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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1955.
Events
Television programs
Debuts
Changing network affiliation
Ending this year
Television stations
Station launches
Network affiliation changes
Station closures
Births
Deaths
See also
1955 in television
1955 in film
1955 in the United States
List of American films of 1955
References
External links
List of 1955 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Diary%20of%20Sisyphus | The Diary of Sisyphus () is an upcoming Italian independent experimental drama film. It is the first feature length film to be written by an artificial intelligence.
Synopsis
For the first time as a screenwriter, an AI narrates the life of Adam, a young college student plagued by existential crisis, and his journey toward the meaning of life, amid absurd encounters and very human vibes.
Production
The script was written by GPT-NEO, an open-source version of GPT-3 by EleutherAI. The model was prompted with a synopsis, the plot lines, and desired scenes. The entire script, with the exception of the opening monologue, was written by GPT-NEO.
The cast includes Niccolò Babbo, Stefano Pellizzari, Chiara Signorini Gremigni, Lorenzo Maria Angelin, Diletta Feruglio, Massimo Somaglino, Marco Risiglione, Fabiano Fantini, Paolo Mattotti, Nicole Greatti, Pietro Cursano, Mattia Giacchetto and Guglielmo Favilla.
References
External links
Italian independent films
2020s Italian-language films
2023 films
2020s Italian films
Upcoming films
Works created using artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled%20Elleithy | Khaled Elleithy is an Egyptian professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He is the current Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education and he is also serving as Associate Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Bridgeport.
Education
He obtained his first degree in computer science and automatic control in 1983 from Alexandria University . He bagged his Master's degree in computer networks from the same institution in 1986. He obtained another Master's degree in Computer Science in 1988 and Ph.D. degree 1990 from the Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana , Lafayette.
Scientific contributions
He discovered new applications for wireless technology and he built epilepsy detection device that could detect the signal before the attack.
Fellowship and membership
He is a senior Member of the IEEE computer society. In 1990 he became a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a member of Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture. In 1983 he became a lifetime member of the Egyptian Engineering Syndicate. In 1988 he became a member of IEEE Circuits & Systems society and IEEE Computer Society. In 2018 he was elected as a member of African Academy of Sciences
References
Egyptian scientists
Egyptian academics
Egyptian academic administrators
Alexandria University alumni
University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni
Deans (academic)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel%E2%80%93Pratteln%20railway%20line | The Basel–Pratteln railway line is a railway line in Switzerland. It runs from to the border of Basel-Stadt, across the river Birs from St. Jakob-Park, where it connects with the Basel tram network. The line was built by the in 1921 and is now owned by Baselland Transport. Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe operates line 14 of the Basel tram network over the line.
History
The opened a line from the existing tram network at Schänzli, on the river Birs, to Muttenz, on 22 January 1921. Trains continued over the Basel tram network and terminated at . The line was further extended to its present terminus in Pratteln, near the Swiss Federal Railways station there, on 20 October 1922. The line was electrified from opening at 550 V DC, later increased to 600 V DC. A planned extension from Pratteln to was never built. In 1974, the Basellandschaftliche Ueberlandbahn merged with three other companies to form Baselland Transport. A proposed extension northeast to the area was rejected by voters in 2021.
Route
The line begins from a turning loop south of the Swiss Federal Railways station at . It runs east-west, roughly parallel to the standard gauge Hauenstein Railway, and runs through the municipalities of Pratteln and Muttenz. The line is double-tracked, running at-grade on dedicated right-of-way. It crosses the river Birs near St. Jakob-Park, where it connects with the Basel tram network.
Operation
Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe operates line 14 of the Basel tram network over the line. Trams operate at frequent intervals from Pratteln via Aeschenplatz to , on the north side of Basel.
Notes
References
Railway lines in Switzerland
Railway lines opened in 1921
1921 establishments in Switzerland
Baselland Transport lines
Metre gauge railways in Switzerland
600 V DC railway electrification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Artist%20Database | Black Artist Database (formerly known as Black Bandcamp) is an online crowdsourced database and community-based music platform, maintained by contributions from volunteers and the public.
History
On June 4, 2020, in response to the murder of George Floyd and "structural mistreatment of Black folk in the underground electronic industry", co-founder Niks Delanancy and a few friends made an open-source Google Sheet named Black Bandcamp, highlighting Black music producers and artists for people to support. After encouraging people to contribute and sharing the link to the spreadsheet online, what began as a spreadsheet of 30 names grew overnight to over 400, and expanded to include names of Black-owned record labels, singers, instrumentalists and producers from all around the world.
Rebrand
One year after creation, Black Bandcamp rebranded as Black Artist Database with a new website that include news features, as well as interviews and DJ mixes. They also launched the Creative Database, which allows users to discover Black creative professionals working in fields such as journalism, design, photography, and more.
With the rebranding, Black Artist Database further expanded their team and the scope of their work, also beginning to organise their own music events and Ableton-partnered production workshops featuring international artists such as AceMo and Kessler.
References
Online person databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20care | Data care refers to treating people and their private information fairly and with dignity. Data has progressively become more and more utilized in our society all over the world. When it comes to securely storing a medical patient's data, an employee's data, or a citizen's private data. The concept of data care emerged from the increase of data usage over the years, it is a term used to describe the act of treating people and their data with care and respect. This concept elaborates on how caring for people's data is the responsibility of those who govern data, for example, businesses and policy makers. Along with how to care for it in an ethical manner, while keeping in mind the people that the data belongs to. And discussing the concept of 'slow computing' on how this can be properly utilized to help in creating and maintaining proper data care.
Defining data care
To define data care means treating people and their private information fairly and with dignity in terms of their data. Data care is a term used by the cybersecurity industry, to teach people to be more careful with their data on social media and their mobile devices. Such information could be their banking information, address, and other personal information. In 2019, a United States bill required social media platforms to be more responsible with their users' private data, which will help in ensuring proper data care. This is one example in how implementing proper data care policy will help put pressure on these companies to achieve data justice. Data care aims to allow data navigation while countering data power, and encourages "slow computing" (see below), all of which will help in reducing datafication, and making it more difficult for people's data to become traceable. This will also encourage open source alternatives for data to become more difficult to trace. This is something the cybersecurity industry has been working toward for some time, as a means to help protect people's privacy. Proper data care will help those with weaker data literacy, it will help manage data in political campaigns, and help place pressure on companies to be more ethical in their data use. This can help in producing open source apps, and creating technology that prioritizes the public's private information. Proper data care will help achieve data justice, and lead to data sovereignty.
Ethics of care
Prioritizing proper care and respect towards people's data is of utmost importance, requiring good morals and proper ethical choices to protect people's privacy. Data care involves protecting people's data in medical practices, law, politics, the organization of society, war, and international relations. Hospitals keep their patient's data secure, data such as; routine healthcare data and patient contact. Data is now being kept electronically, replacing paper files. Data obtained from hospitals will often be subject to research, the results cannot be traced to individual participants, and the patients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackall%20Range%20road%20network | Blackall Range road network is a group of roads that provide access to the mountain localities and towns from various lowland places, and enable travel between the mountain communities. The network ensures continuity of access in times of flooding or other natural disasters, and during planned maintenance activities. The area serviced by the network includes the localities and towns, from south to north, of Maleny, Montville and Mapleton. It also includes the rural localities of Bald Knob, Balmoral Ridge, Flaxton, Gheerulla, North Maleny, Obi Obi and Witta. The area hosts a substantial residential community plus many tourism accommodation venues. At the , the locality of Maleny had a population of 3,959 people.
Located to the west of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, the Blackall Range is also a popular day-trip destination.
Roads in the network
The network consists of the following state-controlled roads:
A number of local roads that also access the range are not included in this article.
Landsborough–Maleny Road
Landsborough–Maleny Road is a state-controlled district road (number 494). It carries traffic from on the Glass House Mountains Road, via Bald Knob, to Maleny, a distance of . Almost all of this road is part of Tourist Drive 23.
The road runs generally north-west from Landsborough, ascending the south-eastern slope of the Blackall Range. It climbs from a lowest point of to a highest point of . About is steeper than 5%, of which is between 10% and 15%, and is greater than 15%.
Major intersections (Landsborough-Maleny Road)
All distances are from Google Maps. The entire road is within the Sunshine Coast local government area.
Maleny–Kenilworth Road
Maleny–Kenilworth Road is a state-controlled district road (number 495). It runs from Maleny, via Witta, and , to , a distance of . This road is part of Tourist Drive 22.
The road descends the south-western slope of the Blackall Range and then follows the Mary River valley north to Kenilworth. It descends from a highest point of to a lowest point of . About is steeper than 5%, of which is between 10% and 15%, and is greater than 15%.
A project to widen sections of the road in Conondale and Cambroon, at a cost of $4.9 million, was expected to complete late in 2022.
Major intersections (Maleny–Kenilworth Road)
All distances are from Google Maps. The entire road is within the Sunshine Coast local government area.
Maleny–Montville Road
Maleny–Montville Road is a state-controlled district road (number 497), rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS) It runs from Maleny, via Balmoral Ridge, to Montville, a distance of . Within the locality of Montville this road is known as Balmoral Road. It is part of Tourist Drive 23. There are no major intersections on this road.
The road runs from south to north along the eastern edge of the Blackall Range. Its elevation varies from a highest point of to a lowest point of . About is steeper than 5%, of which is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Komer | William Komer (born 1988 or 1989) was a Canadian businessman and is a director and the chair of The United People of Canada organization.
Early life and education
Komer studied computer science at the University of Western Ontario.
Career
Komer owns five businesses located around London, Ontario including Campus Creative website company and Under the Umbrella wedding photography company. In 2016, he tried to buy the empty Lorne Avenue public school in London, to convert it into a "multi-generational meeting place".
He is also a director and the chair of The United People of Canada (TUPC) not for profit organization, that occupied Saint Brigid’s church and which has links to the Canada convoy protest. Komer signed an agreement on behalf of TUPC to buy the church for $5.95 million but the group failed to pay the deposit prior to being evicted.
Komer attended the Canada convoy protest, and told the Ottawa Citizen newspaper that he did so "as a documentary filmmaker".
In 2021, Komer's private prosecution of the police failed to convince the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that he suffered gender discrimination from the police during a domestic dispute.
Personal life
Komer was aged 27 in 2016.
References
External links
Komer's Twitter
1980s births
Living people
Businesspeople from London, Ontario
Canadian company founders
University of Western Ontario alumni
Protesters involved in the Canada convoy protest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1954.
Events
Television programs
Debuts
Changes of network affiliation
Ending this year
Television films and specials
December 25 - The Walt Disney Christmas Show on CBS
Television stations
Station launches
Network affiliation changes
Station closures
Births
Deaths
References
External links
List of 1954 American television series at IMDb
Sources |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek%20Sobh | Tarek M. Sobh () is an Egyptian American professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was the former Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education of the University of Bridgeport and he is the current president of Lawrence Technological University.
Education
He obtained his first degree, B.Sc. in Engineering in Computer Science and Automatic Control from the Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988. He obtained his M.Sc and Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania in 1989 and 1991.
Career
He is currently the President and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) in Southfield, MI. He is Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering Emeritus at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He was the Provost at Lawrence Technological University (2020 - 2021) and has served at the University of Bridgeport (UB) Executive Vice President, Research and Economic Development and the Founding Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education (2018 - 2020). He was the Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Robotics, Intelligent Sensing, and Control (RISC) Laboratory (1995-2020), the Founder of the High-Tech Business Incubator at UB (CTech IncUBator) (2010 - 2011) and the Founding Director of the UB Innovation Center (2019 - 2020). From 1992-1995 he was a research Assistant Professor of Computer at the University of Utah. He was an associate professor at the University of Bridgeport between 1995-1999. In 2000 he became a professor at the same institution.
At Bridgeport University, he was the Senior Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research (2014-2018), Vice President (2008-2014), Vice Provost (2006-2008), Dean of the School of Engineering (1999-2018), Interim Dean of the School of Business, Director of External Engineering Programs, Interim Chair of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and Chair of the Department of Technology Management. He also served as a Professor of Computer, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science (2000-2010) and an Associate professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering (1995-1999). At the University of Utah, he was a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Sciences, College of Engineering (1992-1995) and a Research Fellow at the General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania (1989-1991).
Fellowship and membership
He is a fellow of Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), the Bridgeport Disc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinopyga%20fusca | Actinopyga fusca is a species of sea cucumber within the family Holothuriidae, that can be found in shallow waters around New Caledonia. It has been classified as a 'Data deficient' species by the IUCN Red List as there isn't much information regarding the species, although it does occur in at least 1 marine protected area.
References
Holothuriidae
Fauna of New Caledonia
Animals described in 1980
Fauna of the Pacific Ocean |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libraries%20in%20Vienna | The Libraries in Vienna are a network of libraries which are managed by the city of Vienna. They are mainly concerned with enabling broad public education, whilst the also city owns Wienbibliothek im Rathaus (Library of Vienna in the city hall), which focuses on scientific work.
Beside the main library at the "Neubaugürtel", the Libraries in Vienna maintain 38 branching libraries in almost all districts of Vienna. The "mobile libraries", which were established in 1958 and took on the form of so-called "Bookbuses", visiting designated places in Vienna (for example schools), were closed down in 2009.
What the Libraries Offer
Over 1.7 million media are available in the Libraries in Vienna, which fall in the jurisdiction of the municipal department 13 (education and extra-curricular youth services). Alongside books that offer a selection of all themes, from non-fiction books about advice, children's books, fiction, to viennese literature, the Libraries in Vienna also offer Audio CDs (classic, jazz, folk, rock and pop), CD-ROMs, DVDs, computer games, and audio- and video-cassettes. The media are in open-access and freely available, and can either be borrowed or used on the spot. In many instances there are "reading corners" for Migrants with books from the respective homelands. Each branch has at least one computer for catalogue- and internet research. In 2004 the "Libraries in Vienna" recorded 5,265 million loans from 129,125 readers.
Since 30 September 2010, numerous digital media can be loaned via download from the "Virtual Library of Vienna" at all times. These media can be downloaded and used on a computer or other devices such as E-Book-Readers or MP3-Players. In order to be able to borrow eMedia, a valid library card from the Libraries in Vienna and a computer with an internet connection is needed. The "return" happens automatically, after the expiration of the loan duration the eMedia can no longer be opened and is available to other users again instantly. Therefore, no overdue fines can be accrued.
Main Libraries and other Branches
In the year 2003, the main library of the House of Books moved from the Josefstädter Skodagasse, (where the centre of the Music schools of Vienna now lies) to the Neubaugürtel, a part of the Gürtel, Vienna. Between both roadways of the belt and over the Burggasse-Stadthalle station, the building, designed by architect Ernst Mayr in the form of a 150-metre-long abstracted ship, was built in district 7 (address: Urban-Loritz-Platz 2a). At the main entry of the library, one can walk over the biggest staircase of Vienna, which stylistically lends from the Casa Malaparte This leads to the roof, where the Café Oben is. The facade is executed in the Terracotta style.
240,000 books and 60,000 audiovisual medias like magazines and newspapers can be seen across two levels. There is also an area called Kirangon for children. There are 130 computer workplaces for catalogue and internet research, as well as 40 audio an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1953.
Events
Television programs
Debuts
Changes of network affiliation
Ending this year
Television stations
Station launches
Network affiliation changes
Station closures
Births
See also
1953 in television
1953 in film
1953 in the United States
List of American films of 1953
References
External links
List of 1953 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khwaja%20Mohamad%20Amin%20Darab | Khwaja Mohamad Amin Darab Khwaja Mohamad Amin Darab was the last Persian 1890–1979), Kashmir's last Persian poet who left a lot of data on Kashmir heritage.
Khwaja Mohamad Amin Darab's 73 rare manuscripts, including 11 books, written by Darab have been put on display at the Amar Singh Club in Srinagar.
References
1979 deaths
Persian-language poets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Preservation%20Society | The Game Preservation Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of Japanese computer games.
References
External links
Non-profit organizations based in Japan
Video game organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20third-party%20Micro%20Channel%20computers | This is a list of computer systems based on the Micro Channel architecture that were manufactured by IBM. Such third-party computers were also referred to as PS/2 clones or MCA clones. The first third-party Micro Channel–based computer was Tandy Corporation's 5000 MC in July 1988. Despite expensive research and development costs on the part of third-party manufacturers of Micro Channel computers—in part due to the expensive licensing fees incurred by IBM in order to allow legal use of their technology—by 1990 most MCA clones were not fully compatible with the Micro Channel architecture or expansion cards and peripherals based on Micro Channel. By the time IBM was winding down the PS/2 line of personal computers (which in 1987 acted as the means of introducing Micro Channel to the general public) in 1992, NCR Corporation remained one of the few committed vendors of MCA clones.
Systems
See also
List of IBM PS/2 models
Notes
References
IBM PS/2
Third-party Micro Channel computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%20Wagner | Jenny Wagner (born 1984) is a German physicist, cosmologist, and book author.
In her research, she aims at identifying the impact of models and more general assumptions on the interpretation of data within a given theoretical framework, and thereby follows the ideas of ideal observational cosmology, as pursued by George Ellis and collaborators.
Her research in cosmology specialises in strong gravitational lensing, the description and evolution of cosmic structures, and the reconstruction of the cosmic distance ladder.
Since 2019, she has been engaged in disseminating the concepts and results of astrophysical and cosmological research as part of the team of the German YouTube channel "Urknall, Weltall und das Leben" run by Joseph M. Gaßner.
In 2020, she was awarded the "Preis für mutige Wissenschaft" of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Art for proving to take high risks from the beginning of her the career onwards while working between different research fields – from her start in particle physics to her PhD in biophysics and to her work in cosmology.
Besides the mathematical and physical aspects of cosmology, she is interested in its philosophical foundations. She is also the editor of the 7th German edition of "Physics for Scientists and Engineers" originally written by Paul A. Tipler and Gene Mosca, and co-editor of the 8th German edition, published by Springer.
Education
From 2003 to 2008, she studied physics, mathematics, and computer science at Heidelberg University, graduating with a Diplom in physics. Her thesis "Data compression for the ALICE detector at CERN" was written in the group led by Professor Volker Lindenstruth in Heidelberg and at CERN.
From 2009 to 2011, she studied digital image processing, pattern recognition, and machine learning at the Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing and wrote her PhD thesis in an interdisciplinary project between the Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics and the German Cancer Research Center on "Quality control for peptide chip array production" under the supervision of Volker Lindenstruth with Bernd Jähne and Michael Hausmann as thesis referees.
