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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razdan%20%28computer%29 | Razdan is a family of general-purpose digital electronic computers created from 1958–1965 at the Yerevan Computer Research and Development Institute (YerNIIMM). The computer has a semiconductor element base, that is, it belongs to computers of the second generation.
Razdan
The machine has been developed since 1958, based on the documentation for the M-3 machine (created under the direction of N.Ya.Matyukhin in the laboratory of I. S. Bruk). The head of the work is E. L. Brusilovsky.
In 1960, the Razdan machine was handed over to the State Commission.
Machine specifications
Command system: two-address, 17 basic commands, each of which has 8 modifications
Number system: binary, the word consists of 36 binary digits, of which 29 are the mantissa, 1 is the sign, 5 is the order, 1 is the sign of the order.
Speed: 5000 ops/sec.
Power consumption: approx. 3 kW from AC 220/380 V, 50 Hz.
Occupied area: 20 sq. m.
In parallel with the assembly and adjustment of Razdan, in the same research institute, work was underway on the creation of the "Aragats" computer, which has the same architecture. 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.
Razdan-2
Serially produced since 1961.
Entering and storing data and code is on perforated 35mm film.
Razdan-3
Put into operation in 1965, serial production of the machine began in 1966.
Used as a control computer for working with scientific equipment. in nuclear research.
There were several scientific programming languages compiled for it such as Fortran and Algol-60.
On the basis of this model, in 1967–1977 YerNIIMM developed a system for automating the process of selling railway tickets – the Marshrut-1 complex (chief designer – A. Kuchukyan). This complex was used for a long time at several railway stations in Moscow (and later formed the basis of the first generation Express automated control system). The developers of this system received the State Prize of the Armenian SSR in 1974.
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Razdan-2
Razdan-3
Documents in the archive of Academician A.P. Ershov
VSU Virtual Museum :: COMPUTER :: Razdan – “Razdan-2”
The main technical parameters of the universal digital machine Razdan-3
Computer-related introductions in 1960
Soviet computer systems
Yerevan Computer Research and Development Institute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20Authenticity%20Initiative | The Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) is an association founded in November 2019 by Adobe, the New York Times and Twitter. The CAI promotes an industry standard for provenance metadata defined by the C2PA. The CAI cites curbing disinformation as one motivation for its activities.
Cooperation with the C2PA
Together with arm, BBC, Intel, Microsoft and Truepic, Adobe co-founded the "Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity" (C2PA) in February 2021. The C2PA is tasked with the formulation of an open, royalty-free technical standard that serves as a basis for the C2PA member's efforts against disinformation. While the C2PA's work applies to the technical aspects of implementing a provenance metadata standard, the CAI sees its task in the dissemination and promotion of the standard.
Provenance of information
The procedures proposed by CAI and C2PA address the widespread occurrence of disinformation with a set of additional data (metadata) containing details about the provenance of information displayed on a digital device. Such information can be, for example, a photo, video, sound or text file. The C2PA metadata for this information can include, among other things, the publisher of the information, the device used to record the information, the location and time of the recording or editing steps that altered the information. To make sure that the C2PA metadata can not be changed unnoticed, it is secured with hashcodes and certified digital signatures. The same applies to main content of the information, such as a picture or a text. A hash code of that data is stored in the C2PA metadata section and then, as part of that metadata, secured with the digital signature.
Securing metadata and the main content with certified signatures enables users to reliably identify the provenance of a file they are currently viewing. If the C2PA metadata names, for example, a certain TV station as the publisher of a file, it is very unlikely that the file originated from another source.
Files with C2PA-compliant metadata that are copied from a publisher's website and then published unaltered on social media (or elsewhere) still retain the full set of tamper-proof provenance information. Users seeing that content on social media can examine such a file with an online tool offered by the CAI or, if present, with C2PA-compliant inspection tools offered by the social media site. Standard-compliant tools will detect whether there were any unauthorized modifications to the file or the metadata. If there were no such modifications, the user can trust the metadata as well as the main content to be exactly as they were published.
The methods proposed by CAI and C2PA do not allow for statements whether a content is "true", i.e., contains authentic information that faithfully reflects reality. Instead, C2PA-compliant metadata only offers reliable information about the origin of a piece of information. Whether users wants to trust this information depends solel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Wootters | Mary Katherine Wootters is an American coding theorist, information theorist, and theoretical computer scientist. She is an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering and a member of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University.
Education and career
Wootters majored in mathematics and computer science at Swarthmore College, graduating in 2008. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2014; her dissertation, Any errors in this dissertation are probably fixable: topics in probability and error correcting codes, was supervised by Martin Strauss. She joined the Stanford faculty after postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon University.
In 2021, Wootters became a part of a team of engineers and computer scientists at Stanford with the aim of increasing processing power and memory capacity for battery powered smart devices. The Team combined several energy-efficient hybrid chips to create the illusion of one larger chip, This allows for devices to run AI tasks much faster.
Recognition
As a student at Swarthmore, Wootters won an honorable mention for the 2008 Alice T. Schafer Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics, for undergraduate research on configuration spaces of linkages and stick numbers of knots. She was awarded the Sumner Byron Myers Prize for her PhD thesis. Wootters was one of the inaugural winners of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award, in 2015. In 2019, she was the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2022, Wootters won the James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars of the IEEE Information Theory Society.
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Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American information theorists
Coding theorists
American women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Swarthmore College alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Stanford University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootters | Wootters is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mary Wootters, American coding theorist and computer scientist
William Wootters (born 1951), American quantum information theorist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inzone | Inzone is a brand of Sony Electronics used for gaming-focused monitors and headphones products.
It was announced on June 28, 2022 with a lineup of two computer monitors and three headphones intended for PC gaming. The brand name is intended to reflect the concept of being "in the zone".
Product range
Monitors
As of June 2022 there are two Inzone monitors, both of which diagonally measure 27 inches [CONVERT] large. The M3 is the low-end model, which Sony priced as US$529. The M9 is the high-end model, priced at $899.
Headphones
As of June 2022, Sony offers three Inzone headphone models: the $100 H3, the $229 H7, and the $300 H9.
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Video game hardware
2022 introductions
2022 in video gaming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Litvack | John A. Litvack (May 25, 1945 – March 21, 2015) was an American television producer and media executive who was head of scheduling and programming for The WB Network and was an executive at CBS, NBC, MGM and Disney TV. He was called the "dean of current programming."
Biography
Litvack was born in Newton, Massachusetts on May 25, 1945. He received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1966 and began his television career as a cue-card holder for the children's television series Captain Kangaroo.
He worked his way up in the network, becoming a director of TV soap operas such as The Edge of Night, The Guiding Light, As the World Turns, and Search for Tomorrow, becoming director of daytime programs for CBS from 1975 to 1978. He was credited for credited with helping innovate the look of soap operas by making them look more cinematic.
From 1979 to 1981, Litvack was head of current programming at MGM Television. He was named VP of current drama at NBC in 1981 and supervised shows such as Hill Street Blues, The A-Team, Miami Vice, St. Elsewhere, and Remington Steele. From 1986 to 1987, he worked at MTM Productions. He joined Disney TV as senior VP of current programming in 1989, working with Garth Ancier and Jordan Levin. He oversaw the development of shows such as The Golden Girls and Home Improvement, and helped develop the show Boy Meets World. He also helped start the Archive of American Television during this time.
From 1997 to 2004, Litvack was EVP, head of scheduling and current programming at the WB Network. During that time, he oversaw the production of Dawson's Creek, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, 7th Heaven, Charmed, Felicity, Popular, Everwood and Smallville. He was credited by Variety for mentoring J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, Greg Berlanti how to run television series.
Litvack was a co-executive producer of Hill Street Blues, Smallville, and consulting producer of Fringe.
Personal life
Litvack was the father of Cameron Litvack. He died on March 21, 2015, following surgery complications at age 69.
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Columbia College (New York) alumni
American media executives
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Disney people
The WB executives
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2015 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary%20Condition%20Analysis | Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) is a research approach and tool employed to discern "necessary conditions" within datasets. These indispensable conditions stand as pivotal determinants of particular outcomes, wherein the absence of such conditions ensures the absence of the intended result. Illustratively, the admission of a student into a Ph.D. program necessitates an adequate GMAT score; the progression of AIDS mandates the presence of HIV; and the realization of organizational change will not occur without the commitment of management. Singular in nature, these conditions possess the potential to function as bottlenecks for the desired outcome. Their absence unequivocally guarantees the failure of the intended objective, a deficiency that cannot be offset by the influence of other contributing factors. It is noteworthy, however, that the mere presence of the necessary condition does not ensure the assured attainment of success. In such instances, the condition demonstrates its necessity but lacks sufficiency. To obviate the risk of failure, the simultaneous satisfaction of each distinct necessary condition is imperative. NCA serves as a systematic mechanism, furnishing the rationale and methodological apparatus requisite for the identification and assessment of necessary conditions within extant or novel datasets. It is a powerful method for investigating causal relationships and determining the minimum requirements that must be present for an outcome to be achieved.
Overview
Necessary Condition Analysis originated in the field of management research and has since found applications in various disciplines, including social sciences, economics, marketing, management, and engineering. It provides a unique perspective on causality by focusing on the identification of necessary conditions rather than sufficient conditions.
Traditional statistical methods often emphasize the identification of factors that are sufficient to produce an outcome. In contrast, NCA aims to uncover conditions that must be present for a specific outcome to occur. By isolating these necessary conditions, researchers gain insights into the core factors that are indispensable for achieving the desired outcome.
NCA acts as stand-alone method or as a complement to other analytical techniques such as regression-based analysis, structural equation modelling, or Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Recent research showed that NCA can be successfully used in combination with PLS-SEM and fsQCA to identify and characterize significant factors by using different causal logics.
Methodology
NCA allows researchers to analyse how predictor variables constrain the outcome variable by revealing which predictor variables are considered to be necessary, and to what degree they constrain the outcome variable. This is done by evaluating the effect size d of each necessary condition, and examining the statistical significance of the necessary condition (permutation test), and by having the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venga%20la%20alegr%C3%ADa | , abbreviated VLA, is a Mexican morning television program aired on the Azteca Uno network (formerly Azteca Trece). It began broadcasting on January 2, 2006, and features segments on entertainment, health and beauty, cooking, and other topics. It competes with similar programs on TV Azteca's competitors, including on Las Estrellas and on Imagen Televisión.
History
VLA first appeared on January 2, 2006, as a replacement for the similarly formatted Cada mañana. Two of its original hosts, Ingrid Coronado and Ana La Salvia, had previously been on Cada mañana: they were joined by Argentine-Mexican presenter Fernando del Solar.
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2006 television series debuts
Mexican television talk shows
Television series by TV Azteca
Azteca Uno original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lego%20Batman%20Movie%20%28soundtrack%29 | The Lego Batman Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2017 computer-animated film The Lego Batman Movie, which is the second instalment in The Lego Movie franchise. The film is based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, and other primary characters from the DC Universe and the Lego DC Super Heroes' Batman toy line. This is the first and only film in the franchise not to be scored by Mark Mothersbaugh, instead Lorne Balfe scored for the film. The soundtrack to the film was released by WaterTower Music, through two-disc CD formats and for digital download, on February 3, 2017, a week prior to the film's release. A vinyl edition of the soundtrack was released on May 19, 2017.
Background
Lorne Balfe was hired to score for the film in June 2016. He previously assisted Hans Zimmer on the music of The Dark Knight trilogy, which is also based on the DC Comics character Batman. The film's director Chris McKay, described the film "as a mixture of how About a Boy, meets director Michael Bay" for which he agreed to be a part of the film. While working on the score Balfe did not think the film as a Batman film, but a "live-action film with Lego characters", and took the approach of a serious film, rather than writing "typical animated film music". Balfe did not use any musical references from previous Batman films, but instead he used Neal Hefti's original theme from the 1960's television series, as he thought "it would be great to hear in the film".
The first of the few themes he had written for the film, is the theme for Robin, who plays a pivotal appearance, as, according to Balfe, "a principal leitmoif or theme was not featured for the character". He had written a song "I Found You" for the character. Balfe used a different approach for the music for other characters, including Joker, where "he has a traveling band with him, the same way in which Henry VIII would have a lute player following him around…" The theme for Joker incorporate sitars, harpsichords and rock guitar. Red Hot Chili Peppers band's principal drummer Chad Smith, played drums for the score. Speaking about Smith's inclusion Balfe had said "it brought a whole different dimension to the score [...] It’s not banging drums; it’s the attitude behind playing them. And he brought the whole opening sequence alive."
Chris McKay initially planned The Lego Batman Movie as a musical film. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, he said that "I think if we had more time, there would have been a version of this movie that would have been a full musical and had more point of view songs like that for sure. But really, we just wanted people to leave the theater smiling and feel good as Batman embraces these people."
Apart from composition, Balfe also wrote few songs for the film, including "Who's The (Bat) Man" and "I Found You". Hefti's theme from the television series was interpreted for the original song "Who's The (Bat)Man" performed by Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida%20M.%20Flynn | Ida Latizia Anna Maria Flynn (born Moretti; February 12, 1942 – April 12, 2004) was an American computer scientist, academic department director, textbook author, and professor. She specialized in operating systems, which was the subject of a textbook she co-wrote. Flynn worked at the University of Pittsburgh where she was a founding director of the undergraduate program, Information Sciences (BSIS).
Biography
Flynn held a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Adelphi University, a master's degree in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology, a master's degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. degree in library and information science from the University of Pittsburgh.
Flynn was the founder and director of the undergraduate program in information science (BSIS) at the University of Pittsburgh; in memory of her achievements, the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems at the University of Pittsburgh makes an annual award to one of the graduates of the program. She retired in 2000 as professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She also had worked at Point Park College.
Flynn was the co-author of a textbook on operating systems, "Understanding Operating Systems", of which an early edition received the 2001 Textbook Excellence Award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association.
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American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
1942 births
2004 deaths
Adelphi University alumni
Illinois Institute of Technology alumni
University of Pittsburgh alumni
University of Pittsburgh faculty
People from Pittsburgh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20E.%20Thornton | James E. Thornton (September 25, 1925, in Saint Paul, Minnesota – January 11, 2005) was an American computer engineer.
Thornton studied electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota earning a bachelor's degree in 1950. Immediately afterwards he went to Engineering Research Associates (ERA), which was acquired by Remington Rand in 1952. In 1958 he left with other ERA engineers to form the new Control Data Corporation (CDC). He remained there until 1973 and was involved in the development of the CDC 1604, CDC 6600, 6400, 6500, and the STAR-100. With Seymour Cray, he was the main developer of the pioneering supercomputer CDC 6000, which came onto the market in 1964.
In 1974 he co-founded Network Systems Corporation, which manufactured computer networks connecting mainframes and minicomputers, including HYPERchannel.
In 1994 he received the Eckert-Mauchly Award "for his pioneering work on high performance processors; for inventing the scoreboard for instruction issue; and for fundamental contributions to vector supercomputing." In 1997 he received the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award from the IEEE Computer Society "for pioneering contributions and leadership in high performance computing and networking."
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External links
Oral history interview with James E. Thornton at the Charles Babbage Institute
Design of a Computer the Control Data 6600
1925 births
2005 deaths
People from Saint Paul, Minnesota
University of Minnesota alumni
Control Data Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outta%20Here%21 | Outta Here! is an American variety and game show that aired on the cable network Nickelodeon from August 13, 1990 – January 4, 1991. The series was produced at Stage 18 at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida. It was the very first series to be exclusively produced at Nickelodeon Studios. The theme music would later be reused for the pilot of Nick Arcade.
Hosts and format
Outta Here! was hosted by Mike Daniels, Kareen Germain, Tiffany Hunter, and Bruce Klassen. While members of the young studio audience would be selected to partake in an assortment of silly and wacky games and trivia challenges, two of the hosts would be selected to each serve as team captains. The two teams would wear sun-caps that were either green or purple in color. The other two hosts who weren't selected to captain would either emcee the show or provide play-by-play for the game competition at Universal Studios Florida.
In-between, Outta Here! also had segments that discussed the latest trends and news pertaining to fashion, music, or movies. Among the guests that were interviewed were New Kids on the Block.
Greg Lee, who was a co-host on Total Panic, the series that Outta Here! immediately succeeded, stayed on as the announcer for Outta Here!. Unlike Total Panic, which aired for three hours on Sunday mornings, Outta Here! aired for 30 minutes on late weekday afternoons.
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Television shows filmed in Florida
Television shows set in Orlando, Florida
1990s American children's game shows
1990s American variety television series
1990s Nickelodeon original programming
Nickelodeon game shows
1990 American television series debuts
1991 American television series endings
English-language television shows
1990s American television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stewart%20%28campaigner%29 | John Stewart (born 1950) is a British environmental campaigner who specializes in transport issues and noise pollution. In the 1980s and 1990s, he helped coordinate a national network of community groups that successfully campaigned against the British government's then-£23-billion road-building programme. Later, Stewart led the successful campaign against a third runway at Heathrow Airport. He has several times been recognized as one of Britain's most effective environmental campaigners.
Early life
Stewart was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and raised in Edinburgh by a family from the Scottish Highlands. After studying social policy at Bristol Polytechnic, he moved to London in the early 1980s and has lived there ever since.
Road campaigning
Stewart began campaigning in the early 1980s, initially on the issue of better public transport.
Stewart has recalled that he began fighting road-building schemes in the mid-1980s after taking a wrong turn walking through London and finding himself alongside the Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach Road: "I was hit by a wall of fast-moving traffic all the way from the Blackwall Tunnel to the Bow flyover... And as I looked at the tower blocks, flats and estates within yards of the road and saw the children playing beside the roaring traffic, I thought: 'never again should this kind of road be built'".
Stewart later became chair of ALARM (All London Against the Road-building Menace), an umbrella group helping to link 150 local community campaigns in London. In the early 1990s, working with Twyford Down activist and poet Emma Must and transport campaigner Jonathan Bray, Stewart transformed ALARM into a national organization, ALARM-UK, to give 250 local campaigns a more powerful voice against the UK's national road-building programme. The organization's approach was summarized in the headline of a 1995 Guardian article as "Faith, hope and anger: An alliance between the respectable middle classes and radical activists is taking on that scourge of city life the car". As Stewart told ALARM-UK's inaugural national conference in 1993: "The Department of Transport's nightmare is that isolated local groups that have sprung up to fight a road scheme will start talking to each other, sharing information and co-ordinating campaigns. We want to make that nightmare come true".
By the mid-1990s, virtually all of the UK roads programme had been cancelled: the original 600 planned roads were cut down to just 50 by the Labour government elected in 1997.
