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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtodactylus%20kochangensis | Cyrtodactylus kochangensis, the Ko Chang bent-toed gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to Thailand.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cyrtodactylus&species=kochangensis
Reptiles of Thailand
Cyrtodactylus
Reptiles described in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtodactylus%20fluvicavus | Cyrtodactylus fluvicavus is a species of gecko endemic to Thailand.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cyrtodactylus&species=fluvicavus
Reptiles of Thailand
Cyrtodactylus
Reptiles described in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtodactylus%20aravindi | Cyrtodactylus aravindi is a species of gecko endemic to India.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cyrtodactylus&species=aravindi
Reptiles of India
Cyrtodactylus
Reptiles described in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtodactylus%20ngopensis | Cyrtodactylus ngopensis is a species of gecko endemic to India.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cyrtodactylus&species=ngopensis
Reptiles of India
Cyrtodactylus
Reptiles described in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out%20Time%20Days | Out Time Days (or OTD) is an open-ended, computer moderated, science fiction, play-by-mail (PBM) wargame. It was published by Twin Engine Gaming in September 1985. Players role-played a time-traveller stranded on a planet called Kolob. Exploration, time travel, economics, and combat were part of gameplay. The game received generally positive reviews in various gaming magazines in the 1980s and 1990s, tying for 1st place in Paper Mayhem's Best PBM Game of 1997 list.
History and development
Out Time Days was a science fiction, role-playing, play-by-mail game published by Twin Engine Gaming of San Jose, CA. It was primarily computer moderated, and open-ended. Werner Freitas designed the game, enabling program modification over time.
After more than a year of playtesting, the game was published in September 1985. The gamemasters were Werner and Vicki Freitas.
Gameplay
Gameplay occurs on a planet called Kolob, populated by non-player characters and various races. Reviewer J.W. Akers-Sassaman stated that players roleplay "human time travelers stranded on Kolob,
[who] are seen by the native populace as being the great saviors that will fulfill a mysterious 'prophecy' and
save the planet". Elements of gameplay included buildings and items, the latter created from sixteen types of building materials. Six factions were available for players to join.
After being taken unwillingly from Earth, players begin the game on Kolob alone with some basic equipment and provisions. Time traveling, combat, and economics were all game activities.
Order sheets were simple lined sheets of paper, enabling narrative, written turn orders.
Reception
A reviewer in the November–December 1986 issue of Paper Mayhem highlighted the game's careful design, stating that it took a "seldom blazed trail to smooth and realistic mechanics, extensive detail, and a high quality game". In a 1990 issue of Paper Mayhem, reviewer J.W. Akers-Sassaman gave the game "four thumbs up". In the same issue, Out Time Days placed No. 3 out of 57 games in Paper Mayhem's PBM Game Ratings list with a 7.694 rating out of a possible 9.
Out Time Days tied for No. 1 in Paper Mayhem's Best PBM Games of 1997 list. Tim Sullivan, the editor of the U.S. Edition of Flagship, stated that the game was "superlative" and "consistently deliver[ed] high quality adventure".
See also
List of play-by-mail games
Notes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
20th-century role-playing games
American games
American role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1980s
Role-playing games introduced in 1985
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Space conquest games
Space opera role-playing games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
Wargames
Wargames introduced in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czerweny%20computers | Tadeo Czerweny S.A. is an Argentinian manufacturer of transformers and other high-power electrical equipment founded by Tadeo Czerweny in 1958.
In 1985 they entered microcomputer field as Czerweny Electrónica, by marketing three rebranded Timex Sinclair models assembled in Argentina: the CZ 1000, CZ 1500 and CZ 2000.
These machines had their hardware supplied by Timex Portugal, the portuguese branch of Timex Sinclair. Since Czerweny computers used Timex Sinclair chips and ROMs, their compatibility was close to 100% relative to the original Sinclair machines. They also look similar to the original Timex models. The CZ 1000 was a relabeled Timex Sinclair 1000, the CZ 1500 was similar to the Timex Sinclair 1500 and the CZ 2000 is a Spectrum compatible in a Timex Sinclair 1500 case.
Afterwards, imported components were replaced with locally produced variants, and extra modifications were added, like a joystick port, composite monitor output and a restart button. This gave origin to new models, released in 1986 with original Czerweny cases: CZ 1000 Plus, CZ 1500 Plus, CZ Spectrum and CZ Spectrum Plus. About 4000 machines were produced each month. Czerweny models competed in Argentina with the Brazilian TK 83, 85, 90x and genuine Sinclair machines, but were more successful.
The Paraná, Entre Rios province factory was destroyed by a fire in 1986, eventually ending Czerweny computer production.
Machines
CZ 1000 - Relabeled Timex Sinclair 1000 (ZX81 clone with 2KB RAM).
CZ 1500 - Relabeled Timex Sinclair 1500 (ZX81 clone with 16KB RAM).
CZ 2000 - Uses a black version of the CZ 1500 case, with a ZX Spectrum rainbow logo added (ZX Spectrum clone).
CZ 1000 Plus - A CZ 1000 in a similar case to the ZX Spectrum with rubber keys, adding two joystick ports, composite monitor out and a reset button.
CZ 1500 Plus - A CZ 1500 with the same improvements as the CZ 1000 Plus.
CZ Spectrum - A CZ 2000 with the same improvements as the CZ 1000 Plus in a larger box.
CZ Spectrum Plus - A Sinclair ZX Spectrum clone in a Spectrum+ box, with added joystick ports, composite monitor out, a reset button and Sinclair BASIC messages were translated into Spanish.
References
Z80-based home computers
Sinclair ZX81 clones
ZX Spectrum clones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th%20PMPC%20Star%20Awards%20for%20Television | The 35th PMPC Star Awards for Television honors the best in Philippine television programming from 2020 to 2021,
as chosen by the Philippine Movie Press Club. The ceremony was held at the Winford Manila Resort and Casino on January 28, 2023. This is the first time in the history of the award-giving body that it has skipped the 4th Quarter of the previous year. The ceremony was hosted by Pops Fernandez, Aiko Melendez and John Estrada.
The nominations were announced by the Press on January 15, 2023.
Winners and Nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold:
Networks
Programs
Personalities
Special Awards
Ading Fernando Lifetime Achievement Award
Connie Angeles
Excellence in Broadcasting Lifetime Achievement Award
Raffy Tulfo
German Moreno Power Tandem Award
Kelvin Miranda and Mikee Quintos
Donny Pangilinan and Belle Mariano
Stars of the Night
Paolo Ballesteros (Male)
Pops Fernandez (Female)
Winning Looks of the Night
John Estrada (Male)
Aiko Melendez (Female)
Faces of the Night
John Estrada (Male)
Pops Fernandez (Female)
Celebrities of the Night
JM de Guzman (Male)
Aiko Melendez (Female)
Special Citation
Jojo Flores
Maricar Moina
Most major nominations
Most major wins
Performers
Lani Misalucha
Kris Lawrence
Joaquin Garcia
JV Decena
Kuh Ledesma
References
See also
PMPC Star Awards for TV
2021 in Philippine television
PMPC Star Awards for Television
2021 in Philippine television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20Computer%20Enterprise | Action Computer Enterprise, Inc. (ACE), was an American computer company that was active from 1978 to 1990. The company delivered one of the first multi-user-capable microcomputers, the Discovery 1600, in 1978.
