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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Line%20%28Seaboard%20Air%20Line%20Railroad%29 | The Seaboard Air Line Railroad’s Main Line was the backbone of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's network in the southeastern United States. The main line ran from Richmond, Virginia to Tampa, Florida, a distance of over 800 miles. Along its route it passed through Petersburg, Raleigh, Columbia, Savannah, Jacksonville, and Ocala, Florida. While some segments of the line have been abandoned as of 2022, most of the line is still in service and is owned by the Seaboard Air Line's successor, CSX Transportation as their S Line.
History
By the time the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (known as the Seaboard Air Line Railway before 1946) was officially created, track that would make up its main line had already been built by the company's predecessors. The main line was built in the late 1800s by the following companies:
Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad, Richmond, Virginia to Norlina, North Carolina
Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, Norlina to Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad, Raleigh to Hamlet, North Carolina
Palmetto Railroad, Hamlet to Cheraw, South Carolina
Chesterfield and Kershaw Railroad, Cheraw to Camden, South Carolina
Predecessors of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad:
South Bound Railroad, Camden to Savannah, Georgia
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad Northern Division, Savannah to Georgia/Florida state line
Florida Northern Railroad, state line to Yulee, Florida
Fernandina and Jacksonville Railroad, Yulee to Jacksonville, Florida
Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad, Jacksonville to Baldwin, Florida
Florida Railroad, Yulee to Baldwin to Waldo, Florida
Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad Tampa Division, Waldo to Tampa, Florida
By 1900, the Seaboard Air Line Railway was incorporated, which brought together the predecessor companies together and created the main line north of Camden, South Carolina. At this time, the company had leased the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad (FC&P) network which expanded the system through Georgia and Florida. The Seaboard Air Line would fully not own the FC&P network until 1903.
The Seaboard Air Line would run many historic passenger services over its main line, many of which ran from New York to Florida. Some of the Seaboard's passenger trains included the Florida and Metropolitan Limited, Atlanta Special, Suwanee River Special, Orange Blossom Special, Southern States Special, Cotton Blossom, Palmland, Silver Meteor, Silver Comet, Silver Star, Sunland, and Tidewater.
Seaboard also had a number of fast, high-priority freight trains called Red Ball freights between various points on its system. However, from 1918 to 1966, a number of through freight trains instead ran the Andrews and Charleston Subdivisions between Hamlet, North Carolina and Savannah, Georgia to allow passenger trains to be prioritized on the main line.
The Seaboard Air Line installed Centralized traffic control along the main line in the 1940s to improve efficiency. The Seaboa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20and%20artificial%20intelligence |
Context
Intelligent systems
Intelligence is conventionally defined in terms of goal-achieving, problem-solving, or pattern-recognizing capability. Recent development in machine learning gives rise to systems that can attempt to emulate those intelligent behaviours. AlphaGo, a machine learning system developed by DeepMind, became the first computer program to win a Go game against a human professional player.
Sentient beings
One major Buddhist goal is to remove suffering for all sentient beings, also known as the Bodhisattva vow. One question for Buddhist analysis of AI may concern how to relate principles to artificial systems that have been deemed sentient beings or how to develop such systems in ways that relate to Buddhist concepts.
Buddhist principles in AI system design
Somparn Promta and Kenneth Einar Himma
Scholars Somparn Promta and Kenneth Einar Himma have said that, for Buddhists, the advancement of artificial intelligence can only be instrumentally good, not good a priori. Perhaps, then, the main tasks of AI designers and developers may be two-fold: to set ethical and pragmatic goals for AI systems, and to fulfil the goals with AI in morally permissible manners. Promta and Himma say that applying Buddhist principles to accomplish these tasks may be possible and practical.
Prompta and Himmar say there are two prima-facie goals for creating artificially intelligent systems. The first goal is to create these systems, in such a way that maximally fulfils our crude sensory desires and worldly instincts of survival, just as we did for designing other tools in general. S. Promta et al. maintains that, it is possible that the majority of AI developers implicitly pursue this goal when they design AI machines, as can be observed by their over-scrutiny of superficial technicalities of these machines, instead of their wider functionalities. The second goal, on the other hand, is to transcend these desires and instincts. According to Buddhism, this goal is more worth pursuing than the former one. In Brahmajāla Sutta, the Buddha holds that sensuality, as well as the beliefs and instincts they induce, are what confines beings to suffering. Expounding his four noble truths (Pali: cattāri ariyasaccāni) in minor Malunkya Sutta, the Buddha also takes eliminating suffering to be the first priority of human life. The Buddhists then conclude that we can not only reduce, but also eliminate all suffering by transcending and overcoming our instincts of survival, and S. Promta et al. see the potential of how artificial intelligence can help us achieving this.
Thomas Doctor, Olaf Witkowski, Elizaveta Solomonova, Bill Duane, Michael Levin
Inspired by the Bodhisattva vow, Thomas Doctor, Olaf Witkowski, Elizaveta Solomonova, Bill Duane, and Michael Levin proposed the slogan ''intelligence as care'' to try revising the current convention of defining intelligence. It then follows that, one proposal for improving the current AI system design is to us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOUIS%3A%20The%20Louisiana%20Library%20Network | LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network is a library consortium made up of 47 college and university libraries in the state of Louisiana. LOUIS was founded in 1992 by library deans and directors at both public and private institutions in the state. LOUIS is governed by the Louisiana Board of Regents; an executive board made up of consortia members advises the consortia. LOUIS is also a member of the International Coalition of Library Consortia, or ICOLC.
The consortia's work includes technology support, cooperative procurement of electronic resources, affordable access to course materials, digital inclusion, and community building and professional development.
Members
See also
List of library consortia
References
Organizations established in 1992
Library consortia in Louisiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%20%28programming%20language%29 | V (/ˈviː/, as in the letter v) also known as vlang, is a statically typed compiled programming language created by Alexander Medvednikov in early 2019. It was mostly inspired by the Go programming language, but was also influenced by C, Rust, and Oberon-2. It is free and open-source software, in active development at GitHub, and released under the MIT license.
The foremost goal of V is to be easy to use, and at the same time, to enforce a safe coding style through elimination of ambiguity. For example, variable shadowing is not allowed; declaring a variable with a name that is already used in a parent scope will cause a compilation error.
History
The new language was created as a result of frustration with existing languages being used for personal projects. Originally the language was intended for personal use, but after it was mentioned publicly and gained interest, it was decided to make it public. Initially, the name was the same as a product known as Volt. The V language was created in order to develop it, along with other software applications such as Ved (also called Vid). As the extension in use was already ".v", to not mess up the git history, it was decided to name it "V". Upon public release, the compiler was written in V, and could compile itself. Along with Alexander Medvednikov, the creator, its community has a large number of contributors from around the world who have helped with continually developing and adding to the compiler, language, and modules. Key design goals behind the creation of V: easier to learn and use, higher readability, fast compilation, increased safety, efficient development, cross-platform usability, improved C interop, better error handling, modern features, and more maintainable software.
Features
Safety
Usage of bounds checking
Usage of Option/Result
Mandatory checking of errors
No usage of values that are undefined
No shadowing of variables
No usage of null (unless in unsafe code)
No usage of global variables (unless enabled via flag)
Variables are immutable by default
Structs are immutable by default
Function args are immutable by default
Sum types can be used
Generics can be used
Performance
Fast like C (human-readable C compiled by backend)
Added features for safety, if desired, can be disabled or bypassed for greater performance
C interop
Allocations kept to minimal
Serialization with no runtime reflection
Native binaries compiled with no dependencies
Fast build
V is written in itself and can compile within a second.
Memory management options
Allocations handled by an optional GC, that is the default, which can be disabled
Manual memory management (-gc none)
Autofree (-autofree), handles most objects via free call insertion
Remaining percentage freed by GC
Arena allocation with (-prealloc)
Source code translators (code transpilation)
C source code conversion: V (via module) can translate an entire C project into V code.
Working translators (under various sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idit%20Buch | Idit Buch is a computational biologist who is the Vice President of Computational Biology at Emendo.
Education
Buch has a Ph.D. In computer biology from Tel Aviv University (TAU) in 2011. Her advisors were Ruth Nussinov and Haim J. Wolfson. Her thesis was entitled In Silico Design, Construction & Validation of Protein Nanostructures. She also has a M.Sc. in Computer Science and B.A. in Computer Science and Academy of Music also from TAU.
Select publications
Buch I, Brooks BR, Wolfson HJ, Nussinov R. Computational validation of protein nanotubes. Nano Lett. 2009 Mar;9(3):1096-102. doi: 10.1021/nl803521j. PMID 19199488; PMCID: PMC3536542
References
Living people
Women computational biologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Israeli scientists
Tel Aviv University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet%20Pals%3A%20Marco%20Polo%27s%20Code | Pet Pals: Marco Polo's Code (), also released simply as Pet Pals, is a 2010 Italian 3D computer-animated children's film directed by Sergio Manfio and Francesco Manfio, from a screenplay by Sergio, Francesco and Anna Manfio. Produced by Gruppo Alcuni, Marco Polo's Code is based on the Pet Pals animated children's television series. It was released in Italian cinemas on 22 January 2010. A sequel, titled Pet Pals in Windland, was released on 27 March 2014.
Premise
The Pet Pals, armed with a hint of magic, must combine their strengths when the evil Crow Witch tries to drain the canals of Venice.
Voice cast
The following is the voice cast of the English dubbed version:
David North as Moby
Raphael Siary as Tophat
Ashley Thrill as Diva and the Crow Witch
Shannon Settlemyre as Holly
Steve Rassin as Pio
Marc Matney as Cuncun, Canbaluc and Ambrogio
Steve Vernon as Aldo
Michael Yeager as Rajim
Release
Pet Pals: Marco Polo's Code was released in Italian cinemas on 22 January 2010 by 01 Distribution. It had an opening gross of $456,236, grossing a total of $994,776. The film was released in Spain on 18 May 2012, and opened with $239,588 for a total gross of $857,407, contributing to its worldwide box office gross of $1,854,941.
Sequel
A sequel, Pet Pals in Windland, was released on 27 March 2014. It was a co-production between Gruppo Alcuni and LuxAnimation.
References
External links
2010 films
2010 animated films
2010 3D films
Italian children's films
Animated films set in Venice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasutada%20%C5%8Cno | Yasutada Ōno is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Councillors of Japan.
Biography
He graduated from Keio University school of Law and worked for Air Nippon Network. He was elected in 2013 and 2019.
References
Living people
Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
1959 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1961.
Events
Other events in 1961
The Sports Broadcasting Act was passed into law.
Television programs
Debuts
Changes of network affiliation
Ending this year
Network launches
Network closures
Television stations
Station launches
Network affiliation changes
Station closures
Births
Deaths
References
Sources
External links
List of 1961 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Grenada | Grenada observes Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4) year-round.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Grenada is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Grenada. "GD" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Grenada directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
References
External links
Current time in Grenada at Time.is
Time in Grenada at TimeAndDate
Time in Grenada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando%20Subdivision | The Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Orlando Subdivision (T Line) was a rail line connecting the Seaboard Air Line's network to Orlando, Florida. Beginning at the Seaboard Air Line's main line in Wildwood, it ran southeast through Leesburg, Florida, Tavares, and Apopka to Orlando. From Orlando, the line continued northeast to Winter Park and Oviedo before coming to an end at Lake Charm.
History
The Orlando Subdivision was built by predecessors of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad.
The Leesburg and Indian River Railroad was incorporated in 1884, and they built line from Wildwood east to Tavares, with plans to continue east to Titusville. That extension was not built, but pieces were built by other companies. The Leesburg and Indian River Railroad merged into the Florida Railway and Navigation Company in 1885. The Florida Railway and Navigation Company would become part of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad (FC&P) in 1886.
The Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad was incorporated in 1883, and built an extension from Tavares to Orlando. The FC&P leased the Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad in 1891.
The Orlando and Winter Park Railway was incorporated in 1886 and extended the line from Orlando to Winter Park. The Osceola and Lake Jesup Railway, incorporated 1888, continued the line past Oviedo to Lake Charm. In 1891 the two companies merged into the East Florida and Atlantic Railroad, which was leased by the FC&P in 1892.
In the line's early days, the FC&P's passenger trains served the historic Church Street Station in Orlando, which belonged to the South Florida Railroad. Trains would turn on to the South Florida Railroad (which would become the main line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, the Seaboard Air Line's competitor) in Downtown Orlando just north of the station. In 1896, the FC&P would build its own Orlando station, which would continue to be used by Seaboard.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway leased the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad network on July 1, 1900, and it was merged into the former on August 15, 1903. The Seaboard Air Line would designate the line as the Orlando Subdivision. In the 1940s, Seaboard ran two round trip freight trains daily on the line from Wildwood to Orlando, with one of those trains continuing to Oviedo. They also operated one daily mixed train (both passengers and freight) daily from Wildwood to Orlando.
In 1967, the Seaboard Air Line merged with their long-time rival, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL). The Orlando Subdivision crossed some ACL branch lines between Wildwood and Orlando, and also connected with the ACL's main line in Orlando. After the merger was complete, the company was named the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL).
After the merger, the Orlando Subdivision was abandoned between Orlando and Aloma (just east of Winter Park). The remaining track from Aloma to Lake Charm became part of the Aloma Subdivision, which also included the former ACL line from Sanfor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razer%20Edge | The Razer Edge is a hybrid gaming tablet developed by Razer Inc. and was released worldwide in most regions on January 26, 2023. Razer Edge 5G model supports 5G.
References
Tablet computers introduced in 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide%20cordata | Dendrocnide cordata, the stinger, is a species of flowering plant in the nettle family Urticaceae, native to the Bismarck Archipelago, the Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea, and Queensland. It is a rainforest tree reaching , with irritating hairs on its large leaves.
References
cordata
Flora of the Lesser Sunda Islands
Flora of New Guinea
Flora of the Bismarck Archipelago
Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1965 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Turns%20Evil | Kurt Turns Evil () is a 2008 3D computer-animated children's film directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen—in his directorial debut as sole director—from a screenplay by Per Schreiner and Karsten Fullu, based on the 1995 book of the same name by Erlend Loe. A co-production between the Danish Nordisk Film and Norwegian Qvisten Animation, Kurt Turns Evil was produced by Cornelia Boysen and Ove Heiborg. It was released in Norway on 31 October 2008 and grossed $902,697.
Voice cast
The voice cast, per the Norwegian Film Institute:
Atle Antonsen as Kurt
Aksel Hennie as Bud
Fredrik Steen as the doctor
Anders Bye as Bruse Kurt
Pernille Sørensen as Tykke Helena and the Prime Minister:
Paul-Ottar Haga as the Policeman
Jon Øigarden as Dr. Petter
Kristin Skogheim as Anne-Lise
Release
Kurt Turns Evil was released in Norwegian cinemas on 31 October 2008. It grossed $227,997 in its opening weekend, for a total box office gross of $902,697.
Notes
References
External links
2008 films
2008 computer-animated films
2008 3D films
2000s Norwegian-language films
Danish animated films
Norwegian animated films
Danish children's films
Norwegian children's films
Films directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosiinae | Ambrosiinae is a subtribe of flowering plants in the tribe Heliantheae, and is endemic to the Americas.
Genera
Genera recognized by the Global Compositae Database as of November 2022:
Ambrosia
Dicoria
Euphrosyne
Hedosyne
Iva
Parthenice
Parthenium
Xanthium
References
Heliantheae
Plants described in 1830
Plant subtribes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilburn%20Building | The Kilburn Building is a building on the Oxford Road in Manchester which is home to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. The building was designed by the Building Design Partnership and completed in 1972, with three storeys in a square shape, measuring 76 by 76 metres. The building was formerly known as the Computer Building changing its name in 2001 in honour of Tom Kilburn who died in the same year.
Architecture and history
The Pevsner Architectural Guide describes the Kilburn building as a "big aggressive box of brick pier and vertical window strips" which has also been likened in appearance to a giant brick Central processing unit (CPU) heat sink. The second floor features an Auguste Perret style paved piazza which initially featured a fibreglass structure known as the floating point zero.
Up until 2015, the building was connected to Manchester Business School, via the Precinct Centre and Bridge on the North Side of the building over the Oxford Road (demolished in 2015). To the South, the building was connected by another pedestrian walkway (referred to as a dismal corridor in Pevsner) to the Mathematics Tower, Manchester which was demolished in 2005.
The pedestrian walkways initially formed part of a futuristic but ultimately unsuccessful vision of streets in the sky to link Manchester Oxford Road railway station and out to the Hulme Crescents in Hulme and also to Ardwick.
The building was extended on the east side by the information technology (IT) building which was officially opened by Anne, Princess Royal in 1988.
Some of the first computers housed in the building were the CDC 7600 and the 1906AICT 1900 series from International Computers Limited (ICL).
The cornbrook, a culverted river which drains the urban area South of the River Medlock, flows under the Kilburn building on its way from Gorton to the Manchester Ship Canal at the Pomona Docks.
Gallery
Images of the Kilburn building can be seen in the gallery below:
References
Buildings and structures in Manchester
Buildings and structures completed in 1972
University of Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zexi%20Li | Zexi Li (born ) is a Canadian government data analyst who lives in Ottawa and who was the lead complainant of the Freedom Convoy class action lawsuit.
Early life and education
Li was born in Fuzhou, China, and moved with her parents from to Canada at the age of two. Her family initially moved to Scarborough before her parents divorced, one moving to downtown Toronto, the other to Montreal.
Li attended the University of Ottawa, where she initially studied commerce and accounting, later changing to business technology management.
Adult life
Since graduation, Li has worked as a data analyst for Shared Services Canada, and previously worked as a concierge in two residential high rise buildings in Ottawa.
During the Canada convoy protest in 2022, Li lived in a high rise building in the centre of Ottawa. She subsequently became the lead complainant the Freedom Convoy class action lawsuit that was served on Canada convoy protestors.
In March 2022, Li was given the City Builder award by the Mayor of Ottawa, Jim Watson.
On 14 October 2022, Li testified at the Public Order Emergency Commission, and spoke of how the noise of the protest interrupted the sleep and lives of Ottawa's residents, and the harassment she encountered from protestors. Li has been the target of harassment in response to news coverage about her.
Li was 21 years old in 2022.
See also
Timeline of the Canada convoy protest
References
Living people
2000s births
Canadian civil servants
University of Ottawa alumni
Activists from Ontario
People from Ottawa
Canadian women activists
Chinese emigrants to Canada
Canada convoy protest
People from Fuzhou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGB%20Championship%202023 | The 2023 SGB Cab Direct Championship season was the 76th season of the second tier of British Speedway and the 6th known as the SGB Championship. The British Speedway Network (BSN) streamed 35 matches live for the second year running.
Summary
Nine clubs competed in the Championship in 2023, with Edinburgh Monarchs remaining in the league despite problems surrounding their home venue. The only change to the league was Leicester Lions, who left for the higher league of the SGB Premiership 2023.
The league format was the same as in 2022, with each team racing against each other twice (home and away), meaning a total of 16 fixtures each during the season. The points system was revamped and simplified, with teams scoring two points for a win (home or away), with a bonus point scored for an aggregate win. A 'Super Heat' was also introduced in the event of a tied meeting, with the winners scoring two league points and the losers gaining one point.
