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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Larson%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Kate S. Larson is a Canadian computer scientist working as a professor, Pasupalak AI Fellow, and University Research Chair in the Cheriton School of Computer Science of the University of Waterloo.
Education
Larson majored in mathematics at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics 1997. After earning a master's degree in computer science at Washington University in St. Louis in 1999, she completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 2004 at Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation, Mechanism Design for Computationally Limited Agents, was supervised by Tuomas Sandholm.
Career
Larson returned to Canada as an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo in 2004. There, she was promoted to associate professor in 2009 and full professor in 2017, named as Pasupalak AI Fellow in 2018, and given a University Research Chair in 2019. Larson's research concerns algorithmic mechanism design, cooperative game theory, and the formation of coalitions in multi-agent systems.
Recognition
In 2015 the Canadian Association of Computer Science named her as an outstanding young researcher.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian women computer scientists
Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Eckersley%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Peter Daniel Eckersley (1978 or 1979 – 2 September 2022) was an Australian computer scientist, computer security researcher and activist. From 2006 to 2018, he worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, including as chief computer scientist and head of AI policy. In 2018, he left the EFF to become director of research at the Partnership on AI, a position he held until 2020. In 2021, he co-founded the AI Objectives Institute.
While at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Eckersley started projects including Let's Encrypt, Privacy Badger, Certbot, HTTPS Everywhere, SSL Observatory and Panopticlick. Eckersley was an outspoken advocate on topics including internet privacy, net neutrality and the ethics of artificial intelligence. In 2023, he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.
Early life and education
Peter Daniel Eckersley was born in 1978 or 1979 in Melbourne, Australia. His mother was an architect who worked to preserve historic buildings, and his father was an electrical engineer. His father was interested in personal computers, an interest he shared with Eckersley, who began writing software by age six or seven.
Eckersley earned his PhD in computer science and law from the University of Melbourne in 2012.
Eckersley moved to the United States, settling in San Francisco, California. There, he started working for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and set up a sharehouse, where he lived with roommates including computer scientist and activist Aaron Swartz.
Career and activism
From 2006 to 2018, Eckersley worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in roles including technology projects director, chief computer scientist, and head of AI policy. Eckersley advocated openly for net neutrality while with the EFF. In 2007, Eckersley and other collaborators conducted a controlled experiment to prove that the Comcast telecommunications company tampered with peer-to-peer protocols such as BitTorrent through the use of forged reset packets.
Eckersley was prominent in internet privacy, openly critical of web tracking technologies and companies that use them. In 2007, he criticised Facebook for their lack of transparency in user tracking services as well as the use by internet service providers of deep packet inspection of peer-to-peer networks to seek out copyright infringement, often relying purely on IP addresses to identify users in court. His later work in this field resulted in the Panopticlick, an EFF website to test the identifiability of users' web browsers, as well as advocacy for stronger enforcement of the Do Not Track header.
In 2009, Eckersley was a founding member of Toby Ord's Giving What We Can organization, which encourages effective altruism and whose members pledge to give at least 10% of their income to charity.
In 2010, Eckersley again collaborated with the EFF on an open letter against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), part of the internet-wide response to the act. The open letter was signed by almost 10 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3270%20%28disambiguation%29 | 3270 may refer to:
A.D. 3270, a year in the 4th millennium CE
3270 BC, a year in the 4th millennium BCE
3270, a number in the 3000 (number) range
Other uses
3270, an IBM computer terminal console
3270 Dudley, a near-Mars asteroid, the 3270th asteroid registered
IBM 3270, a computer terminal console
TN3270, terminal console standard
3270 emulator, a standard for interfacing with mainframe computers
IBM 3270 PC (Model 5271), an IBM XT functioning as a 3270 console
IBM 3270 AT (Model 5273), an IBM AT functioning as a 3270 console
Texas Farm to Market Road 3270, a state highway
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy%20of%20Robotics | Academy of Robotics is a UK-based artificial intelligence technology company that creates technology to automate repetitive tasks and logistics.
History
The Academy of Robotics was founded by William Sachiti at Aberystwyth University in 2017, the university's InvEnterPrize program provided the startup with a £10 000 award as seed money to fund the company's development of its first major project, the Kar-go project. The company then partnered with a UK car manufacturer, Pilgrim Motorsports, to build the first Kar-go vehicle.
In the same year, 2017, the company raised its first funding round by through the UK Financial Services Authority-approved platform Crowdcube to raise money for its Kar-go project.
In July 2019 the company unveiled its first driverless delivery vehicle, Kar-go at Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK and in November 2019, the company announced a partnership with Eurovia UK, part of the Vinci group. Eurovia announced its plans to test the Kar-go technology to automate the delivery of small plant equipment, tools, materials and other components to and from a highway work site as well as the potential use of data collected by Kar-go as it travels, to determine the condition of roads. The Kar-go Delivery Bot vehicle was then licensed to drive on the roads in the UK in 2020.
With funding from UK Research and Innovation for providing “No Human Contact Deliveries Via Semi-Autonomous Vehicles” the company began making its first deliveries on the roads in the UK, delivering medicines to vulnerable people in Hounslow.
The company invented Space-Bus, a mobile Command Station that is used to deploy and monitor autonomous vehicles using a proprietary Athena system. In November 2021, the company's mobile Command Station and Kar-go Delivery Bot were deployed in trials with the Royal Air Force at RAF Brize Norton.
In early 2022, the company's CEO, William Sachiti acquired the 26 acre former RAF radar base, RAF Neatishead and began renovating the site with the intention to lease parts of the site to his company, Academy of Robotics. The RAF Neatishead site includes a network of private test tracks, 2 hangars and an approximately 4 acre underground Cold War era nuclear bunker as well as a heritage listed Type 84 radar.
Partnerships
In November 2019 and Eurovia UK (part of the Vinci Group) announced their partnership to test the Kar-go technology to automate the delivery of small plant equipment, tools, materials and other components to and from a highway work site as well as the potential use of data collected by Kar-go as it travels, to determine the condition of roads.
In September 2021 Academy of Robotics announced its trials with the Royal Air Force in the UK which saw its flagship Kar-go Delivery Bot vehicles and its Space-Bus mobile Command Station deployed to run errands to support the highly trained RAF personnel stationed on the UK’s largest air base, RAF Brize Norton.
In December 2022 the company announced its partner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athina%20Petropulu | Athina Petropulu (born in Kalamata Greece) is a Distinguished Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She has made contributions in signal processing, wireless communications and networks, radar systems, etc., and has received many awards and honors in these areas.
Education
Prof. Petropulu received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1986, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1991 both from Northeastern University, Boston, where she was supervised by Prof. C. L. Max Nikias.
Professional career
From 1992 to 2010, Athina was a professor in the ECE department at Drexel University. Then she joined the Rutgers ECE Department in 2010 as a professor, and served as chair of the department during 2010-2016. Now she is a Distinguished Professor in Rutgers ECE. In addition, she held appointment as a visiting scholar at SUPELEC (1999-2000), Universite' Paris Sud, Princeton University (2007-2008) and University of Southern California.
Prof. Petropulu is a Fellow of both IEEE and AAAS, and was elected as the president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) in the term of 2022-2023. She is also a former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in the term of 2009-2011. Moreover, Prof. Petropulu has served as General Chair or General Co-Chair of some well-known academic conferences, like IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), etc. She was also Distinguished Lecturer of both IEEE SPS (2017-2018) and IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (2019-2020).
Other Awards and honors
IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (with F. Liu) (2021)
Barry Carlton Best Paper Award, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (2021)
IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (with B. Li) (2020)
Member-at-Large, IEEE Signal Processing Board of Governors (2018-2019)
IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (2012)
Great Master, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (2012)
IEEE Signal Processing Society VP Conferences (2006-2009)
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award (2005)
Member-at-Large, IEEE Signal Processing Board of Governors (2004-2005)
Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (The White House/NSF), 1995
Books
Higher-Order Spectra Analysis: a Nonlinear Signal Processing Framework, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1993 (with C. L. Max Nikias)
See also
Homepage
Prof. Athina Petropulu's Google Scholar
References
Rutgers University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Kalamata
National Technical University of Athens alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo%20Malabello | Alfredo Malabello (born 11 December 1959) is an Australian singer and actor, who released two studio albums and whose acting credits include the SBS series, Carla Cametti PD (2008), Nine Network's Underbelly Files (2011) and Seven Network's The Secret Daughter (2016).
Life and career
Alfredo Malabello was born 11 December 1959, at the The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide in and grew up in Norwood, South Australia. He went to private colleges and studied at the Institute of Technology and attained an electronics degree and electromechanics and physics.
In 1980, Malabello formed a band called The Rhythms. The Rhythms supported The Cure on their first tour of Australia and toured around Australia for four years before breaking up.
In 1988, Malabello travelled the world with his musical partner and signed a deal with Polygram in Tokyo, Japan. They relocated to New York and then Nashville, Tennessee, for one year and recorded an album.
In 2010, Malabello released his debut solo album, Ciao Bella which peaked at number 83 on the ARIA Charts. In 2011, Malabello said "I was pleasantly surprised with the success of Ciao Bella, and I'm thrilled I'm able to connect with so many people."
This was followed by The Two of Us in 2011, self-described as "a fun introduction, a seduction, a courtship, foreplay, right through some slow whisper pillow talk."
Discography
Albums
External links
References
Living people
Australian male singer-songwriters
Australian singer-songwriters
Australian singers of Italian descent
1959 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenanita%20Angang | Wenanita Angang (born 8 May 1996) is a Malaysian data scientist, advocate of hippotherapy for autistic children, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World Malaysia 2022. She was born and raised in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, and is of mixed Dusun Tatana and Murut descent.
Prior to becoming Miss World Malaysia 2022, one of her previous major achievements included being crowned as Miss Planet Malaysia in 2016 and placed as first runner-up in Batumi, Georgia. In 2018, she won the title of Unduk Ngadau Kuala Penyu in her hometown, Sabah, Malaysia. She went on to represent Malaysia at the international stage again through Miss Tourism and Culture Universe 2019, where she finished as second runner-up. As she has won the title of Miss World Malaysia 2022, she owns the right to represent her country at the 71st edition of Miss World.
Pageantry
Busak Mosongon 2016
Wenanita Angang's debut into the pageant industry began when she participated in Busak Mosongon 2016. Busak Mosongon, loosely translated to mean Beautiful Flower, is a beauty contest held during the Odou Bakanjar festival, celebrated by the Tatana community in Sabah, where participants are judged by their portrayal of Tatana’s ancient and disappearing customs and practices. Here, she placed as first runner-up in her first pageant.
Miss Sabah Model of the Year 2016
She went on to participate in Miss Sabah Model of the Year 2016, where she eventually won the title after having competed against 13 other finalists. The contest was held in Shangri-La's Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa on the 4th of June 2016. The contest was established in 2011 for Sabahan women to showcase their talent in modelling as well as pageantry.
Miss Planet International 2016
Also at the young age of 20, she won Miss Planet Malaysia. At the Miss Planet International 2016 competition held in Batumi, Georgia, she placed second and received the 'Best in National Costume' subsidiary award.
Unduk Ngadau 2018
In May of 2018, during the Harvest Festival, Kaamatan, held annually in the state of Sabah, she was crowned as Unduk Ngadau for the district of Kuala Penyu, where Inanam representative, Hosiani James Jaimis, won the state level competition.
Miss Tourism and Culture Universe 2019
After a year away from the pageant scene, she returned and represented Malaysia at the Miss Tourism and Culture Universe 2019 held in Myanmar. On the 31st of August 2019, she was announced as the 2nd runner-up.
Miss World Malaysia 2022
On the 27th of August 2022, she competed against 14 other contestants, winning Miss World Malaysia 2022. She succeeded her predecessor, Dr. Lavanya Sivaji from Selangor. She became the fifth titleholder from her state to win the title of Miss World Malaysia within the period of seven years, following the recent victory of Brynn Zalina Lovett in 2015.
In the final 'Question and Answer' portion, she was asked by the host, "What is the most inconvenient truth about climate change?", to which she repl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhruba%20K.%20Bhattacharyya | Dhruba K. Bhattacharyya (born 25 February 1966) is a senior member of IEEE and a professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering in Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam.
Early life and education
Career
Bhattacharyya served as the Dean of School of engineering, Tezpur University from February 2013 to February 2016 and also as the Dean of Academic affairs from January 2016 to March 2021. He held the office of the Pro Vice Chancellor of Tezpur University from April, 2021 to September, 2022. Currently he is the vice-chancellor (in-charge) of Tezpur University.
Authorship
Network Anomaly Detection: A Machine Learning Perspective, with Jugal K Kalita, 2013, CRC Press
DDOS Attacks: Evolution, Detection, Prevention, Reaction and Tolerance, with Jugal K Kalita, 2016, CRC Press
Network Traffic Anomaly Detection and Prevention: Concepts, Techniques, and Tools, with Monowar H. Bhuyan and Jugal K Kalita, 2017, Springer Nature
Gene Expression Data Analysis: A Statistical and Machine Learning Perspective", with Pankaj Barah and Jugal K Kalita, 2021, CRC Press
References
External links
Publications
Dhruba K. Bhattacharyya's Homepage
Dhruba K. Bhattacharyya's publications indexed by Google Scholar
Academic staff of Tezpur University
1966 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mars%20Ravelo%27s%20Darna%20%282022%20TV%20series%29%20episodes | Mars Ravelo's Darna is a Philippine superhero series aired on Kapamilya Channel. It was aired on the network's Primetime Bida evening block, A2Z, TV5's Todo Max Primetime Singko and worldwide on The Filipino Channel from August 15, 2022 to February 10, 2023, replacing FPJ's Ang Probinsyano.
Aside from its limited television telecast, the series is also available for streaming on YouTube for limited periods.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Notes
References
Darna
Darna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Pransky | Noah Pransky is a national political correspondent for NBC News in New York City. His previous title was National Political Editor for LX (TV network), a national news network aimed at younger audiences. He also contributes to NBC News and CNBC.
Before NBC, Pransky was the investigative reporter at WTSP in the Tampa Bay, Florida television market, for 10 years. He was best known for uncovering backroom deals on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium debacle and national political investigations that won him awards. That includes a "Zombie Campaigns" investigation into former members of Congress. He also made waves with a series of stories that showed how police were breaking the law during popular stings on predators. Some local politicians celebrated the news of his departure.
Pransky also worked at WGTA (TV) in Northeast Georgia, WZVN-TV and WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, Florida, and NESN in Boston.
Awards and honors
2019 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award
2019 National Walter Cronkite Award for Television Political Journalism
2018 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association)
2015 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award
2014 George Polk Awards
2013 National Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association)
2013 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association)
2008 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association)
2007 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association)
17 Suncoast Emmy Awards from 2011 to 2018
Personal life
Pransky went to Boston University and is a former mascot for the Boston Red Sox.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
NBC News people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge%20Networks | Binge Networks is a subscription-based video streaming service. It was founded by Bonnie Bruderer, who serves as CEO. The platform provides the ability to globally and instantly syndicate and monetize content through key strategic partnerships.
Background
Binge Networks headquarters is located in Florida. It has built into over 100 smart TV networks allowing content creators to syndicate and monetize. Some of Binge's streaming media platforms are Apple, Roku, and Amazon apps.
Selected Programming
Unicorn Hunters
DreamOWay (hosted by Selena Gomez), TBA
Better Than Gossip: Ageless Advice for Timeless Women
The Girlfriend Hour!
Anyone But Me
Daily Flash Network
Mr. Biz Network
Homeless Sam & Sally
Iron Dragon TV
Cyber Life
Alaska Outdoors Magazine
Chef Eric’s Culinary Classroom
United Fight Alliance
Trace Sport Stars
Let’s Go See
Tokens, stayed on Binge for the first season and was later sold to Urbanflix TV
ChimneySwift11
References
External links
Official website
Android (operating system) software
Video on demand services
IOS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Conference%20on%20Hypertext%20and%20Social%20Media | The ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext) is one of the oldest international conference series on the crossroads of Human-Computer Interaction and Information Science. The full list of conferences in the series can be found on the Association for Computing Machinery Hypertext Web page, and papers are available through the ACM Digital Library.
History
The modern ACM Hypertext conference has its roots in the US-based Hypertext (HT) conference (1987, 1989) and European Conference on Hypertext (ECHT) (1990), coming together in 1991 under the organisation of Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group SIGLINK (renamed ACM SIGWEB in 1998) with the name ACM Hypertext and Hypermedia.
The conference has been notable for being open to literary authors and scholars in addition to computer scientists. This made it an important space for the development of early hypertext fiction and digital poetry. At the first Hypertext conference, in 1987, both the hypertext authoring system Storyspace and one of the first works of hypertext fiction, Afternoon, a story, were presented in public for the first time. In the 1990s, Deena Larsen and other authors of electronic literature hosted pre-conference Hypertext Writers' Workshops that were important community-building events.
The scope of the conference has been gradually expanded to include the World Wide Web and other types of information-linking systems, and in 2012 the conference changed its name to reflect this widened scope to become the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.
Awards
The ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media has two named best paper awards that are given out annually: the Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award and the Ted Nelson Newcomer Award.
Dataset
There is a public dataset available of all of the submissions to the first 33 conferences.
References
Association for Computing Machinery conferences
Computer science conferences
Computer conferences
Electronic literature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork%20Greenway | County Cork has a number of rail-trails and greenways and, as of 2022, there are plans and proposals at various stages of preparation to create a network of walking trails for the county. The term "Cork Greenway" has been used in press coverage, but is not yet used officially.
Midleton — Youghal rail trail
In July 2015, Irish Rail indicated they had no intention of re-opening the Midleton to Youghal section of the Cork and Youghal Railway as funds would be better spent on the existing network. They indicated support for a greenway, as it would free them from existing maintenance costs whilst retaining a license to re-open the route in the event that became an option. By April 2020, a €15 million euro project to open the Midleton to Youghal Greenway had begun but was being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed trail would measure 23 kilometres.
Mallow — Fermoy — Dungarvan
In 2022, the possibility of linking Mallow to the existing Waterford Greenway and Suir blueway was examined.
Cork Harbour Greenway
The Cork Harbour Greenway runs from Páirc Uí Chaoimh stadium to Passage West, along the route of the former Cork Electric Tramways and Lighting Company Blackpool — Cork tram line, and Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway.
References
External links
Greenways page at Cork County Council website
Irish Greenways
Transport in County Cork
Rail trails in the Republic of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%201990 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
1990 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20%2810th%20generation%29 | The iPad (10th generation), unofficially known as the iPad 10, is a tablet computer developed and marketed by Apple Inc. as the successor to the ninth-generation iPad. It was announced on October 18, 2022, and was released on October 26, 2022.
Specifications
The design of the tenth-generation iPad closer-resembles the higher-end iPad Air and Pro models, with flatter edges and no home button. As with the iPad Air and Mini, the Touch ID sensor is located in the power button. It is available in silver, blue, pink, and yellow color finishes.
Like the iPad Air, it has a 10.9-inch 2360x1640 Liquid Retina display; an increase from the previous 10.2-inch model, but it is not laminated. The tenth-generation iPad uses an A14 Bionic processor, previously seen in the fourth-generation iPad Air and the iPhone 12 in 2020. The chip has a 6-core CPU, a 4-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine.