History
Foundation (1978–1979)
Action Computer Enterprise was co-founded by four friends, including Herbert L. Siegel (February 27, 1938 – August 16, 2016), Kwok M. Ong, and Wing Chung. Ong, Siegel and the fourth founder had met during their employment at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, while Chung and Ong had met at their alma mater of University of California, Berkeley. Long before starting ACE, Siegel had served in the Peace Corps, teaching in Ethiopia with his wife for two years in the 1960s before returning to the United States to obtain an M.A. in mathematics at UC Berkeley. After graduation, he worked as a programmer for JPL, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder, and the Los Angeles County General, developing navigation strategies for JPL and their contract for the Voyager program; voter tracking systems for the Registrar-Recorder; and patient identification systems for the County General. Chung meanwhile was an immigrant who lived in Hong Kong post–World War II before moving to the United States to graduate from UC Berkeley and later Columbia University with degrees in mathematics, his master's degree at the latter university sponsored by the IBM Watson Fellowship. Chung moved to New Jersey to work for Roche before convincing his family to invest $50,000 in Action Computer Enterprise, his startup co-founded in 1978 with Siegel and company.
ACE was founded in one of the founder's home garages in Pasadena, California. It soon occupied an office in the city, growing to a staff of 30 in the early 1980s. Siegel was named chairman, while Chung was named vice president of ACE. The company's early days were spent developing what Chung later claimed to be the first multi-user microcomputer on the market. The company branded this computer as the Discovery 1600 and first released it in April 1979.
Discovery 1600 and Discovery 500 (1979–1983)
The Discovery 1600 was an SBC-based microcomputer based on an IEEE-696-compliant S-100-bus backplane. The system could carry one service processor card and up to fifteen user processor cards on its bus, with room to spare for S-100 peripheral cards (so long as they could support port-mapped I/O). The service processor acts as a controller for the S-100 bus and floppy and hard disk drives. User processor cards, on the other hand, provide the means of interaction and multi-user capability, through the use of video terminals plugged into each of their serial ports. Depending on the type of user processor card (variants described below), either vanilla CP/M or CP/M-86 can be run as an independent operating system on each user processor. The assignment of operating systems to each user card was facilitated by Discovery's custom DPOS (Distributed Processing Operating System).
The Disco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krahlizek%20%28game%29 | Krahlizek is a closed-ended, computer moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) wargame.
History and development
Krahlizek was a closed-ended play-by-mail game. Aggressive Addiction Games published the game in the United States, while Phildee Enterprises published it in the United Kingdom.
Gameplay
Krahlizek was a game of conquest. Players won by controlling the most territory at the end of the game. Games typically lasted 21–30 turns. Combat was a key element of the game, with economics, spying, and politics also factors.
Reception
Nick Palmer reviewed the game in a 1995 issue of Flagship, noting it was a good game for novices. He stated that "it's well-finished: almost entirely bug-free, well-balanced, exciting, and both victory nor defeat are rarely quite certain".
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
Further reading
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1980s
Role-playing games introduced in 1983
Strategy games
Tabletop games
20th-century role-playing games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giadha%20DeCarcer | Giadha Aguirre DeCarcer (born c. 1975) is an Italian-born American entrepreneur. She is the CEO and cofounder of CTrust, which provides financing advice and data analysis to participants in the cannabis market. From 2014 to 2021 she was the founder and CEO, then Executive Chair, of New Frontier Data, a big data and analytics reporting provider in the cannabis industry.
After immigrating to the U.S. as a high school junior, DeCarcer began to sell real estate as a teenager in Florida. She earned a B.A. degree from University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and began to work University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and then as a consultant to the U.S. government in intelligence in 2004, while completing her M.A at Georgetown University. DeCarcer next founded a series of companies focusing on data analysis, including GNI International and VentureCamp LLC. In 2014, she began providing services to the cannabis industry, founding New Frontier Data. She co-founded CTrust in 2022.
Early life
DeCarcer was born in Rome, Italy. The daughter of a Spanish diplomat and a Cuban actress, she was raised in Switzerland, France and Spain. She immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 16 as a high school junior, after graduating from the Lycée Français de Madrid.
After less than two years, she began selling investment real estate, earning her Florida real estate license in 1993, followed by her mortgage broker's license a year later. While working in real estate, DeCarcer earned an associate degree in Business Administration at Miami Dade Community College. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 in International Relations & Trade and a Master of Arts degree in International Security from Georgetown University in 2005.
Career
DeCarcer worked as an analyst in investment banking with JPMorgan Chase from 1999 to 2003 and later as a consultant in intelligence with the U.S. government in 2004 and 2005. Over the next several years she started several data-driven companies including GNI International and VentureCamp LLC, and held the original patent applications for the technology that became the basis for Progressive's Snapshot, Verizon's Hum and other GPS-based driver monitoring systems.
She founded New Frontier Data in 2014, serving as its CEO for six years before becoming its Executive Chair through the end of 2021. New Frontier is a multinational big data and digital analytics firm, providing business intelligence and risk management reporting to cannabis industry participants worldwide. Under DeCarcer, the company began to publish reports assessing opportunities, price forecasts and upcoming legislation in the cannabis industry that were used by lawmakers, cannabis entrepreneurs and investors.
In 2018, DeCarcer created the InterCannAlliance to help new companies in the cannabis industry learn and agree on best practices for the emerging cannabis market. She also created the Women Entrepreneurship Reinforcement (WeR), a program to mentor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigative%20Journalism%20Foundation | The Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) is a Canadian not-for-profit organization that creates publicly accessible databases about philanthropic donations, political funding, and lobbying in Canada.
Organization
The Investigative Journalism Foundation is a Canadian not-for-profit organization that was launched on January 4, 2023. The organization is supported by donations from the Balsillie Family Foundation, the Trottier Family Foundation, the McConnell Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the University of Toronto Scarborough, and John Campbell & Denise Fujiwara. The organization is based in Toronto.
It is led by CEO and editor-in-chief Zane Schwartz. The board of directors includes Brent Jolly, (the President of the Canadian Association of Journalists), Karyn Pugliese (the Editor-in-Chief of Canada’s National Observer), Sadia Zaman (the CEO of the Inspirit Foundation), and John Ruffolo, (the founder of Maverix Private Equity). Reporters include Roberto Rocha and Kayla Zhu, contributing editors include Fatima Syed and Michael Pereira. There are twelve staff in total, eight of whom are full time.
Databases and investigative reporting
The Investigative Journalism Foundation's team, which includes over eighty volunteers and academic partners, spent two years gathering and analyzing data from government websites and organizing them into eight publicly accessible databases on topics including political funding, philanthropic donations, and lobbying. The Investigative Journalism Foundation has raised roughly $800,000 Canadian dollars since 2021 from 10 donors.
In addition to creating and managing these databases, the Foundation uses them to develop investigative reporting in collaboration with news outlets including Canada's National Observer, Village Media, The Walrus and The Canadian Press. It published eight stories on the day of its launch, including a piece with The Walrus about the state of Canadian public housing and one investigating various lobbyists' presence at fundraisers for the Prime Minister.
Critical reception
The Investigative Journalism Foundation was described as "Canada's ProPublica" by Sarah Scire, writing for the Neiman Lab.
References
External links
Investigative Journalism Foundation official website
Organizations established in 2023
Organizations based in Toronto
2023 establishments in Ontario
Canadian journalism organizations
Investigative journalism
Canadian news websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20in%20mental%20health | Mental health is an important aspect of overall well-being and it has been widely recognized that AI technologies can play a significant role in improving mental health care. AI in the mental health field is an emerging field that uses AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, and other AI technologies to analyze large amounts of data to identify patterns, predict outcomes, and improve the delivery of mental health care.
Background
Mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are major public health concerns, and they affect a large proportion of the population. Traditional methods of mental health care, such as psychotherapy and medication, have been shown to be effective, but they also have limitations. For example, access to mental health care can be limited in certain areas, and it can be difficult to accurately diagnose and treat mental health conditions. AI technologies have the potential to improve the diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions by providing new insights and identifying patterns that may not be visible to human experts.