The top six teams qualified for the playoffs, however they were split into two groups of three, with the winners of each qualifying for the Grand Final. Finally, the points limit for team construction was reduced from 42 to 40 points.
Glasgow Tigers won the title for the first time 2011, while Scunthorpe Scorpions claimed the knockout cup. Poole Pirates had been looking to secure an unprecedented third consecutive double of league and cup, however they lost in both finals. However, Poole did win the BSN Series, an early season competition.
League
Regular season
League table
Fixtures & results
Play Offs
Six of the nine teams qualified for the play offs, including sixth placed Edinburgh who lost 10 of their 16 matches.
Group A
Fixtures
Table
Group B
Fixtures
Table
Grand final
First leg
Second leg
Knockout Cup
The 2023 SGB Championship Knockout Cup was the 55th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams and the 6th edition under the SGB Championship Knockout Cup name.
Home team scores are in bold
Overall aggregate scores are in red
Final
First Leg
Second Leg
BSN Series
Scottish Group
Fixtures
Table
Northern Group
Fixtures
Table
Southern Group
Fixtures
Table
Knockout stages
Home team scores are in bold
Overall aggregate scores are in red
Grand Final
First leg
Second leg
Pairs Championship
The 2023 edition of the SGB Championship Pairs took place on Friday 1 September, at Oxford Stadium, Oxford. It was won by Glasgow Tigers, who beat defending champions Redcar Bears in the final.
Qualifying heats
Semi-finals
Final
Riders' Championship
The 2023 edition of the SGB Championship Riders Championship was held on 27 August, at the Ecco Arena in Redcar. The event was won by Charles Wright on his home track.
f=fell, r=retired, ex=excluded tm=two minute warning excluded
Leading averages
averages include league, play offs, knockout cup & bsn series, min 6 matches
Squads & final averages
Berwick Bandits
8.23
(C) 7.05
6.41
6.23
5.74
5.38
4.85
4.51
3.64
2.46
1.33
Birm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR%2092 | The GR 92 is part of the extensive GR footpath network of paths, tracks and trails in Spain. It will eventually run the length of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, from Portbou, on the border with France to Tarifa, the most southerly point of Spain. In doing so it will pass through the autonomous communities of Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia and Andalusia. The sections in Catalunya and Murcia are complete and fully signposted, but work is still in progress on the sections in Valencia and Andalusia, and sources differ on the eventual length of the path.
The GR 92 forms the southern portion of the E10, one of the European long-distance paths. The E10 runs between Finland and Spain.
GR 92 in Catalonia
The section of the GR 92 in Catalonia runs from Portbou to . It is way marked throughout, and is in length, and is broken down into 31 stages. The northern-most of these stages, running through the Costa Brava, were in part adapted from the Camí de Ronda, a path originally constructed to help control the coast and stop smuggling.
The stages are:
GR92 in Valencia
The section of the GR 92 in Valencia runs from Traiguera to Pilar de la Horadada. It has not yet been fully defined or way marked, but has a length of about .
GR92 in Murcia
The section of the GR 92 in Murcia runs from to . It has a length of . The section is broken down into 9 stages as follows:
GR92 in Andalucia
The section of the GR 92 in Andalucia runs from San Juan De Los Terreros to Tarifa. Only sections of the path are defined or way marked.
References
Hiking trails in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade-Fitzroy%20network | The Jade-Fitzroy network was a World War II French Resistance network created by Claude Lamirault, supported by Pierre Hentic, under the overall control of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). It operated from 1941 to 1944.
History
Lamirault, a young Catholic activist, was unhappy at France's surrender to Nazi Germany. Impatient to contribute to the war effort, he left France for England via French North Africa and Gibraltar with friends Eugène Pérot and Pierre Giran. In London, they were turned away by de Gaulle's office but met resister Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves and were introduced to SIS staff. Following cypher and parachute training, Lamirault was dropped into Bracieux in January 1941 to begin creating an intelligence network. He was joined by Pierre Hentic, a left-wing activist with whom he'd trained as an alpine soldier. Lamirault's wife Denise, some of her family and other former alpine colleagues joined him. The name Jade-Fitzroy came from the mineral jade and Lamirault's membership of the Camelots du Roi (a right-wing youth group within Action Française), the prefix Fitz meaning 'son of'.
Initially, Jade-Fitzroy's centre of operations was roughly north of the demarcation line. Afterwards, it was fused with another SIS-led network called Jade-Amicol, created by Claude Arnould and Philip Keun, working largely south of the line. Hentic, also trained by the SIS, organised air and sea operations between Brest and England for both networks, for which he was given a substantial budget. To transfer agents and intelligence materials, Westland Lysanders were often used or boats were rowed ashore from Royal Navy craft. This was during the complete takeover of France by the Nazis in November 1942; the SIS wanted to pool resources for efficiency, hoping to effect better cross-checking of information. Being autonomous with his own team of operatives, Hentic was imposed upon as an interlocutor between the networks, fielding requests from either Lamirault or Keun but strict with principles - no agents were arrested during his activities. Arnould and Keun were suspicious of Lamirault: his familiars related his failure to maintain basic security protocols, his casualness, lifestyle and drawing attention to himself e.g. by wearing a monocle and smoking British cigarettes. Following security lapses (gaining a reproach from the SIS) and the arrest by the Gestapo of radio operators Paul Fuchs (an army colleague) and Gilberte Champion (his wife's aunt), the networks separated in June 1943.
At the beginning of 1943, the centre of the Resistance had effectively moved to Lyon, better for welcoming new groups. Lamirault retained local connexions having been garrisoned in Annecy; its proximity to Swiss industry and MI6 operations there was useful. As well as personnel transports, the network had reported on Nazi movements and transmissions, aircraft production, port activity and coastal defences. However, there followed the arrests of Lamirault ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20Football%20on%20NFL%20Network | College Football on NFL Network is the branding used for college football broadcasts of NCAA college football games that are broadcast by NFL Network.
NFL Network first began airing college football in 2006, when it acquired the rights to three postseason games: the Texas Bowl, the Insight Bowl, and the Senior Bowl.
Currently, NFL Network airs select college football games from the Sun Belt Conference, Mid-American Conference, and American Athletic Conference as part of a sublicence from ESPN. NFL Network also carries special games including the Brick City HBCU Kickoff Classic, the Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic, the East–West Shrine Bowl, the Senior Bowl, and the HBCU Legacy Bowl.
History
In 2006, NFL Network began a foray into televising college football bowl games, acquiring rights to the newly established Texas Bowl in Houston (whose management rights were held by the Houston Texans at the time), the Insight Bowl, as well as two all-star events—the Senior Bowl (which features prospects that had completed their college eligibility) and the Las Vegas All-American Classic (which, however, was canceled at the last minute due to financial and sponsorship issues). These games were intended to help make NFL Network more attractive to television providers. The 2006 Insight Bowl, played between Minnesota and Texas Tech, would also achieve notoriety for featuring the largest comeback victory in Division I FBS bowl game history, with Texas Tech coming back from a 38–7 third-quarter deficit to win 44–41 in overtime. Due to concerns that many cable carriers did not carry NFL Network, its bowl games were also simulcast on local over-the-air networks and cable providers.
On April 14, 2007, the network televised the Nebraska Cornhuskers' spring football game. The network again aired the Insight, Texas and Senior bowls in late 2007 and early 2008. Prior to the start of the season, NFL Network debuted College Football Now. A daily studio show covering college football. In addition, it carried two games between historically black colleges and universities during the 2007 season, including the Circle City Classic at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana, the first regular season game to air on the network. The Circle City Classic also aired on NFL Network in 2008. In 2009, the Texas Bowl moved to ESPN. In 2010, the Insight Bowl did the same. In 2011, NFL Network began airing the East–West Shrine Bowl.
Since 2019, NFL Network has annually carried the Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic, a college football kickoff game that features a matchup of two historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) on the Sunday before Labor Day. The HBCU Legacy Bowl, a postseason all-star game involving draft-eligible HBCU players, also has broadcast rights held by NFL Network. In May 2019, NFL Network announced a four-year deal with Conference USA to air a weekly regular-season game on Saturday afternoons beginning in the 2019 season. NFL Network op |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ransomware%20Hunting%20Team | The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime is a 2022 nonfiction book on computer security by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden. It was published in the United States in October 2022 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and is about a group of volunteer freelance computer experts who crack ransomware and help victims recover their data without them having to yield to extortion. Sections of this book had previously featured in a ProPublica podcast, The Extortion Economy: Exploring the Secret World of Ransomware, in December 2021.
Dudley is a technology journalist at ProPublica, and Golden is a journalist and senior editor at the same organization. Golden won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, and Dudley was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting finalist.
The Ransomware Hunting Team audiobook published by Macmillan Audio and narrated by BD Wong won the 2023 Audie Award for Nonfiction.
Synopsis
The Ransomware Hunting Team is about a small group of computer experts in the United States and Europe who devote large amounts of their time to cracking ransomware. They include Michael Gillespie, Fabian Wosar and Sarah White, all volunteers who do not ask for payment for helping victims of these cyberattacks. Authors Dudley and Golden explain how cybercriminals break into vulnerable computer systems, infect them with viruses that encrypt their data, and then demand money for decryption keys. The book highlights some of the prominent ransomware attacks, such as the 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, and the 2017 infection of Britain's National Health Service systems. But because many ransomware attacks are not made public. there are considerably more occurrences than reported.
If ransomware has been properly written, cracking it is normally "impossible". But from time to time the hackers take shortcuts, or make mistakes, and the elite team is able to reverse-engineer the malware and construct decryption keys for the victims to recover their data without having to pay ransoms. The book discloses that the battle between the ransomware developers and the hunters is an undeclared cyberwar. It also explains why the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security in the United States are unable to fully tackle this problem. Bound by rigid structures, these organizations are reluctant to work with outsiders, and derisively refer to Gillespie and company as the "Geek Squad". But after the Colonial Pipeline incident, they have begun to work more closely with the ransomware hunters.
Reception
Kirkus Reviews called The Ransomware Hunting Team "[a]n accessible, tautly written account of cyberwarfare in real time." Their review said it brings to mind Clifford Stoll's 1989 book, The Cuckoo's Egg when "computer mischief" was still new, but added that Dudley and Golden's book "is an update to that distinguished predecessor, though it also enters into the newer realms of the dark web, cryptocurrency, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Millstein | Todd Millstein is an American computer scientist. He is Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Department at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Millstein grew up in suburban Maryland, outside of Washington D.C. Millstein received his A.B from Brown University in 1996, where he was advised by Paris Kanellakis and Pascal Van Hentenryck. He attended the University of Washington for graduate studies, graduating with an M.Sc. and Ph.D in 2003. At UW, he was advised by Craig Chambers.
His research focus primarily spans software verification and reliability. He has published more than 100 original
technical research papers, including best paper awards at OOPSLA, PLDI, and SIGCOMM. He received the 2011 Most Influential PLDI Paper Award for his 2001 paper "Automatic Predicate Abstraction of C Programs".
Millstein joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. He was appointed chair of the department in 2022, having previously served as vice chair for graduate studies.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists
Scientists from Maryland
Brown University alumni
University of Washington alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladlen%20Koltun | Vladlen Koltun (born 1980) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and intelligent systems researcher. He currently serves as distinguished scientist at Apple Inc. His main areas of research are artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition. He also made a significant contribution to robotics and autonomous driving.
Koltun's contributions to research and publications are in the areas of convolutional neural networks, reality simulation, view synthesis, photorealistic rendering, urban self-driving cars simulation, 3D computer graphics, robot locomotion, and drones maneuverability in dynamic environments.
He is also known for his work on the photorealism enhancement system, and for the critical study of the Hirsch index, a metric of scientists' work that is common in the community.
Early life and education
Vladlen Koltun was born in 1980 in Kiev, Ukraine and grew up in Israel. He completed his BS degree in computer science magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University in 2000. He continued his studies at the university, and finished his PhD with honors in computer science in 2002 with a thesis, Arrangements in four dimensions and related structures; his doctoral adviser was Micha Sharir. He then completed his postdoctoral fellowship under the supervision of Christos Papadimitriou at the University of California, Berkeley, where he conducted research in theoretical computer science in 2002–2005.
Career
Koltun served as an assistant professor at Stanford University from 2005 to 2013, where he lectured in the areas of computer science, computer graphics, and geometric algorithms. During his tenure at Stanford, he supervised PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. While at Stanford, Koltun was a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship and the National Science Foundation's Career Award.
Koltun's research at Stanford contributed to the development of data-driven 3D modeling technology in collaboration with Siddhartha Chaudhuri. Chaudhuri's work along with Koltun, Evangelos Kalogerakis, and Leonidas Guibas resulted in a SIGGRAPH publication in 2011. As a result, Mixamo licensed the technology from Stanford and later Adobe Inc. acquired Mixamo and further developed Adobe Fuse CC, 3D computer graphics software that enabled users to create 3D characters. In 2014, Koltun joined Adobe to conduct research in visual computing with the primary focus on three-dimensional reconstruction.
Koltun left Adobe to join Intel, where he served in various positions until 2021 for the company's R&D projects for Intelligent Systems.
Since August 2021, Koltun has been serving as a distinguished scientist at Apple Inc.
Research
At Intel, Koltun contributed to the development of virtual reality simulators for urban autonomous driving, robots, and drones, focusing on deep reinforcement learning techniques with neural networks in virtual environments. These networks underwent trial-and-error learning in VR before being transferred t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingbo%20Wang | Jingbo Wang is an Australian quantum physicist working in the area of quantum simulation, quantum algorithms, and quantum information science.
Education
Wang received her PhD from the Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, Adelaide University, Australia.
Academic career
Wang is currently a Professor and Head of the Physics Department at the University of Western Australia. She directs the QUISA (Quantum Information, Simulation and Algorithms) Research Centre, which aims to foster collaboration and entrepreneurship, bringing together academic staff, research students, government and industrial partners to develop innovative quantum solutions to tackle otherwise intractable problems and complex phenomena. Professor Wang is also the Chair of Australian Institute of Physics (WA Branch).
Her team carried out research involving especially single and multi-particle quantum walks, demonstrating their power in analyzing complex networks, in identifying topological similarities in complex systems, in image processing and machine learning, and in optimizing combinatorial problems. They have also obtained highly efficient quantum circuits to implement quantum algorithms of practical importance.
Honours and recognition
Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Mentorship, The University of Western Australia (2022)
Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics (2020)
WA Dennis Moore Award for achievements in quantum computing research, Australian Computer Society (2018)
Books
Josh Izaac and Jingbo Wang, Computational Quantum Mechanics, Springer (2018)
Kia Manouchehri and Jingbo Wang, Physical Implementation of Quantum Walks, Springer (2014)
References
External links
University of Western Australia, profile, Professor Jingbo Wang
Australian scientists
University of Adelaide alumni
Academic staff of the University of Western Australia
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20der%20Hoek | Van der Hoek is a surname, and may refer to:
André van der Hoek, Dutch-American computer scientist
Frans Robert Jan van der Hoek known as Roberto Vander (born 1950) Dutch-born Chilean actor and singer
Hans van der Hoek (1933–2017), Dutch footballer
Jan van der Hoek (born 1940), Dutch volleyball player
Rosalie van der Hoek (born 1994), Dutch tennis player
Zeke Vanderhoek, American teacher and entrepreneur
See also
Van den Hoek |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim%20Meyer%20%28professor%29 | Joachim Meyer (Hebrew: יואכים מאיר; born: 1957) is Celia and Marcos Maus Professor for Data Sciences at the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tel-Aviv University. His work deals with human decisions in interactions with intelligent systems and he is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Early life and education
Joachim Meyer was born in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. He emigrated to Israel in 1973, completed high school at the Kanot agricultural school, did IDF service and was discharged as a lieutenant.
Meyer began his academic studies in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1979 and received his B.A. in 1982 (with honors), and M.Sc. in Psychology in 1986 (with honors). He then moved to the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev where he completed his Ph.D. in 1994. His dissertation on Processing of graphic displays that present quantitative information was supervised by David Shinar and David Leiser.
Academic career
Meyer was a research fellow at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology from 1993 until 1997. In 1995 he joined Ben-Gurion University of the Negev as a lecturer in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management and the School of Management. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1998, to associate professor in 2003, and to full professor in 2009.
In 2012, Meyer joined the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tel Aviv University as a professor and was chair of the department from 2015 until 2019.
Meyer held visiting academic positions at other universities and research institutes, including Harvard Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he was a Research Scientist at the Center for Transportation Studies (1999-2001) and helped to establish the MIT AgeLab. He was also a visiting professor at the Human Dynamics Group at the MIT Media Lab (2014-2015).
Meyer has supervised more than 75 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Research
Meyer’s work focuses on modeling human decisions when interacting with intelligent systems. He combines methods and tools from psychology, economics, management science, and engineering, focusing on the development of models for predicting human decision making as a function of properties of the system, the situation, and the user. Applications are in various fields, including transportation, medicine, cyber security, privacy and management.
Meyer’s initial research dealt with the visualization of information, demonstrating that the relative advantage of different forms of visualization depends on multiple factors and in particular on the structure of the displayed information.
Much of Meyer’s research deals with aided decision making and specifically the effects of alarms, alerts and binary cues on decisions. He demonstrated that there are two different types of trust in these systems – |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L3cos | L3COS (Level 3 Consensus Operating System) is an algorithm for digitising processes based on Blockchain, which has a three-level structure and is distributed as Platform as a Service for state bodies and businesses. The algorithm is based on the blockchain, in which any decision made at any of the levels will become part of the common chain. The technology involves a three-level framework that provides national governments, businesses, and private individuals with the tools to create a digital economy that does not allow fraudulent activity, financial or otherwise.
History
Work on the “three-in-one” algorithm was started in 2013 and completed in October 2019. Founder and CEO of the project is Zurab Ashvil, a PHD in Cybernetics and Applied Mathematics, who was previously an executive of the Softbank Capital. The official launch of the algorithm was held at the World Economic Forum in Davos from 21 to 24 January 2020. Over the first eight years, more than $65 million was invested in the company.
In March 2020, the Central Bank of England invited private companies to participate in the development of a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency). In June 2020, a proposal was made to the Central Bank of England to use L3COS technology.
In March 2021, information emerged that the world’s first digital platform for agricultural goods and foodstuffs, AgriDex, was investing $85 million to develop it's platform on L3COS blockchain. The creation of a smart marketplace allows improvements in global food security, with reduced transaction costs and reduced food costs to consumers. The plan was to create a tokenised payment and exchange platform for AgriDex based on blockchain. The volume of supplies was estimated at $2.25 trillion annually. The technology will enable the company to process more than 1.5 million concurrent transactions per second and provide more than 150 companies with access to the marketplace.
In April 2021, L3COS announced a new partnership with US label ENT Global Technologies and entertainment company TITLE 9 Inc. The $110 million deal will enable L3COS to create a global digital rights management system and a trading platform for music and film.
In September 2022 Eros Investments, a portfolio of entertainment and tech companies like Eros Media World, Eros Now, and Xfinite's Mzaalo, has picked up a 90% stake in digital rights management company ENT Global for an undisclosed sum, and partnered with blockchain-based operating system L3COS.
Principle of operation
More than 1200 programmers worked on the development of PaaS (Platform as a Service). This platform enables governments, organisations, businesses, and individuals to create and run applications on its operating system.