The tenth-generation iPad has Bluetooth 5.2 and Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) wireless capabilities, as well as sub-6 GHz 5G on cellular models. It is the first base model iPad to use USB-C instead of the Lightning connector; connectivity is limited to USB 2.0 transfer speeds, with support for external displays at 1080p resolution at a refresh rate of 60 Hz, or 2160p at 30 Hz. The tenth-generation iPad does not include a headphone connector, requiring wireless headphones or a USB-C adapter sold separately.
The tenth-generation iPad features an 12-megapixel rear-facing wide-angle camera with an ƒ/1.8 aperture and 4K video recording support. The front-facing camera is now located on the right-hand side of the display, so that it is horizontally centered when the tablet is in a landscape orientation.
Accessories
The tenth-generation iPad supports the first-generation Apple Pencil; a USB-C to Lightning cable adapter must be used to pair and charge it. This adapter has been included with newer production runs of the first-generation Pencil since October 2022, and is sold separately for existing owners. Unlike other iPad models with USB-C, it does not support the second-generation Apple Pencil.
Apple unveiled a new keyboard cover accessory for the tenth-generation iPad known as the Magic Keyboard Folio, as it is physically incompatible with the existing Magic Keyboard and Smart Keyboard Folio. Unlike the Magic Keyboard designed for the iPad Air and iPad Pro, the Magic Keyboard Folio detaches from the back cover and can be used as an adjustable stand, and it includes a 14-key function row with a lock button.
Reception
The tenth-generation iPad received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its new design, battery life, and performance, but criticism for removing the headphone jack, the lack of support for the second-generation Apple Pencil, and a higher price point than its predecessor.
CNN writer Mike Andronico felt that the A14 processor had "the best [performance] we've seen on a tablet at this price" and made the device "more future-proof", while the Magic Keyboard F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagen%20%28disambiguation%29 | Imagen is a Spanish language women's fashion magazine.
Imagen may also refer to:
Imagen (Google Brain), a text-to-image machine learning model
Imagen Televisión, a television network
Imagen Awards
Grupo Imagen, a Mexican media group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-to-image%20model | A text-to-image model is a machine learning model which takes an input natural language description and produces an image matching that description. Such models began to be developed in the mid-2010s, as a result of advances in deep neural networks. In 2022, the output of state of the art text-to-image models, such as OpenAI's DALL-E 3, Google Brain's Imagen, StabilityAI's Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney began to approach the quality of real photographs and human-drawn art.
Text-to-image models generally combine a language model, which transforms the input text into a latent representation, and a generative image model, which produces an image conditioned on that representation. The most effective models have generally been trained on massive amounts of image and text data scraped from the web.
History
Before the rise of deep learning, attempts to build text-to-image models were limited to collages by arranging existing component images, such as from a database of clip art.
The inverse task, image captioning, was more tractable and a number of image captioning deep learning models came prior to the first text-to-image models.
The first modern text-to-image model, alignDRAW, was introduced in 2015 by researchers from the University of Toronto. alignDRAW extended the previously-introduced DRAW architecture (which used a recurrent variational autoencoder with an attention mechanism) to be conditioned on text sequences. Images generated by alignDRAW were blurry and not photorealistic, but the model was able to generalize to objects not represented in the training data (such as a red school bus), and appropriately handled novel prompts such as "a stop sign is flying in blue skies", showing that it was not merely "memorizing" data from the training set.
In 2016, Reed, Akata, Yan et al. became the first to use generative adversarial networks for the text-to-image task. With models trained on narrow, domain-specific datasets, they were able to generate "visually plausible" images of birds and flowers from text captions like "an all black bird with a distinct thick, rounded bill". A model trained on the more diverse COCO dataset produced images which were "from a distance... encouraging", but which lacked coherence in their details. Later systems include VQGAN+CLIP, XMC-GAN, and GauGAN2.
One of the first text-to-image models to capture widespread public attention was OpenAI's DALL-E, a transformer system announced in January 2021. A successor capable of generating more complex and realistic images, DALL-E 2, was unveiled in April 2022, followed by Stable Diffusion publicly released in August 2022.
Following other text-to-image models, language model-powered text-to-video platforms such as Runway, Make-A-Video, Imagen Video, Midjourney, and Phenaki can generate video from text and/or text/image prompts.
In August 2022, it was further shown how a large text-to-image foundation models can be "personalized". Text-to-Image personalization allows to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Seduction%3A%20His%20Secret%20Life | Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life is a 2005 American psychological drama television film about a teenage boy whose life goes downhill after he develops an addiction to internet pornography. The film was directed by Tom McLoughlin, and stars Jeremy Sumpter in the main role, with co-actors including Kelly Lynch, Jake Scott and Lyndsy Fonseca. It received no notable critical reviews initially, but in the 2010s became considered a stereotypical example of Lifetime Movie Network films after renewed attention to the title, and it received an unexpected cult following.
Plot
Justin Petersen is a teenage boy and high school athlete, hoping to earn a college scholarship by getting a spot on the swim team. Increasing pressure from his mother, Diane (who was a competitive swimmer herself as a teenager) pushes him into extracurricular activities alongside his already hectic schedule. Justin is awkward and a virgin, but he does have a girlfriend, Amy, a devout Christian who covets her own virginity and wants Justin to wait for sex until marriage, too. The pair are confused by their male friends' fascination with "porn parties" at a local boy's basement, in which kids gather to drink alcohol and watch internet porn. Justin notices Monica, the school slut, who repeatedly flirts with him, but he ignores her for the most part. Monica constantly wears too-small shirts that display her midriff, and she mocks Amy's taste in religious rock music. Increasingly fascinated by porn, however, Justin begins downloading it and visiting websites for it on his desktop computer. Diane catches him, and in horror, she asks her husband, Richard, to tell Justin about sex and female respect. The subject matter confuses Justin, who makes increased efforts to hide his downloaded porn. Staying up all night to look at it, he consumes energy drinks to wake himself up in the morning, but begins to fail his swim practices, observing porn on Amy's palm pilot when nobody's looking. He also sees Diane in the swimming pool, and despite her being his mother, he fantasizes about her sexually, as well as other girls in his school.
Alex, Justin's little brother, finds the porn on Justin's computer and is so traumatized by it that he cannot speak at dinner. Later, Diane catches Alex with a CD labelled "Virgin Vaginas" with a permanent marker, and she realizes that Justin is not only still looking at porn, but also sharing it with Alex. Justin fails an important swim meet, gets a detention for looking up porn on a school computer, and is kicked off the swim team, ruining his chances at a scholarship. His relationship with Amy suffers as he tries to force himself on her, angering her, and his teammates mock and bully him after he is caught looking up BDSM porn on a friend's home computer. Fearful of scrutiny, he frequents internet cafes for porn, while Diane's best friend cautions her that Justin has an addiction to it. Justin meets up with Monica, but the whole situation is awkward; Monica insists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney%20Tunes%20Galactic%20Sports | Looney Tunes Galactic Sports is a sports game developed by Virtual Toys and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, for the PlayStation Vita handheld system. Based on the Looney Tunes franchise, itself a part of the broader Merrie Melodies series, the game was released in PAL territories in May 2015.
Although the game uses character designs from The Looney Tunes Show, the title functions as a distinct entry in the series and is not an adaption of the television show.
Gameplay
Players take control of one of six characters from the Looney Tunes franchise: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tasmanian Devil, Yosemite Sam and Wile E. Coyote (although all besides Bugs Bunny have to be unlocked through leveling up via experience points earned by playing), and participate in several sports-themed minigames. Each character has unique statistics that alter their play style; for example, some have a higher speed than others.
Six games are ultimately available for play, although initially only racing is playable. In 'Space Race', players race three other participants around a course with the aim of finishing as fast as possible, albeit without the ability to control one's speed or acceleration. Throughout the lap, obstacles will appear on the track that require a switching to an adjacent lane, jumping or sliding to safely avoid. 'Space Golf' is a one-hole golf game, although featuring obstacles on the course. Archery makes use of the Vita's gyroscope, with the player physically moving their handheld console to aim at targets. ‘Trap Shooter’ is an on-rails shooter, similar in execution to Space Harrier. Boxing is also present, as is 'Aquatic Sport', a water-based game where players must collect and bring balls located around a swimming pool to their own goal to bank points while also attacking other competitors; if attacked, all held balls will be dropped, with the ultimate objective of collecting and returning 10 balls to your goals. Thematically, all sports are played on a Looney Tunes interpretation of the planet Mars, in competitions hosted by Marvin the Martian.
The sports can be played across several modes. In the Galactic Games mode, players partake in a series of tournaments, and must rank in the top three in order to progress. There are six tournaments in total with each varying in difficulty. Upon completion of the final tournament, Marvin's Quest is unlocked, a series of challenges across each sport that players are able to complete, as well as the ability to freely select any individual sport for replay via a quick play menu. While participating in a game, coins are scattered throughout the arena, which can be collected for use in the ACME shop. The store features gadgets that can be bought for use in each of the six sports. For example, an anvil may be purchased for use in 'Space Race', which can subsequently be dropped on other racers for use as an attack. Additional items are unlocked as players progress in level. Also throughout sports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBPF | eBPF (sometimes referred to by the acronym BPF, standing for Berkeley Packet Filter) is a technology that can run programs in a privileged context such as the operating system kernel. It is used to safely and efficiently extend the capabilities of the kernel at runtime without requiring changes to kernel source code or loading kernel modules. Safety is provided through an in-kernel verifier which performs static code analysis and rejects programs which crash, hang or otherwise interfere with the kernel negatively. This validation model differs from sandboxed environments, where the execution environment is restricted and the runtime has no insight about the program. Examples of programs that are automatically rejected are programs without strong exit guarantees (i.e. for/while loops without exit conditions) and programs dereferencing pointers without safety-checks. Loaded programs which passed the verifier are either interpreted or in-kernel JIT compiled for native execution performance. The execution model is event-driven and with few exceptions run-to-completion, meaning, programs can be attached to various hook points in the operating system kernel and are run upon triggering of an event. eBPF use cases include (but are not limited to) networking such as XDP, tracing and security subsystems. Given eBPF's efficiency and flexibility opened up new possibilities to solve production issues, Brendan Gregg famously dubbed eBPF "superpowers for Linux". Linus Torvalds said, "BPF has actually been really useful, and the real power of it is how it allows people to do specialized code that isn't enabled until asked for". Due to its success in Linux, the eBPF runtime has been ported to other operating systems such as Windows.
History
Evolution from classic BPF
eBPF was built on top of the Berkeley Packet Filter (cBPF). At the lowest level, it introduced the use of ten 64-bit registers (instead of two 32-bit long registers for cBPF), different jump semantics, a call instruction and corresponding register passing convention, new instructions, and a different encoding for these instructions.
Adoption
eBPF has been adopted by a number of large-scale production users, for example:
Meta uses eBPF through their Katran layer 4 load-balancer for all traffic going to facebook.com
Google uses eBPF in GKE, developed and uses BPF LSM to replace audit and it uses eBPF for networking
Cloudflare uses eBPF for load-balancing and DDoS protection and security enforcement
Netflix uses eBPF for fleet-wide network observability and performance diagnosis
Dropbox uses eBPF through Katran for layer 4 load-balancing
Android uses eBPF for NAT46 and traffic monitoring
Alibaba uses eBPF for Kubernetes Pod load-balancing
Datadog uses eBPF for Kubernetes Pod networking and security enforcement
Trip.com uses eBPF for Kubernetes Pod networking
Microsoft ported eBPF and XDP to Windows
Seznam uses eBPF through Cilium for layer 4 load-balancing
CapitalOne uses eBPF for Kub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Conference%20on%20Recommender%20Systems | ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys) is a peer-reviewed academic conference series about recommender systems. Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery. This conference series focuses on issues such as algorithms, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and data science from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The conference community includes computer scientists, statisticians, social scientists, psychologists, and others.
The conference is sponsored by Big Tech companies such as Amazon, Netflix, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Spotify, and large foundations such as the NSF.
While an academic conference, RecSys attracts many practitioners and industry researchers, with industry attendance making up the majority of attendees, this is also reflected in the authorship of research papers. Many works published at the conference have direct impact on recommendation and personalization practice in industry affecting millions of users.
Recommender systems are pervasive in online systems, the conference provides opportunities for researchers and practitioners to address specific problems in various workshops in conjunction with the conference, topics include responsible recommendation, causal reasoning, and others. The workshop themes follow recent developments in the broader machine learning and human-computer interaction topics.
The conference is the host of the ACM RecSys Challenge, a yearly competition in the spirit of the Netflix Prize focussing on a specific recommendation problem. The Challenge has been organized by companies such as Twitter, and Spotify. Participation in the challenge is open to everyone and participation in it has become a means of showcasing ones skills in recommendations, similar to Kaggle competitions.
Notable Events
Netflix Prize, 2009
The Netflix Prize was a recommendation challenge organized by Netflix between 2006 and 2009. Shortly prior to ACM RecSys 2009, the winners of the Netflix Prize were announced. At the 2009 conference, members of the winning team (Bellkor's Pragmatich Chaos) as well as representatives from Netflix convened in a panel on the lessons learnt from the Netflix Prize
ByteDance Paper, 2022
In 2022, at one of the workshops at the conference, a paper from ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, described in detail how a recommendation algorithm for video worked.
While the paper did not point out the algorithm as the one that generates TikTok's recommendations, the paper received significant attention in technology-focused media
List of conferences
Past and future RecSys conferences include:
References
External links
Computer science conferences
Association for Computing Machinery conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DQS%20%28disambiguation%29 | DQS can refer to:
Data Quality Services, a business intelligence service for Microsoft SQL Server
DQS Holding GmbH, a German company providing assessments and certifications of management systems and processes (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Zertifizierung von Qualitätssicherungssystemen). (Not to be confused with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualität or DGQ)
de Quervain syndrome, a mucoid degeneration of two tendons that control movement of the thumb and their tendon sheath
Ducati Quick Shift, a gear shift system used on the Ducati 848 and Ducati SuperSport which allows for upshifts without using the clutch lever for faster acceleration
dQS, the derivative of quantity supplied (QS), a term used in quantity adjustment in market supply analysis within economics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20New%20Woman%27s%20Survival%20Catalog | The New Women's Survival Catalog is a 1973 book, the collective outcome of an influential survey of second-wave feminist network activities across the United States. It was assembled in five months by Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie. The book was promoted as a "feminist Whole Earth Catalog", referring to Stewart Brand's famous 1968–1972 counterculture magazine. The book was reissued by art book publisher Primary Information in September 2019.
Content
The New Woman's Survival Catalog, styled as a typical sales catalog, contains listings, close descriptions, articles, and contact information for feminist organizations and resources in North America. Another section details the publication's research and production process.
The publication's content focusses on nine subjects, each marking its own chapter.
The book opens with "I Communications", listing, amongst others, feminist presses, radios and publications. "II Art" marks the second subject, summarizing galleries, collectives, theatre and other feminist artistic approaches. "III Self-Health" and "IV Children" follow with information about the body, medical care, single parents and liberating literature examples. The fifth chapter is called "V Learning" summarizing liberation schools, feminist studies and women in history. "VI Self Defense" and "VII Work and Money" mark the next subjects, giving self help advice and contacts on both issues. The last two chapters "VIII Getting Justice" and "IX Building the Movement" state information about discrimination, legal sources, women's rights, women's organizations and centers, and are more focussed on the active fight for women's rights in terms of the second wave feminist movement and politically contextualizing the before mentioned subjects.
Making the book
The New Woman's Survival Catalog originally started as a women's studies bibliography from the Barnard College Women's Center. Kirsten Grimstad was an alumna of Barnard at that time and had the task to put it together. She thought "the bibliography needed to have an activist dimension to it, otherwise it wouldn't be feminist". Together with Susann Rennie, who was at the board of the Women's Center, they conducted a nationwide survey to gather information and sold the concept as "the woman's Whole Earth Catalog" to the publisher, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.
During summer 1973 Grimstad and Rennie set out on a two-month roadtrip, covering 12,000 miles across the country, to speak directly with groups and get information on site. On July 13, Grimstad and Rennie returned and began sorting the material. The following August, production of the book began. Fanette Pollack and Ruth Bayard Smith helped the authors with copywriting and page layouts. Mark St. Giles was responsible for the typesetting, which she did on an IBM Selectric Composer.
On September 15 the paste up began with help from Peggy Lyons and Leslie Korda Krims. On October 3 the camera-ready copy was delivered to print.
The whole |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerbandit | Computerbandit (born 1983 in Hanau; real name Christian Rolf) is a German musician and music producer in the genre of electronic music.
About
Christian Rolf has been active as a music producer with the alias Computerbandit since 2019. His musical output ranges between the genres of 80's-inspired synthwave, electronica, electro, electroclash, and synthpop. His productions are influenced by the sound of the 80s.
He gained international attention in 2021 with his fourth release and the music track "You Are Digital", which went viral on his Instagram account. In the same year, his production "You Are Digital" was awarded by "Magnetic Magazine" as one of the best music productions of the month in the category Synthesizer Tracks. This was followed by further contributions in blogs and magazines in Germany, the US, the Netherlands, and Belgium. His other releases received positive reviews as well certifying a "marvelous escapist quality" or "skillful mixture of synthwave and electroclash".
In addition to his own releases, Computerbandit also produces music for synchronization in the field of advertising productions for the ASUS brand, among others.
Trivia
During an interview, Combuterbandit revealed that the cover artwork of "You Are Digital" has been created by The Real Theory, artist, founder & CEO of artgrab.co.
In June 2021, Rolf has been featured by the Big Shot magazine asking Computerbandit to reveal his personal June 2021 chart showing the French DJ Commuter at the top.
Discography
Albums
Till Tex (2020)
By Your Side (2020)
You Are Digital (2021)
Singles
Are You Tired (2020)
Popper, Punks & Porsche Drivers (2021)
Lose Control (2022)
References
External links
Official Website
Living people
German electronic musicians
1983 births
People from Hanau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20the%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo | The Republic of the Congo observes a single time zone year-round, denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00).
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, the Congo is given one zone in the file zone.tab—Africa/Brazzaville. "CG" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for the Congo directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
See also
Time in Africa
Time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
List of time zones by country
References
External links
Current time in the Congo at Time.is
Time in the Congo at TimeAndDate.com
Time in the Republic of the Congo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20range | Cyber ranges are virtual environments used for cybersecurity, cyberwarfare training, simulation or emulation and development of technologies related to cybersecurity. Their scale can vary drastically, from just a single node to an internet-like network.
See also
National Cyber Range
References
Computer security
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323%20Liga%20F | The 2022–23 Primera División Femenina de Fútbol season, renamed Liga F (finetwork Liga F for sponsorship reasons), was the 35th edition of the Primera División Femenina de España de fútbol, and the first edition with professional status in its history. The tournament was organized by the Liga Profesional Femenina de Fútbol (LPFF). The competition was supposed to start on 10 September 2022, but the first week matches were postponed. As a result, the competition started on 17 September 2022, and ended on 21 May 2023.