Methods
Natural Language Processing (NLP): NLP is being used to analyze large amounts of data from electronic health records (EHRs) and social media to identify patterns in mental health conditions and predict outcomes.
Machine learning: Machine learning algorithms are being used to analyze data from EHRs, brain imaging, and genetic tests to identify biomarkers of mental health conditions and to predict which treatments will be most effective for specific individuals.
Virtual reality and chatbots: These technologies are being used to deliver mental health interventions, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, in virtual environments. They also can provide mental health support to users through chatbots with natural language abilities.
Applications
Mental health diagnosis and assessment
AI-based systems can analyze data from various sources, such as brain imaging and genetic tests, to identify biomarkers of mental health conditions and improve the accuracy of diagnosis. This can help to improve the early detection of mental health conditions and reduce the risk of misdiagnosis.
Personalized treatment
AI-based systems can analyze data from electronic health records (EHRs), brain imaging, and genetic tests to identify the most effective treatment for specific individuals. This can help to improve the effectiveness of treatment by matching patients with the treatment that is most likely to be effective for them.
Virtual Therapies and chatbot support
Virtual reality and chatbots are being used to deliver mental health interventions, such as cognitive behavioral therapy, in virtual environments. They also can provide mental health support to users through chatbots with natural language abilities. This can help to improve access to mental health care in areas where access is limited.
Mental Health Monitoring and Tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comp-Sultants | Comp-Sultants, Inc. was an American computer company based in Huntsville, Alabama, active from 1969 to 1977. In 1975, the company released the Micro 440, a microcomputer based on the Intel 4040 microprocessor. It was, by Byte magazine's estimation, the first computer based on that chip.
History
Comp-Sultants was formally incorporated in Huntsville, Alabama by Paul and Joanne Bloom and Brian Nelson in 1973. Paul Bloom was the company's president and spent the first few years at Comp-Sultants designing early microprocessor-based real-time programmable logic controllers, including one for a cold-forge machine and another for an injection-molding machine. Although the company was incorporated in 1973, according to a classified ad in a 1969 issue of Software Age, the company had been active for four years, offering translation services for software to run on the GE-200 series of mainframe computers.
In early-to-mid 1975, Comp-Sultants previewed the prototype for its Micro 440 at a Huntsville electronics trade show. The Micro 440 was a microcomputer based on Intel's new 4040 microprocessor, the first successor to the 4004 microprocessor, the first commercially produced microprocessor ever made. It was at this trade show that Paul Bloom met Jack W. Crenshaw, a software engineer from Montgomery, Alabama who worked as a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Eventually Crenshaw was hired as Comp-Sultants' general manager and software developer. The company employed nine people in 1975: Brian Nelson, the Blooms, Crenshaw, one other programmer and four technicians. Crenshaw described the company's laboratory as barebones:
[Paul]'s "development system" consisted of a 4004-based single-board computer, a primitive ROM-based assembler, and a Teletype ASR-33. ... Our test equipment consisted of an equally primitive bus monitor, a multimeter, and an oscilloscope.
To hold our software, we used UV-erasable EPROMs. But we had no EPROM eraser. Instead, we just put the EPROMs outside, on the hood of someone's car, and let the Sun do the job. Sometimes, the software acted strangely. Do you think maybe a cloud passed over the Sun?
Shortly after Crenshaw joined Comp-Sultants, the company invested in a Intellec 8 Mod 80 development system, allowing him to develop software for the newer Intel 8080. His first project for the 8080 was the firmware for a Kalman filter-based satellite-tracking antenna; an outside client commissioned Comp-Sultants for the firmware after Bloom had won them as a client. The firmware was delivered on time to positive reception from the client. However, further contracts that Bloom had expected to arise from earning this client never materialized. Crenshaw guessed that this was because his firmware was "a little too good."
In late 1975, the company finally released its Micro 440 computer, available as a kit or fully assembled. Its final design featured 256 bytes of RAM, upgradable to 8 KB, a row of toggle switches for inputting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Renaissance | Data Renaissance is the fifth studio album by French musical project the Algorithm. It was released on 3 June 2022 through FiXT.
Critical reception
Dom Lawson from Blabbermouth.net gave the album 7.5 out of 10 and said: "There are certainly moments of electronic purity here, but The Algorithm's intuitive subversive streak is always lurking in the background. Even the jittery, insistent beats of "Multithreading" are gradually undermined by thick, viscous bass ooze and flashes of ghostly humanity. An album full of intelligence and verve, Data Renaissance is eccentric, enthralling and more than heavy enough to hit the spot." Into the Void gave the album positive review, saying: "Data Renaissance creates some creatively searing aggressive moments that cascade into gorgeous stabs of synth and digital bliss. Rémi Gallego is about as talented as they come when it comes to multi-genre forces in the electronic,synthwave, and metal genres. If the artist brings more atmospherically heavy and inventive works like this to the table, the electro-metal scene is in for a real treat."
Track listing
Personnel
Rémi Gallego – synthesizer, sequencer, guitar, programming, production, mixing
Brian Skeel – mastering
Adrien Bousson – artwork
Katerina "Ninja Jo" Belikova – layout
References
2022 albums
The Algorithm albums
Albums produced by Rémi Gallego
FiXT albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler%20Optimization%20Techniques%20%28album%29 | Compiler Optimization Techniques is the fourth studio album by French musical project the Algorithm. It was released on 1 January 2018 through FiXT.
Track listing
Personnel
Rémi Gallego — synthesizer, sequencer, guitar, programming, production, mixing, mastering
Adrien Bousson — artwork, layout
References
2018 albums
Albums produced by Rémi Gallego
The Algorithm albums
FiXT albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20kidney%20exchange | Optimal kidney exchange (OKE) is an optimization problem faced by programs for kidney paired donations (also called Kidney Exchange Programs). Such programs have large databases of patient-donor pairs, where the donor is willing to donate a kidney in order to help the patient, but cannot do so due to medical incompatibility. The centers try to arrange exchanges between such pairs. For example, the donor in pair A donates to the patient in pair B, the donor in pair B donates to the patient in pair C, and the donor in pair C donates to the patient in pair A.
The objective of the OKE problem is to find an optimal arrangement of such exchanges. "Optimal" usually means that the number of transplants is as large as possible, but there may be other objectives. A crucial constraint in this optimization problem is that a donor gives a kidney only if his patient receives a compatible kidney, so that no pair loses a kidney from participating. This requirement is sometimes called individual rationality.
The OKE problem has many variants, which differ in the allowed size of each exchange, the objective function, and other factors.
Definitions
Input
An instance of OKE is usually described as a directed graph. Every node represents a patient-donor pair. A directed arc from pair A to pair B means that the donor in pair A is medically compatible with the patient in pair B (compatibility is determined based on the blood types of the donor and patient, as well as other factors such as particular antigens in their blood). A directed cycle in the compatibility graph represents a possible exchange. A directed cycle of size 2 (e.g. A -> B -> A) represents a possible pairwise exchange - an exchange between a pair of pairs.
A more general variant of OKE considers also nodes of a second type, that represent altruistic donors - donors who are not paired to a patient, and are willing to donate a kidney to any compatible patient. Altruistic donor nodes have only outgoing arcs. With altruistic donors, it is possible to arrange exchanges not only with cycles but also with chains, starting at an altruistic donor.
The arcs in the graph may have weights, representing e.g. the probability of success of the involved transplants. They may also have priorities, determined e.g. by medical urgency or by the time the patient have waited in the transplantation queue.
Output
The output of an OKE is a set of pairwise-disjoint directed cycles (and possibly directed chains, if altruistic donors are available). The simplest objective in OKE is to maximize the number of patients who receive a kidney. Other common objectives are:
Maximizing the weighted sum of kidney exchanges: Each edge in the graph has a weight, and the goal is to find an exchange that maximizes the sum of weights on all edges used in the exchange.
