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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Most%20and%20Litv%C3%ADnov | The Most-Litvínov tramway network () is a tram network connecting the city of Most and the town of Litvínov in the Ústí nad Labem Region. With a track and a length of approximately , the system is operated by Dopravní podnik měst Mostu a Litvínova.
This network is unique in Europe; since tram networks are typically designed to provide public transport for cities, this system is unique for connecting two towns of a combined population of less than 80,000 inhabitants.
History
Early 20th century
The city of Most strived to become an important center in the area, but there was a lack of functioning local transport. Absence of transport infrastructure in densely populated and built-up agglomeration, which was formed between Most and Litvínov at the end of the century required a progressive solution. In 1893, Carl von Pohnert considered connecting two towns by road steam tram. Pohnert submitted the idea in 1896 and on 22 February 1899, the project received (by decree no. 570682/3) permission from the railways ministry to start construction.
On 7 August 1901, the operation of the single-track railway was inaugurated. In September 1902, Brüxer Strassenbahn-und Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft was founded.
The network was not extended any further until the end of World War II. In 1938, a smaller extension was made to the petrochemical plants in Záluží, a village that is a part of Litvínov. These were of strategic importance during World War II. Towards the end of the war, in 1945, the chemical plants in and around Most were bombed. Subsequently, the tramway was destroyed. The bombing caused a temporary split of the Litvínov and Most sections.
Late 20th century
After the war, reconstruction of tracks was necessary. This was done within a few months after the end of World War II.
In the 1950s, five tram lines were in operation in Most and new T1 trams appeared. Another important task was the modernisation of the interurban line. A decision was taken to build a modern, fast standard-gauge line. Its first section was put into operation in Litvínov on 1 April 1957. At the end of 1957, the network was long.
In connection with this, the old tram cars of wooden construction had to be scrapped and were replaced by Tatra T1, T2 and later T3 trams.
Operation of narrow-gauge trams was definitively terminated on 24 March 1961. In the 1970s, the tram network as well as the whole city of Most, had to prepare for the relocation. However, thanks to previous modifications, the relocation turned out easy. In the same year, the line to the new Most railway station was also built.
On 1 January 1995, during the process of privatization of state-owned enterprises DOPRAVNÍ PODNIK měst Mostu a Litvínova, a.s. (referred to as DPmML) was established as successor to the state-owned enterprise.
Current status
Most of the fleet consists of modernised Tatra T3 trams, with two Škoda 03T low-floor cars also in service.
In 2012-2014, two low-floor VarioLF plus trams were deli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20Influence%3A%20Broadcasting%20the%20Reactionary%20Right%20on%20YouTube | Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube is a 2018 report by researcher Rebecca Lewis published at the think tank Data & Society that performs network analysis on a collection of 65 political influencers on 81 YouTube channels. Lewis argues that this network propagates right-wing ideology.
Content
Lewis notes that, though this group of thinkers is in some ways ideologically quite diverse, they appear best defined by their reactionary nature. Lewis finds that members of the AIN develop audiences by cultivating ideas of authenticity and "countercultural" appeal. Further, she identifies a variety of mechanisms that draw viewers from less-radical to more-radical rightwing reactionary content. Hosts can invite members from further fringes of the right for softball interviews. Debates can play a role in validating ideas further towards extremes by lending ideas such as ethnonationalism the sense that they are worth considering.
In a short section of the report, Lewis suggests that the most extreme content on YouTube should be demonetized.
Methodology
Lewis identified guest appearances that occurred on each show. Lewis found that many more moderate libertarian or conservative YouTubers often host much more extreme members of the AIN on their shows, providing uncritical interviews. This style of collaboration is a common method of building YouTube followings, often used in other genres like beauty blogging. Move this section to 'conclusions''' ->This makes addressing it much more difficult for YouTube, says Lewis, in contrast to lists of banned words. To address this issue of radicalization, Lewis suggests that YouTube should not only assess the content of hosts in YouTube videos, but also their guests.
Reception
Some individuals named in the report, such as Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro, opposed their inclusion. They argued that the implied 'rightwing reactionary' label does not apply to them or that their connections to the white supremacists and other extremists on the chart constitute slander by association.Vox writer Ezra Klein sees Lewis's work as a work related to Bari Weiss's discussion of the intellectual dark web. While Weiss discusses the most respected subset of this fuzzy group of thinkers, Lewis draws a broader map.
Related works
A 2020 study by Harvard Misinformation Review analyzed and compared links from Reddit and 4chan's /pol/ board. It noted that a large number of outlinks are to YouTube channels identified in the Alternative Influence Network, while surprisingly few links go to low-quality "pink slime" news sources. They found that the AIN was more popular on Reddit than on 4chan, with the most popular overall member of the network being Joe Rogan's PowerfulJRE channel. On Reddit, debate- and interview-style shows like Paul Joseph Watson, Jordan Peterson, and Dave Rubin are most popular, while on 4chan direct-audience styles are more common. These include Sargon of Akkad's "The Thinkery" and Baked |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn%20Martin%20%28banker%29 | Lynn Martin is an American markets executive and computer programmer. On January 3, 2022, she became the 68th president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Having completed degrees from Manhattan College (computer science) and Columbia University (statistics), Martin first joined the workforce as a computer programmer for IBM before eventually working her way up through positions with the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange. In December 2021, her appointment as president of the NYSE was announced.
Biography
Lynn Martin grew up in Smithtown, New York. Her father was an electrical engineer. Martin studied computer science and math at Manhattan College, and in 1998, she graduated with a major in computer science and a minor in finance. While working as a computer programmer at IBM for the next three years, Martin started a part-time graduate studies program and completed an MA in Statistics from Columbia University. She began working at the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange in 2001. After the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) purchased Interactive Data in 2015, Martin became head of ICE's fixed-income and data business unit.
In December 2021, Martin was announced as the incoming 68th president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), with her predecessor Stacey Cunningham moving onto the NYSE's board of directors. On January 3, 2022, Martin officially began her tenure as president.
Martin is a trustee at Manhattan College and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. She is on the board of directors for Partnership for New York City.
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Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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Intercontinental Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Manhein | Mary Huffman Manhein is an American forensic anthropologist. Nicknamed The Bone Lady, she was the founding director of the Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services (FACES) laboratory at Louisiana State University (LSU) in 1990, and of the Louisiana Repository for Unidentified and Missing Persons Information Program in 2006. The repository is considered the "most comprehensive statewide database of its kind".
In addition to teaching at LSU, Manhein has worked with law enforcement agencies at local, regional and national levels, consulting on over 1000 cases involving missing or unidentified persons. She is a member of the national Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) and a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. She has been invited to lecture at New Scotland Yard.
As well as academic publications, Manhein has written the non-fiction books The Bone Lady (2000), Trail of Bones (2005), and Bone Remains (2013), and two novels.
Education
Manhein entered Louisiana State University (LSU) as an English student in 1976 and took a class in anthropology as a senior. She graduated with a degree in English literature in 1981.
Manhein began volunteering in Douglas W. Owsley's laboratory in the Department of Geography and Anthropology, and earned a master's degree in forensic anthropology from LSU. After Owsley moved to the Smithsonian Institution, Manhein continued to work and teach at LSU, becoming a "Professional in Residence" at LSU’s Department of Geography and Anthropology.
Career
By 1987, Manhein was leading the LSU laboratory for geography and anthropology.
She introduced facial reconstruction and imaging to the anthropology program. The Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services (FACES) Laboratory was officially formed at LSU in 1990, with Manhein as founding director.
Manhein became Deputy Coroner for the East Baton Rouge Parish in 1993. She is certified as an Expert Witness in the Field of Forensic Anthropology, accredited to work in Texas and Louisiana.
Manhein has spent decades visiting police departments, sheriff's offices and coroners throughout the state of Louisiana to gather information about missing people and unidentified remains.
She developed an extensive database with this information, and created datasets for identification of North American White, Black and Hispanic peoples. She has established standards for facial tissue depth in the creation of three-dimensional facial reconstructions.
In 2006, Manhein worked with then State Senator Jay Dardenne and State Representative Daniel R. Martiny to initiate a bill in the Louisiana Legislature which led to the creation of the Louisiana Repository for Unidentified and Missing Persons Information Program. Manhein became the director of the repository. The Louisiana legislature also mandated that all unidentified human bones be sent to LSU for identification. One police investigator has commented that before, "unidentified bone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Olomouc | The Olomouc tramway network () is a standard-gauge tram system located in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Seven lines operate on approximately of track, which makes it the smallest tramway network by length in the Czech Republic. It is operated by Dopravní podnik města Olomouce a.s. (DPMO), a company owned by the city of Olomouc. As of 2022, DPMO had a total of 69 tram vehicles intended for regular passenger transport.
History
Beginning
Olomouc was served by horse buses since 1845. Work began on a standard-gauge electric tram in 1897 and the first line opened to public on 1 April 1899.
Early 20th century
In 1904, the city terminated contracts with private operators and took over tram lines. There were no changes in the scope of the network. Work on all unfinished track was immediately stopped (with the exception of the track to the new cemetery in Neředín, opened on 3 October 1914) due to World War I. After the proclamation of the republic four years later, modernization was required. In 1923, lines received numerical designations. In the 1930s, the line from Neředín to the military airport became the first (and so far the only) tram line to an airport in the whole of Czechoslovakia.
Late 20th century
The track to the military airport was deemed unnecessary and was decommissioned in 1953. With it, a loop was created in Neředín. In 1957, an extension on the line to Pavlovičky was put into operation.
Between 1947 and 1967, a large number of older cars were purchased from Prague. In 1957, the first PCC trams were delivered - ten Tatra T1 cars. In the early 1960s, five Tatra T2 trams also appeared in Olomouc. However, the significant renewal of the fleet began only with the delivery of Tatra T3 vehicles in the second half of the 1960s.
As in other cities at the time, such as Ústí nad Labem or České Budějovice, there were proposals to decommission tram transport and replace it with buses, although this never happened. In 1981, a major reconstruction of the track took place on Nová street.
In the 1990s, new low-floor tram cars were added (Škoda 03T, also known as Astra). On 29 October 1998, a new zoning plan was adopted by the Olomouc City Council which reassured the future of trams as the backbone of the city transport. In 1999, the tram system in Olomouc celebrated its hundredth birthday.
Recent times
From 1 September 2007, line 5 which led from Pavlovičky around the main train station via Tržnice to Neředín was closed.
By the end of August 2007, a six-month reconstruction of Denisova and Pekařská streets in the city center was complete. The tram track bed was soundproofed using a rubber mat base and the track structure was also replaced. The total cost of the reconstruction amounted to CZK 105 million of which over CZK 30 million was spent on tram traction.
In June 2012, the construction of a new 1.4 km long line began, which lead from Šantovka, through Velkomoravská Street to the intersection of Rooseveltova and Trnkova Streets in the Nové Sady |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Stanley | Kenneth Owen Stanley is an artificial intelligence researcher, author, and former professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida known for creating the Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT) algorithm. He coauthored Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective with Joel Lehman which argues for the existence of the "objective paradox", a paradox which states that "soon as you create an objective, you ruin your ability to reach it". While a professor at the University of Central Florida, he was the director of the Evolutionary Complexity Research Group (EPlex) which led the development of Galactic Arms Race. He also developed the HyperNEAT, CPPNs, and novelty search algorithms. He also co-founded Geometric Intelligence, an AI research firm, in 2015.
Early life and education
Kenneth Stanley became interested in computer programming at the age of 8 during a summer camp. He later pursued his interest by taking AP Computer Science at Newton South High School and majoring in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1997. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin under Risto Miikkulainen in 2004 for his work developing the Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT) algorithm.
Work
In 2006, he became an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida and later became a Charles Millican Professor in 2017.
In 2007, he created PicBreeder, a piece of software that uses NEAT to allow users to evolve pictures by randomly generating images and having the user pick which image will produce children. This allows users to shape random blobs into recognizable shapes like animals or cars. Watching the algorithm evolve what appeared to be a pair of alien eyes into an image that looked like a car led Stanley to realize that nearly every interesting image on PicBreeder evolved by way of a different looking image. This led him to develop what he calls the steppingstone principle that, "Instead of hard-coding the rules of reasoning, or having computers learn to score highly on specific performance metrics ... we must let a population of solutions blossom. Make them prioritize novelty or interestingness instead of the ability to walk or talk. They may discover an indirect path, a set of steppingstones, and wind up walking and talking better than if they’d sought those skills directly."
As the director of EPlex, he then served as the faculty advisor and as a software developer for Erin Hastings' Galactic Arms Race. First released in 2010, it is a space shooter that uses cgNEAT technology. cgNEAT or "content generating NEAT" is a variant of NEAT developed by Hastings and Stanley that "automatically generates graphical and game content while the game is played, based on the past preferences of the players".
In 2015, he coauthored Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective with Joel Lehman. Inspired by his work with PicBreeder and other res |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20%28signature%20format%29 | Sigma is a signature format based on pattern matching for system logging, to detect malicious behavior in computer systems.
See also
YARA
Snort
Further reading
References
External links
GitHub repository
sigmatools on PyPi
Computer forensics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Olson%20%28astronomer%29 | Donald W. Olson is an astrophysicist and forensic astronomer at the Texas State University. Nicknamed the "Celestial Sleuth," he is known for studying art and history using astronomical data. He is currently regents professor emeritus at Texas State's Department of Physics.
Education
Olson received a B.S. in physics from Michigan State University. Upon graduating, he was awarded the Thomas H. Osgood Undergraduate Physics Award. He later studied at University of California-Berkeley, where he received his PhD. Olson went on to study at Cornell University and University of Texas at Austin, before taking up a teaching position at Texas State University in 1981.
Career
Olson began his career studying the theory of relativity and creating computer simulations of astronomical phenomena such as the distribution of galaxies or radiation near black holes. He became well known for his work in the field of forensic astronomy, often in collaboration with fellow astrophysicist Russell Doescher. Their work has also studied how astronomy has impacted events such as battles and historical decisions.
In 2004, he and Doescher suggested that the traditionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon was incorrect, taking place on August 12, rather than the traditionally accepted date of September 12. In 2008, he and Doescher published a paper claiming to have found the precise date and location of Julius Caesar's landing in Britain. Olson's team also attempted to recreate the timeline of Mary Shelley's inspiration to write Frankenstein, which the author claimed occurred during a moonlit night but which historians had traditionally dismissed. Based on the team's findings, Shelley likely did experience a moonlit night on June 16, 1816, the date on which she conceived of Frankenstein.
Olson received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011. In 2012, Olson led a team of researchers who studied whether the sinking of the Titanic may have been caused by a lunar event. At the time of the sinking on January 4, 1912, the moon was simultaneously at perigee and in line with the Sun, producing a rare spring tide that may have pushed ice bergs into the path of the ship. This was the closest approach to Earth made by the moon in 1,440 years.
Olson was awarded the 2014 Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award by the American Association of Physics Teachers.
He has authored papers on historically significant astronomical events such as the 1913 Great Meteor Procession. He has also studied the astronomical conditions which inspired unusual paintings and photographs by artists such as Johannes Vermeer, Edvard Munch, Claude Monet, and Ansel Adams, as well as exactly when they would have been created. Other research has studied descriptions of astronomical phenomena in literary works like The Canterbury Tales or Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
He wrote the book Celestial Sleuth, which was published by Springer in 2014. The book explores the historical significance of astro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merri%20Sue%20Carter | Merri Sue Carter (born 1964) is an American astronomer who works at the United States Naval Observatory as director of the World Data Center for the Rotation of the Earth, Washington. She is also the author of books on the history of astronomy with her father, geodesist William E. Carter.
Education and career
Carter was born on November 16, 1964 in Columbus, Ohio, where her father, William E. Carter, was studying geodesy at Ohio State University. He became a research geodesist for the United States Air Force, the University of Hawaii, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the family moved frequently as Carter was growing up.
She graduated from University of Maryland, College Park in 1986, and earned a master's degree in 1999 through University of Maryland University College. She has been an astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory since 1996. There, she directs the World Data Center for the Rotation of the Earth, Washington, which coordinates data for the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service.
Books
With her father, Carter is the author of:
Latitude: How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of Variation (Naval Institute Press, 2002), on the Chandler wobble
Simon Newcomb: America's Unofficial Astronomer Royal (Mantanzas Publishing, 2006), a biography of Simon Newcomb
References
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Scientists from Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Bratislava | Bratislava tram network () serves Bratislava (the capital city of Slovakia). It is operated by Dopravný podnik Bratislava, a. s and the system is known as Mestská hromadná doprava (MHD, municipal mass transit).
Trams in the city have been electrically powered since the system was opened in 1895; there were never any horse-driven or steam-powered trams in Bratislava. It is the one of two urban tram systems in Slovakia with the other system located in Košice. Conversions to standard-gauge railway have been proposed in the past, but the network uses narrow-gauge track also known as metre-gauge. Rolling stock consists of 211 tram vehicles and trams operate on five lines over approximately of track.
History
Beginnings
Permission was granted by Hungarian Royal Ministry of Trade on 2 June 1893 for Bratislava to open its first tram line. First line was inaugurated on 27 August 1895, and took the route from today's SNP Bridge to the end of today's Štefánikova street. There were 9 vehicles in operation that were powered by a current of 550 V. Construction of new sections continued, and in September 1895, a continuation of the line was opened to the main station, the complete line was more than 3km long. Several other lines were opened in January of the following year. Horse bus (Omnibus) services were retired as a result.
Second World War
After the outbreak of the war, transport demands were sharply increased which had an effect on tram services. Night services had to be cancelled after 10 pm. In 1941, construction of the tunnel under Bratislava Castle, which is now used by trams, began. The tunnel construction took 8 years and the tunnel was put into operation in 1949. During the Second World War, it served as an anti-aircraft cover and was later used by car transport and pedestrians. Since 1983, it has been designed exclusively for trams.
In 1942, classic pantographs were installed on the network. Two more years later, the number designation of tram lines and other modes of transport was introduced. Just before and during the Red Army's occupation of the city in 1945, all public transport, including the railroad, was halted in the city. After the liberation, 90% of the network was damaged, and extensive repairs began to correct this.
Socialist era
In 1950s, first 6MT trams appeared. The track from Karlova Ves was doubled and the last monorail section disappeared. Since 1952, the number of lines has increased to five.
Post-communism
Tram lines of a fast-lane character (Rača, 1988) were opened on the just-completed housing estates. In the same year, the operation of Tatra T2 trams was terminated and the construction of the metro started but it was stopped a year later.
Plans were proposed to swap Bratislava's tram tracks into a standard-gauge track. At the time in the former Czechoslovakia, only networks in Bratislava and in Liberec featured this track gauge. The 1990s marked the modernisation of the rolling stock (K2S, T3G, T3Mod, etc.) and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Ko%C5%A1ice | Košice tram network () serves the city of Košice in eastern Slovakia since its opening in 1895. It is operated by Dopravný podnik mesta Košice, a. s.