Barcelona were the defending champions after winning undefeated the previous season. They defended the title with 28 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
Summary
Postponements
On 8 September 2022, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) referees threaten to not attend any Matchday 1 as part of their continue strike for higher wages. As a result, all Liga F matches scheduled for 10–11 September were postponed after clubs were ready to play, but referees did not participate.
On 15 September 2022, a deal was reached between the parties to end the strike, which paved the way for the league season to start.
Sponsorship
On 6 October 2022, the LPFF announced the telecommunication company Finetwork (stylized finetwork) would become the official league sponsor for the next three seasons. As a result, the league will be renamed finetwork Liga F.
Teams
Promoted from Primera Federación
Alhama was promoted to the top flight for the first in its history. Levante Las Planas return after being relegated in the 2013–14 season.
Relegated to Primera Federación
Eibar were relegated after two seasons, while Rayo Vallecano after spending 19 years in the top division.
Stadiums and locations
Personnel and sponsorship
Managerial changes
League table
Standings
Results
Positions by round
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.
Season Statistics
Goalscorers
Assists
Hat-tricks
4 – Player scored four goals.
Clean sheets
Scoring
First goal of the season: Lucía Pardo for Madrid CFF against Deportivo Alavés (17 September 2022)
Last goal of the season: Gaëlle Thalmann own goal for Levante against her own team Real Betis (21 May 2023)
Discipline
Player
Most yellow cards: 12
Núria Garrote (Levante Las Planas)
Most red cards: 1
Diana Gomes (Sevilla)
Klára Cahynová (Sevilla)
Tere (Sevilla)
Rosa Otermín (Sevilla)
Morgane Nicoli (Sevilla)
Nazareth Martín (Sevilla)
Patri Gavira (UDG Tenerife)
Thaís Ferreira (UDG Tenerife)
Natalia Ramos (UDG Tenerife)
Lidia Sánchez (Real Betis)
Violeta García Quiles (Real Betis)
Ana Tejada (Real Sociedad)
Ana González (Madrid CFF)
Lena Pérez (Alhama CF)
Zaira Flores (Alhama CF)
Olivia Oprea (Alhama CF)
Jade Boho (Alhama CF)
Núria Garrote (Levante Las Planas)
Ner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent%20Hunter%20Guyot | The Derwent Hunter Guyot is an extinct volcanic seamount of the Tasmantid Seamount Chain.
It is a basaltic volcano that erupted between 12,400,000 and 15,400,000 years ago, with survey data that indicates it rises about above the local sea floor to a minimum depth of . The sediments deposited on top of the alkali olivine basalt originate from the early Middle Miocene. The Derwent Hunter Guyot appears to be double peaked. It was discovered in 1958 and described as a seamount in 1961.
The waters above it are incorporated in the Central Eastern Marine Park, an Australian marine park.
References
Seamounts of the Tasman Sea
Guyots
Hotspot volcanoes
Polygenetic volcanoes
Miocene volcanoes
Volcanoes of the Tasman Sea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesstar | Nesstar was a suite of data and metadata management software created in 2000 and maintained by the former Norwegian Social Science Data Services (also known as NSD) until its end-of-life in 2022. The Nesstar tool suite consisted of a Nesstar Repository, Nesstar WebView, a Nesstar Editor, and the Nesstar Explorer as the user interface.
Nesstar's goal was to facilitate data sharing, providing tools for the preparation, curation, and dissemination of research data and related research outputs. Nesstar tools were built explicitly to support the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) metadata standard in the XML metadata format.
History
The Nesstar project began in 1998 as a collaboration between the NSD, the UK Data Archive and the Danish Data Archive (DDA) of the Danish National Archives, and it was funded by the Fourth European Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. It was originally described as a "seamlessly integrated data discovery, analysis and dissemination system based on Java, XML and the DDI".
Nesstar Publisher was beta-released in 1999 and its first full release was in January 2000. From 2001, the software was maintained by Nesstar Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the UK Data Archive and the NSD, based at the University of Essex and the University of Bergen.
With the release of Nesstar 4.0 in 2015, Nesstar developers discontinued support for the software and designated Nesstar as end-of-life.
Software tools
Nesstar Server and WebView were offered as licensed and software products in Linux and Windows, while Nesstar Publisher was released as Windows freeware only.
Nesstar Publisher was created as an advanced data management program for the preparation and enhancement of statistical data and metadata. It was designed to function alternatively as a standalone tool or as the front-end to a Nesstar Server repository back-end. Nesstar WebView provided a user interface through which users could search, browse, analyze and download the data published.
Nesstar features included metadata extraction from statistical software file formats (SPSS, NSDstat and Stata) and conversion of SPSS metadata into DDI XML.
Reception
The Nesstar Project was an early player in the development of internet-supported research data management. The project also contributed to creating and maintaining the DDI metadata standard. As one of the earliest research data management tools developed specifically for social science research, Nesstar tools were adopted widely by the international community, and Nesstar-based repositories have included:
The Canadian Odesi Repository
The Centre for Socio-Political Data, Sciences Po
The Czech Social Science Data Archive
The European Social Survey data repository
The World Bank's International Household Survey Network
Social Science Japan Data Archive (Center for Social Research and Data Archives, University of Tokyo)
Statistics Canada
References
Data management software
European Uni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland%20Guyot | The Queensland Guyot is an extinct volcanic seamount of the Tasmantid Seamount Chain.
It is a basaltic volcano that erupted about 20,900,000 years ago, with survey data that indicates it rises about above the local sea floor to a minimum depth of . It is just to the north of the Britannia Guyots and is connected to them by a ridge that rises about from the sea floor. It was described as a seamount in 1961.
The waters above it are incorporated in the Central Eastern Marine Park, an Australian marine park.
References
Seamounts of the Tasman Sea
Guyots
Hotspot volcanoes
Polygenetic volcanoes
Miocene volcanoes
Volcanoes of the Tasman Sea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20the%20Central%20African%20Republic | The Central African Republic (CAR) observes a single time zone year-round, denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00).
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, the Central African Republic is given one zone in the file zone.tab—Africa/Bangui. "CF" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for the Central African Republic directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
See also
Time in Africa
List of time zones by country
References
External links
Current time in the Central African Republic at Time.is
Time in the Central African Republic at TimeAndDate.com
Time in the Central African Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Creed%20%281999%20video%20game%29 | The Creed is a 1999 action-adventure game created by Australian developers Insomnia Entertainment and Dreamtime Interactive, and published by Electronic Arts and Midas Interactive. The game is a cyberpunk-themed action-adventure game set in a partial open world, allowing players to complete open-ended missions for the game's various factions. Upon a limited release in the Asia-Pacific, The Creed received praise from Australian publications for its atmosphere and environmental design.
Gameplay
The Creed is an action-adventure game played in third-person view. The game's setting, a colony named Cereberus on the planet Outpost V is partially open-world and players are free to explore Cerberus and take up one of over 150 single player missions for the three in-game factions. The player can choose to play as bounty hunter Guy Wolfe or female assassin Gene Matrix. Players are tasked with escaping Cerberus after crash-landing on the planet. To do this, players accumulate credits through completing missions for three factions: the corrupt Government, the evil religious cult Order, or the organized crime group Brotherhood, each with their own set mission tree. Players participate in combat using 35 different weapons, vehicles, mechs and special items to defeat enemies. The game features network multiplayer for up to 8 players for co-operative or competitive missions. The Creed also features a level editor titled the Advanced Gaming Operating System, which allows users to develop additional missions by editing characters, behaviours and the player inventory. Custom missions developed by players using the system were featured on the game's website.
Development
An early alpha build of The Creed was released for promotional distribution in 1998. Following pre-release, Insomniac Entertainment was requested to alter the script at the direction of publisher Electronic Arts, who raised objection to the level of profanity in the game. Electronic Arts ultimately abandoned international distribution of The Creed, with the game limited release in the Asia-Pacific in 1999. Midas Interactive republished the game in 2001.
Reception
Early previews of the game were cautious about the scope and level of completion of The Creed. Ultimate PC, previewing the game prior to its release, noted that "The Creed still needs some work done on it...the controls in general are too complicated...and the only missions available on the code we've played were pretty similar and involved assassinations. Repeating these for 150 missions will make the game very repetitive." Reception for The Creed was positive in Australian computer gaming publications upon release, with particular praise for the design and atmosphere of the game. Pete Sharpe of PC PowerPlay stated "there is a real sense of atmosphere ever present, from the ambient techno tones...through to the eerie Blade Runner-ish street lighting." March Stepnik of Hyper agreed, noting the game's "gloriously detailed world that ooze |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20quantum%20logic%20gates | In gate-based quantum computing, various sets of quantum logic gates are commonly used to express quantum operations. The following tables list several unitary quantum logic gates, together with their common name, how they are represented, and some of their properties. Controlled or conjugate transpose (adjoint) versions of some of these gates may not be listed.
Identity gate and global phase
The identity gate is the identity operation , most of the times this gate is not indicated in circuit diagrams, but it is useful when describing mathematical results.
It has been described as being a "wait cycle", and a NOP.
The global phase gate introduces a global phase to the whole qubit quantum state. A quantum state is uniquely defined up to a phase. Because of the Born rule, a phase factor has no effect on a measurement outcome: for any .
Because when the global phase gate is applied to a single qubit in a quantum register, the entire register's global phase is changed.
Also,
These gates can be extended to any number of qubits or qudits.
Clifford qubit gates
This table includes commonly used Clifford gates for qubits.
Other Clifford gates, including higher dimensional ones are not included here but by definition can be generated using and .
Note that if a Clifford gate A is not in the Pauli group, or controlled-A are not in the Clifford gates.
The Clifford set is not a universal quantum gate set.
Non-Clifford qubit gates
Relative phase gates
The phase shift is a family of single-qubit gates that map the basis states and . The probability of measuring a or is unchanged after applying this gate, however it modifies the phase of the quantum state. This is equivalent to tracing a horizontal circle (a line of latitude), or a rotation along the z-axis on the Bloch sphere by radians. A common example is the T gate where (historically known as the gate), the phase gate. Note that some Clifford gates are special cases of the phase shift gate:
The argument to the phase shift gate is in U(1), and the gate performs a phase rotation in U(1) along the specified basis state (e.g. rotates the phase about . Extending to a rotation about a generic phase of both basis states of a 2-level quantum system (a qubit) can be done with a series circuit: . When this gate is the rotation operator gate and if it is a global phase.
The T gate's historic name of gate comes from the identity , where .
Arbitrary single-qubit phase shift gates are natively available for transmon quantum processors through timing of microwave control pulses. It can be explained in terms of change of frame.
As with any single qubit gate one can build a controlled version of the phase shift gate. With respect to the computational basis, the 2-qubit controlled phase shift gate is: shifts the phase with only if it acts on the state :
The controlled-Z (or CZ) gate is the special case where .
The controlled-S gate is the case of the controlled- when and is a c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HockeyDB | HockeyDB, originally known as the Internet Hockey Database, is a Canadian-American website dedicated to the specialization of statistics behind the game of ice hockey. It is one of the largest repositories of hockey data on the internet, gathering more than 1.3 million unique visitors a month.
History
HockeyDB was founded by Ralph Slate in 1996, through the old Usenet. With the database being founded two years before Google was incorporated, it has become a go-to database for every level of hockey fan. The website covers hockey statistics of leagues across the world, from the National Hockey League to the Austrian Hockey League and many more. The website created different ways to look at NHL players, as well as having the standings and statistics for nearly every professional hockey player to play the game.
Hockey statistics on the website are updated on a regular basis and include daily morning reports, which detail the current standings of world-wide leagues, daily hockey transactions, and all-time records. The NHL player list is categorized in many ways, from One Game Wonders to Playoff-only Players to the Pack Your Bag Club. The website also allows you to search the player list by league and by team.
Slate has been interviewed on multiple occasions on the success of HockeyDB. In 2017, Slate stated that he has compiled a set of encyclopedias’ worth of digital information: some 186,531 players, 7,220 teams, 416 leagues, 2,131 logos, and 6,071 sets of hockey cards.
In 2018, Slate was interviewed by FanSided writer Michael Joubran to discuss more about the website that connects fans to the statistics of their favorite players, past and present. In that interview, Slate dropped an easter egg, saying “if I have more than one photo of a player [on the website], clicking on the player’s photo will cycle through them all.”
Popularity
Peter Alper joined the HockeyDB team in 2019. He is responsible for creating the site's first Twitter account. As of September 2022, the HockeyDB Twitter account has amassed over 41,000 followers. The account is known for using images and statistics from the website to spark conversation on social media. Some discussions include who has the best hockey headshot, who were the best hockey players on Wall Street, and who were the biggest busts in the last 10 years of NHL Drafts.
References
External links
Website
Twitter
Sport websites
Ice hockey websites
American sport websites
Canadian sport websites
Sport Internet forums
Internet properties established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed%20%28Australian%20documentary%20series%29 | Revealed is the collective name of a series of Australian documentaries and non-fiction investigative content produced by Stan, made in collaboration with the Nine Network. Each title prominently features the work of journalists and producers from Nine's other publications, including 60 Minutes, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Australian Financial Review. The first title to release under the name was Revealed: Amongst Us – Neo Nazi Australia, which premiered on 27 March 2022. Further documentaries under the Revealed banner are scheduled for release in 2023.
Documentaries
Amongst Us – Neo Nazi Australia
Hosted by investigative journalist Nick McKenzie and directed by documentarian Bentley Dean, Amongst Us – Neo Nazi Australia explores the inner-workings of extremist group National Socialist Network, and the rise of far-right terrorism in Australia. The documentary expands upon an initial special investigation produced by 60 Minutes, and was released on 27 March 2022.
No Mercy, No Remorse
Developed under the working title of The Prince of Hate, the second documentary in the series, No Mercy, No Remorse, investigates the life, crimes, and motives of Paul Denyer, an Australian serial killer who murdered three young women in the suburb of Frankston, Victoria in 1993. The documentary is directed by Terry Carlyon and presented by John Silvester, who also serves as senior crime reporter for The Age newspaper. It was developed with support from VicScreen and released on 23 June 2022.
References
Stan (service) original programming
Australian television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Moroccan%20films%20of%201978 | A list of films produced in Morocco in 1978.
1978
References
External links
Moroccan films of 1978 at the Internet Movie Database
1978
Moroccan
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Running%20Man%20Philippines%20episodes%20%282022%29 | This is a list of episodes of the Philippine variety show Running Man Philippines in 2022. The show airs on GMA Network as part of their Comedy Weekend lineup. Season 1 have 12 chapters for a total of 32 episodes (episode 3 was divided into Chapter 1 and Chapter 2). Each chapter consists of 2 to 3 episodes.
Episodes
Viewership
References
Lists of television episodes
Philippine television episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stixel | In computer vision, a stixel (portmanteau of "stick" and "pixel") is a superpixel representation of depth information in an image, in the form of a vertical stick that approximates the closest obstacles within a certain vertical slice of the scene. Introduced in 2009, stixels have applications in robotic navigation and advanced driver-assistance systems, where they can be used to define a representation of robotic environments and traffic scenes with a medium level of abstraction.
Definition
One of the problems of scene understanding in computer vision is to determine horizontal freespace around the camera, where the agent can move, and the vertical obstacles delimiting it. An image can be paired with depth information (produced e.g. from stereo disparity, lidar, or monocular depth estimation), allowing a dense tridimensional reconstruction of the observed scene. One drawback of dense reconstruction is the large amount of data involved, since each pixel in the image is mapped to an element of a point cloud. Vision problems characterised by planar freespace delimited by mostly vertical obstacles, such as traffic scenes or robotic navigation, can benefit from a condensed representation that allows to save memory and processing time.
Stixels are thin vertical rectangles representing a slice of a vertical surface belonging to the closest obstacle in the observed scene. They allow to dramatically reduce the amount of information needed to represent a scene in such problems. A stixel is characterised by three parameters: vertical coordinate of the bottom, height of the stick, and depth. Stixels have fixed width, with each stixel spanning over a certain number of image columns, allowing downsampling of the horizontal image resolution. In the original formulation, each column of the image would contain at most one stixel, and later extensions were developed to allow multiple stixels on each column, allowing to represent multiple objects at different distances.
Stixel estimation
The input to stixel estimation is a dense depth map, that can be computed from stereo disparity or other means. The original approach computes an occupancy grid that can be segmented to estimate the freespace, with dynamic programming providing an efficient method to find an optimal segmentation. Alternative approaches can be used instead of occupancy grid mapping, such as manifold-based methods.
The freespace boundary provides the base points of the obstacles at closest longitudinal distance, however multiple objects at different distances might appear in each column of the image. To fully define the obstacles, their height should be estimated, and this is accomplished by segmenting the depth of the object from the depth of the background. A membership function over the pixels can be defined based on the depth value, where the membership represents the confidence of a pixel belonging to the closest vertical obstacle or to the background, and a cut separating the obstacles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%20Center%20for%20Contemporary%20Craft | The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is a non-profit arts organization that offers exhibitions, educational programming, and an artist-in-residence program from their building in the Houston Museum District. The center was founded in September 2001 with the goal of furthering education and public awareness of contemporary craft pieces, or artworks made from materials like wood, glass, fiber, metal, and recycled materials.
HCCC is funded by grants from many organizations, including the Houston Art Alliance, the National Endowment For The Arts, Houston Endowment, Inc., the Texas Commission on The Arts, The Brown Foundation, the Kinder Foundation, and private donations. The center is free to the public and open most days of the week. As of 2017, HCCC saw an average of nearly 13,000 visitors and hosted 5-10 resident artists annually.
Exhibitions
The center's exhibition spaces include the Main Gallery and the Front Gallery, each of which host several revolving exhibitions a year, and the Artist's Hall, where current resident artists can work and share their pieces. The Asher Gallery serves as an in-house sales space for local artists, makers, and creative vendors, and it regularly hosts special events and pop-up shops.
The HCCC has hosted dozens of group and solo shows, all centering contemporary craft and crafters. In addition to an annual resident artist exhibition, notable exhibitions have included:
Judy Jensen: Feverish, 2002
Gijs Bakker: Selected Retrospective, 2002
Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, 2003
Metaphor & Magnitude: Kendall Buster & Donald Fortescue, 2005
Kickin' it with Joyce J. Scott, 2007
Richard Black: The Art of Cue, 2007
Warren Mackenzie: Legacy of an American Potter, 2008
Craft in America - Expanding Traditions, 2008
Texas Master Series: Rachelle Thiewes, 2009
Lisa Gralnick: The Gold Standard, 2011
Arline Fisch: Creatures From The Deep, 2011
Beyond Useful & Beautiful: Rethinking Domestic Craft, 2011
Bridge 11: Lia Cook, 2012
Transference: Andy Paiko & Ethan Rose, 2012
Dark Light: The Micaceous Ceramics of Christine Nofchissey Mchorse, 2014
Course of Action: 50 Years of Jewelry and Enamel at the Glassell School of Art, 2015
Wendy Maruyama: The WildLIFE Project, 2015
Found Objects: Works by Sondra Sherman, 2016
Future Traditions: Melissa Cody, 2017
Annie Evelyn: Multiple Impressions, 2017
Justin Favela: All You Can Eat, 2019
Weave Houston: Celebrating 71 Years of The Contemporary Handweavers of Houston, 2021
Texas Master Series: James C. Watkins, 2021
Craft garden
The Craft Garden is a joint venture between artists, gardeners, and other Houston community members to maintain an outdoor educational exhibition space that is unique to HCCC. Rather than focusing on flowering or edible plants, The Craft Garden features four separate spaces dedicated to the plants used to make baskets, textiles, dyes, and papers. A small selection of plants in the garden include: turmeric, madder, and indigo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacEnhancer | The MacEnhancer is an expansion box originally developed in 1985 by Microsoft for Apple Computer's original Macintosh. Plugged into either the Macintosh's serial printer or modem ports, the MacEnhancer provides IBM-standard printer and serial ports as well as a passthrough for the Mac-standard serial port, for a net gain of three peripheral ports. Along with a provided disk of drivers, this expansion box allows the Macintosh to run a host of printers and other business peripherals not originally supported by Apple.