The technology at the state level allows smart contracts and business applications to be developed without the involvement of an algorithm developer. The technology works on the basis of separate consensus algorithms, which allows users to access highly effective |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisCoCat | DisCoCat (Categorical Compositional Distributional) is a mathematical framework for natural language processing which uses category theory to unify distributional semantics with the principle of compositionality. The grammatical derivations in a categorial grammar (usually a pregroup grammar) are interpreted as linear maps acting on the tensor product of word vectors to produce the meaning of a sentence or a piece of text. String diagrams are used to visualise information flow and reason about natural language semantics.
History
The framework was first introduced by Bob Coecke, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, and Stephen Clark as an application of categorical quantum mechanics to natural language processing. It started with the observation that pregroup grammars and quantum processes shared a common mathematical structure: they both form a rigid category (also known as a non-symmetric compact closed category). As such, they both benefit from a graphical calculus, which allows a purely diagrammatic reasoning. Although the analogy with quantum mechanics was kept informal at first, it eventually led to the development of quantum natural language processing.
Definition
There are multiple definitions of DisCoCat in the literature, depending on the choice made for the compositional aspect of the model. The common denominator between all the existent versions, however, always involves a categorical definition of DisCoCat as a structure-preserving functor from a category of grammar to a category of semantics, which usually encodes the distributional hypothesis.
The original paper used the categorical product of FinVect with a pregroup seen as a posetal category. This approach has some shortcomings: all parallel arrows of a posetal category are equal, which means that pregroups cannot distinguish between different grammatical derivations for the same syntactically ambiguous sentence. A more intuitive manner of saying the same is that one works with diagrams rather than with partial orders when describing grammar.
This problem is overcome when one considers the free rigid category generated by the pregroup grammar. That is, has generating objects for the words and the basic types of the grammar, and generating arrows for the dictionary entries which assign a pregroup type to a word . The arrows are grammatical derivations for the sentence which can be represented as string diagrams with cups and caps, i.e. adjunction units and counits.
With this definition of pregroup grammars as free rigid categories, DisCoCat models can be defined as strong monoidal functors . Spelling things out in detail, they assign a finite dimensional vector space to each basic type and a vector in the appropriate tensor product space to each dictionary entry where (objects for words are sent to the monoidal unit, i.e. ). The meaning of a sentence is then given by a vector which can be computed as the contraction of a tensor network.
The reason behind the choice of as t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20natural%20language%20processing | Quantum natural language processing (QNLP) is the application of quantum computing to natural language processing (NLP). It computes word embeddings as parameterised quantum circuits that can solve NLP tasks faster than any classical computer. It is inspired by categorical quantum mechanics and the DisCoCat framework, making use of string diagrams to translate from grammatical structure to quantum processes.
Theory
The first quantum algorithm for natural language processing used the DisCoCat framework and Grover's algorithm to show a quadratic quantum speedup for a text classification task. It was later shown that quantum language processing is BQP-Complete, i.e. quantum language models are more expressive than their classical counterpart, unless quantum mechanics can be efficiently simulated by classical computers.
These two theoretical results assume fault-tolerant quantum computation and a QRAM, i.e. an efficient way to load classical data on a quantum computer. Thus, they are not applicable to the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers available today.
Experiments
The algorithm of Zeng and Coecke was adapted to the constraints of NISQ computers and implemented on IBM quantum computers to solve binary classification tasks. Instead of loading classical word vectors onto a quantum memory, the word vectors are computed directly as the parameters of quantum circuits. These parameters are optimised using methods from quantum machine learning to solve data-driven tasks such as question answering, machine translation and even algorithmic music composition.
See also
Categorical quantum mechanics
Natural language processing
Quantum machine learning
Applied category theory
String diagram
References
External links
DisCoPy, a Python toolkit for computing with string diagrams
lambeq, a Python library for quantum natural language processing
Quantum computing
Natural language processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1959.
Events
Television programs
Debuts
Ending this year
Made-for-TV movies and miniseries
Television stations
Station launches
Network affiliation changes
Station closures
Births
Deaths
See also
1959 in television
1959 in film
1959 in the United States
List of American films of 1959
References
External links
List of 1959 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Dominica | Dominica observes Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4) year-round.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Dominica is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Dominica. "DM" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Dominica directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
References
External links
Current time in Dominica at Time.is
Time in Dominica at TimeAndDate
Time in Dominica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avetria%20Networks | Avetria Networks Inc. is a wholly owned private Canadian corporation. As a regional telecommunications company in the province of Ontario, Avetria provides telecommunications products and services including wireless and fiber internet access, voice, and IPTV television. The company is based in Southwestern Ontario, Maryhill, Ontario; it was originally based in Bloomingdale, Ontario. The company was first formed as a fixed wireless internet provider to provide internet to the communities of Woolwich, Maryhill, Ariss, West Montrose, Winterbourne, Conestogo and North Waterloo. Avetria Networks competes in the fiber to the home sector with Rogers Communications and Bell Canada.
History
Founded in 2014, Avetria was awarded federal funding for two grants by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, a department of the Government of Canada. Avetria was chosen to develop and deploy Fiber to the Home (FTTH) in the Region of Waterloo, Township of Woolwich, communities of Bloomingdale, Winterbourne, and West Montrose while connecting all three villages to city-quality internet in the Township of Woolwich. The funding was provided to connect 286 under serviced households with internet service that was at least 50 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 10 Mbps upload.
Avetria started their first fiber to the home project in Winterbourne in March 2018. They also provide fibre internet to the Foundation Christian School of Winterbourne.
In 2020 the company was part of a consortium, along with Wireless Farm, installing FTTH in Ariss, Ontario.
The company was awarded a Municipal Access Agreement with the City of Waterloo in September 2021.
References
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Canadian companies established in 2014
Telecommunications companies of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved%20wireless%20ad%20hoc%20network | An evolved wireless ad hoc network (EVAN) is a decentralized type of wireless network that compensates for the shortcomings of the existing wireless ad hoc network (WANET). An EVAN is ad hoc like a WANET because it does not rely on a pre-existing infrastructure, such as routers in wired networks or access points in wireless networks. Further advantages of WANETs over networks with a fixed topology include flexibility (an ad hoc network can be created anywhere with mobile devices), scalability (you can easily add more nodes to the network) and lower administration costs (no need to build an infrastructure first). These characteristics of WANETs are maintained in EVAN as well. However, an EVAN has a physically separate resource management channel called tone channel, unlike existing WANETs. In WANETs, the data channel performs two roles: resource management and data transfer, but in EVAN, the data channel is used only for data transfer.
Challenges
Several books and works have revealed the technical and research challenges facing wireless ad hoc networks or MANETs. UEs moving in WANET rapidly change network topology. Many resources are used for channel management. A resource collision occurs when a UE allocates a resource or moves while occupying the resource. The UE in the middle experiences collisions due to packets being received simultaneously.
In summary:
Dynamic network topology by mobile UEs
Limited channel bandwidth
Communication resource collision
Hidden node problem
Solution
To solve the problems, the tone channel is used. this channel is dedicated to resource management. The types of tones used in the tone channel include an allocation tone for allocating a resource, a clearing tone for occupying a resource, and a detection tone for detecting a collision of an occupied resource. These tones are transmitted in tone slots. A tone slot consists of multiple tone subslots where a tone is transmitted. A slot 'n' in a tone channel maps to a slot 'n+1' in a data channel. Therefore, a UE allocate tone slot 'n' to use data slot 'n+1'.
Dynamic network topology by mobile UEs
A UE occupying a resource in the data channel transmits a clearing tone in a tone slot related to the occupied resource. The UE occupying the data slot ‘n+1’ transmits a clearing tone in the tone slot ‘n-1’. By receiving one tone channel continueously, each UE can examine the resources occupied by other UEs in real time.
Limited channel bandwidth
In general, the bandwidth of the tone channel is much smaller than the bandwidth of the data channel. The larger the bandwidth of the data channel compared to the bandwidth of the tone channel, the closer the frequency efficiency is to 100%.
Communication resource collision
A resource collision occurs when a UE allocates a resource or when a UE moves while occupying a resource. The probability of collisions occurring when allocating resources is significantly improved compared to carrier-sense multiple access with collisi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9anord | Léanord (Laboratoire d'Electronique et d'Automatisme du Nord) was a French computer brand, founded in 1960 at Haubourdin, near Lille. It was a subsidiary of Creusot-Loire and started to develop computers in the late 1970s.
The first machines, called Picolog 8, Picolog 80 and Picodidac 80 were based on Intel 8008, 8080 and 8085 microprocessors and designed for automation and machine code learning.
Léanord's first microcomputer was the Silex, released in 1978. Based on a licensed Apple II motherboard with a MOS 6502 running at 1Mhz and 32Kb RAM, the machine was expensive for the time (costing 29,000 Francs) and came with SILBasic (a BASIC interpreter), SILPascal (a Pascal interpreter) and SILDOS (a disk operating system). It had an 8-inch floppy disc drive and came in a 54x35x59 cm box, that also included the keyboard and monitor.
In 1979 Léanord released the Sil'z, similar in appearance to the Silex but CP/M compatible. It was powered by a Zilog Z80 at 2.5 MHz, had 64 Kb of RAM, 80x24 character monochrome display, two 5'' 1/4 320Kb disc drives, two RS-232c ports (for printer and modem), and measured 54x33x57 cm.
It was followed by the Sil'z II in 1981 (adding a Western WD1795 controller for extra floppy disc drives) and Sil'z III in 1982. In 1983, the Sil'z IV was released, with a different design featuring a separate keyboard and monitor and adding a hard drive.
The Sil'z 16 was released in 1983 with relation to the Computing for All government program, featuring the Nanoréseau, a small network based on the RS422 standard, and developed in connection with Lille university. This machine came with a Intel 8088 CPU running at 4.77Mhz, 128 Kb of RAM, MS-DOS, CP/M-86 and Microsoft Basic.
Later machines were PC compatible. The Challenger Elan series, released in 1986, were 16-bit ISA backplane machines with 8086, 8088, 80286 and 80386 processors.
In 1989 Léanord merged with Intertechnique, being eventually absorbed by Siemens-Nixdorf.
Models
Picolog 8 - Intel 8008, 1977
Picolog 80 - Intel 8080, 1977
Picodidac 80 - Intel 8085, 1979
Silex - Licensed Apple II motherboard, MOS 6502 @ 1Mhz, 32Kb RAM, 1978
Sil’z - Zilog Z80 @ 2.5 MHz, 64 Kb RAM, CP/M, 1979–1980
Sil’z II - Zilog Z80 @ 2.5 MHz, 64 Kb RAM, CP/M 2.2, 1981
Sil’z III - Zilog Z80 @ 2.5 MHz, 64 Kb RAM, CP/M 2.2, 1982
Sil’z IV - Zilog Z80 @ 2.5 MHz, 64 Kb RAM, CP/M, Separate keyboard and monitor, hard drive, 1983
Sil’z 16 - Intel 8088 @ 4.77Mhz, 128 Kb RAM, MS-DOS, CP/M-83, Nanoréseau network machine, based on the ProtoPC from Future Computers, 1983
Challenger Elan - First backplane PCs, 8086, 8088, 80286 and 80386, 1986
See also
Computing for All, a French government plan to introduce computers to the country's pupils
References
Computer companies of France
History of computing in France
Lists of computer hardware
Computer science education in France
Computing for All |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashi%20Shekhar%20%28scientist%29 | Shashi Shekhar is a leading scholar of spatial computing, spatial data science, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Contributions include scalable roadmap storage methods and algorithms for eco-routing, evacuation route planning, and spatial pattern (e.g., colocation) mining, along with an Encyclopedia of GIS, a Spatial Databases textbook, and a spatial computing book for professionals. Currently, he is serving as a McKnight Distinguished University Professor, a Distinguished University Teaching Professor, ADC Chair and an Associate Director of the College of Science and Engineering Data Science Initiative at the University of Minnesota.
Education
Shekhar received a B.Tech. in Computer Science from the IIT Kanpur in 1985. He then earned a M.S. in Computer Science (1987), a M.S. in Business Administration (1989) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1989) from the University of California, Berkeley. Earlier, he attended the Netarhat Residential School.
Research
Shekhar is a scholar of spatial computing, spatial data science (e.g., spatial data mining, spatial database) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A major goal of his research is to understand the structure of big spatial computations underlying societal grand challenges. For example, his early research developed roadmap storage and scalable routing methods, which have revolutionized outdoor navigation paving way for navigation devices and apps, and received the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award[15] which is presented for outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology, usually within the past 10, and not more than 15 years.
In the mid-2000s, his group developed capacity constrained route planners to significantly speed up evacuation route planning to move vulnerable population to safety in the event of natural or man-made disasters. It was invited for presentation in a Congressional breakfast on homeland security and used for homeland security preparations in Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area, where it showed that walking able-bodied the first mile often speeded up evacuation significantly. Besides evacuation routes and schedules, it also identified difficult-to-evacuate areas needing enrichment of transportation networks. The research received the Research Partnership Award (2006) for significant findings that have influenced transportation practice and/or policy. Recently, it was used for shelter allocation in Hajj (Mecca).
In the big data era, Shekhar investigated eco-routing to investigate the potential of spatial big data to recommend eco-routes to reduce emissions and energy use. Recently, it also received the Research Partnership Award (2021) for significant findings influencing Transportation practice and/or policy.
Moreover, he pioneered the research area of spatial data mining via pattern families (e.g., colocation, linear hotspots, significant DBSCAN, Spatial Var |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jussara%20M.%20Almeida | Jussara Marques de Almeida (born 11 December 1973) is a Brazilian computer scientist whose research involves social computing, including web caches, user modeling, and the analysis of workload patterns arising from user interactions. She is an associate professor of computer science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.
Education and career
Almeida earned bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in 1994 and 1997 respectively. She continued her graduate study at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning a second master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2003. Her dissertation, Streaming Content Distribution Networks with Minimum Delivery Cost, was supervised by Mary K. Vernon.
She returned to the Federal University of Minas Gerais as an assistant professor in 2004, and became an associate professor in 2012.
Recognition
Almeida was an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences from 2011 to 2015.
References
External links
Home page
1973 births
Living people
Brazilian computer scientists
Brazilian women computer scientists
Federal University of Minas Gerais alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Academic staff of the Federal University of Minas Gerais |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Laing%20%28American%20writer%29 | Alexander Kinnan Laing (August 7, 1903 – April 23, 1976) was a poet, novelist, writer and compiler of sea stories, and professor. He spent his career at Dartmouth College, where he also studied.
Life and career
Laing dropped out of Dartmouth in 1925 and spent two years at sea, an experience that informed much of his later work. He served on the SS Leviathan, a German-built passenger liner that had been seized by the United States in 1917. On the Leviathan, he sailed to Southampton and, later, to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal. He retained his affection for the sea, using a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934 to sail around the world via Europe, the Suez Canal, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, and Hawaii.
After his return to Dartmouth, he won the Walt Whitman Prize for Poetry in 1929. He later served in a variety of positions at the College, including Advisor to the Arts, Assistant Librarian, and Lecturer and Professor of English. One of his most prominent roles was his leadership in the Dartmouth Writing Clinic, which he futilely attempted to save from elimination in 1959.
Laing married three times. His first wife was Elizabeth Lattimore, his second, the poet Dilys Laing, with whom he had one son, David Bennet Laing. His third wife, Veronica, was the daughter of the illustrator Rudolph Ruzicka—He died as the result of a bicycle accident at the age of 72.
Writing
Laing's most successful book was The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck, described as an "unexpected sensation" featuring "ghoulish subject matter—including abortions, babies born with fused lower limbs, an epileptic murderer, and a woman driven mad by sadistic research experiments." His 1933 book The Sea Witch, by contrast, is a historical novel set on board a mid-nineteenth-century clipper ship and featuring a mutiny by the ship's cargo of coolie laborers. These books are representative of Laing's enormously diverse literary output, which included both fiction and nonfiction informed by his days at sea, poetry for The New Yorker and many other prominent literary magazines, and reviews of serious contemporary poetry and drama noted decades later for their balanced acknowledgment of experimental and political strains in literature of the period. Laing was also a co-founder of a newsletter opposed to the Vietnam War called American Voters Betrayed By Johnson, which eventually evolved into the left-wing political journal Groundswell Quarterly.
Books authored
Fool's Errand. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Dorand, and Company, 1928.
End of Roaming. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1930.
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1934.
The Motives of Nicholas Holtz. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1936.
The Methods of Dr. Scarlett. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1937.
Way for America. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1943.
The Sea Witch. New York: Murray Hill Books, 1944.
Clipper Ship Men. Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing, 1950.
Jonathan Eagle: Sea Stories. New York: B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogAbax | LogAbax was a French computer brand. Founded in 1942, the company was one of France's pioneers in computer manufacturing. The name is composed of two abbreviations: Log from logarithm and Abax from abacus.
History
The company was created in 1942 as “La Société Française des Brevets LogAbax”. In 1947 it employs twenty people and has a factory located at Malakoff. The company obtains a contract from CNRS for the construction of a "Couffignal machine", intended to be the fist French "electronic calculation machine". Between 1948 and 1950 LogAbax studies an electronic meter, related to the electronic calculator development.
In 1968 LogAbax and Bariquand et Marre merge, forming LogAbax SA.
The LX 500, a personal computer based on the Z80 microprocessor and running the CP/M operating system, is presented in 1978.
Due to poor results in the late 1970s, LogAbax files for bankruptcy in 1981, with Olivetti becoming the majority shareholder, creating a new entity named Société Nouvelle LogAbax.
The Persona 1600, a PC compatible machine with an Intel 8086 CPU (similar to Olivetti M24) is presented in 1985. Other rebranded Olivetti PCs follow (Persona 1800 and 1300).
In 1988 Olivetti France and Société Nouvelle LogAbax merge, becoming Olivetti-LogAbax.
Machines
LX 3200 - office computer, calculator, typewriter, printer, 1969
LX 2200, 2600 - office computer, calculator, typewriter, printer, 1974/75
LX 4200, 4300, 4400, 4500, 4600 - office computer, 1970s/75
LX 5000, 5076, 5200 - multi-user 16-bit computer, 64 Kb RAM, 1976/77
LX 2000, 2010, 2500 - 1976
LX 500, 518, 528 - Z80A, 128Kb RAM, CP/M, 1978
LX 3000, 3128, 3500 - multi-user office computer, 1980
Hyper 32 - fault tolerant redundant computer, 1983
Persona 800 - Z80 @ 4 MHz, 64KB RAM, CP/M, 1985
Persona 1600 (Olivetti M24) - Nanoréseau network machine, 8086 @ 8 MHz, 1985
Persona 1800 (Olivetti M28) - 80286 @ 8 MHz, 1986
Persona 1300 (Olivetti M19) - 8088 @ 4.77 MHz, 256KB RAM, 1986
3B modèle 400 (Olivetti CPS/32 Stratos) - 68030, VOS, 1986
See also
Computing for All, a French government plan to introduce computers to the country's pupils
References
Computer companies of France
History of computing in France
Lists of computer hardware
Computer science education in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof%20R.%20Apt | Krzysztof R. Apt (born 26 December 1949 in Katowice, Poland)
is a Polish computer scientist. He defended his PhD in mathematical logic in
Warsaw, Poland in 1974. His research interests include program correctness and semantics, use
of logic as a programming language, distributed computing, and game theory. Besides his own research, he has been heavily involved in service to
the computing community, notably by promoting the
use of logic in computer science (in particular by founding a new
journal) and by advocating open access to scientific literature.