The network uses a standard metre gauge. The system launched with horse trams in 1891 and trams in the city have been electrically powered since 1913. Rolling stock consists of 111 tram vehicles and trams operate on sixteen lines over approximately of track. Eight of these lines operate in the city of Košice with the other eight rapid tram lines serving Košice city center and the U.S. Steel plant in Košice located approximately away from city centre.
History
Early years
On 14 November 1891, the first section of the horse railway was put into operation from the railway station through the Main Street to the Economic School (now Poliklinika Sever). Between 1895 and 1913, seven new steam locomotives were put into operation. The dual operation of horse and steam traction proved to be unreliable by that time. The network was electrified in 1913.
In 1964, the fast line to the Eastern Slovak IronWorks (now U. S. Steel Košice) was put into operation with a length of 13 km. Since 1979 until newer rolling stock entered the network, three-car T3 sets have been operated on the high-speed line which was unique to the territory of Czechoslovakia. Each train set thus was almost 45 meters long.
Post-communism
After the 1989 revolution, the transport company was transferred from the state to the city, which resulted in organizational changes of transport and the extension of tram line intervals. Three of the nine inner-city lines were cancelled (lines 1, 5 and 8). No new lines were launched since 1990, and only the most necessary investments were made. After 1989, KT8D5 and T6A5 trams were delivered to Košice. Because they reduced traffic performance, the 40 KT8 vehicles supplied proved redundant and since 1992 some of them have been sold to Miskolc (10 units), Strausberg (3 units) and Sarajevo (4 units).
On T6A5 trams, automatic coupling heads have been replaced with classic Prague type coupling heads (identical to the type on T3 vehicles). Between 2003 and 2009, eight KT8D5 trams were retrofitted with a medium low-floor and several T3 trams have also been upgraded with electronic panels, new interiors and fresh coating.
In April 2011, the first units of low-floor Vario LF trams were delivered to Košice.
Recent times
In 2014, Košice received investment from the EU Cohesion Fund for modernization of its network. Between 2014 and 2018, 46 brand new partially low-floor Vario LF2+ trams were delivered to Košice. Repairs and modernizations of tracks were done in phases; phase 1 between 2014 and 2015, phase 2 in 2015 with phase 3 repairs undertaken between 2016 and 2018.
Due to reconstruction of the Bardejovská tram depot, 27 trams were moved to railway sidings at U.S. Steel for longterm storage in March 2022.
Routes
Regular services
Eight regular services feature on the Košice tram network.
Regular |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20%28disambiguation%29 | XML or the Extensible Markup Language is a document formatting language.
XML may also refer to:
Explainable machine learning (XML), a type of artificial intelligence
Malaysian Sign Language ISO 639 language code xml
Minlaton Airport IATA airport code XML, serving Minlaton, South Australia, see List of airports in Australia
See also
XMI (disambiguation)
XM1 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Zl%C3%ADn%20and%20Otrokovice | Trolleybuses in Zlín and Otrokovice () refers to a network of trolleybuses in the neighbouring Moravian towns of Zlín and Otrokovice and it is operated by the Zlín-Otrokovice Transport Company. Trolleybuses have been operating here since 1944, which makes Zlín the oldest trolleybus network in Moravia and the second oldest trolleybus transport network in the Czech Republic after Plzeň. It also makes it the fourth largest by size after Ostrava, Pardubice and České Budějovice.
References
Zlín
Zlín
Zlín |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%20models | A foundation model (also called base model) is a large machine learning (ML) model trained on a vast quantity of data at scale (often by self-supervised learning or semi-supervised learning) such that it can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks. Foundation models have helped bring about a major transformation in how artificial intelligence (AI) systems are built, such as by powering prominent chatbots and other user-facing AI. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence's (HAI) Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) popularized the term.
Early examples of foundation models were pre-trained language models (LMs) including Google's BERT and various early GPT foundation models, which notably includes OpenAI's "GPT-n" series. Such broad models can in turn be used for task and/or domain specific models using targeted datasets of various kinds, such as medical codes.
Beyond text, several visual and multimodal foundation models have been producedincluding DALL-E, Flamingo, Florence and NOOR. Visual foundation models (VFMs) have been combined with text-based LLMs to develop sophisticated task-specific models. There is also Segment Anything by Meta AI for general image segmentation. For reinforcement learning agents, there is Gato by Google DeepMind.
Definitions
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence's (HAI) Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) coined the term "foundation model" in August 2021, tentatively referring to "any model that is trained on broad data (generally using self-supervision at scale) that can be adapted (e.g., fine-tuned) to a wide range of downstream tasks". This was based on their observation that existing overlapping terms were not adequate, submitting that "'(large) language model' was too narrow given [the] focus is not only language; 'self-supervised model' was too specific to the training objective; and 'pretrained model' suggested that the noteworthy action all happened after 'pretraining." After considering many terms, they settled on "foundation model" to emphasize the intended function (i.e., amenability to subsequent further development) rather than modality, architecture, or implementation.
They also note that the concept is not truly new, as it is based on deep neural networks and self-supervised learning, but asserted that the scale at which the area has developed in recent years, and the increasing potential for any given model to be used for different purposes, warranted a new term.
A foundation model is a "paradigm for building AI systems" in which a model trained on a large amount of unlabeled data can be adapted to many applications. Foundation models are "designed to be adapted (e.g., finetuned) to various downstream cognitive tasks by pre-training on broad data at scale".
Key characteristics of foundation models are emergence and homogenization. Because training data is not labelled by humans, the model emerges rather than being |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keedam | Keedam () is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language thriller film directed by Rahul Riji Nair and starring Rajisha Vijayan and Sreenivasan. The film was released in theatres on 20 May 2022.
Plot
Cybersecurity expert Radhika Balan's life turns chaotic when she falls prey to a cyberstalking incident. She decides to take things into her hands and settle the score with the criminals.
Cast
Rajisha Vijayan as Radhika Balan
Sreenivasan as Balan
Vijay Babu as CI Charles
Manikandan Pattambi as Kuttettan
Renjit Shekar Nair as Thurumbu Aji
Anand Manmadhan as Zam
Mahesh Nair as Kili Biju
Rahul Riji Nair as Vijay
Arjun Ranjan as Muthu
Production
The film's director, Rahul Riji Nair, previously directed the Sports Drama Kho-Kho starring Rajisha Vijayan. In this film, Rajisha Vijayan plays a cyber security expert.
Music
The music rights of the film is owned by Saregama.
The music of the film is composed by Sidhartha Pradeep. Lyrics are written by Vinayak Sasikumar, Neeraj Kumar and Mridul.
Marketing
Online Designs Are Done By Adhin Ollur.
Release
Theatrical
The film was released in theatres on 20 May 2022.
Home media
The film was digitally streamed on ZEE5 from 1 July 2022.
Reception
Critical reception
S. R. Praveen of The Hindu opined that "Setting aside the ethical part, the movie can be viewed positively as one woman’s valiant fightback, using her own tools, against a group of thugs who intrude into her personal space". A critic from Manorama Online wrote that "Nevertheless, Keedam is a mirror on the invasion of privacy and the concerns arising from that portrayed through the prism of cybersecurity, though we wish it could pan a wider canvas". Anna M.M. Vetticad of Firstpost said that "Keedam is, wisely, not prescriptive on the question of technology-driven vigilante justice, but it avoids addressing the complexities involved in the use of surveillance techniques including their misuse by the powers that be". Cris of The News Minute stated that "Even though all the elements are there – a good cast, convincing villains, a setting that fits – the filmmaking falls inadequate".
References
2020s Malayalam-language films
Indian thriller films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return%20to%20Paradise%20%28TV%20series%29 | Return to Paradise is a 2022 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Don Michael Perez, it stars Derrick Monasterio and Elle Villanueva. It premiered on August 1, 2022 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Raising Mamay. The series concluded on November 4, 2022 with a total of 70 episodes. It was replaced by Unica Hija in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Derrick Monasterio as Red Ramos
Elle Villanueva as Eden "Yenyen" Sta. Maria
Supporting cast
Eula Valdez as Amanda Sta. Maria / Mrs. Madrigal
Teresa Loyzaga as Rina Lucero-Ramos
Allen Dizon as Lucho Madrigal
Ricardo Cepeda as Victor Ramos
Karel Marquez as Dindi Sta. Maria
Liezel Lopez as Sabina
Kiray Celis as Raichu
Paolo Paraiso as Zandro Lucero
Mia Pangyarihan as Coach Vinluan
Episodes
References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleta%20Fenceroy | Aleta Jean Ballard Fenceroy (December 27, 1948 – September 23, 2006) was an American musician, computer programmer, and activist. A church organist by profession, she was also co-publisher of Fenceberry, an early internet newsletter of LGBT information.
Early life
Aleta Jean Ballard was born in Princeton, Illinois, the daughter of M. Stanley Ballard and Letha Sidebottom Ballard. Her father was a Methodist clergyman and a World War II veteran. She graduated from Riceville High School in 1964. She studied music at Morningside College, and earned an MFA in organ performance from the University of Minnesota. In 1998 she earned an associate's degree in computer programming from Western Iowa Tech Community College.
Career
Fenceroy worked at the Iowa Department of Corrections, and was an application developer at First Data Resources in Omaha, Nebraska. She was also a church organist for 30 years in Iowa City, Iowa. She sang with, and was accompanist for, the River City Mixed Chorus in Omaha. She was also musical director of shows at the Lamb Productions Dinner Theatre in Sioux City, and composed music for children's shows at Lamb Productions' Hot Dog Theater.
In 1990s, Fenceroy and her partner, Jean Mayberry, were described as "the most visible homosexual people in Sioux City". Fenceroy served on the Sioux City School District's educational equity committee. She and Mayberry started a newsletter of LGBT information. It was originally a printed newsletter, assembled and distributed locally from their home in Iowa City, but in 1993, they started a daily email-based version, called Fenceberry based on their surnames. From 1993 to 2004, their subscriber base grew to more than a thousand readers. "It didn't start out as service for other people," Mayberry explained. "We wanted the information ourselves." In 1999 they were named as "an indispensable part of gay politics" in The Advocate's "Our Best and Brightest Activists" feature. They were never paid for the project, and decided to retire the service in 2004, to turn their attention to other projects, including the John Kerry presidential campaign.
Personal life
Aleta Ballard and James Fenceroy married in the 1960s; they had two children, Michelle and Jeremy. She and the children lived in Norway for four years in the 1970s. She and Mayberry were among the 2000 couples unofficially married by Troy Perry at a mass ceremony on the steps of the Internal Revenue Service Building during the March on Washington in 1993. She died in 2006, at the age of 57, from cancer.
References
External links
A 1998 photo of Jean Mayberry and Aleta Fenceroy, on Flickr
A 1996 photo of Jean Mayberry and Aleta Fenceroy, with Alan Light and Kevin Blaesing, on Flickr
1948 births
2006 deaths
American activists
Morningside University alumni
University of Minnesota alumni
American organists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXNV-LD | KXNV-LD (channel 27) is a low-power television station licensed to Incline Village, Nevada, United States, serving the Reno area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned by Gray Television alongside ABC affiliate KOLO-TV (channel 8). The two stations share studios on Ampere Drive in Reno; KXNV-LD's transmitter is located on Slide Mountain between SR 431 and I-580/US 395/ALT in unincorporated Washoe County.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
XNV-LD
XNV-LD
Telemundo network affiliates
ABC network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 2021
2021 establishments in Nevada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20%28computer%29 | The Albert is an Apple II clone, released by Albert Computers, Inc., in 1983. Comparable to the Apple IIe, six models were ultimately produced.
Description
Albert Computers, Inc. offered a "complete system" for approximately the price of a basic Apple IIe. This included 64k of RAM (192k max), upper and lower case, 256 colors (as opposed to the Apple IIe’s 16 colors), enhanced graphics, Analog RGB support, serial and parallel ports, a graphics digitizer tablet, voice recognition, a software package (including word processor, spreadsheet, data manager, mailing list, word speller), 110/220v AC/DC power, and even an integrated battery backup (option).
The Albert had an unusual "two-piece design" which the company termed "stereo" styling.
History
Albert Computers, Inc. was based in Thousand Oaks, California, and modeled its line of Apple clones on the Apple IIe, aiming at home and business consumers.
The company, which insisted that the Albert was not an Apple clone but rather an improvement, saying, "It’s a next-generation computer with more than a dozen advanced hardware features and software capabilities."
The base model of the Albert was $1,595 while the Apple IIe base price was $1,395 and over $3,000 with the options that came standard with the Albert.
The Albert had marketing which featured an image of Albert Einstein and copy which read: "When you're ready to buy a personal computer, it's easy to see why Albert is smarter than Apple." However, Albert Computers, Inc. quickly ran afoul of Apple Computer, Inc., which sued for copyright infringement.
Models
Specifications
Video display
Display modes
40-column text, 5x7 dot matrix
80-column text, 5x7 dot matrix, monitor (optional with 128 KB RAM expansion)
Low-resolution color graphics
High-resolution color graphics
RGB and composite monitor outputs
Text capacity
24 lines by 40 columns
24 lines by 80 columns (optional with 128 KB RAM expansion)
Character set
96 printable ASCII characters, upper- and lowercase
Character formatting
Normal
Inverse
Flashing
Low-resolution graphics
6 on-screen colors (from 256 selectable colors)
48 H × 48 V resolution
48 H × 40 V with 4 lines of text
High-resolution graphics
6 on-screen colors (from 256 selectable colors)
Color-selectable text and background
280 × 192 px resolution (6 colors)
140 × 192 px resolution (16 colors)
Processing
CPU
1 MHz 6502A 8-bit microprocessor with 16-bit address bus
Registers
Accumulator (A)
Index registers (X, Y)
Stack pointers (P)
Register size
8-bits
Data bus
8-bits
Address bus
16-bits
Address range
65,536 (64K)
Memory
Standard memory
64 KB of dynamic RAM
Expandable on motherboard to 192 KB
Programmable storage
64 KB RAM
Read-only memory
2 on-board ROM sockets
I/O
Detached typewriter-style keyboard
Microphone input
8-ohm speaker
Output speaker jack
Amplifier with volume control
Video display output (composite color or programmable RGB)
RS-232 serial port |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annick%20Mahnert | Annick Mahnert (born 1975, Geneva) is a film festival curator and film producer. She is the director of programming at Fantastic Fest and Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival and was named executive director of the Canadian genre industry platform Frontières.
Early life and education
Mahnert studied film production at the New York Film Academy and worked as a production assistant at Roger Corman's Concorde-New Horizons.
Career
Mahnert returned to her native Switzerland, where she worked in distribution and programming at 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Pathé Cinémas, and Frenetic Films. She worked at Maximage Filmproduktion as a production assistant.
In 2012, she moved to Paris to join Celluloid Dreams, handling sales and acquisitions. Since 2013, she is working as a freelance producer, acquisitions consultant, and festival programmer and was hired in November 2013 as Foreign Representative for the Market & Festivals department at Swiss Films, the promotion agency for Swiss filmmaking.
Mahnert is a programmer at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, and head of programming at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas.
In April 2020, Mahnert became the executive director at the Frontières Co-Production Market, an industry initiative for genre film professionals.
She is a consultant for the Austrian Film Institute, the Zurich Film Foundation, the Cineforom in Geneva, and co-founded the European Genre Forum.
As a film producer, she worked on Mattie Do's The Long Walk (2019), Alexandre O. Philippe's documentaries 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene (2017) and Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019), and other productions.
In 2022, she was selected as jury member in the "Filmmakers of the Present" competition category at 75th Locarno Film Festival.
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
Swiss women curators
Swiss women film producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBS%20Sport | NBS Sport is a Ugandan sports television network based in Kampala, Uganda.
Location
Its headquarter is located at Next Media Park, Plot 13, summit view Road, Kampala, Uganda.
Overview
The channel was launched on 8 June 2022 and it started broadcasting on that same day.
The station is known for its focus on sports 24/7, with covering live sports events in Uganda like the national Basketball League, Pool Table competitions, Uganda Boxing Champions League among others.
References
Television stations in Uganda
English-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert%20Mara | Hubert Mara is an Austrian Computer Scientist who specializes in Archaeoinformatics and the application of methods from computer science to the humanities, and thus a combination of these fields.
Education and career
Hubert Mara graduated (matura) in electrical engineering from the HTBLuVA in Wiener Neustadt and studied computer science at the TU Wien, graduating in 2006. Already during his studies he participated in excavations in Israel and Peru, where he learned to combine methods of computer science and humanities. Early on, he participated in the development of new methods here, such as for 3D recording of ancient pottery for the Austrian Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. After graduation, he received a Marie Curie Fellowship, with the help of which he went to the University of Florence, where he joined the Cultural Heritage Informatics Research Oriented Network (CHIRON) was involved in the development of the London Charter for the Computational Visualization of Cultural Heritage.
In 2009, Mara moved to the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) at the Universität Heidelberg. In Heidelberg, his interdisciplinary doctorate was awarded in 2012, with Willi Jäger and Hans Georg Bock as reviewers. As part of the dissertation, he developed the GigaMesh Software Framework. This was a free and open source modular software for displaying, editing and visualizing 3D data. In practice, it is used to make things visible again that can no longer be captured with the normal human eye. Thus, it was now possible to make the writing on weathered gravestones legible again, to make fingerprints on archaeological ceramics visible, or to make damaged cuneiform texts legible again. He received his doctorate in 2012, after which Mara founded the Forensic Computational Geometry Laboratory (FCGL or FCGLab), also at Heidelberg University. He leads the FCGLab, which was funded as a junior research group by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under the 2nd German Universities Excellence Initiative from 2014 to 2020. The group was dedicated to further projects on 3D computer vision, but also machine learning for archaeological finds. In 2014, he was offered a professorship at the University of Cologne, which he declined. In Heidelberg, he had the doctoral right between 2014 and 2020, and was able to supervise three PhD students in the process. In 2020, they were awarded the European Heritage Award of the Europa Nostra in the field of research for their collaboration on the project Scanning for Syria. As of June 2020, Mara moved to the Mainz Centre for Digitality in the Humanities and Cultural Studies (mainzed) as executive director. Since 1. November 2021, Mara is a tenure-track-junior professor of eHumanities at the Institute of Computer Science at University of Halle. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the it - Information Technology journal series at De Gruyter, which is one of the oldest publication media of computer science in Germany.
Research topics
Mara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate%20Sports%20Quiz | The Ultimate Sports Quiz (USQ) is a national level inter-school sports quiz competition that is broadcast on Sony Sports Network in India.
Background
Super Six Sports Gaming Private Limited (SSSG) is a sports tech start-up launched in the second half of 2019. The Ultimate Sports Quiz 2022 is presented by Harsha Bhogle.
It is a 13-episode televised series.
Concept
Traditionally, sports quizzing in India generates a lot of interest among student community as they follow sports from around the world. A sports quiz aired on India’s leading sports broadcaster back in the 2000s is still remembered and has a cult following even today. Encouraged by its impact and success, a national level sports quiz called the Ultimate Sports Quiz was conceptualized with the intent of bringing back the romance and nostalgia of the once popular cult quiz show.