Maximizing the life expectancy of the transplant candidates, or their quality-adjusted life expectancy.
Unrestricted cycle length
Initially, the problem was studied wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20Hoare | Jill, Lady Hoare (born 15 October 1933) is a British computer scientist and one of the primary developers on the initial compiler for the ALGOL 60 language, developed for Elliott Brothers in 1963.
Hoare was born Jill Pym. She is the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel John Pym and Diana Gough. She married Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare on 13 January 1962. The couple had three children.
After working on ALGOL, Hoare worked on hospital systems for NHS Oxfordshire.
References
1933 births
Living people
British computer programmers
British software engineers
British women computer scientists
Wives of knights |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Research | Martin Research Ltd., later Qwint Systems, Inc., was an American computer company founded by Donald Paul Martin in Northbrook, Illinois, United States. The company released their Mike family of modular kit microcomputers starting in 1975. These computers, spanning several models based on the Intel 8008, 8080, and Zilog Z80 microprocessors, proved very popular among hobbyists who wanted an inexpensive trainer computer.
Foundation (1974–1975)
Donald Paul Martin (1940 – August 27, 2019) founded Martin Research in Northbrook, Illinois, in around late 1974. Before starting his company, Martin graduated with a degree electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Martin was also a co-founder of the Chicago Area Computer Hobbyists' Exchange (CACHE), a Chicago-based computer club, established around the same time of Martin Research's incorporation. Early in the company's existence, Martin had aspirations of having a wide swath of industrial buyers who needed programmable controllers in factory environments. Instead, Martin Research's products became popular among hobbyists, who used their microcomputers as trainer platforms. The company soon embraced this demographic, designing products for buyers desperate to get their hands on a microcomputer in the burgeoning market.
The company's first two products was a microcomputer, the Mike 1, and a book, Microcomputer Design (1975). The Mike 1 was a modular microcomputer running an Intel 8008 microprocessor. The book meanwhile catered to hobbyists wanting to design their own microcomputers based on the Intel 8008 and 8080 microprocessors. Book reviewers recommended Microcomputer Design for readers who had familiarity with digital circuit design and transistor–transistor logic. For an additional US$25 on the price of the $75 book, Martin shipped it with an 8008 chip. John Gilchrist praised Microcomputer Design in a review in the third issue of Byte magazine: "The book is an excellent reference for the hardware microcomputer designer ... It is obvious the author has designed, debugged and used everything about which he writes. Whew! After reading this book he has my utmost professional respect."
Mike family (1975–1980)
The Mike family of microcomputers were sold as kits or as fully-assembled units and were designed around a stack of circuit boards, each measuring , separated by spacers. Each board carries a common bus through which each board can intercommunicate; the boards are connected via a common ribbon cable. Such a physical configuration was common among the more advanced minicomputers of its day. The systems allowed any order of circuit boards on the bus, although the most common order was the Console Board first, the CPU Board second, the PROM/RAM Board third, and any order of circuit boards thereafter. The Console Board sports a six-digit, seven-segment LED display and a twenty-key calculator-esque keypad. Users enter instructions into the computer in octal form using the keyp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redcliffe%20Peninsula%20road%20network | Redcliffe Peninsula road network is a group of roads that provide access to the Redcliffe Peninsula in Queensland, Australia, and enable travel between the contained communities. The area serviced by the network includes the localities of Clontarf, Kippa-Ring, Margate, Newport, Redcliffe, Rothwell, Scarborough and Woody Point.
The area hosts a substantial residential community plus many tourism accommodation venues. The estimated population for the area described as the Former Redcliffe Peninsula District as at 30 June 2021 was 64,366.
Roads in the network
The network consists of the following state-controlled roads:
A number of local roads that also link the localities are not included in this article.
Brighton–Redcliffe Road
This road has the following components:
Brighton–Redcliffe Road is a state-controlled road (number 122), part regional and part district, rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). It carries traffic from , via Clontarf, Woody Point and Margate, to Redcliffe, a distance of . All of this road is part of State Route 27.
The road starts at the intersection of the Deagon Deviation (State Route 26) and Beaconsfield Terrace (State Route 27) in Brighton. It runs north-east across Bramble Bay, over the Houghton Highway (northbound) and the Ted Smout Memorial Bridge (southbound), to Clontarf. It passes the exit to Clontarf–Anzac Avenue Road (Elizabeth Avenue) and continues north-east and east as Hornibrook Esplanade to Woody Point, where the name changes to Oxley Avenue as it turns north.
Continuing north the road passes through Margate and enters Redcliffe, crossing Redcliffe Road (Anzac Avenue) and reaching Klingner Road, where it ends. Oxley Avenue continues north as State Route 27. Each bridge carries three lanes of traffic, and most of the road is a divided four lane carriageway.
Oxley Avenue safety works
A project to provide safety works at five intersections in Redcliffe, three of which are on Oxley Avenue, was underway at March 2022.
Major intersections (Brighton–Redcliffe Road)
All distances are from Google Maps. The road commences in the Brisbane local government area (LGA) but all other intersections are within the Moreton Bay LGA.
Clontarf–Anzac Avenue Road
Clontarf–Anzac Avenue Road is a state-controlled regional road (number 123), rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS) It runs from Clontarf to Kippa-Ring, a distance of . The road starts as Elizabeth Avenue, becomes Snook Street for a distance, and continues as Elizabeth Avenue. It is part of State Route 26. This is a four lane divided road. There are no major intersections on this road.
New overpass
Construction of an active transport overpass across Elizabeth Avenue was expected to complete in mid-2023.
Deception Bay Road
Deception Bay Road is a state-controlled regional road (number 121), rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS) It runs from , via , to Rothwell, a distance of . The road is part of State Route 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Croarken | Mary G. Croarken is a British independent scholar and author in the history of mathematics and the history of computing.
Education and career
Croarken earned a degree in computer science from the University of Warwick in 1982 and a doctorate in the history of science there in 1986, supervised by Martin Campbell-Kelly, who describes her as one of his two most successful students.
After leaving academia to raise a family in Norwich, she became a health research manager in the National Health Service, while continuing to work in the history of science as an independent scholar. She has been a research fellow at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and in the computer science department at the University of Warwick.
Books
Croarken is the author of the book Early Scientific Computing in Britain (Clarendon Press, 1990). She is a co-editor of The History of Mathematical Tables: from Sumer to Spreadsheets (Oxford University Press, 2003) and of Mathematics at the Meridian: The History of Mathematics at Greenwich (Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2020)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimix | Gimix, Inc., was an American electronics and computer company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded by Robert C. Philips. Established in 1975, the company was initially Philips's vehicle for selling his various remote-controlled devices he had developed as the result of a life-long interest in electronics and experiments with home automation for himself and other clients. In 1979, the company introduced the first in a series of 68xx-based microcomputers dubbed the Ghost. It proved successful among various businesses and universities and allowed the company to survive into at least the early 1990s.
History
Gimix was founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Robert C. Philips in late 1975. Philips, a life-long electronics enthusiast and high school dropout, had in the early 1970s achieved total automation of his apartment using computerized relay circuits that he designed at the age of 25. This project attracted the attention of famous Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman, who commissioned him to design the electronics for an automated home based on Tigerman's specifications. Philips' home automation system for Tigerman worked through radio frequency signals sent wirelessly and through the power line of the house, in a scheme similar to the now-standard X10 protocol.
Phlips soon after incorporated Gimix as a name for his home automation business and as a vehicle for branding his remote-controlled devices. Sometime between its founding and 1978, he hired Richard Don as vice president. In 1978, the company introduced a trio of devices for telephones: the Gimix Hold, which allows a home receiver to put a caller on hold with a custom message; the Gimix Gobbler, which allows a home receiver to distinguish between multiple incoming calls; and the Gimix Auto-Page, which links a phone alarm or answering machine to a paging terminal.