Aircraft noise
With the roads programme in decline, Stewart switched his attention to tackling noise and nuisance from aircraft. Over the next decade, he established what John Vidal of The Guardian described as "possibly the most formidable coalition ever formed against any single building project in Britain" to oppose the controversial third runway at Heathrow. Using similar alliance-building tactics to those he'd developed at ALARM-UK, he became chair of the group H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%20Bleu%20Breizh%20Izel | France Bleu Breizh Izel - also known as France Bleu Lower Brittany, is a public service generalist radio station located in Lower Brittany, where Breton is traditionally spoken. The broadcast network and by extension Lower Brittany is made up of Finistère, western Côtes-d'Armor and western Morbihan. It was established on August 3, 1982, under the name .
History
The history of decentralized public radio in Lower Brittany has its origins in 1946 with the construction of the Quimerc'h radio transmitter. This transmitter broadcast national programs of the French Radiodiffusion, the program developed by the regional station of Rennes, but also programs specific to Lower Brittany in French and Breton. The station was initially known as Radio Quimerc'h and then Radio Brest. With the break-up of the ORTF, the Brest studio in 1976 became a local branch of Radio Armorique, placed under the authority of FR3 Rennes.
In 1982, the organization of decentralized public radio stations was remodeled. A new local station broadcasting in Lower Brittany, and independent of Radio Armorique, was created: Radio Bretagne Ouest. The station was then integrated into the public company Radio France. The studios, previously located at the esplanade François Mitterrand in Brest, were installed in Quimper, located at 155 bd Creách Gwen, on the evening of 11 December 2018. Radio Bretagne Ouest nevertheless retains the premises in Brest, though it is currently occupied by a restaurant. Radio Armorique is no longer available in Lower Brittany, but continues its broadcasts in Upper Brittany from its base in Rennes.
When it was created in 1982, the station was called Radio Bretagne Ouest (Radio Breiz Izel in Breton). In 1985, the names of the local stations of Radio France were standardized: the station was then renamed Radio France Bretagne Ouest. On the occasion of the creation of the France Bleu network in the year 2000, the station took the name of France Bleu Breiz Izel. Since 2009, the station has been called France Bleu Breizh Izel, a name using the unified spelling of Breton.
In February 2019, the station hired a "new generation of bilingual journalists" after the retirement of previous journalists. From this point on, news is fully in bilingual French and Breton. However, during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Breton broadcasting was noticeably absent due to "reorganisation" from lockdown, causing criticism, especially as other France Bleu stations, such as Pays Basque continued broadcasting in regional languages.
On September 11, 2019, France Bleu Breizh Izel appointed Jean-Yves Lafesse as a columnist for the station, broadcasting humorous stories with his brother. He remained at the station until his death in July 2021.
In August, the station lost it's broadcast right for the local Stade Brestois football team "until further notice". The reason apparently was the uncovering of information the football team did not want to reveal. The station's director Gurvan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusKill | BusKill is an open-source hardware and software project that designs computer kill cords to protect the confidentiality of the system's data from physical theft. The hardware designs are licensed CC BY-SA and the software is licensed GPLv3. BusKill cables are available commercially from the official website or through authorized distributors.
The name BusKill is an amalgamation of "Bus" from USB and "Kill" from kill cord.
History
The first computer kill cord was built by Michael Altfield in 2017
The term "BusKill" was coined by Altfield in January 2020 when publishing the first BusKill build and udev usage instructions (Linux-only), and it was ported by cyberkryption from Linux to Windows a couple weeks later. The project's official website launched the following month.
The first OS X version of the BusKill app was released in May 2020 by Steven Johnson.
A cross-platform rewrite of the software based on Kivy was released in August 2020 with support for Linux, OS X, and Windows.
In December 2021, Alt Shift International OÜ ran a crowdfunding campaign to manufacture BusKill cables on Crowd Supply. The campaign raised $18,507 by January 2022.
Hardware
The BusKill cable is a kill cord that physically tethers a user to their computer with a USB cable.
One end of the cable plugs into a computer. The other end of the cable is a carabiner that attaches to the user.
In the middle of the cable is a magnetic breakaway coupler, to allow the cable to be safely separated at any angle without physically damaging the computer or the user.
A 3D-printable hardware BusKill cable is currently under development.
Software
The BusKill project maintains a cross-platform GUI app that can either lock the screen or shutdown the computer when the cable's connection to the computer is severed and the app is in the "armed" state.
Use
If the computer is separated from the user, then a magnetic breakaway in the cable causes a USB hotplug removal event to execute a trigger in the app.
The trigger executed by the BusKill cable's removal can lock the screen, shutdown, or securely erase the LUKS header and master encryption keys within a few seconds of the cable's separation.
If combined with full disk encryption, then these triggers can be used to ensure the confidentiality of data or be used as a counter-forensics device.
See also
Dead man's switch
USBKill
Tails (operating system)
List of data-erasing software
List of free and open-source software packages
References
External links
Software using the GPL license
Free and open-source software
Free software programmed in Python
Anti-forensic software
Computer security software
Security software
Windows security software
MacOS security software
Linux security software
Cross-platform software
USB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sameer%20Hinduja | Sameer Hinduja is an American social scientist. He serves as Professor of Criminology at Florida Atlantic University and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center. He has served as a Fulbright Specialist Scholar at Dublin City University and currently serves as Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. Hinduja is also the co-founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Bullying Prevention. He is an international expert in cyberbullying, sexting, sextortion, online and offline dating violence, digital self-harm, and related forms of online harm among youth. He has written seven books, including Bullying Today: Bullet Points and Best Practices, Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying, and School Climate 2.0. His research publications have been cited approximately 20,000 times, and have appeared in such outlets as Journal of Adolescent Health, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Computers in Human Behavior, and New Media and Society. Topics studied include empathy, psychological resilience, parenting, social and emotional learning, school climate, and well-being.
Education
Hinduja grew up in Florida and received his bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice (minoring in Legal Studies) from the University of Central Florida. Then he attended Michigan State University where he received his master's degree in Criminal Justice before earning his Ph.D. in criminal justice (cognate: Computer Science).
Professional Life
Hinduja has given talks nationally and internationally on a number of topics that deal with the prevention of, and response to, youth technology abuse and misuse. Specific events include keynotes or keynote panels for the RSA, the World Anti-Bullying Forum, the International Bullying Prevention Association, Australia's eSafety Conference, and the Association for Middle Level Education. Hinduja has also testified in 2018 on cyberbullying and school safety in front of the United States Attorney General and the Department of Education, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security and has presented on School Safety and Violence Prevention at a 2015 Congressional Briefing. His work involves original data collection from tweens and teens primarily in the United States but also across the world, and is also informed by partnerships with non-profits, media companies, and social media platforms. With his research partner Dr. Justin W. Patchin, he co-directs the Cyberbullying Research Center. The mission of the center is to contribute evidence-based insight into the challenges children confront online every day. The center's work has empowered youth and adults around the world to get the most out of their online experiences by minimizing potential harms and maximizing benefits.
Publications
Academic papers
Hinduja, S. & Patchin, J. W. (2022). Bullying and Cyberbullying Offending: The Influence of Six Parenting Dimensions Amo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilize%20%28marque%29 | Mobilize is a business unit of the French car manufacturer Renault established in 2021 and focused on subscription services, leasing, loans, data and energy management, offering Mobilize-badged vehicles for car sharing and delivery services.
History
The Mobilize business unit was created in January 2021 as part of a wider overhauling of Renault operations. The new unit was set to develop car sharing and other niche businesses. That month, the unit launched the Mobilize vehicle marque by presenting the Mobilize EZ-1, a car sharing prototype quadricycle. Later that year, Renault integrated its Zity electric car sharing business into Mobilize, renaming it Zity by Mobilize. The first marketed car was the subscription-only Mobilize Limo (a rebadged JMEV Yi from JMEV), introduced in the second half of 2022. In May 2022, Renault's financial affiliate RCI Banque was made part of the unit, adopting the trade name Mobilize Financial Services.
In October 2022, Mobilize announced Mobilize Fast Charge, its EV fast-charging network, with plans for 200 chargers, primarily at Renault dealerships near major roadways, by mid-2024.
Operations
Mobilize provides cars and electric bikes for ride-sharing, taxi and delivery companies, while also offering car-related services (including subscriptions), financial services, and charging networks. The unit does not produce vehicles but it gets them from other entities. The unit is divided into two major divisions: Mobilize Financial Services (car financing) and Mobilize Beyond Automotive (other activities).
Car models
Current
Mobilize Limo (2022)
Future
Mobilize Duo (2023)
Mobilize Bento (2023)
Concepts
On 10 October 2022, Mobilize presented a set of concepts alongside the production version of the Duo and Bento models. The first is a three-wheeled, single-seater electric vehicle named the Solo, while the other is the Ileo mobile charging station.
The idea for the Mobilize Solo came from Renault's design studio in India, starting from a skateboard with an umbrella, although the final concept is more like a chair in a cover. It measures long, wide and high. Inside there is room for one person in a semi-sitting position with a joystick instead of a steering wheel.
Mobilize EZ-1 (2021)
Mobilize Hippo (2021)
Mobilize Solo (2022)
References
External links
Car manufacturers
Renault |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inula%20cordata | Inula cordata may refer to two different species of plants:
Inula cordata Boiss., a synonym for Pentanema salicinum (L.) D.Gut.Larr. et al.
Inula cordata Freyn ex Nyman, a synonym for Pentanema spiraeifolium (L.) D.Gut.Larr. et al. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20inner-product%20search | Maximum inner-product search (MIPS) is a search problem, with a corresponding class of search algorithms which attempt to maximise the inner product between a query and the data items to be retrieved. MIPS algorithms are used in a wide variety of big data applications, including recommendation algorithms and machine learning.
Formally, for a database of vectors defined over a set of labels in an inner product space with an inner product defined on it, MIPS search can be defined as the problem of determining
for a given query .
Although there is an obvious linear-time implementation, it is generally too slow to be used on practical problems. However, efficient algorithms exist to speed up MIPS search.
Under the assumption of all vectors in the set having constant norm, MIPS can be viewed as equivalent to a nearest neighbor search (NNS) problem in which maximizing the inner product is equivalent to minimizing the corresponding distance metric in the NNS problem. Like other forms of NNS, MIPS algorithms may be approximate or exact.
MIPS search is used as part of DeepMind's RETRO algorithm.
References
See also
Nearest neighbor search
Search algorithms
Computational problems
Machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Ekushey%20Television | This is a list of both current and former programs aired on Ekushey Television, a privately owned Bangladeshi television channel.
Original programming
Ajker Shongbadpotro
Amrao Boltey Chai
Atopar Ami
Bandhan
Baundule Express
Bhabi
Bideshi Para
Bish Kata
Bubuner Baba
Channel 21
Chirontony
Choturongo
Cine Hits
Deshjure
Drishti
Durer Manush
Ei Shoptaher Biswa
Ekatturer Ei Diney
Ekushey Business
Ekusher Chokh
Ekusher Dupur
Ekushey Dupur (News)
Ekushey, Pothey Pothey
Ekusher Raat
Ekushey Shongbad
Ekusher Sokal
Ekusher Sondha
Ghorar Dim
Ghotok Ebong Amra
Golpo Solpo Gaan
Hakarobin
Ishkool
Jahur Ali Jahuri
Kenakata
Media Gossip
Mukto Khabor
O Bondhu Amar
Onneshon
Pather Panchali
Phono Live Studio Concert
Priyotomashu
Radhunir Rannaghar
Shabdo Jabdo
Shofol Jara Kemon Tara
Shoshur Bari Zindabad
Shukhi Manush Project
The Diplomats
Three Comrades
Tobuo Badhan
Tuntuni Villa
Virgin Takdum Takdum
Acquired programming
Alif Laila
Blue Whale
Gul Sanobar
Hatim
Life on Earth: A Natural History
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
Popeye the Sailor
Shimanter Sultan
Supernatural: The Unseen Powers of Animals
The Adventures of Montu Miah
The Blue Planet: Seas of Life
The Life of Mammals
Thief of Baghdad
ThunderCats
Turbulence of the Mu Clan
WWE
Zoo Quest
References
Programmes
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YDB%20%28database%29 | YDB (Yet another DataBase) is a distributed SQL database management system (DBMS) developed by Yandex, available as open-source technology.
Functionality
YDB is a technology that allows creating large web services capable of supporting large operational loads of up to millions requests per second. It uses a strongly typed dialect of SQL — YDB Query Language (YQL) as a default query language and supports ACID transactions.
The closest analogues of this DBMS available as open-source software are YugabyteDB and CockroachDB.
YDB can be either self-deployed to computer clusters across physical hosts or on virtual machines via Kubernetes or as a managed service in Yandex Cloud. Serverless computing mode or dedicated mode are available for the managed service option.
Architecture
YDB works on clusters with shared-nothing architecture and uses standard commodity hardware. The system is based on tablets which implement a communication protocol for solving consensus in a network of unreliable processors. Functionally, this protocol is similar to Paxos and Raft.
User tablets in YDB have a mandatory primary key and are sharded by its ranges. Shards with user data are controlled by tablets, called DataShards. The size of a DataShard can reach several gigabytes. It can automatically split into multiple tablets when data storage threshold or shard load threshold is exceeded. This is how the system scales transparently based on the user load.
In addition to DataShard, other tablet types include, among others:
SchemeShard, which stores metadata about user tables;
Hive, which balances and launches tablets;
Coordinator and Mediator, which schedule distributed transactions.
Data from tablets is stored in the Distributed Storage layer which is a key-value storage with a specialized protocol to support the tablet protocol. Distributed Storage ensures data replication, while data from tablets is stored as BLOBs.
YDB executes distributed transactions between data from one or more tables using a distributed transaction framework based on the Calvin algorithm. Unlike Calvin, YDB supports interactive and non-deterministic transactions by using record locking.
YDB is based on the actor model. Actors are single-threaded back-end automats that exchange messages with each other while residing on different cluster servers. Messages within the network are exchanged using the interconnect library developed as part of the project.
A number of digital services, such as virtual block devices or persistent queues, have been developed as a layer over YDB.
YDB supports user interaction via the gRPC protocol with several client SDKs implementing procedures for node discovery, client balancing, etc.
YDB does not support UUID as standalone data type. It doesn't have a built-in function to automatically increment field value when adding data to a table.
History
In 2010, Yandex started working on its own NoSQL DBMS KiWi and rolled it out for internal use in 2011. However, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai%20police%20database%20leak | The Shanghai police database leak refers to the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive personal information and police case data from the Shanghai National Police Database, also known as the SHGA Database, in early July 2022. The leaked data, totaling over 23 terabytes, includes details of more than one billion Chinese residents, encompassing names, addresses, birthplaces, resident ID card numbers, phone numbers, photos, mobile phone numbers, and information on criminal cases. The data was made available for sale on the internet by an unidentified hacker, who demanded a price of 10 bitcoins.
The origin of the leaked information is believed to be the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, although this has not been officially confirmed. Screenshots shared online revealed a vast amount of intricate police information, such as the time of reporting criminals, the contact numbers of reporting individuals, and the reasons for reporting. Notably, initial analysis indicated that the personal data originated from residents all across mainland China, rather than being limited to Shanghai alone.
If the reported volume of data is accurate, the Shanghai police database leak would be regarded as the largest and most significant incident of its kind since 1949. The news of the leak faced censorship on the social platform Weibo in mainland China, potentially to impede its spread. The authorities have not yet acknowledged or publicly addressed the incident. Despite inquiries sent by Bloomberg to the Central Cyberspace Administration of China and the Shanghai Police Bureau, no responses have been received thus far. Bloomberg criticized the lack of transparency and disclosure surrounding data breaches in the People's Republic of China, citing previous incidents such as the leakage of personal information of Communist Party members in 2016, the Weibo account information leak in 2020, and the information leakage from Xinjiang re-education camps in 2022. It is worth noting that cybersecurity researcher Vinny Troia claimed he discovered the leak over a year before the server was eventually shut down.
See also
Data breach
Mass surveillance in China
Health Code#Surveillance and invasion of privacy
Xinjiang Police Files
List of data breaches
Sources
2022 in China
Data breaches
Cyberattacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20O%27Connor%20%28academic%29 | Stephen O’Connor is a chartered professor of biomedical engineering at the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, University of London. He is former President of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM). He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
References
Biomedical engineers
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Severance | Charles Severance may refer to:
Charles Severance (computer scientist)
Charles Severance (serial killer) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira%20Ishimaru | Akira Ishimaru (; born March 16, 1928) is a Japanese-American electrical engineer and professor emeritus at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Washington. He is best known for his contributions to the theory of wave scattering in random media.
Biography
Akira Ishimaru was born on March 16, 1928, in Fukuoka, Japan. He received his bachelor's degree from University of Tokyo and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Washington, respectively in 1951 and 1958. During his doctoral studies, he was supervised by Gedaliah Held. From 1951 to 1952, he worked at Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tanashi, Tokyo. In 1956, he was employed at Bell Labs. In 1958, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Washington, where he was also an adjunct professor of applied mathematics. He became a professor emeritus at the institution in 1999.
In 1996, Ishimaru was elected as a member of National Academy of Engineering "for his contributions to the theory and application of wave propagation and scattering in random media." Ishimaru is also the recipient of IEEE Centennial Medal (1984), IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal (1999) and IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000). He is a fellow of IEEE, the Optical Society of America, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Institute of Physics. He was the editor of Radio Science from 1979 to 1983, as well as the founding editor of the journals Waves in Random Media and Waves in Random and Complex Media.
Research
Ishimaru's research has mainly focused on wave propagation and scattering in random and turbulent media; his research has contributed to advances in microwave remote sensing, ultrasound imaging, laser surgery, radar systems and astronomy, as well as wireless and optical communications. His other research interests object detection and imaging in cluttered environments, inverse problems, wave propagation and scattering in the atmosphere and the terrain, acoustic scattering in the ocean and optical diffusion in tissues.
Ishimaru has also authored two textbooks on advanced electromagnetics: Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media (1978) and Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Radiation, and Scattering (1991).
Selected publications
Books
Ishimaru, A. (2017). Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Radiation, and Scattering: From Fundamentals to Applications, 2nd ed, IEEE.
Ishimaru, A. (1997). Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media, IEEE.
Journal articles
References
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
1928 births
People from Fukuoka
University of Tokyo alumni
University of Washington College of Engineering alumni
University of Washington faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American electrical engineers
Electrical engineering academics
Japanese emigrants to the United States
American academics of Japanese descent
Fellows of Optica (society)
Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America
IEEE Centennial Meda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Globo%20Pernambuco | TV Globo Pernambuco (channel 13) is a television station located in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. It is licensed to broadcast TV Globo programming and is owned by Grupo Globo. The station serves as the main broadcaster of TV Globo content in most of the state of Pernambuco. Its coverage area includes 54 municipalities, providing programming to viewers of TV Asa Branca and TV Grande Rio, as well as having a repeater in the Fernando de Noronha archipelago.