Quiz details
The inaugural season of the Ultimate Sports Quiz featured 27 teams from 22 cities (65% non-metros) across the county. This competition is also an endeavor to support grass root level sports development as the top three teams that reach the national finals will be awarded a total prize pool of INR 1 Crore approx. for developing sports infrastructure in their respective schools. Students representing the three finalist teams will win a trip to a sporting destination of their choice anywhere in the world.
The schools are spread across the country, competing to be crowned the national champion of the inaugural season of the series.
Each school team was composed of two students nominated by the school to represent them in the competition. Students from class 6 to 10 are eligible to take part in the quiz.
2022 Quiz structure
Each quiz features three teams of two members each. There are 9 preliminary rounds.
Nine winners from preliminary stage qualify for the semi-final stage of the contest. There are 3 semi-finals and each winning team from these will compete in the National Finals.
Ultimate Sports Quiz content and format
USQ features questions on popular sports around the world. It also has a fair amount of questions on Indian sports and sportspersons as well. The format of the quiz is modelled on the Olympic motto of – Citius, Altius, Fortius. The three rounds are designed to test speed and accuracy, depth of knowledge and ability to perform under pressure. The quiz encourages participation, sportsman spirit and is conducted in a fun environment.
References
Quiz shows
Competitions in India
Sport in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Daniel | Jean-Daniel may refer to:
Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro (born 1992), professional footballer
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat (born 1953), French computer scientist, director of research at INRIA
Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944–2008), French photographer, director and producer of gay pornographic films
Jean-Daniel Colladon (1802–1893), Swiss physicist
Jean-Daniel Dätwyler (born 1945), Swiss former alpine skier and Olympic medalist
Jean-Daniel Dumas (1721–1794), French officer in the Seven Years' War
Jean-Daniel Fekete, French computer scientist
Jean-Daniel Flaysakier (1951–2021), French doctor and journalist
Jean-Daniel Gerber (born 1946), Swiss economist and diplomat
Jean-Daniel Gross (born 1966), Swiss football manager and former player
Jean-Daniel Lafond CC RCA (born 1944), French-born Canadian filmmaker, teacher of philosophy, Viceregal Consort of Canada
Jean-Daniel Masserey (born 1972), Swiss ski mountaineer
Jean-Daniel Nicoud (born 1938), Swiss computer scientist, inventor of the CALM programming language
Jean-Daniel Ndong Nzé (born 1970), Gabonese footballer
Jean-Daniel Padovani (born 1980), French former footballer
Jean-Daniel Pollet (1936–2004), French film director and screenwriter
Jean-Daniel Raulet (born 1946), French former racing driver
Jean-Daniel Simon (1942–2021), French film director, screenwriter and actor
See also
Daniel Jean, National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada
Jean Daniel (1920–2020), French journalist and author
Jean-Marc Daniel
Jean Daniélou
John A. Daniel
John Daniel (disambiguation)
John Daniell (disambiguation)
John W. Daniel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emina%20Torlak | Emina Torlak is an American computer scientist and software engineer whose research concerns software verification, program synthesis, and the integration of these techniques into domain-specific languages. She is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Washington, and a senior principal scientist for Amazon Web Services.
Education and career
Torlak was educated in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a bachelor's degree in 2003, a master's degree in 2004, and completing her Ph.D. in 2009. Her dissertation, A constraint solver for software engineering: finding models and cores of large relational specifications, was supervised by Daniel Jackson.
She worked as a researcher for IBM Research, LogicBlox, and the University of California, Berkeley from 2008 to 2014, before becoming an assistant professor at the University of Washington in 2014. She was promoted to associate professor in 2018, and added an affiliation with Amazon Web Services in 2021.
Recognition
Torlak was 2016 winner of the Junior Dahl–Nygaard Prize, "for her work on developing tools and methodologies to help build better software more easily". She was the 2021 winner of the ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award, recognizing her as "a leader in the area of automated verification".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Washington faculty
Dahl–Nygaard Prize |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Vaar%20%E2%80%93%20Har%20Screen%20Crime%20Scene | Cyber Vaar – Har Screen Crime Scene is and Indian crime thriller web series directed by Ankush Bhatt. Produced by Tanveer Bookwala under the banner of Ding Entertainment. It features Mohit Malik and Sanaya Irani. The series released 10 June 2022 on streaming platform Voot and has 20 episodes. It ended on 19 August 2022.
Cast
Main
Mohit Malik as ACP Akash Malik
Sanaya Irani as Ananya Saini
Recurring
Keshav Uppal as Tech Bro K
Neha Khan as Asha
Amitabh Ghanekar as Hau Sahib
Indraneel Bhattacharya as Mr. Roy
Abhinav Shukla as Vikram; Akash 's Childhood Friend
Yuvika Chaudhary as Gauri;Ananya's Sister
Ujjwal Gauraha as Pravin
Naveen Saini
Aashish Kaul
Gavie Chahal
Flora Saini
Reception
Archika Khurana from The Times Of India rated the series 2.5 out of 5 and overall praised the lead actors Mohit Malik and Sanaya Irani of the series.
Neha Farheen from Aaj Tak shared her critical review stating that the story of the web series is average.
References
External links
Cyber Vaar on Voot
2022 Indian television series debuts
Hindi-language web series
Psychological thriller web series
Indian drama web series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IF-16 | iF-16 is a 1997 video game developed by Digital Integration and published by Interactive Magic.
Reception
Computer Gaming World gave the game a score of 2.5 out of 5 stating "iF-16 is essentially a marriage of the most often simulated combat aircraft in history with a slightly tweaked version of the APACHE/HIND engine. It brings almost nothing new to the table"
See also
iF-22
iF/A-18E Carrier Strike Fighter
References
1997 video games
Combat flight simulators
Digital Integration games
IEntertainment Network games
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine%20Rich | Elaine Alice Rich is an American computer scientist, known for her textbooks on artificial intelligence and automata theory and for her research on user modeling. She is retired as a distinguished senior lecturer from the University of Texas at Austin.
Education and career
Rich is the daughter of applied mathematician Robert Peter Rich. She majored in linguistics and applied mathematics at Brown University, graduating magna cum laude in 1972. She completed her Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in 1979. Her doctoral dissertation, Building and Exploiting User Models, was supervised by George G. Robertson.
She joined the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in 1979, but in 1985 moved to the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) as a researcher in the Human Interface Laboratory and Knowledge-Based Natural Language Project. At MCC she became director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1988. She left MCC in 1993. In 1998 she returned to the University of Texas as an adjunct associate professor, and in 2000 became a senior lecturer.
Books
Rich is the author of:
Artificial Intelligence (McGraw-Hill, 1983; 2nd ed., with K. Knight, 1991; 3rd. ed, with K. Knight and S. B. Nair, 2009)
Automata, Computability, and Complexity: Theory and Applications (Prentice-Hall, 2008)
Recognition
Rich was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1991.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Brown University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertzbleed | Hertzbleed is a hardware security attack which describes exploiting dynamic frequency scaling to reveal secret data. The attack is a kind of timing attack, bearing similarity to previous power analysis vulnerabilities. Hertzbleed is more dangerous than power analysis, as it can be exploited by a remote attacker. Disclosure of cryptographic keys is the main concern regarding the exploit.
The exploit has been verified to work against Intel and AMD processors, Intel's security advisory stating that all Intel processors are affected. Other processors using frequency scaling exist, but the attack has not been tested on them.
Neither Intel nor AMD are planning to release microcode patches, instead advising to harden cryptography libraries against the vulnerability.
Mechanism
Normal timing attacks are mitigated by using constant-time programming, which ensures that each instruction takes equally long, regardless of the input data. Hertzbleed combines a timing attack with a power analysis attack. A power analysis attack measures the power consumption of the CPU to deduce the data being processed. This, however, requires an attacker to be able to measure the power consumption.
Hertzbleed exploits execution time differences caused by dynamic frequency scaling, a CPU feature which changes the processor's frequency to maintain power consumption and temperature constraints. As the processor's frequency depends on the power consumption, which in turn depends on the data, a remote attacker can deduce the data being processed from execution time. Hertzbleed thus effectively bypasses constant-time programming, which does not take into account changes in processor frequency.
See also
References
2022 in computing
Hardware bugs
Computer security exploits
X86 architecture
Side-channel attacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy%20Aces%20%28TV%20series%29 | Easy Aces is an American comedy television program that was broadcast on the DuMont network from December 14, 1949, until June 14, 1950. It was also syndicated during its time on the network.
Easy Aces was an adaptation of the radio program of the same name, but media critic John Crosby commented, "The show doesn't resemble the Easy Aces of radio very closely". The husband and wife team of Goodman Ace and Jane Ace starred. His "witty, intelligent" persona contrasted with her character's "charming bundle of malapropisms." They portrayed a married couple who lived in the suburbs. Betty Garde portrayed Jane's mother. Episodes were staged in a set that represented the Aces' home, with each episode beginning with the couple watching television. A camera provided viewers with a closeup of the TV set's picture, and the action on the TV set formed the basis for the Aces' comments during the episode. The concept was described as a "television show within a television show".
Originating at WABD-TV, the filmed program was broadcast on Wednesday nights from 7:45 to 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Its competition was a news broadcast on NBC and The Earl Wrightson Show on CBS. Ziv Television Programs produced the show. Jeanne Harrison was the director. Goodman Ace, George Foster, and Mort Green were the writers. The Phillips Food Company sponsored the program in the 15 markets reached by DuMont.
References
1949 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
1940s American television series
1950s American crime television series
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
Television series by Ziv Television Programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita%20Aciro | Rita Aciro is a Ugandan human rights defender and Executive Director for Uganda Women's Network (UWONET). She was the recipient of the 2021 European Union Human Rights Defenders Award.
Background and education
Aciro started her school life at Reparatrix Boarding school in Bugonge Entebbe, she thereafter joined Kololo secondary school for her secondary school education.
She entered Uganda women's network (UWONET) as an intern in 1997.
Career
Aciro has worked with communities and governments in East Africa on issues concerning girls and women leadership, women land rights, combating gender based violence, women peace building, civic and voter education plus election observation.
She has over 20 years of experience being at the forefront of advocacy and campaigning on the rights of women and girls.
In 2021 the European Union Human Rights Defenders Award, awarded annually to a Ugandan human rights defender, recognized her contribution to the rights of women and girls in Uganda and promotion of human rights and democratic values.
References
Living people
Ugandan human rights activists
Date of birth missing (living people)
Ugandan women activists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASPNET | Legal Aid service Providers Network (LASPNET) is a non governmental organization based in Uganda.
It is an umbrella organization for several legal Aid clinics in Uganda.
History
LASPNET started in 2001as a coalition to encourage the private sector players to get involved in issues directly affecting the poor and their access to justice in Uganda.
It was registered in 2004 as a company with the aim of promoting access to justice for the vulnerable and marginalized.
Membership
LASPNET is an organization that coordinates other organizations that provide free legal Aid in Uganda.
It has a membership of over 40 nongovernmental organizations including, Uganda Association of Women Lawyers (FIDA-U), Law Development Center's Legal aid clinic (LAC), Makerere University's Public interest law clinic (PILAC), Legal Aid project of Uganda Law society among others.
LASPNET also directly tackles issues of gender based violence, human rights and governance in Uganda.
Location
LASPNET is located on Plot 10, Block 75 off Balintuma Road, Mengo Kampala Uganda.
References
Non-governmental organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextflow | Nextflow is a scientific workflow system predominantly used for bioinformatic data analyses. It imposes standards on how to programmatically author a sequence of dependent compute steps and enables their execution on various local and cloud resources. Nextflow was conceived at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain, but has since found world-wide adoption in biomedical and genomics research facilities and laboratories.
Purpose
Many scientific data analyses require a significant amount of sequential processing steps. Custom scripts may suffice when developing new methods or infrequently running a particular analysis, but scale poorly to complex task successions or many samples.
Scientific workflow systems like Nextflow allow formalizing an analysis as a data analysis pipeline. Pipelines, also known as workflows, are instructions that specify order and conditions of computing steps to be performed. They are carried out by special purpose programs, so-called workflow executors, which ensure predictable and reproducible behavior in various compute environments.
Workflow systems also provide built-in solutions to common challenges of workflow development, such as the application to multiple samples, the validation of input and intermediate results, conditional execution of steps, error handling, and report generation. Advanced features of workflow systems may also include scheduling capabilities, graphical user interfaces for monitoring workflow executions, and the management of dependencies by containerizing the whole workflow or its components.
Typically, scientific workflow systems initially present a steep learning challenge as all their features and complexities are added on top of and in addition to the actual analysis. However, the standards and abstraction imposed by workflow systems ultimately improve the traceability of analysis steps, which is particularly relevant when collaborating on pipeline development, as is customary in scientific settings.
Characteristics
Specification of workflows
In Nextflow, pipelines are constructed from individual processes that correspond to computational tasks. Each process is set up with input requirements and output declarations. Rather than running in a fixed succession, the execution of a process commences when all its input requirements are met. By specifying the output of one process as the input of another step, a logical and sequential connection between processes is created.
This reactive implementation of processes is a characteristic design pattern of Nextflow and also known as functional dataflow model. It allows for the efficient parallelization of independent compute steps.
Processes and whole workflows are programmed in a domain-specific language (DSL) that is provided by Nextflow and based on Apache Groovy. While Nextflow's DSL is used to declare the workflow logic, developers can use their scripting language of choice within a process and mix multiple languages in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberSplash%20Entertainment | CyberSplash Entertainment is an American-French production company that operates as a joint-venture between Cyber Group Studios and Splash Entertainment.
References
American animation studios
French animation studios
Mass media companies established in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Brazier | Frances Mary Theresa Brazier (born 1957) is a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the founders of NLnet, the first Internet service provider in the Netherlands and one of the first in Europe. She is a professor in Engineering Systems Foundations at the Delft University of Technology, where her research concerns multi-agent systems and participatory systems design.
Education and career
Brazier was born in Toronto, and moved to the Netherlands as a teenager. She studied mathematics, computer science, and cognitive psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, earning a master's degree in 1983, and completing a doctorate in 1991. Her dissertation was Design and evaluation of a user interface for information retrieval, promoted by Reinder van de Riet and Sipke Fokkema.
She became an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 1991, an associate professor in 1998, and professor in the chair of intelligent interactive distributed systems in 2000. She moved to Delft University of Technology in 2009 where she holds the chair of systems engineering foundations.
References
External links
Vrouwen in de Wetenschap: Frances Brazier, ATRIA, 15 March 2021
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Dutch women computer scientists
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni
Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olearia%20obcordata | Olearia obcordata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a shrub that typically grows to a height of less than . It usually has wedge-shaped leaves arranged alternately along the branchlets, the narrower end towards the base, with three or five teeth on the ends. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils and are few in number with up to six ray florets.
It was first formally described in 1847 by Joseph Dalton Hooker who gave it the name Eurybia obcordata in the London Journal of Botany from specimens collected by Ronald Campbell Gunn. In 1867, George Bentham changed the name to Olearia obcordata in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (obcordata) means "inverted heart-shaped".
Olearia obcordata grows in drier mountain areas of Tasmania.
References
obcordata
Flora of Tasmania
Plants described in 1847
Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussington | Mussington is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Ian Mussington (born 1967), American musician
Louis Mussington, French politician
David Mussington, American Cybersecurity expert
See also
Thrussington |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47th%20Daytime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 47th Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), honoring the best in U.S. daytime television programming in 2019. The winners for the creative arts categories were announced on June 26, 2020 via the Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts of the Daytime Emmys after the broadcast of the main ceremony. The winners for the digital drama categories were announced on July 19, 2020. The winners for the Children's, Lifestyle and Animation Awards were announced on July 26, 2020, in a live-stream on the Emmys platform, hosted by American comedian Loni Love.
The nominations for both the creative arts and the children's, lifestyle and animation categories were announced alongside the main ceremony categories on May 21, 2020.
Alan Menken became the 16th person to become an EGOT winner.
Winners and nominees
The winners are listed first, in boldface.
Programming
Performance and Hosting
Animation
Art Direction
Casting
Cinematography
Costume Design
Directing
Editing
Hairstyling
Lighting Direction
Main Title Design
Makeup
Music
Technical Direction
Sound
Special Effects
Writing
Notes
References
External links
Daytime Emmys website
047 Creative Arts
2020 television awards
2020 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%20N.%20Datar | Balwantrao Nageshrao Datar, known as B. N. Datar (13 August 1894 – 13 February 1963) was an Indian educationist, politician and Union government minister.
Early life and education
Datar was educated at Deccan College, Baroda College (now the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda) and the Government Law College, Mumbai, from which he qualified as a lawyer. From 1937 to 1942, he was a member of the Senate of the University of Bombay and a member of its Board of Studies in Kannada. He served on the academic council of Karnatak University from 1950 to 1952.
Political career
In 1952, he was elected to the 1st Lok Sabha as a member of the Indian National Congress from the constituency of Belgaum North, holding this seat until the 1957 general election, when he was elected to the newly created seat of Belgaum. From August 1952 to February 1956, Datar was a deputy home minister in the Union government, with cabinet rank from February 1956 to April 1957. He then served as Minister of State for Home affairs until his death in office in February 1963.
References
|-
1894 births
1963 deaths
Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka
Lok Sabha members from Karnataka
India MPs 1952–1957
India MPs 1957–1962
India MPs 1962–1967
Government ministers of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien%20Coyle | Damien Hugh Coyle (born 1978
in Northern Ireland) is an Irish computer scientist and researcher, best known for his various publications on computational neuroscience, neuroimaging, neurotechnology, and brain-computer interface. He has served as Professor of Neurotechnology at the Ulster University. He was made a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Works
References
1957 births
Living people
British computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAN%20algorithm | FAN algorithm is an algorithm for automatic test pattern generation (ATPG). It was invented in 1983 by Hideo Fujiwara and Shimono Takeshi at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Osaka University, Japan. It was the fastest ATPG algorithm at that time and was subsequently adopted by industry. The FAN algorithm succeeded in reducing the number of backtracks by adopting new heuristics such as unique sensitization and multiple back tracing.
Unique sensitization is to determine as many signal values as possible that can be uniquely implied. Multiple backtracing is concurrent backtracing of more than one path, which is more efficient than backtracing along a single path. In order to reduce the number of backtracks, it is important to find the nonexistence of the solution as soon as possible. When we find that there exists no solution we should backtrack immediately to avoid the subsequent unnecessary search. These heuristics can lead to the early detection of inconsistency and decrease the number of backtracks. FAN algorithm has been introduced in several books and many conference papers such as ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, et al.
Implementations
Atalanta : An automatic test pattern generator implementing the FAN algorithm.
FanWorks : A visual circuit simulator including the ATPG mode by using the FAN algorithm.
References
Electronic circuit verification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations%20Support%20Branch | The Operations Support Branch (O.S.B.) is a unit of the cyber-intelligence division of the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.). It is located on the ninth floor of a secret facility in the suburbs of northern Virginia, west of Washington, D.C. Patrick Radden Keefe described the O.S.B. as the CIA's "secret hacker unit, in which a cadre of élite engineers create cyberweapons" in a June 2022 article for The New Yorker.