Gimix occupied a 5,000-sq-ft building on W. 37th Place in Chicago. In 1979, the company introduced its first microcomputer that was in essence a clone of Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC)'s 6800 microcomputer. Named the System 68, Gimix's computer featured an SS-50-bus motherboard (like the SWTPC), with fifteen 50-pin slots and eight 30-pin slots, both gold-plated. Its CPU board featured a Motorola 6800 microprocessor and four Intel 2708 EPROMs, while the system came outfitted with a 16 KB memory board as stock. A number of DIP switches on the boards allowed the system to be configured compatible with software for SWTPC and Midwest Scientific Instruments' computers. A video board allowed for composite output straight from the computer.
The System 68 (also known as the Gimix Ghost) was designed for process control applications, in the home and in industrial automation. The base System 68 and its successors soon found customers as disparate as NASA, Ford Motor Company, DuPont, the Atomic Energy Commission, General Motors, Georgia Tech, and more. Gimix also had a model of microcomputer dedicated entirely to home automation, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Muta%20Final%20%22Bye-Bye%22 | The Great Muta Final "Bye-Bye" was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on January 22, 2023, in Yokohama, Japan, at the Yokohama Arena. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
The event was focused on the final match of Keiji Muto's "The Great Muta" character.
Storylines
The event featured nine professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
Preliminary matches
The show started with Kongo (Hajime Ohara and Hi69) defeating Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka. The second match saw Jungle Kyona and Ice Ribbon's Saori Anou picking up a victory Nomads (Sumire Natsu and Maya Yukihi). Next, Timothy Thatcher defeated Masaaki Mochizuki in singles action. The fourth bout saw Junta Miyawaki, Alejandro and Yasutaka Yano win their match against the team of Yoshinari Ogawa, Eita and Nosawa Rongai via disqualification due to Ogawa, Eita and Nosawa tearing off Alejandro's mask. In the fifth match, Good Looking Guys (Jake Lee, Jack Morris and Anthony Greene) defeated Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba and Yoshiki Inamura. Next, Kazushi Sakuraba defeated Hideki Suzuki by referee stoppage in a Sugiura-gun intern stable clash GHC martial arts rules match. The seventh bout saw Amakusa, Último Dragón and Ninja Mack (with Sonny Onoo) defeating Yo-Hey, Kzy and Dante Leon. In the eighth bout, Kaito Kiyomiya, El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Takashi Sugiura and Satoshi Kojima defeated Kongo (Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Masakatsu Funaki and Manabu Soya) in eight-man tag team action.
Main event
In the main event, The Great Muta teamed up with Sting and Darby Allin from All Elite Wrestling (AEW), all three of them being accompanied to the ring by The Great Kabuki. The team succeeded in pulling a victory against Hakushi, Akira and Naomichi Marufuji. This was Muta's final Noah appearance. In addition, it was also the final match in his "Great Muta" character.
Results
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentyria | {{Automatic taxobox
| image = Tentyria rotundata mittrei Solier, 1834 (3819947451).jpg
| image_caption = Tentyria rotundata mittrei
| taxon = Tentyria
| authority = Latreille, 1802
| synonyms = Heliodromus Brullé, 1832
}}Tentyria'' is a genus of beetles in the family Tenebrionidae, first scientifically documented by Pierre André Latreille in 1802.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw%20Matwin | Władysław Matwin (17 July 1916 – 21 October 2012) was a Polish politician, journalist and mathematician who was one of the pioneers of computer science in Poland.
Biography
After his parents divorced, he and his mother found themselves in Poznań, where he studied economics. At that time he belonged to the Communist Party of Poland and the Young Communist League of Poland (KZMP). He was secretary of the KZMP District Committee. In January 1935, he was arrested for Communist activities and sentenced to three years in prison. After being released, he went to Czechoslovakia, where he studied chemistry in Brno. He returned to Poland in the spring of 1939. He volunteered to join the army, but was considered a dangerous criminal and was banned from serving in the Polish army.
During World War II he stayed on the territory of the Soviet Union. First, he worked as a miner and later studied at the Metallurgy Institute at night. For a short time he was in the Red Army, from which - due to his origin - he was removed. Later he worked in railway construction. He then stayed in Tbilisi. Later he joined First Polish Army army in Ryazan, where he taught politicsat the officer's school. In 1944 he belonged to the corps of political and educational officers of the 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division. In 1944 he was sent to Tehran, where the Union of Polish Patriots (in which he was active) created an outpost whose main task was to reach the local Polish community through radio broadcasts and newspapers, and above all the soldiers of Władysław Anders.
In 1945, Władysław Matwin was summoned to Moscow, where he became chargé d'affaires at the Polish embassy. In 1946 he returned to Poland and served as an instructor of the Central Committee. In 1947 and 1948 he was the first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Polish Workers' Party in Wrocław. He also stayed for a year in Davos, Switzerland, where he had his eyes treated (he was in danger of losing his sight as a result of the disease). Together with the PPR, he joined the Polish United Workers' Party, sitting until June 1964 in its Central Committee (he also held the position of the first secretary of the Provincial Committee in Wrocław, which he held until 1949). In the 1950s, he was associated with the Puławy faction.
From 1949 to 1952 he was the chairman of the Main Board of the Union of Polish Youth. From December 1952 to February 1954 he was the first secretary of the Warsaw Committee of the PZPR. From 1954 to March 1956 and again from November 1956 to March 1957 he was editor-in-chief of Trybuna Ludu. From November 1954 to January 1955 he headed the Organizational Department of the Central Committee of the PZPR, and then until November 1963 he was secretary of the Central Committee (until March 1956 responsible for education ). In 1957, he was again sent to Wrocław, where he took the position of the First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the PZPR, holding the position until his retire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL18 | The SL18 (short for Sporvogn Ledd, commissioned in 2018) is a series of 87 low-floor, articulated trams currently being phased-in on the Oslo Tramway network. They will continue to be phased-in until 2024, when the last SL79s and SL95s are replaced. They were purchased from the Spanish tram manufacturer, CAF. The first one was shipped and unveiled at Grefsen depot in 2020, and regular operation begun in 2022. The entire purchase has a price of 4.2 billion krones. There is also a possibility of acquiring another 60 more trams from CAF.
History
By 2009, it was recognised that the city of Oslo needed new trams and that the rail infrastructure needed to be upgraded. In 2013, the City Council of Oslo initiated the tram program. The responsabilty of procurement was transferred to Sporveien in August 2015. In December 2015, the Council approved the procurement of 87 new trams. Also in December 2015, the pre-qualification of suppliers began and the potential suppliers were announced in March 2016. The pre-qualification stage ended with six suppliers being invited tenders. Including the winner, there were five other selections:
Alstom
Bombardier
Škoda
Stadler Pankow GmbH
Siemens
On the 30th of March 2017, the submit deadline passed and the evaluation process begun. A year later, on the 18th June 2018, Sporveien awarded a contract to CAF. On the 28th of August, 2019, a full-scale model of the new tram was unveiled at Rådhusplassen (City Hall Square).
In 2020, after the outbreak of COVID-19, the production of trams in Spain was temporarily halted. Nonetheless, in October 2020, the first tram arrived in Oslo, and it was unveiled at Grefsen Depot. There was a testing period on Line 13 between Skøyen and Bråten in early 2022, before being put to use on Line 17 and Line 18, between Rikshospitalet and Grefsen station, starting from April 2022.
However in early 2023, there a problem with the delivery of the trams occurred. Recently, CAF notified Sporveien that there were challenges in obtaining and acquiring the necessary parts. This was due to a worldwide shortage of parts, which was also affected by the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian War. This means that new trams will temporarily not be delivered to Oslo.