Work
From 2014 to 2021 Jenny Wagner held two grants from the German Research Foundation to pursue her own research projects about strong gravitational lensing. Among others, the results included the mathematical derivation of the general class of invariance transformations in the strong gravitational lensing formalism that leave all observable data invariant. These derivations make it possible to separate the information that is directly contained in the data, i.e. the surface brightness profiles of extended multiple images, from the additional assumptions in terms of a specific mass density model for the gravitational lens that causes the observed light deflection. The approach thus yields an unprecedented understanding of the impact that different mass density profiles used as strong gravitational lens models have on the in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera%20Demberg | Vera Demberg (born 1981) is a German computational linguist and professor of computer science and computational linguistics at Saarland University.
Her research interests include cognitive models of human language comprehension, natural language generation, experimental psycholinguistics, multimodal language processing in a dual-task setting, and experimental and computational discourse research and pragmatics.
Career and research
Vera Demberg studied computational linguistics at the Institute for Machine Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart from 2001 to 2006. She then completed a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh from 2004 to 2005.
She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science there from 2006 to 2010. Her dissertation paper, titled “Broad-Coverage Model of Prediction in Human Sentence Processing”, was awarded the Cognitive Science Society's “Glushko Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science” in 2011. In her work, she designed a model of human sentence processing that can be used to predict difficulties in processing at the syntactic level.
From 2010 to 2016, Vera Demberg led an independent research group on cognitive models of human language processing and their application to speech dialog systems in the Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” at the University of Saarland.
In 2016, she was appointed there to a professorship in computer science and computational linguistics. Demberg's professorship is in the Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science). She is also a co-opted professor in the Department of Linguistics and Language Technology (Faculty of Philosophy).
Since 2020, she has led the ERC Starting Grant “Individualized Interaction in Discourse”. The project conducts research on how to make linguistic interaction with computer systems more natural.
She has authored and co-authored numerous papers on the study of computational linguistics and natural language processing. According to Google Scholar, Vera Demberg has an H-index of 30.
Publications
Information Presentation in Spoken Dialogue Systems - Building More Effective Dialogue Systems by Structuring Information and Tailoring Presentation to the User (2008, VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K.; )
Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion - Morphological Preprocessing, Syllabification, Word Stress Assignment and Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion with a Focus on German (2008, VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K.; )
Awards
2011: Cognitive Science Society Glushko Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science
2020: ERC Starting Grant “Individualized Interaction in Discourse”
References
External links
Website of the chair of Prof. Demberg
Living people
1981 births
German women computer scientists
German women academics
Linguists from Germany
21st-century German women scientists
German computer scientists
Psycholinguists
Natural language processing researchers
Computational linguistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%3A%20Mermaid%20Power | Barbie: Mermaid Power or Barbie Mermaid Power is a 2022 CGI/computer-animated musical adventure comedy children's television film directed by Emory Ronald "Ron" Myrick and written by Ann Austen.
The 40th entry in the Barbie film series, it debuted in Australia on 9Go! on 17 August 2022 before its release in the United States on Netflix a fortnight later alongside an accompanying soundtrack album. The film also had theatrical releases in the British Isles and Europe throughout October and November.
Background
The title and the promotional artwork for this film was revealed by former Mattel president, Richard L. Dickson, while putting out a presentation for analysts and the company's board of directors on 18 February 2022, which also hinted at a possible future film entry: "Barbie: Epic Road Trip".
Plot
In an underwater kingdom named Pacifica, 8 mer-persons are chosen by a beam of light from a giant golden pearl to be its guardians. With only 6 of them present, Isla (returning from Barbie: Dolphin Magic) gasped and murmured to herself as she quietly swam out to find the remaining 2, which would turn out to be the "Malibu" Barbie and "Brooklyn" Barbie. Using the pearl necklace Isla gave to her during Dolphin Magic, the Barbie-girls and "Malibu" Barbie's sisters; Skipper, Stacie and Chelsea, transform into mermaids, with Skipper and Stacie getting their first experience of mermaid life and Chelsea, her second after own series-turned-franchise, Barbie: Dreamtopia. "Brooklyn" Barbie begins to learn that the myth surrounding mermaids is true.
At a science academy, Marlo (also returning from Dolphin Magic) tried but failed miserably to convince its attendants to buy into her proof of worth that the myth surrounding mermaids is true with some verbally doubting her credentials and their leader, Dr. Amy Tang, going on to verbally revoke her institution's funding to Marlo to further her "frivolous fairy-tale witch-hunt" research as she put it. Marlo was hyper-focused on it whether she would receive funding on it or not and had listed her right-hand assistant, Oslo, to achieve this.
Upon meeting Isla, she explained why she called them and she replied that they were going to get powers and meet the leader of Pacifica named Coralia, but they would later face 3 initially antagonistic pretenders for the title-earner of "Power Keeper"; Talluyah, Sareena and Finn, the latter whose sister, Aquaryah, would have swathes of adventures with Chelsea at certain periods of the film. With Marlo having 2 purple torch-oriented fish-like carnivore creatures, she would have hold of Chelsea and Aquaryah via a fishing net. The girls would later escape through Chelsea understanding the real motive of the creatures. "Malibu" Barbie would later reunite with Marlo, but a submarine crash and an unexpected trouble for Barbie would force her to seek help from Marlo, which she would grant. Barbie would finally have her water powers at last after seeing others and her own sisters hav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod%20Vaikuntanathan | Vinod Vaikuntanathan is a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His work is focused on cryptography, including homomorphic encryption. He is the co-recipient of the 2022 Gödel Prize, together with Zvika Brakerski and Craig Gentry.
Education
Vaikuntanathan received his bachelor's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2003 and his Ph.D in computer science in 2009 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Shafi Goldwasser. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Josef Raviv postdoctoral fellow at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and from 2010 to 2011, a researcher at Microsoft Research. From Fall 2011 to Spring 2013, he was a professor at the University of Toronto. In Fall 2013, he joined the faculty at MIT.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Gödel Prize laureates
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AA%20Vi%E1%BA%BFt%20Qu%E1%BB%91c | Lê Viết Quốc (born 1982), or in romanized form Quoc Viet Le, is a Vietnamese-American computer scientist and a machine learning pioneer at Google Brain, which he established with others from Google. He co-invented doc2vec and seq2seq models in natural language processing. Le also initiated and lead the AutoML initiative at Google Brain, including the proposal of neural architecture search.
Education and career
Le was born in Hương Thủy in the Thừa Thiên Huế province of Vietnam. He studied at Quốc Học Huế High School. In 2004, Le moved to Australia and attended Australian National University for Bachelor's program, during which he worked under Alex Smola on Kernel method in machine learning. In 2007, Le moved to Stanford University for graduate studies in computer science, where his PhD advisor was Andrew Ng.
In 2011, Le became a founding member of Google Brain along with his then PhD advisor Andrew Ng, Google Fellow Jeff Dean and Google researcher Greg Corrado. Le led Google Brain's first major discovery, a deep learning algorithm trained on 16,000 CPU cores, which learned to recognize cats after watching only YouTube videos, and without ever having been told what a "cat" is.
In 2014, Ilya Sutskever, Oriol Vinyals and Le proposed the seq2seq model for machine translation. In the same year, Tomáš Mikolov and Le proposed the doc2vec model for representation learning of documents. Le is among the lead authors and researchers of Google Neural Machine Translation.
Le initiated and lead the AutoML project at Google Brain, including the proposal of neural architecture search. Le is among the authors of LaMDA, a conversational large language model, originally developed and introduced as Meena in 2020. In 2022, Le and co-authors proposed chain-of-thought prompting as a method to improve the reasoning ability of large language models.
Honors and awards
Le was named MIT Technology Review's innovators under 35 in 2014. He has been interviewed by and his research has been reported in major media outlets including Wired, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the MIT Technology Review. Le was named an Alumni Laureate of the Australian National University School of Computing in 2022.
See also
Oriol Vinyals
Ilya Sutskever
Jeff Dean
References
1982 births
Australian National University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Google people
Machine learning researchers
Artificial intelligence researchers
Vietnamese computer specialists
American computer scientists
People from Thừa Thiên-Huế province
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underage%20%28TV%20series%29 | Underage is a 2023 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is an adaptation of the 1980 film of the same title by Regal Films. Directed by Rechie Del Carmen, it stars Lexi Gonzales, Elijah Alejo, and Hailey Mendes. It premiered on January 16, 2023 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Nakarehas na Puso. The series concluded on May 5, 2023 with a total of 78 episodes. It was replaced by The Seed of Love in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Lexi Gonzales as Celina "Celine" Serrano / Celina "Celine" Gatchalian
Elijah Alejo as Serena "Chynna" Serrano
Hailey Mendes as Carina "Carrie" Serrano / Carina "Carrie" Siguenza
Supporting cast
Sunshine Cruz as Maria Elena "Lena" Serrano
Snooky Serna as Velda Alcantara-Gatchalian (formerly Guerrero)
Gil Cuerva as Lancer "Lance" A. Guerrero
Vince Crisostomo as Christopher "Tope" Miranda
Christian Vasquez as Dominic Gatchalian
Yayo Aguila as Rebecca "Becca" Serrano
Jean Saburit as Ylvira Gatchalian
Jome Silayan as Enrico "Rico" Siguenza
Maey Bautista as Remicia "Remi"
Guest cast
Smokey Manaloto as Delfin Serrano
Nikki Co as Leonardo "Leo" A. Guerrero
Anjay Anson as Lester
Chrome Prince Cosio as Philip Castro
John Philip Koch as Bhong C. Abalante
Angelito Galang as Gelo
Jalyn Perez as a television reporter
Michael Brian as Lorenzo
Lotlot Bustamante as Lourdes
Sharmaine Suarez as Darla
Eliza Sarmiento as Elsa
Judie dela Cruz as Meggy
Production
Principal photography commenced in September 2022.
Episodes
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References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
2023 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huevitos%20congelados | Huevitos congelados (formerly Un gallo congelado) is a 2022 Mexican computer-animated adventure comedy film written, directed and co-produced by Gabriel & Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste. Its the fifth and final installment of the Huevos series. It was released exclusively on streaming as a ViX original on December 14, 2022.
Plot
At the South Pole, Rockhopper penguins were snowboarding and throwing a party. However, a trio of pirates in their ship disrupted it and kidnapped a polar bear cub named Polito, from his parents, along with 3 penguin brothers. The penguin and polar bear tribes were forced to migrate due to the crack from the ship.
Meanwhile, in the "Granjas el Pollon", the eggs and animals were relaxing and playing near the pond. At one point, Max and Uly wanted their father, Toto, to play with them, but explained his busy schedule as an excuse. But then, his egg friends, Confi and Willy, convinced him to play with his children. Di, Mama Gallina, and Bibi discuss about childhood and parenting. Mama Gallina later revelaed that she is sick. Later that night, Don Poncho informed the gang of a poster for the polar bear that owner Abuelita has received and told stories about polar bears.
The next day, Abuelita and Chucho went to the circus where the Barba pirates, Roja, Jan, and Negra, put on a show with the kidnapped animals. They struggled to keep the animals from the Inspector due to Mexican law, not knowing they escaped. Later that night, Polito, and the penguin brothers, Antonio, Venancio, and Manolo, head to the ranch where Toto and family tried to hide them in Abuelita's fridge. Suddenly, Toto was informed that his mother was dying. Before her passing, she had Toto promise her to return Polito to the South Pole, which he accepted. She died peacefully.
Later that morning, Toto and his family stowed away with Polito and penguins in Abuelita's cargo trailer, where they were chased by the Barba pirates. After defeating them, Toto's gang made it to the beach where they take a boat and sail off. Meanwhile, the pirates steal a GPS to track down the boat.
Upon arrival, Toto and gang ventured through an ice cave. After reaching the other side, Polito searched for his parents, but couldn't find them. Suddenly, a trio of killer whales appears, and Toto fought back. They then hiked through the icy mountain and crossed a bridge and made it to the other side. However, fearing for his family, Toto destroyed the bridge, leaving them and went forward on his own.
While climbing the icy mountain, Toto heard Polito's parents calling for him, and attempted to reach them when a blizzard pushed Toto into the caverns. Trapped and unable to escape, Toto remembered his family and friends, tearfully confessing and admitting his mistakes. Unbeknownst to him, Di and family were next to him, separated by an ice block. She fought a walrus to brake the barrier, freeing Toto. He was revived by his family, apologizing to them. Finally, they team up together to reu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dcard | Dcard is an online social media and networking platform based in Taiwan. The platform was first created by , then-sophomore at National Taiwan University, and other students in 2011 in its web version. Initially positioned as a networking service dedicated for college students, users of the service are presented with a ‘Friend of the Day’ profile card every midnight, which gave inspiration to the name ‘Dcard’ where the initial D is an abbreviation of ‘Destiny’.
The service rapidly gained popularity across local universities, soon leading the founding team to roll out discussion-driven community forum services in 2012. In October 2015, Dcard Taiwan Ltd. was officially established with its headquarters based in Taipei, Taiwan.
As of November 2022, Dcard claims to be the most influential social media platform among young Taiwanese with over 6 million members and is frequented by more than 18 million unique visitors each month. Since 2018, the company has been expanding its services to new markets worldwide including Hong Kong, Macau and Japan under the name ‘Dtto’.
Features
Community Forums
Being a discussion-based community website, Dcard's content mainly consists user generated articles, categorized into sub-forums under a multitude of topics. The sub-forums are operated by voluntary moderators who are often active users themselves.
E-commerce
In 2019, Dcard introduced to its website ‘Good Choice Taiwan’, an e-commerce platform based on authentic consumer reviews with the listed products curated from items that are actively discussed on the forums.
Video Production
‘Dcard Video’ is the official YouTube channel run by Dcard's video creation team. Leveraging interactive formats such as talk shows and street interviews, Dcard Videos' content draws inspiration from trending topics on the forums and occasionally features other celebrities and influencers to join the discussion. As of November 2022, the channel has over 900k followers
Featured Characters
‘dtto friends’ are a group of featured characters created by Dcard. The characters were first introduced as emoji stickers on the forums, followed by comic-style illustrations and short videos on various social media platforms. In 2022, a dtto friends pop-up store event was hosted in Taipei.
References
Taiwanese social networking websites
2011 establishments in Taiwan
Internet properties established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20S.%20Chirikjian | Gregory Scott Chirikjian (born 1966) is an American roboticist and applied mathematician, primarily working in the field of kinematics, motion planning, computer vision, group theory applications in engineering, and the mechanics of macromolecules.
He currently serves as the head and professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore.
Before joining NUS, he was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.
He is well known for his theoretical contributions to the kinematics of hyper-redundant (snake-like and continuum) robots and stochastic methods on Lie groups.
Academic life
Chirikjian received a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, MD, USA, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1992.
In the same year, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor.
He was promoted to associate professor and full professor in 1997 and 2001, respectively.
From 2004 to 2007, he was the Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University.
From 2014 to 2015, he served as a program director for the US National Robotics Initiative, which included responsibilities in the Robust Intelligence cluster in the Information and Intelligent Systems Division of CISE at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
In 2019, he joined the National University of Singapore and has been serving as the head and professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Awards and honors
Chirikjian was named NSF's Young Investigator in 1993, Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1994, and was a recipient of the ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal in 1996.
He was elected as a fellow of ASME in 2008, and a fellow of IEEE in 2010 for his contributions to hyper-redundant manipulators.
In 2019, he received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Machine Design Award.
References
External links
Gregory Scott Chirikjian at GitHub
20th-century American mathematicians
American roboticists
Applied mathematicians
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Academic staff of the National University of Singapore
Fellow Members of the IEEE
1966 births
Living people
American expatriates in Singapore
American expatriate academics
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20in%20British%20radio | This is a list of events taking place in 2023 relating to radio in the United Kingdom.
Events
January
1 January –
BBC Radio 2 dedicates five hours of New Year's Day programming to Take That, including a two-hour countdown of their top hits.
Damian Lewis presents a two hour programme, A Blues and Swing Special, on Jazz FM.
Charlie Higson returns to Scala Radio for a second series of Charlie Higson and Friends.
2 January –
Former Blue Peter presenter Lindsey Russell takes over as presenter of the weekday Early Breakfast show at Heart.
Adil Ray presents a one-off show for Jazz FM on New Year Bank Holiday Monday.
The Community Media Association undergoes a rebrand for its 40th anniversary.
3 January –
CassKidd joins BBC Radio 1Xtra to present a Tuesday evening show previously hosted by Jamz Supernova.
Sonny Jay begins presenting the weekday late night show on Capital.
Former Jack FM presenter Trevor Marshall joins Get Radio Oxfordshire to present weekday drivetime.
The Radio Today website reports that during V2 Radio's six-week toy appeal leading up to Christmas 2022, listeners donated more than 2,400 toys for local charities and organisations in West Sussex.
4 January –
Bauer Radio confirms all of Absolute Radio's mediumwave transmitters will be switched off by the end of January, making it exclusively a digital station. The switch-off is expected to take place on 23 January.
The Asian Network Takeover returns for a new series, with a new presenter each month.
5 January – Figures released by BBC Sounds show there were 57.7 million listens to its content between 20 December and 2 January.
6 January –
Ofcom begins awarding the fourth tranche of its small-scale DAB licences, beginning with those for Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy, Ludlow, and Newport and Chepstow.
Shaun Keaveny begins a four-week presenting stint on The Radio 2 Rock Show, standing in for regular presenter Johnnie Walker.
Radio News Hub have been acquired by Markettiers4DC, a broadcasting PR agency.
7 January –
Former Capital presenter Rob Howard begins presenting weekend Early Breakfast at Heart.
Trevor Marshall and Rich Smith begin presenting weekend breakfast for Get Radio Oxfordshire.
8 January – Andrew Marr joins Classic FM to present a Sunday morning programme in which he selects some of his favourite pieces of classical music alongside newer releases.
9 January –
Phil Williams and OJ Borg confirm Williams is taking over Borg's Sunday night into Monday morning show on Radio 2, with Borg continuing to present four nights a week.
Five folk songs about modern folk heroes by artists such as Chris Difford and Thea Gilmore have been created as part of Radio 2's 21st Century Folk project.
BBC Asian Network confirms that Nikita Kanda will be its new regular breakfast show presenter, Kanda having presented the programme for the past six months.
Ricky Wilson of Kaiser Chiefs joins Virgin Radio to present the weekday drivetime show.
Sam Thompson begins presenting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Haines | Brad Haines better known as Renderman. Haines is a Canadian Information security researcher most notable for starting the Internet of Dongs project.
Cybersecurity Research
Internet of Dongs Project
Haines started the Internet of Dongs project as a site to house research onto Internet of things connected Sex toys. The project goals are to make the products safer for both vendors and consumers. The project is sponsored by large companies like Pornhub and OhMiBod.
He believes that "we need to stop laughing" regarding the seriousness of privacy issues related to internet connected sex toys.