The O.S.B. specialises in physical access operations in 'physical access' is gained to electronic devices owned by high value individual targets such as foreign government officials and terrorists. The O.S.B. is able to quickly develop tools that can be utilised in cyberintelligence missions at short notice.
The O.S.B. was filled with workspace pranks, like stealing coworkers' things, name calling, shoving matches, rubber band and Nerf gun wars. Asked if she was aware of this, the former head of C.I.A.'s Center for Cyber Intelligence Bonnie Stith said she was not.
The employees of the O.S.B. numbered about a dozen in the 2010s. Radden Keefe described the extreme secrecy of the O.S.B. at this period as resulting in staff unable to " ... take work home, or talk with anyone on the outside about what they did all day. Their office was a classified sanctum, a locked vault. Like the crew of a submarine, they forged strong bonds—and strong antagonisms". The software engineer Joshua Schulte was employed by the O.S.B. from 2010 to 2016. He was convicted of being the leaker of the Vault 7 documents which detail electronic surveillance and cyber warfare tools developed by the C.I.A. Schulte was nicknamed 'Voldemort' during his time at the O.S.B. The leak and publication of the Vault 7 documents was a significant blow to the C.I.A., a senior official likened it to the 'digital' equivalent of the attack on Pearl Harbor in its scope and fallout.
References
Central Intelligence Agency domestic surveillance operations
Computer surveillance
Cyberwarfare
Hacking in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footpaths%20of%20Mount%20Athos | Mount Athos has an extensive network of footpaths, many of which date back to the Byzantine period. These paths are typically trails designed for human foot traffic and mules, and are not wide enough for motor vehicles. They connect the various monasteries, sketes, cells, kathismas, and hermitages on the peninsula to each other.
History
Many of the footpaths of Mount Athos date back to the Byzantine period. Some are cobblestone paths (kalderimi), while most are dirt trails (monopatia).
Starting in the 1960s, many of the footpaths began to fall into disrepair. However, in the 21st century, the Friends of Mount Athos and other volunteers have been restoring and maintaining the footpaths for pilgrims and monks to use. Today, most of the footpaths are signed, well maintained, and in good condition. The Friends of Mount Athos footpath group also maps out GPX files for the footpaths and monitors their conditions.
Eastern coast
From north to south in order, the footpath network on the eastern coast of the Athonite peninsula takes pilgrims through the following sites.
Helandariou Monastery (interior)
Esphigmenou Monastery
Vatopedi Monastery
(interior, behind Vatopedi)
Bogoroditsa Skete (interior, behind Pantokratoros)
Pantokratoros Monastery
Skete of Prophet Elijah (interior, behind Pantokratoros)
Stavronikita Monastery
Kapsala (interior, behind Stavronikita)
Koutloumousiou Monastery (interior, behind Karyes)
Skete of Saint Andrew (interior, behind Karyes)
Skete of Saint Panteleimon (interior, behind Koutloumousiou)
Iviron Monastery
(behind Iviron)
Mylopotamos
Filotheou Monastery (interior)
Karakalou Monastery (interior)
Provata (interior)
Morfonou (port with ferry service)
Lakkoskiti (interior, behind Morfonou)
Great Lavra Monastery
Western coast
From north to south in order, the footpath network on the western coast of the Athonite peninsula takes pilgrims through the following sites. The western coast is steeper and more rugged than the eastern coast.
Zografou Monastery (interior)
Konstamonitou Monastery (interior)
Docheiariou Monastery
Xenophontos Monastery
Evangelismou tis Theotokou
Agiou Panteleimonos Monastery
Xeropotamou Monastery
Dafni (port with ferry service)
Simonos Petras Monastery
Osiou Grigoriou Monastery
Dionysiou Monastery
Agiou Pavlou Monastery
New Skete
Skete of Saint Anne
Vouleftiria
Little St. Anne's Skete
Karoulia (port with ferry service)
Katounakia
Southern coast
The rugged southern coast, which forms the southern slope of the main summit of Mount Athos, is also known as the Desert of Mount Athos, a reference to the Scetis Desert where Christian monasticism had originated. Hesychast hermits have traditionally lived in this area.
From east to west in order, the footpath network takes pilgrims through:
Great Lavra Monastery
Prodromos
Vigla
Chairi (Χαΐρι) Pass; the Cave of Peter the Athonite is located in the Chairi area
Megali Sara (Μεγάλη Σάρα; a scree, or hillside covered by rocks)
Agios Nilos
Agias Triados Skete (Kafs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20Manara | Sunday Ramadhan Manara (born 23 November 1952) is a Tanzanian former professional footballer who played as a winger.
Career
Nicknamed 'Computer', Manara signed for Dutch side Heracles Almelo in 1977, becoming the first Tanzanian to play in Europe. In 1979, he signed for New York Eagles in the United States. Before the second half of 1979–90, he signed for Austrian club FC St. Veit. After that, Manara signed for Al Nasr in the United Arab Emirates.
References
External links
Living people
1952 births
Tanzanian men's footballers
Men's association football wingers
Tanzania men's international footballers
Tanzanian Premier League players
Eerste Divisie players
American Soccer League (1933–1983) players
UAE Pro League players
2. Liga (Austria) players
Young Africans S.C. players
Heracles Almelo players
New York Eagles players
FC St. Veit players
Al-Nasr SC (Dubai) players
Tanzanian expatriate men's footballers
Tanzanian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Tanzanian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Tanzanian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
Tanzanian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristina%20Lerman | Kristina Lerman (born 1967) is an American network scientist whose research concerns the spread of information on social networks, and fairness in machine learning. She is a research professor at the University of Southern California, in the Computer Science Department of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and a principal scientist in the Information Sciences Institute.
Education and career
Lerman majored in physics at Princeton University, graduating in 1989. She completed a Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1995, under the joint supervision of Guenter Ahlers and David Cannell.
After working as a systems programmer for Quarterdeck Office Systems from 1996 to 1998, she joined USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) as a researcher in 1998. She added an affiliation as research faculty with USC's Computer Science Department in 2004. She has been principal scientist at ISI since 2018, and research professor at USC since 2020.
Recognition
Lerman was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2022.
References
External links
Home page
1967 births
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Network scientists
Princeton University alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
University of Southern California faculty
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexibank | Lexibank is a linguistics database managed by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The database consists of over 100 standardized wordlists (datasets) that are independently curated.
Description
Lexibank datasets are presented in the Cross-Linguistic Data Format (CLDF).
Phonological and lexical features are automatically computed in Lexibank.
The datasets are publicly accessible and are archived at Zenodo and are also publicly available on GitHub. Lexibank is also part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project. All of the datasets are released under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Applications of the database include historical linguistics and comparative phonology.
List of datasets
The following is a list of Lexibank (version 0.2) datasets as of 17 June 2022.
References
External links
Lexibank community on Zenodo
Master list of wordlist datasets
Glottobank
Cross-Linguistic Linked Data
Word lists
Linguistics websites
Linguistics databases
Lexical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship-based%20access%20control | In computer systems security, Relationship-based access control (ReBAC) defines an authorization paradigm where a subject's permission to access a resource is defined by the presence of relationships between those subjects and resources.
In general, authorization in ReBAC is performed by traversing the directed graph of relationships. The nodes and edges of this graph are very similar to triples in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data format. ReBAC systems allow hierarchies of relationships, and some allow more complex definitions that include algebraic operators on relationships such as union, intersection, and difference.
ReBAC gained popularity with the rise of social network web applications, where users need to control their personal information based on their relationship with the data receiver rather than the receiver’s role. Using ReBAC enabled to collectively define permissions for teams and groups, thus eliminating the need to set permissions individually for every resource.
In contrast to role-based access control (RBAC), which defines roles that carry a specific set of privileges associated with them and to which subjects are assigned, ReBAC (like ABAC), allows defining more fine-grained permissions. For example, if a ReBAC system defines resources of type document, which can allow one action editor, if the system contains the relationship ('alice', 'editor', 'document:budget'), then subject Alice can edit the specific resource document:budget. The downside of ReBAC is that, while it allows more fine-grained access, this means that the application may need to perform more authorization checks.
ReBAC systems are deny-by-default, and allow building RBAC systems on top of them.
History
The term ReBAC was coined by Carrie E. Gates in 2006.
In 2019 Google published a paper presenting "Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System". The paper defines a system composed of a namespace configuration and relationship data expressed as triples.
Since the release of that paper, several companies have built commercial and open source offerings of ReBAC systems.
See also
Role-based access control
Attribute-based access control
Implementations
3Edges
OpenFGA
Zanzibar
AuthZed
Aserto
Permit.io
References
External links
Introduction to Authorization and OpenFGA
Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC)
AuthZ: Carta’s highly scalable permissions system
SpiceDB is the open source Zanzibar-inspired database that stores, computes, and validates fine grained permissions.
3Edges: the true ReBAC and Knowledge-Based authorization platform.
Modeling Google Drive-like permissions using ReBAC
Access control
Computer security models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele%20Howe | Adele E. Howe (1961 – January 20, 2017) was an American computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence. She was one of the developers of the Planning Domain Definition Language for automated planning and scheduling, and was also known for her work on metasearch engines. She was a Professor Laureate in the College of Natural Sciences at Colorado State University.
Education and career
Howe majored in computer science and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1983. She went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst for graduate study in computer and information science, earning a master's degree in 1987 and completing her Ph.D. in 1993.
She joined Colorado State University as an assistant professor in 1992, earned tenure as an associate professor in 1998, and was promoted to full professor in 2003. She was named Professor Laureate in 2010.
Recognition
Howe was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2015. In 2016, the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling gave Howe their inaugural Distinguished Service Award.
References
External links
1961 births
2017 deaths
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Colorado State University faculty
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CuPy | CuPy is an open source library for GPU-accelerated computing with Python programming language, providing support for multi-dimensional arrays, sparse matrices, and a variety of numerical algorithms implemented on top of them.
CuPy shares the same API set as NumPy and SciPy, allowing it to be a drop-in replacement to run NumPy/SciPy code on GPU. CuPy supports NVIDIA CUDA GPU platform, and AMD ROCm GPU platform starting in v9.0.
CuPy has been initially developed as a backend of Chainer deep learning framework, and later established as an independent project in 2017.
CuPy is a part of the NumPy ecosystem array libraries and is widely adopted to utilize GPU with Python, especially in high-performance computing environments such as Summit, Perlmutter, EULER, and ABCI.
CuPy is a NumFOCUS affiliated project.
Features
CuPy implements NumPy/SciPy-compatible APIs, as well as features to write user-defined GPU kernels or access low-level APIs.
NumPy-compatible APIs
The same set of APIs defined in the NumPy package () are available under package.
Multi-dimensional array () for boolean, integer, float, and complex data types
Module-level functions
Linear algebra functions
Fast Fourier transform
Random number generator
SciPy-compatible APIs
The same set of APIs defined in the SciPy package () are available under package.
Sparse matrices () of CSR, COO, CSC, and DIA format
Discrete Fourier transform
Advanced linear algebra
Multidimensional image processing
Sparse linear algebra
Special functions
Signal processing
Statistical functions
User-defined GPU kernels
Kernel templates for element-wise and reduction operations
Raw kernel (CUDA C/C++)
Just-in-time transpiler (JIT)
Kernel fusion
Distributed computing
Distributed communication package (), providing collective and peer-to-peer primitives
Low-level CUDA features
Stream and event
Memory pool
Profiler
Host API binding
CUDA Python support
Interoperability
DLPack
CUDA Array Interface
NEP 13 ()
NEP 18 ()
Array API Standard
Examples
Array creation
>>> import cupy as cp
>>> x = cp.array([1, 2, 3])
>>> x
array([1, 2, 3])
>>> y = cp.arange(10)
>>> y
array([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])
Basic operations
>>> import cupy as cp
>>> x = cp.arange(12).reshape(3, 4).astype(cp.float32)
>>> x
array([[ 0., 1., 2., 3.],
[ 4., 5., 6., 7.],
[ 8., 9., 10., 11.]], dtype=float32)
>>> x.sum(axis=1)
array([ 6., 22., 38.], dtype=float32)
Raw CUDA C/C++ kernel
>>> import cupy as cp
>>> kern = cp.RawKernel(r'''
... extern "C" __global__
... void multiply_elemwise(const float* in1, const float* in2, float* out) {
... int tid = blockDim.x * blockIdx.x + threadIdx.x;
... out[tid] = in1[tid] * in2[tid];
... }
... ''', 'multiply_elemwise')
>>> in1 = cp.arange(16, dtype=cp.float32).reshape(4, 4)
>>> in2 = cp.arange(16, dtype=cp.float32).reshape(4, 4)
>>> out = cp.zeros((4, 4), dtype=cp.float32)
>>> kern((4,), (4,), (in1, in2, out)) # grid, block and ar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylopia%20cuspidata | Xylopia cuspidata is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Ludwig Diels, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the leaves which have an abruptly pointed tip ( in Latin).
Description
It is a large tree. The young rust-colored branches are hairy, but as their bark becomes dark brown. Its elliptical to oblong, papery leaves are 15-25 by 7-9 centimeters. The leaves have rounded to slightly tapering bases and rounded tips that terminate in a 3-4 centimeter-long pointed cusp. The leaves are hairless on their upper surfaces, and have soft hairs that lay flat on their lower surfaces. The leaves have 10 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs. Its petioles are 3-6 millimeters long. Its Inflorescences occur in the axils of fallen leaves. Each inflorescence has 1 flower. Each flower is on a pedicel that is 6-7 millimeters long and covered in rust-colored hairs. The pedicels have bracts. Its flowers have 3 green, slightly membranous, sepals. The lower portion of the sepals are fused to form a 3-4 millimeter cup-shaped structure with 3 minute lobes. The sepals are covered in rust-colored hairs. Its 6 petals are arranged in two rows of 3. The pale yellow, triangular to egg-shaped, outer petals are 5 by 8 millimeters with pointed tips. The outer surface of the outer petals are covered in silky hairs. The pale yellow, lance-shaped inner petals are 12.5 by 6.5 millimeters. The flowers have pale yellow stamens. The flowers have numerous hairy carpels with 4-5 ovules. The carpels have club-shaped styles that are 4-5 millimeters long, and hairless stigmas that are held together by a glutinous exudate.
Reproductive biology
The pollen of Xylopia cuspidata is shed as permanent tetrads.
Distribution and habitat
It has been observed growing in high forests and bushlands at elevations of 110 meters.
Uses
Based on interviews with traditional healers in Peru extracts from the bark and leaves have been recorded as being used to treat rheumatism.
References
Plants described in 1927
Flora of Bolivia
Flora of Brazil
Flora of Colombia
Flora of Ecuador
Flora of Peru
Taxa named by Ludwig Diels
cuspidata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20JAX | Google JAX is a machine learning framework for transforming numerical functions. It is described as bringing together a modified version of autograd (automatic obtaining of the gradient function through differentiation of a function) and TensorFlow's XLA (Accelerated Linear Algebra). It is designed to follow the structure and workflow of NumPy as closely as possible and works with various existing frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. The primary functions of JAX are:
grad: automatic differentiation
jit: compilation
vmap: auto-vectorization
pmap: SPMD programming
grad
The code below demonstrates the function's automatic differentiation.
# imports
from jax import grad
import jax.numpy as jnp
# define the logistic function
def logistic(x):
return jnp.exp(x) / (jnp.exp(x) + 1)
# obtain the gradient function of the logistic function
grad_logistic = grad(logistic)
# evaluate the gradient of the logistic function at x = 1
grad_log_out = grad_logistic(1.0)
print(grad_log_out)
The final line should outputː
0.19661194
jit
The code below demonstrates the jit function's optimization through fusion.
# imports
from jax import jit
import jax.numpy as jnp
# define the cube function
def cube(x):
return x * x * x
# generate data
x = jnp.ones((10000, 10000))
# create the jit version of the cube function
jit_cube = jit(cube)
# apply the cube and jit_cube functions to the same data for speed comparison
cube(x)
jit_cube(x)
The computation time for (line no. 17) should be noticeably shorter than that for (line no. 16). Increasing the values on line no. 7, will increase the difference.
vmap
The code below demonstrates the function's vectorization.
# imports
from functools import partial
from jax import vmap
import jax.numpy as jnp
# define function
def grads(self, inputs):
in_grad_partial = partial(self._net_grads, self._net_params)
grad_vmap = vmap(in_grad_partial)
rich_grads = grad_vmap(inputs)
flat_grads = np.asarray(self._flatten_batch(rich_grads))
assert flat_grads.ndim == 2 and flat_grads.shape[0] == inputs.shape[0]
return flat_grads
The GIF on the right of this section illustrates the notion of vectorized addition.
pmap
The code below demonstrates the function's parallelization for matrix multiplication.
# import pmap and random from JAX; import JAX NumPy
from jax import pmap, random
import jax.numpy as jnp
# generate 2 random matrices of dimensions 5000 x 6000, one per device
random_keys = random.split(random.PRNGKey(0), 2)
matrices = pmap(lambda key: random.normal(key, (5000, 6000)))(random_keys)
# without data transfer, in parallel, perform a local matrix multiplication on each CPU/GPU
outputs = pmap(lambda x: jnp.dot(x, x.T))(matrices)
# without data transfer, in parallel, obtain the mean for both matrices on each CPU/GPU separately
means = pmap(jnp.mean)(outputs)
print(means)
The final line should print the valuesː
[1.1566595 1.1805978]
Libraries using JAX
Several pyt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Hayes-Roth | Barbara Hayes-Roth is an American computer scientist and psychologist whose research in artificial intelligence includes work on knowledge acquisition, automated planning and scheduling, spatial cognition, the blackboard system, adaptation, and intelligent behavior in interactive storytelling. She is a senior research scientist and lecturer in computer science at Stanford University.
Education and career
Hayes-Roth majored in psychology at Boston University, graduating magna cum laude in 1971. She went to the University of Michigan for graduate study in psychology, earning a master's degree in 1973 and completing her Ph.D. in 1974. Her dissertation, Interactions in the Acquisition and Utilization of Structured Knowledge, was supervised by James Greeno.
She became a researcher at Bell Laboratories from 1974 to 1976, and at the RAND Corporation from 1976 to 1982, also holding a position as consulting assistant professor in psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She became a senior research scientist and lecturer at Stanford in 1982.
Selected publications
Recognition
Hayes-Roth was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1991.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
21st-century American psychologists
American women computer scientists
American women psychologists
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes-Roth | Hayes-Roth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Barbara Hayes-Roth, American computer scientist
Rick Hayes-Roth (born 1947), American computer scientist
Compound surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroOffice%20RoadRunner | The RoadRunner (sold to OEMs as the MicroOffice 100) was an early laptop computer designed by MicroOffice Systems Technology and introduced in 1983. Weighing roughly and featuring a battery able to power it for up to eight hours, the RoadRunner was one of the first clamshell notebook computers ever released.