Academic career
Apt has held various scientific positions in Poland, the Netherlands,
France, the U.S. (the William B. Blakemore II Professor, Computer
Science, UT Austin, 1987–1990), and Singapore (Visiting
Professor, Computer Science, NUS, 2002–2005).
Apt is a Fellow at CWI (National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science)
in Amsterdam and Affiliated Professor at the University of Warsaw. Since 2014 he is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam.
His research interests include program correctness and semantics, use
of logic as a programming language, distributed computing, and game theory. In particular, with coauthors he introduced the concept of
stratification in logic programming to provide a way to deal with
negation in logic and Datalog programs. His comprehensive survey of Hoare logic, written with
Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog, summarizes
the history of the subject since its inception in 1969.
Apt is a member of Academia Europaea, which serves as "a pan-European Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Letters"; membership is by invitation only and follows a rigorous peer review selection process.
He is the founder and first
Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computational Logic and
past president of the Association for Logic Programming (ALP). He is one of the three initiators of the Witold Lipski Prize for Young Researchers in Computer Science.
Apt has long been an active advocate of open and free access to scientific
publications(e.g.) and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the portion of the repository arXiv known as the Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
Books published
Books edited
Presents results from a three-year, ESPRIT-funded effort to explore the integration of the foundational issues of functional, logic, and object-oriented programming
Reveals the evolution of logic programming since its inception and the impressively broad scope of current research in the field
In the ACM series of books on Turing Award winners
References
External links
CWI home page:
CWI staff page:
Polish Science webpage:
Google scholar:
ResearchGate:
Springer link:
dblp computer science bibliography:
arxiv:
Living people
Programming language researchers
Formal methods people
1949 births
Polish computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPadOS%2017 | iPadOS 17 is the fifth and current major release of the iPadOS operating system developed by Apple for its iPad line of tablet computers. The successor to iPadOS 16, it was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 5, 2023 and was released on September 18, 2023 along with iOS 17.
iPadOS 17 drops support for the first-generation iPad Pro, and the fifth-generation iPad, making it the first iPadOS release to be exclusive to iPads with Apple Pencil support, as well as the first version of iPadOS to drop support for an iPad Pro.
The first public beta was released on July 12, 2023 and the final version was released on September 18, 2023.
Features
Lock screen
The lock screen has been redesigned to match the appearance of iOS 16 and beyond.
PDF document handling
iPadOS can now identify PDF forms fields for quicker text input.
Siri
Users can now simply say "Siri" instead of "Hey Siri" to activate Siri by voice activation.
Health App
The Apple Health app is now available on iPads as well as on iPhones.
Notes App
The Notes app now supports real time collaboration between users in PDF documents.
Automatic verification codes
Adds support for one-time verification codes in the Mail app.
Adds feature to automatically delete verification codes.
Compatibility (supported devices)
iPadOS 17 requires an A10 chip or newer, which means it drops support for iPad models with A9 and A9X chips, officially marking the end of support for non-Apple Pencil compatible iPads. This also marks the third time Apple has dropped 64-bit devices.
Those using A10 or A10X SoC have limited support.
Those using A12, A12X, A12Z, or A13 SoC get additional features that are unavailable on older models.
Those using A14 or A15 SoC have almost full support.
Those using M1 or M2 SoC get full support.
iPad (6th generation)
iPad (7th generation)
iPad (8th generation)
iPad (9th generation)
iPad (10th generation)
iPad Air (3rd generation)
iPad Air (4th generation)
iPad Air (5th generation)
iPad Mini (5th generation)
iPad Mini (6th generation)
iPad Pro 10.5-inch
iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation)
iPad Pro 11-inch (1st generation)
iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation)
iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation)
iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation)
iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation)
iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation)
iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation)
iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation)
Due to iPadOS 17 dropping support for the iPad Pro (1st generation), this marks the first time Apple has dropped support for an iPad Pro, as well as being the first version of iPadOS to drop support for an iPad with Apple Pencil support.
Alongside dropping support for the iPad (5th generation), the iPad (6th generation) is the only supported device with the original 9.7-inch display and also the only iPad with 2GB of RAM to support iPadOS 17.
Release history
The first developer beta of iPadOS 17 was released on June 6, 2023. The first public r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenzia%20per%20la%20Cybersicurezza%20Nazionale | The Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale (ACN) was established in Italy in 2021 on the basis of the decree law of June 14, 2021, n. 82.
The ACN is an Italian government body established with resilience and security tasks in information technology, also for the purpose of protecting national security in the cyberspace, and ensures coordination between the public entities involved in the matter.
It pursues the achievement of national and European strategic autonomy in the digital sector, in synergy with the national production system, as well as through the involvement of the university and research world. It favors specific training courses for the development of the workforce in the sector and supports awareness campaigns as well as a widespread culture of cybersecurity.
Cyberattack alerts, monitoring, detection and prevention activities
The agency constantly carries out activities of alert, monitoring, detection and prevention of cyber attacks as in the case of the massive global cyberattack of 5 February 2023.
During the cyberattack, a large part of the TIM network was out of order due to a problem with data flows from the international network which also had an impact in Italy.
The attack exploited a vulnerability on VMware ESXi servers.
The damage to the Italian national network has amounted to millions of euros, and thousands of servers affected.
However, the following day, the agency reduced the scope of the attack, reporting that no critical systems were affected.
On 22 February 2023, the agency issued a new alert against an attack perpetrated by Russian activists. The cyberattack is claimed by the pro-Russian group NoName057.
On 7 March 2023, the director of the agency, Roberto Baldoni resigned for differences with the Italian government, following the cyber-attacks suffered by Italy.
The pro-Russian group NoName057 comments on the resignation of Roberto Baldoni on its Telegram channel, claiming the attacks against the Italian internet infrastructure as a complete success.
On 9 March 2023, the prefect of Rome, Bruno Frattasi, was appointed new director of the agency in place of the resigned Roberto Baldoni.
On 19 March 2023, the pro-Russian group NoName057 attacked again the Italian institutional websites, in particular that of the CSM.
In claiming the cyberattack, they directly addressed the director of the agency, Bruno Frattasi and Francesco Lo Voi, the chief prosecutor of Rome.
On 27 March 2023, there was a new cyberattack against the websites of the Italian ministers and the postal police, however it did not achieve the objective of hindering users from using the sites under attack. The attack was considered failed, only that of Atac, the municipal transport company of Rome, suffered slowdowns and temporary unavailability.
On May 13, 2023, during the visit to Rome in Italy of Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, to the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella and the Italian premier Giorgia Meloni and to the Pope, the pro-R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20composition%20analysis | It is a common software engineering practice to develop software by using different components. Using software components segments the complexity of larger elements into smaller pieces of code and increases flexibility by enabling easier reuse of components to address new requirements. The practice has widely expanded since the late 1990s with the popularization of open-source software (OSS) to help speed up the software development process and reduce time to market.
However, using open-source software introduces many risks for the software applications being developed. These risks can be organized into 5 categories:
OSS Version Control: risks of changes introduced by new versions
Security: risks of vulnerabilities in components - Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (or CVEs)
License: risks of Intellectual property (IP) legal requirements
Development: risks of compatibility between existing codebase and open-source software
Support: risk of poor documentation and Obsolete software components
Shortly after the foundation of the Open Source Initiative in February 1998, the risks associated with OSS were raised and organizations tried to manage this using spreadsheets and documents to track all the open source components used by their developers.
For organizations using open-source components extensively, there was a need to help automate the analysis and management of open source risk. This resulted in a new category of software products called Software Composition Analysis (SCA) which helps organizations manage open source risk.
SCA strives to detect all the 3rd party components in use within a software application to help reduce risks associated with security vulnerabilities, IP licensing requirements, and obsolescence of components being used.
Overview
Software composition analysis (SCA) is a practice in the fields of Information technology and software engineering for analyzing custom-built software applications to detect embedded open-source software and detect if they are up-to-date, contain security flaws, or have licensing requirements.
SCA products typically work as follows:
An engine scans the software source code, and the associated artifacts used to compile a software application.
The engine identifies the OSS components and their versions and usually store this information in a database creating a catalog of OSS in use in the scanned application.
This catalog is then compared to databases referencing known security vulnerabilities for each component, the licensing requirements for using the component, and the historical versions of the component. For security vulnerability detection, this comparison is typically made against known security vulnerabilities (CVEs) that are tracked in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). Some products use an additional proprietary database of vulnerabilities. For IP / Legal Compliance, SCA products will extract and evaluate the type of licensing used for the OSS component. Versions of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Nations%20principles%20of%20OCAP | The First Nations principles of OCAP establish an Indigenous data governance standard for how First Nations' data and information should be collected, protected, used, and shared. OCAP is an acronym for the principles of ownership, control, access, and possession. The principles were established in 1998 by Canadian First Nations leadership and are a trademark of the Canadian non-profit the First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC).
OCAP
The OCAP principles are a set of standards for First Nations' information governance which are intended to support First Nations' path to data sovereignty. OCAP principles also apply when conducting research using First Nations' data, particularly informing data collection and management.
Ownership refers to the relationship of First Nations to their cultural knowledge, data, and information. This principle states that a community or group owns information collectively in the same way that an individual owns their personal information.
Control affirms that First Nations, their communities, and representative bodies are within their rights to seek control over all aspects of research and information management processes that impact them. This principle extends to the control of resources and review processes, the planning process, management of the information, and any other component of information processes.
Access refers to the assertion that First Nations must have access to information and data about themselves and their communities regardless of where it is held. The principle of access also refers to the right of First Nations' communities and organizations to manage and make decisions regarding access to their collective information.
Possession, or stewardship, refers to the physical control of data. It is more concrete than ownership, which identifies the relationship between a people and their information in principle. Possession is the mechanism by which ownership can be asserted and protected.
History
The First Nations principles of OCAP were first established in 1998 by the National Steering Committee in charge of administering the First Nations Regional Longitudinal Health Survey (RHS), which preceded the First Nations Regional Health Survey (FNRHS or RHS). These principles help in enhancing First Nation resources and facilitating nation building while maintaining legitimacy and accountability for First Nation authorities and institutions.
OCAP is a registered trademark of FNIGC, a Canada-based non-profit organization. FNIGC states that it sought to trademark OCAP to protect the principles from misuse and improper interpretation that could distort their original intent.
First Nations Information Governance Centre
FNIGC is an independent, apolitical, and technical non-profit organization operating with a special mandate from the Assembly of First Nations' Chiefs-in-Assembly. FNIGC's stated vision is that "every First Nation will achieve data sovereignty in alignment with its distin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Tactical%20Network | This material was split from Army Futures Command
The US Army's Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) "is not a new or separate network but rather a concept"—PEO C3T. Avoid overspecifying the requirements for Integrated Tactical Network Information Systems Initial Capabilities Document. Instead, meet operational needs, such as interoperability with other networks, and release ITN capabilities incrementally.
Up through 2028, every two years the Army will insert new capability sets for ITN (Capability sets '21, '23, '25, etc.). and take feedback from Soldier-led experiment & evaluation. However, the Army's commitment to a 'campaign of learning' showed more paths:
Firestorm was made possible by a mesh network—improvising an MEO, and then a GEO satellite link between JBLM to YPG. There are plans to have a Project Convergence 2021. The Army fielded a data fabric at Project Convergence 2020; this will eventually be part of JADC2.
Five Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF) awards were granted to five vendors via the Network CFT and PEO C3T's request for white papers. That request, for a roll-on/roll-off kit that integrates all functions of mission command on the Army Network, was posted at the National Spectrum Consortium and FedBizOpps, and yielded awards within eight months. Two more awards are forthcoming.
The Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO)'s Emerging Technologies Office structured a competition to find superior AI/Machine Learning algorithms for electronic warfare, from a field of 150 contestants, over a three-month period.
The Multi-Domain Operations Task Force (MDO TF) is standing up an experimental Electronic Warfare Platoon to prototype an estimated 1000 EW soldiers needed for the 31 BCTs of the active Army.
Capability Set '21 fields ITN to selected infantry brigades to prepare for IVAS Integrated vision goggles. Expeditionary signal brigades get enhanced satellite communications.
1/82nd Airborne, 173rd Airborne, 3/25th ID, and 3/82nd Airborne infantry brigades will all have fielded the Integrated Tactical Network Capability Set '21 by year-end 2021. 2nd Cavalry Regiment is getting Capability Set '21 on Strykers, which will test the CS'23 network design on Strykers early.
Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) Capability Set '23 is prototyping JADC2 communications and the data fabric, to LEO (low Earth orbit) and to MEO (medium Earth orbit) satellites, as continued in Project Convergence 2021 in Yuma Proving Ground. Capability Set '23 has passed its Critical design review (CDR).
Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) Capability Set '25 will implement JADC2, according to the acting head of the Network CFT.
Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) Capability Set '27 design goals are being laid out.
G-6 John Morrison is seeking to unify the battlefield networks of ITN, and IEN (Enterprise Network), as of September 2021.
An Army leader dashboard from PEO Enterprise Information Systems is underway. The dashboard is renamed Vantage. The dashboard has streamlined and connec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveVideo%20%28social%20network%29 | LiveVideo was a social network launched in 2006 backed by MySpace founder, Brad Greenspan. It offered one of the first user generated video hosting platforms integrated with social media features described as a mashup of MySpace and YouTube, and later an interactive live video streaming platform.
History
LiveVideo was founded in 2006 but launched officially in 2008, with an interactive interview with Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns, called Drive Home with Steve Nash.
LiveVideo.com struggled to take advantage of its early leadership in the live video sector as a result of a lack of financial resources an issue accelerating in 2008 after Brad Greenspan, the CEO acquired Revver.com a money losing video hosting website located in Los Angeles.
In 2013, the original LiveVideo.com website was closed.
As of September 22, 2022, the LiveVideo.com domain forwards to a Coming Soon 2022 page with a LiveVideo.com logo.
Reception
LiveVideo received media coverage with its official launch in 2008 and after partnering with William Shatner to star in video series ShatnerVision. Later LiveVideo created a controversy by successfully recruiting Smosh “YouTube’s biggest stars” in 2007 to create videos.
See also
LivePlace
Brad Greenspan
Myspace
References
Social networking websites
Online algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%20Aitken%20%28director%29 | Sally Aitken is an Australian documentary film and television director, writer and producer. She has been nominated for two Emmys: in 2018 at the International Emmy Award for Best Arts Programming for the documentary film David Stratton: A Cinematic Life, and at the 43rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards for the documentary Playing With Sharks in 2022.
Career
Aitken is known for her work on the documentaries Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story, David Stratton: A Cinematic Life, Streets of Your Town and The Week the Women Went.
In 2022, she founded the production company Sam Content alongside Aline Jacques.
she is in post-production for her upcoming documentary feature, Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles, for Amazon Prime Video.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Living people
Australian women screenwriters
Australian documentary film directors
Women documentary filmmakers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20NRL%20season%20results | The 2023 NRL season is the 116th of professional rugby league in Australia and the 26th season run by the National Rugby League.
Attendance data is compiled from both the NRL and Austadiums websites.
Regular season
Round 1
March 2-5
The Dolphins made their official NRL debut and also recorded their first ever victory.
Both the Manly–Canterbury and Cronulla–Souths games were sellouts.
Tim Sheens coached his 250th game for the Wests Tigers.
Round 2
March 9-12
Round 3 (Multicultural Round)
March 16-19
The Bulldogs-Tigers fixture at Belmore was a sellout.
Round 4
March 23-26
The sellout crowd of 51,047 is the biggest regular season crowd (excluding double headers) in Suncorp Stadium's history, the biggest regular season crowd in Brisbane since round 22, 1995, and the biggest regular NRL season crowd since round 26, 2013.
Round 5
March 30-April 2
The Manly Newcastle game is the tied 4th highest drawn game ever, and the first draw in nearly 3 years.
Round 6 (Easter Round)
April 6-10
Round 7
April 13-16
The Newcastle vs Penrith match was the 150th golden point NRL match since its introduction to decide drawn matches in 2003.
The Warriors-Cowboys and Titans-Broncos games were both sellouts
Round 8 (ANZAC Round)
April 20-25
The Dolphins recorded their biggest ever comeback to date after being 26 points down against Gold Coast at the 28 minute mark to win 28–26. It is also the Titan's worst collapse to date. This comeback was also the equal largest comeback in NRL record and the first time a team came back from 26 points behind to win since 1998.
Round 9
April 27-30
The Wests Tigers ended their club record 12 game losing streak dating back to round 21, 2022 with their win over Penrith.
New Zealand Warriors are the first team to be held scoreless in a game this season.
Round 10 (Magic Round)
May 5-7
Wayne Bennett coached his 900th NRL match.
Round 11
May 11-14
Anthony Griffin coached his last game as coach for St George Illawarra as he was sacked after their loss to North Queensland.
The Sharks beat Manly at their home ground for the second time in a row, the first time this has occurred in their history.
Round 12 (Indigenous Round)
May 18-21
St George Illawarra defeated the Roosters outside of ANZAC Day for the first time since the 2010 Grand Final.
Wests Tigers scored the most points in a single game in their club history.
Round 13
May 25-28
Canberra Raiders player Corey Harawira-Naera suffered a seizure in the 65th minute halting play for more than 10 minutes.
Round 14
June 2-4
The Cowboys 45 points was the highest score that Melbourne conceded since round 20, 2003.
Round 15
June 8-12
The crowd of 21,082 was the highest regular season crowd at Canberra Stadium since round 25, 2006.
The Dolphins recorded their biggest loss to date in their 40 point loss to Manly.
Round 16
June 16-18
Alex Twal scored his first try in the NRL breaking a 116 game drought
Round 17
June 23-25
Round 18
June 29-July 2
N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven%20Apel | Sven Apel (born 1977) is a German computer scientist and professor of software engineering at Saarland University.
His research focuses on software product lines and configurable systems, domain-specific generation and optimization, software analytics and intelligence, as well as empirical methods and the human factor in software development.
Education and career
Sven Apel studied computer science at the University of Magdeburg from 1996 to 2002. At the same university, he also received his doctorate in computer science in 2007 with a thesis on the “Role of Features and Aspects in Software Development.”
After his doctorate, Apel was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Passau until 2010. From 2010 to 2013, he led the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “Secure and Efficient Software Product Lines” there before he was appointed professor in Passau in 2013 as part of the DFG's Heisenberg Program.
Since 2019, Sven Apel has been a professor of software engineering at Saarland University.
In 2019, Apel, together with Christian Kästner and Martin Kuhlemann, received the “Most Influential Paper Award” at the Systems and Software Products Line Conference (SPLC) for the paper “Granularity in Software Product Lines”. In the article, the three researchers demonstrate how programs can be extended by fine-grained import from other software.
In 2022, together with Janet Feigenspan, Christian Kästner, Jörg Liebig and Stefan Hanenberg, he was awarded the “Most Influential Paper Award” at the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) for the paper “Measuring programming experience”. In the article, the researchers present a questionnaire and an experiment to assess and measure a programmer's level of experience.
According to Google Scholar, he has an h-index of 69.