At the moment (end of April), trams currently do not serve the area between Heimdalsgata and Jernbanetorget, due to Nybrua being upgraded. Line 11 & 12, which serve the area between Kjelsås and Heimdalsgata, are currently utilising SL18 trams (along with SL79 trams).
program
The ( "Future City Travel") program was initiated as part of the tram program in 2013. In 2015, the City Council approved the procurement of new trams and along with it, the modernization of the current system's infrastructure. This involved the upgrading of Oslo's streets and tracks, and multiple old water and wastewater pipes were to be replaced.The first building project begun in 2014, which was the upgrading and renovating Prinsens gate. The tracks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten%20van%20Emden | Maarten Herman van Emden (December 31, 1937 – January 4, 2023) was a Dutch-Canadian mathematician and computer scientist whose research in the foundations of logic programming and constraint logic programming was highly influential.
Early Years
Van Emden was born in Velp, the Netherlands, and his early childhood was spent mostly in the Dutch East Indies. He did his national military service in 1959–1960, serving as pilot and commissioned officer. He attended national flight training school and worked for KLM as a pilot from 1960 to 1963.
Education
Van Emden completed an MSc from the Delft University of Technology in 1966 and a PhD in computer science from the University of Amsterdam in 1971. His dissertation, titled “An Analysis of Complexity" was in Information theory and Data analysis. His thesis supervisor was Adriaan van Wijngaarden, who also supervised another notable Dutch computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra.
Career
Van Emden spent 1971 to 1972 as a postdoctoral fellow at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and then joined the Machine Intelligence group at the University of Edinburgh as a research fellow under Donald Michie. In 1975, he immigrated to Canada to join the faculty at the University of Waterloo. He moved to the University of Victoria in 1987. His visiting fellow positions include University of Edinburgh in 1980, Imperial College (UK) in 1982–1983, and NWO (Netherlands) in 2000–2001.
In collaboration with Robert Kowalski, van Emden developed the fixpoint semantics of Horn clauses, which underpin the logical semantics of logic programming. He further researched on software verification and correctness, and constraint satisfaction, along with interval arithmetic and interval propagation
. He wrote an advice-taking Prolog program for certain chess endgames.
Between 2008 and 2016 van Emden wrote a collection of essays on the practice of programming and the history and philosophy of computing on a blog entitled A Programmer's Place.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattening%20transformation | The flattening transformation is an algorithm that transforms nested data parallelism into flat data parallelism. It was pioneered by Guy Blelloch as part of the NESL programming language. The flattening transformation is also sometimes called vectorization, but is completely unrelated to automatic vectorization. The original flattening algorithm was concerned solely with first-order multidimensional arrays containing primitive types, but was extended to handle higher-order and recursive data types in the work on Data Parallel Haskell.
Overview
Flattening works by lifting functions to operate on arrays instead of on single values. For example, a function is lifted to a function . This means an expression can be replaced with an application of the lifted function: . Intuitively, flattening thus works by replacing all function applications with applications of the corresponding lifted function.
After flattening, arrays are represented as single-dimensional value vector V containing scalar elements, alongside auxiliary information recording the nested structure, typically in the form of a boolean flag vector F. The flag vector indicates, for the corresponding element in the value vector, whether it is the beginning of a new segment. For example, the two-dimensional irregular array can be represented as the data vector alongside the flag vector .
This flag vector is necessary in order to correctly flatten nested parallelism. For example, it is used in the flattening of prefix sum to segmented scan.
Flattening can increase the asymptotic work and space complexity of the original program, leading to a much less efficient result.
Usage
Flattening was originally developed for vector machines such as the Connection Machine, and often produces code that is not a good fit for modern multicore CPUs. However, the principles underlying its simpler cases can be found in constructs such as the vmap in Google Jax.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving%20in%20Madagascar | The road network of Madagascar, comprising about 4,500 unique roads spanning , is designed primarily to facilitate transportation to and from Antananarivo, the Malagasy capital. Transportation on these roads, most of which are unpaved and two lanes wide, is often dangerous. Few Malagasy own private vehicles; long-distance travel is often accomplished in ('bush taxis'), which may be shared by 20 or more people.
While most primary roads are in good condition, the World Food Programme has classified nearly two-thirds of the overall road network as being in poor condition. These conditions may make it dangerous to drive at moderate-to-high speeds and (bandit) attacks pose a threat at low speeds. Many roads are impassable during Madagascar's wet season; some bridges (often narrow, one-lane structures) are vulnerable to being swept away. Few rural Malagasy live near a road in good condition; poor road connectivity may pose challenges in health care, agriculture, and education.
Drivers in Madagascar travel on the right side of the road. On some roads, to deter attacks from , the government of Madagascar requires that drivers travel in convoys of at least ten vehicles. Car collision fatalities are not fully reported, but the rate is estimated to be among the highest in the world. Random police checkpoints, at which travelers are required to produce identity documents, are spread throughout the country. Crops are transported by ox cart locally and by truck inter-regionally. Human-powered vehicles, once the only means of road transport, are still found in the form of (rickshaws). constitute a rudimentary road-based public transportation system in Madagascar. Rides on cost as little as 200 Malagasy ariary (roughly US$0.10) , and vehicles involved are often overpacked, sometimes with the assistant driver riding on the outside of the vehicle. Stops on their routes are generally not fixed, allowing passengers to exit at arbitrary points.
History
There were no roads in Madagascar through the mid-19th century. Goods were carried across the island along pathways by porters, while oxen, the only beast of burden available, saw minimal use. After France conquered Madagascar in 1895, French colonial administrators, who did not understand the water and transportation system in place under the Merina Kingdom, immediately began building roads. Porters collectively resisted the creation of roads, continuing a pre-conquest movement in opposition to using horses which saw the stoning of European horse-riders in Antananarivo. In 1901, porters staged demonstrations against the introduction of (rickshaws), but the latter prevailed when a road between Antananarivo and Toamasina was completed in 1902. Some human-powered vehicles remain in use , in the form of .
Even as late as 1955, passenger and commercial motor vehicles in Madagascar numbered under 30,000. In 1958, Madagascar's road network spanned about , almost all of it unpaved. In subsequent decades, the count |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20%282023%20American%20film%29 | Leo is an upcoming American computer-animated musical comedy film directed by Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel and David Wachtenheim, and written by Smigel, Adam Sandler and Paul Sado.
Leo is scheduled to be released on Netflix on November 21, 2023.
Premise
Leo (Adam Sandler) is a jaded and desperate lizard who is looking for something different after a visitor to their class suggests he is old. So when the opportunity to explore the world presents itself as a take-home assignment for students, Leo jumps at it. But his plan to go home with a student is disrupted when the student discovers Leo can actually talk. Pretty soon, Leo learns that while the world has something to offer him, he has things to offer his elementary class, as each student who takes him home, he finds a new way to help them cope with the pains of growing up.
Voice cast
Adam Sandler as Leo
Bill Burr as Squirtle
Cecily Strong as Mrs. Malkin
Jason Alexander as Jayda's dad
Sunny Sandler as Summer
Sadie Sandler as Jayda
Rob Schneider as the principal
Jackie Sandler as Ellie
Stephanie Hsu as Skyler's mom
Jo Koy as Coach Komura
Heidi Gardner as Eli's mom
Nick Swardson as Bunny
Kevin James as Ace
Nicholas Turturro as Anthony's dad
Robert Smigel as the miniature horse
Production
In May 2016, it was reported that Adam Sandler would produce (under Happy Madison Productions), write and star in an animated film project. At that time STX Entertainment was attached. Leo was animated by Netflix Animation's Animal Logic.