Industry Response
The International Organization for Standardization released a standard for "Design and Safety Requirements for Products in Direct Contact With Genitalia, the Anus, or Both..." However, Haines believes that this is too late and a missed opportunity.
Some companies like Lovense refused to accept vulnerability disclosure reports prior to the IoD project.
Aviation and Air Traffic Control Research
Haines presented research on the vulnerabilities in Air traffic control and Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast systems at the Defcon conference in 2020 and DerbyCon 2013.
Cybersecurity Policy Views
Haines is a vocal advocate for improving transparency and Whistleblower protection in Information Security. He was fired from his role as a senior cybersecurity analyst after disclosing publicly listed vulnerabilities to the Alberta Government.
References/Notes and references
Information sensitivity
Internet of things
Canadian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechamato%20Movie | Mechamato Movie is a 2022 Malaysian Malay-language computer-animated action film and a prequel to the animated series Mechamato: The Animated Series. Produced by Animonsta Studios and Astro Shaw as co-producer with distributed by Astro Shaw, the film is directed by Nizam Razak and stars Armand Ezra, Adzlan Nazir, Fadhli Mohd Rawi, Ielham Iskandar, Marissa Balqis, Fazreen Syahmi, Hazzley Abu Bakar, and Feroz Faizal. The film follows Amato's first encounter with the MechaBot in a crashed prison spaceship where Amato eventually becomes the MechaBot's new master, leading them to be pursued by Grakakus, an evil alien.
Initially announced for a 2021 release, the film was delayed numerous times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This caused the animated series to be released before the movie. The film's release was officially announced in September 2022.
Mechamato Movie has been released in Malaysia and Brunei on 8 December 2022.
Premise
A young boy Amato discovers Mechabot - that can mechanize any normal object to super high tech weapons and gadgets - from a crashed alien "Prison Ship" of notorious robots while they try shedding off an escapee. Immediately the next day, in hilarious tricks, he becomes master of Mechabot, and essentially sooner calling their combined form as "Mechamato". Little and sooner of their knowledge, they have a danger triling them: a powerful semi-cyborg alien named Grakakus who wants to capture all power spheras and enslave robots to keep on conquring planets. Mechabot and Amato must stop the chaos and defeat the evil, while rescuing people and keeping his family, friends and city safe from destruction.
Cast
Armand Ezra as Amato / Mechamato
Adzlan Nazir as MechaBot
Fadhli Mohd Rawi as Grakakus
Ielham Iskandar as Pian
Marissa Balqis as Mara
Fazreen Syahmi as Tok Sah
Hazzley Abu Bakar as Mayor Andy
Feroz Faizal as Mr. Aman and Troket
Syabil Syamin as Deep
Anas Abdul Aziz as Aba
Siti Salwa Samsudin as Umi
Nizam Razak as Bago Go and Bula
Azrul Fazlan Hamdan as Bili
Production
The production for the movie started as early as 2019, when Monsta revealed the plan for Mechamato on a video for their 2020 plans as a feature-film project, which features the cutscenes from the movie. The movie production was temporarily halted to make way for the production of the animated series first after the movie released was delayed. Astro Shaw is confirmed as the investor and distributor, while MDEC provided part of the funds and market access for Mechamato. In March 2022, the creator Nizam Razak said that due to the change in the screening sequence, the storyline will be changed a bit compared to the original plan. The movie which was 70% ready needs to be reworked to ensure that the storyline is more oriented towards the 'Origin Story'. In July 2022, they confirmed that they are working on getting the movie dubbed in Japanese, Korean and English. In November 2022, the creator mentioned that the tone of the movie will be more mature th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lichenicolous%20fungi%20of%20Iceland | This list of lichenicolous fungi of Iceland is based on a compiled checklist from 2009 with the taxonomy of the fungi revised in 2022 using the Global Biodiversity Information Facility online database.
Abrothallus parmeliarum
Arthonia epiphyscia
Arthonia fuscopurpurea
Arthonia gelidae
Arthonia intexta
Arthonia stereocaulina
Arthonia varians
Arthophacopsis parmeliarum
Bachmanniomyces punctum (listed as Phaeopyxis punctum )
Bachmanniomyces uncialicola
Buellia adjuncta
Carbonea supersparsa
Carbonea vitellinaria
Cecidonia umbonella
Cecidonia xenophana
Cercidospora epipolytropa
Cercidospora macrospora
Cercidospora punctillata
Cercidospora stereocaulorum
Cercidospora thamnoliicola
Cercidospora trypetheliza
Cercidospora verrucosaria
Clypeococcum placopsiphilum
Collemopsidium cephalodiorum (listed as Cercidispora cephalodiorum )
Corticifraga peltigerae
Didymellopsis pulposi
Endococcus fusiger
Endococcus propinquus
Endococcus rugulosus (also listed as Endococcus perpusillus which is a synonym of E. rugulosus)
Epibryon conductrix
Geltingia associata
Heterocephalacria bachmannii (listed as Syzygospora bachmannii )
Homostegia piggotii
Intralichen christiansenii
Lasiosphaeriopsis christiansenii
Lasiosphaeriopsis stereocaulicola
Lichenochora lepidiotae (listed as Sphaerulina lepidiotae )
Lichenodiplis lecanorae
Lichenopeltella cetrariicola
Lichenopeltella cladoniarum
Lichenosticta alcicornaria
Merismatium nigritellum
Muellerella erratica (listed as Muellerella pygmaea var. athallina )
Muellerella pygmaea
Muellerella pygmaea var. pygmaea
Muellerella ventosicola (listed as Muellerella pygmaea var. ventosicola )
Niesslia peltigericola (listed as Raciborskiomyces peltigericola )
Opegrapha pulvinata (synonym of O. pulvinata )
Opegrapha stereocaulicola
Phaeocalicium populneum
Polycoccum amygdalariae
Polycoccum deformans
Polycoccum pulvinatum
Polycoccum trypethelioides
Polycoccum vermicularium
Pronectria erythrinella
Punctelia oxyspora (listed as Phacopsis oxyspora )
Pronectria robergei
Pronectria solorinae
Protothelenella croceae
Pseudopyrenidium tartaricola (listed as Weddellomyces tartaricola )
Pyrenidium actinellum
Rhagadostoma brevisporum
Rhagadostoma lichenicola
Roselliniopsis gelidaria (listed as Polycoccum gelidarium )
Sclerococcum amygdalariae (listed as Dactylospora amygdalariae )
Sclerococcum athallinum (listed as Dactylospora athallina )
Sclerococcum attendendum (listed as Dactylospora attendenda )
Sclerococcum deminuta (listed as Dactylospora deminuta )
Sclerococcum frigidum (listed as Dactylospora frigida )
Sclerococcum gelidarium
Sclreococcum glaucomarioides (listed as Dactylospora glaucomarioides )
Sclerococcum parasiticum (listed as Dactylospora parasitica )
Sclerococcum parellarium (listed as Dactylospora parellaria )
Sclerococcum purpurescens (listed as Dactylospora purpurascens )
Sclerococcum sp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Data%20Protection%20Authority%20Institute | The Personal Data Protection Authority () is a future executive agency formed by the Indonesian government, working directly under the President of Indonesia. The agency will be tasked with information privacy safeguarding, personal data protection, and enforcing laws related/regarding to the personal data protection.
History
The call for establishment of an institution to protect data privacy had been sounded since 2016. Establishment of such institution deemed very needed to protect the constitutional rights of Indonesian citizens for information privacy protection and safeguarding national interests over the personal data protection.
During the formulation of the Bill of Personal Data Protection, there is an issue regarding to whom will be vested with power to safeguard and enforce the law regarding the personal data protection. There was discussed whether the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, National Cyber and Crypto Agency, or a separate independent agency under the office of the President of Indonesia that will be vested with such power.
On 20 September 2022, the Bill of Personal Data Protection passed by the People's Representative Council and signed into law by Joko Widodo on 17 October 2022 as Law No. 27/2022 (Law on Personal Data Protection). When the bill passed into law, it later known that the third option is chosen instead giving such powers to the pre-existing agencies/ministries. Article 58, 59, and 60 of the Law No. 27/2022 detailed the agency establishment, mandate, and authorities.
As of 24 November 2022, structure and regulations of the agency still being tabled by the Indonesian government.
Powers
As mandated by Article 59 Law No. 27/2022, the agency mandated to:
Formulate and establish the policies and strategies for personal data protection, which will be used as standards and guide to the personal data subject, controller, and processor.
Supervise of the personal data protection implementation.
Law enforcing administrative violation of the personal data protection laws, including the violations against the Law No. 27/2022 itself and its derivative regulations.
Facilitate dispute resolution outside the court.
As mandated by Article 60 Law No. 27/2022, the agency possessed authorities as follows:
Formulation and establishment of policies and strategies for personal data protection, which will be used as standards and guide to the personal data subject, controller, and processor.
Supervision of the personal data protection implementation.
Administrative law enforcement for the violation of the personal data protection laws, including the violations against the Law No. 27/2022 itself and its derivative regulations.
Assisting the preexisting law enforcement agencies in Indonesia in handling alleged criminal acts against the laws.
Establishing cooperation with other countries' data protection authorities.
Assessing compliance requirements for transfer of personal data outside the region t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Summit%20%26%20Awards | The Global Artificial Intelligence Summit & Awards (GAISA) is the international level conference on Artificial Intelligence which is organized by AICRA every year. The third Edition of GAISA was organized at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi inaugurated by Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industries. Leading Global AI Experts, Industrialists, Startups and representative of 12 nations were present there. During GAISA, top AI companies, individuals were also awarded for their contribution.
History
The conference was launched first in 2019 as Vigyan Bhawan New Delhi by AICRA with an objective of discussion and exploring Artificial Intelligence in engrossed sectors. The speakers in conference was industry leaders, scholars and senior government officials including Ashutosh Sharma (chemical engineer), Secretary- Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India and many more. Apart from summit, leading AI companies showcased their development and services in exhibition.
Launch of FutureTech magazine also happened during the summit which is aimed to cover accomplishments, innovations, news in Artificial Intelligence sector.
GAISA Awards
Every year best accomplishments and contribution in Artificial Intelligence are awarded by Ministers of Government of India. In year 2022, Rao Inderjit Singh Minister of Planning, Government of India awarded to winners and in year 2022, Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce & Industry given awards to winners.
References
External links
Press Information Bureau, Government of India
CIO Economic Times
APN News
FutureTech Media
Bloeise
DD India
ANI News
Tribune India
Business News
The Week
Photo Division, Government of India
Artificial intelligence conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericorneal%20plexus | The pericorneal plexus refers to a network of blood vessels in the eye; specifically to branches of the anterior conjunctival arteries. These vessels are arranged around the cornea in superficial and deep layers.
References
Human eye anatomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgie%20Tunny | Georgie Tunny (born 1991) is an Australian journalist and television presenter.
She is best known for her work as a co-host of Network 10's The Project and presenter on ABC's News Breakfast.
Early life and education
Tunny was born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland. She attended the University of Queensland, graduating with a double Bachelor degree in Arts and Journalism in 2013. She began her career with an internship at The Courier-Mail
Career
News Breakfast
In 2012, Tunny joined the ABC becoming a sports presenter on News Breakfast in 2015.
In 2017, Tunny attempted to interview Melbourne Victory football player Mitch Austin. However, after Tunny asking her first question, Austin suffered an apparent panic attack and walked off the set. The incident attracted considerable media attention. Asked about the incident in 2022 during the I've Got News For You podcast, Tunny described the moment as "terrifying" and said that although she was concerned for Austin's welfare, she regrets being initially concerned for herself and the possible ramifications the interview would have on her career.
In August 2021, The Age published a letter from a female reader complimenting Tunny for being "a lovely natural young woman" and not "a bottle blonde with eyelash extensions or rounded cleavage", calling Tunny "a breath of fresh air, with plenty of sunshine". This prompted former News Breakfast presenter Virginia Trioli to criticise the newspaper for publishing such a letter. Editor of The Age Gay Alcorn subsequently apologised to readers and to Tunny describing it as "an inappropriate letter that should not have been published."
Foxtel
In late October 2021, it was announced Tunny would be leaving the ABC after eight years to be the host of daily News Flash segments on Foxtel's news streaming service Flash, which had been launched earlier that month.
The Project
After Carrie Bickmore announced she would be taking extended leave from The Project in March 2022, Tunny and Chrissie Swan were announced as Bickmore's replacements.
In August 2022, it was announced Tunny had left the Flash streaming platform after she was appointed as a permanent member of The Project, as a producer, reporter and presenter.
Apart from her role with The Project, Tunny was also a member of Network 10's Melbourne Cup Carnival horse racing coverage in 2021 and 2022.
Personal life
Tunny commenced a relationship with Australian singer and actor Rob Mills after he contacted her in 2018 after seeing her on News Breakfast. Mills announced on 31 December 2021 that he and Tunny were engaged.
References
ABC News (Australia) presenters
Australian women television presenters
1991 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20word%20%28disambiguation%29 | Magic words are often nonsense phrases used in fantasy fiction or by stage magicians.
Magic word or Magic words may also refer to:
Computing
In MediaWiki, a system that makes make system information, such as the current time, available to templates and editors
Hexspeak, hexadecimal "words" used in byte code to identify a specific file or data format are known as magic numbers
Magic string, an input that a programmer believes will never come externally and which activates otherwise hidden functionality
Xyzzy (computing), the first magic word encountered in Colossal Cave Adventure and often used as a meta-syntactic variable
Other uses
Kotodama, the Japanese belief that mystical powers dwell in words and names, sometimes translated as "magic words" in English
Magical formula, words or formulae used in ceremonial magic
Magic words (baseball), words that will likely see a player ejected from the game if directed at an umpire
Magic words (politics), words or phrases as illustrative of speech that qualified as "express advocacy" in relation to United States politics
"Please" and "thank you", often referred to as the magic word or magic words when teaching children manners, see Etiquette
See also
Alan Moore's Magic Words, comics adaptations of four songs by Alan Moore
Incantation, a magical formula intended to trigger a magical effect on a person or objects
Mantra, a sacred word, words or syllables in Sanskrit, Pali and other languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Voice%20van%20Vlaanderen%20%28season%208%29 | The eighth season of The Voice van Vlaanderen premiered on September 30, 2022 on the VTM television network. It was announced in March 2022 that the show's eighth season would be returning in the second half of the year. Natalia Druyts and Koen Wauters returned for their seventh and eighth season, respectively. Jan Paternoster and Mathieu Terryn, who both founded a band of their own where they serve as a vocalist, joined the show as coaches for the first time, replacing Tourist LeMC and Niels Destadsbader. Meanwhile, Laura Tesoro returned for her second season as a coach of the Comeback Stage.
Louise Goedefroy was announced the winner of this season, marking Natalia Druyts' second consecutive win as a coach.
Coaches & Hosts
Natalia Druyts, the winning coach of last season, and Koen Wauters returned for their seventh and eighth season, respectively. Jan Paternoster and Mathieu Terryn, who both founded a band of their own where they serve as a vocalist, joined the show as coaches for the first time, replacing Tourist LeMC and Niels Destadsbader. Meanwhile, Laura Tesoro returned for her second season as a coach of the Comeback Stage.
An Lemmens returned for her eighth consecutive season as the host, while Aaron Blommaert replaced Sean Dhondt as the backstage coach of the show. However, Gloria Monserez was the host for a couple of episodes while An Lemmens took a temporary break from the show to take care of her children. Lemmens returned when the Live Shows started airing.
Teams
Main competition color key
Winner
Runner-up
Third Place
Fourth Place
Fifth Place
Artist was Eliminated in the Lives
Artist was Eliminated, but was selected to participate in the Comeback Stage
Artist was Eliminated in the Battles
Artist was Eliminated in the Knockouts, but was stolen by another coach
Artist was Eliminated in Knockouts
Comeback Stage color key
Eliminated in the Third round
Eliminated in the Second round
Eliminated in the First round
Blind Auditions
Introduction
The Blind Auditions premiered on September 30, 2022. Same as last season, artists who did not get any coach turned around would have the chance to compete in "The Comeback Stage" if selected by the fifth coach Laura Tesoro.
The Blind Auditions this season consist of 10 episodes, with two being broadcast each week.
In total, 83 contestants auditioned this season and 56 of them managed to turn at least one chair. Particularly, a total of 10 artists got a 'four-chair-turn' in this round. 11 artists were selected by the fifth coach Laura Tesoro to compete in "The Comeback Stage". Unfortunately, 23 contestants got eliminated straight away after no coaches turned for them.
Notes & Color Keys
Néhémi (age 23) in the first episode and Ruben (age 19) in the second episode are brothers.
In the ninth episode, the contestant Robbe auditioned with the English version of "Denk Maar Niet Aan Morgen", which is a song by Bazart, the band founded by coach Mattieu. Right after |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Global%20200%20number%20ones%20of%202023 | The Billboard Global 200 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs globally. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by MRC Data, is based on digital sales and online streaming from over 200 territories worldwide. Another similar chart is the Billboard Global Excl. US chart, which follows the same formula except it covers all territories excluding the US. The two charts launched on September 19, 2020.
On the Global 200, fifteen singles have reached number one in 2023 so far. Twelve artists reached the top of the chart for the first time—SZA, Miley Cyrus, Karol G, Shakira, Eslabon Armado, Peso Pluma, Grupo Frontera, Jungkook, Latto, Doja Cat, Jack Harlow, and Yeat. Miley Cyrus has spent the most weeks at the top spot so far with thirteen weeks at number one for her single "Flowers".
On the Global Excl. US, seventeen singles have reached number one in 2023 so far. Sixteen artists reached the top of the chart for the first time—Rema, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Karol G, Shakira, Grupo Frontera, Fifty Fifty, Yoasobi, Peso Pluma, Myke Towers, Jungkook, Latto, Doja Cat, Jack Harlow, Jennie, and Iñigo Quintero. Miley Cyrus has spent the most weeks at the top spot so far with thirteen weeks at number one for her single "Flowers".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2023 in music
List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2023
List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2023
References
Global 200
2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Digital%20Song%20Sales%20number%20ones%20of%202023 | The Billboard Digital Song Sales chart is a chart that ranks the most downloaded songs in the United States. Its data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each song's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a song by an act for a summarized figure.
Chart history
References
External links
Current Digital Song Sales chart
United States Digital Songs
2023
Number-one digital songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202023 | The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales and digital downloads.
Chart history
See also
List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2023
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1
2023 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums
2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202023 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales and digital downloads . The first number one of the year was "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen.