Research areas
Sven Apel's research focuses in particular on methods, tools, and theories for the construction of manageable, reliable, efficient, configurable, and evolvable software systems.
In addition to the technical aspects, the human and social factors in software development also play an important role for him. For example, he investigates program comprehension with the help of neurophysiological measurements, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Awards
2007: Ernst Denert Software Engineering Prize
2013: Heisenberg Professorship with focus on software development, in particular automatic software construction
2015: Member of the Young Academy of Europe
2016: Hugo Junkers Award for Research and Innovation from Saxony-Anhalt
2018: ACM Distinguished Member for outstanding scientific contributions to computing
2019: “Most Influential Paper Award” of the Systems and Software Products Line Conference (SPLC)
2022: “Most Influential Paper Award” of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)
2022: ERC Advanced Grant “Brains on Code”
References
External links
Website of Professor Apel
Academic staff of Saarland Universi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daljinder%20Singh%20Virdee | Major Daljinder Singh Virdee (born March 1990) is a pharmacist, British Army officer, and chairman of the Defence Sikh Network (DSN), who campaigned for the re-introduction of Nitnem Gutkas, Sikh daily prayer books, into the British military.
Early life
Daljinder Singh Virdee was born March 1990. He acquired his Master of Pharmacy degree from the University of Reading in 2012.
Career
Virdee worked as technical services pharmacist at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London, before embarking on a four-week intensive course for professionally qualified officers (PQO) at the British Army's Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. He passed-out as a Lieutenant in 2015. Chairman of the Defence Sikh Network (DSN), Virdee has campaigned for the re-introduction of a Nitnem Gutkas, a Sikh daily prayer book, into the British military, which was last issued over a century ago. On 28 October 2022, the book was handed out at the Central Gurdwara temple in London. In November 2022, Virdee presented a copy of the new prayer book and other Sikh literature in a ceremony at the Golden Temple as part of a delegation of British military personnel to Amritsar to participate in an event in memory of the Battle of Saragarhi. The DSN has also advised on the different colours used for turbans in the three branches of the British military. In October 2022, Virdee represented the Defence Sikh Network at a ceremony in Thetford to honour Duleep Singh at St. Andrew and St. Patrick Church, Elveden, Suffolk.
References
Living people
1990 births
British Army officers
British Sikhs
British pharmacists
Alumni of the University of Reading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HACKEN | Hacken, stylized as HACKEN is an international cybersecurity company with the Ukrainian roots that combats Russia in an cyberwar within Russia invasion of Ukraine. The headquarters is located in Estonia (Tallinn) while the team according to the Wall Street Journal was moved from Kyiv to Lisbon in March 2022.
History
Hacken was founded in 2017 by a group of Ukrainian specialists. Hacken is officially registered as Hacken OÜ in Tallinn, Estonia. In 2018, the CER.live platform was launched, which assessed the security of exchanges trading digital assets, and is used by Forbes in evaluating cryptoexchanges.
On 2 March 2021, Hacken’s anti-DDOS tool DisBalancer was coded by a team of cybersecurity specialists and launched under the umbrella of the Hacken Foundation.
Cyberwarfare with Russia
Since February 24, 2022, Hacken has been involved in countering Russian aggression in cyberspace. On March 4, 2022, DisBalancer was redesigned to serve as the biggest ddos platform for Ukrainian IT army against Russia. It was called “Liberator’ as a reaction to the invasion of Russia. Liberator had attracted 10,000 collaborators from 150 countries in first months of the war.
In late February and early March 2022, Hacken adjusted its bug bounty platform HackenProof to serve a defensive and an offensive aims. The defensive program runs under the name “Call for Ukrainian cyber defense. Stop the war”. The offensive program started on 27 February was named “Call for exploits. Stop the war”. It focused on finding and using vulnerabilities of Russian hosting providers, ISPs, aerospace/air control, SCADA systems, banks, public services, etc.
Review
Hacken occupies a major part of the first academia comprehensive analysis of the Ukrainian cyber-resistance amidst 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine which performed by the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Spanish El Independiente described Hacken’s office in Barcelona as perhaps the most hidden side of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
References
Companies established in 2017
Russian–Ukrainian cyberwarfare
Web3 Security services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko%20Wakabayashi | Yoshiko Wakabayashi (born 21 May 1950) is a Brazilian computer scientist and applied mathematician whose research interests include combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, packing problems, and graph algorithms. She is a professor in the department of computer science and institute of mathematics and statistics at the University of São Paulo.
Education and career
After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in applied mathematics at the University of São Paulo in 1972 and 1977 respectively, Wakabayashi went to the University of Augsburg in Germany for doctoral study in applied mathematics, completing her doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1986. Her dissertation, Aggregation of Binary Relations: Algorithmic and Polyhedral Investigations, was supervised by Martin Grötschel.
She became an assistant professor at the University of São Paulo in 1977, associate professor in 1995, and full professor in 2006.
Recognition
Wakabayashi was named as a commander of the National Order of Scientific Merit in 2010. She was elected to the in 2012, and to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2019.
In 2020 the Brazilian Computer Society gave her their prize for scientific merit.
References
External links
Home page
1950 births
Living people
Brazilian computer scientists
Brazilian women computer scientists
Brazilian mathematicians
Brazilian women mathematicians
University of São Paulo alumni
University of Augsburg alumni
Academic staff of the University of São Paulo
Commanders of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuang%20Rongwen | Zhuang Rongwen (; born February 1961) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, director of the Office of the Central Cyber Security and Informatization Commission, deputy director of the State Council Information Office, and deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
He is a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
Early life and education
Zhuang was born in Quanzhou, Fujian, in February 1961, and graduated from Hohai University.
Political career
Zhuang joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June 1987. He assumed various administrative and political roles in Fujian before being transferred to the central government in 2010.
He was director of the Department of Economy, Science and Technology of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council in December 2010 and subsequently deputy director of the office in June 2014. In August 2015, he was appointed deputy director of the Cyberspace Administration of China. He was appointed deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party in April 2018, concurrently serving as head of the . He was chosen as director of the State Internet Information Office in August 2018. He also serves as director of the Office of the Central Cyber Security and Informatization Commission and deputy director of the State Council Information Office.
References
1961 births
Living people
People from Quanzhou
Hohai University alumni
People's Republic of China politicians from Fujian
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Fujian
Members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Chang | Edward Chang may refer to:
Edward Y. Chang, American computer scientist
Edward Chang (electrical engineer)
Edward Chang (neurosurgeon) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validator%20%28disambiguation%29 | Validator may refer to:
Validator, a computer program used to check the validity or syntactical correctness of a fragment of code or document.
Validator (blockchain), an entity involved in committing the blocks into a proof-of-stake blockchain.
Validator (comics), a team member in Omega Flight comics. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20divide | The data divide is the unequal relationship between those capable of collecting, storing, mining, and general management of immense volumes of data, and those whose data is collected. Using the framework of the digital divide, the data divide posits that the evolving nature of data and big data has created divisions and inequalities in data ownership, access, analysis, collection, and the manipulation of personal data generated by information and communications technologies (ICTs).
Theoretical framework
Early research in the digital divide concentrated on the divisions of access to information and digital technologies, demonstrating a split between the "haves" and the "have-nots": those able to access and use digital technologies versus those who do not. Divisions were found to occur along multiple lines of inequality, including education, economic income, race, and gender. The digital divide has several dimensions of access, including access to equipment or hardware, ownership, support networks, digital literacy, skill to use/navigate user interfaces, and so on. The Ada Lovelace Institute notes that the digital divide has exacerbated a data divide. As a result, the dimensions of access present within the digital divide are still present. The data divide additionally puts in contrast the "haves" who have access to large-scale datasets and the "have-nots" who do not have access to large-scale datasets nor the capability to navigate them. For example, private companies, often social media companies, are the only ones who have access to extensive social data. Boyd and Crawford suggest divisions are also emphasized through research and universities: well-funded universities can buy access to datasets and the students who attend would be more likely to be bridged into work within the same social media companies, while less prestigious institutions would be less likely to afford their students the same opportunities.
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in governments worldwide issuing stay-at-home orders, lockdowns, quarantines, restrictions, and closures. Interruptions to schooling, work, business, and other public service operations caused a massive shift to moving otherwise in-person activities online. Operations like doctor's visits, online schooling, shipping, and remote working require access to high-speed or broadband internet access and digital technologies. This mass adoption of data-driven digital technologies is what the Ada Lovelace Institute describes as a digital surge. In a report with the Health Foundation, the Ada Lovelace Institute found the four key elements that emerged through a public attitudes survey: a data divide based on access to data-driven technologies, a data divide based on awareness and skill, a data divide based on comfort with using health-related tracking apps, and a data divide based on choosing not to use health-tracking apps. In this, the Ada Lovelace Institute stressed the data divide in users not |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1957.
Events
Television programs
Debuts
Ending this year
Television stations
Station launches
Network affiliation changes
Station closures
Births
Deaths
References
External links
List of 1957 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell%20Ann%20S.%20Bowers%20College%20of%20Computing%20and%20Information%20Science | The Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, known as Cornell Bowers CIS for short, is an entity within Cornell University. The college comprises the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Information Science, and the Department of Statistics and Data Science. However, as Cornell computer science professor David Gries has explained, "essentially it's a college without students," with students instead being admitted to, and coming from, three of Cornell's regular undergraduate schools: the College of Engineering, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. A variety of degree programs are offered through the college, depending upon the department within the college and the originating college the student is in; the degrees granted include Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science; Master of Science, Master of Engineering, and Master of Professional Studies; and PhD. In addition, students from any of Cornell's seven different undergraduate schools can minor in computer science or information science.
By 2022, there were 2,000 students taking majors in the college, and 76 percent of all undergraduate students were taking at least one course in CIS. The college is located in Bill & Melinda Gates Hall near the Engineering Quadrangle on the Cornell Central Campus in Ithaca, New York. A new building is planned to help accommodate the rapidly increasing enrollments in CIS subjects. The inaugural dean of the college is Kavita Bala.
Faculty of Computing and Information Science
The college came out of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, which was established in 1999 to unify computer science-related efforts throughout the university. The initiative, done under the university presidency of Hunter R. Rawlings III, overcame early opposition from many professors in both the Engineering and Arts schools. The new faculty's first dean was Robert L. Constable, a longtime professor of computer science at Cornell who specialized in connecting computer programs with mathematical proof systems. The idea of the entity, which Constable had been one of the primary advocates for, was to elevate computer science from the department level to the college level; this was seen as critical given the field's increasingly widespread importance to nearly every area of study at the university. Furthermore, the information science side of the faculty would focus on how computer-related technology was affecting society and the world.
In 2005, the Department of Statistical Science was incorporated into the faculty. A $25 million donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006 led to the construction of the building named after couple, which opened in 2014. Other CIS facilities include Rhodes Hall, as well as Malott Hall.
Constable would remain as the faculty's dean for ten years. When he stepped down from the post, Provost Biddy Martin said that Constable had suc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20diplomacy | Data diplomacy can be defined in two different ways: use of data as a means and tool to conduct national diplomacy, or the use of diplomatic actions and skills of various stakeholders to enable and facilitate data access, understanding, and use. Data can help and influence many aspects of the diplomatic process, such as information gathering, negotiations, consular services, humanitarian response and foreign policy development. The second kind of data diplomacy challenges traditional models of diplomacy and can be conducted without tracks and diplomats. Drivers of change in diplomacy are also emerging from industry, academia and directly from the public.
In recent years, as more governments have realized the value and capabilities of data, the influence and application of digital diplomacy have expanded gradually and become a new kind of soft diplomatic power.
Classification
Based on the definition of science diplomacy given by the American Association for the Advancement of Science the article of Andy Boyd, Jane Gatewood, Stuart Thorson and Timothy D. V. Dye identifies three subcategories of data diplomacy: data in diplomacy, diplomacy for data, and data for diplomacy. It is worth noting that the three classifications of data diplomacy are inevitably overlapping.
Data in diplomacy
Diplomatic data refers to the infusion of data and data expertise into relationships between nation-states or other entities that can affect policymaking and involves training in data understanding, use and management. Such types of diplomacy are not limited to diplomats but can also occur between institutions and the public. Actors at both the macro and micro levels drive data diplomacy and data diplomacy is often at the indistinguishable forefront of soft and hard power. Applications include direct aid, access to international credit, and international inter-negotiations. However, the process of data diplomacy is also subject to unstructured and uncontrolled data, such as whistleblowing data disclosures.
Diplomacy for data
This is an important classification in data diplomacy and typically refers to stakeholder interactions to advance international practices of data sharing, data use, and data interpretation. Diplomacy for Data encompasses every stage of data - from generation to sharing, use and archiving or deletion. This helps standardize international data coding, facilitates international data sharing, increases public participation, protects user privacy and regulates environmental imbalances. Applications include the International Classification of Diseases coding system that the World Health Organization established and UN benchmark data sharing.
Data for diplomacy
Data for Diplomacy is a worldwide platform of data experts collaborating to create relationships in which diplomats need to understand the use of data to better facilitate the creation of such relationships, use diplomacy to access data and leverage the value of data as soft power. Data ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20ecosystem | A data ecosystem is the complex environment of co-dependent networks and actors that contribute to data collection, transfer and use. They can span across sectors - such as healthcare or finance, to inform one another's practices. A data ecosystem often consists of numerous data assemblages. Research into data ecosystems has developed in response to the rapid proliferation and availability of information through the web, which has contributed to the commodification of data.
Data
Data refers to digitized information that is compressed for efficient transmission. Data is constituted of binary values, expressed as 1 or 0, which allows complex thoughts, images, videos and more to be abstracted. The level of data production and exchange has exploded in recent decades, with government and public agencies freely publishing vast swaths of data, particularly in environmental, cultural, scientific and statistical fields. It has also led to a highly profitable industry for companies that collect, categorize and disseminate data as a tradable resource and operate within the newly defined data ecosystems.
Data ecosystems
The nature of an ecosystem denotes a symbiotic relationship between elements. Thus, when describing a data environment as an ecosystem, it describes a co-constitutive relationship. Their primary purpose is to create, manage and sustain the sharing of data across platforms and disciplines. Key to this initiative are data intermediaries, which facilitate access to the data, and are categorized into seven types, including data trusts, data exchanges and data platforms. A data ecosystem also comprises data providers and consumers, who as their titles denote, provide and consume the data through the intermediaries.
A common example of data ecosystem exists within the realm of web browser. A third-party tracking app on a website (referred to as cookies) acts as an intermediary by collecting and organizing data. The web browser becomes the data provider, as it shares a user's information as they navigate through different websites. The websites themselves become consumers as they utilize the tracking information to tailor content based on user behaviour.
As mentioned, data ecosystems can span across sectors, for example, a client's medical data is shared with an insurance company to calculate a premium. The point of an ecosystem is that all actors within the shared environment are contributing to a common resource or knowledge-base.
Mapping
Data ecosystems possess three major characteristics: network, platform, and co-evolution. Network loosely refers to the groups of data and technology developers, providers, and resellers. The platform, then, is the service, tool or platform that is collaboratively used by the network of actors. The platform provides the interface for the actors to produce their shared product or service. The final characteristic refers to how the different actors and platform enable one another to evolve or improve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20discourse | A data discourse is a discourse that works within the context of data and how data can fulfill particular purposes, agendas and narratives. In relation to open data, the discourses about sharing, reuse, open access, open government, transparency, accountability, social entrepreneurship, and economies of scale are organized to form a discursive regime that promotes investment in open data. In relation to big data, the discourses of insight, wisdom, productivity, competitiveness, efficiency, effectiveness, utility, value is deployed to promote their legitimization and usage in businesses and repositories.
Examples
Patrick Ferucci evaluates meta journalistic discourse in relation to big data through analyzing Metra journalism from 2000 to 2017.
At Online Marketing Summit, in San Diego, Cheemin Bo-Linn, president and interim CMO at Peritus Partners, discusses the increase of big data such as, Facebook that produces 10 terabytes of data per day. Cheemin Bo-Linn says marketers can use these big data to examine practices and behavior of customers, plan campaigns to take actions, to target consumers and shape consumers' habits.
Big data is used to analyze and understand environmental discourses in hotel online reviews.
Narratives
Data imaginaries and discourses are brought together to compose what Foucault coined a term 'discursive regime'. Discursive regime is a coordination of overlapping arguments that promotes developments and legalizes the actions of the developments. The goal of discourses within a regime is to make messages and narratives appear logical, to convince people and institution to act according to the logics and norms of the regime. Data imaginaries and affordances are attained through agglomeration of several data discourses.
The discourses and imaginaries are linked together to form data narratives to make stories about data and their interconnected assemblages persuasive. Data do not represent themselves. For data to be represented and narrated, it is placed in specific settings in order to create shape and meaning making. The elements of data narratives are data trajectories, data temporalities, the cultural grounding of data narratives.
References
discourse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20decolonization | Data decolonization is the process of divesting from colonial, hegemonic models and epistemological frameworks that guide the collection, usage, and dissemination of data related to Indigenous peoples and nations, instead prioritising and centering Indigenous paradigms, frameworks, values, and data practices. Data decolonization is guided by the belief that data pertaining to Indigenous people should be owned and controlled by Indigenous people, a concept that is closely linked to data sovereignty, as well as the decolonization of knowledge.
Data decolonization is linked to the decolonization movement that emerged in the mid-20th century.
History
In various colonial states, data was used to identify Indigenous peoples using Western classification systems, leading to erasure of Indigenous identities, and the origin of narratives that focus on disadvantages in Indigenous communities.
Indigenous knowledge systems were replaced with Western values and systems, devaluing Indigenous ways-of-knowing in the process. Indigenous data practices tend to be more holistic, value diverse, personal opinions, and centre on the person community for their own benefit, rather than Western practices that are closely linked to categorising people as products, replicating colonial structures. Traditions such as oral history, using traditional knowledge, and other practices that were deemed "unscientific" were devalued and replaced with Western ways of knowing that presented as universal and objective. Tools such as the census were used to control narratives about Indigenous peoples, counting Indigenous peoples as they were viewed by the Canadian governenment rather than how they viewed themselves.
Data decolonization seeks to counter the negative narratives that are reinforced by the colonial data practices that persist in a post-colonial era.
Principles
Self-identification
Indigenous peoples value the right to self-identify themselves and define their own identities in data collection. Indigenous peoples value the diversity in their communities and wish to see this diversity accounted for in data.
Self-determination
Indigenous peoples value the right to make decisions about their data. They value the right to control how data is collected about them, how their data is stored, who gets to own the data, and how the data is used.
In practice
Policies
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was first introduced to the General Assembly in 2007. UNDRIP outlines the comprehensive rights of Indigenous peoples, and serves as a guideline for countries seeking reconciliation with their Indigenous populations. Article 18 especially outlines Indigenous rights to have decision-making power in matters that affect their rights, and this affects their data rights as well. Four countries voted against UNDRIP when it was first proposed: Canada, United States, New Zealand, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37th%20Golden%20Disc%20Awards | The 37th Golden Disc Awards () is a award ceremony held on January 7, 2023, and broadcast through various television networks and streaming platforms in various countries. The ceremony was hosted by Sung Si-kyung, Lee Da-hee, Nichkhun, and Park So-dam.