Background
Microsoft began producing hardware for Apple with the Z-80 SoftCard, an Apple II processor card, in 1980. The SoftCard is Microsoft's first hardware product. When Apple introduced the first Macintosh in 1984, the only printer it supported was Apple's own ImageWriter, which connects to the Macintosh through a serial interface—the only type of connection this Macintosh offers. This dearth in choices for printers led the Macintosh to flounder in the business world, where the IBM PC, and the Apple II before it, achieved widespread adoption owing to their parallel ports, which support a wide variety of printers and other peripherals. To rectify this, in January 1985, Microsoft announced the MacEnhancer, an expansion box for the original Macintosh (retronymically dubbed the Macintosh 128K) and the recently released Macintosh 512K. Microsoft's announcement came on the heels of Apple announcing their Macintosh Office initiative to develop more hardware to make the Macintosh attractive to corporate buyers, which bore the LaserWriter printer.
Specifications
The MacEnhancer is an expansion box less than wide, deep, and high. It connects to the Macintosh via a cable with an 8-pin mini-DIN connector to the MacEnhancer side and a DE-9 connector on the Macintosh side, to either the Macintosh's RS-422 printer or modem connectors. The MacEnhancer has four ports—one Macintosh-standard DE-9 connector (as a passthrough for the occupied modem or printer connector), two IBM-standard DB-25 RS-232 serial ports, and one IBM-standard DB-25 parallel port. Accompanying floppy disks with the MacEnhancer provide the user with a utility used to control the MacEnhancer, device drivers for numerous contemporary printers, and MacTerminal—a terminal emulator. While the MacEnhancer allows multiple devices to be connected to it, it does not support output to more than one port at a time. The included MacEnhancer software utility allows the user to switch the active port.
Release and reception
The MacEnhancer retailed for US$245 (). Microsoft sold out of its initial production run of 4,000 units in April 1985, contracting the manufacture of another 2,000 units that month. On the release of the Macintosh Plus in 1986, the company had to revise the MacEnhancer slightly to account for a missing power rail on one of its rear serial connectors.
David Ushijima of Macworld gave the MacEnhancer a positive review, calling the included software easy to use and the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour%20refinement%20algorithm | In graph theory and theoretical computer science, the colour refinement algorithm also known as the naive vertex classification, or the 1-dimensional version of the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm, is a routine used for testing whether two graphs are isomorphic or not.
History
Description
We define a sequence of vertex colourings defined as follows:
is the initial colouring. If the graph is unlabeled, the initial colouring assigns a trivial color to each vertex . If the graph is labeled, is the label of vertex .
For all vertices , we set . In other words, the new color of the vertex is the pair formed from the previous color and the multiset of the colors of its neighbors.
This algorithm keeps refining the current colouring. At some point, before n steps, where n is the number of vertices, it stabilises: does not change anymore when t increases. This final colouring is called the stable colouring.
Expressivity
This algorithm does not distinguish a cycle of length 6 from a pair of triangles (example V.1 in ).
Complexity
The stable colouring is computable in O((n+m)log n) where n is the number of vertices and m the number of edges. This complexity has been proven to be optimal for some class of graphs.
References
Graph algorithms
Isomorphism theorems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveNets | DriveNets is a software company, vendor of a network infrastructure platform that runs over a physical infrastructure consisting of white boxes.
History
DriveNets was founded in 2015 by Ido Susan and Hillel Kobrinsky. Susan is the co-founder of Intucell, which he sold to Cisco for $475 million in 2013. Kobrinsky co-founded Interwise, which was acquired by AT&T for $121 million. DriveNets was in a stealth mode and was self-funded until 2019. In 2019, DriveNets raised $110 million in series A round from Bessemer Venture Partners and Pitango Growth, along with John W. Thompson and Stephen J. Luczo. In 2021, DriveNets raised $208 million in series B funding led by D1 Capital Partners with follow-on investments from Bessemer and Pitango and investment by Harel Insurance. In August 2022, DriveNets announced it completed Series C funding of $262 million led by D2 Investments, along with former investors Bessemer, D1 Capital, Pitango and Atreides Management and Harel Insurance. The company's estimated value was $2.5 billion, after raising total sum of $587 million.
The company has 450 employees at offices in Israel, Romania, Japan and USA. The company has about 100 customers, including AT&T and KDDI. Among its partners are Fujitsu, Broadcom Inc., Itochu Techno-Solutions, Wipro, KGPCo and EPCglobal.
Technologies
DriveNets markets a scalable network operating system (NOS) based on a cloud. The network cloud architecture creates a software routing framework that can grow linearly to a large scale from a centralized cloud. The company leverages Telco-hierarchy cloud design principles such as containerized microservices, shared facilities, and inexpensive white boxes. Another product that the company sells is a network operating system that relies on Ethernet to connect AI-optimized systems in a distributed cluster. The approach applies the Open Compute Project Distributed Disaggregated Chassis architecture, which enables AI clusters to scale at an adequate performance while keeping JCT low.
Awards
2019 - Globes start-up of the year.
Calcalist 50 Most Promising Israeli Startups 2020 - COVID-19 Edition
Vendor Innovation Award at World Communication Awards (WCA) 2019
2020 Fierce Innovation Award in the Next Gen Deployment Wireline Category
2020 TechTarget Network Innovation Award.
Leading Lights 2020 Company of the Year (Private): The Winners by Light Reading
2020 Emerging Vendors Details by CRN magazine.
Gartner Cool Vendor in Communications Service Provider Network Operations Category in 2020.
Business Insider 47 enterprise startups to bet your career on in 2020
2021 Leading Lights Award for Best New Optical Networking/IP Product.
2022 Leading Lights Award for Company of the Year.
See also
List of unicorn startup companies
Science and technology in Israel
Silicon Wadi
References
Software companies established in 2015
2015 establishments in Israel
Software companies of Israel
Cloud computing providers
Routing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Bohner | Shawn A. Bohner is an American computer scientist working as a professor of computer science and engineering at the Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology. He is also the co-editor-in-chief of Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering.
Education
Bohner earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, a Master of Science from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD from George Mason University.
Career
Prior to joining the Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology, Bohner was a professor of computer science at Virginia Tech and Colorado Technical University. He was also the director of the National Science Foundation's Center for High Performance Reconfigurable Computing. In 2010, Bohner was a member of the editorial advisory board of the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering.
References
American computer scientists
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
George Mason University alumni
Virginia Tech faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20network%20TV%20daytime%20talk%20programs | This is a listing of some American television network programs currently airing or have aired during daytime.
Current
Daytime talk programming begins at 1:00 pm or earlier Eastern Time Zone/Pacific Time Zone, after network affiliates' late local news.
Former
Broadcast networks
CBS
The Barbara De Angelis Show (Winter 1991)
ABC
Caryl & Marilyn: Real Friends (June 10, 1996 – May 30, 1997)
Home (January 18, 1988 – April 8, 1994)
Mike and Maty (April 11, 1994 – June 7, 1996)
The Chew (September 26, 2011 – June 28, 2018)
The Revolution (January 16 – July 6, 2012)
NBC
The David Letterman Show (June 23 – October 24, 1980)
Later Today (September 7, 1999 - August 11, 2000)
Leeza (January 17, 1994 – September 3, 1999)
Megyn Kelly Today (September 25, 2017 – October 24, 2018)
The Marsha Warfield Show (March 26, 1990 – January 25, 1991)
The Regis Philbin Show (November 30, 1981 – April 9, 1982)
Syndication
The Mike Douglas Show (December 11, 1961 – November 30, 1981)
The Dr. Oz Show (September 14, 2009 – January 14, 2022)
Dr. Phil (September 16, 2002 – May 25, 2023)
The Doctors (September 8, 2008 – August 8, 2022)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (September 8, 2003 – May 26, 2022)
The Oprah Winfrey Show (September 8, 1986 — May 25, 2011)
Rachael Ray (September 18, 2006 – July 28, 2023)
The Greg Behrendt Show (September 12, 2006 — February 28, 2007)
The Roseanne Show (September 14, 1998 — June 23, 2000)
The Real (July 15, 2013 — June 3, 2022)
The Martin Short Show (January 3, 1999 — November 17, 2000)
The Martha Stewart Show (September 12, 2005 — May 11, 2012)
The Nate Berkus Show (September 13, 2010 — May 24, 2012)
The Wendy Williams Show (July 14, 2008 — June 17, 2022)
The Montel Williams Show (July 8, 1991 — May 16, 2008)
The Howie Mandel Show (June 22, 1998 — April 1999)
The Jenny Jones Show (September 16, 1991 — May 21, 2003)
Katie (September 10, 2012 — July 30, 2014)
Sally (October 17, 1983 – May 24, 2002)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show (June 10, 1996 — May 22, 2002)
The Meredith Vieira Show (September 8, 2014 — May 20, 2016)
The Bonnie Hunt Show (September 8, 2008 — May 26, 2010)
The Trisha Goddard Show (September 17, 2012 — May 21, 2014)
The Tony Danza Show (September 13, 2004 — May 26, 2006)
The Jerry Springer Show (September 30, 1991 – July 26, 2018)
Maury (September 9, 1991 – September 8, 2022)
The Tyra Banks Show (September 12, 2005 – May 28, 2010)
References
Daytime talk
American television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202023 | The 63rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony was held on 30 July 2023 at The Star, Sydney, and broadcast on the Seven Network. The ceremony was hosted by Sam Pang, making it the first time in eleven years that the event returned to having a solo host.
Winners and nominees
Nominees were announced on 19 June 2023.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs
Most Outstanding Programs
Changes
The Seven Network took over from the Nine Network as host broadcaster. Seven had last broadcast the Logie Awards in 1995.
Performers
Amy Shark
Peking Duk with G Flip, May-a and Ayesha Madon
Kate Miller-Heidke
References
2023
2023 in Australian television
2023 television awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPTi%20Inc. | OPTi Inc. was a fabless semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that primarily manufactured chipsets for personal computers. The company dissolved in 2001 and transferred its assets to the unaffiliated non-practicing entity OPTi Technologies (itself later renamed OPTi Inc.)
History
OPTi Inc. was formed in 1989 in Milpitas, California, by former employees of Chips and Technologies. Cash-strapped on a "shoe-string [budget]", among the company's first products was a trio of VLSI chipsets for i386SX- and i486-equipped AT motherboards. The first was a direct-mapped CPU cache for 386SX motherboards; the second was a burst-mode CPU cache for 486 motherboards; and the third was a interleaved memory module for 486 motherboards. OPTi measured the latter two chipsets to reduce the component count on 486 motherboards clocked at 40 MHz (or 11 MIPS) to as few as 20. In 1991, Chips and Technologies filed a patent infringement suit against OPTi, alleging unauthorized use of two of C&T's patents regarding semiconductor memory designs and particularly interleaved memory schemes, but a federal judge later ruled in OPTi's favor.
In early 1992, the company developed one of the first local bus designs for IBM PC compatibles. It soon found itself competing with VESA's implementation and the nascent PCI bus standard by Intel. It survived into the Pentium era before OPTi submitted to Intel and began manufacturing PCI chipsets. Later in 1992, they introduced a programmable writethrough–writeback cache chipset for the contemporary wave of upgradable motherboards, supporting up to 64 MB of RAM and processors by Intel, Cyrix, and AMD.
OPTi had a peak workforce of 235 employees and US$164 million in annual sales in the early 1990s; only three years after its inception, OPTi's revenue for fiscal year 1991 reached $100 million, under CEO Kenny Liu (b. 1954). Although considered a small company, OPTi's initial public offering in 1993 proved successful in the short term. However, the ramping-up of Intel's chipset manufacturing in 1994 challenged OPTi's presence in their market. While Intel saw OPTi as its nearest competitor then, Intel accounted for 66 percent of all sales of Pentium-class chipsets, with OPTi at 10 percent and Taiwan-based SIS at 7 percent. Liu stepped down from his role as CEO in 1994, remaining chairman of the board.
OPTi was reasonably more successful in the mobile chipset arena, starting with i486-based chipsets for notebooks and other portable computers in 1994, earning design wins from Toshiba, NEC, and Hewlett-Packard with their PCI-based Viper-N chipset from December 1994 to mid-1995. OPTi's Viper-M chipset, their challenger to Intel's Triton chipset on the desktop, was notable for supporting Cyrix's then-unreleased 6x86 processor, as well as AMD's K5—both competitors to Intel's Pentium, which Viper-M also supported. Contemporary chipsets from Intel only had support for the Pentium. In September 1995, OPTi joined an alliance with semicond |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Jermaine | Christopher M. Jermaine is an American computer scientist who is the J.S. Abercrombie Professor of Engineering and chair of the Department of Computer Science at Rice University.
Education
Jermaine earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, a Master of Science in computer science from Ohio State University, and a PhD in computer science from Georgia Tech. Jermaine's graduate advisor was Renée Miller.
Career
From 2002 to 2010, Jermaine was on the computer science faculty of the University of Florida. He joined Rice University in 2009. Jermaine is also the editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Database Systems. His research focuses on data analytics, data management, and database theory.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
University of California, San Diego alumni
Ohio State University alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
University of Florida faculty
Rice University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Information%20Protection%20Commission%20%28South%20Korea%29 | The Personal Information Protection Commission is national data protection authority of South Korea. It is formed as independent agency in year 2011 by 'Personal Information Protection Act(PIPA, )', and is now located in Government Complex Seoul. The Commission is constituted with 9 commissioners and one of them is the Chairperson, who is appointed by the President of South Korea.
History
The PIPA of South Korea was first enacted in year 2011 to establish general and comprehensive basis for regulation on data protection, overcoming formerly diffused and conflicting regulations around each type of data. The Act also had a goal to form PIPC as integrated apex authority governing over all data protection issues in South Korea. However, each of laws governing specified types of data continued to exist due to several legal issues, so PIPC was launched in 2011 with rather limited power to govern data protection issues. This limited position is reflected in organizational status of PIPC in 2011, as it was not an independent agency, yet rather an advisory panel for Ministry of the Interior and Safety which was in charge of enforcing PIPA at that time.
Later in year 2020, the PIPA was amended to give complete power to PIPC as independent regulatory agency, with power to investigate personal data privacy failure cases and jurisdiction over adjudicating complaints and disputes on personal information. Now under article 7-8 and 7-9 of the PIPA, the PIPC can impose administrative fines. Also by article 7(1), the PIPC is positioned as independent agency under Prime Minister, and article 7(2) guarantees that investigation and adjudication of the PIPC cannot be supervised by the Prime Minister. This new power of the PIPC draws significant attempts to regulate big techs in South Korea. For example, the PIPC fined Facebook $6.1 million in November 2020 for sharing user's personal data without consent. Also in September 2022, the PIPC fined Google $50 million and Meta Platforms $22 million for violating South Korean privacy regulations.
Organization
After amendement of the PIPA in 2020, the PIPC is now a 'central administrative agency ()', which is identical status as executive departments of the South Korean government. Among nine commissioners of the PIPC, its Chairperson is treated as one of minister in the government. According to amended article 7-2(2) of the PIPA, both the Chairperson and the vice are only permanent commissioners among nine commissioners, and they are appointed by the President with proposition from the Prime minister. Under article 7-2(2) of the PIPA, other seven non-permanent commissioners are also appointed by the President via following recommendations; two by recommendation of the Chairperson, other two from recommendation of ruling party, and other three from recommendation of opposition parties.
See also
National data protection authority
Government of South Korea
References
External links
Official website of PIPC in Engl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Calo | Ryan Calo is an American legal scholar, internationally recognized within the fields of emerging technology, especially privacy, robotics, and artificial intelligence. He is a co-founder of the University of Washington Tech Policy Lab and the Center for an Informed Public which focuses on combating misinformation.
Education and career
Calo studied philosophy at Dartmouth College, then moved into a role investigating allegations of police misconduct in New York City. After graduating from law school at University of Michigan, he worked for R. Guy Cole Jr., and on privacy and administrative law in the D.C. office of Covington and Burling, LLC.
At Stanford Law School, he directed privacy and robotics research at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and founded the Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving initiative.
He eventually advanced to faculty member at the University of Washington, where he holds multiple positions. He holds the Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Endowed Professorship at the School of Law; a Professor at the Information School; and an Adjunct Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. His work in robotics and cyberlaw was the focus of an article in Science magazine that highlighted the research behind his paper "Robots and the Lessons of Cyberlaw" as well as a report he created for the Brookings Institution.
He is a founding co-director of the Tech Policy Lab, a unique, interdisciplinary collaboration at the University of Washington; and is co-founder of the Center for an Informed Public, a collaborative whose mission is to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.
Calo chaired a University-wide task force on technology and society from fall 2021 to June 2022, and served as chair for the We Robot Conference 2022 when it was hosted by the University of Washington.
Calo was appointed at the World Bank to review privacy appeals and has testified before the United States Senate three times.
Filmography
Calo has served as a consulting expert on multiple television series and films.
"Bill Nye Saves the World: Machines Take Over the World": Calo was a panelist for the episode's discussion on the potential and pitfalls of artificial intelligence.
"Terms and Conditions May Apply": Calo lent his expertise as Director of Privacy and Robotics, Stanford Center for Internet & Society to this documentary
"Revolution with Brian Solis": Calo starred in Season 1, Episode 12 of this series that "connects you to the people, trends, and ideas defining the future of business, marketing, and media."
Publications
"Artificial Intelligence and the Carousel of Soft Law," IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society (2021)
"The Automated Administrative State: A Crisis of Legitimacy," Emory Law Journal (2021)
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American legal scholars
Stanford Law School faculty
University of Michigan Law Sc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Zayakin | Andrey Viktorovich Zayakin (; born 23 February 1981) is a Russian physicist, political activist and journalist. One of the founders of the volunteer community network Dissernet.
Biography
In 2004 graduated from the Department of Physics of the Moscow State University. In 2005 and 2007 was a trainee at the Free University of Berlin; from 2008 until 2010 worked in Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 2009 at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics defended a doctoral thesis “Nonperturbative Phenomena in Quantum Field Theory in External Fields and at a Finite Temperature”. In 2011—2011 worked at the University of Perugia, from 2012 – at the University of Santiago de Compostelam and (from 2005) – at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics.
In 2015 Zayakin became a journalist in Novaya Gazeta magazine, since 2018 — chief editor of the Data department there. Zayakin's articles were repeatedly nominated for the Redkollegia award, in 2019 he became the winner of this award.