History
TV Globo Recife, now known as TV Globo Pernambuco, was established after being purchased from Organizações Victor Costa. It is located in the capital city of Pernambuco, and has been operating from its headquarters in the Santo Amaro neighborhood. since 2018. As one of the five stations owned by Grupo Globo. TV Globo Pernambuco has a strong focus on regional programming. It broadcasts important local events such as Carnival, Paixão de Cristo, and São João, do Nordeste, which features renowned Northeastern musicians. The station previously aired the Copa Nordeste de Futebol, which is now broadcast by SBT.
TV Globo Pernambuco was inaugurated on April 22, 1972, within the timeframe established by DENTEL (Department of National Telecommunications) between the license grant and the start of transmissions. To celebrate this milestone, a special edition was aired the following day, broadcast live nationwide, featuring the opening of the sports show "Chacrinha de Esporte" directly from the Geraldo Magalhães Gymnasium.
Due to the rushed implementation, the station initially faced operational challenges. It had poor signal quality, irregular in some states, and used equipment reused from other branches. The studios were located at the top of Morro do Peludo in Olinda, while the journalism department and commercial sector were based in the Ambassador Building in downtown Recife. Additionally, the network's programming arrived up to two days late, as tapes were transported by plane. However, the TV news was broadcast live, setting it apart from the delayed programming.
Current Programs
In addition to broadcasting TV Globo’s national programming, Globo Nordeste generates the following programs:
Bom Dia Pernambuco
NETV 1
NETV 2
Globo Esporte PE
It's Popcorn
Globe Community
NE Radar
Programs by Season
PE Space
Northeast Summer
Northeast Winter
Northeast Living and Preserving
Stories & Tales
Specials and Musicals
Luiz Gonzaga Special (2007)
Reginaldo Rossi: 40 Years of Reign (2007)
Elba Ramalho: Cordas, Gonzaga e Afins (2014)
Lucy Alves (2015)
Chico Science: Electric Crab
Reginaldo Rossi: My Great Love
Sound of Earth: 40 Years
Legends and Hauntings of Recife
Extinct Programs
NETV 3
NETV Sunday
Jornal das Sete
Final Throw
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 1972
Television stations in Brazil
TV Globo affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Childs | Terry Childs may refer to:
Terry Childs (network administrator)
Terry Childs (serial killer) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20onshore%20wind%20farms%20in%20England | This is a list of some onshore wind farms (more than 1 turbine) in England. This information is gathered from multiple Internet sources, primarily the UK Wind Energy Database from RenewableUK (formerly BWEA), and The Wind Power's database. The name of the wind farm is the name used by the energy company when referring to the farm and is usually related to the name of the physical location, e.g. hill, moor, fell, down etc. or the name of the agricultural farm for the smaller installations on property owned by farmers. The "wind farm" part is implied and hence removed for clarity in most cases. Wind farms are listed alphabetically under the county that they are located in.
Notes
References
Wind farms in England
Wind
United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20Simperl | Elena Simperl FBCS FRSA (born May 1978) is professor of computer science in the Department of Informatics at King's College London and the Director of Research of the Open Data Institute.
Biography
She trained as a computer scientist at the Technical University of Munich and completed a PhD in knowledge engineering (Dr rer nat) at the Free University Berlin in 2007. She is best known for her work in human-machine collectives, with applications to crowdsourcing, citizen science, knowledge communities, and human data interaction, and for her leadership in data-driven innovation and data policy. According to AMiner, she is in the top 100 most influential scholars in knowledge engineering of the last decade, as well as in the Women in AI 2000 ranking.
Career
Simperl is a fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Arts, President of the Semantic Web Science Association and a former Turing Fellow.
She is also a recipient of the Siemens' Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich, working on safe and trusted AI with knowledge graphs.
Simperl serves as scientific advisor of data.europa.eu, Europe's flagship initiative in opening up public sector datasets for wider use. She co-chairs the MLCommons task force on standardising metadata for machine learning datasets.
She was the director of Data Pitch, a data innovation programme helping start-ups solve societal challenges through shared data and also the director of Open Data Incubator for Europe (ODINE). which supported start-ups in generating value from open data.
References
1978 births
Living people
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Technical University of Munich alumni
Free University of Berlin alumni
Academics of King's College London
British women computer scientists
Knowledge engineering researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20Lienhard | Heinz Lienhard (18 June 1937 – 12 May 2020) was a Swiss electrical engineer and an inventor. He was inventor of current measuring equipment and developer of the programming language PORTAL.
Life
Heinz Lienhard graduated in electrical engineering at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 1961. He started his professional career at Contraves-Oerlikon, a Swiss weapons manufacturer. There, a digital computer had been developed. Lienhard joined this company to write programs for the computer, called CORA 1. Then, he moved to the US to work for AMPEX in Redwood City, California, where he did research on magnetic thin-film memories. Simultaneously, he studied statistics at Stanford University, where he obtained a Master of Science degree. After moving back to Switzerland, he joined Landis+Gyr, a Swiss company based in Zug. With his team at the central laboratories he developed metering equipment for electric utilities and debit cards for phone companies based on holography, called Phonocards.
Starting in 1974, he conceived a new programming language based on Pascal. Together with his colleague Rudolf Schild, he optimized Pascal for real-time applications and multi-processor systems. Their resulting language was called Process-Oriented Real-Time Algorithmic Language (Portal). Together with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, an application for the Bobst Group was implemented.
In 1993, Lienhard founded the company Ivyteam AG in Zug. Ivyteam was specialized to model business processes.
References
20th-century Swiss engineers
ETH Zurich alumni
1937 births
2020 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froxlor | Froxlor is a web hosting control panel. In 2015, it contained a database security vulnerability which was fixed.
See also
net2ftp
References
Web server management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole%20Earth%20Telescope | The Whole Earth Telescope is an international network of astronomers that collaborate to study variable stars. The distribution of the observatories in longitude allow the selected targets to be continuously monitored despite the rotation of the Earth.
History
This concept was devised by American astronomers R. Edward Nather and Don E. Winget of the University of Texas at Austin. The consortium consists of individual astronomers interested in collaborating to study targets designated by a principal investigator. Where colleagues are not available, astronomers are dispatched to sites that allow telescope time to visitors. Initial funding for WET came from a grant by the US National Science Foundation, which lasted through 1998.
For each site, an observing run begins when the sky is dark, and continues until stopped by weather or dawn. A photometer is used to observe the target object, a nearby comparison star, and the background sky. The data is then sent to the control center. Each site in turn takes up an overlapping observation run, so the result is, ideally, a continuous sequence of data that can then be processed. After constructing a light curve, the data is subject to a Fourier transform to obtain the frequencies of pulsation. Referred to as an XCov, the typical observing run with the WET lasts from 10 to 14 days, and is scheduled for once or twice a year.
The first observation run took place in March, 1988, and it included the Multiple Mirror Telescope in the US, a aperture telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory, and the IUE observatory in orbit around the Earth. The first target for the run was the star PG 1346+082, or CR Boötis, an AM CVn star. The second target was V803 Centauri, a cataclysmic binary. The campaign was able to monitor the star systems for a continual period of 15 days from six participating sites.
The early focus of the program was the study of pulsating white dwarfs. Most such stars exhibiting non-radial pulsations have multiple pulsation modes, with some having frequencies on the order of a cycle per day. The only way to observe these extended frequencies is continually over durations longer than 24 hours. The observations of PG 1159-035 with the WET, reported in 1991, initiated the study of white dwarf seismology, later termed astroseismology. By 1998, WET runs had been performed on pulsating white dwarfs of the DOV, DBV, and DAV types, Delta Scuti variables, a rapidly oscillating Ap star, and cataclysmic variables. A total of 16 XCov runs had been completed by May 1998, often covering more than one target per run. Only one failure was reported, for the roAp star HD 166473.
Operations for WET moved to Iowa State University in 1995 when the International Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics offered to help fund the WET program. In 2004, the governing council of WET agreed to study private funding for its operations. This resulted in the formation of the Delaware Astroseismic Research Ce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20blockchains | This is a list of blockchains - decentralized, cryptographic databases - and other distributed ledgers.
List
See also
Category:Blockchains
List of cryptocurrencies
References
General refs
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.05665.pdf
External links
https://www.blockchainalmanac.com/blockchains/
https://chainlist.org/
Blockchains
Blockchains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20feature%20films%20with%20lesbian%20characters | The following is a list of feature films with fictional and factual lesbian characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-television network). Films are in alphabetical order by year of release. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.
20th century
1900–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
21st century
2000–2004
2005–2009
2010–2014
2015–2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
Notes
See also
List of film franchises with LGBT characters
List of feature films with LGBT characters
List of feature films with gay characters
List of feature films with bisexual characters
List of feature films with transgender characters
List of lesbian characters in television
List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters
List of LGBT-related films
List of LGBT-related films by year
Films about intersex
References
Further reading
Lists of character lists
Lists of entertainment lists
Films With Lesbian Characters, List Of
LGBT Characters
feature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalinee%20Kishore | Shalinee Kishore (born 1974) is an American electrical engineer whose research includes wireless networks, network schedulers, and energy management for smart buildings and smart grids. She is Iacocca Chair Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Director of the Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure & Energy at the Lehigh University P. C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Education
Kishore studied electrical engineering at Rutgers University, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in 1996 and 1999. She then went to Princeton University, earned a second master's degree in 2001, and completed her Ph.D. in 2003. Her dissertation, Capacity and Coverage in a Two-Tier Cellular CDMA Network, was jointly supervised by Vincent Poor and Stuart Carl Schwartz.
Recognition
Kishore won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2004, "for conducting innovative research to provide high-quality, all-encompassing wireless access to communication networks".
She won the 2016 Outstanding Service Award of the Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Standing Committee of the IEEE Communications Society.
References
External links
Home page
1974 births
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
Rutgers University alumni
Princeton University alumni
Lehigh University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOL%20House | BOL House is a of Pakistani youth-based reality show that aired on BOL Network with episodes also available online. The series premiered on 18 December 2021.
Filming of the show takes place at the BOL House in Korangi Creek Cantonment, Karachi which partially serves as BOL Network's headquarters. Like the first series, contestants lived in the house for 30 days from 4 January to 4 February 2022 until four finalists emerged.
Format
The show is a Pakistani adaptation of the Indian reality show Bigg Boss. Hosted by Aamir Liaquat Hussain, it used a mixed format which incorporated open auditions for contestant selection who were then later confined to a Big Brother-style surveillance house. The contestants would leave the house occasionally to perform tasks where performance outcomes along with nominations would result in elimination of one or more housemates.
Contestants
Names, and cities stated are at time of filming.
Progress history
This housemate was immune from eviction
This housemate won the elimination challenge and was declared safe from eviction
Notes
References
External links
BOL Network
Pakistani reality television series
Race-related controversies in television
Television controversies in Pakistan
2021 Pakistani television series debuts
Pakistani television series based on non-Pakistani television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestle%20Sekigahara | Wrestle Sekigahara was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro). It took place on July 10, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Ota City General Gymnasium. The event aired live on CyberAgent's streaming service Wrestle Universe. This was the first event held by GanPro in this arena and it is regarded as being the largest event produced by the brand as of date.
Production
Background
Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro) was founded in 2013 by Ken Ohka as a sub-brand of DDT Pro-Wrestling. In 2020, when DDT and Pro Wrestling Noah merged into CyberFight, GanPro and DDT's joshi sub-brand TJPW began being promoted as sister promotions under the CyberFight umbrella.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, audiences at pro-wrestling shows had been asked to refrain from emitting vocal noises and limit their interactions to applause. In July 2022, during a press conference, CyberFight announced that those restrictions would be lifted starting with the TJPW event Summer Sun Princess 2022 on July 9.
Storylines
The event featured eight 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.
On July 5, GanPro announced the signing of a new female talent, the identity of which will be revealed at the event.
Matches
Notes
References
External links
The official Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling website
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
July 2022 events in Japan
Events in Tokyo
Professional wrestling in Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20All-Domain%20Command%20and%20Control | Joint All-Domain Command and Control or JADC2 is the concept that the Department of Defense has developed to connect sensors from all branches of the armed forces into a § unified network powered by artificial intelligence. These branches include the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and Navy, as well as Space Force.
Each military branch has its initiative that contributes to JADC2; the Army has Project Convergence, the Navy has Project Overmatch, and the Air Force has the Advanced Battle Management System, also known as ABMS. The Space Force has the Space Development Agency's National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA). See § Outernet
One primary application of JADC2 is a request— a call for fire (CFF).
Experimentation
The DoD has held at least two critical JADC2 exercises. The first one, in Florida in December 2019, centered on a simulated threat posed by cruise missiles. This was the very first demonstration of ABMS, which took place during the exercise. Air Force and Navy aircraft (including F-22 and F-35 fighter jets), a Navy destroyer, an Army Sentinel radar system, a mobile artillery system, as well as commercial space and ground sensors, demonstrated their ability to collect, analyze, and share data in real-time to provide a more comprehensive picture of the operating environment. For more information, see JADC2 at the Army's Project Convergence experiments
In July 2020, the Department of Defense carried out a second test of the JADC2 system. In the course of this exercise, planes from the Air Force communicated with naval vessels that were stationed in the Black Sea. Additionally, special operations personnel from eight other NATO nations and a simulated environment collaborated to deter a possible attack from Russia.
In November 2022, ABMS experiments showed how JADC2 is really § combined arms. —Brig. Gen. Jeffery Valenzia (USAF CFT lead for JADC2)
Infrastructure
In 2017, a joint network (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure —JEDI) was proposed for DoD, with a single award meant for a single vendor for $10 billion. Competitive bidding was held, and an award was made but was protested by a competitor. In 2021, the award was canceled; in its place, multiple vendors for an interoperable, compatible network capability with multiple awards were envisioned, by 2022. This capability (Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability —JWCC) is to be for $9 billion spread among vendors and is meant to be awarded by mid-December 2022. Pentagon network officials began to envision JWCC as a necessary layer for JADC2. In early December 2022 JWCC was awarded to Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle.
DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency) was embarking on upgrading its JWICS (Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System), which is top-secret; DISA was using the same vendors as for JWCC, but also including IBM. Combining the JWICS with JWCC, economies of scale allowed a cooperative project of DISA's JWICS with DoD's JWCC. A Top Secret capability i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20feature%20films%20with%20bisexual%20characters | The following is a list of feature films with fictional and factual bisexual characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-television network). Films are in alphabetical order by year of release. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.
20th century
1900–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
21st century
2000–2004
2005–2009
2010–2014
2015–2019
2020–2023
Notes
See also
List of film franchises with LGBT characters
List of feature films with LGBT characters
List of feature films with gay characters
List of feature films with lesbian characters
List of feature films with transgender characters
List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters
List of LGBT-related films
List of LGBT-related films by year
Films about intersex
References
Further reading
Lists of character lists
Lists of entertainment lists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivon%20Zilis | Shivon Alice Zilis (born February 8, 1986) is a Canadian venture capitalist who works in the technology and artificial intelligence fields.
Early life and education
Shivon Alice Zilis was born in Markham, Ontario, Canada on 8 February 1986 to Sharda, a Punjabi Indian, and Richard, a white Canadian. Zilis graduated from Markham's Unionville High School. She attended Yale University, graduating in 2008 with degrees in economics and philosophy. She played on Yale's ice hockey team as a goaltender, and is the school's all-time leader in goals-against average.
Career
After graduating from Yale, Zilis started her career at IBM in New York, working in financial technologies in developing countries, especially Peru and Indonesia. From 2012 to 2018, she was one of the founding investors and partner of Bloomberg Beta, funded by Bloomberg L.P., utilizing what she calls "machine intelligence".
She was named among LinkedIn's 35 Under 35. In 2015, Zilis was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for venture capital. Zilis serves as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink and reports directly to Elon Musk. Zilis met Musk through her non-profit work at OpenAI, of which she was a board member until 2023. From 2017 to 2019, she served as a project director for Tesla, Inc.'s Autopilot product and chip design team.
Personal life
In July 2022, it was revealed through the obtaining of Travis County, Texas court documents that Zilis had twins with Elon Musk who were born in November 2021. Executives claimed that they were born via in vitro fertilization (IVF). She stated in 2020 that Musk is the person she admires most, despite criticism toward him. According to court documents to register the twins' names, Musk and Zilis listed the same address in Austin. In September 2023 Musk's biographer Walter Isaacson confirmed names, a son named Strider and a daughter named Azure.
References
Living people
1986 births
Yale College alumni
Yale Bulldogs women's ice hockey players
Canadian people of Indian descent
Canadian people of Punjabi descent
Musk family
People from Markham, Ontario
IBM Women
IBM people
Canadian expatriates in the United States
21st-century Canadian businesswomen
21st-century Canadian businesspeople
Businesspeople from San Francisco
Canadian venture capitalists
Women investors
Businesspeople from Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20Kyiv%20cyberattack | A cyberattack happened in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv just before midnight on 17 December 2016, and lasted for just over an hour. The national electricity transmission operator Ukrenergo said that the attack had cut one fifth of the city's power consumption at that time of night.
Attack
The attack affected the electrical substation at Pivnichna, outside the capital. It happened a year after a previous attack on Ukraine's power grid.
Dragos Security concluded that the attack was not merely to cause short-term disruption but to cause long-lasting damage that could last weeks or months. The attackers had tried to cause physical damage to the station when the operators turned the grid back on. The attack used Industroyer malware and has the ability to attack hardware including SIPROTEC protective relays. These protective relays open circuit breakers if they detect dangerous conditions. A security flaw meant that a single packet could put the relays in a state where it would be useless unless manually rebooted. Siemens released a software patch in 2015 to fix the issue, but many relays weren't updated with it. Evidence from logs obtained by Dragos Security showed the attackers initially opened every circuit breaker in the transmission station, causing a power cut. Then an hour later they ran wiper malware to disable the station's computer, making it impossible to monitor the station. Finally, the attackers tried to disable four of the stations SIPROTEC protective relays, which could not be detected by operators. Dragos concluded that the attackers intended the operators to re-engergise the station equipment, which could have injured engineers and damaged equipment. The data packets intended for the protective relays were sent to the wrong IP address. The operators may also have brought the station back online faster than attackers expected.