Criteria
All songs and albums that are eligible to be nominated must be released between early-November 2021 and mid-November 2022. Songs and albums that were excluded from the nominations in the 36th edition due to overlapping in the counting deadline were included in this edition.
Winners and nominees
Nominees are listed in alphabetical order.
Main Awards
The list of nominees except Digital Daesang (Song of the Year) and Disc Daesang (Album of the Year) were announced on December 7, 2022, through the official website. The nominees for Digital Daesang (Song of the Year) and Disc Daesang (Album of the Year) will be chosen from the winners of Digital Song Daesang and Album Bonsang. The list of nominees for Most Popular Artist Award was announced through TikTok on December 20.
Other awards
Multiple awards
The following artist(s) received three awards:
Performers
The first lineup was announced on December 7, 2022. The second and third lineup were announced on December 14, 2022, and January 5, 2023, respectively.
Broadcast
Notes
References
External links
2023 in South Korean music
2023 music awards
Golden Disc Awards ceremonies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20bus%20route%20901 | Melbourne bus route 901 is a bus route operated by Kinetic Melbourne between Frankston station and Melbourne Airport in Melbourne, Australia. It is part of the SmartBus network.
History
In the late 2000s and early 2010s orbital bus routes began being introduced in Melbourne as an alternative form of public transport to trains which allowed people to get to major areas without needing to go via the city. Route 901 was introduced in 2008 as the yellow orbital and operated from Frankston station to Ringwood station, absorbing the former route 665. It later became part of the SmartBus network.
In September 2010 route 901 was extended to Melbourne Airport, partly replacing Dysons route 571, making it Melbourne's second longest bus route by distance and longest by total journey time.
Initially operated by Grenda's Bus Services, it became part of Ventura Bus Lines in 2012, was taken over by Transdev Melbourne in 2013, and by Kinetic Melbourne in January 2022.
Route
Route 901 operates from Frankston station to Melbourne Airport via the outer eastern and northern suburbs of Melbourne. It travels via Dandenong station, Westfield Knox, Ringwood station, Blackburn station, Eltham station, South Morang station, Epping station, Broadmeadows station and Gladstone Park.
Vehicles
Route 901 was initially operated by a dedicated fleet of Volgren bodied Mercedes-Benz OC500LEs painted in SmartBus silver and orange livery. These have been supersed by Gemilang and Volgren bodied Scanias in standard Public Transport Victoria livery.
References
Bus routes in Melbourne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Heidrich | Wolfgang Heidrich is a German-Canadian computer scientist and Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), for which he served as the director of Visual Computing Center from 2014 to 2021. He was previously a professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he was a Dolby Research Chair (2008-2013). His research has combined methods from computer graphics, optics, machine vision, imaging, inverse methods, and perception to develop new Computational Imaging and Display technologies. His more recent interest focuses on hardware-software co-design of the next generation of imaging systems, with applications such as high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, compact computational cameras, hyper-spectral cameras, wavefront sensors, to name just a few.
Heidrich is best known for his work in developing the high dynamic range (HDR) imaging and displays, which served as the basis for the technology behind Brightside Technologies, which was acquired by Dolby in 2007, and then later on (as part of the Dolby vision) turned into one of the core technical solutions for commercial displays.
In 2010, Heidrich, along with Erik Reinhard, Paul Debevec, Sumanta Pattanaik, Greg Ward, and Karol Myszkowsk, published the book High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting, that later on became an essential resource for people working with images.
Heidrich was presented AAIA Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and Eurographics Fellow in 2022, 2021, and 2013, respectively. He is the recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award (2023), the Humboldt Research Award (2014), the Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research (2011), an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (2010), and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar Award (2002).
Biography
Heidrich received his Diplom informatiker from University of Erlangen (1995), an M.Math in computer science from University of Waterloo (1996), and a PhD (with honours) in computer science from University of Erlangen (1999). Before joining UBC, he was a Research Associate at Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science (1999-2000). Then, he became a faculty member at the University of British Columbia (UBC) computer science (2000-2018). Since 2014, he has been affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) CS and ECE.
References
Living people
1968 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise%20of%20the%20Guardians%20%28soundtrack%29 | Rise of the Guardians: Music From The Motion Picture is the score album to the 2012 of the same name, composed by Alexandre Desplat. The film marked Desplat's maiden score for a computer-animated film as well as his DreamWorks' film, not to be scored by either Hans Zimmer or his Remote Control Productions family of composers. The score was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and AIR Studios in London and features collaborations with London Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Desplat) and London Voices performing. In addition to Desplat's score, an original song "Still Dream" written by David Lindsay-Abaire and performed by soprano singer Renée Fleming, was featured in the film's end credits. Both Desplat's score and Fleming's original song was included in the film's score album, released by Varèse Sarabande on November 13, 2012 and received positive response praising Desplat's compositions.
Development
Ramsey admired Desplat's work since Birth (2004), and wanted to work with him in his film. Desplat was then suggested by the creative head of DreamWorks Animation, Bill Damaschke after being considered for several of the projects. The music of Rise of the Guardians is "actually rather complex", where "there are clear lines you can follow, and melodies you can hum along to, but the orchestration is rather sophisticated". He referenced Mysterious Island (1961) as an example in which "the music was accessible but extremely demanding", and John Williams scores for Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises were "sophisticated, complex, dissonant", but watched by all age groups.
Desplat called that "there is so much in this film, so many influences, and so much beauty in the way the camera moves. It's really a mix of many things", adding that the film influences from fine art, video art, literature and music. He praised Ramsey's vision, recalling that he brought a book for Gerhard Richter for referencing the film, when Desplat was set to begin film's music. Though the characters were incorporated from folklore and fairy tales, he did not influence from folk music in the period, but created new music for the characters. For Alec Baldwin, who plays Nicholas St. North (Santa Claus), Desplat felt that his vocals were one of the strong aspects for the film, which resulted him using a Russian instrument while riding a sleigh, hence he became a "Russian Santa Claus". Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite" was integrated whenever North appears in the film.
While recording the film's music, Ramsey used to whistle few themes while scoring the album, as "he grew up in a household with a lot of music" and added that Desplat asked him to play an instrument, which he agreed. He then played guitar for some of the scores, which he felt as a "huge compliment and really interesting", adding that "when I’m scoring a film, I can always tell if the director likes and understands music, because of the scenes themselves and the way they’re edited. The flow and the pacing makes it easier |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20universalism | Data universalism is an epistemological framework that assumes a single universal narrative of any dataset without any consideration of geographical borders and social contexts. This assumption is enabled by a generalized approach in data collection. Data are used in universal endeavours across social, political, and physical sciences unrestricted from their local source and people. Data are gathered and transformed into a mutual understanding of knowing the world which forms theories of knowledge. One of many fields of critical data studies explores the geologies and histories of data by investigating data assemblages and tracing data lineage which unfolds data histories and geographies (p.35). This reveals intersections of data politics, praxes, and powers at play which challenges data universalism as a misguided concept.
Theoretical framework
Data are mainly sampled in rich Western countries which are considered the leaders and voices of technological developments while ignoring cultures, communities, and geographies despite its application being widespread. As the data lifecycle grows, processed small data that are grounded within big data are compiled and formed from heterogeneous sources extracted from mainstream places, forming what has come to be understood as knowledge.
As of 2022, research has not shown the origin behind universalism as a practice due to a lack of controlled data. According to cultural psychologists, democracy and universalism have a positive correlation but there are no studies that show how universalism is shaped by people's experiences and environments (p.1). A push toward datafication has been spurred by democratically advanced Western voices and diffused across fragile democracies in the Global South with no consideration to the geopolitical context and influence powers of the data landscape in countries outside the West. As mentioned by Cappelen et. al, obscure information is found on the epistemology of universalism, although it is argued that a lack of representative data are problematic for broad global analyses (p.1).
Criticism
Data universalism has been critiqued by many scholars concerned about data privacy and data justice, claiming that it conceals cultural specifications and diversity. Datafication ought to be viewed through the lens of epistemic diversity and justice to achieve data obedience. So, people are encouraged to critically examine the impacts of datafication by reimagining people and places.
De-westernization
Milan and Treré have contended that datafication as a privileged practice carried by dominant Western democracies that fail to see the richness of worldviews and meanings of the South. As promoted by Global South and Indigenous scholars, data universalism mistakenly assumes data to be universal when it ought to be treated differently (p.323). If data are extracted without an ethical foundation grounded by attitude and method, the data becomes pervasive and incompetent. Moreover, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dil%20Bhusan%20Pathak | Dil Bhusan Pathak () is a journalist and the editor in chief of Kantipur Television Network Pvt. Ltd. He currently produces and hosts the show Tough Talk with Dil Bhusan Pathak on Kantipur TV.
Life and career
Pathak was born in the Jhapa district of Nepal on June 16, 1972. He began his work as a Junior Reporter in the Kantipur Media Group in 1993, when he was 19 years old and studying Mass Communication at Ratna Rajya Campus, Tribhuvan University.
Besides journalism, he has also worked as a film director. He is the Founder of Interface Nepal Network ( INN). He worked as an editor in chief for News 24 and started hosting his show Tough Talk from this channel in 2012.
In 2021 Pathak was honored with Prabal Jana Sewa Shree Padak (प्रबल जनसेवाश्री पदक) by the Nepal Government for his contributions by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari.
References
Nepalese journalists
Living people
1972 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VinBus | VinBus or VinBus LLC, formally the VinBus Ecology Transport Services LLC (), is a Vietnamese privately operated non-profit bus route network service established by Vingroup in 2019.
History
The VinBus subsidiary was announced by Vingroup on May 2, 2019, with transit service starting in March 2020 and the deployment of 3,000 electric buses planned through the future.
Electric bus
The VinBus-branded low-floor electric city bus is produced by VinFast, Vingroup's automotive subsidiary, at the company's Automobile Manufacture Complex located in Hai Phong. The bus is powered by a 281 kWh battery pack which gives the bus up to of range. Using the VinBus-designated 150 kWh DC fast-charging stations provided by StarCharge, the battery can be charged within ~2 hours. Batteries used by the VinBus fleet are provided by a joint venture between VinFast and LG Chem, while other components are supplied by Siemens.
Transit service
VinBus currently operates three bus transit networks in the cities of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Phú Quốc City.
References
External links
Official website
Vingroup
VinFast vehicles
2019 establishments in Vietnam
Electric buses
Transport in Vietnam
Transport in Hanoi
Transport in Ho Chi Minh City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchus%20%28Jacopo%20Sansovino%29 | Bacchus is a marble sculpture by Italian artist Jacopo Sansovino, datable to 1515. It is held at the National Museum of the Bargello, in Florence.
History
The sculpture was created by Jacopo Sansovino to decorate the garden of Giovanni Bartolini, in Florence, as part of a program of recovery of the forms of classical antiquity as was being promoted by the Neoplatonic Academy. It was later bought by Cosimo I and went to decorate his apartment in the Palazzo Vecchio, with works by Michelangelo, Baccio Bandinelli and Benvenuto Cellini.
The current work was widely admired in Florence and much better known than Michelangelo's Bacchus (who only arrived in the city in 1571 or 1572), and it was taken as a model for sculptors and painters. There are countless citations, drawings and printed reproductions and derivations of this sculpture in the most diverse materials.
In 1762 it was seriously damaged by the fire in the west corridor of the Uffizi.
In 1864 Perkins called it "one of the best statues ever conceived according to the ancient spirit", and French historian Salomon Reinach, in is
Répertoire de la Statuaire Grecque et Romaine (1897, 3 volumes), even mistook it for an ancient work, including it among the iconographies of Dionysus, although it had already been published by Gori in his repertoire of Florentine sculpture.
Description and style
The statue evokes the pagan god Bacchus, represented here as a young god who joyfully raises the bowl with which the ancients drank wine to the sky, while looking up smiling. He holds bunches of grapes with his right hand, and has a satyr hidden behind his right leg. It echoes works by his master sculptor Andrea Sansovino and the classical works that he must have seen in Rome, as well as the recent frescoes by Raphael, such as Apollo and Marsyas and the Judgment of Solomon in the vault of the Stanza della Segnatura (1508).
It is not clear if Sansovino had a precise ancient model as a reference or if this was his own interpretation of the past. It seems likely that the artist was inspired by several works, including, as indicated by Daniela Gallo, the Apollo Belvedere for Bacchus, and one of the Dioscuri di Montecavallo for the little satyr behind him.
References
1510s sculptures
Sculptures by Jacopo Sansovino
Sculptures of Dionysus
Sculptures in the Bargello
Marble sculptures in Italy
Nude sculptures in Italy
Food and drink sculptures
Fauns in popular culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graciela%20Gonz%C3%A1lez%20Far%C3%ADas | Graciela María de los Dolores González Farías is a Mexican statistician whose research involves multivariate analysis, time series, and the estimation of shape parameters of skewed data. She is a researcher at the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT), the director of CIMAT's branch campus in Monterrey, Mexico, and a former president of the Asociación Mexicana de Estadística (Mexican Statistical Association).
Education and career
González studied mathematics at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1979. She earned a master's degree from the in 1986, and completed a PhD in 1992 at the North Carolina State University. Her doctoral dissertation, A New Unit Root Test for Autoregressive Time Series, was jointly supervised by David Dickey and Peter Bloomfield.
She became a researcher at CIMAT in 1999, and was named director of CIMAT Monterrey in 2010. She served as president of the Mexican Statistical Association for the 2005–2007 term.
Recognition
González is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Mexican statisticians
Women statisticians
Autonomous University of Nuevo León alumni
North Carolina State University alumni
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAGA%20Group | NAGA Group is a German fintech company that provides an investing app with an inbuilt social network. The company's headquarters is located in Hamburg, Germany. It was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2017. The NAGA Group AG is the holding company of NAGA Markets Europe Ltd, NAGA Technology GmbH, and NAGA Global Ltd.
History
NAGA was founded by Benjamin Bilski, a former professional German swimmer, and Yasin Sebastian Qureshi in Germany in 2015.
In 2017, NAGA Group AG was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and was included in the list of Red Herring 100 2017 Winners. The German magazine Capital.de criticized NAGA's ICO process right after its initial public offering (IPO) in 2017, saying that it was made possibly in a hurry and was quite quick.
Fosun International, a Chinese holding company, is a shareholder of NAGA since 2017.
In 2021, the company launched NAGA Pay, a mobile banking and investing app that combines an IBAN account, a VISA debit card, a share deposit, copy trading, and physical crypto wallets.
NAGA Group AG develops a social investing platform (with 1 million users), crypto platform and a mobile banking and investing app.
In October 2022, The NAGA Capital Ltd obtains a Seychelles license.
References
Companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather%20drone | A weather drone, or weather-sensing uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV), – is a remotely piloted aircraft weighing less than 25 kg and carrying sensors that collect thermodynamic and kinematic data from the mid and lower atmosphere (e.g. up to 6 km).
Weather drones are not yet used to support National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) due to ongoing negotiations on UAVs’ access to airspace and compliance with airspace regulations and technological development needed to meet the World Meteorological Organization's requirements.
Mostly, weather drones are deployed to support scientific research missions and industry-specific operations.
History
Early proposals
The first recorded UAV for measuring atmospheric parameters was in 1970, when a “small radio-controlled aircraft [was used] as a measuring platform” for sharing meteorological measurement results. The study was supported by the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory and NASA, Wallops Station. The authors pointed out the need for “a simple, economical, controllable, and recoverable platform to carry meteorological sensors and instrumentation” and demonstrated that using a small, radio-controlled aircraft to collect weather data was both feasible and useful.
The second milestone in the development of weather drones was the prototype built by a group of researchers at the University of Colorado, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in 1993. The goal of the fixed-wing drone called Aerosonde was to enable weather data collection in remote and inaccessible regions of the globe. In 1995, further developments were conducted in Australia by Environmental Systems and Services (ES&S) Pty Ltd. having the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and Insitu Group as subcontractors. In 1999, all operations and development started to be undertaken by Australian-based Aerosonde Ltd. Since 2007, Aerosonde Ltd. has been part of the American industrial conglomerate Textron Inc. By 2016, the Aerosonde had become an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft for military operations and its weather data collection feature, secondary.
Later development
In 2009, the American National Research Council published the report “Observing Weather and Climate from the Ground Up: A Nationwide Network of Networks”, emphasizing the need for more adequate vertical mesoscale observation methods than radiosondes launched by weather balloons – the major system used to collect data from that atmospheric layer.
Since then, research programs focusing on weather drones have been increasing. The Center for Autonomous Sensing and Sampling at the University of Oklahoma is the most active group in this domain. Its researchers have been developing the CopterSonde and created the 3D Mesonet concept, a network of stations from which weather drones are launched every hour or two to collect data from the mesoscale.
In 2022, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) deployed a weat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unwind%20with%20ITV | Unwind with ITV is an ITV ambient television programme. It broadcasts footage of various peaceful environments and computer graphics, over ambient music. Its introduction was, partially, a part of ITV's Britain Get Talking campaign, and is produced by Plymouth-based Rock Oyster Media in collaboration with mental health charity Campaign Against Living Miserably, with music coming from the libraries of the music conglomerate BMG. It started broadcasting on 2 October 2021. In November 2022, Unwind was discontinued on STV, with it being replaced by Night Vision, which features news, sport and weather from across Scotland. However in July 2023, Unwind returned to STV following the collapse of Ideal World and now shown alongside Night Vision.
Since November 2022, a round-the-clock feed of Unwind footage is available as part of the line-up of FAST channels offered within the 'Live TV' section of ITVX. The show is also available for late-night viewing on ITV channels 1-4 and ITVBe.
Origins
Unwind with ITV replaced an earlier programme called ITV Nightscreen, which was an hour-and-half filler programme of promotional information about upcoming ITV shows that ran over the late hours of ITV's night-time service. The programme was used to fill the station's overnight downtime, where a closedown would have once been used at the end of programmes. However under ITV's public service broadcasting requirements, the channel is required to operate a 24-hour-a-day service. ITV classified ITV Nightscreen as a regional programme. In 2017, the programme was said to account for more than a third of ITV's regional programming hours. Ofcom considered this an inappropriate means of fulfilling regional quotas and took action to remove the loophole.
Content
Each episode consists of either ambient aerial, landscape or natural scenery (done by either drone or static cameras) or geometric, morphing digital graphics. These visuals are accompanied by soft, ambient music.
See also
The Landscape Channel - A British defunct television channel that showed landscapes over ambient music
References
External links
Unwind with ITV on Rocky Oyster Media
2021 British television series debuts
Interstitial television shows
ITV (TV network) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turoff | Turoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Murray Turoff (1936–2022), American computer science professor
Nico Turoff (1899–1978), Ukrainian boxer and actor
Alan Turoff (fl. 1970s), inventor of the word game, Boggle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20number%20one%20Holiday%20Digital%20Song%20Sales%202010%E2%80%932019 | These are the Billboard Holiday Digital Song Sales chart number one hits from 2010 until 2019. The chart represents the top-downloaded Holiday songs, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.
See also
Billboard Christmas Holiday Charts
List of Billboard number one Holiday Digital Song Sales of the 2020s
List of Billboard number one Holiday Songs 2001-2010
List of Billboard Top Holiday Albums number ones of the 2010s
References
External links
Top Holiday Digital Song Sales chart at Billboard
Billboard charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow.ai | Yellow.ai, formerly known as Yellow Messenger, is an enterprise conversational AI platform founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. It is an artificial intelligence platform that automates conversational experiences for customers and employees. It enables businesses to deliver human-like personalized interactions in the preferred language. The platform supports more than 135 languages.
