomez
Lei Angela Ollet as Pam Galvez
Production
Principal photography commenced on February 25, 2022.
Episodes
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References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start-Up%20PH | Start-Up PH is a 2022 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is an adaptation of the 2020 South Korean television drama series Start-Up. Directed by Jerry Lopez Sineneng and Dominic Zapata, it stars Alden Richards, Bea Alonzo, Yasmien Kurdi, and Jeric Gonzales. It premiered on September 26, 2022 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on December 23, 2022 with a total of 65 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Alden Richards as Tristan "Good Boy" Hernandez
Bea Alonzo as Danica "Dani" C. Sison-Hernandez
Yasmien Kurdi as Katrina "Ina" C. Sison / Katrina "Ina" C. Diaz
Jeric Gonzales as Davidson "Dave" Navarro
Supporting cast
Gina Alajar as Ligaya "Joy" Sison
Kim Domingo as Stephanie Rios
Royce Cabrera as Jefferson "Jeff" Katipunan
Boy 2 Quizon as Wilson Espiritu
Ayen Munji-Laurel as Alicia "Alice" Cortez-Sison / Alicia "Alice" Cortez-Diaz
Jackie Lou Blanco as Cassandra "Sandra" Castillejos-Yoon
Gabby Eigenmann as Arnold Diaz
Niño Muhlach as Samuel "Sammy" Navarro
Lovely Rivero as Rhodora "Dang" Navarro
Kevin Santos as Darwin Pascual
Tim Yap as Angelo "Mr. A" Angeles
Kaloy Tingcungco as Spencer Diaz
Jay Arcilla as Angelo Joseph "Anjo" Perez
Brianna Bunagan as Joanna "Joan" Perez
Guest cast
Neil Ryan Sese as Romualdo "Chito" Sison
Marco Masa as young Tristan Hernandez
Princess Aguilar as young Danica Sison
Dayara Shane as young Katrina Sison
Seth dela Cruz as young Davidson Navarro
Benjie Paras as himself
Jojo Alejar as Master Mentor
Production
Principal photography commenced on April 4, 2022.
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
Philippine television series based on South Korean television series
Television shows set in Metro Manila
Workplace drama television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Hill%20railway | The Roy Hill railway, officially the Roy Hill Infrastructure railway, owned and operated by Hancock Prospecting, is a private rail network in the Pilbara region of Western Australia built to carry iron ore.
In addition to the Hancock Prospecting network, there are three more independent iron ore rail lines in the Pilbara, making up the Pilbara Iron Ore Railways. One is operated by Rio Tinto, the Hamersley & Robe River railway, the Fortescue Metals Group operates the Fortescue railway and BHP the Goldsworthy and Mount Newman railway.
History
An application to construct the Roy Hill railway was lodged with the Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia in October 2010. In the original application, the operator of the railway line, Roy Hill Infrastructure Pty Ltd, proposed to build a long railway line from the Roy Hill mine to the Port of Port Hedland. Construction of the line was scheduled to take 24 months and the operational lifespan of the line was in excess of 20 years.
Approval for the line was granted in November 2010 but amended in May 2011, to alter the length of the railway line to as it was required to take a more northerly route as originally planned on the final stretch of railway to the Roy Hill mine. The reason for the route change was that Roy Hill Infrastructure was, subsequent to approval, unable to obtain permission from third party mining lease holders to construct the railway as approved and therefore had to alter the route.
Construction of the railway on Crown land required the passing of the Railway (Roy Hill Infrastructure Pty Ltd) Agreement Act 2010 as an amendment to the Railways (Access) Act 1998 by the Parliament of Western Australia.
The construction of the railway commenced in 2012 and was completed after 27 month, in 2015, with the first ore train travelling the line in December 2015. The new railway included eight bridges over waterways and three over roads and rails. The project jointly won the 2016 Railway Project Award of the Railway Technical Society of Australasia, alongside the Auckland Electrification Project. The combined construction cost of the mine, port and rail was A$10 billion, with a daily cost of A$10 million and a work force of 3,000 reported in 2014.
In a first for a GE locomotive, two new units as well as 150 ore cars for the Roy Hill railway were painted pink to raise breast cancer awareness in 2018.
In late 2021, Roy Hill announced a transition to a fully battery-powered, heavy-haul locomotive, manufactured by US company Wabtec, by 2023, a world first. The company, at this point, operated Wabtec ES44ACIs diesel-electric locomotives to pull their trains carrying 35,000 tonnes of iron ore.
References
External links
Pilbara Railways – rail enthusiast website
Roy Hill Infrastructure Railway Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia
MINEDEX website: Roy Hill Port Infrastructure and Rail Database of the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety
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