See also
Ukraine power grid hack
References
Cyberattacks on energy sector
2016 crimes in Ukraine
December 2016 crimes in Europe
2010s in Kyiv
Power outages
Russian–Ukrainian cyberwarfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekhaguere%20Godwin%20Osakpemwoya%20Samuel | Godwin Osakpemwoya Samuel Ekhaguere is a Nigerian professor of mathematics at the University of Ibadan and the founder and president of the International Centre for Mathematical & Computer Sciences (ICMCS). He was a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, a former sub Dean of Faculty of Science University of Ibadan and is a member of the African Academy of Sciences. He is also a recipient of the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) which was conferred on him by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Early life and education.
Godwin, fondly called GOS, was born on 23 May 1947 in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. He obtained the West African School Certificate in 1965 and the Higher School Certificate in 1967, both at the Immaculate Conception College (ICC), Benin City. In 1971, he obtained his first degree in physics and earned the Diploma of Imperial College (DIC) at the Imperial College of Science & Technology (now Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine) London in Mathematical Physics in 1974. In 1976, he bagged his Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from the University of London (Bedford College).
Career
GOS became a professor in 1988 and the vice-president of the Nigerian Mathematical Society in 1995. From 1993 to 1996, he was the Head of the Department of mathematics and became the sub-dean of the faculty of science in 1981. Over the years, he occupied diverse visiting positions at multiple institutions around the world, some of which are: the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany; Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw, Poland; Forschungszentrum Bielefeld-Bochum-Stochastik (BiBoS), Universität Bielefeld, Germany; Sonderforschungsbereich 123 University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Arnold-Sommerfeld Institute for Mathematical Physics, Technical University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany; International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; Centro Matematica Vito Volterra, Università di Roma II (Tor Vergata), Rome, Italy; the Association of African Universities, Accra, Ghana and the University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Ibadan: a lifelong appointment. His autobiography, with the title: Promise and Providence, was published on September 23, 2022, by Safari Books Limited, Ibadan, Nigeria, and is available on multiple e-publishing platforms such as: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Rakuten Kobo, Lulu.com, Weltbild, Hugendubel and the African Books Collective.
References
20th-century Nigerian mathematicians
21st-century Nigerian mathematicians
Living people
1947 births
People from Benin City
Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevEco%20Studio | DevEco Studio is the official integrated development environment (IDE) for Huawei's HarmonyOS operating system, built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA software and Huawei's SmartAssist designed specifically for HarmonyOS development. It is available for download on Microsoft Windows and macOS based operating systems.
DevEco Studio was launched on September 9, 2020, a day before Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (HDC 2020) as the first stable build starting from version 1.0 for Huawei Vision TVs on HarmonyOS 1 and HarmonyOS 2 Beta versions for phones, tablets and watches.
On July 8, 2022, after the following release of DevEco Studio 3.0 Beta 4 JS/eTS replaced Java as Huawei's preferred language for HarmonyOS app development since HarmonyOS .hap module .app file packaged apps don't support Java language on API8 for HarmonyOS 3.0 as Huawei plans to release its own Cangjie programming language sometime in 2024 for HarmonyOS which is equivalent to Google's Kotlin for Android platforms and Apple's Swift for Apple platforms. Java is still supported, as is C++ on older API level versions of the previous versions of HarmonyOS 2.0.
Features
The following features are provided in the current stable version:
HarmonyOS DevEco Studio 2.1 current version released June 2, 2021 on HarmonyOS 2 launch has cross-device project templates, atomic service development and more on support for building TV, smartphones, tablets, watches, routers, IoT devices.
New cross-device engineering template
The new version of DevEco Studio comes with new 11 cross-device project templates founded on the original single-device project template. The developer can select the template and device type in sequence for a particular project.
Easier to create cross-device projects for the developers, and automatically produce example codes and related supplies.
Support for atomization service development
DevEco Studio 2.1 version added the support for atomic service developments to explore its scope in the coming days. Now the process became easier to quickly complete the atomic service project.
The developer only has to select the desired project template, perform the coding development process, after that, the code compilation, and at last the debugging test.
The project creation menu has several major changes in the latest version. In the current version, developers have to select the project template first, and then select the supported device type.
A new “Service” option has been installed in the project type, used in creating an atomic service project.
The “Show in Service Center” button will help in finding the service center of the device during creating the atomic project.
Support for router devices
After installation of the DevEco Studio 2.1 version, developers can JS language to quickly develop applications that can run on router devices. The new release has a router single device project template to provide support for routers.
As of now, the DevEco Studio provides s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori%20Diachin | Lori Ann Diachin (formerly Lori Ann Freitag) is an American computer scientist specializing in scientific computing, mesh generation, mesh improvement, and interoperability. She works in the Computation Directorate of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she is Deputy Associate Director for Science and Technology, and Deputy Director of the Exascale Computing Project.
Education and career
Freitag's father was a professor, specializing in mathematics education. She majored in mathematics at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1988, and did graduate study in applied mathematics and numerical analysis at the University of Virginia, completing her Ph.D. there in 1992. Her dissertation, Parallel Solution of the Generalized Helmholtz Equation on Distributed Memory Architectures, was supervised by James McDonough Ortega.
She became a researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory, working there on the CAVE virtual-reality environment. She also worked as a researcher at the Sandia National Laboratory, before moving to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2003.
Recognition
Diachin was one of the 1997 winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Virginia alumni
Argonne National Laboratory people
Sandia National Laboratories people
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20feature%20films%20with%20gay%20characters | The following is a list of feature films with fictional and factual gay characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-television network). Films are in alphabetical order by year of release. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.
20th century
1900–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
21st century
2000–2004
2005–2009
2010–2014
2015–2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
Notes
See also
List of film franchises with LGBT characters
List of feature films with LGBT characters
List of feature films with lesbian characters
List of feature films with bisexual characters
List of feature films with transgender characters
List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters
List of LGBT-related films
List of LGBT-related films by year
Films about intersex
References
Further reading
(2019 reprint)
Feature films with gay characters
Feature films with gay characters
Films with gay characters, List of
LGBT characters
Feature films with gay characters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Interrante | Victoria Lynn Interrante is an American computer scientist specializing in computer graphics, scientific computing, and virtual environments. She is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota, a founder of the annual ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.
Education and career
Interrante is a 1984 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston. After earning a master's degree in 1986 at the University of California, Los Angeles, working with Jacques Vidal on computer graphics modeling of breaking waves, she completed a Ph.D. in 1996 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her doctoral dissertation, Illustrating Transparency: Communicating the 3D Shape of Layered Transparent Surfaces via Texture, was co-advised by Henry Fuchs and Stephen Pizer.
After postdoctoral research at NASA's Langley Research Center, on the visualization of fluid dynamics, she joined the University of Minnesota faculty in 1998.
She was the founding co-chair of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, in 2004. She became co-editor-in-chief of the journal ACM Transactions on Applied Perception in 2015.
Recognition
Interrante was a 1999 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. In 2020, the Visualization & Graphics Technical Committee of the IEEE Computer Society gave Interrante their Virtual Reality Career Award.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of Massachusetts Boston alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
University of Minnesota faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrante | Interrante is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
, Italian television personality
Scott Interrante (born 1961), American stage magician
Victoria Interrante, American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaconess%20Health%20System | Deaconess Health System is one of the largest health care networks in the Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area. It serves a total of 26 counties and consists of 9 hospitals within Southern Indiana and 2 hospitals in Kentucky.It has been ranked as the 2nd best hospital in Indiana and is rated high performing in 9 adult procedures and conditions.
History
Deaconess was founded in 1892 by a group of Protestant ministers and laymen in a small house on 604 Mary street, Evansville, Indiana, as a 19-bed hospital. In 1897 the house was moved to back of the lot and a new building was constructed on the corner and opened in 1899.
In 1922, a four-story addition was built and further construction in 1948 added new administrative offices and two nursing units. The hospital expansion and transformation continued through the 1960s and 1970s to its present day form.
In October of 2022 Deaconess took over four southern Illinois facilities and hospitals. The facilities include; Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion, Red Bud Regional Hospital, Crossroads Community Hospital in Mt. Vernon, and Union County Hospital in Anna, Illinois.
In 2023, Deaconess partnered to utilize a Health Catalyst enterprise analytics and outcomes which work to improve clinical, operational, and financial domains for the overall health system. In February Deaconess announced that Memorial Hospital was to be an affiliate of Deaconess. Deaconess started to utilize a new artificial intelligence at their command center in August. The system was brought on by Jeff Terry, the CEO for GE-Healthcare, who created this technology to further healthcare for Deaconess.
Hospitals
Deaconess Midtown Hospital is the flagship hospital located on the original site of the Protestant Deaconess Hospital built in 1899. In 1920, an additional floor and wing was added to the hospital. However, in 1970, the original hospital was demolished so other buildings could be built. It is the largest hospital within the health system and is a Level II trauma center.
The newer Deaconess Gateway Hospital was built in 2006 to serve the eastern side of Evansville. It is located in the neighboring city of Newburgh. It’s campus has seen rapid expansion and now houses 3 other specialty hospitals: The Women’s Hospital, The Heart Hospital and The Orthopedic and Neuroscience Hospital.
Deaconess Cross Pointe provides health care services for emotional, behavioral and addiction-related needs. The health system also includes 2 hospitals that are dedicated to provide inpatient rehabilitation. Encompass Health Deaconess Rehabilitation Hospital in Newburgh and the Encompass Health Deaconess Rehabilitation Hospital-Midtown located in Evansville.
The Linda E. White Hospice House is also located in Evansville. Deaconess Hospital in Evansville was rated in the top 10 top performing in adult procedures and conditions. It was also rated number 2 in Indiana by U.S Health News.
Other than hospitals run by the Deaconess Heal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Rogers%20Communications%20outage | On July 8, 2022, Canadian telecom provider Rogers Communications experienced a major service outage affecting more than 12 million users of Rogers' cable internet and cellular networks, including those of subsidiary brands Rogers Wireless, Fido, Cityfone, and Chatr. This followed another major national outage a year prior in April 2021.
The 2022 outage impacted internet service providers with wholesale access to the Rogers network, such as TekSavvy, as well as various other information systems nationwide that relied on the Rogers network, including Interac, OLG, and some federal government services. Multiple international web monitoring organizations observed the outage.
The event spurred new government policies requiring all telecommunications providers to provide mutual assistance to each other in the event of an outage, offer emergency roaming service for rivals' affected customers, and establish plans for how to communicate to the public about said incidents.
Rebates for customers are estimated at cost to Rogers a range of $28 million to $70 million. Splitting their physical and wireless lines for $261 million, and giving out $150 million in customer credits became part of a $10 billion plan for Rogers over a three year span involving increased management and additionally the use of artificial intelligence to supervise potential future errors. The economic toll to the Canadian economy for the outage period was projected at $142 million.
Impact
The outage had a significant impact on various information systems nationwide, much of which extended past residential and commercial Rogers customers, due to their dependencies on Rogers infrastructure:
Around 25% of Canada lost internet connectivity, according to the UK cybersecurity organization Netblocks. Over 12 million subscribers were affected.
Interac was taken offline by the outage, preventing all businesses nationwide from being able to accept debit card transactions, regardless of their internet service provider. Some stores temporarily closed.
The outage inhibited the ability to use 911 services from mobile phones on the Rogers network, resulting in at least one reported case of a death. It is unclear as to whether or not the death could have been avoided had 911 contact been possible.
Along with the inability mentioned above to accept debit, some public transport agencies reported other computer system issues tied to the outage.
The outage affected some Government of Canada services, such as Service Canada, Canada Revenue Agency, and passport offices.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) reported small businesses lost anywhere from a few hundred to several thousands of dollars.
In Toronto there was some dependency on Rogers. One quarter of all traffic signals relied on their cellular network for signal timing changes. The Rogers GSM network was also used to remotely monitor fire alarms and sprinklers in municipal buildings. Public parking payments and public bi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS%20version%20history | The version history of the HarmonyOS distributed operating system began with the public release of the HarmonyOS 1.0 for Honor Vision smart TVs on August 9, 2019. The first commercial version of the IoT based operating system, HarmonyOS 2.0, was released on June 2, 2021 for phones, tablets, smartwatches, smart speakers, routers, and internet of things. Beforehand, DevEco Studio, the HarmonyOS app development IDE, hat been released in September 2020 together with the HarmonyOS 2.0 Beta. HarmonyOS is developed by Huawei. New major releases are announced at the Huawei Developers Conference (HDC) in the fourth quarter of each year together with the first public beta version of the operating system's next major version. The next major stable version is then released in the third quarter of the following year.
Overview
The first public release of HarmonyOS 1.0 occurred with the release of Huawei's former brand Honor Vision smart TVs on August 15, 2019, after it was announced on August 10, 2019, as the first HarmonyOS powered commercial product in Huawei's domestic market, China.
HarmonyOS 2.0 was released on June 2, 2021, commercially in Huawei's domestic Chinese market, as de facto Beta testers for Chinese users, and was quickly adopted by 10 million users within a week. It was gradually rolled out globally to tablets, smartwatches and bands in Huawei's product lines between the second half of 2021 and the first half of 2022.
HarmonyOS 3.1 with API 9 and an enhanced feature built for Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets set was released March 30, 2023 that was first preinstalled on the latest Huawei flagship smartphones Huawei P60 series.
The current release HarmonyOS 4.0 was released on August 4, 2023.
Version history
The following tables show the release dates and key features of all HarmonyOS operating system updates to date, listed chronologically by their official application programming interface (API) versions.
Pre-release (Internal)
Harmony kernel 1.0 - Technology verified (2017)
Harmony kernel 2.0 - Used for devices TEE (2018)
HarmonyOS 1.0
HarmonyOS 1.0 [1.0.0 - OpenHarmony 1.0.0] (API version 5)
The first release of HarmonyOS was on August 9, 2019 for the Honor-branded smart TV series, followed by Huawei Vision S-branded smart TV series during (HDC) Huawei Developer Conference of 2019 alongside Wireless Wi-Fi routers and IoT systems in 2020. The system incorporated the HarmonyOS teeOS microkernel and LiteOS kernel. Introduced with in-house development using Ark Compiler with HiLink SDK and the HiLink Studio IDE for third party apps in LiteOS kernel environment with comprehensive programming languages support on screen and screenless devices, this version incorporates the key modules based on the open-source framework with the following features:
Huawei Browser
Camera support
Huawei ID, allowing management of over-the-air synchronization of Gmail, People, and Calendar.
Petal Search, allowing users to search the Internet and ph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20ABS-CBN | ABS-CBN (an initialism of its two predecessors' names, Alto Broadcasting System and Chronicle Broadcasting Network) is a Philippine commercial broadcast network that serves as the flagship property of ABS-CBN Corporation, a company under the Lopez Group owned by the López family. The ABS-CBN media conglomerate is the largest entertainment and media conglomerate in the Philippines.
1946–1972: Beginnings
The company was founded on June 13, 1946 as Bolinao Electronics Corporation (BEC). BEC was established by James Lindenberg, one of the founding fathers of Philippine television, an American electronics engineer who went into radio equipment assembly and radio broadcasting. At that time, the largest media company was Manila Broadcasting Company (MBC), with DZRH as the leading radio station. In 1949, James Lindenberg shifted Bolinao to radio broadcasting with DZBC and masterminded the introduction of television to the country in 1953.
In 1951, Lindenberg partnered with Antonio Quirino, brother of then-Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, in order to try their hand at television broadcasting. In 1952, BEC was renamed as Alto Broadcasting System or ABS (with Alto Sales Corporation as its corporate name). "Alto" was a contraction of Quirino's and his wife's first names, Tony and Aleli. Though they had little money and resources, ABS was able to put up its TV tower by July 1953 and import some 300 television sets. The initial test broadcasts began in September of the same year. The very first full-blown broadcast was on October 23, 1953, of a party in Tony Quirino's humble abode. The television station was known as DZAQ-TV. The first program to air was a garden party at the Quirino residence in Sitio Alto, San Juan. After the premiere telecast, the station followed a four-hour-a-day schedule, from six to ten in the evening.
On June 16, 1955, Republic Act No. 1343 signed by President Ramon Magsaysay granted the Manila Chronicle its broadcasting franchise, leading to the formation of the Chronicle Broadcasting Network.
The Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN) was founded on September 24, 1956, by Eugenio Lopez Sr. and the then-Philippine Vice President Fernando Lopez. The network initially focused only on radio broadcasting. It launched its very own TV station, DZXL-TV 9, on April 19 (or July), 1958. On February 24, 1957, Don Eugenio acquired ABS from Quirino and Lindenberg. A month later, Don Eugenio also acquired Monserrat Broadcasting System.
In 1958, the network's new headquarters at Dewey Boulevard were inaugurated, and all radio and television operations were consolidated into its two buildings – the radio stations at the Chronicle Building at Aduana Street, Intramuros, Manila and the TV operations at the brand new Dewey Boulevard building in Pasay, Rizal.
The ABS-CBN brand was first used in 1961. However, it was only on February 1, 1967, that the corporate name was changed to ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation. Before it was named ABS-CBN Broa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Crystal%20Skull%20%28video%20game%29 | The Crystal Skull is a 1996 video game from Maxis. The Shaman in the game is played by Edward James Olmos.
Reception
Computer Gaming World in their review stated that while pretty to look at, the game offers little of substance besides the culture notes.
References
1996 video games
Maxis games
Adventure games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20T9000 | The Samsung T9000 is a smart refrigerator that runs Android (operating system) made by Samsung Electronics and introduced along with a soda-making fridge in CES 2013. It was succeeded by the Samsung Family Hub refrigerator line which runs Tizen. In early 2014, Samsung released the Samsung Smart Home app and service, now called Samsung SmartThings and added support for this fridge as one of the many supported Samsung devices.
Fridge
The 32-cubic feet fridge itself has a lot of space in four compartments, each with its own temperature setting. Two can be configured as freezers, or just one, and up to three as refrigerators. The refrigerator costed $4,000.
Temperature can be set on the screen.
Display
The unit includes a 10-inch display that can display weather information, a calendar, notes set by other fridge users, and news.
Applications
The fridge can also run applications such as Evernote which syncs to a mobile device. Sharing photos could be done via an Evernote software update. Another included app is Epicurious. The user lists the fridge’s contents, then the app suggests recipes using the contents of the fridge. A Google Calendar account could be linked via the Google Calendar app and calendars could be shown side-by-side. Events could be added by typing on the screen. Twitter is included. However, user defined Android apps, such as Angry Birds Star Wars cannot be installed.
User Interface
The app screen has a list of application icons at the bottom of the screen. Memos can be written, AP news can be viewed, the calendar can be updated, and can be customized with photos uploaded via an external SD card, Google’s Picasa, or through Samsung’s AllShare program. Google Calendar could be added and calendars could be shown side-by-side. Events could be added by typing on the screen. The fridge has the ability to track expiry dates. However, expiry dates are set by regulatory bodies. Samsung claims its fridges' advanced cooling technology can keep food fresh for far longer than others.