Instead of magnetic disks for fixed and removable storage, the RoadRunner relied on CMOS RAM and ROM cartridges for storing and loading data and software. The laptop was equipped with a CP/M-compatible operating system in its built-in ROM, as well as an address book and a scheduler that took advantage of the laptop's ability to keep time with its real-time clock. An external modem allowed it to communicate with a mainframe and wake-on-ring to submit data remotely and automatically. Primarily the brainchild of MicroOffice co-founder James P. Dunn, the RoadRunner was released in November 1983 to positive reception by computer journalists. It remained on the market until 1985 when MicroOffice was acquired.
Specifications
The RoadRunner is a clamshell laptop measuring . The laptop's liquid-crystal display measures , with a resolution of 480 by 64 directly addressable pixels, or 80 columns by 8 rows of text. Text characters are formed by a 5 by 7 dot matrix with an additional row and column of dots separating characters. The dot-matrix letterforms feature no descenders. The laptop was built into a clamshell form factor both to protect the screen from abrasion and to allow for aftermarket display upgrades in the form of replacement display assemblies. The display assembly itself is connected to a ratcheting hinge, allowing the user to pivot it at multiple oblique angles without the weight of the housing causing it to fall back entirely. The laptop overall weighs roughly — of which is taken up by the nickel–cadmium battery, which can power the RoadRunner for up to 8 hours.
The RoadRunner's keyboard sports 73 keys, 14 of which are reserved for function (colored light tan and dark tan, respectively). The key switches are full-travel and of the linear variety, while the keyboard layout is modeled after that of the IBM Selectric typewriter. The key caps are concavely sculpted and have a matte finish.
The RoadRunner carries a CMOS-based Zilog Z80A processor clocked at 2.5 MHz; its performance was rated on par with NEC's PC-8201 portable. The laptop has 16 KB of built-in read-only memory, burned onto which is a custom implementation of version 2.2 of the CP/M operating system with added background printing capability; a phone book application; a basic text editor; a VT100-compatible terminal emulator; and a scheduler utility that takes advantage of the computer's real-time clock to alert the user of an event at a set time. The laptop also has 48 KB of on-board static CMOS random-access memory. Additional RAM can be added to the laptop in the form of cartridges inserted into any of the four slots above the keyboard, in 16 KB, 32 KB, and 64 KB varieti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestle%20Peter%20Pan%202022 | Wrestle Peter Pan 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on August 20, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Ota City General Gymnasium. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. This was the fourteenth event in the Peter Pan series and the fourth promoted under the "Wrestle Peter Pan" name.
The event featured nine matches with three of DDT's eight championships on the line. In the main event, Kazusada Higuchi defeated Tetsuya Endo to retain the KO-D Openweight Championship. Other prominent matches saw Yuki Ueno defeat Masahiro Takanashi to win the DDT Universal Championship, and Joey Janela defeated Shunma Katsumata in a Hardcore match to retain the DDT Extreme Championship.
Production
Background
Since 2009, DDT began annually producing shows in the Ryōgoku Kokugikan held in the summer, following the promotions financial success of the first event. This led to the event becoming DDT's premier annual event and one of the biggest event on the independent circuit of Japanese wrestling. Since 2019, the event was renamed "Wrestle Peter Pan".
Storylines
The event featured nine professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The show portraited three title matches, one of them marking a title change. The first one saw Joey Janela retaining the DDT Extreme Championship against Shunma Katsumata to secure his fourth consecutive defense. Yuki Ueno succeeded in winning the DDT Universal Championship for the second time in his career after defeating Masahiro Takanashi. The main event saw Kazusada Higuchi defending the KO-D Openweight Championship for the first time against Tetsuya Endo who relinquished the title one month earlier due to injury, with this being considered his rightful rematch.
Results
Notes
References
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The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website
DDT Peter Pan
DDT Pro-Wrestling shows
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
August 2022 events in Japan
Events in Tokyo
Professional wrestling in Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace%20Sidner | Candace Lee (Candy) Sidner is an American computer scientist whose research has applied artificial intelligence and natural language processing to problems in personal information management, intelligent user interfaces, and human–robot interaction. She is a research professor of computer science at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a former president of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Education and career
Sidner majored in mathematics at Kalamazoo College, graduating in 1971. She earned a master's degree in computer science at the University of Pittsburgh in 1975, and completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 1979 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, Towards A Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse, was supervised by Jonathan Allen.
She worked as a researcher for Bolt Beranek and Newman from 1979 to 1989, and continued to work in industry for the Digital Equipment Corporation (1989 to 1993), the Lotus Development Corporation (1993 to 2000), Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2000 to 2007), and BAE Systems (2007 to 2010). She took her present position as a research professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2009.
She served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1989.
Recognition
Sidner was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1991. In 2013, she was named a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, "for seminal contributions to discourse focus and collaborative dialog".
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Natural language processing researchers
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University of Pittsburgh alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty
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Presidents of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidner | Sidner is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:
(1815–1869), Swedish musician
(1788–1852), Swedish priest
Candace Sidner, American computer scientist
(1852–1929), Swedish teacher
(1851–1917), Swedish military officer
Sara Sidner (born 1972), American journalist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Middleton%20Jr. | Jacob Middleton Jr. (born ) is a United States Space Force brigadier general who commanded the Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado from 2018 to 2021. He now serves as the director of national security space policy at the National Space Council.
Education
Middleton received a B.A. in psychology degree in 1991 from Augusta State University. In 1997, he received an M.A. degree in public administration from Troy University. He also received an M.A. degree in organizational management in 2007 from the George Washington University. His professional military education included Squadron Officer School where he was the top third graduate, Air Command and Staff College, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Air War College, and National War College.
Military career
Middleton enlisted into the United States Air Force in August 1992. He was assigned as a plummer at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, where he was awarded as one of the 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for the Mission Support Group.
On November 13, 1998, Middleton was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the Officer Training School. After commissioning, he underwent nine months of undergraduate space and missile training at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. From 1999 to 20023, he was assigned at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, where he moved back and forth from operational and instructor positions. He first served a year as deputy missile combat crew commander for the 742nd Missile Squadron, after which he served as the instructor deputy missile combat crew commander for the 91st Operations Support Squadron. A year later, he returned to the 742nd Missile Squadron missile combat crew commander. He then served a year as an ICBM senior instructor combat crew commander for the 91st Operations Support Squadron. Finally, he served as the executive officer for the 91st Space Wing for four months.
In 2003, Middleton transferred to Alabama to serve as assistant professor of aerospace studies at AFROTC Detachment 015 at Tuskegee University. In 2005, he was selected to serve as an Air Force intern at Washington, D.C., assigned at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs and the National Space Security Office. From 2007 to 2010, he was assigned at various roles at the National Reconnaissance Office. He first served a year as chief of current operations at the National Reconnaissance Operations Center (NROC), then as executive officer for the deputy director for mission support, and finally as chief flight safety and vulnerability at NROC.
Middleton studied at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama for a year from 2010 to 2011. After that, he was assigned to Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado as operations officer for the 50th Operations Support Squadron. From June 2012 to May 2014, he then served as the commander of the Space Operations Squadron at the Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado (ADF-C) Space Operat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH6 | AH6 may refer to:
Boeing AH-6, an American helicopter gunship
AH6 (highway), a highway in the Asian Highway Network. The highway spans across South Korea, North Korea, Russia, China, and Kazakhstan. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigia%20Carlucci%20Aiello | Luigia (Gigina) Carlucci Aiello (also published as Luigia Carlucci, born 1946) is an Italian computer scientist, emeritus professor of artificial intelligence at Sapienza University of Rome.
Education and career
Aiello is originally from Fabriano. After earning a diploma from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1968, Aiello became a researcher for the National Research Council (CNR), in Pisa, also working in the 1970s with John McCarthy at Stanford University, following the death of her husband, computer scientist Mario Aiello, in 1976.
She became a professor in 1981, initially at Marche Polytechnic University, and joined Sapienza University of Rome in 1982, becoming professor of artificial intelligence in 1991.
She founded the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA, in 1988, and was its first president. She was also the president of the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) from 2004 to 2007.
Research
Aiello's earliest research involved pattern recognition, and her work in the 1970s and early 1980s concerned automated theorem proving and proof assistants. Through this, she became interested in programming language semantics and the application of automated theorem proving to program correctness. Later, her interests shifted to include knowledge representation and reasoning, meta-knowledge, and default logic, as well as applications in educational technology, robotics, and computer security.
Recognition
Aiello was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1995, "for contributions to the field of meta-level control and reasoning, and promotion of AI in Italy and Europe". She became a Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (now the European Association for Artificial Intelligence, EurAI) in 1999, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2015.
In 2002, Linköping University gave her an honorary doctorate.
She was the 2009 winner of the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and the 2014 winner of the EurAI Distinguished Service Award.
A festschrift in honor of her 60th birthday, Reasoning, Action and Interaction in AI Theories and Systems: Essays Dedicated to Luigia Carlucci Aiello, was published in 2006.
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Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Wyatt | Mary Wyatt (1789–1871) was a British botanist, phycologist and retailer from Torquay, Devon. She was the compiler of the respected Algae Danmoniensis - a collection, i.e. exsiccata, of seaweeds to which William Henry Harvey later considered his Manual of the British Algae (1841) a 'companion' work. Wyatt helped to fuel the Victorian 'seaweed craze' for collecting. The tongue twister 'She Sells Seashells on the Sea Shore' was possibly inspired by Wyatt and her close companion Amelia Griffiths, with whom she collected seaweed and sea shells in Devon.
Life
Mary Wyatt was born in 1789 and, from humble beginnings, went on to be a respected collector and proprietor of seaweeds and sea shells, with a shop in Torquay. Wyatt had worked as a servant for the family of phycologist and seaweed collector Amelia Warren Griffiths, who encouraged Wyatt to pursue her own work in the field. Wyatt accompanied Griffiths on her collecting expeditions, learning from her, but has been described as otherwise 'quite illiterate' having had no other formal education.
Wyatt opened her shop at 7 Torwood Row, Torquay selling corals, dried seaweeds, mosses, and other seaside souvenirs. This helped to support her and her husband, who was a "permanent invalid". According to Bea Howe, it was at the suggestion of botanist William Henry Harvey that Wyatt began to prepare a named collection of seaweeds, supervised by Griffiths. Ultimately, Wyatt produced five volumes of mounted specimens of Devon marine algae titled Algae Danmonienses, published between 1833 and 1841. Each volume contained approximately 50 different species, and the supplement included examples from Cornwall, as well as from Devonshire: a further 36 species. Each specimen was named and numbered according William Jackson Hooker's British Flora, and other works on British algae, with a short description of the habitat and locality where the seaweed is found, and an indication of its rarity. These sold well, contributing to the popularity of seaweed collecting at seaside resorts in early Victorian Britain. The Journal of Botany called them "remarkable".
Algae Danmonienses: or dried specimens of Marine Plants, principally collected in Devonshire by Mary Wyatt; carefully named according to Dr. Hooker's British Flora' was described as "a most important work... composed of specimens of 234 species, beautifully dried and correctly named... Nature’s own pencil illustrating herself". William Henry Harvey went on to refer readers to Wyatt's work on the publication of his own (unillustrated) Manual of the British Algae (1841), urging them to consider his work a “companion” to Algae Danmonienses. Wyatt also corresponded with other naturalists, including Lewis Weston Dillwyn, to whom she sent specimens for identification.
Death and legacy
Mary Wyatt died in 1871, aged 82.
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh holds collections gathered by Wyatt between 1833 and 1840. The work of Wyatt and Griffiths, 'an active collaboration, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Creedon%20%28journalist%29 | James Creedon, is an Irish journalist and presenter with France 24, and media editor of their English language network.
Creedon from Bishopstown, in County Cork, attended Cistercian College, Roscrea for his secondary schooling. He went to University College Cork studying French and Law, he completed a diploma in French law at the University of Strasbourg, and gained a Masters from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. He worked for Irish MEP Patricia McKenna in the European parliament. He has worked for France 24 since 2007, and has also worked for Radio France Internationale.
He has presented MediaWatch, Tech24, Eye on Africa, In the papers, and now presents Truth or Fake, on France 24.
He independently produced (with Elisabeth Feytit) and directed Thanks to your noble shadow - 75 years in Japan, about his cousin Sister Jeannie Paschal O'Sullivan, the last Irish nun in Japan. Made in 2016, Thanks to your noble shadow officially premiered at the 2017 Galway Film Fleadh. A 52-minute version for television, 75 years in Japan, was made in 2019 and broadcast on RTE.
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Irish television presenters
Alumni of University College Cork
People educated at Cistercian College, Roscrea
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Sciences Po alumni
Broadcasters from Cork (city) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Hurley | Ted Hurley (born Thaddeus C. Hurley in 1944) is an Irish mathematician specialising in algebra, specifically in group theory, group rings, cryptography, coding theory, and computer algebra. Most of his academic career was spent at University College Galway (later renamed National University of Ireland Galway, or simply NUI Galway). He was Head of Discipline of Mathematics there from 1996 to 2010.
Education
Ted Hurley was born in September 1945 in Tuam, Co. Galway, Ireland, to James Hurley and Bridget Walsh. He earned his BSc (1965) and MSc (1966) from University College Galway (UCG), also winning the Peel Prize in Geometry and the Sir Joseph Larmor Prize. He was awarded a National University of Ireland Travelling Studentship Prize (1966), and was then appointed a Tutorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway College, University of London, while conducting his doctoral research at nearby Queen Mary College. His 1970 thesis on "Representations of Some Relatively Free Groups in Power Series Rings" was done under Karl W. Gruenberg.
Career
Hurley taught at Imperial College in London (1970-1971) and then at the University of Sheffield (1971-1974), before returning to Ireland. Hurley was a founding member of the Irish Mathematical Society in 1976, and served as its inaugural secretary (1977-1979). After six years on the staff at University College Dublin (UCD), in 1980 he secured a position at his alma mater, University College Galway (later known as the National University of Ireland Galway), from which he officially retired in 2010. He was Lecturer in Mathematics there from 1980 to 1988, Associate Professor from 1988 to 1996, and Professor of Mathematics from 1996 on. He was also Head of Discipline of Mathematics from 1996 to 2010. He has been active in the years since formal retirement, publishing frequently.
He has also been a vocal public commentator on mathematics' education, including the importance of numeracy and mathematics to our lives, in the Irish print media
and has also discussed these issues on popular national radio shows.
Mathematics
Hurley's work was originally mostly in group theory, specifically on structural features of infinite groups (relatively free groups, commutators and powers in groups), and also group rings. Later, his interests expanded to include algebraic coding theory and cryptography.
He has supervised three PhD students and has co-edited several conference proceedings.
Selected papers
2021 "Unique builders for classes of matrices Special Matrices", Hurley, Ted. Special Matrices, vol. 9, no. 1, 2021, pp. 52-65.
2018 "Coding theory: the unit-derived methodology". Hurley T., Hurley D., International Journal of Information and Coding Theory, 5 (1):55-80
2018 "Quantum error-correcting codes: the unit design strategy". Hurley T., Hurley D., Hurley B. International Journal of Information and Coding Theory, 5 (2):169-182
2017 "Solving underdetermined systems with error-correcting codes". Hurley, T. Internation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnieszka%20Pilat | Agnieszka Pilat is a Polish-American artist and writer working at the intersection of robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and fine art. She specializes in rendering portraitures of technology to explore the relationship between humans and machines in the 21st century.
Early life
Agnieszka Pilat grew up in Łódź, Poland during the height of the Cold War and witnessed the fall of the Polish People's Republic. Her mother was a gym-teacher, and her father was a pastry chef. In 1989, her father was able to buy the business he operated due to the new policies put forth by the post-Soviet government. Pilat commends this move by her parents as the saving grace of her family; her father's alcoholism slowly reversed after taking on new responsibilities. Her father went on to own several bakeries and successfully transitioned to the implementation of free-trade practices. In 2004, she moved to California to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in illustration and painting. While studying at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, she developed a passion for portraiture and continues to emphasize this in her contemporary works.
Career
Following the completion of her degree, Pilat operated a full-time studio in San Francisco where she painted portraits of people and industrial machines. Much of her early work emphasizes the progression of time and the reality of the future. She has been featured in numerous venues and galleries such as the De Young Museum and Modernism. After spending several years in the Bay Area art scene, Pilat began to realize that prolific collectors and industry leaders under-appreciated her technical skills in favor of more abstract pieces.
Pilat's career began to change radically after meeting the developer Paul Stein. As an avid collector of art and salvageable items, Stein asked Pilat to create a custom painting for him, which resulted in the rendering of a vintage fire alarm bell as a portrait. Curiosity over her paintings became more prevalent among tech executives in Silicon Valley. Pilat began to seek out artistic opportunities with Bay Area tech giants and maintained residencies with organizations such as SpaceX, Wrightspeed, Autodesk and Waymo.
Once more commissions came, Pilat began to focus entirely on the representation of machines and devices instead of human portraiture. This newfound passion for cutting-edge technology, combined with interests in the future, led her to a residency with Boston Dynamics. By the Fall of 2020, Pilat had produced a variety of pieces featuring Spot, the yellow-dog-like robot created in Waltham, Massachusetts. While she no longer serves as a guest resident artist for Boston Dynamics, she continues to use the robot as both a source of inspiration and as a co-artist. By using the robot's apparatus to hold and paint with an oil stick, the two have completed a wide array of memorable works, such as a futuristic Madonna (representation of Mary).
Pilat's work has been feat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20cloud%20storage | Hybrid cloud storage, in data storage, is a term for a storage infrastructure that uses a combination of on-premises storage resources with a public cloud storage provider. The on-premises storage is usually managed by the organization, while the public cloud storage provider is responsible for the management and security of the data stored in the cloud.
Hybrid cloud storage can be used to supplement an organization's internal storage resources, or it can be used as the primary storage infrastructure. In either case, hybrid cloud storage can provide organizations with greater flexibility and scalability than traditional on-premises storage infrastructure.
There are several benefits to using hybrid cloud storage, including the ability to cache frequently used data on-site for quick access, while inactive cold data is stored off-site in the cloud. This can save space, reduce storage costs and improve performance. Additionally, hybrid cloud storage can provide organizations with greater redundancy and fault tolerance, as data is stored in both on-premises and cloud storage infrastructure.
There are a few drawbacks to hybrid cloud storage as well, including the need to manage two separate storage infrastructures, and the potential for increased costs. Additionally, data stored in the cloud is subject to the security and privacy policies of the cloud storage provider. One challenge in transitioning from traditional storage systems to hybrid cloud storage is that the infinite capacity of the cloud, may lead to accumulation of wasted resources and to uncontrolled spending, if usage is not monitored carefully.
Use cases
Use cases for Hybrid cloud storage include:
Burst for capacity - Hybrid cloud storage provides infinite and elastic storage capacity expansion to local sites.
Disaster recovery - Hybrid cloud storage can keep a replica of local data in the cloud for business continuity.
Burst for compute - Hybrid cloud storage can make locally produced accessible in the cloud for processing or analytics.
Data orchestration - Hybrid cloud storage can create a consolidated view of data in multiple clouds or locations using a single protocol or interface.