Civil activities
Anti-corruption revelations
Since mid-2011, Zayakin began to cooperate with Alexei Navalny, participating in the anti-corruption project RosPil. In 2013, together with Alexei Navalny and Dmitry Gudkov began searching for undeclared property of high-ranking officials: Andrey Zayakin was then known in the blogosphere under the nickname "Doctor Z" (doct_z). Among the revelations of A. Zayakin are undeclared apartments in Miami of Vladimir Pekhtin and Mikhail Margelov.
Dissernet: revelation of plagiarism in dissertations
From the beginning of 2013, Zayakin independently searched for plagiarism in dissertations of State Duma deputies defended in Russia. One of the first victims of investigations became a State Duma deputy Rishat Abubakirov.
These works served as one of the grounds for the emergence in February 2013 of the volunteer community network "Dissernet", whose main task was to expose fake dissertations. In addition to Zayakin, the founders of Dissernet are the journalist Sergey Parkhomenko, the physicist Andrey Rostovtsev and the biologist Mikhail Gelfand. In Dissernet Zayakin leads a group of volunteers who write applications and apply for deprivation of academic degrees people with forged dissertations.
In 2018 Zayakin became secretary of the commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences, known as the Commission for Counteracting the Falsification of Scientific Research. In 2020 the Commission initiated the first large retraction of scientific papers from Russian journals after Dissernet investigation.
Political activity
In the elections to the State Duma in 2016, Andrey Zayakin headed the regional list of the Yabloko party in the Far East.
In February 2022, he signed an open letter from Russian scientists condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory.
Detention and prosecution
On August 29, 2022, Zayakin was detained by police and charged wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiji%20Isotani | is a third-generation Japanese-Brazilian computer scientist, professor of computer science and learning technology at the University of Sao Paulo (, USP) since 2019, where he also serves as director of the Applied Computing in Education Laboratory. From July 2022, Isotani joined the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a visiting professor. In the same year, Isotani was elected to the executive committee of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society (IAIED), making him the first-ever member from Latin America to occupy such position.
Isotani studied Computer Science at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), where he received a B.Sc. (Dec. 2002) and an M.Sc. (Apr. 2005). In 2009, he earned his doctorate in Information Engineering from Osaka University, Japan (Sep. 2009). His Ph.D. thesis was entitled "An Ontological Engineering Approach to Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning". His doctoral supervisor at Osaka University was Riichiro Mizoguchi.
Before joining the University of Sao Paulo as a professor, Isotani was employed at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, USA (Oct 2009 - Mar 2011) as a postdoctoral researcher.
References
External links
Isotani’s faculty page at University of Sao Paulo
Isotani’s faculty page at Harvard University
Isotani’s ORCID page
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Brazilian people of Japanese descent
Brazilian computer scientists
University of São Paulo alumni
Academic staff of the University of São Paulo
Osaka University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIMERE%20chemistry-transport%20model | CHIMERE is a chemistry-transport model. It is a computer code that unites a set of equations representing the transport and the chemistry of atmospheric species making it possible to quantify the evolution of air masses and pollution plumes as a function of time on different scales (from urban to continental). Using meteorological inputs and emission fluxes, CHIMERE calculates three-dimensional concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere. Due to the input data used, the number of equations that are solved and the physico-chemistry included in the model, CHIMERE is considered to be a mesoscale model, i.e. simulating the troposphere (from the surface to 20 hPa) for a horizontal resolution of 1 to 100 km and over study areas ranging from the city to the hemisphere.
Simulated pollutants
Atmospheric pollutants are gaseous molecules or particles present in the Earth's atmosphere and are considered to be in excess. Beyond a certain concentration threshold, their content can be toxic to the vegetation or to human health. These thresholds are different for each pollutant and are monitored hourly on surface-level atmosphere. CHIMERE simulates around a hundred gaseous and aerosol chemical species, including those monitored on a daily basis: ozone O3, nitrogen oxides NO and NO2, particulate matter PM, carbon monoxide CO and sulfur dioxide SO2.
Possible applications
This numerical model can have several applications:
analyze past pollution episodes, by comparing available measurements to model results: this allows not only to better understand the mechanics of a particular episode but also to highlight the weaknesses of the model and therefore to guide the path for future development.
make scenarios: in particular by simulating a period for the first time in realistic conditions, then by redoing the simulation by modifying the emissions for example. For this example, this type of exercise makes it possible to quantify the gain that a decline in emissions could have or, on the contrary, to estimate the damage in advance in a possible future where emissions keep increasing.
carry out air quality forecasts: this is done typically two to three days in advance and over a given region. The CHIMERE model is used by a large number of air quality monitoring agencies in Europe for this purpose. In France, it is notably the model implemented daily for pollution forecasts (as part of the “Air Quality and the Rational Use of Energy” law passed on the 30 September 1996) by AIRPARIF in the Paris region and Atmo Grand Est in the Grand Est region. In France on a national level, CHIMERE is the modeling tool implemented by INERIS for the PREVAIR air quality forecasting platform.
Basis of the model
The CHIMERE model necessitates three main phases: a data preparation phase (pre-processing) essential for a simulation, the model itself for calculating atmospheric concentrations and a results exploitation phase (post-processing). This principle is true for all digital |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RustDesk | RustDesk is a remote access and remote control software, allowing maintenance of computers and other devices. The RustDesk client is available for different operating systems. RustDesk has the aspiration to be an open source alternative for Remote desktop software like TeamViewer or AnyDesk. Therefore, RustDesk is able to function without additional tools like VPNs or port forwardings, even behind firewalls or NATs. RustDesk used to be based on the proprietary Sciter UI runtime library, but as of 2022 there are plans to replace it with Flutter.
Features (extract)
Remote access for multiple operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android)
End-to-end encryption
Optional self hosted server
File transfer
Chat
TCP tunneling
See also
Comparison of remote desktop software
Remote desktop software
References
External links
source code repository at GitHub
RustDesk in the Chocolatey repository for Windows
RustDesk in the F-Droid (Android) app store
RustDesk in the Google Play (Android) app store
RustDesk in the Apple App Store (iOS)
Linux remote administration software
MacOS remote administration software
Portable software
Cross-platform software
Remote desktop
Windows remote administration software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadayoshi%20Kohno | Tadayoshi Kohno is an American professor and award-winning scholar in the fields of data and computer security. He is the Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access, and Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Technical Advisory Board, and was an Inaugural Member of the Cyber Resilience Forum within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Education and career
Kohno earned his bachelor of science degree from University of Colorado and his Ph.D. from University of California San Diego.
Kohno holds multiple positions at the University of Washington. He is a professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; adjunct professor in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the School of Information, and the School of Law; associate director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access in the Allen School; co-director of the Security & Privacy Research Lab; and co-director of the Tech Policy Lab.
Fiction work
"Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence," 2020.
"Our Reality," a novella written to contribute to discussions on society, racism, and technology, 2021.
"Off by One," column editor, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine.
Awards
Technology Review TR-35 Award (2007)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2008)
IEEE S&P Test of Time Award for his work initiating the modern field of medical device computer security (2019)
IEEE S&P Test of Time Award for his work initiating the modern field of automotive computer security (2020)
ACSAC Test of Time Award (2019)
AAAS Golden Goose Award (2021), an award managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science with bipartisan Congressional support; awarded for his work establishing the modern field of automotive computer security
Allen School ACM Teaching Award (2022)
Research
"Neurosecurity: security and privacy for neural devices," Tamara Denning B.S., Yoky Matsuoka Ph.D., and Tadayoshi Kohno Ph.D., Journal of Neurosurgery. This work coined the term "neurosecurity."
"Improving the Security and Privacy of Implantable Medical Devices," William H. Maisel, M.D., M.P.H., and Tadayoshi Kohno, Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine
"Driverless: Who Is In Control?" Science Museum in London
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakarehas%20na%20Puso | () is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Jean Garcia. It premiered on September 26, 2022 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing The Fake Life. The series concluded on January 13, 2023 with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by Underage in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Amelia Galang loses sight of her husband and four children after being jailed. When Galang gets released, she finds out that her family has broken up and her children and husband now despise her.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jean Garcia as Amelia Galang / Hilda Cruz
Supporting cast
Vaness del Moral as Natalia "Lea" Galang-Divino
EA Guzman as Ramiro Jesus "Miro" Galang
Claire Castro as Olivia "Olive" Galang / Divine Balbastro
Michelle Aldana as Doris Montellana
Leandro Baldemor as Jackson "Jack" Galang
Ashley Sarmiento as Anica Marie "Nica" G. Divino
Bryce Eusebio as Warren Angeles
Glenda Garcia as Vivian "Madam V" Samonte
Chanel Latorre as Racquel Angeles
Analyn Barro as Charlotte Cruz-Galang
Dang Cruz as Glory Vituda
Guest cast
Barbara Miguel as young Lea
Miggs Cuaderno as young Miro
Cassy Lavarias as young Olive
Franchesco Maafi as Winston "Nonoy" Galang
David Racelis as Ivan Divino
Marnie Lapus as Julie Balbastro
Kenken Nuyad as Argel
Madeleine Nicolas as Rustica Monte
Janna Trias as Barang
Euwenn Mikael Aleta as Bombert
Dennah Bautista as Bekbek
Ynez Veneracion as Lady Mamba
Justine Garcia as Gedaville
Paul Ryan Aquino as Poknat
Episodes
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References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2023 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C13orf42 | C13orf42 is a protein which, in humans, is encoded by the gene chromosome 13 open reading frame 42 (C13orf42). RNA sequencing data shows low expression of the C13orf42 gene in a variety of tissues. The C13orf42 protein is predicted to be localized in the mitochondria, nucleus, and cytosol. Tertiary structure predictions for C13orf42 indicate multiple alpha helices.
Gene
Summary
C13orf42 is a protein encoding gene containing 4 exons. C13orf42 is also known by aliases LINC00371 and LINC00372. RNA sequencing shows the gene's expression at low levels in various tissues.
Location
C13orf42 is located on the minus strand of chromosome 13 at 13q14.3 in humans. C13orf42 is located from 51.08 Mb to 51.20 Mb on chromosome 13 and spans 118 kilobases.
Neighborhood
The genomic neighborhood of C13orf42 consists of several pseudogenes along with ribonuclease H2 subunit B (RNASEH2B), uncharacterized LOC107984554, and family with sequence similarity 124 member A (FAM124A).
Exons
The C13orf42 gene contains 4 exons.
Expression
RNA sequencing of C13orf42 shows expression in a variety of tissues including the spleen, kidney, heart, brain, testis, skin, esophagus, colon, small intestine, stomach, lung, placenta, salivary gland, thymus, and adipose. RNA sequencing of human fetal tissue shows C13orf42 expression starting at 20 weeks in the intestine, 16 weeks in the kidney, 10 weeks in the lung, and expression in the stomach is seen at 16 weeks but not 10, 18, or 20 weeks. Recorded RNA expression is very low, with all results being lower than 0.5 reads per kilobase of transcript per million reads mapped (RPKM). Microarray data from NCBI geo (GDS425) shows expression in additional tissues including bone marrow, liver, skeletal muscle, spinal cord, and pancreas.
Transcript
Variants
C13orf42 produces four known transcript variants, variant 1, variant 2, variant 3, and variant X1. Transcript variant 3 (accession number: NM_001351589.3) is the longest high-quality mRNA at 3075 nucleotides. Transcript variant 3 contains 4 exons and encodes a 325 amino acid protein.
Transcript variants 1, 2, and X1 all lack the first exon but align with exons 2, 3, and 4 of transcript variant 3. Variants 1 and 2 are not protein encoding, while variants 3 and X1 are protein coding. Variant X1 is 2717 nucleotides long and encodes a 189 amino acid protein which aligns with the last 187 amino acids of the longer protein encoded by transcript variant 3 and differs in its first two amino acids.
Protein
Isoforms
There are two known proteins encoded by the isoforms of C13orf42. Transcript variant 3 encodes the longest protein at 325 amino acids long. Transcript variant X1 encodes a 189 amino acid long protein. This protein aligns with exons 2, 3, and 4 of the 325 amino acid protein, but is missing exon 1.
Protein Composition
C13orf42 has a predicted isoelectric point of 9.3 and a predicted molecular weight of 37.4 kDa. Human C13orf42 is a serine rich and positively charged amino acid (lysi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandit | Scandit AG, commonly referred to as Scandit, is a Swiss technology company that provides smart data capture software. Their technology allows any smart device equipped with a camera to scan barcodes, IDs and text and to perform additional functions using augmented reality and advanced analytics.
The company has more than 550 employees, operating from offices in Zurich, Boston, London, Warsaw, Tampere, Singapore and Tokyo. In 2022, the company completed its Series D venture round, reaching a valuation of US$1 billion.
Scandit's core business is to provide computer vision-based smart data capture technology that enables barcode scanning, text and object recognition for enterprise workflows. Their smart data capture SDKs are deployed in a range of industries such as retail, transport and logistics and manufacturing for use cases including inventory management, order fulfilment, store operations, mobile self-scanning, asset tracking and field operations.
Scandit Smart Data Capture technologies are used by three of the top five global courier companies and eight of the top ten US grocers.
History
The three founders namely, Samuel Mueller, Christian Floerkemeier, and Christof Roduner met as doctoral students studying at ETH Zurich in 2009. Initially they set to work on a ten-year-old concept developed by their tutor Friedemann Mattern who had explored the potential of then low-resolution smartphone cameras as barcode scanning devices.
With a proof-of-concept in place, Scandit was formed a year later in 2010 to bring the product to market. In recognition of the technology's potential, Samuel Mueller was awarded the Fast Start award at the 2011 edition of the ACES awards, organised by the Science|Business Innovation Board. In the same year, Scandit was awarded the CTI Startup Label and debuted at 89th on the annual Top 100 Best Swiss Startups league table. Scandit was also recognised on the world stage, winning a US$150,000 prize in the Calling All Innovators competition run by Nokia.
In 2017 Scandit raised US$7.5 million Series A funding to drive development of their mobile barcode scanning technologies.
Series B followed in July 2018, raising a further US$30 million to drive development of new solutions.
A third round of funding (Series C) was secured in May 2020 as demand for ‘contactless apps’ surged. At the same time, Scandit reported recurring revenues had tripled and their customer base had doubled in the previous two years.
In October 2020, Samsung Electronics announced a new partnership with Scandit. Under the terms of the agreement, Scandit's mobile computer vision software would be integrated into Samsung's Knox framework and deployed initially on the Android-powered Galaxy Xcover Pro smartphone.
In April 2021 Scandit's computer vision technology was selected by the National Health Service to digitize the COVID-19 testing program in the UK. The system was used at all fixed and mobile test sites, in home-testing kits and at schools t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysalis%20%28hypothetical%20moon%29 | In the astronomy of the Solar System, Chrysalis is a hypothetical moon of Saturn, named in 2022 by scientists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology using data from the Cassini–Huygens mission. The moon would have been torn apart by Saturn's tidal forces, somewhere between 200 and 100 million years ago. Up to 99% of the moon's mass would have been swallowed by Saturn, with the remaining 1% forming the rings of Saturn. The origin of Saturn's rings from the destruction of a satellite has been previously proposed by other authors.
Chrysalis was hypothesized to be similar in size and mass to Iapetus, with a similar water-ice composition, and to have orbited somewhere between Iapetus and Titan. Its orbit around Saturn may have been degraded as a result of Titan's orbit expanding due to interactions of the Saturn system with a resonance with Neptune, resulting in the increasing eccentricity of Chrysalis's orbit until being torn apart during a close encounter with Saturn by its parent planet's gravitational force.
The hypothetical moon was named after the pupa stage of a butterfly, with the rings of Saturn representing its emergence from the chrysalis.
See also
Rings of Saturn § Formation and evolution of main rings
References
Hypothetical moons
Moons of Saturn
Hypothetical bodies of the Solar System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20VTV%20Awards | The 2022 VTV Awards (Vietnamese: Ấn tượng VTV 2022) is a ceremony honouring the outstanding achievement in television on the Vietnam Television (VTV) network from August 2021 to the end of 2022. This year, all activities for the award ceremony had not been launched until the 52nd anniversary of VTV establishment on September 7. It was announced that the ceremony is officially moved to January 1, produced as a New Year show from now on.
Unlike last year, there are 12 award categories instead of 11. Two categories per week with 10 nominees of each will be revealed from September 7 to October 12. After that, the Voting Round 1 will start in order to pick out the Top 5. The nominated list will be cut down to Top 3 before the winner was crowned.
Winners and nominees
(Top 3 are listed first with the winners denoted in bold)
Presenters/Awarders
Special performances
References
External links
List of television programmes broadcast by Vietnam Television (VTV)
2022 television awards
VTV Awards
2022 in Vietnamese television
January 2023 events in Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20O%27Rourke | Karen O'Rourke is an artist and Emeritus Professor at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne. Her personal work tends to relate artistic practice with the notion of network with that of archiving and with that of territory. She has published numerous articles in journals (Leonardo, Delivery, Aperture, La revue du Cube, AI & Society, Figures de l'art, Plastik, etc.) and collective works (Art-Réseaux, Territoires, Art++). She is the author of two synthesis books; Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers (MIT Press, 2013) and From the arts-networks to programmed drifts: current events in “art as experience”.
See also
Fax art
References
Living people
Academic staff of Jean Monnet University
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Law%20%28engineer%29 | Mark Law is an American engineer. He is a distinguished professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Florida.
Law attended Iowa State University where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree. He then attended Stanford University where he earned his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Law was director the University of Florida honors program from 2014 to 2022.
References
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Florida faculty
Iowa State University alumni
Stanford University alumni
American engineers
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics%20in%20Ethiopia | Robotics is a recent developing technology in Ethiopia and many high tech enterprises are emerging in Ethiopia, implementing artificial intelligence to erase manufacturing jobs.
Overview
Ethiopia has developing economy, having attracting firms due to availability of low-paid workforce. Manufacturing become the primary source benefitting the economy of Ethiopia. When the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) to Ethiopian economy and workforce, it questioned the threat is real. AI and robotics founded useful to erase manufacturing jobs, in Ethiopia or elsewhere in the world.
At the age of 19, Betelhem Dessie is the youngest pioneer in Ethiopia's tech scene, sometimes referred to as "Sheba Valley". She found iCog, a nationwide programs laboratory based on AI that was responsible for developing Sophia the robot in 2018.
In July 2018, Sophia arrived in Ethiopia without some parts assembled, and exhibited at Information & Communication Technology International Expo, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Visitors, including various dignitaries, were excited when meeting the robot as she communicated with expo guests and expressed a wide range of facial expressions. The more usual diplomatic encounters, she met with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on 2 July. The chief of staff of Prime Minister Office shared the photo online, who gained global attention for using facial and speech recognition to help engage in conversation. She was partly assembled in Ethiopia; with a client base spanned places the US, Canada, Hong Kong and China, iCog Labs was showing its tech scene. The company collaborated with the Ethiopian government on some hardware and software projects.
On 4 October 2022, a new science museum named Ethiopia Museum of Art and Science was inaugurated by Abiy Ahmed organized by the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute and held PanAfricon Artificial Intelligence. Abiy highlighted the importance of AI to transform the country into digitalization anchored in Digital Ethiopia 2025. The museum was opened with motto "Empowering Africa Through AI".