Chart history
See also
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2023
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2023 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Latin%20Pop%20Airplay%20number%20ones%20of%202023 | The Billboard Latin Pop Airplay is a subchart of the Latin Airplay chart that ranks the most-played Latin pop songs on Latin radio stations. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
References
United States Latin Pop
2023
2023 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Argentina%20Hot%20100%20number-one%20singles%20of%202023 | The Billboard Argentina Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the Argentina. Its data, published by Billboard Argentina and Billboard magazines and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and BMAT/Vericast, is based collectively on each song's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as the amount of airplay received on Argentine radio stations and TV and streaming on online digital music outlets.
Chart history
See also
List of Billboard Argentina Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2023
References
2023
Argentina Hot 100 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20safety | AI safety is an interdisciplinary field concerned with preventing accidents, misuse, or other harmful consequences that could result from artificial intelligence (AI) systems. It encompasses machine ethics and AI alignment, which aim to make AI systems moral and beneficial, and AI safety encompasses technical problems including monitoring systems for risks and making them highly reliable. Beyond AI research, it involves developing norms and policies that promote safety.
Motivations
AI researchers have widely differing opinions about the severity and primary sources of risk posed by AI technology – though surveys suggest that experts take high consequence risks seriously. In two surveys of AI researchers, the median respondent was optimistic about AI overall, but placed a 5% probability on an “extremely bad (e.g. human extinction)” outcome of advanced AI. In a 2022 survey of the Natural language processing (NLP) community, 37% agreed or weakly agreed that it is plausible that AI decisions could lead to a catastrophe that is “at least as bad as an all-out nuclear war.” Scholars discuss current risks from critical systems failures, bias, and AI enabled surveillance; emerging risks from technological unemployment, digital manipulation, and weaponization; and speculative risks from losing control of future artificial general intelligence (AGI) agents.
Some have criticized concerns about AGI, such as Andrew Ng who compared them in 2015 to "worrying about overpopulation on Mars when we have not even set foot on the planet yet." Stuart J. Russell on the other side urges caution, arguing that "it is better to anticipate human ingenuity than to underestimate it."
Background
Risks from AI began to be seriously discussed at the start of the computer age:
From 2008 to 2009, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) commissioned a study to explore and address potential long-term societal influences of AI research and development. The panel was generally skeptical of the radical views expressed by science-fiction authors but agreed that "additional research would be valuable on methods for understanding and verifying the range of behaviors of complex computational systems to minimize unexpected outcomes."
In 2011, Roman Yampolskiy introduced the term "AI safety engineering" at the Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence conference, listing prior failures of AI systems and arguing that "the frequency and seriousness of such events will steadily increase as AIs become more capable."
In 2014, philosopher Nick Bostrom published the book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. He has the opinion that the rise of AGI has the potential to create various societal issues, ranging from the displacement of the workforce by AI, manipulation of political and military structures, to even the possibility of human extinction. His argument that future advanced systems may pose a threat to human existence prompted Elon Musk, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202023%20%28Spain%29 | This lists the singles that reached number one on the Spanish PROMUSICAE sales and airplay charts in 2023. Total sales correspond to the data sent by regular contributors to sales volumes and by digital distributors.
Chart history
References
2023
2023 in Spanish music
Spain songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20V.%20McIntosh | Harold Varner McIntosh (1929–2015) was an American computational physicist who worked for many years in Mexico. Beyond physics, his research interests included quantum chemistry, programming language design, cellular automata, and flexagons.
Early life and education
McIntosh was born on March 11, 1929, in Colorado, and was an undergraduate at the Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now Colorado State University), where he graduated in 1949 with a degree in physics. He went on to graduate study at Cornell University, earning a master's degree in 1952. He began doctoral study at Brandeis University, but stopped before completing the program.
Much later in his career, he completed a doctorate in quantum chemistry at Uppsala University in Sweden in 1972.
Career and later life
After leaving Brandeis, McIntosh worked at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, and then in the Research Institute for Advanced Studies in Baltimore. In 1962 he moved to the University of Florida to work on quantum theory in the department of physics and astronomy there.
In 1964, McIntosh moved to Mexico, where he would work for the rest of his career. He started in the center for research and advanced studies of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, which eventually became CINVESTAV; he worked there on the design of the CONVERT programming language. After another year as director of programming at the computer center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (again working on programming language design) he returned in 1966 to the Instituto Politécnico Nacional as a professor in the School of Physics and Mathematics and coordinator for applied mathematics. Here, as well as the development of programming languages and software for scientific visualization, his interests returned to physics, including issues of degeneracy in the solution of physical equations, and quantum two-body problems involving a magnetic monopole (the so-called MICZ Kepler system, in which the M stands for McIntosh).
After nine years at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, McIntosh moved in 1975 to the Institute of Sciences of the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, where he became the founding director of the Department of Microcomputer Applications. There, his interests shifted to cellular automata for the final decades of his career.
He died in Puebla, Mexico on November 30, 2015.
Recognition
McIntosh was a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. In 2008, a special issue of the Journal of Cellular Automata was published in his honor.
Selected publications
References
External links
Home page
1929 births
2015 deaths
American physicists
Programming language designers
Cellular automatists
Colorado State University alumni
Cornell University alumni
Uppsala University alumni
Academic staff of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Academic staff of the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla
Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Cinema%20History%20Online | Early Cinema History Online (ECHO) is a database of very early silent-era film titles.
ECHO (Early Cinema History Online) is hosted by the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and engineered by Derek Long, then a Ph.D. candidate, now an Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The data compilation and indexing was initially produced from Einar Lauritzen and Gunnar Lundquist, under the title American Film-index 1908-1915: Motion Pictures, July 1908 — December 1915. This information was then digitized by Paul Spehr and Susan Dalton, with the aid of Larry Karr, and published by McFarland Publishing in 1996 as American film personnel and company credits, 1908-1920 : filmographies reordered by authoritative organizational and personal names from Lauritzen and Lundquist's American film-index.
The searchable online database format allows for trend searches and pattern matching. For example, "Databases can also help us to validate, refute or differentiate hypothesis. The online platform (ECHO), for instance, provides further evidence that at the beginning of the 20th century, a relatively large number of women in the US-American film industry had worked as scriptwriters. In order to come to this conclusion or rather to affirm existing research, media historian Derek Long, who created this filmographic database, compared the credits of 35,000 films which appeared in the US from 1908 to 1920 to the female names gathered in the Women Film Pioneers Project."
Users are encouraged to submit corrections or additions, including additional datasets.
References
External links
American film websites
Online film databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic%20Senior%20Partner | The Senior Partner (stylized as the Sr. Partner) is an IBM PC-compatible portable computer that was introduced by the Panasonic Corporation in 1984. Weighing roughly in its base configuration, the computer came equipped with a cathode-ray tube display and a built-in thermal printer.
Specifications
In its stock configuration, the Senior Partner weights and measures . Its monochrome, green-phosphor cathode-ray tube display measures nine inches diagonally and supports the CGA video mode for IBM PCs and compatibles, displaying text at up to 80 columns by 25 rows and graphics up to 640 by 200 pixels. The Senior Partner runs an Intel 8088 microprocessor clocked at the IBM-PC-standard 4.77 MHz. A slot for an aftermarket 8087 floating-point co-processor is included on the motherboard. The computer's base configuration is equipped with 128 KB of RAM, expandable to 256 KB via a proprietary plug-in expansion board. At the rear of the system unit is an RS-232 serial port, a Centronics-style parallel port (in a deviation from the IBM-PC-standard DB-25 parallel connector), and an RGBI port.
Panasonic offered three models of the Senior Partner: one with one 5.25-inch floppy drive; another with two such drives; and the last with one 5.25-inch floppy drive and one 10 MB hard drive. Panasonic dubbed the lattermost model the Super Senior Partner. The company supplied all units with MS-DOS 2.11, as well as a bundle of application software including GW-BASIC, WordStar, VisiCalc, pfs:File, pfs:Graph, and pfs:Report.
The Senior Partner features a built-in thermal printer capable of operating at up to 55 cps. The printer can feed out up to 80 inches of paper before jamming due to lacking a tractor-feed mechanism. It can print up to 132 columns of text per row.
Development and release
Panasonic announced the Senior Partner in November 1983 and began delivering units to customers in March 1984. The hard drive–based Super Senior Partner was unveiled in May 1984, to be available in August that year. Despite being manufactured in Japan, Panasonic did not sell the computer domestically and instead only sold the computer in North America. By April 1984, Panasonic secured nearly 500 nationwide dealers in the United States to sell the Senior Partner. Panasonic commissioned a name-creation company to conjure the Senior Partner name; the final trademark was selected from a pool of 400 candidates.
Reception
The Senior Partner received largely positive reviews from the technology press, although some criticism was reserved for the printer's output. For example, Russ Lockwood in Creative Computing wrote that, although operating at a very quiet noise level and producing overall good-quality prints, "letters with slanted and curved lines are not as sharp as they could be. Lockwood called the Senior Partner very heavy: "You will either develop bulging biceps or suffer a separated shoulder if you lug it about more than occasionally", albeit "Panasonic attaches a well-padded handle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic%20Executive%20Partner | The Executive Partner (stylized as the Exec. Partner; model number FT-70) is an IBM PC-compatible portable computer that was introduced by the Panasonic Corporation in 1985. The portable computer is AC-powered exclusively, weighs between 28 and , and features a built-in printer. The Executive Partner was one of the first affordable portable computers with a plasma display.
Specifications
The Executive Partner is a portable computer in a clamshell form factor that measures . Depending on the configuration, the computer weighs between 28 and . Two models of the computer were released: one with dual 5.25-inch floppy drives and the other with one such floppy drive and a hard drive. All models in the Executive Partner range feature an Intel 8086-2 microprocessor running at user-switchable clock speed of 7.16 MHz or 4.77 MHz—the latter being the standard clock speed of the original IBM PC. The stock Executive Partner comes with 256 KB of RAM, expandable to 640 KB. Users must upgrade all the RAM at once if they are to upgrade to 640 KB because of the non-interoperability of the 64-kb chips of the 128 KB RAM with the 256-kb chips of the 256 KB RAM. The computer has one ISA expansion slot, supporting only certain cards 6 inch in length maximum. An expansion box offering slots for three full-length (13 in) cards was offered as an optional accessory.
The portable features a flat-panel gas plasma display measuring 11 in diagonally and the display housing holding the plasma panel being only 2 in thick. Because of the heavy current draw of the computer's plasma display, the Executive Partner is powered through mains AC exclusively. The plasma display produces a neon-orange image that was said to exhibit less glare than contemporary cathode-ray tubes and LCDs. A special hinge mechanism prevents the display housing from slamming into the keyboard half of the chassis and potentially breaking the fragile glass layers of the plasma display. The graphics adapter supports CGA video; in graphics mode, it can display up to 640 by 200 pixels, while in text mode it can display up to 80 columns by 25 lines.
The Executive Partner features a built-in printer with two optional print heads: a thermal head and an ink-ribbon dot matrix head. The former requires special thermal paper, while the latter can use standard loose-leaf paper. The Executive Partner can print up to 60 cps in draft mode and 30 cps in near-letter-quality mode. The printer can feed out up to 80 inches of paper before jamming due to lacking a tractor-feed mechanism. It can print up to 132 columns of text per row.
Development and release
Panasonic Corporation released the Executive Partner in late July 1985, supported by a network of 78 value-added resellers and numerous retail outlets. It was released a year after Panasonic's somewhat heavier Senior Partner portable computer, which also features a built-in thermal printer. A hard drive–based model of the Executive Partner was released in late December 19 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Falco | Gregory Falco is an American inventor and researcher. Falco is a Professor at Cornell University. He is a pioneer in the field of cybersecurity research and its aerospace applications. Falco is the founding chair of IEEE's Standard for Space System Cybersecurity.
Education
Falco earned his B.S. from Cornell University in 2010, M.S. from Columbia University in 2012. and Ph.D., from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. He completed a predoctoral fellowship with the Cyber Security Project at Harvard University. His postdoctoral research was conducted at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Cyber Policy Center at Stanford University. Falco's PhD was funded by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop an AI system to automatically enumerate threats to space mission systems.
Career
He began his career at Accenture where he was an executive in the Strategy & Sustainability practice. While at Accenture, he lectured at Columbia University and taught a course on Smart Cities and the Evolution of Sustainability.
In 2016 Falco co-founded the company NeuroMesh Inc. while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Technology for contributions to industrial control security with his company, acquired by Meta Platforms in 2022.
In 2021, Falco joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor at their Institute for Assured Autonomy. Falco directed the Aerospace ADVERSARY Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University.
In 2023, Falco joined the faculty at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Systems Engineering.
Research and Recognition
Falco's main area of work is aerospace security research.
In 2018, his paper Cybersecurity Principles for Space Systems, which included recommendations to reduce the cyber risk of the emergent commercial space sector and informed the United States Space Policy Directive-5, was published in the Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. His work on the topic titled Job One For Space Force: Space Asset Cybersecurity was published by Harvard’s Belfer Center.
In 2022, he published a monograph co-authored with Eric Rosenbach on cyber risk management titled Confronting Cyber Risk: An Embedded Endurance Strategy for Cybersecurity. He was awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award for his project Orbital Resilient Blockchain Interagent Transaction Service (ORBITS) Architecture: A Resilient, Zero-Trust Architecture for Hosted Payloads and Space Infrastructure as a Service. Falco is a member of the Space Systems Critical Infrastructure Working Group hosted by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
In 2023, Falco was named the founding chair of the Standard for Space Systems Cybersecurity by the IEEE Standards Association. Falco discussed the 2023 Chinese balloon incident as an aerospace se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1951.
Events
Television programs
Debuts
Changes of network affiliation
Ending this year
Television stations
Station launches
Network affiliation changes
Births
Deaths
References
External links
List of 1951 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Chinese%20Buddhism | The history of Chinese Buddhism begins in the Han dynasty, when Buddhism first began to arrive via the Silk Road networks (via overland and maritime routes). The early period of Chinese Buddhist history saw efforts to propagate Buddhism, establish institutions and translate Buddhist texts into Chinese. The effort was led by non-Chinese missionaries from India and Central Asia like Kumarajiva and Paramartha well as by great Chinese pilgrims and translators like Xuanzang.
After the Han era, there was a period in which Buddhism became more Sinicized and new unique Chinese traditions of Buddhism arose, like Pure Land, Chan, Tiantai and Huayan. These traditions would also be exported to Korea, Japan and Vietnam and they influenced all of East Asian Buddhism.
Though Buddhism suffered numerous setbacks during the modern era (such as the widespread destruction of temples during the Taiping Rebellion and Cultural Revolution), it also experienced periods of reform and revival. Buddhism is currently the largest institutionalized religion in mainland China.
Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE)
Various legends tell of the presence of Buddhism on Chinese soil in very ancient times. While the scholarly consensus is that Buddhism first came to China in the first century CE during the Han dynasty, through missionaries from India, it is not known precisely when Buddhism entered China.
Generations of scholars have debated whether Buddhist missionaries first reached Han China via the maritime or overland routes of the Silk Road. The maritime route hypothesis, favored by Liang Qichao and Paul Pelliot, proposed that Buddhism was originally practiced in southern China, the Yangtze River, and Huai River region. On the other hand, it must have entered from the northwest via the Gansu corridor to the Yellow River basin and the North China Plain in the course of the first century CE. The scene becomes clearer from the middle of the second century onward, when the first known missionaries started their translation activities in the capital, Luoyang. The Book of the Later Han records that in 65 CE, the prince Liu Ying of Chu (present-day Jiangsu) "delighted in the practices of Huang-Lao Daoism" and had both Buddhist monks and laypeople at his court who presided over Buddhist ceremonies. The overland route hypothesis, favored by Tang Yongtong, proposed that Buddhism disseminated through Central Asia – in particular, the Kushan Empire, which was often known in ancient Chinese sources as Da Yuezhi ("Great Yuezhi"), after the founding tribe. According to this hypothesis, Buddhism was first practiced in China in the Western Regions and the Han capital Luoyang (present-day Henan), where Emperor Ming of Han established the White Horse Temple in 68 CE.
In 2004, Rong Xinjiang, a history professor at Peking University, reexamined the overland and maritime hypotheses through a multi-disciplinary review of recent discoveries and research, including the Gandhāran Buddhist Texts, and concl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcars%20in%20Redlands | Streetcars in Redlands transported people across the city and region from 1889 until 1936. The city's network of street railways peaked around 1908 before the patchwork of separate companies was consolidated under the Pacific Electric.
Mule cars
The Redlands Street Railway Company (RSR) was incorporated on March 22, 1888, acquiring on June 5 a franchise from the San Bernardino County Supervisors dating to December 1887, conveying the right to construct, operate and maintain for a term of 50 years a line of street railways in Redlands, Terracina and vicinity. The initial operations began in May 1889 with a single-track line operating two-mule-team cars, the first street railway company of several to provide service to the community. The company broke ground on an extension to San Jacinto Street the following March.
Electrification
Electrification and new rails replaced mules in 1899, with electrical operation beginning on December 19, 1899 over the Smiley Heights Line. Residents near Redlands Country Club were demanding streetcar access by late the following year. The Country Club Line opened on December 18, 1901 after the RSR secured land near the terminus.
The San Bernardino Valley Traction Company (SBVTC) began construction of an interurban between San Bernardino and the Redlands city limits starting in 1902. The line began regular service on March 10, 1903. Most Redlands street railways would pass to the SBVTC in a consolidation on June 3, 1903.
After being ousted from a previous position at a nearby street railroad, Henry Fischer established the Redlands Central Railway in 1907 and began construction of a line on Brookside Avenue. The Brookside–Citrus Avenue Line began operations in February 1908.
Pacific Electric
Henry E. Huntington, nephew of late Southern Pacific president Collis P. Huntington, had gained control of the streetcar line of the Redlands Central Railway Company in 1908. Service was amalgamated under the reformed Pacific Electric Railway in the "Great Merger" of Huntington properties under new ownership by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company on February 8, 1911. The company began running their "Orange Empire Trolley Trip" tourist excursion to Redlands in 1915, which brought in day trippers from Los Angeles. Redlands was the eastern terminus of the "Big Red Car" system. At its peak, PE operated five local routes in Redlands, with streetcars running to Smiley Heights and on Orange, Olive, and Citrus Avenues.
Decline
The first of Redland's streetcar lines abandoned was the Brookside Avenue–San Mateo Local Line which last ran around 1915. Starting in November 1920, interurban cars were appended to PE's Upland–San Bernardino Line at San Bernardino, providing a one-seat ride to downtown Los Angeles.
The Olive Avenue–Terracina Line was abandoned in December 1922, though a franchise car may have run as late as the following June. The West Second Avenue Line ceased service after October 1, 1924. The Country Club Line and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallis%20Lake%20Cross%20Country%20Skiing%20Facility | Hallis Lake Cross Country Skiing Facility is a 75 kilometer network of trails in Quesnel, British Columbia maintained by the Cariboo Ski-Touring club. The trails are home to winter activities such as cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.