Cloud storage gateways
A cloud storage gateway, also known as an edge filer, is a hybrid cloud storage device that connects a local network to one or more cloud storage service, typically an object storage service such as Amazon S3. It provides a cache for frequently accessed data, providing high speed local access to frequently accessed data in the cloud storage service. Cloud storage gateways provide also additional benefits, such as accessing cloud object storage through traditional file serving protocols, as well as continued access to cached data during connectivity outages.
A cloud storage gateway usually consists of a physical or virtual appliance that is deployed on-premises, at the edge of the network. It presents a file system or object storage interface to the local network, which t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Reutzel-Edens | Susan Reutzel-Edens is an American chemist who is the Head of Science at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. Her work considers solid state chemistry and pharmaceuticals. She is interested in crystal structure predictions. She serves on the editorial boards of CrystEngComm and Crystal Growth & Design.
Early life and education
Reutzel-Edens was a doctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota, where she studied the design and characterization of hydrogen-bonded imide aggregates. She worked in the laboratory of crystallographer Margaret C. Etter, and made use of solid state NMR. During her doctorate, she investigated how hydrogen bonds could be used as design elements that guided the solid-state self assembly of organic molecules. She made use of the Cambridge Structural Database to unravel the complicated relationships between hydrate formation and crystal polymorphism.
Research and career
Reutzel-Edens joined Eli Lilly and Company, where she recognized that it would be challenging to identify and design increasingly complicated drug targets, and instead proposed the use of computation approaches. Through collaborations with the Cambridge Crystallographic Database, Reutzel-Edens founded the Lilly solid form design program. Her research has considered crystal polymorphism and the crystal nucleation. She used computational approaches to identify commercially viable small molecule drug products. To this end, Reutzel-Edens proposed the use of crystal structure prediction to identify pharmaceutical molecules to complement experimental investigations. She has described Olanzapine as “an incredible molecule, a gift to crystal chemistry that keeps on giving,”.
In 2018, Reutzel-Edens was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. She serves on the editorial boards of CrystEngComm and Crystal Growth and Design. In 2021 Reutzel-Edens joined the Cambridge Crystallographic Database as Head of Science.
Selected publications
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University of Minnesota alumni
Eli Lilly and Company people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Wallet | Samsung Wallet () is a digital wallet platform developed by Samsung. It is available for the Samsung Galaxy-exclusive One UI Android operating system, and was announced on February 9, 2022, at the February 2022 Samsung Unpacked event. It combines both Samsung Pay and Samsung Pass.
History
The "Samsung Wallet" brand name was first used for the company's mobile wallet system of the same name, which was introduced in 2013 before being migrated into a new app called Samsung Pay in 2015. Samsung Wallet now contains the Samsung Pay service for payment cards, alongside other features such as cryptocurrency assets and digital credentials. Although in South Korea both the service and the app are still known as Samsung Pay.
Features
Samsung Wallet allows users to store items such as payment cards, loyalty cards, boarding passes, digital keys, and vaccination cards. It replaces the old Samsung Pay app on Android-powered Galaxy devices and is currently available in Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Vietnam, UAE, the U.K. and the U.S.
Samsung Wallet also supports a variety of transit cards, such as T-money and cashbee in South Korea, as well as Octopus in Hong Kong. However, due to the region-specific nature of Samsung Wallet, users from other regions are not able to utilize these transit cards from their own devices.
Comparison between phone and wearable versions
Fast Mode & Battery depletion
As of 2023, car keys, transit cards, and campus IDs are supported types of cards that can be used with Fast Mode. However, Samsung limits some passes if they are the same type or from the same issuer from being used with Fast Mode. For example, a user can only have one campus ID and one car key each set to Fast Mode. This can be mitigated in a sense by using a Galaxy Watch to split the Fast Mode passes between multiple devices. Payment cards can also be used without prior authentication on select transit systems, though that mode is called "Tap & Pay."
Fast Mode cards can be used up to five hours via power reserve after the device has powered off due to a drained battery. The ability to retain usage after battery depletion is not available for any Galaxy Watch model.
Ecosystem
Samsung Wallet has a passes feature, which exists in a larger ecosystem. Passes are presented in the Menu tab of the app, or can be added to the Quick Access tab. Developers must first be granted access as a Samsung Wallet Partner to the Samsung Wallet Cards API before they can author such items.
An interaction (or transaction) between a pass and a system is facilitated by a 1D or 2D code, although it requires the customer to initiate the activity. Passes can also contain nothing but plain text or an image.
As of June 2022, Samsung Wallet supports memberships (loyalty cards), gift cards, health pas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPAR2RRD | LPAR2RRD is an open-source software tool that is used for monitoring and reporting performance of servers, clouds and databases. It is developed by the Czech company XoruX.
Overview
LPAR2RRD is open-source software that is published under the GNU General Public License v3.0. As of April 2022, the latest version is 7.40. The software was first launched in 2006.
The software tool is designed to monitor and report on server virtualization utilizations. It produces utilization graphs, reports, or alerts of physical or virtual servers on CPU, memory, IOPS, and many other depending on specific virtualization platform. It also supports database engines as Oracle Database, PostgreSQL or containerization platforms like OpenShift or Docker. Cloud technologies are supported as well.
The software is compatible with various systems by IBM Power Systems, IBM i, VMware, Nutanix, Oracle VM, Oracle Solaris, oVirt / Red Hat Virtualization, XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, Linux, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Apache CloudStack, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, Huawei FusionCompute, and Proxmox.
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GitHub
Sourceforge
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Storage software
Virtualization
Virtualization software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan%20Kennedy | Lachlan Kennedy is an Australian journalist and news presenter. He is best known for his work at Network 10.
After graduating from the Australian National University in 2007, he joined Southern Cross Ten in Canberra where he presented Southern Cross News updates for southern parts of New South Wales and Central Australia.
In 2008, Kennedy moved over to WIN Television in Canberra where he worked on the local WIN News bulletin as the lead political reporter, sports presenter and chief of staff. Kennedy left WIN Television in 2010.
Following his departure from WIN, Kennedy joined Network 10 as a reporter in 2010. He was promoted to being the network's United States bureau correspondent in 2013.
In 2015, it was announced Kennedy would co-present Ten Eyewitness News Queensland alongside Georgina Lewis at 10's Brisbane station, commencing on 7 September 2015. Kennedy continued in that role until a restructure at the network in early 2017 saw all of the network's state bulletins adopt a single-presenter format, relegating him back to reporting duties.
In June 2022, Kennedy was named as one of the presenters of the network's new national news bulletin, 10 News First: Breakfast, which was introduced as a lead-in to morning program Studio 10. It was announced Kennedy would present the Monday to Wednesday editions of the bulletin from the Sydney studio while Natasha Exelby would host the Thursday and Friday editions from the Melbourne studio.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie%20Thi%C3%A9baux | Sylvie Thiébaux is a French-Australian computer scientist, whose research in artificial intelligence focuses on automated planning and scheduling, diagnosis, and automated reasoning under uncertainty. She is a professor of computer science at the Australian National University, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Artificial Intelligence.
Education and career
Thiébaux earned an engineering diploma from the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rennes in 1991, and a master's degree from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1992. She completed a Ph.D. in 1995 at the University of Rennes 1, under the direction of Marie-Odile Cordier.
After working as a researcher for the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and CSIRO in Australia, she joined the Australian National University in 2001. She was affiliated as a researcher with NICTA and its successor within CSIRO, Data61, from 2003 to 2018, and directed the NICTA Canberra laboratory from 2009 to 2011.
Recognition
Thiébaux was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2020, "for significant contributions to algorithms and applications of planning and scheduling, and service to the AI community".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipo%20Sabeta | Chipo Sabeta is a media personality, sports journalist and sports administrator. In 2020, she was Awarded FIFA/CIES sports management network project winner (Worldwide). She is the first Zimbabwean female journalists to be included in the FIFA Ballon d'Or voting panel since 2014.
Career
Chipo was born in Nyanga, Zimbabwe, but grew up in Glen Norah suburb in Harare, where she had her early education before proceeding to Nhowe Mission School in Macheke. Chipo Sabeta was of the founding journalists for Zimbabwe’s first tabloid, The H Metro in 2009, she grew up the ranks within the organisation then became Senior Sports Reporter for ZIMPAPERS which houses H-Metro, The Herald, ZTN, The Chronicle, Star FM Zimbabwe and Business Weekly from 2010 to 2019. In 2022 she was formally awarded the FIFA/CIES award which she won through Nelson Mandela University at FIFA headquarters by Arsène Wenger. She is also the editor of The African Gazette magazine.
In 2023, she was appointed as the Africa Cup of Nations UK (ANCUK) communication executive.
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Women sports journalists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeslip%20%28video%20game%29 | Timeslip is a horizontally scrolling shooter written by Jon Williams for the Commodore 16 / Commodore Plus/4 computers and published by English Software in 1985. Atari 8-bit version followed a year later. The game was described by reviewers as "three versions of Scramble rolled into one".
Gameplay
In Timeslip the player is presented with the screen divided into three sections or time zones. The top section is the planet surface with the player controlling a fighter, the middle section is set in underground cavers, and in the bottom section the player controls a mini-sub. The object of the game is to destroy 36 orbs placed within the three sections and synchronize the clocks in all three zones to 00.00 hours. If a player is hit, they receive a 30 minute penalty. In addition, if a player is hit five times, a "timeslip" occurs, which is a desynchronisation of all clocks. Sections are played one at a time and the player can switch zones at will, leaving the other two frozen in time.
Reception
Timeslip received mostly positive reviews. Your Commodore reviewer summed up Timeslip as the best game he had seen on the C16, and he recommended it without hesitation. The review in Computer and Video Games magazine was equally positive: "Timeslip's designer and programmer, Jon Williams, has come up with a nifty and exciting little game. C16 owners should raise three cheers for him "
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Timeslip at Atari Mania
1985 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 16 and Plus/4 games
Horizontally scrolling shooters
English Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Hospital%20%28disambiguation%29 | Swedish Hospital is a hospital in Chicago. Swedish Hospital may also refer to:
Health care in Sweden
Swedish Health Services, formerly Swedish Medical Center, a healthcare network in the metropolitan Seattle area
Swedish Medical Center (Colorado), a hospital in Englewood, Colorado
See also
List of hospitals in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperwar | Hyperwar (portmanteau from the Ancient Greek preposition and prefix "beyond" and the English "war") is a term coined by John R. Allen and Amir Husain which refers to algorithmic or "AI"-controlled warfare with little to no human decision making. Due to the autonomous nature of AI, it could rapidly increase the speed of warfare, especially if more than one side is relying on AI. AI is not limited to new weapons such as drones or cyberwar, it can affect all forms of military planning.
See also
Artificial intelligence
Cyberwarfare
Links
European Security & Technology, esut.de : Hyperwar - New challenges for army development
November 5, 2020, Stefan Krempl: Machine Warfare: From Drone Swarm to Hyperwar
References
Cyberwarfare
21st-century neologisms
2010s neologisms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty%20and%20the%20Boss%20%28TV%20series%29 | Beauty and the Boss (; lit. Amelia's Rhapsody) is a Hong Kong television series created and produced by television network TVB. Executive produced by Marco Law, it exclusively premiered on myTV Super OTT streaming service in December 2020 as the platform's original series before being broadcast on TVB Jade from 22 March 2021 to 30 April 2021 for 30 episodes. With romantic comedy as the central theme and a cast starring Ali Lee, Moses Chan, Edwin Siu, Raymond Cho, Jeannie Chan, Harriet Yeung, and Zoie Tam, it chronicles the lives of a group of colleagues and friends working at the fictional public relations company, Skywise Strategy Group.
Cast
Ali Lee as Amelia Wong Lai-mei: a married woman for ten years who later divorces her husband after finding out he has an extramarital affair.
Moses Chan as Matt Mak Tsz-fung: local branch CEO of Skywise Strategy Group
Edwin Siu as Tong Yan: a partner at Skywise. He has a sissy personality with an ambiguous sexual orientation.
Raymond Cho as So Chak-kei: an account executive at Skywise. Grieving over his wife's death many years ago, he started having an uncommitted sex life.
Jeannie Chan as Lee Siu-yung: she works at Skywise and has a boyish personality.
Harriet Yeung as Kiki Choi See-ki: Vice Director at Skywise who suffers from hypersexuality.
Zoie Tam as Ho Yu-yan: she initially works at the rival public relations company, Blue Rain who later joins Skywise after meeting and befriending Siu-yung.
Matthew Ho as Rex Cheng Yu: CEO of a mobile game development company who has a crush on Amelia
Ashley Chu as Mandy Man Ching: CEO of Skywise's Greater Bay Area
Claire Yiu as Shum Wai: Matt's ex-wife
Telford Wong as Chau Cheuk-hin: Amelia's stepson
William Hu as Chau Ka-ming: Amelia's husband who later is divorced
Iris Lam as Lam Nam: works at Skywise
Anthony Ho as Pang Yu-ngan: works at Skywise
Fei Wu as Tsui Fei: works at Skywise
Stitch Yu as Lam Nga-ting: works at Skywise
Virginia Lau as Cheung Yuet: a model and Matt's girlfriend
Hugo Wong as Hon Lui: a financial higher-up. He is married and later develops an extramarital relationship with Yu-yan
Jackson Lai as Wong Lam: Siu-yung's senior during their school years whom she has a crush on
Synopsis
Amelia Wong has been married for ten years, becoming a housewife. One day, she finds out her husband has an extramarital affair and decides to get a divorce, realizing that she has misspent her youth with a failed marriage. Through her good friend, Kiki Choi, an executive at the public relations company Skywise Strategy Group, Wong is employed there as a secretary. Here she befriends a group of good colleagues. During the process, Amelia falls in love with her boss Matt Mak, while taking the initiative to search for a journey of love, finding oneself, and finding one’s dreams.
Production and background
Principal photography took place approximately from June to October 2019. Utilizing romantic comedy as the backdrop, Beauty and the Boss focused |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe | The Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe ("Savings Banks Financial Group") is a network of public banks that together form the largest financial services group in Germany and in all of Europe. Its name refers to local government-controlled savings banks that are known in German as , plural . Its activity is overwhelmingly located in Germany.
History
The first savings banks in Germany were founded in the 18th century in its major trading cities. One of the first institutions with the business model of modern savings banks was the Ersparungscasse der Hamburgischen Allgemeinen Versorgungsanstalt in Hamburg in 1778. Founders were rich merchants, clerks and academics. They intended to develop solutions for people with low income to save small sums of money and to support business start-ups. In 1801 the first savings bank with a municipal guarantor was founded in Göttingen to fight poverty. In 1838, Prussia adopted the first savings banks legislation (), which subsequently served as a model for other German jurisdictions. Between 1850 and 1903 the idea of the municipal savings banks spread and the number of savings banks in Germany increased from 630 to 2834.
During World War I, the Imperial German government leveraged the network of Sparkassen to place war bonds, marking the beginning of their activity in the securities space. In 1934, all savings banks were designated as credit institutions under new banking legislation following the crisis of 1931. The savings banks group, designated from 1935 as , again participated in war financing before and during World War II. The savings banks in East Germany were nationalized and separated from the rest of the network in 1945, but reintegrated into it in 1990.
Key concepts
The Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe is highly idiosyncratic, and its description requires understanding of key notions that are unique to its German context.
Träger
In the context of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, the German word ("holder") refers to the owner-like relationship between a local government and a public-sector institution (), i.e. the . Examples of such local govern entities are municipality (), union of municipalities (Gemeindeverband) or district ()).
Träger implies a form of control that is not legally considered ownership, but it is functionally similar to ownership. This is because Sparkasse is an independent public entity, but the Träger holds governance rights that resemble ownership. As a result, most Sparkassen are overseen by locally elected politicians. The Träger position (German: Trägerschaft) cannot be sold, and it does not grant rights to the Sparkasse's financial surplus, which is typically retained or used for local public welfare projects.
Until the early 21st century, the Träger also provided explicit financial guarantees to the institutions they controlled, but these guarantees were mostly phased out under an agreement concluded on between a group of German negotiators and the European Commission represented by Competi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1400%20series | 1400 series may refer to:
Kintetsu 1400 series electric multiple unit operating for Kintetsu Railway
IBM 1400 series computers produced by IBM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Horn | Chris Horn may refer to:
Chris Horn (American football)
Chris Horn (computer scientist)
Chris Horn (racing driver) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatice%20Gunes | Hatice Gunes is a Turkish computer scientist who is Professor of Affective Intelligence & Robotics at the University of Cambridge. Gunes leads the Affective Intelligence & Robotics Lab. Her research considers human robot interactions and the development of sophisticated technologies with emotional intelligence.
Early life and education
Gunes was an undergraduate student at the Yıldız Technical University. She moved to the University of Technology Sydney for her doctoral research, where she was awarded the Australian Government International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) to focus on vision and machine learning based analysis of affective face and upper body behaviour. Her doctoral research showed that affective face and body displays are simultaneous but not strictly synchronous; explicit detection of temporal phases (onset-apex-offset) can improve the accuracy of affect recognition; recognition from fused face and body modalities performs better than that from the face or the body modality alone; and synchronized feature-level fusion achieves better performance than decision-level fusion. She created the Bimodal Face and Body Gesture Database (FABO), a collection of labelled videos of posed, affective face and body displays for automatic analysis of human nonverbal affective behavior. After earning her doctorate, she was appointed an Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellow, and worked on airport and railway security through object human tracking. In 2008, Gunes moved to Imperial College London, where she worked alongside Maja Pantić in the Intelligent Behaviour Understanding Group (iBUG). The project looked to build a dialogue system that can interact with humans via a virtual character.
Research and career
In 2011, Gunes was appointed a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. She remained there for four years, becoming an associate professor in 2014. She moved to the University of Cambridge in 2016, where she was promoted to a Professor of Affective Intelligence and Robotics. In 2019, she was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council fellowship, and was appointed a Faculty Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Her fellowship considered human–robot interactions and the development of robot emotional intelligence through the study of human-human interactions. She investigated the relationships between humans and their companion robots and looked to design robots with enhanced socio-emotional skills.
Gunes was appointed President of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing in 2017. She is interested in how technologies can enhance a sense of wellbeing, through affective VR, autonomous and tele-presence social robotics.
Selected publications
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Technology Sydney alumni
Yıldız Technical University alumni
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Turkish women computer scientists
Human–computer interaction rese |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamour%20Manor | Glamour Manor is an American daytime radio program that was broadcast on the Blue Network from July 3, 1944 until June 27, 1947.
Cliff Arquette starred in Glamour Manor, which varied in format depending on the day of the week. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays featured situation-comedy episodes, while on Tuesdays and Thursdays Arquette and co-star Lurene Tuttle interviewed members of the audience. The sponsor was Procter & Gamble, primarily promoting Crisco and Ivory Snow. The program initially originated from studios at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood. Daily prizes were given to members of the studio audience whose tickets were drawn from a fish bowl.