List of robotic schools
Faris Technology Institute
Ethio Robo Robotics
Haile Damena
Abugida Robotics and Technology Center
References
Science and technology in Ethiopia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kacho%20Papad%20Pako%20Papad | Kacho Papad Pako Papad is a 2017 Indian streaming television series created for SonyLIV, the digital platform of Sony Pictures Networks India. It was directed by Chetan Sharma and written and produced by Hamsukh Gandhi under the banner of M2 Entertainment. It was the first Gujarati romantic comedy drama, released on SonyLIV on 19 May 2017. It starred Bhakti Rathod, Sagar Dariyai, Rupa Divatia, and Pratap Sachdeo in the main roles. The series chronicles the dilemmas of an average, middle class joint Gujarati family.
Plot
Kacho Papad Pako Papad is centered on the life of the Maniyar family who over complicate all their daily problems. It all starts when their son Vipul (Sagar Dariyai) introduces the family to a girl (Bhakti Rathod) who is older than him. But, trouble mounts when the girl who is several years younger, expresses her love for their son and intends to marry him.
Music video
In May 2017 SonyLIV announced a romantic music video titled Aadat Che Tu for this series. It was released on 5 June 2017. The lyrics were written by Bharat Kumar Joshi and composed by music director Sukumar Dutta.
Episodes
Season 1
References
External links
Romantic comedy television series
SonyLIV original films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20for%20Cyber%20Security | The Minister for Cyber Security is an Australian Government cabinet position which is currently held by Clare O'Neil following the swearing in of the full Albanese ministry on 1 June 2022.
In the Government of Australia, the minister administers this portfolio through the Department of Home Affairs.
List of ministers
Cyber security
The following individuals have been appointed as Minister for Cyber Security, or any of its precedent titles:
Assisting the prime minister for cyber security
The following individuals have been appointed as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Cyber Security, or any of its precedent titles:
References
External links
Cyber Security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHOIBLE | PHOIBLE (short for "Phonetics Information Base and Lexicon") is a linguistic database accessible through its website and compiling phonological inventories from primary documents and tertiary databases into a single, easily searchable sample. The 2019 version 2.0 includes 3,020 inventories containing 3,183 segment types found in 2,186 distinct languages. It is edited by Steven Moran, Assistant Professor from the Institute of Biology at the University of Neuchâtel and Daniel McCloy, Researcher at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington.
Principles of PHOIBLE
PHOIBLE attempts to be faithful to the description of languages in source documents (often called "doculects") and to encode all character data in a consistent representation in Unicode API.
Its data is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licence (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Organisation of the database
The website is very similar to those of Glottolog, WALS and APiCS.
Since the release of PHOIBLE 2.0 in 2019, the data is taken from the Cross-Linguistic Data Formats (CLDF) dataset of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data (CLLD) project.
The languages are classified by family, geographical coordinates and world regions (Africa, North and South America, Australia, Eurasia and Papunesia).
The individual language pages include geographical information from Glottolog, with a link to its site with the glottocode of the language, and another with the ISO 639-3 code pointing to that of SIL. They also include links to one or more phoneme inventories, with associated bibliographic records for each source. Multiple entries are based on separate sources that disagree on the number and/or identity of phonemes in the language.
In addition to phoneme inventories, PHOIBLE includes distinctive feature data for each phoneme in each language. This system is loosely based on Hayes' Introductory Phonology with some additions from Moisik and Esling's The 'whole larynx' approach to laryngeal features, but may change as new languages are added.
A subset of 451 languages in PHOIBLE comes from the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database, whose author, Ian Maddieson, is a contributor to the chapter on phonology in WALS.
References
Bibliography
External links
Linguistics websites
Linguistics databases
Cross-Linguistic Linked Data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank%20cascade%20system | The tank cascade system, or wewa-ellangava system, is an ancient Sri Lankan irrigation infrastructure. The system is a network of small tanks draining to large reservoirs that store rainwater and surface runoff for later use. Originating in the 1st millennium BCE, the system was designated as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 2017. Centralized bureaucratic management of large-scale systems was implemented from the 3rd to the 13th centuries.
Geography
The tank cascade system is largely located in the semi-arid north-central section of the island, which experiences equatorial heat, limited freshwater, and erratic rainfall patterns. The monsoon cycle in the region results in minimal groundwater storage capacity, high evaporation, and low or variable precipitation, meaning that "in this hard rock region...no stable human settlement would have been possible without recourse to the storage of surface water in small tanks." Granite and charnockite underlie in this area, decreasing permeability. The "undulating topography" of the island's dry zone is also appropriate for pond or reservoir construction.
Overall Sri Lanka has 80 major dams, and 18,000 extant tanks, or wewa. Between 10,000 and 14,000 tanks are in active use as irrigation sources; the majority of these hold water in the north-central lowland dry zone.
History
Whereas the agriculture of Fertile Crescent arose from stored water in low bottomland soil, and the agriculture of ancient Egypt was dependent on retained Nile River flood waters, ancient Sri Lankans used a chain of reservoir systems as their water source. Sri Lanka has been called a "hydraulic civilization." Similar ancient water engineering projects in tropical and subtropical climates include the qanats of Iran, oasis in the Near East and north Africa, and the Gurganj Dam of Amu Darya.
Researchers theorise that the evolution of the tank cascade began with rain-fed agriculture and then became increasingly sophisticated beginning with diverting rivulets, then permanent rivers, followed by a leap forward with the construction of spillways, weirs and ultimately sluices, then the construction of reservoirs, until, at the apogee of development, ancient Sri Lankans were able to successfully dam up perennial rivers and use the water as they saw fit. Historic uses of the tank cascade system included human needs (drinking water, sanitation, food production), ecosystem enrichment, urban development, administrative boundary setting ("water cordons"), and natural disaster mitigation.
Rainwater reservoirs were being constructed on the island as early as 300 BCE—there are assertions that Sorabora Wewa in Mahiyangana was constructed by the yaksha spirits before the theory postulated as the Indo-Aryan migration to the island—and an estimated total of 30,000 wewa have been built over the history of Sri Lanka.
The existence of what is now called the tank cascade system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1970.
Events
Television programs
Debuts
Ending this year
Networks and services
Network launches
Network closures
Television stations
Sign-ons
Network affiliation changes
Station closures
Births
Deaths
See also
1970 in television
1970 in film
1970 in the United states
List of American films of 1970
References
External links
List of 1970 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Moroccan%20films%20of%201981 | A list of films produced in Morocco in 1981.
1981
References
External links
Moroccan films of 1981 at the Internet Movie Database
1981
Moroccan
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension%2068000 | The Dimension 68000 is a microcomputer introduced by the Micro Craft Corporation in 1983 that sought to emulate the Apple II, the IBM PC, and various CP/M-centric computers through a family of coprocessor expansion cards and emulation software. The Dimension 68000 can also run as a standalone computer based on the Motorola 68000 from which it gets its namesake. The computer is mostly the brainchild of Mike Carpenter, a former executive of a scientific instrument manufacturer who incorporated Micro Craft in Dallas, Texas, to develop the Dimension 68000. It had a market lifespan of three years and received mixed, mostly positive, reception from the technology press. Criticism was leveled at the $6,250 price tag for the computer with the full deck of coprocessor cards, as well as the extent of the emulation power of those cards.
Specifications
Main unit and keyboard
The Dimension 68000 is a desktop microcomputer whose main unit measures and weighs between , depending on the configuration. The main unit comprises a steel chassis with a cream-painted lid, a material chosen to resist RF interference. Early models had a chassis constructed from Noryl thermoplastic, painted cream on the outside and coated with conductive nickel paint on its underside. Six screws hold the lid on and can be unfastened for servicing. Micro Craft encouraged user-servicing from the onset and did not void the warranty of purchasers should they have opened the case, as was an increasing practice around the time of the Dimension's release. The dual 5.25-inch floppy disk drives and the accompanying full-drive-height blanking plate of the stock configuration feature black trim. Next to the disk drives is a reset button; the functionality of the button can be disabled in software to prevent accidental actuation. In the rear of the main unit are six expansion card holes which may be populated depending on the configuration (all six are populated with blanking plates in stock configuration), as well as one RS-232 serial port, a Centronics-style parallel port, the keyboard port, a joystick port, and the composite video output jack. A 100-watt, 15-amp switched-mode supply powers the unit and was described by Microcomputing magazine as "offer[ing] enough juice to power just about any board you'd want to add".
The motherboard of the Dimension 68000 comprises a four-layer printed circuit board. It rests on the bottom of the chassis and features six expansion slots. Among the other logic chips on the motherboard resides the main microprocessor—a Motorola 68000 clocked at 8 MHz—and the random-access, DIP memory chips. These chips takes up most of the footprint of the motherboard and are laid out as four banks of 17. The motherboard accepts a total of 512 KB of RAM on the motherboard. Additional RAM could be installed only on expansion cards; Micro Craft promised a memory expansion card in early 1984, for which multiple orders of the card could be used within the same machine and expand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamir%20Tuller | Tamir Tuller is an Israeli engineer, a computer scientist, and a systems and synthetic biologist. He is a professor and the director of Tel Aviv University's Laboratory of Computational Systems and Synthetic Biology. As of February 2022, Tuller has authored over 150 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and hundreds of additional types of publications and patents. In addition, he is the founder and primary instructor of the International Genetically Engineered Machine program at Tel Aviv University and an entrepreneur.
Education
Tuller earned his bachelor's degree via the Atuda in 1996. He finished four degrees (most of them from Tel Aviv University): BSc in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering (aerodynamics), computer science, and economics and management.
His graduate studies include an MSc in electrical engineering (from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel), MSc studies in computer science at Tel Aviv University, and two PhDs from Tel Aviv University, one in computer science and one in medical science.
He was a Safra postdoctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University's School of Computer Science and Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, and a Koshland postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science's Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Molecular Genetics.
He joined Tel Aviv University's Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2011 and on 2018 he became a full professor.
Research and career
Tuller does interdisciplinary research on gene expression based on various tools from disciplines such as computer science, engineering, molecular evolution, biophysics, and statistics. He is particularly interested in developing novel ways for modelling and engineering gene expression, as developing approaches for better understand how gene expression is encoded in the genetic material. His gene expression models are then used for solving various objective in biotechnology and pharma such as vaccine development, human diseases modeling, food tech, and antibody engineering.
Tuller is presently a Full Professor at the Tel-Aviv University in the department of Biomedical Engineering and Edmond J. Safra centre for bioinformatics. Prior to obtaining his current position, he also was an engineer at DSP group in VLSI chip design. He served as the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Synvaccine Ltd, and Imagindairy Ltd and as a consultant to various additional biotech companies.
Awards and honors
Tuller received the Juludan Research Prize from the Technion, Israel institute of technology in 2016.
Additional awards include the Minerva Arches award, The Center for Complexity Science (Yeshaya Horowitz) fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science Koshland fellowship for exceptionally outstanding postdoctoral fellows, The Asi Shnidman foundation for excellent young researchers in the Chaim Sheba medical center at Tel-Hashomer.
Publications
As of February 2022, Tuller has auth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorna%20Stewart | Lorna Kay Stewart is a retired Canadian computer scientist and discrete mathematician whose research concerns algorithms in graph theory and special classes of graphs, including cographs, permutation graphs, interval graphs, comparability graphs and their complements, well-covered graphs, and asteroidal triple-free graphs. She earned her Ph.D. in 1985 at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Derek Corneil, and is a professor emerita at the University of Alberta.
Selected publications
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian mathematicians
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian women mathematicians
Graph theorists
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of the University of Alberta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebuds | Firebuds is an American computer-animated television series created by Craig Gerber, produced by Electric Emu Productions and Disney Television Animation. The series premiered on Disney Junior on September 21, 2022. In January 2023, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on November 1, 2023. In June 2023, the series was renewed for a third season.
Plot
In a world where human and talking cars co-exist, a group of kids and their rescue vehicle buddies go through the communities of Gearbox Grove and Motopolis and help keep them safe from danger.
Characters
Main
Bo Bayani (voiced by Declan Whaley) is a Filipino-American boy who is an aspiring firefighter. He is the leader of the Firebuds.
Flash Fireson (voiced by Terrence Little Gardenhigh in season one and Carter Jones in season two) is Bo's firetruck vroom-mate. He gets very hyperactive, especially when rescuing people and vehicles.
Violet Vega-Vaughn (voiced by Vivian Vencer) is an Asian-American girl who is an aspiring paramedic. She loves gymnastics and going fast.
Axl Ambrose (voiced by Lily Sanfelippo) is Violet's ambulance vroom-mate. She loves carkour and going fast like Violet.
Jayden Jones (voiced by JeCobi Swain) is an African-American boy who is an aspiring cop. He is an inventor who loves to eat.
Piston Porter (voiced by Caleb Paddock) is Jayden's police car vroom-mate. He loves rules and being safe.
Recurring
Chief Bill Bayani (voiced by Lou Diamond Phillips) is Bo's father and co-chief of the Gearbox Grove Fire Department.
Chief Faye Fireson (voiced by Yvette Nicole Brown) is Flash's mother and co-chief of the Gearbox Grove Fire Department.
Beth Bayani (voiced by Melissa Rauch) is Bo's mother who is a therapist.
Floyd Fireson (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) is Flash's father who is a carchitect.
Val Vega-Vaughn (voiced by Natalie Morales) is Violet's paramedic mother.
Arnie Ambrose (voiced by Stephen Guarino) is Axl's ambulance father.
Viv Vega-Vaughn (voiced by Allison Case) is Violet's mechanic mother.
AJ Ambrose (voiced by Ian James Corlett) is Axl's semi-hauler father.
Jenna Jones (voiced by LaChanze) is Jayden's mother and Deputy Chief of the Bureau of Community Support for the Motopolis Police Department.
Pete Porter (voiced by Sean Kenin) is Piston's father and Jenna's M.P.D. partner.
Jamal Jones (voiced by Brandon Victor Dixon) is Jayden's father who is a traffic cop for the Motopolis Police Department.
Pam Porter (voiced by Hope Levy) is Piston's mother and Jamal's M.P.D. partner.
Jazzy Jones (voiced by Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer) is Jayden's younger sister with spina bifida.
Piper Porter (voiced by Sammi Haney) is Piston's sister and Jazzy's electric wheelchair vroom-mate.
June (voiced by Tessa Espinola) is a news reporter and a friend of the Firebuds.
Vance (voiced by Max Mitchell) is June's vroom-mate and news camera operator.
Harry (voiced by Cameron Crovetti) is a friend of the Firebuds and Violet's biggest fan.
Carly ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nickelodeon%20Animation%20Studio%20productions | This article contains a list of productions made by Nickelodeon Animation Studio, which is a part of Nickelodeon Networks and owned by Paramount Global. This list includes animated television series, shorts, specials, and other projects.
Television series
Anthology series
Nick Jr. shows
Other Paramount networks
Digital short series
Short pilots
Nickelodeon (greenlit to series)
Nickelodeon (not greenlit to series)
Produced for other Paramount-owned networks
TV movies and specials
Broadcast releases
Digital releases
Direct-to-video
All the films (except the international release of Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure) were distributed to home video by Paramount Home Entertainment.
Theatrical films
All the films are distributed by Paramount Pictures.
References
Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Lists of animated television series
Nickelodeon-related lists
Paramount Global-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cartoon%20Network%20Studios%20productions | This article contains a list of productions made by the American animation studio Cartoon Network Studios, a part of the Warner Bros. Television Studios division of Warner Bros. and owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. This list includes animated television series, shorts, pilots, specials, and other projects. Live action projects produced by Alive and Kicking, Inc., Factual Productions and Rent Now Productions are included as they are the labels of Cartoon Network Studios’ live-action division.
Television series
Shorts series
Pilots
Successful
Failed
Other shorts
This is a list of Cartoon Network Studios/Cartoon Network original shorts that were not pilots.
Feature films and specials
Television releases
Theatrical releases
A direct-to-video production.
An adult animated production.
A live-action production.
Notes
References
Cartoon Network Studios
Lists of animated television series
Cartoon Network-related lists
Warner Bros. Discovery-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinemax%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cinemax is an American pay television, cable, and satellite television network, owned by a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Cinemax may also refer to:
CineMAX, an Indian cinema chain
Cinemax (Asian TV channel), an Asian pay TV channel, part of part of the HBO Asia network
Cinemax (video game developer), an independent Czech video game developer and publisher
Cinemax Studios, now part of GMA Pictures
See also
Avni Cinemax, an Indian film production and distribution company
CinemaxX, a cinema chain in Germany and Denmark, owned by Vue International
Cinemaxx (Indonesia), a cinema chain, owned by Cinépolis since 2019
Cinemaximum, a cinema chain in Turkey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet%20Man | Bullet Man may refer to:
Bulletman, a fictional superhero
Bullet Men, a set of South Korean sculptures
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, a Japanese cyberpunk horror film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Hofstetter | George Hofstetter is an award-winning American computer programmer, tech entrepreneur, and campaigner for Black rights who has been active since 2013. He went on to found GHTech Inc., a software and curriculum development company that builds at the intersection of technology and social justice. He is the current chief executive officer and executive chairman of GHTech Inc.
Career
In 2013, aged 13, Hofstetter competed in the Qeyno Labs Hackathon in Oakland, California, where he and his group developed a social network called "Connect the Dots," creating a space for Black students in private predominantly white schools to share their experiences with one another. His team finished third at the hackathon.
The following year's Qeyno Labs Hackathon was sponsored by ESSENCE and Qeyno Labs in New Orleans and was after the launch of YesWeCode, an initiative started by Prince and Van Jones after the killing of Trayvon Martin with the goal of helping 100,000 young women and men from underrepresented backgrounds to be successful in the tech sector. He and his team developed an app called CopStop to address issues of police violence in Oakland.
After the hackathon and his graduation from The Hidden Genius Project, Hofstetter received a two-year internship in the office of Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf.
Hofstetter founded his company at age 16 with the goal of helping other kids of color gain entry into the world of technology as innovators. He worked on a project for Capital One DevExchange to create a free mobile online curriculum, UpToCode Academy. In the fall of 2017, He was honored by the Equal Justice Society during their annual gala in San Francisco, CA for his work through GHTech Inc.
Hofstetter was included in Google's Black History Month Pay it Forward Challenge in March 2019.
In October 2019, he spoke at a TedxYouth event at the Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences. His talk was entitled "How technology redefined can be a social justice super power."
Hofstetter's most recent projects/events include the launch of a social networking app designed for education for a California-based non-profit Kingmakers of Oakland, being featured in the documentary, ‘Use of Force: The policing of Black America’ alongside Alicia Garza and Chuck D.
After a viral incident that became international news where Hofstetter was the target of a racist digital attack during his studies at the University of Cambridge. He wrote an opinion piece for the University of Oxford's student paper, The Oxford Blue.