Controversy
See Smart fridge#Support
References
Samsung products
Home appliances
Refrigerators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GayVN%20Award%20for%20Best%20Actor | The GayVN Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by AVN Media Network at the GayVN Awards, given to a gay porn actor for his performance in a leading role in a film released that year.
Initially, achievements in gay pornography were recognized by AVN Media Network at the AVN Awards, until the creation of the GayVN Awards. The 1st GayVN Awards ceremony was held in 1998, with Vince Rockland receiving the award for his performance in Three Brothers. The second ceremony was held in 2000, with the GayVN Awards taking place annually until 2010. Following this the GayVN Awards would enter a seven-year hiatus, coming back in 2018.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 20 actors. With two wins, Tony Donovan is the only actor to have won this award more than once, as well as the only one to achieve two consecutive wins. DeAngelo Jackson is the only man of color to win in this category, for Blended Family in 2020. As of the 2022 ceremony, the most recent recipients are Michael DelRay for The Last Course and Alex Riley for Return to Helix Academy Parts 1 & 2.
Winners and nominees
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
References
Pornographic film awards
Gay pornographic film awards
American pornographic film awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panagiota%20Fatourou | Panagiota (Youla) Fatourou () is a Greek computer scientist, specializing in distributed computing and concurrent computing, including the design of data structures that can be used in non-blocking algorithms. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Crete, the former chair of the ACM Europe Council, and the founder of the Greek chapter of the ACM Council on Women in Computing.
Education and career
Fatourou was born in Kalamata. She earned a degree in computer science from the University of Crete in 1995, and completed her Ph.D. in 1999 at the University of Patras, under the supervision of Paul Spirakis.
After postdoctoral research with Kurt Mehlhorn at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and with Faith Ellen at the University of Toronto, and a short-term position at the Hellenic Open University, she worked at the University of Ioannina from 2001 until 2009. She moved to her present position at the University of Crete in 2009, and is now a full professor there.
In 2018, Fatourou became founding chair of the Greek chapter of the ACM Council on Women in Computing. She was chair of the ACM Europe Council for the 2019–2021 term.
Recognition
Fatourou was an ACM Distinguished Speaker for 2016–2019.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Greek computer scientists
Greek women computer scientists
Scientists from Kalamata
University of Crete alumni
University of Patras alumni
Academic staff of the University of Crete |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20Badia | Rosa María Badia Sala (born 1966) is a Spanish computer scientist specializing in parallel computing, supercomputing, superscalar processing, and multi-core processing. She is a researcher of the Spanish National Research Council, affiliated with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where she is the manager of the workflows and distributed computing group.
Education and career
Badia earned a degree in computer science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in 1989, and continued at UPC for a Ph.D., which she completed in 1994, under the direction of Jordi Cortadella. She worked at UPC as a lecturer in computer architecture from 1989 to 1997, and then as an associate professor from 1997 to 2008.
Badia's early work concerned electronic design automation. While working at UPC, she became a researcher at the European Center of Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA) beginning in 1999, through which her interests shifted to parallel computing. In 2005 she became manager of the workflows and distributed computing group in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the successor project to CEPBA.
She became a researcher for the Spanish National Research Council in 2008, also continuing to lecture at the UPC as a part-time associate professor since 2011.
Recognition
Badia was the 2019 winner of the Euro-Par Achievement Award, an annual award of the
European Conference on Parallel Processing given to researchers with outstanding contributions to the topic. Also in 2019, the Generalitat de Catalunya gave her their DonaTIC prize in the academic/researcher category, recognizing the achievements of women in STEM in Catalonia.
She won the HPDC Achievement Award for 2021 at the ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC '21), "for her innovations in parallel task-based programming models, workflow applications and systems, and leadership in the high performance computing research community".
References
External links
Home page
1966 births
Living people
Spanish computer scientists
Spanish women computer scientists
Polytechnic University of Catalonia alumni
Academic staff of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20615001%E2%80%93616000 |
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| 615003 || || — || October 14, 2001 || Apache Point || SDSS Collaboration || || align=right | 1.2 km ||
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| 615004 || || — || September 17, 2010 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#FA8072
| 615005 || || — || October 18, 2001 || Palomar || NEAT || || align=right | 1.7 km ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 615006 || || — || October 16, 2001 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.88" | 880 m ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 615007 || || — || October 17, 2001 || Socorro || LINEAR || critical || align=right data-sort-value="0.71" | 710 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 615008 || || — || October 20, 2001 || Socorro || LINEAR || || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 615009 || || — || October 18, 2001 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.8 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 615010 || || — || October 20, 2001 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.44" | 440 m ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 615011 || || — || October 23, 2001 || Palomar || NEAT || || align=right data-sort-value="0.83" | 830 m ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 615012 || || — || October 18, 2001 || Palomar || NEAT || || align=right | 1.8 km ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 615013 || || — || October 20, 2001 || Socorro || LINEAR || || align=right data-sort-value="0.82" | 820 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 615014 || || — || October 21, 2001 || Socorro || LINEAR || || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 615015 || || — || October 18, 2001 || Palomar || NEAT || || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 615016 || || — || October 23, 2001 || Socorro || LINEAR || || align=right data-sort-value="0.61" | 610 m ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 615017 || || — || August 26, 2005 || Palomar || NEAT || || align=right | 1.9 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 615018 || || — || July 29, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.79" | 790 m ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 615019 || || — || September 18, 2001 || Apache Point || SDSS Collaboration || || align=right | 2.7 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 615020 || || — || September 3, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.59" | 590 m ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 615021 || || — || November 4, 2012 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 2.5 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 615022 || || — || February 22, 2003 || Palomar || NEAT || || align=right | 2.6 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 615023 || || — || April 24, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacew |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Gon%C3%A7alves | Ricardo Jorge Gonçalves (born 24 January 1981) is a Portuguese Australian television journalist and presenter, best known for his work at SBS.
Gonçalves is the network's finance editor where he presents a nightly finance report on SBS World News each weeknight.
He also anchors SBS World News Late.
Since 2016, Gonçalves has hosted Small Business Secrets, which is produced by Whitney Fitzsimmons.
Career
Gonçalves commenced his television career at WIN Television in Wollongong, where unpaid work experience led to him becoming a casual WIN News reporter in 1998 while he was studying commerce at the University of Wollongong.
In 1999, Gonçalves set up a website to offer advice to high school students about study techniques which led to Gonçalves assisting Channel 7 current affairs program Today Tonight with a number of education-related reports.
Gonçalves commenced working as a business journalist for finance expert David Koch's production company Palamedia in 2001. Based at Channel 7 in Sydney, he provided content for Seven, Sky News Australia and 2GB.
He moved to Melbourne in 2004 where he worked as a reporter for National Nine News on Channel 9 and as a volunteer breakfast news presenter on LGBTIQ+ community radio station Joy FM where he was known on air as "Ric G."
Gonçalves returned to Sydney in 2007 where he produced and anchored coverage for the Sky News Business Channel.
He joined SBS in 2010.
In 2011, Gonçalves was accidentally broadcast live to air in Queensland and South Australia while he was bantering with a make up artist. SBS apologised to viewers who found any of Gonçalves' remarks offensive.
In April 2020, Gonçalves unusually had to take over from Janice Petersen halfway through an SBS World News bulletin due to Petersen's vision deteriorating caused by an object in her eye.
Personal life
Gonçalves was born in Wollongong, New South Wales. His parents had migrated to Australia from Portugal in the late 1970s. Portuguese was his first language during his early childhood.
He attended Edmund Rice College in Wollongong, where he was school captain.
Throughout his early career, Gonçalves called himself by the name of Richard which his teachers had preferred to use instead of Ricardo. Gonçalves continued to use the name Richard while also anglicising his surname to enhance his career prospects due to the lack of cultural diversity on Australian television.
Gonçalves appeared on a 1998 episode of Australian game show Wheel of Fortune.
Gonçalves successfully auditioned for an Australian pop group called Sneaky Deep in 2000, and recorded a three-track demo CD with the group. However, he was let go from the group after approximately six months after being told his vocal abilities weren't developing enough. After Gonçalves left the group, they signed a publishing deal with Warner Music Australia but disbanded soon after.
Gonçalves is known for his love of Eurovision and in 2018 was appointed as Australia's spokesperson for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder%20Bay%20%28podcast%29 | Thunder Bay is 2018 podcast hosted by Ryan McMahon on the Canadaland network. The podcast critiques the government and police responses to systemic racism and violence directed toward Indigenous peoples in the northern Ontario town of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Production
The podcast builds on information contained in the 2017 book Seven Fallen Feathers by investigative journalist Tanya Talaga of The Toronto Star. Seven Fallen Feathers documents the unexplained deaths of seven Indigenous youth, all found in rivers close to Thunder Bay. The podcast is presented in five parts, produced by Canadaland, and hosted McMahon, who grew up near Thunder Bay.
The production costs of the show were crowd-funded via Patreon.
Synopsis
The podcast documents systemic racism and corruption in Thunder Bay and the unexplained deaths of young Indigenous people, whose bodies were found in the Kaministiquia and McIntyre Rivers. It documents Thunder Bay Mayor Keith Hobbs' rejection of the Ontario Human Rights Commission concerns about the lack of municipal support for the Indigenous population in the town. It discusses the killing of local Indigenous woman, Barbara Kentner. The local police chief and a former Ontario Crown Prosecutor are also criticised.
Critical reception
Jim Wilson, writing in Canadian Dimension praises McMahon's passion, notes his appropriate anger and how it captivates the listener. The Atlantic listed the podcast as one of the best 50 podcasts of 2018.
A four-part documentary series follow up of the same name was produced by McMahon. Thunder Bay premiered on Crave in February, 2023.
References
Canadian podcasts
Culture of Thunder Bay
Crime podcasts
Works about racism
Works about corruption
2018 podcast debuts
Podcasts adapted into television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Rafea | Ali Rafea (born 1950, Cairo, Egypt), also known as Ahmed Rafea or Master (Assayed) Ali, is a professor of computer science at The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt. Rafea also heads the Egyptian Society for Spiritual and Cultural Research (ESSCR).
Early life and education
Ali Rafea was born on April 7, 1950, in Cairo, Egypt. He is the fifth of ten siblings, and the eldest of three brothers. He attended public primary, preparatory, and secondary schools in Cairo, Egypt and graduated from Cairo University. In 1973, Rafea earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics and communication engineering, and in 1975, earned a graduate diploma in computer science from the Institute of Statistical Studies and Research (also at Cairo University). Rafea continued his studies at Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, where he received another graduate diploma in Computer Science (D.E.A.) in 1977 and completed a PhD in computer science in 1980.
In 1993, Rafea was the Chair of Computer Science Department, Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University. In 1998, Rafea was the Vice Dean for Education and Student Affairs of the Faculty of Computers and Information at Cairo University.
His research interests include data, text and web mining, natural language processing, and machine translation, and knowledge engineering and knowledge-based system development.
Rafea is a spiritual teacher, and the head of The Egyptian Society for Spiritual and Cultural Research ESSCR, and his teachings about Islamic spirituality focus on the revelation to the Islamic prophet Muhammad as an inclusive path that reflects the unity of all revelations and words of wisdom, ancient and modern, beyond diversities of expressions. Rafea is recognized by Who's Who in the World, 11th Edition, 1993–1994, and recognized by Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2nd Edition, in 1994.
Career
Ali Rafea initiated a spiritual cultural and educational project that includes four books. The first book in that series is Beyond Diversities: Reflections on Revelation, which traces a common spiritual path found in heavenly revelations and primordial religions, according to research on sacred texts. The second book Islam from Adam to Muhammad and Beyond, which is about how the revelation to Muhammad reintroduced, confirmed and clarified this one common path of spirituality. The third book, Divine Revelation and Human Interpretations: Opening New Horizons, explores different mindsets behind the varied readings of Islamic scriptures, differentiating between an open approach and closed ones with different degrees of tolerance. Ali Rafea's approach encourages varied interpretations, as long as those interpretations align with the message of love and peace (pacifism).
Ali Rafea has also been leading the ESSCR for about 52 years. In 2008, the Egyptian Society for Spiritual and Cultural Research (ESSCR), under the leadership of Ali Rafea organized Peace Responsibility Symposium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremo%20%28app%29 | Supremo is a remote desktop software that allows access to remote computers, servers and other devices. It was first released in 2013 by Nanosystems S.r.l.
It runs on Windows, macOS, Android, Linux, and iOS operating systems.
Software
Supremo's main function is enabling users to remotely access computers from desktop and mobile devices. It can be used without configuration or installation procedures.
Use by hackers and scammers
Supremo has been abused by hackers and scammers to gain access to the victim's computers. Supremo attempts to combat this by putting a warning message at the first start of the software.
Features
If desired, Supremo can start at the system boot of devices to allow unattended access on the remote machines.
References
2013 software
Remote administration software for Linux
MacOS remote administration software
Windows remote administration software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Urban%20Areas%20in%20Scotland | This is a list of the most populous urban areas in Scotland(based on the 2011 census definitions, as defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Using data from the official 2020 estimate.
Definition
The methodology used by ONS in 2011 is set out in 2011 Built-up Areas – Methodology and Guidance, published in June 2013. When ONS reported the results of the 2011 UK census, it used the term "built-up area" rather than the term "urban area" as used in previous censuses. ONS states, however, that the criteria used to define "built-up area" have not changed:
In reporting the 2001 census, ONS gave a clearer definition of the term "built-up" as follows:
List of most populous urban areas
The list below shows the most populated urban areas in Scotland as defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), as accessible on citypopulation.de.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of Largest Urban Areas in Scotland
|-
! # !! Area !! Population (2020) !! Area (km2) !! Density (People/km2) !! Primary Subdivisions
|-
| 1 || Greater Glasgow || 1,009,300 || 265 || 3,813 || Glasgow, Paisley, Clydebank, Rutherglen, Newton Mearns, Bearsden, Cambuslang, Clarkston, Bishopbriggs
|-
| 2 || Edinburgh || 530,920|| 125 || 4,241 || Edinburgh, Musselburgh, Wallyford
|-
|3 || Aberdeen || 212,300 || 69.5 || 3,055 || Aberdeen
|-
|4 || Dundee || 158,600 || 49.9 || 3,177 || Dundee, Monifieth, Invergowrie
|-
|5 || Motherwell || 125,190 || 45.1 || 2,773 || Motherwell, Wishaw, Bellshill, Viewpark, Newmains, Holytown
|-
|6 || Falkirk || 102,290 || 43.5 || 2,350 || Falkirk, Grangemouth
|-
|7 || Coatbridge ||89,550 || 23.8 || 3,756|| Coatbridge, Airdrie
|-
|8 || Hamilton || 84,210|| 27.6||3,054|| Hamilton, Blantyre
|-
|9 || Dunfermline || 75,420 || 27.9 || 2,701 || Dunfermline, Rosyth, Inverkeithing
|-
|10 || East Kilbride || 75,110 || 24.2 || 3,099 || East Kilbride
|-
|11 || Greenock || 65,670 || 20.8 || 3,160 || Greenock, Gourock
|-
|12 || Livingston || 65,570 || 30.4 || 2,158 || Livingston, East Calder, Polbeth
|-
|13 || Inverness || 62,790 || 28.0 || 2,245 || Inverness
|-
|14 || Ayr || 62,000 || 26.6 || 2,334 || Ayr, Prestwick, Alloway, Monkton
|-
|15 || Dalkeith || 54,330 || 16.7 || 3,261 || Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg, Gorebridge, Easthouses
|-
|16 || Kilmarnock || 50,890 || 16.5 || 3,088 || Kilmarnock
|-
|17 || Kirkcaldy || 50,180|| 18.9 || 2,661 || Kirkcaldy, Dysart
|-
|18 || Cumbernauld || 49,800 || 21.5 || 2,314 || Cumbernauld
Geography of Scotland
Lists of urban areas
Scotland geography-related lists
United Kingdom lists by population
Urban areas of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20TV | All TV (stylized as ALLTV) is a Philippine free-to-air broadcast television network serving as the flagship property of Advanced Media Broadcasting System (AMBS) and based in Mandaluyong and Las Piñas, with its broadcast facilities and studios located at Starmall EDSA-Shaw in EDSA corner Shaw Boulevard and Starmall Las Piñas IT Hub in Alabang-Zapote Road corner CV Starr Avenue, Pamplona Dos; its transmitter is located at the ABS-CBN Corporation-owned Millennium Transmitter site, Sgt. Esguerra Ave, Brgy. South Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City. All TV's flagship television station is DZMV-TV, which carries the VHF Channel 2 (analog broadcast) and UHF Channel 16 (digital broadcast) previously used by ABS-CBN under DWWX-TV, after its broadcast franchise lapsed in 2020. It operates on weekdays from 12:00nn to 9:30pm, and on weekends from 11:30am to 9:30pm.
History
In 2019, Advanced Media Broadcasting System (AMBS) was granted a 25-year legislative franchise extension under Republic Act No. 11253 albeit without President Rodrigo Duterte's signature as the bill lapsed into law after 30 days of inaction. The Vera family and AMBS president Andrew Santiago sold AMBS to Planet Cable of real estate magnate and businessman-politician Manny Villar.
On January 5, 2022, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), headed by Gamaliel Cordoba, awarded the frequencies of VHF analog channel 2 and digital channel 16 to AMBS. Furthermore, the channel 2 allocation was given a provisional authority to operate for 18 months until the analog shut-off of the country scheduled in 2023. These channels were previously used by ABS-CBN under the callsign DWWX-TV. The network was shut down due to a cease and desist order from the NTC on May 5, 2020, and the Congress rejected the renewal of its broadcast franchise on July 10, 2020.
In June 2022, AMBS Manila began its test broadcast. On September 1, 2022, TV host Willie Revillame announced that the TV station of AMBS will be named All TV. Initially slated for October 1, the station made its soft launch on September 13, 2022, at 12 noon, with plans of expanding it nationwide at the soonest possible time, as announced by Revillame.
During his contract signing with AMBS on July 15, 2022, Willie Revillame announced that his variety show Wowowin would air on All TV after its final broadcast on GMA Network on February 11, 2022. Weeks after, other celebrities who signed their contracts with AMBS include actress and TV host Toni Gonzaga and her husband and director Paul Soriano, DZRH broadcaster and former ABS-CBN News anchor Anthony Taberna, singer and actress Ciara Sotto, and TV host Mariel Rodriguez. An exclusive interview of Toni Gonzaga with President Bongbong Marcos inside the Malacañang Palace was aired on All TV, the same day the network was soft-launched.