History
The facility was opened in 1995. In 1998, the 3,000 square foot lodge was opened to the public.
In 2006, Northern Development Initiative Trust granted $36,667 to Cariboo Ski Touring Club to go toward expansion of the trails.
In 2022, Hallis Lake hosted the BC Cup #3 Biathlon.
References
External links
Ski areas and resorts in British Columbia
Geography of the Cariboo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%202023%20%28Denmark%29 | Tracklisten is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles and tracks in Denmark. Its data, published by IFPI Denmark and compiled by Nielsen Music Control, is based collectively on each single's weekly digital sales.
Chart history
References
Number-one hits
Denmark
2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20Hot%20100%20number-one%20singles%20of%202023 | This is a list of the Canadian Hot 100 number-one singles of 2023. The Canadian Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of Canada. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one albums of 2023 (Canada)
References
Canada Hot 100
2023
2023 in Canadian music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20albums%20of%202023%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays (EPs) in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly physical and digital sales and streams of albums and EPs. In 2023, 31 albums have so far claimed the top spot. The first number one of the year, Midnights by Taylor Swift, carried over from the end of 2022. Ten artists, SZA, Morgan Wallen, Melanie Martinez, Cub Sport, Peach PRC, Lewis Capaldi, Niall Horan, Kerser, G Flip and Polaris, achieved their first number-one album. Both Swift and Ed Sheeran achieved two number-one albums within the year.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2023 in music
List of number-one singles of 2023 (Australia)
References
2023
Australia albums
Number-one albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202023%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly physical and digital sales and streams of singles. Nine songs have so far topped the chart in 2023, with "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey being number one in a sixth consecutive year. Six artists, SZA, Miley Cyrus, Morgan Wallen, Dave, Central Cee and Doja Cat, reached the top for the first time.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2023 in music
List of number-one albums of 2023 (Australia)
References
Australia singles
Number-one singles
2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENA%20%28South%20Korean%20TV%20channel%29 | ENA is a South Korean nationwide pay television network operated by SkyTV, a broadcasting subsidiary of KT SkyLife. ENA programming consists of television series and variety shows.
History
Initially launched as SkyHD in September 2003, as part of Skylife channels lineup, its name was changed to HDOne in September 2007, and the channel started broadcasting on other cable TV providers. Afterwards, in July 2012, the station's was renamed as Channel N. By that time, its programming carried mainly foreign television series and movies. On August 1, 2014, its name was changed from Channel N to Sky Drama, which was aired the Korean dramas replays. On March 16, 2020, Sky Drama was renamed as SKY, and on April 29, 2022, SKY changed its channel name to ENA, which the channel made it's availability outside Skylife such as their competitors B tv and U+TV.
In April 2022, KT Corporation announced the channel rebrand with the aim of transforming the channel into a top brand in Korean pay television. Yoon Yong-phil, CEO of SkyTV, said that over the next three years it will create over 30 new drama series for ENA, and over 300 entertainment shows for ENA and channels operated by sky TV.
Programs
TV series
ENA's highest-rated TV series is Extraordinary Attorney Woo, which premiered with a nationwide viewership rating of 0.9%, and recorded 17.534% nationwide audience share on its final episode, making it seventh highest rated drama in Korean cable television history at the time. It received critical acclaim, and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Series at the 28th Critics' Choice Awards.
Sunday–Monday
Evilive (October 14, 2023 – present)
Monday–Tuesday
Summer Strike (November 21 – December 27, 2022)
Pale Moon (April 10 – May 9, 2023)
Oh! Youngsim (May 15 – June 13, 2023)
Lies Hidden in My Garden (June 19 – July 11, 2023)
Not Others (July 17 – August 22, 2023)
New Recruit 2 (August 28 – September 12, 2023)
Tell Me That You Love Me (November 27, 2023)
Wednesday–Thursday
Never Give Up (May 4 – June 23, 2022)
Extraordinary Attorney Woo (June 29 – August 18, 2022)
Good Job (August 24 – September 29, 2022)
Love Is for Suckers (October 5 – December 1, 2022)
Unlock My Boss (December 7, 2022 – January 12, 2023)
Strangers Again (January 18 – February 22, 2023)
Delivery Man (March 1 – April 6, 2023)
Bo-ra! Deborah (April 12 – May 25, 2023)
Battle for Happiness (May 31 – July 20, 2023)
Longing for You (July 26 – September 7, 2023)
The Kidnapping Day (September 13 – October 25, 2023)
Moon in the Day (November 1, 2023 – present)
Friday–Saturday
New Recruit (July 23 – August 20, 2022)
Gaus Electronics (September 30 – November 5, 2022)
Entertainment
Current airing
I Am Solo (나는 SOLO; 2021 – present)
The Hammington's Dream Closet (2022 – present)
I Am Solo: Love Continues (2022 – present)
Suspicious Bookstore East West South Book (2022 – present)
HMLYCP (2023 – present)
Past shows
Thrill King (2019)
Doomed Marriage (2020) co-prod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison%20Koenecke | Allison Koenecke is an American computer scientist and an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University. Her research considers computational social science and algorithmic fairness. In 2022, Koenecke was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science.
Early life and education
As a high school student, Koenecke took part in a mathematics competition at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was in the first cohort of participants for the Math Prize for Girls, and has continued to support the program as her career has progressed. Koenecke was an undergraduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she majored in mathematics with a minor in economics. She worked in economic consultancy for several years before realizing she wanted to do something that benefitted society.
Koenecke was a doctoral researcher in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. Koenecke was advised by notable economist Susan Athey and her doctoral research focused on fairness in algorithmic systems. Prior to Cornell, Koenecke was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, New England, where she focused on machine learning and statistics. Her current research interest also includes causal inference in public health.
Research and career
Koenecke moved to Cornell University as an assistant professor in 2022. She studies algorithmic fairness, including racial disparities in voice recognition systems. She noticed that voice recognition was being increasingly used in society, and was aware of the work of Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru on facial recognition. Koenecke started to perform tests on the voice recognition software developed by Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft and Apple. She showed these voice recognition systems had considerable racial disparities, and were more likely to misinterpret Black speakers. Whilst she could not precisely define the reasons for these racial disparities, she proposed that it was due to acoustic differences (differences in the patterns of stress/intonation) between white and African American vernacular. She argued that this kind of study was critical to improving such systems, emphasizing that equity must be part of the design of future technologies.
Koenecke was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science in 2022.
Awards and honors
2020 Ben Rolfs Memorial Award
2020 Berkeley EECS Rising Stars
2021 Stanford School of Engineering Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Appreciation
2022 Forbes 30 Under 30
Selected publications
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Stanford University alumni
Cornell University faculty
American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20Hot%20100%20singles%20of%202022 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2022, the list was published on December 1, calculated with data from November 20, 2021 to November 12, 2022. At the number-one position was Glass Animals' "Heat Waves", which spent 5 weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100. It accumulated a total of 91 weeks on the chart, which is the longest-charting song in the 64-year history of the Billboard Hot 100.
The 2022 Billboard Hot 100 Year-End list is also notable for being one of five Billboard Year-End lists that featured 14 songs that appeared in the previous year (in this case 2021's) repeat onto this list. With the highest being the number one song of the year, Glass Animals' "Heat Waves", which first appeared onto 2021's list at number 16. Only four more year-end list would repeat the same feat, that being 1997, 2010, 2016 and 2018.
Year-end list
See also
2022 in American music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2022
List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2022
References
United States Hot 100 Year end
Lists of Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles
2022 in American music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TriGem | TriGem Computer Co., Ltd. (, abbreviated TG, also known as TGSambo), was a South Korean personal computer manufacturer and technology company. Established in 1980, TriGem was the first Korean company dedicated to manufacturing computer systems. It delivered Korea's first microcomputer in 1981 and the first Korean IBM PC compatibles in 1984. From that point until its breakup in 2010, it alternated between the first- and second-largest computer manufacturer in South Korea, competing with Samsung Electronics.
History
Foundation (1980–1997)
TriGem Computer was founded in 1980 by Lee Yong-tae with ₩10,000,000 in start-up capital. TriGem was the first Korean company dedicated to manufacturing computer systems, bucking from the trend of established chaebol conglomerates such as Hyundai, Lucky-Goldstar (LG), and Daewoo, who had opened divisions to manufacture electronic components that go into computers (namely DRAM) but who had cold feet about fully entering the burgeoning global microcomputer market. In 1981, TriGem delivered Korea's first microcomputer, and in 1984, they developed the country's first IBM PC–compatible personal computer. In 1982, TriGem forged a partnership with Seiko Epson of Japan, committing to build computer peripherals such as printers for the latter on an OEM basis. By 1990, TriGem cornered dot matrix printer production in Korea, with an 80-percent market share. The company began manufacturing Epson's Equity line of personal computers in 1987, after Epson had purchased a 20 percent stake in TriGem. By 1990, TriGem produced close to 500,000 computers annually; from 1987 to 1990, TriGem manufactured 300,000 computers for Epson.
TriGem's partnership with Epson winded down in the turn of the decade, after Epson announced that they would ramp up production of its computers at the company's manufacturing plant in Portland, Oregon. In 1989, TriGem Computer opened a subsidiary in the United States, amid plans to market computers under their own name in the country. Setting out to innovate in the field of personal computing, the company redirected eight percent of their gross sales into the research and development end of this subsidiary. The company planned a line of PC-compatible desktop computers, notebooks, and workstations based on the EISA and Micro Channel buses. TriGem also manufactured a SPARC-based laptop, OEMed for RDI Inc. of San Diego. This laptop, named the Brite Lite, was capable of running Unix, DOS, and Macintosh applications. Also in 1990, TriGem entered an OEM relationship with CMS Enhancements of Irvine, California, to manufacture computers under the CMS brand. This proved near-fatal for CMS after a price war in 1992 pulled them out of the market, with hardly any of these computers being sold.
Vertical growth (1997–2003)
By the mid-1990s TriGem was the largest manufacturer of laptops in Korea. Sales of personal computers hit a slump in 1998, with TriGem producing 1.1 million that year, down from 2 million in 1997. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAIXA%20Cultural%20S%C3%A3o%20Paulo | CAIXA Cultural São Paulo is one of CAIXA Cultural network's units, a complex of cultural centers located in different capital cities in Brazil, maintained by Caixa Econômica Federal. In operation since 1989, the São Paulo unit is located in the Sé Building, the bank's former regional headquarters, inaugurated in 1939 by Getúlio Vargas. The building is an important example of Art Deco architecture in São Paulo and is listed as a city heritage site. Caixa Cultural also runs a second center in São Paulo, the Vitrine da Paulista Gallery, on the first floor of Conjunto Nacional.
The institution houses the Caixa Museum, with various objects and documents referring to the history of Caixa Econômica Federal and Brazil's financial system, as well as internal spaces with period ambiance and preserved original elements. It also houses different exhibition spaces, a reading room, a workshop room and an auditorium. It maintains a permanent program of cultural events, including dance shows, theater plays, concerts, debates, video and cinema sessions, dramatic readings, lectures and temporary exhibitions, especially in the Visual arts' field.
The institution
The CAIXA Cultural network was created in 1980, under the initial name of "Conjunto Cultural da Caixa", aiming to promote, disseminate and support events, projects and artistic/cultural manifestations in the fields of visual arts, photography, theater, dance and literature. In addition, the network also aimed to preserve Caixa Econômica Federal's collection, specialized in the institution's memory and the history of Brazil's financial system. The first unit of Conjunto Cultural da Caixa was opened to the public still in 1980, in Brasília.
The São Paulo unit is the network's second oldest, inaugurated on August 29, 1989. It was installed in the Sé Building, a historical building located in Sé Square, listed by Conpresp, built in the second half of the 1930s to be the bank's state headquarters and in disuse since the late 1970s, when the headquarters were transferred to the Torre Sul Building, on Paulista Avenue. The exhibition space was installed on the first floor, and the sixth floor was reserved for the Caixa Museum, with the institution's historical collection. The building still houses some of Caixa's administrative offices, in addition to the Sé bank branch.
In March 2002, CAIXA Cultural inaugurated a second exhibition space in the city, inside Conjunto Nacional: the Vitrine da Paulista Gallery, a hall of approximately 300 m², distributed between the first floor and the mezzanine, with external glass walls facing Paulista Avenue, intended to house exhibitions and dance/theater performances.
In the context of São Paulo's 450th anniversary celebrations, Caixa Econômica Federal (the owner of 90% of the real estate properties located in the so-called "Sé quadrilateral", area between Sé Square and Wenceslau Brás, Roberto Simonsen and Floriano Peixoto streets) financed a restoration project of nine bui |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20Ang%C3%A9lica%20Salazar%20Aguilar | María Angélica Salazar Aguilar (born 1981) is a Mexican computer scientist and operations researcher specializing in heuristics for multi-objective optimization in transportation planning and sales territory design. She is a professor at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, in the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.
Education and career
Salazar earned a computer engineering degree from the Querétaro Institute of Technology in 2004. She went to the Autonomous University of Nuevo León for graduate study in systems engineering, earning a master's degree and a PhD. Her 2010 doctoral dissertation, Models, Algorithms, and Heuristics for Multiobjective Commercial Territory Design, was supervised by Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado.
She did postdoctoral research in Canada at the University of Montreal, in the Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur les Réseaux d'Entreprise, la Logistique et le Transport (CIRRELT), before returning to the Autonomous University of Nuevo León as a faculty member.
Recognition
Salazar is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
References
External links
1981 births
Living people
Mexican computer scientists
Mexican women computer scientists
Operations researchers
Autonomous University of Nuevo León alumni
Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León
Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences
21st-century Mexican scientists
21st-century women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20P.%20Stenbit | John P. Stenbit is an American engineer and public official who served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information (NII) (2003-2004) and Assistant Secretary of Defense (Communications, Command, Control, and Intelligence) (C3I) (2001) during the Presidency of George W. Bush.
Early life and education
John Stenbit graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1962 with bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering. He attended the Eindhoven University of Technology as a Fulbright Fellow and Aerospace Corporation Fellow from 1962 - 1963.
Career
Stenbit has worked in both the public and private sectors, working on satellites, sensors, telecommunications, IT, and military command and control. He worked for TRW Inc. from 1977 to 2001, retiring as an executive vice president. He served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Communications, Command, Control and Intelligence (ASD C3I) from 2001 to 2003, until that portfolio was transferred to the ASD (NII), the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Following this re-organization, he stayed on as the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration) until 2004.
Stenbit was also the chair of the R&D Advisory Committee to the FAA Administrator, the chair of the Technical Advisory Board to the Director of the CIA, and was previously chair of the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board. He was also a member of the MITRE Board of Trustees (since 2005) and has been the director of Viasat Corp since 2004 and Loral Space & Communications.
He has chaired the Science and Technology Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence and served as a member of the Science Advisory Group to the directors of Naval Intelligence and the Defense Communications Agency. He also chaired the Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee for the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. He has served and consulted on the Defense Science Advisory Board, the Navy Studies Board, and the National Research Council Manufacturing Board.
Stenbit is currently a consultant and member of the Defense Science Board, the National Security Agency Advisory Board (NSAAB), the STRATCOM Advisory Board (SAG), and the National Reconnaissance Office Advisory Group.
Awards and honors
Stenbit is a member of Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. In 1999, he was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering for "...contributions to the development and leadership in implementation of system architecture for complex military and communication systems." He has received the Secretary of Defense Medals for Outstanding and Exceptional Public Service.
References
Living people
California Institute of Technology alumni
American aerospace engineers
United States Assistant Secretaries of Defense
United States Department of Defense officials
George W. Bush administr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Adelaide%20Donaldson | Agnes Adelaide Donaldson (; 1866–1948) was an Australian botanical collector, governess, and sheep station owner. Part of the expansive network of collectors established by Ferdinand von Mueller to botanically describe and categorise the flora of Australia, she was the earliest recorded woman, and one of the earliest recorded people, to collect plant material around Alpha.
Life
Donaldson was born to pastoralists Hastings Alfred Elms (1832–1910), and Janet Beveridge Elms (1838–1899) in Smeaton, Victoria. In the late 1880s, Agnes travelled to Lansdowne, Queensland to work as a governess at Lansdowne station. She met the station overseer Robert Donaldson, and they married in 1890 and they ultimately had three daughters and three sons.
After the wedding in Victoria, the Donaldsons travelled to Alpha pastoral station in Alpha, Queensland where Robert was the manager. At this time it is claimed that he employed Breaker Morant.
In 1898, leaseholders with large landholdings such as Robert Donaldson were barred from taking up new leases in districts that had been opened up by the Queensland colonial government. Agnes applied to select 19,677 acres and a waterhole, which was probably an attempt to evade the selection restrictions imposed on her husband. In 1910, this property was passed on to the Queensland pastoralist Eric Henry Mackay (1841–1923), and then his daughter Clara Miller. When "government enquiries" were made in the 1920s regarding the original "unethical occupation" of the property by Donaldson, the property was surrendered to bailiff.
They then moved to Medway homestead, Bogantungan in 1909, which Robert had purchased with a business partner. By 1914 this partnership had dissolved and Agnes stayed at the homestead while their son managed the property. Agnes's descendants have continued to manage the property into the present day, as a cattle stud. In 1946 she moved close to Rockhampton to receive medical treatment and passed away in July 1948.
Botanical legacy
As part of Ferdinand von Mueller's plan to write a write a flora of Australia, he needed to recruit plant collectors from across the continent. He therefore advertised in regional Queensland newspapers, including in Rockhampton, requesting for people to send him plant specimens. It is possible that Agnes saw was recruited into Mueller's network by one of these advertisements, although no correspondence between them has survived.
Agnes collected botanical specimens at upper Belyando River, and Alpha Station in the early 1890s, forming an important record of past biodiversity in the region. Today her specimens are cared for in the collections of the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
Further reading
The Morris Hawkins Collection at the State Library of Queensland includes images relating to Medway, and particularly Agnes' daughter Aube.
Donaldson, Agnes Adelaide (née Elms) (1865 - 1949), Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, Australian Nati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loic%20%28disambiguation%29 | Loïc (Loiic, Loick) is a Bretish male given name.
Loic may also refer to:
Low Orbit Ion Cannon, an open-source networking testing application
An alternate dialectal pronunciation spelling of like
See also
Loich, Austria
Dun Loich, Ireland
Loik (disambiguation)
Lois (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiYatra | DigiYatra produces Biometric Enabled Seamless Travel (BEST) experiences based on facial recognition technology.