The film's score was composed by Geoff Zanelli.
Release
Leo had a preview at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 14, 2023, before its release by Netflix on November 21, 2023.
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2023 comedy films
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2020s American animated films
2020s children's comedy films
2020s children's animated films
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American children's animated musical films
American musical comedy films
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Upcoming English-language films
Upcoming Netflix original films
Animated films about lizards
Animated films about turtles
Films about old age
Films about pets
Animated films about children
Films about students
Animated films about friendship
Animated films set in Florida
Animated films set in schools
Films set in swamps
Films set in 2023
Films directed by Robert Smigel
Films produced by Adam Sandler
Films with screenplays by Adam Sandler
Films with screenplays by Robert Smigel
Films scored by Geoff Zanelli
Netflix Animation films
Happy Madison Productions films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnat%20Computers | Gnat Computers, Inc. (also spelled GNAT Computers) was an American computer company based in San Diego, California, founded in 1976. The company was an early developer of microcomputers and one of the first—if not first—to license the CP/M operating system from Digital Research. They released various computer hardware, including two microcomputer systems, before they were acquired by business partner Data Technology Industries, Inc., in 1983.
History
Gnat Computers was founded in early 1976 and formally incorporated in San Diego, California, in August 1976. Thomas Lafleur was among the company's co-founders. Gnat's first product was the Gnat MC80 (also known as the Gnat 8080 System), a single-board computer. Released in early 1976, the MC80 runs off an Intel 8080 microprocessor and features 256 bytes of RAM, expandable to 512 bytes; the system board also has spots for up to 2 KB worth of programmable ROMs. It was delivered as either bare assembled circuit boards or with an optional chassis containing a front panel for input and maintenance. Gnat recommended their MC80 for industrial process applications. To this end, they also sold a communications-control expansion board, which hooks up to the main board via a socket-and-ribbon-cable arrangement.
In mid-1976, the company delivered pre-assembled hardware multiply–divide operator modules for several other early 8080-based microcomputers, including the Altair 8800 and Intel's MDS and Intellec 8 Mod 80, as well as for their own MC80. Each module was available in a 2.5-µs and 5-µs variant, the latter being $50 cheaper. The Southern California Computer Society measured Gnat's 2.5µs modules as performing multiplication and division between 100 and 160 times faster than common software approaches for such arithmetic at the time; in fact, they said the modules were so fast that they completed their operations quicker than the 8080 microprocessor can access the result.
Gnat released the first of their 8080-based Gnat-Pac family of microcomputers in 1977, starting with the System 8. The System 8 featured optional built-in dual 5.25-inch floppy disk drives capable of writing 80-KB-formatted disks. The computer featured 16 KB of RAM, eight PROM modules (one 2-KB PROM included, featuring the bootstrap loader and memory monitor), serial and parallel I/O ports. Gnat followed up with the Gnat-Pac System 9 in 1978, which bumped the floppy disk capacity to 500 KB, expandable to 1 MB. The computer came shipped with a disk operating system, CP/M. Gnat was perhaps the first company to license CP/M for a microcomputer, the purchase mediated between developer Digital Research and Gnat's Lafleur. Lafleur managed to secure perpetual rights to use the operating system for a bargain $90 in 1977. Within the year, the price of a corporate CP/M license had skyrocketed to tens of thousands of dollars.
In 1979, Gnat teamed up with Data Technology Industries (DTI) of San Leandro, California, to develop the Gnat System 10, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married%20at%20First%20Sight%20%28Australian%20season%2010%29 | The tenth season of Married at First Sight premiered on 30 January 2023 on the Nine Network. Relationship experts John Aiken and Mel Schilling, alongside sexologist Alessandra Rampolla all return to match 10 brides and 10 grooms together. Halfway through the experiment, the experts matched another 2 brides and 2 grooms together.
Couple Profiles
Commitment Ceremony History
This couple left the experiment outside of commitment ceremony.
This couple elected to leave the experiment during the commitment ceremony.
Marriage swap week
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2023 Australian television seasons
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulaziz%20Haqqani | Abdulaziz Haqqani (, ; born ), also known as Aziz Haqqani (), is an Afghan senior member of the Haqqani network, one of the sons of its former leader Jalaluddin Haqqani, and deputy to his brother Sirajuddin Haqqani. While his brother operates as the overall leader of the network, Abdulaziz functions as his deputy and operational commander in charge of planning and undertaking all major attacks.
Life
Abdulaziz Haqqani was born in Afghanistan between the years 1987 and 1989 to Jalaluddin Haqqani and his first wife. He is referred to by the Taliban with the honorific 'Hafiz', indicating that he has completely memorized the Qur'an.
After the deterioration of Jalaluddin Haqqani's health, his son Sirajuddin Haqqani took over operations as the overall leader of the Haqqani network. Another son of Jalaluddin, Badruddin Haqqani, took up a high-level role in the organization as an operational commander, before being killed in an American drone strike in 2012. Following his brother Badruddin Haqqani's killing, Abdulaziz Haqqani assumed responsibility for all major Haqqani Network attacks, heavily engaging in military decision-making and logistical processes. According to FDD's Long War Journal, as head of Haqqani network operations, Abdulaziz Haqqani maintains strong ties to al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Subsequent to the 2021 Taliban Offensive and restoration of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan's rule over the country, he was officially appointed to the position of deputy to Sirajuddin Haqqani.
Sanctions
Although the Haqqani network has been sanctioned by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization since September 2012, Abdulaziz Haqqani has only been sanctioned as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist since 25 August 2015, with a reward of up to $5 million USD for information leading to his location. This move was decried by the Taliban, who described Abdulaziz Haqqani as simply a "low-ranking Mujahid of Islamic Emirate," whilst stating that the sanctions would be ineffective.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioconvergence | Bioconvergence is a multidisciplinary method in life science. It uses the synergy between biotech, engineering and computerized systems to address unresolved challenges, like speeding up diagnostic processes, creating more advanced materials, or advancing drug development.
Along with healthcare, bioconvergence assists in the improvement of various sectors such as agriculture, energy, food, security, climate, etc. McKinsey research predicts that more than half of the impact of bioconvergence will be outside of healthcare, in areas such as agriculture, aquaculture and food, consumer products and services (such as DNA and microbiome testing), novel materials, chemistry and energy. According to McKinsey, bioconvergence solutions currently being developed could have an economic impact of up to per year over the next 10 to 20 years.
Implications
Bioconvergence uses methods from disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, medicine, mathematics, agriculture, computational sciences and artificial intelligence (AI), in order to solve challenges across several sectors.
Healthcare
Bioconvergence technologies in healthcare include translational medicine, enabling the extraction of hidden insights from massive data sets; neuromorphic computing, who seeks to emulate the biological neural structure of the brain to achieve unparalleled levels of processing performance and energy efficiency; creation of digital twins for clinical trials; and biochips such as organ on a chip" (OOC). Other implications of bioconvergence include new methods ot using nanorobotics for drug delivery, regenerative medicine, diagnostics and biological sensors, optogenetics, bioelectronics, engineered "living" materials, and more. According to Belén Garijo, CEO of Merck, bioconvergence can also bring about the potential of personalized medicine".
Food and agriculture
Traditional agriculture relies on land, water, and a suitable climate. In the future, based on bioconvergence led research and technologies, foods could be manufactured anywhere in labs and indoor vertical farms. This could fundamentally reshape the agricultural sector, international trade, and migration, as well as people’s relationships with land, animals, and food.
Applications also include innovative new ways to conduct breeding of animals and plants using molecular or genetic markers that are many times quicker than established selective-breeding methods; new, more precise tools for the genetic engineering of plants; fast-developing work using the microbiome of plants, soil, animals, and water to improve the quality and productivity of agricultural production; and the development of alternative proteins, including cultured meat, alternative eggs, and alternative milk.