History
Yellow.ai was founded by Raghu Ravinutala, Jaya Kishore Reddy Gollareddy and Rashid Khan in 2016 in Bangalore, India. Raghavendra Ravinutala and Jaya Kishore Reddy Gollareddy had quit their full-time jobs to establish Yellow Messenger, and they met Rashid Khan at a college hackathon, and that's when the latter began working with them. In 2016, the company became a part of Microsoft's accelerator and SAP Startup studio.
In April 2021, during COVID-19, the company built chatbots to help governments with vaccinations. It launched Yellow Messenger Care to create COVID-19 help-related omnichannel chatbots, which helped NGOs and hospitals in their crisis management efforts. In June 2021, the company rebranded itself from Yellow Messenger to Yellow.ai. In 2023, Yellow.ai announced the launch of its Dynamic Automation Platform (DAP) and revealed a new logo as part of a larger rebranding strategy.
Partnership and client base
In January 2019, the company collaborated with Microsoft to work on transforming its voice automation using Azure Al Speech Services and Natural language processing (NLP) tools. In February 2022, the company partnered with Tech Mahindra to develop enterprise AI technology. It partnered with the e-commerce company Unicommerce in July 2020. In February 2022, Edelweiss General Insurance launched its AI Voice Bot, using Yellow.ai's technology. Yellow.ai implemented its AI-based customer service technology in Urja, a virtual assistant launched by the public sector company BPCL. The company has also formed partnerships with Accenture, Infosys, TCS, and Wipro.
Its clients include Schlumberger, Sony, Sephora, Flipkart, Grab, Skoda, Honda, Domino's Pizza, Bajaj Finance, Volkswagen, HDFC Bank, Ferrellgas, Indigo, Adani Capital, Haldiram, Lulu Group, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories and Concentrix.
Funding
In June 2019, Yellow.ai completed a series A funding of $4 million led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and angel investors such as Phanindra Sama, founder of RedBus, Anand Swaminathan, senior partner, McKinsey & Company, Limeroad founder Prashant Malik, and Snapdeal founder Kunal Bahl.
In April 2020, it raised $20 million in a series B round led by Lightspeed Ventures Partners and Lightspeed India Partners. In August 2021, the company raised $78.15 million in its Series C funding round led by WestBridge Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company has raised a total of $102 million so far.
Awards
The company won the Frost & Sullivan Technology Inno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1956.
Events
Other notable events
The Paramount Television Network ends network operations after about eight years.
Television programs
Debuts
Ending this year
Networks and services
Network launches
Network closures
Television stations
Station launches
Network affiliation changes
Station closures
Births
Deaths
References
External links
List of 1956 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INDIAai | INDIAai is a web portal launched by the Government of India in May 2022 for artificial intelligence related developments in India. It is known as the National AI Portal of India, which was jointly started by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) with support from the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L) and Ministry of Human Resource Development.
History
The portal was launched on May 30, 2020, by Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Law and Justice and Communications, on the first anniversary of the second tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government. A national program for the youth, 'Responsible AI for Youth', was also launched on the same day.
As of 2022, the website was visited by more than 4.5 lakh users with 1.2 million page views. It has 1151 articles on artificial intelligence, 701 news stories, 98 reports, 95 case studies and 213 videos on its portal. It maintains a database on AI ecosystem of India featuring 121 government initiatives and 281 startups. In May 2022, INDIAai released a book titled 'AI for Everyone' that covers the basics of AI.
Objective and features
It aims to function as a one-stop portal for all AI-related development in India. The platform publishes resources such as articles, news, interviews, and investment funding news and events for AI startups, AI companies, and educational firms related to artificial intelligence in India. It also distributes documents, case studies, and research reports. Additionally, the platform provides education and employment opportunities related to AI. It offers AI courses, both free and paid.
References
Internet properties established in 2020
2020 establishments in India
Computer-related introductions in 2020
Artificial intelligence
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)
Internet in India
E-government in India
Modi administration initiatives
Government services web portals in India
News agencies based in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20Heritage%20Network | The Climate Heritage Network (CHN) was set up in 2018 and launched in 2019 in response to the Global Climate Action Summit and the impacts of climate change on the arts, culture and heritage sectors. It aims to support its members in contributing to the fulfilment of the Paris Climate Agreement through the inclusion of culture. The network also aims to introduce cultural heritage into discussions about climate change.
The global network consists of over 250 non-governmental organizations, government agencies, universities, businesses and other organizations working with culture in its various forms.
In September 2022, the CHN released an Action Plan that specifically defines two goals for 2022-24: "Increase the quantity and quality of culture-based climate action" and "Transform climate policy". To support these goals, the CHN names 12 key issues, such as Buildings and Infrastructure, Food and Agriculture, Waste and Consumption.
To this end, the network is also increasingly present at international climate conferences, such as the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland and the 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
References
External links
CHN on the Agenda 21 for culture website
Cultural heritage
International climate change organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20in%20Belgium | Events in the year 2023 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Monarch: Philippe
Prime Minister: Alexander De Croo
Events
10 March – Belgium banned TikTok from all federal government work devices over cybersecurity, privacy, and misinformation concerns.
5 May – Belgian authorities arrest an Iraqi Al-Qaeda member and charge him with murder, terrorism, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, for his role in the deaths of at least 376 people and the wounding of over 2,300 others more than a decade ago in Iraq.
9 May — Flemish Canon published.
13 May – Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023
3 September — Luc Terlinden consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels.
4 September — Belgian state makes unprecedented retail bond issue for €22 billion.
16 October — 2023 Brussels terrorist attack: Two Swedish nationals are killed during a shooting near the central railway station in Brussels, Belgium. The perpetrator escaped from the scene.
17 October — Police in Brussels, Belgium, fatally shoot Tunisian Abdesalem Lassoued, 45, an Islamic State sympathizer in a cafe, who shot two Swedish tourists the previous day.
Sports
4 February – 19 March: 2023 Rugby Europe Championship
11 – 15 July 2023: 2023 European Amateur Team Championship
Deaths
3 January – Jean-Marie André, 78, scientist
5 January – Pierre Joassin, 74, film director and screenwriter (Maigret, Josephine, Guardian Angel)
25 August – Tijl De Decker, 22, cyclist
31 October – Jaak Broekx, 109, centenarian and oldest man in Belgium
References
Belgium
Belgium
2020s in Belgium
Years of the 21st century in Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20L.%20Thomaz | Andrea L. Thomaz is a senior research scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and Director of Socially Intelligent Machines Lab. She specializes in Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Machine Learning.
Education
In 1999, Thomaz earned her Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas. She obtained her ScM and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from MIT in 2002 and 2006, respectively.
Career and research
In 2007, Thomaz joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor of Interactive Computing. Her research aimed to computationally model mechanisms of social learning to build robots with social aspects and other intuitive machines. Additionally, During this time Thomaz began directing the Socially Intelligent Machines Lab. A Georgia Institute of Technology lab that were developing a socially intelligent robot called "Simon the Robot".
In 2016 Thomaz joined the University of Texas at Austin as a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
In 2016 Thomaz, along with co-founder Vivian Chu, founded Diligent Robotics. In 2016, Diligent released a social robot called Moxi that was rolled out in American hospitals. Moxi is a robot that helps nurses via performing tasks such as getting drugs for patients, delivering lab samples etc.
Awards and recognition
In 2009, Thomaz's research was featured in MIT Technology Review for her work on socially adept robotics, specifically on Simon the Robot and the social cues it gives when performing tasks and communicating.
In October 2012 Thomaz was listed as Popular Sciences Brilliant 10 for her work on Simon and the applications of building socially intuitive machines.
In 2015, Thomaz gave a TEDx talk on social robotics and gave a demonstration on her Simon project to highlight the research areas of the social robotics field and the struggles, aims and hopes for field.
Publication highlights
Effects of nonverbal communication on efficiency and robustness in human-robot teamwork (C Breazeal, CD Kidd, AL Thomaz, G Hoffman, M Berlin) 2005 IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems.
Teachable robots: Understanding human teaching behaviour to build more effective robot learners (AL Thomaz, C Breazeal) Artificial Intelligence 172 (6-7), 716-737
Policy shaping: Integrating human feedback with reinforcement learning (S Griffith, K Subramanian, J Scholz, CL Isbell, AL Thomaz) Advances in neural information processing systems 26
References
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio alumni
American roboticists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasm%C3%ADn%20R%C3%ADos-Sol%C3%ADs | Yasmín Águeda Ríos-Solís is a Mexican computer scientist and operations researcher who studies problems of scheduling, timetabling, and synchronization of public transport. She is a professor and researcher in the School of Engineering and Sciences at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.
Education and career
Ríos-Solís studied applied mathematics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, graduating in 2002. Next, she went to Pierre and Marie Curie University in France for graduate study in computer science and operations research, funded by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico). She earned a master's degree in 2003 and completed her PhD there in 2007. Her doctoral dissertation, Earliness and Tardiness Parallel Machine Scheduling, was jointly supervised by Francis Sourd and Philippe Chrétienne.
After postdoctoral research in bioinformatics at Bielefeld University in Germany, she returned to Mexico in 2008 as an assistant professor at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, in the Graduate Program in Systems Engineering. There, she was promoted to associate professor in 2011. She moved to her present position at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in 2020.
Recognition
Ríos-Solís was elected to the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2020.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Mexican computer scientists
Mexican women computer scientists
Operations researchers
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México alumni
Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni
Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León
Academic staff of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Prichard | Nancy Montague McCandlish Prichard (1916 – September 30, 2006) was a computer and Special Assistant at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. There she assisted Charles Greeley Abbot with research on solar radiation and its effect on the weather. During World War II, she joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as a civilian employee and was stationed in Cairo, Egypt. After the war, she volunteered for many years with the Fairfax City Jail Ministry, where she was recognized for her work in human rights, justice, and equality by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. She also became involved with the Episcopal Church, the League of Women Voters, and her local Democratic Committee.
Early life and education
Prichard was born in Fairfax, Virginia where she lived most of her life. She graduated from Sweet Briar College in 1938 and later earned a master's degree in Criminal Justice from American University in 1974.
Personal life
Nancy met and married her husband, Edgar Allen Prichard, while in Cairo. They had three children.
References
1916 births
2006 deaths
American University alumni
Sweet Briar College alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrisporobacter | Terrisporobacter is a genus of Gram-positive spore-forming bacteria in the family Peptostreptococcaceae. Members of this genus were once classified as Clostridium until phylogenetic data revealed it should be a distinct genus.
References
Gram-positive bacteria
Peptostreptococcaceae
Bacteria genera
Taxa described in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamita%20Guha | Anamita Guha is a quantum computing and AI expert. She currently works as a product manager at Facebook. She is an If/Then ambassador and was featured in the Smithsonian's "#IfThenSheCan - The Exhibit", a collection of life-sized 3D-printed statues of role models in STEM.
Early life and education
Guha was born in India and immigrated with her family to Kansas when she was 2 years old. At age 3 her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. She had early exposure to computers and began designing websites as a side hustle by age 9. Guha majored in Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley.
Career
She previously worked as Global Lead of Product Management at IBM Quantum and as a Lead Product Manager at IBM Watson.
At Facebook, Guha uses artificial intelligence to improve user experience and protect user data.
Guha was featured in the Make That Change campaign for the nonprofit Girls Who Code.
She was named one of the top 25 software product executives of 2020.
Personal life
Guha resides in New York, New York.
References
Living people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Facebook employees
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/SPN-35 | The AN/SPN-35 is a computerized automatic landing system installed on the Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship and other LHA/LHD-class warships to give control for aircraft during the final approach and landing.
The Joint precision approach and landing system (JPALS) is slated to replace the AN/SPN-35 on U.S. Navy amphibious assault ships.
Description
The AN/SPN-35 is used to offer guidance to the aircraft pilot on final approach. It provides relative azimuth, range, and elevation information to the radar operator, who relays this as verbal guidance to the aircraft pilot on approach.
The AN/SPN-35A variant has two antennas: the azimuth antenna (AS-1292/TPN-8) and the elevation antenna (AS-1669/SPN-35). The azimuth antenna is located above the azimuth drive assembly on the stabilized yoke. The elevation antenna is mounted on the elevation drive assembly adjacent to the azimuth antenna.
History
The AN/SPN-35 was developed from the ground-based AN/TPN-8 landing approach control radar. It was first evaluated on the in 1962, as an AN/TPN-8 mounted to an AN/SPN-6 stable pedestal and secured to an AN/SPN-8 platform. A prototype was evaluated aboard the about a year later as a replacement for the AN/SPN-8 on ASW carriers and small attack carriers. As of 1965, the AN/SPN-35 was being used "primarily on the ASW type carriers."
The -35A variant was used onboard s prior to 1996, when it was replaced by the AN/SPN-46A/B. It remains in use on the and today.
Platforms
Royal Australian Navy
Spanish Navy
Príncipe de Asturias
Royal Navy
United States Navy
Ship classes known to carry this system:
Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship
Wasp-class amphibious assault ship
America-class amphibious assault ship
- Replaced by AN/SPN-46 in the late 90s.
Individual ships known to carry this system:
- Installed 1965 while undergoing overhaul at San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard.
- Initial testing and evaluation
- Initial testing and evaluation
USS Inchon (MCS-12)
Variants
AN/SPN-35: Original model that entered service.
AN/SPN-35A: Improved stabilization system to compensate for pitch and roll of carrier. Replaces the original mechanical-hydraulic stabilization of the original with an electromechanical stabilization system.
AN/SPN-35B:
AN/SPN-35C: Upgrade to AN/SPN-35B. Adds Moving Target Detection (MTD), Track While Scan (TWS), and Built-In Test (BIT) capability.
See also
AN/SPN-46(V)1
References
External links
Refer to page 7 of Sept. 1963 issue for discussion of impact for SPN-35 relative to what came before.
Naval radars
Military radars of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriaku%20Njoku | Oriaku Njoku is an American activist for reproductive rights. In 2022, they were appointed executive director of the National Network of Abortion Funds.
Njoku goes by she and they pronouns.
Njoku's parents moved to the U.S. from Nigeria. During childhood, Njoku lived in Michigan, Indiana, and Bowling Green, Kentucky. They attended the University of Kentucky, where they came out as queer.
Njoku co-founded and served as executive director of Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, an abortion fund based in Atlanta.
Njoku was included in the Time 100 Next 2022 List.
Publications
References
Living people
1980s births
African-American activists
Activists from Atlanta
American abortion-rights activists
American people of Nigerian descent
African-American LGBT people
University of Kentucky alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20IoTDB | Apache IoTDB is a column-oriented open-source, time-series database (TSDB) management system written in Java. It has both edge and cloud versions, provides an optimized columnar file format for efficient time-series data storage, and TSDB with high ingestion rate, low latency queries and data analysis support. It is specially optimized for time-series oriented operations like aggregations query, downsampling and sub-sequence similarity search. The name IoTDB comes from Internet of Things (IoT) Database, which means it was designed as an IoT-native TSDB that resolves the pain points of the typical IoT scenarios, including massive data generation, high frequency sampling, out-of-order data, specific analytics requirements, high costs of storage and operation & maintenance, low computational power of IoT devices.
History
Apache IoTDB is a project initiated by Prof. Jianmin Wang's team in the School of Software at Tsinghua University. In 2011, the team chose to use open source NoSQL technology instead of Oracle for a project with mass machine data management, and noticed the insufficiency of NoSQL in the industrial internet of things (IIoT) scenarios. The team started to develop a data management system and formally proposed TsFile, an optimized columnar compact file storage format for time series data, in March 2016. The source code was then opened on GitHub.
In June 2016, based on TsFile, the team began to develop IoTDB, an IIoT database supporting real-time reading & writing and analysis.
In November 2018, the project IoTDB entered incubator at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
On September 16, 2020, the ASF officially issued a resolution to promote Apache IoTDB to the global Top-Level Project (TLP) following a public discussion vote by the community and a show of hands vote by the board.
Architecture
The complete storage system of Apache IoTDB follows a client-server architecture, including IoTDB engine (server) and several components as IoTDB suite (client). IoTDB suite can provide a series of functions in the real situation such as data collection, data writing, data storage, data query, data visualization and data analysis. This allows data collected by the sensor to constantly persist in server, where the data can then be used for native query or shipped to other open-source platforms for data analysis. In particular, IoTDB provides a mode called "Edge-Cloud Cooperation", which can synchronize data collected at every user-configured interval from one IoTDB instance to another using Sync Tool.
Users can use JDBC to write time series data to local/remote IoTDB. This time series data may represent system state data (such as server load and CPU memory, etc.), message queue data, time series data from applications, or other time series data in the database. The data can be directly written to TsFile locally or on Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
TsFile is a column storage file format developed for accessing, compressing and sto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manish%20Parashar | Manish Parashar is a Presidential Professor in the School of Computing, Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute and Chair in Computational Science and Engineering at the University of Utah. He also currently serves as Office Director in the US National Science Foundation’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. Parashar is the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and Founding Chair of the IEEE Technical Community on High Performance Computing. He is an AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, and IEEE Fellow.
As a leader in cyberinfrastructure research and policy, he has advocated for a national strategic computing reserve and the democratization of cyberinfrastructure’s use and impact. He also focuses on the importance of translational computer science, which bridges foundational, use-inspired, and applied research with the delivery and deployment of its outcomes to a target community.
Early life
Parashar received a BE degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Bombay University, India, and MS and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. Prior to joining the University of Utah, he was a faculty member at Rutgers University.
Career
Parashar’s work enables advanced application formulations, such as those based on dynamically adaptive, coupled methods, and data-driven workflows, to be implemented on extreme-scale high-performance computing systems. His contributions have included innovations in data structures and algorithms, programming abstractions, and runtime systems. He has pioneered the use of autonomic computing techniques to address application/system complexity and uncertainty. He has also deployed open-source software encapsulating these research innovations, which directly impact a range of applications.
A leader in structured adaptive mesh refinement, Parashar is one of the earliest researchers to address scalable SAMR. His research has included a theoretical framework for locality preserving distributed and dynamic data-structures for SAMR, programming abstractions that enable distributed, dynamically adaptive formulations to be directly expressed, and a family of innovative partitioning algorithms that incorporate system/applications characteristics, and mechanisms for actively managing SAMR grid-hierarchies. These contributions continue to enable truly scalable SAMR applications and have led to realistic simulations of complex phenomena, such as colliding black-holes and neutron stars, forest fire propagation, and fluid flows in the human heart.
As Assistant Director for Strategic Computing in the US Office of Science and Technology Policy, Parashar led the development of a national strategy for the Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem and the formulation of the National Strategic Computing Reserve in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since becoming Office Director at the National Science Foundation’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, Parashar h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20cooperative | A data cooperative is a group of individuals voluntarily pooling together their data. As an entity, a data cooperative is a type of data infrastructure, formed through the voluntary and collaborative pooling efforts of individuals. Data cooperatives allow individuals to get paid for the data they create and to exercise more pricing power than they would have on their own or in an- other type of data exchange. Examples include cooperatives of music artists, video producers, and gig workers. The income is not a subsidy, but rather the result of individual economic activity channeled through exchanges that aggregate the data of producers and workers, thereby turning individuals into data entrepreneurs. As a data infrastructure, data cooperatives are created, owned and operated by community members, and this enables the communities, and its members, to have full control over their data, and the decisions that are made by the insights gathered from the data. By giving individual community members control over their data, data cooperatives are a new and innovative type of data infrastructure, that act as a counter weight against data brokers and data driven corporations.