AMBS also signed their partnership with CNN Philippines for the simultaneous airing of Filipino newscast News Night, which lasted until April 5, 2023. River Where the M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%20Lewitter | Frances I. Lewitter is a computational biologist and the founding director of the Whitehead Institute’s Bioinformatics and Research Computing (BaRC) program.
Education and career
Lewitter gained her PhD in human genetics and statistical genetics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1979. Following a postdoctoral position at Harvard Medical School where she worked on the GenBank project, she joined the Whitehead Institute to run what is considered to be one of the first bioinformatics core facilities.
Lewitter is a strong advocate for bioinformatics education, and was education editor of PLOS Computational Biology from 2005 to 2014.
Awards and honors
Lewitter was awarded the 2017 Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award by the International Society for Computational Biology. In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the ISCB.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women computational biologists
Computational biologists
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running%20Man%20Philippines | Running Man Philippines is a 2022 Philippine television reality show broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a South Korean television variety series of the same title. It stars Mikael Daez, Glaiza de Castro, Ruru Madrid, Buboy Villar, Kokoy de Santos, Angel Guardian and Lexi Gonzales. It premiered on September 3, 2022 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi and Sunday Grande line up replacing Jose & Maria's Bonggang Villa and Happy Together's timeslot. It concluded on December 18, 2022.
Cast
Glaiza de Castro
Ruru Madrid
Mikael Daez
Buboy Villar
Kokoy de Santos
Angel Guardian
Lexi Gonzales
Production
On February 11, 2020, GMA Network announced the co-production deal with SBS Korea for the reality-comedy game show, Running Man Philippines. Production was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Principal photography commenced in July 2022 in South Korea.
Episodes
References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television series based on South Korean television series
Philippine reality television series
Television productions postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Television shows set in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Holt | Josh Holt (born 1980) is an Australian Meteorologist, Climate Specialist and Television Presenter, best known for his work at Network 10.
Biography
Holt is a qualified Meteorologist and Climate Specialist. After completing an undergraduate degree at Sydney University, Holt studied television presenting at NIDA. Holt has also completed his postgraduate university studies in climate and atmospheric sciences graduating with a distinction average. He has also completed his postgraduate studies in meteorology graduating as a student of the Bureau of Meteorology's Graduate Meteorologist Program.
He spent five years at the original The Weather Channel before joining Network 10 in July 2013 as the weather presenter for the Brisbane edition of Ten News at Five.
When Network 10 underwent a major restructure in 2020 which saw the production of each of the state news bulletins centralised to Sydney and Melbourne, it was initially reported that Holt had been made redundant along with his on air colleague, news presenter Georgina Lewis, with the network opting to use one national weather presenter for all bulletins.
However, it was later revealed the network would instead transfer Holt from Brisbane to Sydney where he would present the local weather forecasts on the Brisbane, Sydney and Perth editions of 10 News First while Kate Freebairn would deliver local weather forecasts for the Melbourne and Adelaide editions of 10 News First.
On the Sydney edition of 10 News First, Holt succeeded veteran weather presenter Tim Bailey who had been with the network for 30 years. On the Perth edition of 10 News First, Holt succeeded local Perth weather presenter Michael Schultz.
While at The Weather Channel, Holt was nominated for Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist at the 2010 and 2012 ASTRA Awards but lost to Kieran Gilbert and David Speers, respectively, both from Sky News Australia. However, Holt was part of The Weather Channel team who won the ASTRA Award for Most Outstanding News or Coverage in 2010, for his on air live coverage during the Black Saturday bushfires.
References
10 News First presenters
Australian television presenters
Australian meteorologists
1980 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INPUD | INPUD (International Network for People who Use Drugs) is an international non-profit organization grouping local groups and collectives of people who use illicit drugs, which aims at "A world where people who use drugs are free to live their lives with dignity." INPUD was founded in 2006 in Vancouver, Canada, and formally launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 1 November 2008.
History
Although drug users' activist groups have existed all across the world for decades, the inception of an international network of people who use drugs traces back to Canada. On the one hand, in practice, in British Columbia, the leadership of local users groups such as VANDU inspired the creation of a broader network. According to Kerr et al, "in 1997 a group of Vancouver residents, including drug users, activists, and others, came together to form a drug user organization as a means to addressing the health crisis among local injecting drug users" and called it the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) Following the launch of this local organization, a series of meetings and gathering were set up. On the other hand, in theory, NGOs such as the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network had prepared background documents such as the report Nothing About Us Without Us (Greater, Meaningful Involvement of People Who Use Illegal Drugs: A Public Health, Ethical, and Human Rights Imperative) which emphasized that measures of harm reduction related to drug use should happen "from the ground up, with people who use drugs involved in every part of the process".
Between 30 May and 4 April 2006, the 17th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm was held in Vancouver. Over 1300 attendees from more than 60 countries reportedly attended. One of the highlighted outcome was the adoption, on the first day of the conference, of the Vancouver Declaration, subtitled "Why the world needs an international network of activists who use drugs." It served as the starting point to the development of an international network and, subsequently, regional and local groupings. The Vancouver Declaration "highlights the history of marginalization and discrimination against people who use drugs and promotes the right to self-representation and empowerment".
The NGO was formally created as a Belgian non-profit organization, and launched on 1 November 2008. INPUD also declared the first of November an International Drug Users Day.
Purpose and activities
INPUD considers itself "a global peer-based organization that seeks to promote the health and defend the rights of people who use drugs". On its website, the organization is described as follows:At its launch, INPUD declared the following five aims:
To advocate and lobby for the rights of drug users on the world stage,
To bring the voices of drug users to the policy table,
To support and seed the development of self-determining networks of drug users that advocate for the rights of drug users,
To promote and advocate for harm re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chucky%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the American horror series Chucky, created by Don Mancini, premiered on Syfy and USA Network on October 12, 2021, and concluded on November 30, 2021. The season consists of 8 episodes. The series is based on the Child's Play film franchise.
The series serves as a sequel to Cult of Chucky, and stars Brad Dourif reprising his role as the voice of the titular character, alongside Zackary Arthur, Teo Briones, Alyvia Alyn Lind, and Björgvin Arnarson. The season received generally positive reviews from critics, resulting in a renewal for a second season in November 2021.
Cast and characters
Main
Zackary Arthur as Jake Wheeler
Björgvin Arnarson as Devon Evans
Alyvia Alyn Lind as Alexandra "Lexy" Cross
Teo Briones as Junior Wheeler
Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky / Charles Lee Ray
Jacob Breedon as Chucky (double)
David Kohlsmith as young Charles Lee Ray (7 years old)
Tyler Barish as young Charles Lee Ray (14 years old)
Fiona Dourif as Charles Lee Ray in the 1980s and present (non-speaking)
Recurring
Devon Sawa as Logan Wheeler
Sawa also portrays Lucas Wheeler
Lexa Doig as Bree Wheeler
Barbara Alyn Woods as Mayor Michelle Cross
Michael Therriault as Nathan Cross
Rachelle Casseus as Detective Kim Evans
Carina London Battrick as Caroline Cross
Fiona Dourif as Nica Pierce
Jennifer Tilly as Tiffany Valentine
Blaise Crocker as young Tiffany Valentine
Tilly also voices her doll form that originated in Bride of Chucky.
Christine Elise as Kyle
Alex Vincent as Andy Barclay
Annie M. Briggs as Rachel Fairchild
Rosemary Dunsmore as Dr. Amanda Mixter
Episodes
Promotion and broadcast
The first season of Chucky premiered simultaneously on Syfy and the USA Network on October 12, 2021. Prior to the premiere, both channels released several promotional posters and videos, including one where Chucky reenacts the trailer for the 1978 film Magic with his classic voodoo chant to Damballa. In June, Syfy presented the "Pride of Chucky" marathon, consisting of six of the seven films from Child's Play franchise, in celebration of the LGBTQ+ pride month. On October 8, Don Mancini, Zackary Arthur, Jennifer Tilly and Alex Vincent attended the New York Comic Con, where a "Good Guys" branded ice cream truck was displayed. A screening of the first episode was also held at the same event.
Reception
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds an approval rating of 91% based on 31 critic reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A bloody good time that benefits greatly from Brad Dourif's return, Chucky may not play well for non-fans, but franchise devotees will find its absurd humor and creative horror very much intact on the small screen." Metacritic gave the series a weighted average score of 70 out of 100 based on 10 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Ratings
Syfy
USA Network
References
External links
2021 American television seasons
Chil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris%20Computer%20Systems | Harris Computer Systems Corporation was an American computer company, in existence during the mid-1990s, that made real-time computing systems. Its products powered a variety of applications, including those for aerospace simulation, data acquisition and control, and signal processing. It was based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For twenty years prior, it had been the Harris Computer Systems Division of Harris Corporation, until being spun off as an independent company in 1994. Then in 1996, Harris Computer Systems Corporation itself was acquired by Concurrent Computer Corporation.
Origins
The origins of Harris Computer Systems began in 1967 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, when Datacraft Corporation was founded. It would specialize in minicomputers for the scientific engineering market and for educational use.
The best known of these were the DC-6024 line, which were based on a 24-bit computing architecture and debuted in 1969. Successive models were denoted with names such as DC-6024/1 and DC-6024/4, which became known as "Slash 1", "Slash 4", and so forth. The Slash 1 made cost-effective use of hardware for floating-point operations and quickly became popular as alternatives to computers from Systems Engineering Laboratories.
Harris Computer Systems Division
In 1974, Harris Corporation acquired Datacraft, which led to the formation of the Harris Computer Systems Division. Some of the later "Slash" systems were sold under the Harris name.
The Harris Computer Systems Division then came out with the H-Series product line, which featured virtual memory as a key aspect. It remained one of the few 24-bit computers available at the time. Such models included the H80 and H100 minicomputers. Like other Harris Computer systems, these were geared towards multiple-processing jobs and real-time environments. H-series products were generally good at maintaining binary compatibility, meaning old application executables could still run on newer models. Later models included the H800 and H1200.
The operating system for the H-Series was called Vulcan, which around 1982 started being replaced by one called VOS.
The H-series systems typically had support for a number of different programming languages, including Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, BASIC, APL, SNOBOL, RPG, and assembly language.
In addition, as a company involved in defense-related contracts, Harris Computer Systems Division came out with a line of Ada programming language compiler products.
In 1984, Harris Computer made its first forays into having VOS co-exist alongside the Unix operating system. As Harris left 24-bit systems and moved to 32-bit architectures, Vulcan and VOS fell by the wayside and Unix-based ones took over.
In this fashion, Harris Computer offered three operating systems: CX/RT, built around real-time processing features and constraints; CX/SX, for customers needing government-specified levels of security, and CX/UX, for a system offering a Unix basis. The three CX varian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chucky%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the American horror series Chucky, created by Don Mancini, was broadcast simultaneously on Syfy and USA Network between October 5 and November 23, 2022, comprising eight episodes. Based on the Child's Play film franchise, the series serves as a sequel to Cult of Chucky, and stars Brad Dourif reprising his role as the voice of the titular character, alongside Zackary Arthur, Alyvia Alyn Lind, and Björgvin Arnarson in the ensemble cast.
Cast and characters
Main
Zackary Arthur as Jake Wheeler
Björgvin Arnarson as Devon Evans
Alyvia Alyn Lind as Lexy Cross
Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky / Charles Lee Ray
Jacob Breedon as Chucky (double)
David Kohlsmith as young Charles Lee Ray (7 years old)
Tyler Barish as young Charles Lee Ray (14 years old)
Recurring
Alex Vincent as Andy Barclay
Devon Sawa as Father Bryce
Also portrayed Chucky
Fiona Dourif as Nica Pierce
Jennifer Tilly as Tiffany Valentine and herself
Jacob Breedon as Doll Tiffany (double)
Bella Higginbotham as Nadine
Christine Elise as Kyle
Lachlan Watson as Glen and Glenda Tilly
Rosemary Dunsmore as Dr. Amanda Mixter
Sage Kitchen as young Dr. Mixter
Also portrayed Chucky
Lara Jean Chorostecki as Sister Ruth
Andrea Carter as Sister Catherine
Notable guest stars
Barbara Alyn Woods as Mayor Michelle Cross
Carina London Battrick as Caroline Cross
Gina Gershon as herself
Liv Morgan as herself
Joe Pantoliano as himself
Sutton Stracke as herself
Meg Tilly as herself
Billy Boyd as the voice of G.G. Valentine
Annie M. Briggs as Rachel Fairchild
Episodes
Development
On November 29, 2021, USA Network and Syfy renewed the series for a second season which premiered on October 5, 2022. In June 2022, Lachlan Watson was cast as Glen/Glenda Ray. On January 15, 2023, the series was renewed for a third season.
Reception
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the second season has an approval rating of 89% based on 9 critics, with an average rating of 7.8/10. Reviewing the first two episodes that were sent to critics, Collider's Alyse Wax said that the show at first "just seems like standard everyday horrors", although being "fun" and "a delight". Slash Film's Jeff Ewing highlighted the way the three main actors (Arthur, Arnarson and Alyn Lind) play off each other's performances, since they are "more convincing together than apart".
Ratings
Syfy
USA Network
References
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2022 American television seasons
Child's Play (franchise) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserstein%20GAN | The Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (WGAN) is a variant of generative adversarial network (GAN) proposed in 2017 that aims to "improve the stability of learning, get rid of problems like mode collapse, and provide meaningful learning curves useful for debugging and hyperparameter searches".
Compared with the original GAN discriminator, the Wasserstein GAN discriminator provides a better learning signal to the generator. This allows the training to be more stable when generator is learning distributions in very high dimensional spaces.
Motivation
The GAN game
The original GAN method is based on the GAN game, a zero-sum game with 2 players: generator and discriminator. The game is defined over a probability space , The generator's strategy set is the set of all probability measures on , and the discriminator's strategy set is the set of measurable functions .
The objective of the game is
The generator aims to minimize it, and the discriminator aims to maximize it.
A basic theorem of the GAN game states that
Repeat the GAN game many times, each time with the generator moving first, and the discriminator moving second. Each time the generator changes, the discriminator must adapt by approaching the ideal
Since we are really interested in , the discriminator function is by itself rather uninteresting. It merely keeps track of the likelihood ratio between the generator distribution and the reference distribution. At equilibrium, the discriminator is just outputting constantly, having given up trying to perceive any difference.
Concretely, in the GAN game, let us fix a generator , and improve the discriminator step-by-step, with being the discriminator at step . Then we (ideally) haveso we see that the discriminator is actually lower-bounding .
Wasserstein distance
Thus, we see that the point of the discriminator is mainly as a critic to provide feedback for the generator, about "how far it is from perfection", where "far" is defined as Jensen–Shannon divergence.
Naturally, this brings the possibility of using a different criteria of farness. There are many possible divergences to choose from, such as the f-divergence family, which would give the f-GAN.
The Wasserstein GAN is obtained by using the Wasserstein metric, which satisfies a "dual representation theorem" that renders it highly efficient to compute:
A proof can be found in the main page on Wasserstein metric.
Definition
By the Kantorovich-Rubenstein duality, the definition of Wasserstein GAN is clear:
By the Kantorovich-Rubenstein duality, for any generator strategy , the optimal reply by the discriminator is , such that Consequently, if the discriminator is good, the generator would be constantly pushed to minimize , and the optimal strategy for the generator is just , as it should.
Comparison with GAN
In the Wasserstein GAN game, the discriminator provides a better gradient than in the GAN game.
Consider for example a game on the real line where both and ar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception%20score | The Inception Score (IS) is an algorithm used to assess the quality of images created by a generative image model such as a generative adversarial network (GAN). The score is calculated based on the output of a separate, pretrained Inceptionv3 image classification model applied to a sample of (typically around 30,000) images generated by the generative model. The Inception Score is maximized when the following conditions are true:
The entropy of the distribution of labels predicted by the Inceptionv3 model for the generated images is minimized. In other words, the classification model confidently predicts a single label for each image. Intuitively, this corresponds to the desideratum of generated images being "sharp" or "distinct".
The predictions of the classification model are evenly distributed across all possible labels. This corresponds to the desideratum that the output of the generative model is "diverse".
It has been somewhat superseded by the related Fréchet inception distance. While the Inception Score only evaluates the distribution of generated images, the FID compares the distribution of generated images with the distribution of a set of real images ("ground truth").
Definition
Let there be two spaces, the space of images and the space of labels . The space of labels is finite.
Let be a probability distribution over that we wish to judge.
Let a discriminator be a function of type where is the set of all probability distributions on . For any image , and any label , let be the probability that image has label , according to the discriminator. It is usually implemented as an Inception-v3 network trained on ImageNet.
The Inception Score of relative to isEquivalent rewrites include is nonnegative by Jensen's inequality.
Pseudocode:
Interpretation
A higher inception score is interpreted as "better", as it means that is a "sharp and distinct" collection of pictures.
, where is the total number of possible labels.
iff for almost all That means is completely "indistinct". That is, for any image sampled from , discriminator returns exactly the same label predictions .
The highest inception score is achieved if and only if the two conditions are both true:
For almost all , the distribution is concentrated on one label. That is, . That is, every image sampled from is exactly classified by the discriminator.
For every label , the proportion of generated images labelled as is exactly . That is, the generated images are equally distributed over all labels.
References
Machine learning
Computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Backup%20Day | World Backup Day is a commemorative date celebrated annually by the backup industry and tech industry all over the world. It highlights the importance of protecting data and keeping systems and computers secure.
World Backup Day started with a post on Reddit where a user wrote about losing their hard drive and wishing someone had reminded them about how important it is to backup data. The campaign started by Ismail Jadun in 2011 and every year news outlets write articles about the importance of backing up data on World Backup Day.
Observance
Every year on March 31, companies tweet and have podcasts about the importance of backing up data to prevent data loss. On the website WorldBackupDay.com people can make a pledge in ten languages on various social media channels about the importance of backing up their data. The World Backup Day is recognized as National Calendar Day on many national holiday websites.
References
External links
Official site
Backup
Awareness days
Unofficial observances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra%20B.%20Cohen | Myra B. Cohen is an American software engineer whose research focuses on software testing. She is Susan J. Rosowski Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and Professor and Lanh and Oanh Nguyen Chair in Software Engineering at Iowa State University.
Education and career
Cohen is originally from New York City. After studying agriculture and life sciences at Cornell University, she became interested in computer science through working as a data analyst for a hospital. She went to the University of Vermont for graduate study in computer science, and earned a master's degree there in 1999. Cohen completed a Ph.D. at the University of Auckland in New Zealand in 2004. Her dissertation, Designing Test Suites for Software Interaction Testing, was supervised by Peter Gibbons.