History
DigiYatra app was developed by Hyderabad-based startup Dataevolve Solutions. This startup company was selected through the national start-up challenge conducted by NITI Aayog under Atal Innovation Mission (AIM). DigiYatra was launched on 1 December 2022 by civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia in its first phase in Bangalore and Varanasi. In April 2023, the Digi Yatra service was expanded to Vijayawada, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Pune airports. In June 2023, Delhi Airport’s Terminal 3 (T3), announced that passengers traveling from T3 can now benefit from the convenience of the Digi Yatra facility from the airport premises without requiring the DigiYatra mobile application. In the same month, the user registration on Digi Yatra mobile application crossed the 1 million milestone.
See also
Facial recognition system
References
Modi administration initiatives
Facial recognition
Ministry of Civil Aviation (India)
Ministry of Tourism (India) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Data%20Analysis | Video Data Analysis (VDA) is a curated multi-disciplinary collection of tools, techniques, and quality criteria intended for analyzing the content of visuals to study driving dynamics of social behavior and events in real-life settings. It often uses visual data in combination with other data types. VDA is employed across the social sciences such as sociology, psychology, criminology, business research, and education research.
General approach
VDA makes use of technological and social developments in relation to video recordings. Mobile phone cameras, CCTV surveillance cameras, body-worn cameras, and other types of cameras generate an ever-expanding pool of recordings from real-life situations. More and more of these videos are uploaded to internet platforms such as Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram, LiveLeak, YouTube, Facebook, and many others. Others can be accessed through collaboration with public and private institutions, such as police departments or CCTV providers. Parallel to this increase in third-hand video data, advances in camera and data storage technology also enabled new ways of collecting first-hand videos for research, by researchers. In short, humans find themselves in a new era of how social life is captured. These new sources of video data support researchers in unobtrusively collecting video recordings that depict real-life situations even of extremely rare events that would be otherwise impossible for researchers to observe first hand. VDA relies on these types of videos to analyze real-life social processes and events—tracing them step-by-step to explain how they unfold.
To do so, VDA draws on methodological approaches such as visual studies, ethnography, video-based experimental psychology, and multimodal interaction analysis to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to using video data. Foci of such analyses include sequences of peoples’ interactions, movements, fields of vision, exchanges of glances or gestures, and actors’ facial expressions and body postures. The goals of VDA studies are to further our understanding of the rules, processes, and sequential patterns that govern social life on the micro level, both in everyday encounters and extreme situations. The method can also be used to trace influence of structural factors in social interactions and events, or study how patterns in social interactions and events produce macro-level phenomena. At the core of this perspective lies the question: How do social actions and situational dynamics impact social outcomes? Video data offers the possibility to study situational patterns in unprecedented detail and rigor by allowing researchers to replay situations, watch them in slow motion and fast forward, and share primary data of situations with colleagues and readers. VDA outlines a toolkit of analytic dimensions and procedures, introduces criteria of validity, and discusses challenges and limitations.
Areas of application
VDA is employed in disciplines such as sociology, ps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Weist | Julia Weist (born 1984) is an American visual artist. Themes in Weist's work include archival science, knowledge organization, media distribution, algorithmic technology, history and politics. Weist often uses found images and media to create photographs, video, installations, sculptures, artist books and public artworks.
Early life and education
Weist was born in New York City in 1984. Her brother, Nicholas, is a curator. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union in 2007 and a MLIS from Pratt Institute in 2011.
Before becoming a full-time artist, Weist worked as a librarian at the New York Public Library, as well as an information scientist, photo editor, and artist's assistant for Janine Antoni and Spencer Finch.
In 2007, Weist and Maayan Pearl created The Public Library of American Public Library Deaccession, which commented on public library deaccession practices by collecting deaccessioned books to create an online database and a physical installation. As a part of the project, Weist wrote a manuscript of a romance novel, the most commonly withdrawn genre from libraries, and submitted it to publishers in order to collect rejection letters; however, the book was accepted and in 2008, published as Sexy Librarian: Critical Edition of the Original Novel. The piece coincided with Weist's MLIS program, and culminated in a physical display of discarded library books alongside her degrees in 2011.
Public artworks and response
In 2015, Weist's public artwork Reach went viral. The artwork consists of a single word ("parbunkells"), that had never been used on the Internet, installed on a billboard in Forest Hills, Queens. The public response to the project was wide-ranging, with an extensive amount of social media activity related to the billboard. Entrepreneurial attempts to capitalize on the project included the creation of T-shirts and other merchandise on Redbubble and the sale of a domain using the word parbunkells which was listed on eBay for $20,000. From 2013 to 2015, Weist worked on the project After, About, With, manipulating the search results for the artist Haim Steinbach as a way to explore how meaning about artists' work is codified online.
In 2019, Weist was selected for a public artwork commission initiated by the Department of Cultural Affairs in New York City in 2019. As part of that project, she served as an artist-in-residence at the NYC Department of Records and Information Services and created artworks that were classified as government records. In 2022, Weist's second billboard-based project premiered in Times Square, in conjunction with an exhibition at Rachel Uffner Gallery, which featured work inspired by her residency at the Department of Records and Information Services. Through this billboard, Weist advertised her short film, Governing Body with promotional design that Motion Picture Association of America disapproved for public use. The National Coalition Against Censorship issued a statement of support for Weist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Martin%20Turns%20%27Em%20Loose | Joe Martin Turns 'Em Loose is a two-reel black-and-white silent comedy film released by Universal Pictures on September 15, 1915. It is not found in the Library of Congress' film preservation database and as such, is believed to be a lost film. The film was regarded by contemporary reviewers as a remarkable for its integration of plot, animal performance and stuntwork. The film’s animals were the trained tigers of Paul Bourgeois (aka Paul Sablon) paired with the menagerie of the recently established Universal City Zoo, under the leadership of Rex De Rosselli. Bourgeois was the director and scenarist.
Production
The film, distributed by Universal, is credited, variously, to one of two production companies under the Universal umbrella: Rex Motion Picture Company or Victor Studios. Some sources say it was a one-reel film but with a reported running time of 30 minutes that is likely an error.
During production in August 1915, Motion Picture News reported, "A near riot was caused on the rear stage and in the zoo of Universal City the early part of this week when practically all of the animals were turned loose for the filming of the one-reel animal comedy, Joe Martin Turns 'em Loose. The name part is taken by the chimpanzee…" The animal cast included the "least domesticated members" of the Universal City Zoo, including Charlie the Elephant and Princess the Tiger.
Ad copy published in The Moving Picture World reads, in part, "It isn't often that Universal 'turns loose' to the extent of a page to boost a two-reeler—you can judge from this spread that we think mighty well of Joe Martin."
Influence
The title-character ape was an orangutan who had been known as Charlie Chimpanzee but whose stage name was changed Joe Martin, seemingly as a result the success of this picture. Joe Martin went on to a long movie career, appearing in films until 1923. "Joe Martin" became a cultural shorthand and common name for other performing simians of the era.
Carl Laemmle was seemingly proud of his involvement in Joe Martin, such that the studio magazine reported in 1933: "Joe Martin was a monkey and he scored heavily with audiences — so heavily, in fact, that Mr. Laemme recently decided to inject a new 1933 version of the same idea in Nagana." In the case of Nagana starring Melvyn Douglas, the animals collectively save a human life.
Joe Martin, ničema was played at the 1920 inauguration of ", the center of the Czech Social Democratic Party."
Reception
In a 2001 article about the scandalous and somewhat criminal Hollywood era of Paul Bourgeois' career, the film was characterized as "riotous."
A positive review by Peter Milne was published in Motion Picture News at the time of release: "...An elephant shoves the police station in the river, tigers enter a millinery establishment and completely devastate its contents as well as petrifying the occupants, several bears wreck a delicatessen store, an entire boarding house is thrown into pandemonium by the unheralded en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%20power%20grid%20hack | Ukraine power grid hack may refer to:
2015 Ukraine power grid hack
2016 Kyiv cyberattack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Vanilla%20Ice%20Project%20episodes | The Vanilla Ice Project is an American reality television series on the DIY Network. It is hosted by construction contractor and rapper Rob Van Winkle, a.k.a. Vanilla Ice, who has significant experience with home improvement and real estate flipping. Ice began purchasing houses in his early twenties and became more involved in home improvement projects starting around 1998.
During the course of the series, 105 episodes of The Vanilla Ice Project aired over nine seasons.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2010–11)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2013)
Season 4 (2014)
Season 5 (2015)
Season 6 (2016)
Season 7 (2017)
Season 8 (2018)
Season 9 (2019)
In this season, Rob and the Ninjas stick to a $100,000 renovation budget.
Specials (2012–19)
References
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes
Lists of American reality television series episodes
Vanilla Ice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandra%20Caraballo | Alejandra Caraballo (born ) is an American civil rights attorney and clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic. Caraballo is a transgender rights activist, and she has spoken out against anti-LGBT legislation, policies, and rhetoric.
Early life and education
When Caraballo was fifteen years old, her father became permanently disabled after losing an arm in a workplace accident. She said her family's struggles with the worker's compensation system, and the help from attorneys in resolving them "demonstrated to me the power that the law can have".
Caraballo earned a bachelor's degree in Government and World Affairs from the University of Tampa. She then earned a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where she studied with a concentration in intellectual property and media law. Shortly after she passed the bar exam, she came out as transgender.
Caraballo is Latina.
Career
Caraballo was a staff attorney at the LGBTQ Law Project at the New York Legal Assistance Group, representing LGBT individuals seeking asylum and other immigrants. She then worked as a staff attorney with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, focusing on national advocacy.
In 2021, she joined the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Harvard Law School as a clinical instructor. She and another instructor who began teaching the same month were the first trans women of color to teach at the law school. The New York Times described Caraballo as an expert on transgender issues; she has spent years monitoring anti-LGBT rhetoric online.
Political activism
Starting in 2019, Caraballo served on a Brooklyn community board. In 2020 she announced her candidacy for New York City's 35th City Council district seat, and campaigned on defunding the New York City Police Department and redirecting the funds towards other services, as well as improving affordable housing. She ultimately left the race before the election.
Caraballo is a democratic socialist. , she was a member of the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City.
Caraballo has been outspoken about what she sees as anti-LGBT legislation and policies, rhetoric from prominent individuals, and inadequate social media moderation surrounding the topic. In March 2022, she criticized the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, also nicknamed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by its opponents, which was introduced in January 2022 and signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis the following March. Caraballo described the bill as "an unprecedented attack on LGBT rights", predicting it would likely lead to a serious reversal in policies protecting LGBT rights in schools. Later that year, Caraballo was critical of Elon Musk's actions after acquiring Twitter, including his decision to reinstate accounts that had been suspended for threats, harassment, or misinformation.
Social media presence
In a tweet published on December 29, 2022, Caraballo suggested that the arrest of American-British social media personality Andrew Tate in Romania on hu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Davies%20%28journalist%29 | Tim Davies (born 18 October 1983) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. Since 2020, he has been the weather presenter on the Nine Network's Today program.
Career
After studying journalism at Macleay College in Sydney, he joined radio station Nova 96.9 as a traffic reporter in 2003 before moving on to cover general news and report on major events for the DMG Radio Australia network.
In 2009, Davies joined the Seven Network as a producer, working on such programs as Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise and The Morning Show.
Davies joined Austereo Radio Network as a news presenter in 2013, where he read the news on The Kyle and Jackie O Show on 2Day FM. Davies continued the role at 2Day FM in 2014 after The Kyle and Jackie O Show defected to rival station KIIS 106.5.
In 2014, Davies left Austereo to join the Nine Network, initially as a producer and reporter for Nine News before becoming a presenter of Nine News: Early Edition and a fill-in host on Today Extra and Weekend Today.
In late 2019, it was announced that Davies would be replacing Steve Jacobs as the weather presenter on the network's breakfast program Today, commencing in 2020 as part of a widely-publicised overhaul.
In October 2022, Davies reported seeing masked men who he believed were looting houses as he and a Today crew arrived to set up a live cross in a flood affected area of Maribyrnong, prompting him to contact police. Victoria Police later confirmed they were investigating a man who allegedly stole several personal items from an unoccupied home while two accomplices waited in a blue Ford Territory.
Personal life
Davies is Christian. As a child, Davies attended St Frances de Sales, a Catholic primary school in Woolooware.
Davies is openly gay.
After a holiday in Austria in March 2020, Davies was on one of the first international flights to land in Australia after the federal government ordered all passengers arriving in Australia to self-isolate for 14 days at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
References
Weather presenters
Australian television presenters
Nine News presenters
Australian LGBT journalists
1983 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20on%20Buka%20Street | Battle on Buka Street is a 2022 Nigerian comedy drama film directed by Funke Akindele and Tobi Makinde. The film is jointly produced as a collaboration between Funke Ayotunde Akindele Network (FAAN) and FilmOne Studios. The film had its theatrical release on 16 December 2022 and opened to extremely positive reviews from critics. The film became a huge box office success.
Synopsis
The plot revolves around the battle between two women who confront each other in a food challenge in order to win the prestigious 'King of Buka Street' which is a title conferred to the best local food seller in the region.
Cast
Funke Akindele as Yejide
Mercy Johnson as Awele
Sola Sobowale as Asake
Tina Mba as Ezinne
Nkem Owoh as Maduka
Femi Jacobs as Lanshile
Kelvin Ikeduba as Chukwuemka
Sani Musa Danja as Kazeem
Bimbo Ademoye as Young Asake
Uche Obunse as Ifunnaya
Moshood Fattah as Ademide
Judith Ushi as Fadekami
Gbemi Akinlade as Kaira
Miracle Gabriel as Kaiso
Mike Afolarin
Wumi Toriola as Yedije friend I
Regina Chukwu as Yedije friend II
Production
The film project marked the third cinematic directorial venture for actress Funke Akindele after Your Excellency and Omo Ghetto: The Saga. The film also possibly marked the final film venture for Funke Akindele who has insisted to join politics and to run as a frontrunner in the election.
Box office
It became the second highest grossing Nigerian film of the year 2022 just behind Brotherhood grossing about ₦200,087,222 at the box office. The film surpassed Avatar: The Way of Water as the highest grossing film in Nigeria during the Christmas weekend grossing almost ₦50 million at the box office. The film also grossed ₦26 million at the box office on 25 December 2022 coinciding with Christmas making it the highest grossing Nigerian film on a single day in 2022.
The theatrical run for the film came to an end on the 13th of April 2023, after 17 weeks at the box office with a gross box office of ₦668,423,056.
It finished as the highest-grossing Nigerian film of all time displacing Omo Ghetto: The Saga ₦636,129,120.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2022 films
English-language Nigerian films
2022 comedy-drama films
Nigerian comedy-drama films
2020s English-language films
Films about food and drink |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldanomorpha | Maldanomorpha is a monophyletic group, or clade, of polychaete worms in the phylum Annelida. Several phylogenetic analyses based on morphological and molecular data have shown that this clade unites the families Arenicolidae and Maldanidae. The two main synapomorphies, morphological characters described to unite both families, are a lecithotrophic larval development and the presence of an uncinus, a hook-like structure with barbs.
References
Polychaetes
Animals described in 1995
Annelid unranked clades |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Cyberstorm | Operation Cyberstorm was a two-year undercover operation in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), against illegal copying of software. At the time, it was the largest sweep ever conducted by the FBI against illegal copying.
Investigations
A number of individuals purchased software at discounts, and resold them at a profit in violation of their software license.
Convictions
Mirza Ali, 60, of Fremont, California and Sameena Ali, 53, also of Fremont, were sentenced in 2007 to 60 months imprisonment, and forfeiture in the amount of $5,105,977. Keith Griffen, 56, of Oregon City, Oregon, was sentenced to 33 months of imprisonment, restitution to Microsoft Corporation in the amount of $20,000,000, three years of supervised release, and $900 in special assessments. William Glushenko, 66, was sentenced to one year of probation and 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty to misprision of felony.
References
Federal Bureau of Investigation operations
Copyright enforcement
Law enforcement operations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20model%20%28evolutionary%20algorithm%29 | The population model of an evolutionary algorithm (EA) describes the structural properties of its population to which its members are subject. A population is the set of all proposed solutions of an EA considered in one iteration, which are also called individuals according to the biological role model. The individuals of a population can generate further individuals as offspring with the help of the genetic operators of the procedure.
The simplest and widely used population model in EAs is the global or panmictic model, which corresponds to an unstructured population. It allows each individual to choose any other individual of the population as a partner for the production of offspring by crossover, whereby the details of the selection are irrelevant as long as the fitness of the individuals plays a significant role. Due to global mate selection, the genetic information of even slightly better individuals can prevail in a population after a few generations (iteration of an EA), provided that no better other offspring have emerged in this phase. If the solution found in this way is not the optimum sought, that is called premature convergence. This effect can be observed more often in panmictic populations.
In nature global mating pools are rarely found. What prevails is a certain and limited isolation due to spatial distance. The resulting local neighbourhoods initially evolve independently and mutants have a higher chance of persisting over several generations. As a result, genotypic diversity in the gene pool is preserved longer than in a panmictic population.
It is therefore obvious to divide the previously global population by substructures. Two basic models were introduced for this purpose, the island models, which are based on a division of the population into fixed subpopulations that exchange individuals from time to time, and the neighbourhood models, which assign individuals to overlapping neighbourhoods, also known as cellular genetic or evolutionary algorithms (cGA or cEA). The associated division of the population also suggests a corresponding parallelization of the procedure. For this reason, the topic of population models is also frequently discussed in the literature in connection with the parallelization of EAs.
Island models
In the island model, also called the migration model or coarse grained model, evolution takes place in strictly divided subpopulations. These can be organised panmictically, but do not have to be. From time to time an exchange of individuals takes place, which is called migration. The time between an exchange is called an epoch and its end can be triggered by various criteria: E.g. after a given time or given number of completed generations, or after the occurrence of stagnation. Stagnation can be detected, for example, by the fact that no fitness improvement has occurred in the island for a given number of generations. Island models introduce a variety of new strategy parameters:
Number of subpopulat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snackmasters%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Snackmasters was an Australian cooking competition television show based on the BAFTA-nominated British series of the same name. Broadcast by the Nine Network, it was hosted by Scott Pickett and Poh Ling Yeow, with Yvie Jones as a co-presenter.
In September 2021, it was announced that Nine had commissioned a local version of the series set to air in the fourth quarter of 2021. The series was originally intended to premiere on 22 November 2021, however the series ultimately premiered on 29 November 2021. A second season started airing from 4 December 2022.
In May 2023, Nine confirmed the show would not be returning for a third season.
Format
Each episode sees two professional chefs compete to recreate a brand-name snack or fast food item. The chefs present their replica snack to a panel of judges composed of workers involved with the manufacture of the snack, and the chef who is decided to have most faithfully recreated the snack wins the competition. During each episode, Jones visits the factory that manufactures each snack, comparing how accurately the chefs are recreating the item.