Key aspects
Ownership rights
One key aspect of data cooperatives is that the individual members of a data cooperative have control and legal ownership over their data. As a key aspect, ownership rights also refers to the notion that all members of a data cooperative must be able to collect copies of their data. This can be done either automatically through electronic means (e.g. passive data-traffic copying software on their devices) or it can me done by manually uploading data files to the cooperative. The data that is collected is stored in a members personal data store (PSD). Within an individual's personal data store, members have the ability to add, remove or restrict access to personal data.
Fiduciary obligations to members
This key aspect of data cooperatives refers to the legally bound obligations that cooperatives have to its members. Data cooperatives are member owned and member run, and there needs to be a set of rules (bylaws), that govern the cooperative, and have been agreed on by all members. The main factor that these rules cover are policies regarding the usage and or access of member owned data.
Direct benefit to members
This key aspect refers the overall desired goals outcomes of a data cooperative. Data cooperatives must provide benefit to all members of the cooperative. Data cooperatives accomplish this by analyzing the data and identifying useful insights amongst the data, that is then shared to the members of the cooperative.
Counter weight to data power imbalances
Within contemporary societies, "data" - as a commodity - is continuously becoming more valuable. Over the past decade, the control of data has been concentrated between a limited number of actors, such as; 'big tech' companies (e.g. Facebook & Google) and government entities. By forming a da |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20number%20one%20Holiday%20Digital%20Song%20Sales%20of%20the%202020s | These are the Billboard Holiday Digital Song Sales chart number one hits from 2020 until 2023. The chart represents the top-downloaded Holiday songs, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.
See also
Billboard Christmas Holiday Charts
List of Billboard number one Holiday Digital Song Sales 2010-2019
List of Billboard Top Holiday Albums number ones of the 2020s
References
External links
Current Top Holiday Digital Song Sales chart at Billboard
Billboard charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Dev%20Kit%202023 | Windows Dev Kit 2023 (also known as Project Volterra) is an ARM-based compact desktop computer for software developers, developed by Microsoft. It was announced during the Build conference on May 24, 2022, and was released on October 24, 2022. Sales continued until July 25, 2023.
Windows Dev Kit 2023 came pre-loaded with Windows 11 Pro and features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 system-on-a-chip (SoC), 32 GB LPDDR4X RAM, 512 GB NVMe SSD, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1, three USB-A, two USB-C, one Mini DisplayPort (with HBR2 support), and one physical Gigabit Ethernet port (embedded USB). It can support up to three external monitors simultaneously. The USB-C ports provide USB-PD but the device itself cannot be powered by them. The device's shell design is "made with 20% recycled ocean plastic".
Windows Dev Kit 2023 contains a neural processing unit (NPU), enabling developers "to run hardware-accelerated AI tasks and machine learning workloads".
Supported languages
The device was released on October 24, 2022, in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The device supports German, English, French, Japanese, and Chinese as available languages from the time the device is first turned on. Like other Windows devices, other language packs are available for download depending on the region.
The following table shows all languages that are compatible, including those for Windows Subsystem with Android.
References
Microsoft hardware
Computer-related introductions in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel%E2%80%93Dornach%20railway%20line | The Basel–Dornach railway line is a railway line in Switzerland. It runs from to the border of Basel-Stadt, near , where it connects with the Basel tram network. The line was built by the in 1902 and is now owned by Baselland Transport, which operates Line 10 of the Basel tram network over the line.
History
The opened a line between Dreispitz, in Basel, and Dornach, on 6 October 1902. Trains continued over the Basel tram network and terminated at . The line was electrified from opening at 550 V DC, later increased to 600 V DC. In 1974, the Birseckbahn merged with three other companies to form Baselland Transport, which continues to own and operate the line.
Route
The line begins from a turning loop to adjacent to the Swiss Federal Railways station at in Dornach. It runs north-south, roughly parallel to the standard gauge Basel–Biel/Bienne railway line. Both lines cross the river Birs at Münchenstein. In Dreispitz, at the northern end of the line, the Basel–Dornach railway line crosses over the Basel–Biel/Bienne railway line and joins with the Basel–Aesch railway line The two lines then connect with the tracks of the Basel tram network.
Operation
Baselland Transport operates the line as a tramway, designated as Line 10 of the Basel tram network. Two trams operate every fifteen minutes to Ettingen via . South of Basel, these services continue over the Basel–Rodersdorf railway line. Every other tram continues beyond Ettingen to Hofstetten-Flüh or Rodersdorf.
Notes
References
Further reading
Railway lines in Switzerland
Railway lines opened in 1902
1902 establishments in Switzerland
Baselland Transport lines
Metre gauge railways in Switzerland
600 V DC railway electrification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st%20Signal%20Regiment%20%28Italy%29 | The 41st Signal Regiment () is an inactive signals regiment of the Italian Army. The unit was formed in 1953 as a battalion, which operated and maintained the army's telecommunication network in the Aosta, Liguria, Lombardy, and Piedmont regions. In 1975 the battalion was named for the Col du Fréjus and received its own flag. In 1993 the battalion entered the newly formed 41st Signal Regiment, which was disbanded in 1998. After the regiment was disbanded the Battalion "Frejus" was transferred to the 32nd Signal Regiment, which operates and maintains the army's telecommunication network in northeastern Italy.
History
On 1 October 1957 the XLI Signal Battalion was formed in Turin with the personnel and materiel of the existing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd territorial signal companies. The battalion consisted of a command, a command and services platoon, and three signals companies. The battalion was assigned to the I Territorial Military Command in Turin.
During the 1975 army reform the army disbanded the regimental level and newly independent battalions were granted for the first time their own flags. During the reform signal battalions were renamed for mountain passes. On 1 December 1975 the XLI Signal Battalion was renamed to 41st Signal Battalion "Frejus". The battalion consisted of a command, a command and services platoon, and three signal companies. The battalion was assigned to the Signal Command of the Northwestern Military Region and operated and maintained the army's telecommunication network in the Aosta, Liguria (minus the province of La Spezia), Lombardy (minus the provinces of Brescia and Mantua), and Piedmont regions. On 12 November 1976 the battalion was granted a flag by decree 846 of the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone.
On 30 September 1987 the battalion consisted of a command, command and services company, and the 1st and 2nd TLC infrastructure managing companies. On 1 October 1988 the battalion added the 3rd Field Support Company.
On 19 September 1993 the 41st Signal Battalion "Frejus" lost its autonomy and the next day the battalion entered the newly formed 41st Signal Regiment as Battalion "Frejus". On the same date the flag of the 41st Signal Battalion "Frejus" was transferred from the battalion to the 41st Signal Regiment.
On 30 September 1998 the 41st Signal Regiment was disbanded and the next day the Battalion "Frejus" joined the 32nd Signal Regiment, while the flag of the 41st Signal Regiment was transferred to the Shrine of the Flags in the Vittoriano in Rome.
Structure
As of 2023 the Battalion "Frejus" consists of:
Battalion "Frejus", in Turin
Command and Logistic Support Company
3rd Area Support Signal Company
4th C4 Support Signal Company
The Command and Logistic Support Company fields the following platoons: C3 Platoon, Transport and Materiel Platoon, Medical Platoon, and Commissariat Platoon.
References
Signal Regiments of Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43rd%20Signal%20Regiment%20%28Italy%29 | The 43rd Signal Regiment () is an inactive signals regiment of the Italian Army. The unit was formed in 1957 as a battalion, which operated and maintained the army's telecommunication network in the Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna regions. In 1975 the battalion was named for the Abetone Pass and received its own flag. In 1993 the battalion entered the newly formed 43rd Signal Regiment, which was disbanded in 1998. After the regiment was disbanded the Battalion "Abetone" was transferred to the 3rd Signal Regiment, which operates and maintains the army's telecommunications network in central Italy and on the island of Sardinia.
History
On 1 October 1957 the XLIII Signal Battalion was formed in Florence with the personnel and materiel of the existing 6th and 7th territorial signal companies. The battalion consisted of a command, a command and services platoon, and three signals companies. The battalion was assigned to the VII Territorial Military Command in Florence.
During the 1975 army reform the army disbanded the regimental level and newly independent battalions were granted for the first time their own flags. During the reform signal battalions were renamed for mountain passes. On 1 October 1975 the XLIII Signal Battalion was renamed to 43rd Signal Battalion "Abetone". The battalion consisted of a command, a command and services platoon, and three signal companies. The battalion was assigned to the Signal Command of the Tuscan-Emilian Military Region and operated and maintained the army's telecommunication network in the Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany regions, the Liguria province of La Spezia, and the two Marche provinces of Ancona and Pesaro-Urbino. On 12 November 1976 the battalion was granted a flag by decree 846 of the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone.
On 1 January 1986 the battalion consisted of a command, command and services company, and the 1st and 2nd TLC infrastructure managing companies. On 1 April 1987 the battalion added the 3rd Field Support Company.
On 16 September 1993 the 43rd Signal Battalion "Abetone" lost its autonomy and the next day the battalion entered the newly formed 43rd Signal Regiment as Battalion "Abetone". On the same date the flag of the 43rd Signal Battalion "Abetone" was transferred from the battalion to the 43rd Signal Regiment.
On 8 September 1998 the 43rd Signal Regiment was disbanded and the next day the Battalion "Abetone" joined the 3rd Signal Regiment, while the flag of the 43rd Signal Regiment was transferred on 11 September to the Shrine of the Flags in the Vittoriano in Rome.
Structure
As of 2022 the Battalion "Abetone" consists of:
Battalion "Abetone", in Florence
Command and Logistic Support Company
4th Area Support Signal Company
5th C4 Support Signal Company
The Command and Logistic Support Company fields the following platoons: C3 Platoon, Transport and Materiel Platoon, Medical Platoon, and Commissariat Platoon.
References
Signal Regiments of Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45th%20Signal%20Regiment%20%28Italy%29 | The 45th Signal Regiment () is an inactive signals regiment of the Italian Army. The unit was formed in 1957 as a battalion, which operated and maintained the army's telecommunication network in the Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania and Molise regions. In 1975 the battalion was named for Monte Vulture and received its own flag. In 1993 the battalion entered the newly formed 45th Signal Regiment, which was disbanded in 2001. After the regiment was disbanded the Battalion "Vulture" was transferred to the 46th Signal Regiment, which operates and maintains the army's telecommunications network on the island of Sicily.
History
On 1 October 1957 the XLV Signal Battalion was formed in Bagnoli with the personnel and materiel of the existing 9th Territorial Signal Company in Bari and the 10th Territorial Signal Company in Bagnoli. The battalion consisted of a command, a command and services platoon, and three signals companies. The battalion was assigned to the X Territorial Military Command in Naples. On 1 August 1971 the battalion moved from Bagnoli to Naples.
During the 1975 army reform the army disbanded the regimental level and newly independent battalions were granted for the first time their own flags. During the reform signal battalions were renamed for mountain passes. On 1 October 1975 the XLV Signal Battalion was renamed to 45th Signal Battalion "Vulture". The battalion consisted of a command, a command and services platoon, and two signal companies. The battalion was assigned to the Signal Command of the Southern Military Region and operated and maintained the army's telecommunication network in the Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria (minus the province of Reggio Calabria), Campania and Molise regions. On 12 November 1976 the battalion was granted a flag by decree 846 of the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone.
On 1 September 1984 the battalion consisted of a command, command and services company, the 1st TLC Infrastructure Managing Company in Naples, and the 2nd TLC Infrastructure Managing Company in Bari. On 1 January 1985 the battalion added the 3rd Field Support Company. On 2 April 1991 the battalion moved from Naples to San Giorgio a Cremano, where the 2nd TLC Infrastructure Managing Company joined the battalion on 1 June of the same year.
On 15 September 1993 the 45th Signal Battalion "Vulture" lost its autonomy and the next day the battalion entered the newly formed 45th Signal Regiment as Battalion "Vulture". On the same date the flag of the 45th Signal Battalion "Vulture" was transferred from the battalion to the 45th Signal Regiment.
On 4 May 1998 the battalion's command and the 2nd TLC Infrastructure Managing Company moved from San Giorgio a Cremano to Nocera Inferiore. On 31 December 2000 the 45th Signal Regiment was disbanded and the next day the Battalion "Vulture" joined the 46th Signal Regiment, while the flag of the 45th Signal Regiment was transferred to the Shrine of the Flags in the Vittoriano in Rome.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaid%20Army | The Plaid Army is a group of Canadian internet live streamers known for trolling and far right politics. The group has been accused by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network of islamophobia and anti-semitism.
Activities and views
The Plaid Army is a group of far right internet trolls. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network describe the group as racist and antisemitic.
Membership and associations
The Ontario Provincial Police reported connections between the Plaid Army and the "Patriot Movement" who are known for their "opposition of provincial and federal government responses to the COVID-19 public health crisis.” The group is also associated with the far-right protest group Diagalon. People connected to both groups were present at the Canada convoy protests.
Members include right-wing video bloggers Jeremy MacKenzie and Derek Harrison. Harrison wanted the convoy protests to turn violent, akin to the January 6 United States Capitol attack. MacKenzie oversees the group.
See also
COVID-19 protests in Canada
References
Far-right politics in Canada
Internet trolls
Antisemitism in Canada
Islamophobia in Canada
Canada convoy protest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed-Slim%20Alouini | Mohamed-Slim Alouini is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include the modeling, design, and performance analysis of wireless, satellite, and optical communication systems. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and OPTICA (formerly known as the Optical Society of America (OSA).
Early life and education
He was born in Tunis, Tunisia. In 1993, he obtained the Diplome d'Ingenieur, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) in Electronics in Télécom Paris and Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France respectively. In 1995, he receive the Masters of Sciences in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta in United States and in 1998 he obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California, United States.
Career
He joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2009 as a founding professor. He had served as a faculty member from 1998 to 2004 in the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. He also worked in the Texas A & M University at Qatar, Education City, Doha between 2004 and 2009.
Fellowship and membership
He is a 2022 Fellow of the World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF), The World Academy of Science (TWAS), 2021 Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), OPTICA (formerly known as the Optical Society of America (OSA), 2019 Member of the Academia Europaea (AE), the European Academy of Science and Arts (EASA), 2018 Fellow of the African Academy and Science (AAS), and 2009 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Awards
He received the UNESCO TWAS Award in Engineering Sciences in 2022, IEEE Communications Society Education Award in 2021, TAKREEM Foundation Award in the “Scientific & Technological Achievement” Category in 2021, NSP Obada Prize (Supported by the African Academy of Sciences) in 2021, Kuwait Prize in Applied Sciences in 2020, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2020, IEEE Communication Society Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Achievement Award in 2019, Inaugural Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Science, Technology, & Innovation Achievement Award in Engineering Sciences, Astana, Kazakhstan in 2017, Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers in Engineering Sciences, Amman, Jordan in 2016, IEEE Communication Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) Recognition Award in 2016. He is also co-recipient of best paper/poster/video awards/prizes in 22 journals/conferences/challenges. He received university-level awards at the University of Minnesota (McKnight Land-Grant Professorship - 2001), Texas A&M University at Qatar ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CitiusTech | CitiusTech is a global health information technology company based in Mumbai, India. The company provides services such as data management, consulting, digital engineering, and artificial intelligence to health and healthcare companies.
History
CitiusTech was founded by Rizwan Koita, Jagdish Moorjani, and Bimal R. Naik in 2005. All three founders met as students at IIT Bombay. Koita and Moorjani previously founded the BPO company TransWorks in 1999, which the Aditya Birla Group acquired in 2003.
For his work with CitiusTech, Koita received the 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
In 2014, American growth equity firm General Atlantic purchased a 26% stake in CitiusTech. CitiusTech was featured in Forbes India as one of the publication’s "Hidden Gems" in 2014.
CitiusTech established the Healthcare Innovation Fund with the Indian Institutes of Technology’s Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 2016.
Pat Fry, former President and CEO of Sutter Health, joined CitiusTech’s board of directors in 2020. CitiusTech began supplying PICC lines to children being treated for cancer at Tata Memorial Hospital in 2018. CitiusTech also co-developed and deployed Sentara Healthcare’s enterprise data platform through Microsoft Azure.
In 2019, General Atlantic exited CitiusTech, announcing plans to sell its stake in the company. Baring Private Equity Asia agreed to acquire CitiusTech from Koita and Moorjani in 2019.
In 2020, CitiusTech partnered with Google Cloud and began using Google Cloud Platform to provide IT and digital solutions for medical technology companies. The company acquired a majority stake in strategic consulting company FluidEdge Consulting in 2020.
CitiusTech acquired technology company SDLC Partners in 2021. Bhaskar Sambasivian was also appointed CEO of CitiusTech after the company’s founders stepped down from their positions 2021. Atul Soneja was appointed the company’s President of Operations in the same year.
Baring Private Equity Asia announced it was selling its 40% stake in CitiusTech in 2022, companies such as Bain Capital, Apax Partners, and Fujitsu expressed their interest, with Bain Capital considered the frontrunner in acquiring the stake.
Bain Capital, joined CitiusTech as a strategic partner in 2022. Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani also began providing training for CitiusTech’s technology professionals in 2022. In the same year, CitiusTech acquired salesforce consulting company Wilco Source and opened a new facility in Pune. The company also has offices in Bengaluru.
Awards
CitiusTech received the Golden Stevie Award for Most Innovative Tech Company at the American Business Awards in 2015.
CitiusTech has been named one of the best workplaces in India by Great Places to Work from 2012-2020. It was also named to Healthcare Informatics’ HCI 100 list from 2016-2018.
References
Technology companies of India
Companies based in Mumbai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel%E2%80%93Aesch%20railway%20line | The Basel–Aesch railway line is a railway line in Switzerland. It runs from Aesch to the border of Basel-Stadt, near , where it connects with the Basel tram network. The line was built by the in 1907 and is now owned by Baselland Transport, which operates Line 11 of the Basel tram network over the line.
History
opened a line between Ruchfeld, in Basel, and Aesch, on 7 December 1907. Trains continued over the Basel tram network and terminated at . The line was electrified from opening at 550 V DC, later increased to 600 V DC. In 1974, Trambahn Basel-Aesch merged with three other companies to form Baselland Transport, which continues to own and operate the line.
Route
The line begins from a turning loop on the Haupstrasse, in Aesch. The Swiss Federal Railways station at is on the other side of the Birs river, to the east. The line runs north-south, through the municipalities of Reinach and Münchenstein. Near Dreispitz, at the northern end of the line, it joins with the Basel–Dornach railway line. The two lines then connect with the tracks of the Basel tram network.
Operation
Baselland Transport operates the line as a tramway, designated as Line 11 of the Basel tram network. Two trams operate every fifteen minutes from Aesch to Saint-Louis via . This is supplemented by the E11 line, which provides weekday rush-hour service to and from Reinach and the Basel city center.
Notes
References
Railway lines in Switzerland
Railway lines opened in 1907
1907 establishments in Switzerland
Baselland Transport lines
Metre gauge railways in Switzerland
600 V DC railway electrification |
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