After completing her doctorate, she became an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. In 2016, she was named the Susan J. Rosowski Professor there. She took her present position at Iowa State University in 2018.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
American software engineers
American women engineers
Cornell University alumni
University of Vermont alumni
University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty
Iowa State University faculty
University of Auckland alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailongia | Bailongia is an extinct genus of arthropod known from a single species Bailongia longicaudata (longicaudata from Latin: "long-tailed") found in the Cambrian Stage 4 aged Guanshan Biota of Yunnan, China. It was around 5mm long and had a large head shield, nine overlapping tapering tergites and a relatively elongate tailspine. It has been recovered in a relatively basal position within Artiopoda, more derived than Squamacula or Protosutura, but outside Trilobitomorpha or Vicissicaudata.
Phylogeny
After Jiao et al. 2021.
References
Artiopoda
Cambrian arthropods of Asia
Cambrian China
Paleontology in Yunnan
Fossil taxa described in 2021
Cambrian genus extinctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Network%20of%20Lawyers%20Against%20Spiritual%20Sales | The (abbreviated to ) is a non-profit anti-cult association established in May 1987, comprising about 300 lawyers in Japan. It is specialized in providing legal assistance for victims of cult-related frauds, known as in Japan, from religious organizations, primarily the Unification Church (UC), as well as advocating preventive measures against the malpractices.
The UC, founded by Sun Myung Moon in 1954, has long been accused of employing manipulative and coercive tactics to make victims donate large sum of money or buy overpriced items, in some cases more than what the victims can afford. According to the association the total of confirmed financial damages linked to the UC during the 35 years through 2021 has surpassed 123.7 billion yen (US$899.2 million).
Public statements
On December 24, 2013, the association along with victims of the UC publicly protested singer-actress Junko Sakurada's comeback to the show business since her last retirement in 1992. Sakurada is a member of the UC and is accused of selling expensive religious items. The association believed that her comeback would spread the UC's influence and create more victims.
On September 17, 2021, the association published an open letter for the former prime minister Shinzo Abe, dissuading him from sending any congratulatory or advocating messages to the UC or its front organizations. The association feared that any message from Abe would endorse their anti-social activities in Japan. The letter was published after Abe had given an online speech on "Think Tank 2022 Rally of Hope" held by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which is also founded by Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han in 2005. The video was cited as what motivated the suspected gunman, Tetsuya Yamagami who claimed to be a victim of the UC, to assassinate Abe on July 8, 2022, in Nara City, Japan.
Post-assassintion of Shinzo Abe
Following the press conference by the UC's Tokyo branch on July 11, 2022 regarding the blame on the UC by Yamagami over the financial woe of his family, the association held its own press conference the next day to counter the UC's arguments. The UC claimed that after losing the 2009 legal battle in the Tokyo District Court, they strengthened compliance with the regulations of donation and had no more issues ever since. The association reported that the situation did not improve after 2009 and the UC still uses deceptive tactics to demand their members donate all their savings to the organization. In 2021 alone, the association received legal inquiries involving over 300 million yen from victims of the UC.
On October 11, 2022, the association formally submitted a request for disbanding the Unification Church to the , Minister of Justice and Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on the grounds of repeated illegal demands of donation and the associated civil lawsuits against the church. They stated that the Unification Church and their followers can continue practicing thei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y.3181 | Y.3181 is an ITU-T Recommendation specifying an Architectural framework for Machine Learning Sandbox in future networks (e.g. 5G, IMT-2020).
The standard describes the requirements and architecture for a machine learning sandbox (computer security) a in future networks including IMT-2020.
ML in 5G difficulties
The integration of AI/ML has been identified as one of the key features of future networks. However, network operators have the challenge of maintaining the operational performance and associated key performance indicators during or after this integration. In addition, the introduction of Machine Learning (ML) techniques to fifth-generation (5G) networks may raise concerns regarding transparency, reliability, and availability of ML methods, techniques and data. Often, ML methods are seen as black boxes (especially for deep learning, the internal operation of the model is unknown because it is too complex or even hidden) that can learn complex patterns from training datasets.
Supervised and unsupervised learning
However, such datasets may be limited and/or too complex, thus questions arise regarding the accuracy of the output of the ML mechanism. In particular, reducing the generalization error is the main concern in applying any kind of Supervised Learning (SL) approach, which can be high even if the test error is kept low (this phenomenon is commonly known as overfitting). Apart from SL methods, other branches of ML such as Unsupervised Learning (UL) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) deal with uncertainty in one way or another. Such uncertainty may entail the application of changes in the network leading to unacceptable performance.
On the one hand, unsupervised learning aims to find patterns from data without any guidance (unlabelled data) and hence lacks validation. On the other hand, RL is based on the learning-by-experience paradigm. RL has been shown to be of great utility for single-agent approaches in controlled scenarios, however notable adverse effects can appear as a result of the competition raised by multiple systems sharing the same resources (e.g., while providing heterogeneous services using common network resources). Moreover, when multiple systems are competing for the same market of users, exploration may hurt a system's reputation in the near term, with adverse competitive effects.
External links
ITU Focus Group on Autonomous Networks (FG-AN)
References
ITU-T Y Series Recommendations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britzelmayria%20multipedata | Britzelmayria multipedata is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Psathyrellaceae. It is commonly known as the clustered brittlestem.
Taxonomy
It was first described in 1905 by the American mycologist Charles Horton Peck who classified it as Psathyra multipedata. It was reclassified as Psathyrella multipedata in 1941 by the American mycologistAlexander H. Smith and remained known as such until recently. In 2020 the German mycologists Dieter Wächter & Andreas Melzer reclassified many species in the Psathyrellaceae family based on phylogenetic analysis and placed this species in the newly created genus Britzelmayria.
Many mushroom field guides and websites still refer to this species as Psathyrella multipedata.
Description
Britzelmayria multipedata is a small brittlestem mushroom with white flesh and a brown cap which is known for growing in dense clusters.
Cap: 1-3cm. Starts conical before flattening into a convex cap which may become campanulate or bell shaped with age. The smooth, brown cap becomes paler when dry. Gills: Adnate or adnexed. Crowded. Light grey or brown with white fringes maturing to dark brown. Stem: 7-12cm in height with a thickness of 3-6mm tapering slightly towards the cap. It often grows in a wavy fashion with the base fused together with other members of the cluster. Spore print: Dark purplish brown. Spores: Ellipsoid and smooth with a germ pore. 6.5-10 x 3.5-4 µm. Taste: Indistinct and mild. Smell: Faint and mushroomy.
Habitat and distribution
B. multipedata is found on soil amongst grass and in open grassy spaces amongst woodland. It is saprotrophic and grows on buried fallen trees through the late Summer to Autumn. This species is widespread and found occasionally.
Observations of this species appear most common in the UK, West Europe and the East Coast of the United States.
References
Britzelmayria
Psathyrellaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage%20control%20and%20reactive%20power%20management | Voltage control and reactive power management are two facets of an ancillary service that enables reliability of the transmission networks and facilitates the electricity market on these networks. Both aspects of this activity are intertwined (voltage change in an alternating current (AC) network is effected through production or absorption of reactive power), so within this article the term voltage control will be primarily used to designate this essentially single activity, as suggested by Kirby & Hirst (1997). Voltage control does not include reactive power injections within one AC cycle; these are a part of a separate ancillary service, so-called system stability service. The transmission of reactive power is limited by its nature, so the voltage control is provided through pieces of equipment distributed throughout the power grid, unlike the frequency control that is based on maintaining the overall active power balance in the system.
Need for voltage control
Kirby & Hirst indicate three reasons behind the need for voltage control:
the power network equipment is designed for a narrow voltage range, so is the power consuming equipment on the customer side. Operation outside of this range will cause the equipment to fail;
reactive power causes heating in the generators and the transmission lines, thermal limits will require restricting the production and the flow of real (active) power;
injection of reactive power into transmission lines causes losses that waste power, forcing an increase in power supplied by the prime mover.
Use of specialized voltage control devices in the grid also improves the power system stability by reducing the fluctuations of the rotor angle of a synchronous generator (that are caused by generators sourcing or sinking the reactive power).
Power buses and systems that exhibit large changes in voltage when the reactive power conditions change are called weak systems, while the ones that have relatively smaller changes are strong (numerically, the strength is expressed as a short circuit ratio that is higher for the stronger systems).
Absorption and production of reactive power
Devices absorb reactive energy if they have lagging power factor (are inductor-like) and produce reactive energy if they have a leading power factor (are capacitor-like).
Electric grid equipment units typically either supply or consume the reactive power:
Synchronous generator will provide reactive power if overexcited and absorb it if underexcited, subject to the limits of the generator capability curve.
Transformers will always absorb the reactive power.
Power lines will either absorb or provide reactive power: overhead power lines will provide reactive power at low load, but as the load increases past the surge impedance of the line, the lines start consuming an increasing amount of reactive power. The underground power lines are capacitive, so they are loaded below the surge impedance and provide reactive power.
Electrical lo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marloes%20Maathuis | Marloes Henriette Maathuis (born 1978) is a Dutch statistician known for her work on causal inference using graphical models, particularly in high-dimensional data from applications in biology and epidemiology. She is a professor of statistics at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
Education and career
Maathuis is originally from Groningen, the daughter of a physician. She studied applied mathematics at the Delft University of Technology, earning a bachelor's degree in 2001 and a master's degree in 2003. Her master's program included travel to Ethiopia to study the lifetime risks of HIV-related deaths there.
With the assistance of Delft University professor Piet Groeneboom, Maathuis traveled to the University of Washington to work with Jon A. Wellner and complete her master's thesis. She stayed at the University of Washington for Ph.D. in statistics, completed in 2006, and then for an additional year as an acting assistant professor. Her doctoral dissertation, Nonparametric Estimation for Current Status Data with Competing Risks, was jointly supervised by Groeneboom and Wellner.
She joined ETH Zurich as an untenured assistant professor of applied mathematics in 2007. In 2013, following the creation of a professorship in statistics at ETH Zurich, she was named an associate professor of statistics, as an early replacement for a retiring professor. She was promoted to full professor in 2016.
Recognition
Maathuis is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, elected in 2017. In 2020, with Daniel Dadush, she won the Van Dantzig Award of the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVSOR), "the highest Dutch award in statistics and operations research". She is the 2021 winner of the Ethel Newbold Prize of the Bernoulli Society.
References
External links
Home page
1978 births
Living people
Dutch statisticians
Dutch women scientists
Delft University of Technology alumni
Women statisticians
University of Washington alumni
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki%20and%20Pawpaw | Aki and Pawpaw is a 2021 Nigerian comedy film co-produced by Play Network Studios and Film One Entertainment. The comedy film directed by Biodun Stephen, written by Steph Boyo and Ozioma Ogbaji was a remake of the Aki na Ukwa 2002 comedic movie produced by Chinedu Ikedieze and Osita Iheme. It was released on 15 December 2021, showing in cinemas nationwide on 17 December 2021. The comedy stars Amechi Muonagor, Real Warri Pikin, Blessing Jessica Obasi, Charles Inojie, Chioma Okafor, Uti Nwachukwu, Toyin Abraham, Stan Nze, Juliet Ibrahim, and Francis Sule.
Synopsis
Aki and Pawpaw accidentally fall into fame and wealth they craved for through the help of social media with one of their tricks and now must deal with the problems that come from wealth and fame.
Cast
Chinedu Ikedieze
Osita Iheme
Toyin Abraham
Amaechi Muonagor
Real Warri Pikin
Uti Nwachukwu
Stan Nze
MC Lively
Beverly Osu
Juliet Ibrahim
Hanks Anuku
Chioma Okafor
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2021 films
Nigerian comedy films
2021 comedy films
English-language Nigerian films
2020s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%20%28disambiguation%29 | SQL (short for Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational databases.
SQL may also refer to:
Standard quantum limit, a limit on measurement accuracy at quantum scales in physics
Squelch, in telecommunications, a circuit function that acts to suppress the audio (or video) output of a receiver in the absence of a strong input signal
San Carlos Airport (California), an airport in San Mateo County, California, whose IATA designation and FAA LID are SQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20canals%20in%20Pakistan | Pakistan has one of the largest man-made canal systems in the world providing irrigation facilities to 48 million acres. Canal network of Pakistan consists of Main Canals, Branch Canals, Link Canals, Major distributaries, Minor distributaries, and Watercourses or Field Channels.
Main Canal: A principal channel off-taking directly from a river or reservoir which has discharge capacity of above 25 cubic meter/sec (cumecs) is called Main Canal or Main Line. These Canals are not used for direct irrigation. They drive water from the river/ reservoir through head regulator and feed it to Branch Canals and Major distributaries.
Branch Canal: They take-off water from Main Canal and feed the Major and Minor distributaries. They are also not used for direct irrigation. Their discharge capacity usually ranges from 5-25 cubic meter/second.
Link Canal: These Canals are meant to Transfer Water of three Western Rivers, namely Chenab, Jhelum and Indus to the canals dependent on the three Eastern Rivers, namely Sutlej, Beas and Ravi.
Some of the notable canals of Pakistan are listed here.
Canals in Punjab
Natural Canals in Sindh
Canals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
See also
Punjab Canal Colonies
Punjab Irrigation Department
List of barrages and headworks in Pakistan
List of rivers of Pakistan
List of canals
References
External links
Irrigation Department Government of Punjab
Irrigation Department Government of KP
Irrigation Department Government of Sindh
Pakistan
Bodies of water of Pakistan
Irrigation in Pakistan
Agriculture in Punjab, Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20All%20TV%20original%20programming | All TV (stylized as ALLTV) is a free-to-air broadcast television network in the Philippines owned by Advanced Media Broadcasting System (AMBS). The following is a list of all television original programming by All TV since it began its television operations in 2022.
Current original programming
Talk
M.O.M.S — Mhies on a Mission
Negosyo Goals
Public affairs
Kuha All!
Film presentation
All Flix
All Flix: Noon Fix
All Flix: Pinoy Picks
All Flix: Prime
All Flix: Sabado Hits
All Flix: Sunday Hits
Former original programming
Variety
Wowowin
Talk
Toni
Toni Talks
Others
EZ Shop Asia
InstaJam
K-Lite Radio TV
Previously aired specials
13th PMPC Star Awards for Music
Manny Pacquiao vs. DK Yoo
Miss Earth 2022
SONA 2023: Makalipas ang Isang Taon - The All TV News Special Coverage
38th PMPC Star Awards for Movies
References
External links
ALLTV on YouTube
ALLTV Entertainment on YouTube
Advanced Media Broadcasting System
Lists of television series by network
Philippine television-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivienne%20Sze | Vivienne Sze is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist whose research focuses on low-power electronics and on the trade-offs between energy use and computing power in the combined design of software and hardware, for applications including video coding and deep neural networks. She is an associate professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where she heads the Energy-Efficient Multimedia Systems Group.
Education and career
Sze did her undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at the University of Toronto, graduating in 2004. She was a student of Anantha P. Chandrakasan at MIT, where she earned a master's degree in 2006 and completed her Ph.D. in 2010; her doctoral research won MIT's Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize in electrical engineering.
After completing her doctorate, she worked on video coding at Texas Instruments. She became a member of the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), which developed the standard for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). After completing her work on HEVC, she returned to MIT as a faculty member in 2013.
Books
With Madhukar Budagavi and Gary J. Sullivan, Sze edited the book High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC): Algorithms and Architectures (Springer, 2014). With Yu-Hsin Chen, Tien-Ju Yang, and Joel S. Emer, she is a coauthor of Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks (Morgan & Claypool, 2020).
Recognition
As part of the JCT-VC, Sze and her collaborators won a 2017 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award for their work on HEVC. In 2020 she became the inaugural winner of the Rising Star Award of ACM-W, the Council on Women in Computing of the Association for Computing Machinery.
References
External links
Energy-Efficient Multimedia Systems Group, Sze's laboratory at MIT
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
University of Toronto alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia%20Keesing | Felicia Keesing is an ecologist and the David & Rosalie Rose Distinguished Chair of the Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Education
Keesing received her B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University in 1987 and her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997.
Research
Keesing's research focuses on the consequences of human impacts, particularly biodiversity loss, for ecological communities. In Kenya, she has studied how the absence of large mammals like giraffes and elephants affects savanna ecology. She and Richard Ostfeld pioneered research on the ecology of Lyme disease, in particular how human risk for Lyme disease is affected by forest fragmentation and the loss of biodiversity. She and Ostfeld also developed core ideas about the general relationship between biodiversity loss and the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases, and a conceptual model of the effects of pulsed resources on ecological communities.
From 2016 to 2021, she and Ostfeld co-directed the Tick Project, a study to test whether environmental interventions could prevent Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in residential neighborhoods of Dutchess County, New York.
Keesing's recent research in Kenya focuses on the ecological, economic, and social consequences of managing land in Laikipia County, Kenya for livestock, wildlife, or both.
In 2009, she served on the steering committee for the Vision and Change initiative to reform the teaching of undergraduate biology, and from 2012 to 2017, with funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, she directed a project on science literacy for college students. In 2017, she led the development of the curriculum for the Citizen Science program at Bard College.
Awards and recognition
Keesing received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 1999. She is a fellow of the Ecological Society of America (2019) and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2021). In 2022, she was awarded the International Cosmos Prize.
Selected publications
References
Living people
Bard College faculty
Stanford University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
1966 births
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American ecologists
Fellows of the Ecological Society of America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin%20Yvonne%20Rozier | Kristin Yvonne Rozier is an American aerospace engineer and computer scientist whose research investigates formal methods including temporal logic and model checking for the formal verification of safety-critical systems, especially those involving air transport, unmanned aerial vehicles, and air traffic control. She is Black & Veatch Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mathematics at Iowa State University, where she heads the Laboratory for Temporal Logic.
Education and career
Rozier studied computer science at the College of William & Mary, graduating in 2000. After earning a master's degree there in 2001, supervised by Paul K. Stockmeyer, she went to Rice University for doctoral study in computer science. She completed her Ph.D. in 2012, with the dissertation Explicit or Symbolic Translation of Linear Temporal Logic to Automata. Her doctoral advisor was Moshe Vardi, with Stockmeyer as co-advisor.
She joined the NASA Langley Research Center as a research scientist in 2003, and moved to the Ames Research Center in 2008. In 2015 she became an assistant professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at the University of Cincinnati, and in 2016 she moved to her present position at Iowa State University. She was promoted to associate professor, and named Black & Veatch Associate Professor, in 2021.
She is also active in supporting women from underrepresented groups in STEM through the Jewels Academy, a non-profit organization based in Des Moines, Iowa.
Recognition
In 2013, the Intelligent Systems Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics gave Rozier their Distinguished Service Award.
In 2014, Rozier won the inaugural Initiative-Inspiration-Impact Award of Women in Aerospace, "for exemplary achievement of formal specification, verification and validation of a NextGen air traffic control system candidate and for dedication as a mentor and role model".