The first season of the show featured stand alone episodes following the original British format, while the second season shifted to a new knockout competition format.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Notes
References
External links
Snackmasters at 9Now
2020s Australian reality television series
2021 Australian television series debuts
2022 Australian television series endings
Australian cooking television series
Nine Network original programming
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
Cooking competitions in Australia
Television shows filmed in Australia
Australian television series based on British television series
Reality cooking competition television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20ethnography | Data ethnography is a type of qualitative research where the purpose is to explore the life of data and how they are incorporated in everyday activities.
Ethnography
An ethnography is a qualitative research method that involve the observation of discourse and behavior of a community; its aim is to analyze and understand the culture, decision-making, and social dynamics of a group.
It is usually conducted in the form of participant observation over an extended period of time, but it can also include in-depth interviews, as well as hermeneutic reading of documents such as emails, websites, etc.
Defining data ethnography
There has been a public concern regarding the size data and how it is consumed, especially with the immense spread of technological devices and sensors that produce huge amounts of data about the world, which is then circulated to a variety of users that include people, businesses, and individuals. Furthermore, It becomes necessary to analyse the data, which is a byproduct of human interaction, using qualitative methods such as an ethnography; a data ethnography explores the interchanges within online communities as well as data-mediated interactions.
It is a means of understanding social worlds within the realm of data consumption, which would involve how users consume data, how they are circulated, and how data shape how people interact and live their lives.
Examples
Researchers Coletta and Kitchin (2017) conducted a data ethnography where they used extended observation and interviews in a traffic control room in Dublin, and that is to examine the capture, processing, and acting of real-time data that is generated by internet of things technologies.
Tanweer et al. (2016) took advantage of extended observations and in-depth interviews to study the pseudonymous Data Science Collaboration; it involves data science methodology experts being matched with domain researchers to come up with methods that make better sense of datasets.
Lehtiniemi and Ruckenstein (2019) conducted a data ethnography of MyData, which is a Finnish data activism initiative that encourages more user control of personal data; throughout a four-year period, the researchers depended on participant observation in research projects and collaborative activities, and made use of informal discussions, participating in a Facebook discussion group, interviewing stakeholders, as well as organizing and attending events.
References
Ethnography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Disinformation%20Project | The Disinformation Project is an independent, interdisciplinary and non-governmental New Zealand research team that has been collecting and analysing data on the causes and impact of mis- and disinformation within the country's society from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 through to, and beyond, the 2022 Wellington protest when the grounds of Parliament House and surrounding streets were occupied by anti-vaccine and anti-mandate groups. The project's research methodology claims to identify how the digital world, shaped by social media platforms globally, has the potential to normalise hateful and violent ideas that some political structures have historically used to create narratives and realities which, by social exclusion and marginalisation, can control groups within a society by increasing their vulnerability to disinformation.
Methodology and positions
The Disinformation Project's research makes use of mixed methods combining open and quantitative data from social media platforms, social and mainstream media and other forms of information-sharing, looking for patterns and meaning in super-spreader events and qualitative research and discourse analysis to identify shifts over time.
Key to the project's approach is to research and assess how scientific uncertainty, due to the presentation and distribution of unreliable information within the context of an infodemic, can manifest as narratives that link to conspiracy theories. The project holds that while some people might have genuine reasons to be wary of the state and mainstream media, they can be influenced by those holding conspiracy theories or extremist beliefs in social media spaces that appear to offer support, but are often driven by groups with different agendas. The position is therefore taken that "those most marginalised by or disaffected within contemporary society, are more likely to have lived experiences that might make them more susceptible to unreliable sources and untrustworthy stories." Cultural historian and Project Director Kate Hannah has acknowledged the importance of showing empathy toward people who are "hoodwinked into extremist beliefs."
Exploring what Hannah has described as "our shared information landscape", underpins the research of the project into how New Zealand society understands and manages the infodemic that has come to the fore as a result of COVID-19, but is rooted historically in the impact of colonisation on the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities within the country, increasing their vulnerability to mis- and disinformation. The stance of the project is that: "people who are grounded, situated, enabled to flourish and contribute, and connected to others are far less likely to experience negative health outcomes and far less likely to experience other negative outcomes: disconnection, information disorders, social exclusion, and participation in fragmented realities."
The researchers take the position th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasikanth%20Manipatruni | Sasikanth Manipatruni is an American engineer and inventor in the fields of Computer engineering, Integrated circuit technology, Materials Engineering and semiconductor device fabrication. Manipatruni contributed to developments in silicon photonics, spintronics and quantum materials.
Manipatruni is a co-author of 50 research papers and ~400 patents (cited about 7500 times ) in the areas of electro-optic modulators, Cavity optomechanics, nanophotonics & optical interconnects, spintronics, and new logic devices for extension of Moore's law. His work has appeared in Nature, Nature Physics, Nature communications, Science advances and Physical Review Letters.
Early life and education
Manipatruni received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Physics from IIT Delhi in 2005 where he graduated with the institute silver medal. He also completed research under the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana at Indian Institute of Science working at Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics and in optimal control at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich.
Research career
Manipatruni received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with minor in applied engineering physics from Cornell University. The title of his thesis was "Scaling silicon nanophotonic interconnects : silicon electrooptic modulators, slowlight & optomechanical devices". His thesis advisors were Michal Lipson and Alexander Gaeta at Cornell University. He has co-authored academic research with Michal Lipson, Alexander Gaeta, Keren Bergman, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Lane W. Martin, Naresh Shanbhag, Jian-Ping Wang, Paul McEuen, Christopher J. Hardy, Felix Casanova, Ehsan Afshari, Alyssa Apsel, Jacob T. Robinson, :fr:Manuel Bibes spanning Condensed matter physics, Electronics and devices, Photonics, Circuit theory, Computer architecture and hardware for Artificial intelligence areas.
Silicon optical links
Manipatruni's PhD thesis was focused on developing the then nascent field of silicon photonics by progressively scaling the speed of electro-optic modulation from 1 GHz to 12.5 Gbit/s, 18 Gbit/s and 50 Gbit/s on a single physical optical channel driven by a silicon photonic component. The significance of silicon for optical uses can be understood as follows: nearly 95% of modern Integrated circuit technology is based on silicon-based semiconductors which have high productivity in Semiconductor device fabrication due to the use of large single crystal wafers and extraordinary control of the quality of the interfaces. However, Photonic integrated circuits are still majorly manufactured using III-V compound semiconductor materials and II-VI semiconductor compound materials, whose engineering lags silicon industry by several decades (judged by number of wafers and devices produced per year). By showing that silicon can be used as a material to turn light signal on and off, silicon electro-optic modulators allow for use of high-quality engineering developed for the electro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S27%20%28S%C3%BCdostbahn%29 | The S27 is a rush-hour railway service that connects the Swiss municipalities of Wangen and Ziegelbrücke. Despite its name, it is not formally part of the St. Gallen S-Bahn or Zürich S-Bahn networks. Südostbahn, a private company primarily owned by the federal government and several cantons, operates the service.
Operations
The S27 is a weekday-only rush-hour service. Five trains operate in each direction between and in the morning and again in the evening. The S27 is the only regular service for the three intermediate stops, save a few late-night and early-morning stops by the S2 and S8 of the Zürich S-Bahn.
History
The S27 was introduced with the 15 June 2014 timetable change, replacing the S2 between Ziegelbrücke and Siebnen-Wangen. The S2 now ran express between those stops. With the December 2017 timetable change, the service level was significantly reduced: weekend trains were eliminated, and weekday service was reduced from half-hourly to rush-hour only.
References
External links
2023 timetable
Railway services in Switzerland
Südostbahn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarja%20Kruusmaa | Maarja Kruusmaa (maiden name Maarja Sink; born 4 January 1970) is an Estonian computer scientist, professor at Tallinn University of Technology, vice-rector for research and head of the biorobotics center at that university. Her main research area is bio-inspired underwater robotics to imitate the movements of fish and turtles.
Life and work
Kruusmaa graduated from Tallinn Polytechnic in 1989 (majoring in electronic computing machines and devices) and in 1994 from Tallinn University of Technology, majoring in computers and computer networks. From 1995 to 2002, she was a doctoral student at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, where she defended her doctoral thesis in 2002 on "Repeated Path Planning for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments."
Kruusmaa worked as a senior information technology researcher at Tartu University Institute of Technology in 2004–2009 and was the co-founder and development director of Fits.me from 2009 to 2016.
She has been working at Tallinn University of Technology. There she has served as head of the biorobotics center 2008–2016 and professor 2008–2016; research vice-dean of the Faculty of Information Technology 2015–2019; Head of the Biorobotics Center of the Institute of Computer Systems; Professor of the Institute of Computer Systems since 2017; and research vice-rector from 2020.
She was elected a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 2016 in the field of technical sciences. She belongs to the department of informatics and technical sciences at the academy and is a member of the board of the academy (since 2019). She is a member of the Estonian Polar Research Commission of the Academy of Sciences and the Council of Estonian Centers of Excellence in Science.
Main research
Kruusmaa's main research areas are biorobotics, electroactive materials and devices and their control, underwater robotics and learning algorithms for intelligent robots. According to the Estonian Academy of Sciences,Kruusmaa is developing underwater robots that can make their own decisions. Until now, the biggest test of underwater technology has been how to control the robots, because often neither humans nor machines can communicate with each other in the water in a normal way. Kruusmaa has proposed new movement mechanisms for robots, taking the example of the best underwater navigators in nature - fish. Based on the same source of inspiration, she has developed current-sensitive sensors and actuators that improve the robot's perception of its environment. She is also the co-founder of the technology group fits.me and the startup firm SafeToAct which focuses on innovative solutions in medicine, such as the creation of an artificial kidney.
In 2020, she was elected as the chief scientific adviser of the European Commission.
Personal
Kruusmaa is married and has two sons and one daughter. Her mother is the painter Lilia Sink and her father was the flutist and composer Kuldar Sink.
Honors and awards
2012 Order of the Whit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282023%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that appear in 2023, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the soap's executive producer, Lucy Addario. The 36th season of Home and Away began airing from 9 January 2023. Mali Hudson made his debut in the same week. His sister Elandra was introduced in February. Kahu Parata arrived in April. Sisters Harper Matheson and Dana Matheson made their first appearances in August. Levi will debut in November.
Mali Hudson
Mali Hudson, played by Kyle Shilling, made his first appearance on 11 January 2023. The character and Shilling's casting details were announced on 5 December 2022. Home and Away marks his first television role. Shilling is from the Wiyabal clan of the Bundjalung people. He hoped his casting would serve as inspiration to other Aboriginal viewers, like himself when he was younger. He stated: "If I had seen someone like me on a popular TV show when I was a kid, I would have been more driven as a young person to want to better myself and explore acting. As Indigenous people, we are always categorised as athletes; there was never any other avenue I thought I could go down. When you feel like you’re stereotyped your whole life, that has a huge effect. Looking back on my 10-year-old self, if I had seen someone like Mali Hudson on such a big series, I would have wanted to be him." Upon winning the role, Shilling was told that the writers and producers wanted to work his character around what he did in his audition and who he was. His character and storylines were developed alongside an Aboriginal script consultant, who also helped with the creative decisions for Mali and his introduction.
Shilling described Mali as being "fun, he's cheeky, he cares for his family". It was also teased that Mali has a connection to an established character, which was later confirmed to be Dean Thompson (Patrick O'Connor). The pair are old friends and Shilling commented "You see their friendship blossom again after reconnecting on screen, it's a great story." In his first scenes, it is established that Mali is a surfboard shaper, who helps design and build the surfboards for Dean's shop. Dean introduces Mali to his partner Ziggy Astoni (Sophie Dillman) and John Palmer (Shane Withington), who invites Mali to join the surf lifesaver team. Dean and Ziggy later realise that Mali has "a specific reason" for visiting the Bay, but he keeps it to himself.
Elandra Hudson
Elandra Hudson, played by Rarriwuy Hick, made her first appearance on 28 February 2023. Hick confirmed her casting on her social media on 26 February, writing "The cat's out the bag. Guess who's visiting Summer Bay." Details about her character and storyline were revealed in the 4–10 March 2023 issue of TV Week. Elandra is the sister of Mali Hudson (Kyle Shilling), who was introduced in January. The siblings are reunited when |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Leung | Stephen Wing Hong Leung () is a Canadian bishop. Since 2009, he has served as suffragan bishop with responsibility for Asian and multicultural ministry in the Anglican Network in Canada, a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America.
Biography
Leung studied at Wycliffe College in Toronto, after which he was ordained in Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. he served as a curate in Hong Kong and then for several years as a pastor in Macau. In 1990, he was called as rector of the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd, a predominantly ethnic Chinese congregation in the Diocese of New Westminster in Vancouver.
In 2002, after the New Westminster synod controversially approved the blessing of same-sex unions, Leung joined the Good Shepherd delegates, along with delegates from seven other churches, in walking out of synod in objection. Leung and the other dissenting leaders formed a group called the Anglican Communion in New Westminster, declared impaired communion with Bishop Michael Ingham, and requested alternative episcopal oversight—including, eventually, requests for oversight from Global South Anglican primates.
As the Anglican realignment proceeded in Canada, Church of the Good Shepherd voted unanimously to disaffiliate from New Westminster in February 2008. Good Shepherd sought oversight from the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone and joined the Anglican Network in Canada. The church was involved in litigation over the ownership of its property; the Supreme Court of British Columbia (a trial court jurisdiction) in 2009 affirmed that the property belonged to the diocese, but the judge awarded a $2.2 million bequest to the local congregation, finding that "Dr. [Daphne Wai-Chun] Chun intended the proceeds [of the bequest] to be applied to the building needs of the parish that served the Chinese community. That parish voted unanimously to receive Episcopal oversight from the Province of the Southern Cone and to affiliate with ANiC. In the circumstances, I conclude that a scheme whereby the funds are held on trust for the building needs of the ANiC congregation will best fulfil Dr. Chun’s charitable intent." The higher B.C. Court of Appeal affirmed the ruling, and the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear the case, resulting in Good Shepherd leaving its prior building.
On November 13, 2009, Leung was consecrated a bishop for ANiC in St. Catharines, Ontario, alongside Charlie Masters and Trevor Walters. He continues to serve as rector of Good Shepherd and is responsible for Asian and Multicultural Ministries in Canada, ANiC's multicultural outreach arm. He also represents the ACNA in relations with Asian provinces of the Anglican Communion and GAFCON, attending for example the installation of Datuk Ng Moon Hing as primate of the Church of the Province of South East Asia.
Personal life
Leung is married to Nona. They had two daughters; in 2018, their younger daughter died unexpectedly in Edmonton.
Leung received an honorary doctorate from Wycliffe C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana%20Lara | Adriana Lara López is a Mexican computer scientist whose research involves evolutionary computation, memetic algorithms, and multi-objective optimization. She is a professor in the school of physics and mathematics at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico.
Education and career
Lara graduated from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in 2001, and earned a master's degree through CINVESTAV in 2003. She completed her PhD at CINVESTAV in 2012. Her dissertation, Using Gradient Based Information to Build Hybrid Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms, was jointly supervised by Oliver Schütze and Carlos A. Coello Coello.
She has been a professor at the IPN since 2003.
Recognition
Lara was elected to the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2022.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Mexican computer scientists
Mexican women computer scientists
Academic staff of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara-L%C3%B3pez | Lara-López is a Spanish compound surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Adriana Lara López, Mexican computer scientist
Luisa María Lara López (born 1966), Spanish astrophysicist
Maritza Lara-López, Mexican astronomer
Spanish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gems%20of%20the%20Galaxy%20Zoos | Gems of the Galaxy Zoos (Zoogems) was a gap-filler project which used the Hubble Space Telescope to take images of unusual objects found by volunteers classifying data from both Galaxy Zoo (GZ) and Radio Galaxy Zoo (RGZ). Between the HSTs' main observations, there is a short time that objects within that field of view can be imaged using gaps which last approximately 12 - 25 mins. The Zoogems project sought to use those small observation gaps to image 300 candidates taken from the two Zoos in order to better study and comprehend them. Starting observations in May 2018, HST Proposal 15445 had by the end of September 2023 imaged 193 of the 300 candidates with many of them having near 11 minute exposures.
Background
GZ is a crowdsourced astronomy project which invites people to assist in the morphological classification of a large number of galaxies. Initially, many of the objects now being imaged were posted on the GZ forum and Talk pages from Summer 2007 through various versions until 2017.
The project Radio Galaxy Zoo started in December 2013, seeking to locate supermassive black holes. The science team wanted to identify black hole/jet pairs and associate them with their host galaxies. As a result of citizens' classifications, many unusual candidates visible in radio frequencies were flagged for further studies.
Through public analysis of more than 900,000 objects, volunteers collected a "menagerie of weird and wonderful galaxies" which few had seen before. The original proposal estimated that there were 1100 targets available, yet only 300 observation slots, so the public were asked to vote for which targets should be in the final list. Voting took place in February 2018 in order to meet the proposal's deadline of 28 February.
Project lead Dr. William Keel said in an interview on the University of Alabama site that Zoogems addressed a range of studies and that this happens rarely with galaxies. He explained that after volunteers had sifted through the images of a million galaxies, they had found examples of oddities and rarities. Further, by using data from HST, these objects that would not normally merit an individual project, put together would form an interesting study. Whenever a 20 minute gap in the HST schedule appears, software will go to the list of objects and see which is closest.
Observation setup
As with all HST gap-filler observations, the Wide-Field Camera mode of the Advanced Camera for Surveys is used for its larger field-of-view. The total exposure time of 674 seconds is made by a pair of two 337 second exposures, the same for all the gap-filler observations. Which of the following three filters is used depends on the target: i) the bluer F475W (roughly SDSS g) is used for mostly spiral structures, ii) the F814W for bulges and iii) the F625W which is closely matched with SDSS r filter. A range of software is used to calculate where the target's image is captured on the available ACS CCDs, using a coordinate offset within |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Shore | Love Shore is a cyberpunk noir visual novel developed and published by Perfect Garbage Studios. Set in the cyberpunk city of Love Shore, the game revolves around protagonists Sam and Farah, who attempt to navigate the monstrous underworld in hopes of uncovering the means to save their friends.
The game was released for Xbox Series X/S and Steam on June 30, 2023. Love Shore is the debut title of developer, Perfect Garbage Studios.
Gameplay
Love Shore is a visual novel that contains eight different story routes and romance options for its two main characters, over twenty-five endings depending on choices made throughout the game, and interweaving plot points. The city of Love Shore operates on a 24-hour system. The player sees a shift in UI, sprites and aesthetics as day turns to night and vice-versa.