References
American motivational speakers
Living people
2000 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano%20Po%20Legacy%3A%20The%20Flower%20Sisters | Mano Po Legacy: The Flower Sisters () is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the third installment of Mano Po Legacy. Directed by Ian Loreños, it stars Aiko Melendez, Beauty Gonzalez, Thea Tolentino, and Angel Guardian. It premiered on October 31, 2022 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing What We Could Be. The series concluded on January 13, 2023 with a total of 47 episodes. It was replaced by Luv Is in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Aiko Melendez as Lily Yap Chua-Tan
Beauty Gonzalez as Violet Ty Chua-Gomez
Thea Tolentino as Dahlia Morales Chua
Angel Guardian as Iris Ong Chua
Supporting cast
Rafael Rosell as Julian Gomez
Isabel Rivas as Aurora Ty-Chua
Maila Gumila as Divina Chua
Tanya Garcia as Marilou Ong
Marcus Madrigal as Redmond Tan
Sue Prado as Belinda Morales
Bodjie Pascua as Felino Go
Miggs Cuaderno as James Petersen Chua Tan
Will Ashley as Andrew James Chua Tan
Carlo San Juan as Elvin Delos Santos
Mika Reins as Kayla Gomez
Casie Banks as Jade Lee
Dustin Yu as Kenneth Chan
Kimson Tan as Steven Yu
Shecko Apostol as Benjo Que
Recurring cast
Adrienne Vergara as Clarisse
Gertrude Hahn as Corrine
Dovee Park as Trisha
Sunshine Teodoro as Precy
AZ Martinez as Jessica Tang
Johnny Revilla as Miguel Gomez
JC Tiuseco as Robert Collantes
Samby Magno as Joni
Guest cast
Mikee Quintos as Carmen Yap-Chua
Lloyd Samartino as Leopoldo Go Chua
Paul Salas as young Leopoldo
Yvette Sanchez as young Lily
Althea Ablan as young Violet
Adriana Agcaoili as adult Aurora
Sophia Senoron as young Aurora
Cheska Fausto as young Divina
Gian Magdangal as adult Felino
Larkin Castor as young Felino
Small Laude as herself
Sandro Muhlach as Charlie Ty Chua
Nicole Laurel Asensio as Celeste Villagracia
Bella Thompson as Paula
Anikka Camaya as Pamela dela Cruz
Ray An Dulay as Police Officer Salcedo
Boy Laguipo as Arturo Bendigo
Episodes
References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2023 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series by Regal Entertainment
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Clara%20at%20Ibarra | Maria Clara Ibarra () is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on the novels of José Rizal: Noli Me Tángere and El Filibusterismo. Directed by Zig Dulay, it stars Barbie Forteza, Julie Anne San Jose and Dennis Trillo. It premiered on October 3, 2022 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Lolong. The series concluded on February 24, 2023 with a total of 105 episodes. It was replaced by Mga Lihim ni Urduja in its timeslot.
The show features Klay Infantes, a Gen-Z nursing student who gets transported into the setting of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. The series is streaming online on GMA Network's official website. It was also released on Netflix on 14 April 2023.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Barbie Forteza as María Clara "Klay" Infantes
Julie Anne San Jose as María Clara "Clarita" de los Santos y Alba / Clarisse Torres
Dennis Trillo as Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra y Magsalin / Simoun / Ibarra Gonzalo "Barry" Torres
Supporting cast
David Licauco as Fidel de los Reyes y Maglipol
Manilyn Reynes as Narcisa "Narsing" Infantes-Asunción
Juancho Triviño as Padre Bernardo Salvi
Rocco Nacino as Elías
Tirso Cruz III as Padre Dámaso Verdolagas
Dax Augustus as young Padre Dámaso
Andrea Torres as Narcisa "Sisa"
Juan Rodrigo as Santiago "Kapitán Tiago" de los Santos
Ranty Portento as young Tiago
Ces Quesada as Tía Isabel
Khalil Ramos as Basilio
Stanley Abuloc as young Basilio
Pauline Mendoza as Juliana "Juli" de Dios
Arlhei Janmira Dapilos as young Juli
Kim de Leon as Isagani
Arnold Reyes as Telesforo "Kabesang Tales" de Dios
Julia Pascual as Paulita Gómez
Lou Veloso as Prof. José R. Torres
Dennis Padilla as Adong Aglipay
Gilleth Sandico as Victorina de los Reyes de Espadaña
Giovanni Baldisseri as the alférez
Raquel Pareño as Consolación
Tanya Garcia as Pía Alba
Carlos Siguion Reyna / Gino Ilustre as the captain general
Karenina Haniel as Victoria
Robert Ortega as Ronald Asunción
JM San Jose as Elías Infantes Asunción
Bobby Andrews as Antonio "Anton" Villarama
Charo Calalo as Geraldine Cruz-Villarama
Lei Angela Ollet as Anica Cruz Villarama
Lyra Micolob as Stacy Joaquín
Jeniffer Maravilla as Sinang
Hannah Precillas as Iday
Ira Ruzz as Neneng
Kian Co as Crispín
Johnny Revilla as Teniente Miguel Guevara
Chai Fonacier as Lucía
Kirst Viray as Pablito
Kiel Rodriguez as Renato
Marlon Liwanag as the gravedigger
Jovy Vieja as Andeng
Francis Mata as Anastasio "Pilósopo Tasio"
Rain Matienzo as Salome
Roland Sanchez as the "yellow man"
Roven Alejandro as Tiburcio de Espadaña
Brent Valdez as Alfonso Linares
Paul Jake Paule as Lucas
Red Magno as Padre Sibyla
Elan Villafuerte as Kapitán Basilio
Janna Trias as Kapitána Tica
Froilan Manto as Filipo Lino
Victor Sy as Rafael Ibarra
Edmund Dreu Santiago as the gobernadorcillo
Archi Adamos as the alcalde
Ian Segarra as the teacher
Raion Sandoval as Pedro
Jo-Ann Morallos as the Sta. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper%20%28mobile%20app%29 | Grasshopper was an app developed by Google that taught users to code with JavaScript. Available for IOS and Android operating systems, the program had aimed to teach with small "bite-size" coding lessons. The program got harder as it progressed, and upon finishing the program, the user was given a certificate of completion. Assessments were not required to gain the certificate of completion.
In March 2023, Google announced that Grasshopper would shut down on June 15, 2023.
References
External links
Android (operating system) software
Discontinued Google services
Discontinued Google software
IOS software
Mobile software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondestructive%20Evaluation%204.0 | Nondestructive Evaluation 4.0 (NDE 4.0) has been defined by Vrana et al. as "the concept of cyber-physical non-destructive evaluation (including nondestructive testing) arising from Industry 4.0 digital technologies, physical inspection methods, and business models. It seeks to enhance inspection performance, integrity engineering and decision making for safety, sustainability, and quality assurance, as well as provide timely and relevant data to improve design, production, and maintenance characteristics."
NDE 4.0 arose in response to the emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which can be traced to the development of a high-tech strategy for the German government in 2015, under the term Industrie 4.0. The term became widely known in 2016 following its adoption as the theme of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos.
The concept gained strength following the opening of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in 2016 in San Francisco. NDE 4.0 evolved in conjunction with Industry 4.0. It is recognized as a future goal by several global NDE organizations: the International Committee for Nondestructive Testing (ICNDT) has a Specialist international Group (SIG) on NDE 4.0, and the European Federation for Nondestructive Testing (EFNDT) created a working group designated as "EFNDT Working Group 10: NDE 4.0" (WG10). The importance of NDE 4.0 is reflected in the activities of NDE organizations throughout the world, including the American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT), and the German Society for Non-Destructive Testing (DGZfP), through publications and training.
History
Leading to NDE 4.0, just as those leading to Industry 4.0 were prior developments that are divided into prior revolutions based on distinct technological and historical markers. These are usually defined for industry and hence for nondestructive evaluation.
NDE 1.0
The first revolution in nondestructive evaluation coincides with the first industrial revolution and refers to the period between approximately 1770 (following the invention of the Watt’s steam engine in 1769) and 1870. The transition from hand and artisanal production and “muscle power” to mechanized production and steam- and hydro-power necessitated the introduction of nondestructive testing. Prior to this period, people have tested objects for thousands of years through simple methods based human sensory perception – feeling, smelling listening and observing as appropriate.
The development in the first industrial revolution gave birth to non-destructive inspection through the introduction of tools that sharpened the human senses, and through tentative attempts at standardized procedures. Simple tools such as lenses, stethoscopes, tap and listen procedures and others, improved detection capabilities by enhancing human senses. Establishing procedures, made the outcome of the inspection comparable over time. At the same time, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mole%20%28American%20season%206%29 | The sixth season of the American version of The Mole began airing on Netflix from October 7, 2022, after a fourteen-year hiatus and leaving its former network, ABC. The season was produced by Eureka Productions with a new host, Alex Wagner. The cast was revealed on 21 September 2022, with the season's location confirmed to be Australia.
Format
Following a similar format as several versions of the franchise, twelve players are gathered to complete assignments to earn money for the group pot. However, one of the twelve is the titular "Mole", a player selected by production to secretly sabotage the assignments and cause the group to earn the least amount of money for the winner's pot as possible. Every few days, players would take a multiple choice test about the identity of the Mole and the Mole's actions over the course of last few days. Once the test is complete, the players await their results in an elimination ceremony. The player with the lowest score is eliminated from the game, while in the event of the tie the player who completed their test the slowest is executed. Contestants are eliminated until there are three remaining players (two genuine contestants and the Mole themself), where they must complete a final test about the identity and actions of the Mole throughout the season.
Unlike past editions, the final question of "Who is The Mole?" had the most weight in terms of the final quiz outcome - had both genuine contestants answered differently, then the winner would be the one to correctly identify the Mole. Had they answered the same on this question, then the answers of the other questions would be used to determine the winner.
Contestants
Elimination Chart
The chart reflects the results of each quiz, and not reflective of which episode it took place in.
Key
Episodes
Notes
Season Summary
Missions are listed in this section in chronological order.
Episode 1
Jungle Mission
All 12 candidates meet at a plane in the Daintree Rainforest for the first mission. They must split into three groups to find and retrieve three cargo crates within the jungle: one suspended from a tree (Avori, Dom, Kesi & William), one buried underground (Joi, Osei, Samara & Sandy) and one submerged in a river (Casey, Greg, Jacob & Pranav). For each crate found and returned to the plane within one hour, and kept there until the following morning, $5,000 will be added to the pot.
Inside the plane are bags of maps and supplies which groups can use to help them locate and retrieve the crates. Each bag also contains a sealed envelope with a clue to help them release the crate, however opening it reduces the crate's value by $2,500. Also hidden inside the plane is a secret mission. If the contestant who finds the mission is able to steal one of the cases unnoticed, the value of the case is doubled. If they are caught, the crate loses all value.
$12,500 was earned for the pot.
Episode 2
Prison Break Mission
The group must elect the two players as the "ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20a%20Red%20Station%2C%20Drifting | On a Red Station, Drifting is a 2012 science fiction novella by Aliette de Bodard. Set in her Xuya Universe, it focuses on two women aboard a space station with a failing artificial intelligence. It received critical acclaim, becoming a finalist for the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novella, the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and the 2013 Locus Award for Best Novella.
Plot
Lê Thi Linh is a magistrate of the Dai Viet Empire who is forced to flee her planet after criticizing the Emperor’s wartime policies. At the same time, rebel groups seize control of her planet and kill most of her subordinates. Linh seeks refuge with her distant relatives on Prosper Station. Prosper is controlled by an artificial intelligence called the Honoured Ancestress. Lê Thi Quyen, Linh’s cousin by marriage, manages the day-to-day operations of Prosper while her husband is away at war. Quyen and Linh immediately fall into conflict.
Quyen’s brother-in-law Huu Hieu sells his mem-implants, which are copies of their ancestors’ consciousnesses. Meanwhile, the Honoured Ancestress experiences increasingly severe technical problems. Hieu and Linh become close. Hieu plans use the money from the sale of the implants to leave Prosper and marry his lover on a different station. Linh is upset knowing that she will never be able to leave. A visiting cousin, Lady Oahn, provides schematics for the repair of the Honoured Ancestress. In an effort to hurt Quyen, Linh writes an unflattering poem at a banquet honoring Oanh. In doing so, she reveals that Hieu is trying to leave Prosper. Hieu attempts suicide out of shame, but Linh rescues him. Quyen is able to repair the Honoured Ancestress, restoring her functionality at the expense of erasing many of her memories.
The Emperor’s Embroidered Guard arrives at Prosper Station in search of Linh. Linh finds the missing mem-implants and returns them to Quyen. Quyen and Linh briefly reconcile before Linh is arrested and removed from Prosper Station.
Major themes
A review in Kirkus wrote that the novel's "familiar setting" was a "departure point" for the novel to explore its themes. The novel explores family ties; almost everyone on Prosper Station is related in some fashion. Additionally, the use of ancestors' mem-implants further explores the concept of family ties, with some descendants being considered more "worthy" than others due to their higher number of implants. The novel also explores questions of worth, as those who fail at ability tests are often forced to become the "lesser partners" in marriages and are discriminated against due to their perceived lack of achievement. The author notes that it is interesting that gender plays no role in the question of worth, and that the majority of the men in the story are actually the "lesser partner" in their marriage.
Style
The novel is divided into three sections. Liz Bourke wrote that each section builds thematically "towards an emotional crescendo".
Reception
Writing for Locus, Liz Bourke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge%3A%20A%20Christmas%20Carol | Scrooge: A Christmas Carol is a 2022 computer-animated musical fantasy comedy drama film directed by Stephen Donnelly from a screenplay by both Donnelly and Leslie Bricusse, adapted from the 1970 film Scrooge (for which Bricusse wrote the screenplay and composed the songs), in turn based on the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Produced by Timeless Films, the film features the voices of Luke Evans, Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Jonathan Pryce, Johnny Flynn, James Cosmo and Trevor Dion Nicholas. It was released in select theaters on November 18, 2022, and made its streaming release in Netflix on December 2 of the same year. The film is dedicated to Bricusse, who died a year before the film's release. The film received mixed reviews from critics.
Plot
On Christmas Eve in 1843, a jolly man named Harry Huffman encounters his elderly uncle Ebenezer Scrooge and his dog Prudence, but Scrooge manages to evade him long enough to decline giving any money to a charity and add in a debt owed to him by the local toy shop owner Tom Jenkins who can barely afford medical treatment for his frail mother. After returning to his counting house, he rudely declines an invitation to a Christmas dinner party from Harry and reluctantly lets his clerk, Bob Cratchit, take the day off for Christmas the next day. Bob is underpaid by Scrooge and lives in poverty with his wife Ethel and their many children, including Tiny Tim, who is seriously ill and cannot receive medical treatment due to being unable to afford it. Scrooge closes up for the night and he and Prudence go home as Scrooge sings about his exasperation with Christmas ("Tell Me").
Once he gets home, he is soon haunted by the spirit of his former business partner and friend, Jacob Marley, who is forced to pull long, heavy chains around his soul as a penalty for the bad actions he made in life. He warns Scrooge that he will suffer a similar fate when he dies, (except his chains will be even heavier and longer) unless he changes for the better and has arranged for three visitors to come by his house to teach him how to be a better man.
Once Scrooge is about to go to bed, he encounters the first visitor, a wax-like shape-shifting being called Past, who proceeds to take him through his life before present where he was forced to work in a factory on Christmas Day as a child due to his father being in a Debtors Prison and being visited by his younger sister Jen (who died in childbirth giving birth to Harry), when he was a young man and worked for a kind-hearted businessman named Mr. Fezziwig and was once engaged to his daughter Isabel ("Happiness") before Jacob Marley partnered with him for a more financially-increased job and Isabel left him when she witnesses Scrooge and Marley shut down a baker family's shop (the baker is revealed to be Bob Cratchit's father) and him focusing more on his business than her ("Later Never Comes"). Scrooge insists it was because both he and Isabel needed to be financially se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20Records%20%28Nigerian%20record%20label%29 | Native Records is a UK-based Nigerian record label owned by The Native Networks and formed by The Native magazine co-founders Chubbziano and Teezee. In 2022, following the release of the Native Sound System debut long-play Nativeworld on 18 August 2022, the record label was unveiled to the public. The label is home to Teezee, Native Sound System, and Odumodublvck.
History
NATIVE Records is founded by the Nigerian music magazine The Native in 2022, as a division of The Native Networks. The label is headed by its co-presidents Seni Saraki, Teni Zaccheaus, and Sholz Fagbemi. On 20 September 2022, the label went into a joint venture partnership with the multinational label Def Jam, with the sole aim to sign and develop talents in Africa and its diaspora.
On 23 November 2022, Native announced the signing of its first recording act Odumodublvck, and went on to release his first single with the label, titled "Picanto" featuring ECko Miles, and Zlatan. On 29 November 2022, Teezee announce the signing of Smada. and released his first single with the label, titled "Ye Anthem", featuring King Perryy and Toyé, with an accompanying music video.
On 5 December 2022, Odumodu Blvck dropped the official video of 'Picanto' featuring Zlatan and Ecko Miles. On 6 December 2022, Smada released a new version of "Ye Anthem", featuring DJ Yk Mule, with another version released on 8 December 2022, titled "Ye Anthem (Mellow & Sleazy Remix)", with a guest appearance from Mellow & Sleazy. The same day, the label co-president Teni Zaccheaus (aka. Teezee), released his first single under the label, titled "Manhattan" featuring Cruel Santino, with production from GMK.
Artists
Current acts
Discography
Studio albums
Singles
References
Nigerian record labels
2022 establishments in the United Kingdom
NATIVE Records |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Genome-phenome%20Archive | European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) is a repository for human biomolecular and phenotypic data in the United Kingdom and Spain. It involves the secure storage of all potentially identifiable genetic data, phenotypic and clinical data generated by biomedical research programs.
As of March 2022, it stores and harvest data regarding over 4,500 research studies from over 1,000 institutions worldwide.
History
EGA was launched in 2008 by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) to support the voluntary archiving and dissemination of human genomic data requiring secure storage and distribution only to authorized researchers in a manner that "respects the consent agreements signed by the study subjects." Later, the EGA has expanded its scope of collaboration with the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona.
Controlled access
It offers the essential security required to regulate access, safeguard patient confidentiality, and provide access to those researchers and clinicians authorized to view controlled access data. Nevertheless, decisions about data access are not made by the EGA but rather by the appropriate data access-granting organization (DAO).
External links
References
Information technology organizations based in Europe
Open-access archives
Open data
Biological databases
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alrabiaa%20Network%20Television | Alrabiaa Network Television () or () ; also called Al Rabiaa TV is an Iraqi satellite television network based in Baghdad, Iraq. The channel was launched in 2021 by Ghazwan Jassem.
Programs
Sout Almalaeb - صوت الملاعب (in Arabic)
Studio Alateba - ستديو الاطباء (in Arabic)
Halqa Waswl - حلقة وصل (in Arabic)
Shako Mako- شكو ماكو (in Arabic)
Sabah Alrabiaa - صباح الرابعة (in Arabic)
Alrabiaa Network Television acquired the rights to broadcast the matches of the AFC Championships exclusively in all its competitions until 2024, with an estimated amount of 12 million US dollars.
Name of the TV channel
This name represents the fourth authority, and it is a term generally applied to the press and the mass media to highlight their influential role not only in circulating news and knowledge, but also in forming opinion, disclosing information, creating issues and representing the people.