She won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a NASA Early Career Faculty Award in 2016.
References
External links
Laboratory for Temporal Logic
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
American aerospace engineers
American women engineers
College of William & Mary alumni
Rice University alumni
University of Cincinnati faculty
Iowa State University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%20Chung | Shirley Chung is a Chinese-American chef known for appearances on Top Chef: New Orleans, Top Chef: Charleston and season 3 of the Food Network's Tournament of Champions.
Early life and education
Chung was born in Beijing, China and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was 17 years old. She was introduced to international cuisine as a child by her grandmother Liang Si Yi, who worked as a director for the Red Cross. Chung worked for several years in Silicon Valley, after graduating with a degree in business administration. She eventually left the tech industry to attend culinary school.
Career
Trained in classic French and Italian cuisine, Chung has since worked and opened restaurants for chefs including José Andrés, Thomas Keller and Guy Savoy. In 2014 she opened Twenty Eight with Stacie Tran, acting as partner chef at the Irvine, California restaurant.
Chung opened her first restaurant, Ms. Chi Cafe, in Culver City in 2018. She spoke openly about her experiences with anti-Asian racism following the onset of the COVID-19 in order to draw attention to the impact of hate-motivated behavior on Asian Pacific American owned businesses.
In addition to working in restaurants, Chung has appeared on numerous cooking-related television shows. She first appeared as a contestant on Top Chef Season 11, where she finished in third place. She returned to the show during Season 14, competing against winner Brooke Williamson in the finals. The pair previously competed against each other as part of Top Chef Duels, where Chung bested Williamson. In 2022, she joined the cast of the Food Network's Tournament of Champions hosted by Guy Fieri.
Publications
References
Living people
Top Chef contestants
American people of Chinese descent
Asian American chefs
Women chefs
Women restaurateurs
Women television personalities
Chinese emigrants to the United States
People from Beijing
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake%20Wheeler | Jake Wheeler is a fictional character in the Child's Play franchise who was created by Don Mancini and is portrayed by Zackary Arthur. He is the main protagonist of the Syfy and USA Network's Chucky television series, which shares continuity with the seven Child's Play films. He first appears in "Death by Misadventure", the premiere episode of the show's first season.
In the series, Jake is a bullied teen who finds a vintage Good Guy doll at a neighborhood yard sale, only to discover that it is in fact Chucky, a murderous doll possessed by the spirit of an infamous serial killer. His life is then thrown into chaos as he and his friends attempt to stop Chucky's killing spree.
Creation and development
On January 29, 2019, it was reported that a television series based on the Child's Play franchise was in development on Syfy, with franchise creator Don Mancini serving as the creator and executive producer alongside David Kirschner, Harley Peyton, and Nick Antosca. When developing the show, Mancini expressed a desire to "reinvent" the franchise and expand its audience and took a partially autobiographical approach when creating the character of Jake. He explained that "taking [the franchise] into the medium of TV and having so much more storytelling space at my disposal means so much more opportunity to explore character relationships. I realised that it gave me an opportunity to really be more personal, and even autobiographical than I’ve ever been before. So the character Jake, played by Zach Arthur, there are a lot of autobiographical elements for me in that character". Mancini specifically mentioned how Jake's father not accepting his son's "burgeoning sexual and romantic identity" as a gay man related to some of his own experiences as a teenager. He also teased that Chucky would initially take advantage of Jake's struggles as a member of the LGBTQ+ community to try and manipulate him by acknowledging that he has a queer child (Glen/Glenda, from Seed of Chucky), referring to Chucky as "the ultimate bully".
Discussing the development of Jake's relationship with Devon for the show's second season, Mancini explained "I wanted to go further with the love story. I wanted to stress their relationship in the Catholic school setting because that’s something that I experienced as a kid, as a gay teenager who was raised Catholic." Arthur teased that the season would explore whether the couple actually belong together noting, "they were brought together by Chucky and we’re exploring, ‘OK, do these people really match, do these people really get along?’ Chucky brought them together, but do they really have anything in common?" Arthur also discussed Jake's emotional state in the second season and explained that "there’s some trauma and some guilt that Jake carries from the first season that influence some choices that he makes, and things he believes in."
Casting
Arthur's casting in the role was announced on March 5, 2021 alongside that of Jennifer Tilly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeko%20Oishi | Meeko Mitsuko Karen Oishi is an American engineer and control theorist. She is Gardner Zemke Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico.
Research
Oishi's research focuses on the safety of human-in-the-loop systems for transportation, assistive technology, and robotics, using methods based on stochastic control. She has also studied motor control in Parkinson's disease patients, and the effects of intelligent lighting on circadian rhythms.
She participated with Joan Roughgarden on a controversial paper in Science applying cooperative game theory to sexual selection, later expanded into a book by Roughgarden.
Education and career
Oishi is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She majored in mechanical engineering at Princeton University, graduating in 1998. She went to Stanford University for graduate study in mechanical engineering, where she earned a master's degree in 2000 and completed her Ph.D. in 2004, under the supervision of Claire J. Tomlin.
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Ecological Observational Network and Sandia National Laboratories. She became a faculty member at the University of British Columbia from 2006 to 2011 before moving to her present position at the University of New Mexico in 2011. At the University of New Mexico, she was named Regents' Lecturer for 2015–2018. She was promoted to full professor in 2020, and named Gardner Zemke Professor for 2020–2022.
References
External links
Human-Centered Systems & Control Lab
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Albuquerque, New Mexico
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
Control theorists
Princeton University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
University of New Mexico faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20People%27s%20History%20of%20Computing%20in%20the%20United%20States | A People’s History of Computing in the United States is a non-fiction book by Joy Lisi Rankin. It focuses on American students and educators in the 1960s and 1970s, in particular, those at Dartmouth College, in the Minnesota education system, and at the University of Illinois. Rankin is especially interested in countering the "Silicon Valley mythology" and showing how "computing citizens" created their own networks and fostered a sense of computing for the public good, which she compares to today's "computing consumers".
References
External links
(Adapted excerpt from the book)
Press website
Technology books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss%20%28surname%29 | Schloss is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Adolphe Schloss (1842 – 1910), German-French art collector
Andrew Schloss (born 1952), American musician and computer engineer
Eva Schloss (born 1929), Austrian-English Holocaust survivor, memoirist
Glenn Schloss (born 1972), American television & film composer, musician, entrepreneur, writer
Irene Schloss, Argentinian Antarctic researcher, best known for her work on plankton biology
Jeremy Schloss, Rugby player
Patrick Schloss American rehabilitation psychologist, educator, professor and university administrator
Ruth Schloss (1922 – 2013), Israeli painter and illustrator
Walter Schloss (1916-2012), American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist
Zander Schloss (born August 7, 1961) is an American musician, actor and composer
Lists of people by surname |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardised%20Precipitation%20Evapotranspiration%20Index | The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) is a multiscalar Drought index based on climatic data. It Developed by Vicente-Serrano et al. (2010) at the Institute Pirenaico de Ecologia in Zaragoza, Spain. It can be used for determining the onset, duration and magnitude of drought conditions with respect to normal conditions in a variety of natural and managed systems such as crops, ecosystems, rivers, water resources, etc.
See also
Keetch–Byram drought index
palmer drought Index
Drought
References
External links
SPEI world database, updated monthly
R package that calculates the SPEI
Meteorological indices
Droughts
Hydrology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDHU%20Department%20of%20Computer%20Science%20and%20Information%20Engineering | NDHU Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (NDHU CSIE; ) is one of 8 departments within NDHU College of Science and Engineering and widely regarded as top 5 academic department of computer science in Taiwan.
According to Times Higher Education, both its undergraduate and graduate programs rank in the top five among Taiwanese universities. The department ranks highest in Taiwan in academic impact by THE Subject Rankings. According to NTU Ranking, the department ranks Top 350 in the world. It was evaluated A level globally by THE China Subjects Ranking. NDHU CSIE's faculty has 2 IET Fellows, 2 Distinguished Professor, 3 World's Top 2% Scientists.
History
In 1995, NDHU Graduate Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering was founded by Sy-Yen Kuo (郭斯彥), the Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Arizona and Dean of College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at National Taiwan University, as the first computer science department in Eastern Taiwan. In 1997, the graduate institute founded bachelor's program and become Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering. In 2000, the department founded its first executive master's program, the alumni include the Da-Kuei Lin (林大馗), the vice-president of KPMG Cyber Security in Taiwan.
In 2001, NDHU CSIE established the 1st PhD program in Computer Science and Information Engineering in Eastern Taiwan. In 2008, with the merger of National Dong Hwa University (NDHU) and National Hualien University of Education (NHUE), NHUE's Graduate Institute of Information Science and Graduate Institute of learning Sciences were merged into the department, which were later integrated into the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia Technology in 2009.
In 2010, the department started English-taught classes and accepting international students application undergraduate, master, PhD. In 2014, following the funding and support from International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF; 國際合作發展基金會) of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NDHU CSIE founded the International Bachelor's and Master's Program in Computer Science and Information Engineering, which were the 1st international program of B.S. and M.S. in computer science in Taiwan. In 2019, the International Bachelor Program in Computer Science and Information Engineering was selected as TaiwanICDF Scholarship Program, which was the only computer science program in the scholarship and provided full funding for selected applicants. In 2021, the department's TaiwanICDF Scholarship Program received 158 applications with 9.4% admission rate, which was highest numbers of program application in the TaiwanICDF Scholarship.
Degrees and programs
Undergraduate
NDHU CSIE offer the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science and Information Engineering. The department also offers one 5-year bachelors/masters programs: Bachelor of Science/Master of Science (B.S./M.S.) in Computer Science an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%BFQui%C3%A9n%20es%20la%20m%C3%A1scara%3F%20%28Argentine%20TV%20series%29 | ¿Quién es la máscara? (Spanish for Who is the Mask?) is an Argentine talent reality television series produced by Telefe and Paramount Networks Americas. It is based on the South Korean television show King of Mask Singer created by Seo Chang-man. The series is hosted by Natalia Oreiro and premiered on September 12, 2022, with the series finale airing on October 13.
Format
A group of celebrities hide behind a character and, episode after episode, a panel of researchers will try to discover who is behind the mask. Competitors are matched in face-off competitions and perform a song. The studio audience votes for their favorite performance and the masked singer with the most votes is safe for the week, while the celebrity with the least votes is nominated for elimination. The panelists decide which of the nominated celebrities will continue in the competition and the public saves another. The eliminated celebrity removes their mask to reveal their identity.
Panelists and host
The panel consists of businesswoman Wanda Nara, comedian and actor Roberto Moldavsky, comedian and television host Lizy Tagliani and singer Karina.
Contestants
Episodes
Episode 1 (September 12)
Episode 2 (September 13)
Episode 3 (September 14)
Episode 4 (September 15)
Episode 5 (September 18)
Episode 6 (September 19)
Episode 7 (September 20)
Episode 8 (September 21)
Episode 9 (September 22)
Episode 10 (September 25)
Episode 11 (September 26)
Episode 12 (September 27)
Episode 13 (September 28)
Episode 14 (September 29)
Episode 15 (October 2)
Episode 16 (October 3)
Episode 17 (October 4)
Episode 18 (October 5)
Episode 19 (October 6)
Episode 20 (October 9)
Episode 21 (October 10)
Episode 22 (October 11)
Episode 23 (October 12) - Semifinal
Episode 24 (October 13) - Finale
Round One
Round Two
Ratings
References
External links
2022 Argentine television series debuts
Telefe original programming
Argentine reality television series
Spanish-language television shows
2020s Argentine television series
Masked Singer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interak | Interak is a range of Z80 based CP/M computers from Greenbank Electronics a small UK producer of Z80-based computers in the early 1980s based in Liverpool.
The system was a rack back system that allowed the purchase of individual boards to expand the system. The bus is of Interak's own design.
References
Computer-related introductions in 1982
Z80-based home computers
Personal computers
Computers designed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%20separation%20algorithm | Carl Friedrich Gauss, in his treatise Allgemeine Theorie des Erdmagnetismus, presented a method, the Gauss separation algorithm, of partitioning the magnetic field vector, B, measured over the surface of a sphere into two components, internal and external, arising from electric currents (per the Biot–Savart law) flowing in the volumes interior and exterior to the spherical surface, respectively. The method employs spherical harmonics. When radial currents flow through the surface of interest, the decomposition is more complex, involving the decomposition of the field into poloidal and toroidal components. In this case, an additional term (the toroidal component) accounts for the contribution of the radial current to the magnetic field on the surface.
The method is commonly used in studies of terrestrial and planetary magnetism, to relate measurements of magnetic fields either at the planetary surface or in orbit above the planet to currents flowing in the planet's interior (internal currents) and its magnetosphere (external currents). Ionospheric currents would be exterior to the planet's surface, but might be internal currents from the vantage point of a satellite orbiting the planent.
Notes
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Magnetism
Geomagnetism
Physical quantities
Harmonic analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Ntumba | Manuel Ntumba is a Congolese-Togolese inventor, advisor, geostrategist and geospatial expert. He is the Founder of the global public-private partnership Tod'Aérs Global Network [TGN].
Ntumba currently serves as the African Union (AU) Youth Advisor on Disaster Risk Reduction. In June 2023, he was elected as the new Chair of the African Union Youth Advisory Board on Disaster Risk Reduction (AYAB/DRR), jointly coordinated by the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment (DARBE), the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Unit and the Youth Division of the African Union Commission (AUC).
Ntumba also works as a Consultant for Airbus Intelligence, a division of Airbus Defence and Space (ADS), where he is in charge of public relations (PR) and communication strategies for the use of geospatial intelligence and satellite data to address sustainable development, technological innovation, and socio-economic progress in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Biography
Ntumba was born to a Congolese father from the Democratic Republic of Congo and a Togolese mother. Ntumba graduated in engineering with a specialization in satellite telecommunications and geoinformatics. He also pursues a Master of Business Administration (MBA), specializing in Governance and International Economics from Porto Business School, University of Porto. Since 2022, he is also an Alumni in Public Policy and Management from the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), an initiative of the United States Department of State launched in 2010 by President Barack Obama.
From June 2022 to June 2023, Ntumba served as a Member of the diplomatic delegation to the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), within the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
From May 2021 to May 2022, Ntumba was a Regional Partnership Manager at the Space Generation Advisory Council - in support of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications, affiliated with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) based in Vienna, Austria. Where he was overseeing all regional strategic partnerships for all 54 African countries, and member-states of the United Nations.
Ntumba completed an executive-level program in financial technology and digital economy from the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) and Alipay (Alibaba Group). Ntumba worked as an Advisor on space affairs and geospatial intelligence to the African Union Presidential Panel for the mandate 2021-2022, previously chaired by His Excellency President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo: President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and 19th President of the African Union (2021-2022). Where he worked with Raïssa Malu, a member of the presidential panel, to develop a roadmap for the use of space technologies, digital transformation, and geospatial applications to achieve the Agenda 2063 of the African Union (AU).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20We%20Invented%20The%20World | How We Invented The World is a 2012 Discovery Network technology documentary TV series which premiered on November 6, 2012. It was produced by Nutopia and distributed by Discovery Channel. It was directed by Stephen Warburton, Jonathan Rudd and Sam Miller. It Explores the most iconic inventions and breakthroughs of the modern age. It was hosted by Laurence Fox and narrated in English.
Episodes
Episode one: Mobile Phones
The mobile phone has connected the modern world, but inventing it took the most beautiful woman in the world, Frankenstein’s creator, the Titanic tragedy and the ultimate stroll down 6th Avenue.
Episode two: Skyscrapers
The skyscraper – the ultimate symbol of power and wealth. But, incredibly, to invent the skyscraper it took a bird in a cage, a city in flames, a chance question from a college student and the humble horse and wagon.
Episode three: Aeroplanes
The aeroplane - it’s made our dream of flight a reality, but the moments of genius and invention it took to invent it involved not just birds as inspiration, but bikes, a trip to the Moon and back, a pair of frozen eyeballs and two nervous breakdowns.
Episode four: Cars
The car - so much more than getting us from A-B, but the eureka moments it took to invent the car we know today included a Scottish veterinarian, an ambitious wife, thousands of slaughtered animals and a terrifying experiment with boiling oil.
Episode five: Guns
References
Further reading
Discovery Channel original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyra%20%28codec%29 | Lyra is a lossy audio codec developed by Google that is designed for compressing speech at very low bitrates. Unlike most other audio formats, it compresses data using a machine learning-based algorithm.
Features
The Lyra codec is designed to transmit speech in real-time when bandwidth is severely restricted, such as over slow or unreliable network connections. It runs at fixed bitrates of 3.2, 6, and 9 kbit/s and it is intended to provide better quality than codecs that use traditional waveform-based algorithms at similar bitrates. Instead, compression is achieved via a machine learning algorithm that encodes the input with feature extraction, and then reconstructs an approximation of the original using a generative model. This model was trained on thousands of hours of speech recorded in over 70 languages to function with various speakers. Because generative models are more computationally complex than traditional codecs, a simple model that processes different frequency ranges in parallel is used to obtain acceptable performance. Lyra imposes 20 ms of latency due to its frame size. Google's reference implementation is available for Android and Linux.
Quality
Lyra's initial version performed significantly better than traditional codecs at similar bitrates. Ian Buckley at MakeUseOf said, "It succeeds in creating almost eerie levels of audio reproduction with bitrates as low as 3 kbps." Google claims that it reproduces natural-sounding speech, and that Lyra at 3 kbit/s beats Opus at 8 kbit/s. Tsahi Levent-Levi writes that Satin, Microsoft's AI-based codec, outperforms it at higher bitrates.
History
In December 2017, Google researchers published a preprint paper on replacing the Codec 2 decoder with a WaveNet neural network. They found that a neural network is able to extrapolate features of the voice not described in the Codec 2 bitstream and give better audio quality, and that the use of conventional features makes the neural network calculation simpler compared to a purely waveform-based network. Lyra version 1 would reuse this overall framework of feature extraction, quantization, and neural synthesis.
Lyra was first announced in February 2021, and in April, Google released the source code of their reference implementation. The initial version had a fixed bitrate of 3 kbit/s and around 90 ms latency. The encoder calculates a log mel spectrogram and performs vector quantization to store the spectrogram in a data stream. The decoder is a WaveNet neural network that takes the spectrogram and reconstructs the input audio.
A second version (v2/1.2.0), released in September 2022, improved sound quality, latency, and performance, and permitted multiple bitrates. V2 uses a "SoundStream" structure where both the encoder and decoder are neural networks, a kind of autoencoder. A residual vector quantizer is used to turn the feature values into transferrable data.
Support
Implementations
Google's implementation is available on GitHub under the |
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