The game contains RPG elements such as stat building based on actions performed throughout the game. Every choice made relates to a stat or point system. Three stats are always visible to the player: strength, courage, and intelligence. As the player make choices throughout the game, the path they choose impacts and improves stats. When a player’s stats are too low, specific choices become locked; a low intelligence stat will bar a player from picking a choice that only high intelligence can allow.
Setting
The game takes place in the fictional cyberpunk city of Love Shore, a future metropolis inhabited by both humans and old gods. When the city faces a fertility crisis, biotech firm Life S. Incorporated steps in, creating fully-formed human beings composed of cybernetic parts, save for their biological brains. These cyborgs are called S.Humans. But the firm’s profitability soon begins to suffer as the crisis passes. Life S. Inc manages to build 100 S.Humans before going bankrupt, leaving the remaining cyborgs to fend for themselves.
The game features gods and supernatural beings from a variety of cultures, including Aztec mythology, Maya Mythology, Yoruba mythology, Hinduism, and Greek mythology, among others.
Characters
Love Shore has two playable characters, Farah and Sam, two artificially created humans made after an event drastically altered life in the futuristic city of Love Shore. Though the characters live separate lives, their storylines intertwine due to their origins. Both Farah and Sam have four romanceable character-locked NPCs available to interact with during their storylines.
Development
Love Shore will be the debut release from Perfect Garbage Studios, founded in 2019. The studio is headed up by Studio Director, Son M. and Narrative Design Director, Emmett Nahil. The team cites finding a lot of value and support within the network of fellow indie developers they established upon entering the indie gaming community.
Love Shore’s inception began over a late-night airport phone call from M. to Nahil, inquiring if they would be interested in making a game together. It was originally conceived as a horror story that M. was wri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%20Vittorio%20station | Di Vittorio will be a station on Line 1 of the Naples Metro and on Line 11 (also known as the Rainbow Line or the Naples-Aversa Line) of the railway network managed by EAV (formerly MCNE). It is located in the Secondigliano district, between Piazza Giuseppe Di Vittorio (also known as Piazza Capodichino) and Viale Comandante Umberto Maddalena (also known as Doganella).
Description
It is the last of the four stations designed by Antonio Nanu and whose construction was entrusted to EAV, to allow the closure of the loop of Line 1 (managed by ANM) and the continuation of Line 11 towards the center of Naples, retracing the route of the old lower Alifana; the other three are Miano, Regina Margherita and Secondigliano.
History
Although the station was part of the project started in 2001, the construction of the section saw the gradual opening of the construction sites from west to east, which is why the first construction site to be opened was the one between Piscinola Scampia and Miano, while the construction site Di Vittorio would have been the last in chronological order to be inaugurated. For this reason, also thanks to the blockage of the construction sites which took place on 2 July 2010 at the hands of the Caldoro council and the subsequent release only 7 years later, on 22 April 2017, which took place thanks to the intervention of the De Luca council and EAV, the works only started in 2019 with the demolition of a part of the boundary wall of the Capodichino military airport and the excavation of the station shaft. The completion of the works is expected by the end of 2024, in conjunction with the conclusion of the excavation of the tunnel connecting the Di Vittorio and Capodichino stations and the consequent closure of the ring.
The creation of a cycle-pedestrian path is planned which retraces the route of the former low Alifana from Via Comunale Vecchia di Miano to Doganella, passing on the Calata Capodichino at the point where the old railway bridge was present in the past, demolished due to the deterioration conditions in which it poured and which will be subsequently rebuilt.
Interchanges
Bus stop
References
External links
Rendering of the station project, on antonionanu.com.
Naples Metro stations
Railway stations in Italy opened in the 21st century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STCN | As an abbreviation, STCN may refer to:
Securities Times, a major financial paper in China
Short-Title Catalogue, Netherlands, a database of the Dutch bibliography up to the year 1800 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Y.%20Lee | Bruce Y. Lee is a computer modeler, writer, journalist, professor, and physician who builds and applies computer modeling and artificial intelligence (AI) in health. He is a professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. He was previously an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, executive director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
He holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and completed his internal medicine residency training at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Lee is the founder and executive director of Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research (PHICOR) which builds and utilizes computer models to understand and address issues in health, including the COVID-19 pandemic. He is a senior contributor for Forbes, where he covers science and health.
In 2023, Lee became an elected member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's roundtable on obesity solutions. Previously, Lee was the associate editor for the peer-reviewed medical journal, Vaccine.
Awards
Lee and his team's research on COVID-19 vaccination was awarded the American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2020 Article of the Year.
References
External lins
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
City University of New York faculty
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Vaccinologists
Obesity researchers
Harvard Medical School alumni
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni
Medical journalists
Health informaticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amic%20Energy | Amic Energy is an Austrian company that operates a network of 470 mobile and stationary filling stations and 20 charging stations for electric vehicles in Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine. The company is headquartered in Vienna. As of 2020, Amic Energy is the fifth-largest network in Ukraine by sales volume and holds 6.7% of the Ukrainian retail fuel market.
History
Origins
Amic Energy Management GmbH was founded in 2013. It started as an investment company looking for low-cost and problematic assets for further restructuring. One of the company's strategic goals was to invest in undervalued assets in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in the energy infrastructure sector. Initially, the company considered investing in power plants in Romania and Bulgaria, as well as other projects in Poland. However, when Lukoil announced the sale of its assets in Eastern Europe in 2014, Amic Energy became interested in the possibility of acquiring a filling station network in Ukraine. When Lukoil's management commented on its plans to sell in July 2014, it said that it wanted to focus on Russian projects, as Western sanctions on Russia made it difficult for the company to access capital. Since 2014, Lukoil has sold assets in the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Poland, and Hungary. For example, Lukoil's assets in the Czech Republic were bought by the Hungarian MOL Group, in Hungary and Slovakia by the Hungarian company Norm Benzinkút Kft, in Estonia by the local network Olerex.
Acquisition of assets in Ukraine
The main agreement between Amic Energy and Lukoil to purchase all the shares of Lukoil-Ukraine, which owned about 240 petrol stations and 6 oil depots in Ukraine, was announced in July 2014. At that time, Lukoil controlled 6% of the retail market in Ukraine, behind the petrol station networks of Privat group, WOG, and OKKO companies. The total value of the deal was estimated at US$280 million (€256.5 million). In April 2015, the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine approved the company Amic Energy Management GmbH (Vienna, Austria) to take control of Lukoil-Ukraine CFI (Kyiv). In May 2015, Lukoil-Ukraine CFI changed its name to Amic Ukraine CFI, and the company's petrol stations began to change their names.
Acquisition of assets in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland
In February 2016, Amic Energy, together with (Latvia) and UAB Luktarna (Lithuania), entered into an agreement with Lukoil Europe Holdings BV to acquire a network of approximately 230 petrol stations in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland (UAB Lukoil Baltija in Lithuania, SIA Lukoil Baltija R in Latvia, and Lukoil Polska sp. z o.o. in Poland). Lukoil's management justified the company's plans to sell assets in Latvia and Lithuania with the anti-Russian sentiment in these countries. The completion of the acquisition was announced in April 2016. AS Viada Baltija and UAB Luktarna took over the retail networks in Latvia and Lithuania, respectively, as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozerk%20Ozan | Ozerk Ozan (born 1979) is a Norwegian IT entrepreneur, co-founder of Norsk Ideutvikling AS and the social networking service Biip.no.
Ozan was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1979. At a young age, he moved to Norway with his family. Ozerk Kamil, his father, is a professor at the Department of Education in the University of Oslo.
Ozan studied medicine in the period 2002–2008 at the University of Oslo. In 2002, he founded Norsk Ideutvikling AS. In 2005, the company launched the online community Biip.no, which two years later had built up a user base of 450,000 users. In 2008, the majority of shares in the company were sold to Egmont Group and Nettavisen (owned as of 2010 by Egmont and Tv2).
In 2015, Ozan started working in the fintech industry and created small ventures. In 2018, he consolidated his early ventures under OpenPayd, headquartered in London.
In November 2018, Ozan founded European Merchant Bank (EMBank). By the end of 2021, EMBank’s business loan portfolio reached €29.7 million and the bank generated an income of €4.3 million.
References
1979 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motus%20%28wildlife%20tracking%20network%29 | Motus (Latin for movement) is a network of radio receivers for tracking signals from transmitters attached to wild animals. Motus uses radio telemetry for real-time tracking. It was launched by Birds Canada in 2014 in the US and Canada.
By 2022, more than 1,500 receiver stations have been installed in 34 countries, most receivers are concentrated in the United States and Canada, where the network began. Motus network has spread rapidly because it provides important key data useful to researchers and conservationists, both nationally and internationally.
The Motus transmitter's great advantage is that it has such a small size and weight, they can weigh ~0.2 grams to ~2.6 grams, and can therefore be attached to all animals, even small animals such as insects, for example a bee or a butterfly.
Once a researcher or organization receives state and federal permits, they only need to acquire the appropriate transmitters and attach them to their study objects, current transmitters' range (depending on size) is up to 12 miles (20 kilometers).
The long-used Geolocators and GPS loggers are light and small but only store the desired data, they cannot wirelessly transmit the data, this means that researchers must recapture the transmitter-equipped object to read the stored information, recapturing a wild animal can take a long time, and many times it does not succeed.
Depending on the animal to be tracked, the transmitter is attached in a suitable way, either with a thread or an adhesive, after a certain time the glue and thread dissolve and the transmitter falls off, having in the meantime transmitted all the data to the receivers it passed.
References
External links
Schematic view of the motus system.
Picture of a swallow fitted with a motus transmitter.
Radio technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange%20World%20%28soundtrack%29 | Strange World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album to the 2022 computer-animated film Strange World produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The original score is composed by Henry Jackman in his fifth scoring assignment for Disney film, after Winnie the Pooh (2011), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Big Hero 6 (2014) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018). Jackman referenced most of James Horner and John Williams' electronic and symphony orchestral score for big-budget films, to create a "larger-than-life and fantastical, but organic" score suiting the world. He relied on orchestral music and harmonies, with exception for electronic and synth-infused score in few sequences.
The original soundtrack, consisted the song "They're The Clades!" composed by Jackman, written by Kevin Del Aguila and performed by James Hayden, also having a reprised version of the tracks. Jackman's score accompanied the remainder of the album. It was released by Walt Disney Records on November 23, 2022, the same day as the film and received generally positive response for Jackman's composition.
Production
Background
On September 5, 2022, it was announced that Henry Jackman, composer of Big Hero 6 and the Wreck-It Ralph films, would compose the score for Strange World, marking his third collaboration with Don Hall, after Winnie the Pooh and Big Hero 6, and his fifth overall feature-length scoring work with Walt Disney Animation Studios, which includes the Wreck-It Ralph films.
When Jackman was writing the score for The Gray Man (2022), he discussed with Hall on scoring for Strange World, which he simultaneously began after the former's completion. The score depicted a "fantastical, but organic and not so technological world" and a celebration of "symphony orchestra" which extends the color of the musical score. The orchestra, choir and synth-based electronic music brings the music of Strange World, "a bit like augmented reality". While writing the music, Jackman discussed with Hall on the musical references that inspired the score, including John Williams' score for Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), where it "corresponds to a certain type of action-adventure, a certain use of committed thematic orchestra". Both Hall and Qui Nguyen had inspired Williams and James Horner's work which are referenced throughout the film. Hall called that "This is my favorite score that he's ever done. It's so much a part of the film and evoking what we wanted to evoke, those adventure films from the eighties. Those were the movies that he kept bringing up and felt like that would influence the sound of Strange World."
He wrote four harmonic portions, that had arranged in a series of arpeggios which was a four-chords sequence, adding that "When I first came out with them, I didn’t analyze the harmony, I just wrote them as they came and felt happy with them. And because the four chords themselves were so unusual, when it came to wr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy%20indices%20%28V-Dem%29 | The Democracy Indices by V-Dem are a dataset that describe qualities of different governments published by V-Dem Institute. This dataset is published on an annual basis and is publicly available and free. In particular, the V-Dem dataset is popular among political scientists and describes the characteristics of political regimes worldwide. In total, datasets released by the V-Dem Institute include information on hundreds of indicator variables describing all aspects of government, especially on the quality of democracy, inclusivity, and other economic indicators. An R package automatically bundles new data.
The V-Dem Institute's measures of democracy are the most elaborate and granular among several democracy indexes (such as the Polity data series and Freedom House's Freedom in the World). By 2020, the V-Dem index had "more than 470 indicators, 82 mid-level indices, and 5 high-level indices covering 202 polities from the period of 1789–2019". Each indicator is coded independently by at least five country experts. V-Dem uses methodological tools to deal with rating reliability and confidence intervals in the expert ratings. Political scientist Daniel Hegedus describes V-Dem as "the most important provider of quantitative democracy data for scholarly research".
Democracy indices
Regimes of the World
The Regimes of the World (RoW) distinguishes four types of political systems: closed autocracies, electoral autocracies, electoral democracies, and liberal democracies, this classification is built on V-Dem Democracy Core indices.
V-Dem Core
The V-Dem institute publishes, as of 2022, 483 indicators unique to V-Dem institute and republishes 59 other indicators. V-Dem publishes five core indices with several other supplementary indices. The core indices are the electoral democracy index, the liberal democracy index, the participatory democracy index, the Deliberative Democracy Index and the egalitarian democracy index.
The Electoral Democracy Index
This index measures the principle of electoral or representative democracy, including whether elections were free and fair, as well as the prevalence of a free and independent media. This index is part of all the other indices as a central component of democracy.
Liberal Democracy Index
This index incorporates measures of rule of law, checks and balances, and civil liberties along with the concepts measured in the electoral democracy index.
Participatory Democracy Index
This index measures the degree to which citizens participate in their own government through local democratic institutions, civil society organizations, direct democracy, and the concepts measured in the electoral democracy index.
Deliberative Democracy Index
This index measures the degree to which decisions are made in the best interest of the people as opposed to due to coercion or narrow interest groups, in addition to the basic electoral democracy index.
Egalitarian Democracy Index
This index measures the level of equal access to res |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous%20data%20governance | Data governance in the context of Indigenous data involves supporting the data interests, gaps and priorities of Indigenous peoples, in order to enable Indigenous self-determination. Generally, data governance refers to who has ownership, control and access over the use of data. Indigenous data governance requires the data to surround Indigenous peoples and its purpose to reflect Indigenous needs and priorities, rather than omitting Indigenous peoples in the production of Indigenous data.
Overview
Indigenous data governance is key in enabling Indigenous self-determinism and rebuilding strong Indigenous nations. Oftentimes, Indigenous peoples do not have access to relevant Indigenous data. Currently in Canada, much information on Indigenous peoples are considered government data that fall under Crown copyright, limiting access to relevant data such as archeological sites that are of significance to Indigenous nations. Thus, Indigenous data that lacks strong data governance often misrepresent Indigenous peoples, help inform policies that have discriminatory impacts on Indigenous peoples, and uphold colonial practices.
Definition of Indigenous data
Indigenous data can include knowledge and information on census, health and other administrative data about Indigenous peoples, information on the environment, non-humans and resources, and information on cultural heritage such as oral histories, clan knowledge and cultural sites. Indigenous data be produced by Indigenous people, governments, other institutions, and corporations. In terms of rebuilding Indigenous nations, Indigenous data can be useful for tribal governments when making decisions about their resources and communities.
Indigenous data sovereignty
Companies and states often have the power in deciding what kind of data is produced and for what purposes. Data sovereignty in the context of Indigenous data is about ensuring that Indigenous people have a say in the data that is produced about them, how this data is shared and the purpose behind sharing the data. Data sovereignty holds significance for Indigenous peoples, as marginalized groups of people, because it allows them to protect their land, cultural heritage and knowledge.
Indigenous data sovereignty has received formal recognition from the United Nations through the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). UNDRIP was formed by the United Nations in 2007. UNDRIP provides a universal framework of human rights standards that should be met in relation to Indigenous peoples, in addition to existing human rights standards.
CARE principles
An early framework that addressed the lack of Indigenous peoples authority in the production of Indigenous data was the First Nations principles of OCAP. More recently, The CARE principles of Indigenous data governance have been created by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA 2019) as a framework for open data initiatives in incorporating Indigenous data sovere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Ernst | Erik Ernst is a prominent computer scientist and an associate professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. In 2010, he won the Dahl-Nygaard Prize.
External links
References
Danish computer scientists
Living people
Dahl–Nygaard Prize
Academic staff of Aarhus University
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Universe%20soundtracks | The following are the list of soundtracks for the animated television series Steven Universe created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. Sugar also wrote the songs and musical numbers for the series, which are produced by the musician duo Aivi & Surasshu and jointly composed the title and ending themes for the series. The original soundtrack for the series, featuring a collection of songs were released in two volumes: Vol.1, featuring the musical numbers from the first four seasons, were released on June 2, 2017 and Vol. 2, featuring songs from the fifth season, released on April 12, 2019. The original score from each seasons in the series were released into separate albums during MaySeptember 2020. The original soundtrack from the sequel series, Steven Universe Future, was released on October 23, 2020. Both the soundtracks and score albums were released by Turner Music Publishing, Cartoon Network, and WaterTower Music.
Soundtrack albums
Volume 1
The soundtrack to Steven Universe was announced on April 12, 2017 with the first volume being set for release on a later date. In a Facebook live event hosted by Cartoon Network, the duo Aivi & Surasshu, performed few songs from the series and announced the release of the soundtrack for the first volume, Steven Universe, Vol. 1 (Original Soundtrack) on June 2.
Track listing
Reception
A review from the Geekiary magazine, stated "Since its inception, music has been at the core of Steven Universe. Built on a background of musical theater, with leitmotifs and fusion dances written into the very fabric of the show’s lore and mythology, the show has delighted viewers with its wonderful music. Steven Universe Soundtrack Volume 1 is a collection of practically every single song from the show’s first four seasons, and is a must have for any dedicated fan." Epicstream commented the musical songs, "a treat for any lover of musical cartoons" and praised the technical production and background music. Player One magazine wrote "Steven Universe’s music has a combination of easy listening and boppy sci-fi touches that make it really pleasant to listen to".
Forces of Geek wrote the soundtrack "excels on all levels". David King of Bubble Blabber wrote "Next to the more modern animated shows such as Adventure Time, Star Vs the Forces of Evil, Gravity Falls, Legend of Korra and RWBY, Steven Universe has always been on-par with those shows in terms of quality & emotional writing and the combined efforts of Rebecca’s writing and the voice cast’s musical talents further excels as this Vol.1 soundtrack captures the most memorable & iconic tunes of the past four seasons."
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Vinyl edition
In March 2018, a vinyl edition of the soundtrack was published by Iam8bit production company, that featured all the songs from the four seasons, into separate vinyl editions of the release. The set has four discs of 10 inch, with different colors, representing the titular character and the Crysta |
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