In September 2022, the Network launched more than 16 satellite channels, the most prominent of which are Alrabiaa Movies TV and Alrabiaa Quran TV.
The Agreements
A contract was signed with beIN Media Group for two years, amounting to more than $32 million . Through this agreement, the Alrabiaa TV Channels are allowed to broadcast all the tournaments owned by the beIN Media Group inside Iraq exclusively.
Nojoom Alrabiaa Network in Arabic شبكة نجوم الرابعة (Part of Alrabiaa TV Channels) A sponsorship contract was signed with Diyala SC for two years. Through this agreement, it will be the official sponsor of Diyala SC starting next season and for two seasons.
References
External links
Official Website
Television stations in Iraq
Arab mass media
Arabic-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Arab Spring and the media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready-to-Learn | The Ready-To-Learn (RTL) Act is a project funded by PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to supply educational programming and materials for preschool and elementary school children. Created in 1992, the Ready-To-Learn Act furthered the creation of the Ready-To-Learn programming block which provided eleven hours of educational programming throughout the day on the PBS channel. The initiative aimed to support low-income communities by providing educational content addressing social and emotional development as well as emphasizing language and cognitive skills for children ages 2-8 years old.
Requirements
In order for a program to be included in the Ready-To-Learn (RTL) programming block, the program must have detailed curriculum goals that highlight either socio-emotional goals, academic goals, or both. The program creators must also provide a formative and summative research plan.
History
Inception
In 1991, the then-president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Ernest Boyer, created a report titled "Ready To Learn: A Mandate for the Nation." In his report, he highlighted the decline in children's school readiness, encouraging an increase in educational materials and resources for pre-school age children.
1995–2005
Beginning in 1995, the Ready-To-Learn grant, authorized by Congress, supported the creation of the programs Dragon Tales and Between the Lions. These new programs on PBS focused on facilitating literacy and social & emotional learning. PBS also started unveiling community and parent programs aimed at continuing a child's learning outside of the TV.
In 2004, the channel aired new educational programs Maya and Miguel and Postcards from Buster. These shows helped further the Ready-To-Learn initiative. Also during this time, PBS launched the organization's first website geared towards parents and the "From The Start" website for teachers.
2005–2015
During this time the curriculum focus shifted to literacy. PBS debuted four new series to emphasize reading and literacy skills for young viewers: WordWorld, Martha Speaks, Super WHY!, and The Electric Company. As the digital landscape became more nuanced around the later 2000s, PBS adapted by creating new engagement activities beyond its television programs such as online games, magazines, and books. The effort also aimed to surround children in curriculum-rich content regardless of the medium they use. On a federal level, the Ready-To-Learn program begins ramping up its initiative on researching children's learning methods through media.
2013 and 2014 saw the addition of shows Peg + Cat and Odd Squad which focused on teaching math and literacy skills. Content expanded across platforms to make way for new digital and interactive technologies like mobile tablets and smart boards. The broadcast network focused on providing resources to teachers and parents that detailed how to best support a child's learning in the age of multimedia instruction. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian%20chordates | The Cambrian chordates are an extinct group of animals belonging to the phylum Chordata that lived during the Cambrian, between 485 and 538 million years ago. The first Cambrian chordate known is Pikaia gracilens, a lancelet-like animal from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada. The discoverer, Charles Doolittle Walcott, described it as a kind of worm (annelid) in 1911, but it was later identified as a chordate. Subsequent discoveries of other Cambrian fossils from the Burgess Shale in 1991, and from the Chengjiang biota of China in 1991, which were later found to be of chordates, several Cambrian chordates are known, with some fossils considered as putative chordates.
The Cambrian chordates are characterised by the presence of segmented muscle blocks called myomeres and notochord, the two defining features of chordates. Before the full understanding of Cambrian fossils, chordates as members the most advanced phylum were believed to appear on Earth much later than the Cambrian. However, the better picture of Cambrian explosion in the light of Cambrian chordates, according to Stephen Jay Gould, prompted "revised views of evolution, ecology and development," and remarked: "So much for chordate uniqueness marked by slightly later evolution."
Discovery
Pikaia gracilens was the first Cambrian chordate known. It was discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Burgess Shale in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. Walcott reported the specimen with taxonomic description in 1911. He used the series of transverse body segments as a feature of annelid worms and classified it as a polychaete worm. He gave the name after Pika Peak, a mountain in Alberta, Canada. However, he was also aware of the unique differences from living worms that he prudently remarked: "I am unable to place it within any of the families of the Polychaeta, owing to the absence of parapodia [paired protrusions on the sides of polychaete worms] on the body segments back of the fifth."
University of Cambridge palaeontologist Harry B. Whittington and his student Simon Conway Morris re-analysed the specimens and came to an opinion in 1977 that Pikaia was obviously a chordate: the body segments were similar to muscle blocks in chordates, and a rod-like structure spans the body length, an indication of notochord, a defining structure of chordates. Their article in the Scientific American in 1979 affirmed the chordate status, saying: "The chordates are represented in the Burgess Shale by the genus Pikaia and the single species P. gracilens." Conway Morris published the formal classification as a chordate in 1979. Harvard University palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould popularised Pikaia as an ancestral species of chordates in his 1989 book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, from which Pikaia became known as the "most famous early chordate fossil," or the earliest chordate, or the oldest ancestor of humans.
The second Burgess shale chordate was al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20abuse | Social abuse is a form of abuse that cuts off or tries to cut off the victim from their social network, including their community, friends, or family. It also includes attempts to harm a victim's relationships or reputation, through acts such as humiliating the victim in public, spreading rumors, and otherwise manipulating the victim's image. Social abuse often results in some form of isolation, which removes the victim from any sense of social belongingness outside of relationships the abuser approves of. It can be a kind of psychological abuse, emotional abuse or spiritual abuse. It may also involve attempts to monopolise the victim's skills and resources.
References
See also
Religious abuse
Isolation to facilitate abuse
Psychological abuse
Relational aggression
Dating violence
Intimate partner violence
Abuse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY%20Rails | NIMBY Rails is a railway simulation game developed by Carlos Carrasco. The game involves developing a railway network on an in-game map based on the real world. It was released as an early access game in 2021.
Gameplay
The gameplay of NIMBY Rails is entirely set on an OpenStreetMap-based map of the whole world, without computer-generated maps or levels. The game map starts out empty, without any preexisting trains or buildings, and the player builds railway track and stations with little restriction save for existing roads and bodies of water. Similarly, despite being the game's namesake, NIMBYs are not currently featured in-game. Players can choose to play with money implemented, or disable it and build without funding restrictions. The game includes a simplistic passenger demand system and time zones, with fluctuations in passenger count based on the in-game time. Gameplay includes not only building railway lines and tracks, but also purchasing trains and rolling stock, and scheduling services. A multiplayer mode is available, allowing multiple players to build in the same game map. As of 2022, the game does not include any sounds or music.
Development
NIMBY Rails is developed by Barcelona-based developer Carlos Carrasco, who was inspired to develop the game after playing the transport simulation game OpenTTD. According to Carrasco, NIMBY Rails began development in late 2018. In order to keep the game's filesize under 20 GB while including the whole world map, Carrasco opted to remove building layers from OSM data and reduced the map's resolution before adding topographical and land use data from NASA and ESA, and an early version of the game was publicly revealed in mid-March 2020, and was released as an early access game on Steam on 26 January 2021. Carrasco stated that he came up with the title NIMBY Rails as 'clickbait'.
Reception
Aaron Gordon of VICE called the game "possibly the most complicated transit-development game ever devised". In his review, Gordon mentioned how while the game appears boring to viewers, it "feeds the ultimate YIMBY fantasy". Rock Paper Shotguns review praised the premise of the game allowing for free building on a real-world map and the simple, easy-to-learn gameplay, while noting deficiencies in the game's controls and text interface.
References
Windows games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Railroad business simulation video games
Transport simulation games
Early access video games
Video games developed in Spain
Indie games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Entertainment | Blue Entertainment AG (formerly known as CT Cinetrade AG) is a Swiss media company owned by telecommunication provider Swisscom. The company specialised in film and sport programming rights for television.
Blue Entertainment's businesses include Blue+ (formerly known as Teleclub), which provides a group of premium-tier television channels; (formerly known as Kitag Cinemas), a chain of film theatres; and , a home entertainment distributor.
History
Stephan Sager founded CT Cinetrade AG in 1989.
In 2005, Swisscom acquired a minority share in CT Cinetrade. In May 2013, Swisscom increased its share in CT Cinetrade from 49% to 75%.
In November 2017, Swisscom acquired the remaining share of 25% in CT Cinetrade from its founder Stephan Sager.
Controversies
In 2016, the Competition Commission of Switzerland fined Swisscom and what was known as Cinetrade back then an amount of 71.8 million Swiss francs "for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the provision of national football and ice-hockey coverage between 2002 and 2012". In June 2022, the Federal Administrative Court confirmed the fine. Swisscom argued that it was expanding sport offerings beyond what were offered by rivals.
References
External links
About Blue at blueplus.ch
1989 establishments in Switzerland
Mass media companies established in 1989
2017 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20C.%20Hayes | Caroline Clarke Hayes is an American computer scientist, roboticist, and mechanical engineer whose research concerns agent-based models, human–computer interaction, intelligent decision support systems, and more generally "the interface between people and technology for complex tasks". She is Lynn Gleason Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering at Iowa State University, where she chairs the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Education and career
Hayes was educated at Carnegie Mellon University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1983, a master's degree in knowledge-based systems in 1987, and a Ph.D. in robotics in 1990. Her dissertation, Machine Planning: A Model of an Expert Level Planning Process, was supervised by Subhas Desa.
She became a faculty member at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and then in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota before joining Iowa State University in 2012 as Lynn Gleason Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering and chair of mechanical engineering. Her position as chair was renewed for a third five-year term in 2022.
Book
With Christopher A. Miller, Hayes is coauthor of the book Human–Computer Etiquette: Cultural Expectations and the Design Implications They Place on Computers and Technology (Auerbach Publications, 2010).
Recognition
Hayes was named as an ASME Fellow in 2013.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of Minnesota faculty
Iowa State University faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Hayes | Caroline Hayes may refer to:
Caroline C. Hayes, American computer scientist and mechanical engineer
Caroline Hayes (actress), English stage and television actress
Caroline Hayes, former principal of Tendring Technology College, an English secondary school
See also
Carolyn Hayes (born 1988), Irish triathlete |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Stressful%20Adventures%20of%20Boxhead%20and%20Roundhead | The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead is a 2014 American-Romanian computer-animated independent film written, produced and directed by Elliot Cowan in his directorial debut. Based on Cowan's titular characters, Boxhead and Roundhead were initially conceived as part of a children's picture book project, but were later adapted into a series of nine short films. The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead had its world premiere at the Melbourne International Animation Festival on 20 June 2014.
Production
The characters of Boxhead and Roundhead were created by Elliot Cowan as part of a children's picture book project. Cowan envisioned Boxhead and Roundhead as stoic companions who endure dreadfulness, continuing to love each other in a world that hates them. When the book failed to be picked up by a publisher, Cowan developed the characters into a series of nine short films. He then saw a feature film as the next logical step for the characters.
Companies in Australia and Canada initially expressed interest in the project, however nothing ultimately came from it. A small amount of funding was then allocated to the project by the Romanian Film Office. Cowan created the characters in AfterEffects, with the rest of the animation done in Adobe Flash. Minor characters were animated by Lyla Ribot and several of Cowan's animation students. Cowan was also received assistance from Neil Ross.
Release
The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead had its world premiere at the Melbourne International Animation Festival on 20 June 2014. After its premiere, Cowan endured several months of rejections from distributors. Cowan stated "It's too rough around the edges for that, so it becomes about, 'Who is going to love my ugly baby? Won’t someone love my ugly baby as I love it?'" However, after being screen at film festivals throughout April 2015, the reception became more positive.
References
External links
2014 animated films
2014 directorial debut films
2010s American animated films
American independent films
Romanian animated films
Romanian independent films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-T%20Study%20Group%2013 | The ITU-T Study Group 13 (SG13) is a statutory group of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) concerned with networks, infrastructure and cloud computing, including the networking aspects of mobile telecommunications. Examples include: Y.1564, Y.1731, etc.. Recent work includes a series of standards on using machine learning in networking, such as Y.3172, Y.3173, Y.3176, and Y.3181.
Administratively, SG13 is a statutory meeting of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), which creates the ITU-T Study Groups and appoints their management teams. The secretariat is provided by the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (under Director Chaesub Lee).
References
International Telecommunication Union
Scientific organizations established in 1997
United Nations organizations based in Europe
ITU-T Study Groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasjit%20S.%20Suri | Jasjit S. Suri is an American engineer who works in the fields of biomedical engineering, computer science and clinical engineering. His work is focused on the implementation of artificial intelligence in biomedicine, and healthcare.
Education and career
Suri received a masters degree in computer sciences from the University of Illinois, Chicago. In 1997, he completed his PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. He later went back to Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, completing an MBA in 2004.
He has been a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) since 2004, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), Asia Pacific Vascular Society (APVS), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Suri is the chairperson of AtheroPoint, a medical imaging company based in Roseville, CA.
References
External links
IEEE author bio
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Electrical engineers
University of Illinois Chicago alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
University of Washington alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misra%E2%80%93Gries%20heavy%20hitters%20algorithm | Misra and Gries defined the heavy-hitters problem
(though they did not introduce the term heavy-hitters) and described the first algorithm
for it in the paper Finding repeated elements. Their algorithm
extends the Boyer-Moore majority finding algorithm
in a significant way.
One version of the heavy-hitters problem is as follows: Given is a
bag of elements and an integer . Find the values that
occur more than times in . The Misra-Gries algorithm solves
the problem by making two passes over the values in , while storing
at most values from and their number of occurrences during the
course of the algorithm.
Misra-Gries is one of the earliest streaming algorithms,
and it is described below in those terms in section #Summaries.
Misra–Gries algorithm
A bag is like a set in which the same value may occur multiple
times. Assume that a bag is available as an array of elements.
In the abstract description of the algorithm, we treat
and its segments also as bags. Henceforth, a heavy hitter of
bag is a value that occurs more than times in it, for some integer , .
A -reduced bag for bag is derived from by
repeating the following operation until no longer possible: Delete distinct elements from . From its definition, a -reduced bag contains fewer than different values.
The following theorem is easy to prove:
Theorem 1. Each heavy-hitter of is an element of a -reduced bag for .
The first pass of the heavy-hitters computation constructs a -reduced
bag . The second pass declares an element of to be a heavy-hitter if
it occurs more than times in . According to Theorem 1, this
procedure determines all and only the heavy-hitters. The second pass
is easy to program, so we describe only the first pass.
In order to construct , scan the values in in arbitrary order, for
specificity the following algorithm scans them in the order of
increasing indices. Invariant of the
algorithm is that is a -reduced bag for the scanned values and is
the number of distinct values in . Initially, no value has been
scanned, is the empty bag, and is zero.
Whenever element is scanned, in order to preserve the
invariant: (1) if is not in , add it to and increase by 1,
(2) if is in , add it to but don't modify , and
(3) if becomes equal to , reduce by deleting distinct values from
it and update appropriately.
algorithm Misra–Gries is
1 = t, d := { }, 0;
for i from 0 to n-1 do
if b[i] t then
t, d:= t ∪ {b[i]}, d+1
else
t, d:= t ∪ {b[i]}
endif
if d = k then
Delete distinct values from update
endif
endfor
A possible implementation of is as a set of pairs of the form
, ) where each is a distinct value in
and is the number of occurrences of in .
Then is the size of this set. The
step "Delete distinct values from " amounts to reducing each by
1 and then removing any pair (, ) from the set if becomes 0.
Using an AVL tree implementation of , t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look%20Mum%20No%20Computer | Sam James Battle (born Bartle), known online as Look Mum No Computer, is a British YouTuber, electronics enthusiast, musician and composer who posts videos about making pro audio gear and synthesizers, as well as original music tracks. He is known for esoteric and eccentric musical devices made from vintage technology, such as a Furby organ, a synthesizer fused with a classic Raleigh Chopper bicycle and a Gameboy Triple Oscillator. Battle directs This Museum is Not Obsolete, a museum in Ramsgate, Kent which showcases vintage analogue devices, often repurposed for humorous uses.
YouTube
Sam Battle launched his YouTube channel in 2013, originally setup for ZIBRA, a band that Battle created with three friends. Battle's first music gear related video was posted in 2016. Besides ad income from YouTube, Battle has also been funding his electronic inventions with fan donations, on the subscription platform Patreon.
In 2019, he created a Furby (an electronic robotic toy) based synthesizer, by wiring it up into a modular synthesizers. In 2022, Battle began restoring a 1914 church organ, as an exhibit in This Museum is Not Obsolete, the process of which has been documented on his channel. Battle also produces and sells modular synthesizer components, such as the #1222 Performance VCO.
As of November 2022, his YouTube channel has garnered over fifty five million views.
Music career
He released his first single called "Groundhog Day" in 2019. He did a tour in Germany, Switzerland and the UK in 2019.
In May 2022, he joined with Cuckoo and Hainbach to form a musical supergroup called Uncompressed.
Battle has co-produced several composition for screening, such as Satellite Moment (with Charlie Fink), for the film adaptation of a Street Cat Named Bob, as well as Glitter and Gold (with Barns Courtney) for Netflix's series Safe.
Discography
As Look Mum No Computer
Singles
"Groundhog Day" – 2019
"Modern Gas" – 2019
"Shock Horror" – 2020
"Desperado Vespa" – 2020
"Daydreamer" – 2020
"Stand and Deliver" – 2020
"Youth8500" – 2021
"Stupid Me" – 2021
"RIDE" – 2021
"Mind Over Matter" – 2021
"We'll Find a Way" – 2022
Albums and EPs
"Human Procrastination" – 2019 (EP)
"These Songs are Obsolete" – 2020
"Look Mum No Bootleg PT. I" – 2022
"Look Mum No Bootleg PT. II" – 2022
References
External links
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER – Youtube Channel
21st-century male artists
Living people
Music YouTubers
YouTube vloggers
Electronic musicians
British male composers
1989 births
English curators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Pro%209 | The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft to supersede the Surface Pro 8 and Surface Pro X, merging both brands. The device was announced on October 12, 2022 introducing two new colors and alongside the Surface Laptop 5 and Surface Studio 2+. The tablet is powered by the new Windows 11 operating system, and features 12th generation Intel Core processors or the ARM-based Microsoft SQ3 processor on 5G models.
Configurations
Hardware
The Surface Pro 9 is the 11th addition to the Surface Pro line and merges the Surface Pro and Surface Pro X brands.
Powered by Evo 12th Generation Intel Core or Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.
5G connectivity with nano SIM card slot for Qualcomm Snapdragon models.
Up to 15.5 hours of battery life with an Intel Processor and up to 19 hours with a Qualcomm processor.
13-inch touchscreen at 267 PPI, 3:2 aspect ratio, and 120 Hz refresh rate
2 USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4
Up to 1TB of SSD storage.
Up to 32GB of memory
4K video camera support.
Timeline
Notes
References
Tablet computers introduced in 2022
Microsoft Surface
2-in-1 PCs |
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