The situation comedy had Arquette managing Glamour Manor Hotel, which he had inherited, with its "33 delightful but dilapidated rooms and the odd assortment of guests who live in them". He also played Captain Billy and Mrs. Wilson, an elderly lady. Tyler McVey played desk clerk Tyler, and Tuttle played his girlfriend, Gloria Kenyon. Others in the cast were John McIntire as Hamlet Mantel, Bea Benaderet as Wanda Werewolf, and Will Wright as Maloney. Francis X. Bushman was also in the cast. Hal Stevens and Ernie Newton were the singers, with Charles "Bud" Dant and Charlie Hale's orchestra providing music. Announcers were Jack Bailey, Bob Bruce, and Terry O'Sullivan. "There's a Small Hotel" was the theme song. Betty Buckler was the original producer; Keith McLeod replaced her in November 1944.
In January 1945, Glamour Manor moved to New York. Arquette and McVey kept their parts. Tuttle was replaced by Jan Miner as Gloria, but after a short time Virginia Vass replaced Miner. Arthur Vinton portrayed Hamlet Hantell, and Rolfe Sedan was heard in several roles. Jack Smith was the singer, and Harry Lubin led the orchestra.
In September 1945, after an eight-week summer hiatus, the show returned to Hollywood. Arquette, McVey, Vass, and Lubin stayed on the show, and Newton returned as singer. Chief Quigley was added as cook at the hotel, "just a front to extoll the virtues of Crisco". Rod Connor became the announcer.
Kenny Baker joined the cast in June 1946 as "singing proprietor" and "slightly addled emcee" of the hotel when Arquette left for other work. Barbara Eiler was added as Barbara Dilley, bookkeeper for the hotel and girlfriend of Baker. Don Wilson portrayed a boarder who often gave bad advice, and Sam Hearn played Schlepperman, who often made situations worse. Elvira Allman played socialite Mrs. Biddle. Wilson doubled as announcer, and Lubin continued to direct the orchestra. Ken Burton was the director.
References
1944 radio programme debuts
1947 radio programme endings
1940s American radio programs
NBC Blue Network radio programs
American comedy radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Z.%20Tan | Hong Z. Tan () is a Chinese-American researcher in haptic technology and haptic perception. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.
Education and career
Tan is originally from Shanghai. She studied biomedical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, graduating in 1986, and went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study in electrical engineering and computer science. She earned a master's degree in 1988, and completed her Ph.D. in 1996.
As well as her position in electrical engineering and computer science at Purdue, Tan holds courtesy appointments in Purdue's departments of mechanical engineering and psychological sciences. In 2006, she became founding chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics. She has taken leaves from Purdue to head the Human Computer Interaction Group at Microsoft Research Asia, to take a professorship in psychology at Beijing Normal University, and to work as lead haptics scientist for Google.
Research
Tan's research has included the development of chairs that can sense the posture of people sitting in them, and wearable devices that can translate spoken language into vibrations that can be felt on the skin, as a way of making speech accessible to hearing-impaired people.
Recognition
Tan was named an IEEE Fellow in 2017, "for contributions to wearable haptics".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electronics engineers
American women engineers
Chinese electronics engineers
Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Purdue University faculty
Academic staff of Beijing Normal University
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egin%20kantu%21%20%28TV%20series%29 | Egin kantu! (in the Basque, "Sing!") was a television program, a musical talent show (reality television talent show), aired on EITB network from 2006 to 2010 and presented by Nerea Alias. A music talent contest with viewer voting and reality show elements, which aimed to find the country's next singing sensation.
The talent show was broadcast between 2006 and 2010, with good reception and audiences, being a successful format of EITB Media. It was one of EITB Media's most successful shows, having one of the highest audience rating shares of all time (a share of around 10% audience).
History
It was a musical talent show (musical talent show), broadcast by the ETB1 network and distributed by EITB Media. The program was produced and directed by the film and television producer and founder of the production company Baleuko Eduardo Barinaga and co-directed by Lorea Perez de Albeniz. The main theme of Talent was Egin Kantu (song).
The program was broadcast between 2006 and 2010, with good reception and audiences, being a successful format for EITB Media.
The program began broadcasting in September 2006, on the ETB1 network. The presenter of the talent was Nerea Alias, during the four seasons of the program. The program ended after four seasons in 2010, which was the last broadcast of the contest.
The talent show was a pool of talents, from which several well-known singers and artists emerged later, such as María Ereña, Elene Arandia, Izar Algueró, Maialen Diez, ...
Format
The format of the program followed a similar operation to others such as Star Academy, Operación Triunfo (OT), La Voz and others.
Contest participants had to first pass a selection audition where they were selected or not to participate. After that, already within the contest, the contestants were facing each other in different duels. The winners of each program were chosen by the public, who voted for their favorite singers. Thus, gala after gala and duel after duel until the winner or winners were known. In each program the contestants sang both songs in the Basque language and international successes and hits of the moment.
In each program the audience voted for their favorite candidate (public vote) until there was a winner.
To be contestants, the applicants had to overcome different phases of a casting to be able to be contestants on the program.
In each gala or episode of the program there was a guest participant (invited only in that episode, they were "Single-Day Guest Participant" or "Single-Episode Guest Participant"). After all the performances of the contestants in that gala or episode, the invited participant sang a song, while the public voted for the contestants and the public vote was counted.
Program products
As the talent show was one of EITB Media's most successful shows, many were the products and merchandising that came out of it. Among the published products are, among others, the official CD with songs from the program, the official DVD with the e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdek | Amdek Corporation was an American computer peripheral and system manufacturer active from 1981 to the mid-1990s. The company was renowned for their standalone computer monitors compatible with a wide array of systems from the early microcomputer era to the personal computer age. According to PC World in 1994, "Amdek was once name in PC monitors. Chances are the monochrome monitors most of us used once carried the Amdek label." In the early 1980s, the company was majority owned by the Roland Corporation's Taiwanese subsidiary; in 1986, after a brief period of independence, the company was acquired by Wyse Technology, a maker of computer terminals, who continued the Amdek brand into at least 1995.
History
Amdek was founded in 1977 by Go Sugiura (born 1936 in Osaka, Japan) and Ted McCracken. Before starting Amdek, Sugiura had graduated university with a Bachelor of Economics in the 1950s after moving to the United States (where he learned English); worked as a consumer electronics importer in Caracas, Venezuela (where he learned Spanish), in 1960; started his own business importing steel from Japan in Venezuela later in the 1960s; and worked as U.S. sales representative for Sakata, a Japanese semiconductor fabricator, in the early 1970s. At Sakata he bartered with the company's executives to be allowed to use the Sakata trademark for his own independent trading company, Sakata International, headed by himself. Sakata agreed, but almost as soon as Sakata International began it was merged back into its namesake parent, because the demand for Sakata products in the United States was too high for Sugiura to pay in advance with his allotted capital. Still possessing the urge to have his own company, as a side job Sugiura incorporated Leedex as an importer of car radio components. A manufacturer in Ohio previously established under the name Leedex threatened a trademark infringement suit against Sugiura, prompting him to change the name of his company to Amdek. According to Ikutaro Kakehashi in 2002, the founder of Japanese instrument maker Roland Corporation who would later overtake Amdek for a time, the name stood for Analog, Music, Digital, Electronics, and Kits. Sugiura however explained in 1984 that the name was chosen as a random combination of syllables.
With the rise of the microcomputer in the late 1970s, Sugiura wanted to enter the industry but lacked the personal experience with computers and knowledge of electrical engineering. He contacted Ted McCracken, a friend and professor of computer science at the University of Missouri who had met Sugiura at a foreclosure of another electronics company, for whom Sugiura was a creditor of the company and McCracken was an actuary at the bank handling liquidation proceedings. McCracken was the first dealer of computers in the state of Missouri to import Apple II microcomputer. As the two began talking about computers during the year, Sugiura became aware of the lack of aftermarket monitors for these e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Lewis | Ian Lewis may refer to:
Ian Lewis (computer scientist) (born 1961), British computer scientist
Ian Lewis (cricketer) (1935–2004), Irish cricketer
Ian Lewis, a member of Jamaican reggae band Inner Circle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midjourney | Midjourney is a generative artificial intelligence program and service created and hosted by San Francisco–based independent research lab Midjourney, Inc. Midjourney generates images from natural language descriptions, called "prompts", similar to OpenAI's DALL-E and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion.
The tool is currently in open beta, which it entered on July 12, 2022. The Midjourney team is led by David Holz, who co-founded Leap Motion. Holz told The Register in August 2022 that the company was already profitable. Users create artwork with Midjourney using Discord bot commands.
History
Midjourney, Inc. was founded in San Francisco, California, by David Holz, previously co-founder of Leap Motion. The Midjourney image generation platform first entered open beta on July 12, 2022. However, on March 14, 2022, the Discord server launched with a request to post high-quality photographs to Twitter/Reddit for system's training.
Model versions
The company has been working on improving its algorithms, releasing new model versions every few months. Version 2 of their algorithm was launched in April 2022 and version 3 on July 25. On November 5, 2022, the alpha iteration of version 4 was released to users and on March 15, 2023, the alpha iteration of version 5 was released. The 5.1 model is more 'opinionated' than version 5, applying more of its own stylization to images, while the 5.1 RAW model adds improvement while working better with more literal prompts. After version 5.2 is released with a increasingly better image quality.
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Functionality
Midjourney is currently only accessible through a Discord bot on their official Discord server, by direct messaging the bot, or by inviting the bot to a third party server. To generate images, users use the command and type in a prompt; the bot then returns a set of four images. Users may then choose which images they want to upscale. Midjourney is also working on a web interface.
Beyond the command, Midjourney offers many other commands to send to the Discord bot. Including but not limited to the command which allows the user to blend two images, the command allowing the user to get suggestions on how to make a long prompt shorter, and others which improve upon the Midjourney experience.
Uses
Founder David Holz says he sees artists as customers, not competitors of Midjourney. Holz told The Register that artists use Midjourney for rapid prototyping of artistic concepts to show to clients before starting work themselves. Some artists have accused Midjourney of devaluing original creative work by using it in the training set; Midjourney's terms of service includes a DMCA takedown policy, allowing artists to request their work to be removed from the set if they believe copyright infringement to be evident.
The advertising industry has been quick to embrace AI tools such as Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion, among others. The tools, which enable advertisers to create original content and brainstorm id |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings%3A%20The%20Strategy%20of%20Ultimate%20Conquest | Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest is a 1996 video game from GT Interactive. The game was narrated by actor Michael Dorn of "Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Reception
Computer Gaming World gave the game score of 1 out of 5 stating" Undoubtedly, this game would have looked good 10 years ago. But, today, this type of boring gameplay just looks old, canned and cliché"
References
1996 video games
Video games set in the Viking Age
GT Interactive games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20on%207 | Vought News Network: Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman (also known as Seven on 7 on VNN [Vought News Network], or simply Seven on 7) is an American faux current affairs digital series serving as the center of several viral marketing campaigns created by Amazon Prime Video for their streaming television series The Boys. Directed by Matt Motschenbacher, and based on the fictional Vought News Network (VNN)—a parody of the Cable News Network (CNN) as well as Fox News—the YouTube videos initially began as marketing for The Boys—developed by Eric Kripke—and resulting cinematic universe media franchise—an adaptation of the DC-WildStorm/Dynamite Entertainment comic series of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson—and deal with major events between the events of the second and third seasons of the series, and later the spin-off Gen V.
The first season of the news program is presented by Matthew Edison as Cameron Coleman—a parody of Tucker Carlson and J. K. Simmons' Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) portrayal of J. Jonah Jameson—who later reprised his role from the series in the third season of The Boys. Several actors reprise their roles from the television series in faux interview and corporate advertising campaign segments, while archival footage and imagery of others is also used. The initial videos were released from July to December 2021, focusing on the immediate aftermath of the second season of The Boys leading up to the third season and Gen V spin-off, following the former season's production delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following a shortened second season, a third season leading up to the events of the fourth season of The Boys and Gen V entered active development.
The videos are accompanied by additional marketing materials, such as in-universe web articles and social media posts. The series was positively received, seen as better than average viral marketing campaigns, and as a fun and insightful expansion of The Boys franchise for fans of it.
Episodes
Aftermath of The Boys Season 2 campaign (2021–2022)
The Boys Season 3 campaign (2022)
Gen V Season 1 campaign (2022)
Cast and characters
Matthew Edison as Cameron Coleman, the presenter of The Cameron Coleman Show and the monthly Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman, who spouts rhetoric in favour of Vought International and its various superhero franchises. Edison later reprised the role in a recurring capacity in the third season of The Boys.
Reprising their roles from The Boys streaming television series are Claudia Doumit as Victoria "Vic" Neuman, Chace Crawford as Kevin Moskowitz / The Deep, Jessie T. Usher as Reginald "Reggie" Franklin / A-Train, Antony Starr as John / Homelander, Jack Quaid as Hugh "Hughie" Campbell, and Nathan Mitchell as Earving / Black Noir, with Jim Beaver and Giancarlo Esposito making brief vocal appearances as their respective characters Robert "Dakota Bob" Singer and Stanford "Stan" Edgar. Footage of Miles Gaston Villanueva, Nick Wechsler, Laurie H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanjabeel%20Asim%20Shah | Zanjabeel Asim Shah is a Pakistani screenwriter. She is known for writing scripts for television serials and working as head of content for several private network channels. She won the Pakistan International Screen Award for Best TV writer and was nominated three times for the Lux Style Awards.
Career
Shah started her career in 2010, working at Geo TV, where she served as the head of production for several television serials. She first wrote the series Saat Pardon Mein in 2012 for the same channel. She gained critical success with revenge-romance Marasim which revolves around the revenge of a mother through her son that she suffered as bride. She later wrote serials such as Yeh Mera Deewanapan Hai, about a romantic couple with a huge age difference between them, and Balaa, the story of a limping girl who destroys others' lives due to her own insecurities. Balaa was a commercial success and earned her critical acclaim as well. She also wrote mystery-thriller Cheekh and teen-romance Pyar Ke Sadqay, both of which gained her critical acclaim.
She also worked as head of content on other television networks such as ARY Digital and A-Plus TV.
Notable work
Television
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|2012
|Saat Pardon Mein
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|Rowspan="2"|2014
|Bashar Momin
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|Marasim
|rowspan="3"|A-Plus TV
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|2015-16
|Yeh Mera Deewanapan Hai
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|2018
|Mere Bewafa
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|2018-19
|Balaa
|rowspan="2"|ARY Digital
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|2019
|Cheekh
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|2020
|Pyar Ke Sadqay
|Hum TV|
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|2021-22
|Koyal|Aaj Entertainment
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|2021
|Fitoor|rowspan="2"|Geo Entertainment
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|Rowspan="2"|2022
|Dil Zaar Zaar|
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|Fraud|ARY Digital
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|Rowspan="3"|2022-23
|Meri Shehzadi|Rowspan="2"|Hum TV
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|Tinkay Ka Sahara|
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Awards and accolades
2021 - Pakistan International Screen Awards - Best TV Writer for Pyar Ke Sadqay Nominated - 2014 - Lux Style Awards - Best TV Writer for Marasim Nominated - 2017 - Lux Style Awards - Best TV Writer for Balaa Nominated - 2021 - Lux Sryle Awards - Best TV Writer for Pyar Ke Sadqay''
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century Pakistani women writers
Pakistani screenwriters
Lux Style Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20Network%20Showcase | The NHL Network Showcase is a presentation of National Hockey League (NHL) games televised on NHL Network. It premiered on February 6, 2021 during the 2020–21 NHL season. The games primarily air on Saturday or Sunday afternoons, and were the first in-house NHL telecasts to be carried by NHL Network. The telecasts are also broadcast by the NHL's rightsholders in Europe as the European Game of the Week.
History
In the 2018–19 NHL season, the NHL established the European Game of the Week, under which it would schedule weekend afternoon games intended for primetime broadcasts by the NHL's European media partners. The first of these games was the NHL Global Series game in Gothenburg, Sweden, on October 6, 2018.
For the shortened 2020–21 NHL season, NHL Network–which until then, primarily aired NHL games simulcast from regional sports networks and Canadian broadcasters–announced that it would introduce its first original NHL telecasts, known as the NHL Network Showcase. The network scheduled an inaugural slate of 16 games beginning on February 6, 2021, all of which drawn from the European Game of the Week package. The first game was originally intended to be between the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers. As multiple Devils games were postponed due to COVID-19 protocol, it was replaced by a game between the Colorado Avalanche and the St. Louis Blues.
The package returned for the 2021–22 NHL season, expanding to 25 games throughout the season.
Production
As with most NHL games in the 2020–21 season due to COVID-19 protocol, NHL Network Showcase broadcasts are produced from clean feeds produced by the home team's regional rightsholder, with commentary, graphics, and surrounding coverage produced and added from NHL Network's studios in Secaucus, New Jersey. For the 2021–22 season, NHL Network began to employ an on-site skeleton crew to augment the host production with its own cameras, but otherwise continued to use a remote production as before.
With the introduction of an in-house broadcast, the European Game of the Week broadcast concurrently became a repackaged version of the NHL Network Showcase broadcast, carrying a separate intro and branding to the U.S. telecast with a focus on international players. During the 2021–22 season, NHL Network also produced nine games exclusively for international broadcasts.
On-air staff
Stephen Nelson serves as the lead commentator for NHL Network Showcase broadcasts, with Brian Lawton, Dave Reid, Mike Rupp, and Kevin Weekes serving as a rotating team of analysts during the first season. E.J. Hradek and Mike Johnson were a secondary crew for a game in the 2021–22 season.
See also
MLB Network Showcase, Major League Baseball telecasts carried by sister channel MLB Network.
References
External links
NHL Network official website
National Hockey League on television
2021 American television series debuts
American sports television series
2020s American television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20element | A secure element (SE) is a secure operating system (OS) in a tamper-resistant processor chip or secure component. It can protect assets (root of trust, sensitive data, keys, certificates, applications) against high level software and hardware attacks. Applications that process this sensitive data on an SE are isolated and so operate within a controlled environment not impacted by software (including possible malware) found elsewhere on the OS.
The hardware and embedded software meet the requirements of the Security IC Platform Protection Profile [PP 0084] including resistance to physical tampering scenarios described within it. More than 96 billion secure elements have been produced and shipped between 2010 and 2021.
SEs exist in different form factors; as devices such as smart card, SIM/UICC, smart microSD, or as part of a larger device as an embedded or integrated SE. SEs are an evolution of the traditional chip that was powering smart cards, which have been adapted to suit the needs of numerous use cases, such as smartphones, tablets, set top boxes, wearables, connected cars, and other internet of things (IoT) devices. The technology is widely used by technology firms such as Oracle, Apple and Samsung.
SEs provide secure isolation, storage and processing for applications (called applets) they host while being isolated from the external world (e.g. rich OS and application processor when embedded in a smartphone) and from other applications running on the SE. Java Card and MULTOS are the most deployed standardized multi-application operating systems currently used to develop applications running on SE.
Since 1999, GlobalPlatform has been the body responsible for standardizing secure element technologies to support a dynamic model of application management in a multi actor model. GlobalPlatform also runs Functional and Security Certification programmes for secure elements, and hosts a list of Functional Certified and Security Certified products. GlobalPlatform technology is also embedded in other standards such as ETSI SCP (now SET) since release 7. A Common Criteria Secure Element Protection Profile has been released targeting EAL4+ level with ALC_DVS.2 and AVA_VAN.5 extension to standardize the security features of a secure element across markets.
References
Computer security
Computer hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Havoc%20Controller | Air Havoc Controller is a 1994 video game from Trimark Interactive.
Reception
Computer Gaming World gave the game a score of 3.5 out of 5 stating"Provided you're not training to pass an FAA controller exam, but simply want some high-tension challenges steering some heavy metal through crowded skies, Air Havoc Controller is a game you'll want to play"
References
1994 video games
Trimark Interactive games
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Ninja%20Warrior%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of the sports entertainment reality competition series Australian Ninja Warrior premiered on 27 June 2022 on the Nine Network. The season is hosted by Leila McKinnon, Jim Courier and Will & Woody.
Production
On 15 September 2021, the series was officially renewed for a sixth season at Nine's upfronts. In October 2021, Fordham quit as series host. In November 2021, Nine announced Maddern’s contract was not renewed and she would be leaving the network effective immediately, in which she will be resigning as the show's host. In January 2022, Jim Courier and Leila McKinnon were announced as the new hosts of the series, with Will & Woody as sideline commentators.
Format Changes
Power round - instead of the power tower, this season has the power pool. The top 4 from each round fend off in 2 rounds, beginning with a chase across the water, into a rope climb, then across 3 laches, onto another rope to the buzzer, the first ones to hit their buzzers than go to a final round where the winner receives an advantage in the semi-finals.
Advantage - the winner of the power pool receives an advantage for the semi-final, in which they are able to choose their opponent for the semi-final obstacle.
Semi-finals - the semi-final obstacle course for the first time will be a head to head race, with the winner of each race heading directly to the Grand Final.
Advantage - the ninja who runs the fastest and furthest (or fastest to complete the obstacle) will receive an advantage in the Grand Final.
Grand final - the grand final stage 1 obstacle course for the first time will be a head to head race, with the winner of each race continuing on the course but must complete the course within the time limit to progress to stage 2.
Rounds
Underline represents the contestant who won the advantage in the semi-finals in the qualifying heats as a result of winning the head to head competition in the Power Pool.
Italics denotes female competitors.
Episode 1
Heat 1
This episode aired on 27 June 2022. Only eight competitors completed this course, with a large number of athletes bowing out on the Anaconda. Newcomer athlete Ash Campbell was given an advantage for the semi-finals, after beating returning athlete David Lack in the Power Pool.
Shrinking Steps
Eagles Claw
Domino Effect
Anaconda
Ring Chaser
Warped Wall
Episode 2
Heat 2
This episode aired on 28 June 2022. Only five competitors completed this course, with a large number of athletes bowing out on the Anaconda. Returning athlete Bryson Klein was given an advantage for the semi-finals, after beating returning athlete Mat Hutchins-Read in the Power Pool.
Shrinking Steps
Candy Cane Rush
Domino Effect
Anaconda
Weight For It
Warped Wall
Episode 3
Heat 3
This episode aired on 29 June 2022. Only seven competitors completed this course, with a large number of athletes bowing out on the Anaconda. Returning athlete Matthew Bowles was given an advantage for the semi-finals, after beating returning athlete |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20H.%20Hussain | K. H. Hussain is a computing expert and typeface designer from Kerala, India. In the early days of the Malayalam computing, he came into the field of Malayalam computing by creating his own Malayalam font and text editor.
Hussain's major contributions include eleven fonts including Rachana, Meera, Keraliyam, Tamil Inime, Dyuthi, Uroob and Panmana, the preservation of millions of pages in five digital archives, and the Arabic Malayalam keyboard. He was also responsible for setting up the first computer based information system in Malayalam.
Biography
K. H. Hussain was born in 1952 in Eriyat near Kodungallur in Thrissur district of Kerala. He graduated from UC College, Aluva in 1978 with a degree in mathematics. After that he done his master's degree in Information Science from Indira Gandhi National Open University.
Attracted towards the Naxalite movement in Kerala, Hussain was jailed for 20 months for working against the Emergency in India. T. N. Joey was his political mentor. After the Emergency, he worked as a teacher at a tuition center in Kunnamkulam for some time. After graduating in Library Science from the University of Kerala in 1980, he worked as a Librarian in the Kerala Forest Research Institute in 1981. While working as librarian, he entered the field of Information technology and font design. He later joined as scientist in Kerala Forest Research Institute, and retired from the same.
In 1999, Hussain joined the Rachana Aksharavedi, a voluntary organization working for Malayalam computing. He entered the Malayalam computing field with R. Chithrajakumar and his team, composing a Malayalam unique font called Rachana, and a Malayalam language text editor. Hussain became part of the Rachana due to his knowledge of computers. The Unicode font released in 2006 was widely circulated under the leadership of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing. first published book in Rachana font was Guru Nithya Chaitanya Yati's Thumpoo Muthal Suryan Vare.
Hussain has worked with the Sayahna Foundation, aimed at preserving classic Malayalam books, founded in 2015 by C. V. Radhakrishnan.
Hussain's major contributions include eleven fonts including Rachana, Meera, Keraliyam, Tamil Inime, Dyuthi, Uroob and Panmana, the preservation of millions of pages in five digital archives, and the Arabic Malayalam keyboard. He was also responsible for setting up the first computer based information system in Malayalam.
Awards and honours
Dr. Pradeepan Pampirikunnu Memorial Mathrubhasha (Mother Tongue) Award instituted by Kalady Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University for his contributions the Malayalam language.
Government of Kerala e-Governance Award 2010
References
20th-century Indian designers
1952 births
Living people
Indian typographers and type designers
People from Thrissur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobalytics | Mobalytics (incorporated as Gamers Net, Inc.) is an American Esports company based in Marina Del Rey, California. It specializes in providing visual analytics and performance data to competitive gamers, aimed at improving gaming performance. The software uses in-game data and machine learning algorithms to detect weaknesses of the players and provide methods of enhancing player performance through visual analysis and insights.
History
Mobalytics was founded on August 1, 2016 by Amine Issa, Bogdan Suchyk and Nikolay Lobanov.
In 2016, Mobalytics won TechCrunch’s Premiere Startup competition, Startup Battlefield, taking the $50,000 prize. The founding team entered the competition with only two hours to spare before the entries closed. Following the win and subsequent investment boost, the three founders formed the core team and began to expand their operations. In July 2020, Mobalytics announced it had raised $11.25 million. Investors included GGV Capital, Axiomatic and T1 eSports. During the investment round, the Mobalytics community was estimated to have reached over 7 million members.
In December 2020, Mobalytics announced content partnership with a broadcast channel GINX eSport TV.
Technology
Mobalytics implemented a rating system called Gamer Performance Index (GPI) that evaluates the performance of the players. A visual map is provided with metrics that indicate the gaming skills in need of improvement, such as fighting, farming, vision, aggression, survivability, teamplay, consistency and versatility. The GPI analyzes gaming strengths and weaknesses, and provides insight for both players and their competitors. The Mobalytics software bases its analysis on recordings of the gaming matches. In 2019, the company partnered with a Swedish technology company Tobii to develop eye-tracking technology that is expected to provide a more complex behavioral analysis.
Game titles
Since its launch, the Mobalytics platform has grown to currently support five game titles by Riot Games: League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and VALORANT.
References
Companies based in California
Video game companies established in 2016
Video game companies of the United States
Video game development companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Powers | Shawn Powers (born 19 July 1975) is a journalist, Open Source evangelist, cartoonist, and online personality. He is currently a co-host at FLOSS Weekly.. on the TWiT.tv network, a frequent guest host on the Reality 2.0 podcast, and an active blogger since 2006. Specializing in Linux, he is best known for his time as Associate Editor and columnist for Linux Journal from 2007 until its buyout in 2019. His first article, Build Your Own Arcade Game Player and Relive the '80s! was featured on the 2007 cover of Linux Journal. Powers became an editor of the magazine shortly thereafter, writing the monthly Current_Issue.tar.gz and UpFront columns and answering letters to the editor. He was also the main personality on the Linux Journal YouTube channel, and still creates content on his own channel.
Career
Powers' professional careers have focused on education. From 2000-2012, he was the Technology Director at Inland Lakes Schools in Indian River, Michigan. Then from 2012-2013 he was Assistant Director of Database Services at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition, he has been a Linux and Open Source trainer for CBT Nuggets from 2009 until present day.
He has spoken at multiple conferences, including Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE), Penguicon, Michigan Association for Educational Data Systems (MAEDS), and was keynote speaker at Ohio Linuxfest 2009.
His online comic, MyBigRoundWorld has been active since 2021
https://www.reality2cast.com/65.
Life
Powers spent his early years living in Detroit, MI. His family moved to northern Michigan in the late 80s, and he graduated from Cheboygan High School in 1993. He received several scholarships to attend Michigan Technological University, and worked toward an Electrical Engineering degree until he dropped out in 1995 to pursue computer networking. That year, he married Donna Powers (née Croft). They have 3 adult children, and currently live in Petoskey, MI.
Of note, in March of 1999, Shawn had a car accident which caused complete amnesia, which continues to present day. He's given several talks, and been interviewed on multiple occasions about amnesia and closed head injuries.
In January 2010 Powers' house caught fire and was a complete loss. Shawn, his wife Donna, and their three girls escaped unharmed, but their pets were lost.
References
External links
My Big Round World comic
1975 births
Living people
Journalists from Michigan
American evangelists
American cartoonists
American Internet celebrities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArtFacts.Net | ArtFacts.Net is the world's largest online art database, founded in 2001 by Stine Albertsen and Marek Claassen. The company is registered as a Limited Company (Ltd.) in Great Britain. ArtFacts has been collecting, archiving, publishing and analyzing data on the art market worldwide since the company was founded, for example in the so-called Artist Ranking
History
Marek Claassen developed in cooperation with the Federal Association of German Galleries and Art Dealers e. V. and the Art Cologne trade fair database-driven websites, and systems for quickly creating exhibition catalogues. This was later done with GISI (Gallery Information System on the Internet) a virtual exhibition and archive system for galleries in Berlin, the forerunner of today's Artfacts art platform. Stine Albertsen (born 1978 in Copenhagen ) a co-founder of Artfacts, had initially worked for the Danish Embassy in Berlin before co-founding Artfacts in 2001.
With the founding of ArtFacts in 2001, the company began to systematically collect data on the (primary) art market . The focus is on the exhibition activities of artists; institutions (art associations, museums or art galleries, etc.). And galleries report their individual and group exhibitions to ArtFacts after which ArtFacts aggregates them for the respective artists and exhibition institutions into an exhibition history. In 2004, the so-called ArtFacts Ranking was introduced, which measures the artists' exhibition activities and illustrates them with graphs. The years before the global financial crisis caused the art market and the number of galleries to grow rapidly worldwide. In this context, ArtFacts developed into an international art market platform with 900,000 unique visitors per month.
With the financial market crisis, the art market also got into trouble, and as a result many galleries closed or cut their costs. Galleries, which were previously ArtFacts' main customers, declined, and thereby endangered the company not only financially but also in terms of collecting exhibition data. With the introduction of new memberships, for example for artists, curators or collectors, the situation could be compensated for and the reach into the art world even increased. With the expansion of an international team of editors, the company was able to verify the information received.
Technological change on the Internet and in end devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.) led to the adaptation of artifacts to today's standards.
Artist ranking
ArtFacts relates artists to one another using a complex algorithm that assumes that each exhibition carries a different weight in the art world. So e.g. For example, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is valued higher than one at a rural art club with few visitors. In addition to the exhibition activity, the algorithm also evaluates the reach, the quality of the institutions or collections and awards points. The accumulated points are displayed graphically so that the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barna%20Saha | Barna Saha is an Indian-American theoretical computer scientist whose research interests include algorithmic applications of the probabilistic method, probabilistic databases, fine-grained complexity, and the analysis of big data. She is an associate professor and Jacobs Faculty Scholar in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
Education and career
Saha is originally from Siliguri, and grew up intending to follow her mother into a career in chemistry. She was an undergraduate at Jadavpur University, and earned a master's degree at IIT Kanpur in 2006. She completed her Ph.D. in 2011 at the University of Maryland, College Park, with Samir Khuller as her doctoral advisor. Her dissertation was Approximation Algorithms for Resource Allocation.
After completing her doctorate, she became a senior member of the technical research staff at the Shannon Research Laboratory of AT&T Labs. In 2014 she moved to the College of Information and Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as an assistant professor. She worked there for five years, earning tenure as an associate professor, and then moved to the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, before moving again to the University of California, San Diego in 2022.
She is a co-founder of TCS Women, a network for women in theoretical computer science.
Research
Saha's research publications include work on algorithms for finding dense subgraphs, a version of the algorithmic Lovász local lemma for large numbers of random events, data quality, and the stochastic block model for random graph community modeling. She has also collaborated with Virginia Vassilevska Williams and others on the fine-grained complexity of computing edit distance and predicting RNA structure.
Selected publications
Recognition
In 2019, Saha won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and was named a Sloan Fellow. In 2020, IIT Kanpur gave her their Young Alumnus Award.
Personal life
Saha is married to Arya Mazumdar, a coding theorist and machine learning researcher who is also a computer science faculty member at the University of California, San Diego.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Indian computer scientists
Indian women computer scientists
IIT Kanpur alumni
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
University of California, Berkeley faculty
University of California, San Diego faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20broadcast%20networks | This is a list of radio broadcast networks.
By country
Australia
Public Networks
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
ABC Local Radio
ABC Radio National
ABC Classic
Triple J
ABC NewsRadio
Special Broadcasting Service
SBS Radio
SBS Arabic24
SBS PopAsia
SBS PopDesi
Commercial Networks
Ace Radio
ARN
ARN Regional
KIIS Network
Pure Gold Network
Capital Radio Network
Forever Classic
Capital Hit Network
Nine Radio
News Talk
Classic Hits
Nova Entertainment
Nova
Smooth
Southern Cross Austereo
Hit
Triple M
Rebel Media
Rebel FM
The Breeze
Resonate Broadcasting
Sports Entertainment Network
Sports Entertainment Network
Classic Hits
Super Radio Network
Brazil
Brazil Communication Company
Rádio Nacional
Radio Mechanic
Jovem Pan News
Jovem Pan FM
CBN
Radio Bandeirantes
BandNews FM
Mix FM
Massa FM
Band FM
Native FM
Canada
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBC Radio One
CBC Radio 2
CBC Radio 3
Première Chaîne
Espace musique
Bande à part
MBC Radio
Corus Radio Network
Énergie
Rouge FM
Rythme FM
Sportsnet Radio
TSN Radio
Defunct
CNR Radio Network (1923-1933)
Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (1932-1936)
Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland (1939-1949)
Dominion Network (1944-1962)
Trans-Canada Network (1944-1962)
CKO (1977-1989)
Pelmorex Radio Network (1990-1999)
The Team (2001-2002)
Aboriginal Voices Radio Network (2002-2016)
China
China National Radio
China Radio International
Shanghai Media Group
India
BBC Hindi
All India Radio (AIR)
Vividh Bharati
Radio City (91.1)
Big FM (92.7)
Radio One (94.3)
Radio Mirchi (98.3)
Red FM (93.5)
Suryan FM (93.5)
Hello FM (106.4)
Indonesia
Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI)
Prambors
Delta FM
I-Radio
Trax FM
Gen FM
Elshinta Radio
MNC Trijaya
RDI
Global Radio
Oz Radio
Sonora FM
Hard Rock FM
Ireland
RTÉ Radio 1
RTÉ 2fm
RTÉ lyric fm
RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta
Today FM
Japan
NHK Radio 1
JRN
NRN
JFN
JFL
MegaNet
South Korea
Korean Broadcasting System
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
Seoul Broadcasting System
New Zealand
Almost all radio stations in New Zealand are part of a radio network, and most are network-owned.
Radio New Zealand (state-owned, non-commercial)
Radio New Zealand Concert
Radio New Zealand National
MediaWorks Radio (commercial network)
George FM
Mai FM
More FM (local programming in most markets between 6am and 1pm)
Radio Live
The Breeze (local in Wellington and Christchurch)
The Edge FM
The Rock
The Sound
Magic
New Zealand Media and Entertainment (formerly The Radio Network; commercial network)
Coast
Flava
Newstalk ZB
Radio Hauraki
Radio Sport
The Hits (local breakfast in some markets, local 9am3pm in other markets)
ZM
Rhema Group
Life FM
New Zealand's Rhema
Southern Star
Pakistan
Radio Pakistan
Hum FM
City FM 89
FM 98
FM 103
Philippines
ABS-CBN Corporation
Advanced Media Broadcasting System
Aliw Broadcasting Corporation
Associated Broadcasting Company
Audiovisual Communicators, Inc.
Blockbuster Broadcasting System
Bombo Radyo Philippines
Brainstone Broadcasting Inc. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockton%20Mountain%20Trails | The Rockton Mountain Trails are an approximately network of connected hiking trails in central Pennsylvania, in Moshannon State Forest. The total trail distance includes several different linear trails that can be used to form one-way and loop hikes of various lengths. The trail system is also often used for cross-country skiing, with some segments available for mountain biking as well.
Description
The Rockton Mountain Trails were constructed starting in 1993, with a volunteer named Ben Irwin leading the efforts. Trails were built to reach scenic areas along Panther Run, Horn Shanty Stream, and Coupler Run. The area was selected for its heavy snowfall in order to attract cross-country skiers during the winter, though other users are welcomed during non-winter months. The trailhead is found on US Route 322, about three miles west of its northern interchange with Pennsylvania Route 153, or about four miles east of the village of Rockton.
References
Hiking trails in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragats%20%28computer%29 | Aragats is a first-generation electronic computer developed at the Yerevan Computer Research and Development Institute (YerNIIMM). The elemental base is vacuum tubes. The work supervisor is B.E.Khaikin.
Development continued from 1958 to 1960. In total, 4 copies of the machine were produced.
The basis for the development was the M-3 computer, developed by the team of I. S. Bruk. Simultaneously with the work on "Aragats", and also on the basis of the M-3 scheme, the YerNIIMM developed the Razdan computer, based on a semiconductor element base. To assist in the creation of Razdan and Aragats, several employees of the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences were seconded to Yerevan, the head of the group was A.P. Merenkov.
The head copy was acquired by Perm State University in 1961, although it was originally created for Leningrad State University. It was located on the basement floor of the educational building No. 2, and worked until 1973, until it was decommissioned. At the moment, the brass emblem from the computer is stored in the university museum.
Specifications
RAM – on ferrite cores
Information storage devices:
Magnetic drum
Magnetic tape
Punched tape
References
External links
Documents in the archive of Academician A. P. Ershov
A Brief History of YerNIIMM
Computer-related introductions in 1960
Soviet computer systems
Yerevan Computer Research and Development Institute |
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