Energy, climate and advanced materials
Bioconvergence could transform the natural resource sector through new ways of making and obtaining raw materials and fuels, as well as new manufacturing techniques. This could potentially eas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je%20with%20belt | Je with belt (, ), also called Bashkir Ye, is an additional letter of the Cyrillic script that was used in the Bashkir alphabet of in 1912.
Computing codes
This letter has not been encoded in Unicode yet.
Sources
See also
Ј ј - Cyrillic letter Je
Е е - Cyrillic letter Ye
Bashkir language
Cyrillic script
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebreather%20%28game%29 | Firebreather is a heroic fantasy, play-by-mail (PBM) game.
History and development
Firebreather was a computer moderated, fantasy play-by-mail game. It was published by Horizon Games. Its initial two versions were open-ended, while the third version changed to closed-ended. A subsequent fourth version returned to the open-ended format.
Gameplay
Players led six character parties. Character types included druids, dwarves, elves, knights, pilgrims, swordsmen, sorcerers, woodsmen, witches, and wizards.
Reception
Reviewer Trey Stone, in the July–August 1987 issue of Paper Mayhem magazine stated that it "is not the perfect fantasy comp mod adventure game. But it is damn close. And as a game, I cannot recommend it more strongly". Joey Browning reviewed the game in a 1995 issue of Flagship, providing a generally poor review, noting it was a good game for beginners. On a scale of ten, he rated the game a 3 for Anticipation, a 2 for Depth and Interaction, 8 for the Gamemaster, and a 4 for Value.
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Heroic fantasy
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1990s
Strategy games
Sword and sorcery
Tabletop games
20th-century role-playing games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjan%20van%20den%20Akker | Janna Magrietje (Marjan) van den Akker (born 1965) is a Dutch computer scientist and operations researcher specializing in scheduling algorithms with applications including transportation and software engineering. She is an associate professor in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, where she directs the Utrecht AI & Mobility Lab and Robust Rail Lab. She also holds a research affiliation with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
Education and career
Van den Akker completed her Ph.D. in 1994 at the Eindhoven University of Technology, with the dissertation LP-based solution methods for single-machine scheduling problems jointly supervised by Jan Karel Lenstra and Martin Savelsbergh.
After postdoctoral research at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics in Belgium, she worked for several years as a consultant for the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory. In 2000 she returned to academia as an assistant professor at Utrecht University, in the group of Hans L. Bodlaender. She is currently an associate professor there.
References
External links
1965 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Dutch women computer scientists
Dutch operations researchers
Eindhoven University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Utrecht University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK80 | The TK80 was a home computer produced by Microdigital Eletrônica. A clone of the Sinclair ZX80, it was introduced along with the TK82C in 1981 during the "I Feira Internacional de Informática". There were two versions, one with 1 KB RAM costing Cr$ 68,850 and another with 2 KB costing Cr$73,650.
In the January 1982 issue of Micro Sistemas magazine, Tomas Roberto Kovari, Microdigital's engineer, stated that the machines were being sold with a photocopied manual, while a printed version was being developed. Kovari estimated a potential market for 10000 machines in Brazil, with expected buyers being novelty seekers, students and self employed professionals.
According to some sources, the TK80 was never commercially produced, with only prototypes existing.
Specifications
Specifications were similar to the original machine:
CPU: Z80A @ 3.25 MHz
Memory: ROM: 4 KiB; RAM: 1 or 2 KiB
Keyboard: 40 keys membrane keyboard
Display: 32 × 22 text; 64 × 44 semigraphics
Expansion: 1 slot
Outputs: 1 TV out (RF modulator, channel 3); cassette tape recorder audio in/out
Storage: Cassette tape (300 bauds)
References
Microdigital Eletrônica
Z80
Goods manufactured in Brazil
Sinclair ZX80 clones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NE-Z80 | The NE-Z80 was a homebuilt computer kit presented by Nova Eletrônica magazine on the October 1981 issue, a publication that was part of the Brazilian Prológica group.
It was the first Sinclair ZX80 clone available in Brazil. With an introduction price of Cr$59,900, it was the cheapest microcomputer on sale in the country at the time.
Specifications
Specifications were similar to the original machine:
CPU: Z80A @ 3.25 MHz
Memory: ROM: 4 KiB; RAM: 1 KiB (extendable to 16 KiB)
Keyboard: 40 keys membrane keyboard
Display: 32 × 22 text; 64 × 44 semigraphics
Expansion: 1 slot
Outputs: 1 TV out (RF modulator, channel 2); cassette tape recorder audio in/out
Storage: Cassette tape (300 baud)
References
Prológica
Early microcomputers
Goods manufactured in Brazil
Sinclair ZX80 clones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminate | Luminate may refer to:
Luminate (band), an American contemporary Christian music band
Luminate (company), a music sales data provider
Luminate Education Group Yorkshire, England
Luminate Group internet platform established by Pierre Omidyar's Network’s Governance & Citizen Engagement initiative |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAD-1 | The MAD-1 (Modular Advanced Design-1) is an IBM PC–compatible desktop computer released by Mad Computers, Inc., of Santa Clara, California, in 1984. The computer was noted among the technology press for its unique, modular design and its 80186 microprocessor, the latter seldom used in PC compatibles. It received positive reviews but sold poorly and was pulled from market a year later.
Specifications
The MAD-1 is an IBM PC–compatible desktop computer measuring 12 inches wide, 16 inches deep and 5.5 inches tall. The computer was noted by the technology press of the day for its unique design that stood in stark contrast with the beige IBM PC and compatibles of the day. Its exterior case was medium-gray in color and featured prominent beveled edges and louvers at the sides.
As the expanded acronym Modular Advanced Design-1 suggests, the computer is modular—split into halves across the perimeter of the case, with its disk drives occupying the Data Module on top and the rest of the computer's circuitry occupying the Computing Module on bottom. The computer came in two variants: one with two 5.25-inch double-density floppy disk drives, and the other with one such floppy drive in addition to a 10-MB half-height hard drive. The Data Module also contains the computer's 160-watt power supply unit; as such the computer is virtually unusable without it. A 12-inch amber monochrome monitor came included with the computer, as well as its 18-inch-wide 84-key keyboard, which also featured a grey finish (its keys were two-tone—dark gray for function keys and light grey for alphanumeric keys; both sets of keys featured red, black, and white lettering, depending on their function).
Each part of the MAD-1 could be opened up by unfastening two screws from their backs and pulling up the lids. Internally, the MAD-1 features the purely 16-bit Intel 80186 microprocessor, eschewing from the IBM PC's use of the 8-bit Intel 8088, and 512 KB of RAM stock (expandable to 704 KB). Unlike the IBM PC, the stock MAD-1 features only one ISA expansion slot, and the only way to expand the memory to the maximum is through occupying this sole slot with a proprietary expansion card that was sold by Mad Computers. The company however offered an optional Expansion Module adding four more ISA slots, connecting to the back of MAD-1's Computing Module as a "trailer".
The MAD-1 came shipped with a semi-custom version of MS-DOS, called Mad MS-DOS. Mad MS-DOS is largely compatible with software running on the former; the included distribution however lacked GW-BASIC and several vital components of PC DOS (IBM implementation of MS-DOS), such as GRAPHICS.COM and FDISK.COM. Mad Computers also sold the MAD-1 with Venix (a Unix variant) and CP/M-86 as optional operating systems.
Development
The MAD-1 was developed by Mad Computers, Inc., a company founded by John Nafeh in 1982 in Santa Clara, California. Before founding Mad, Nafeh had incorporated Multi-Media Video, Inc. (MMV), in 1977 to distrib |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | Odyssey is a heroic fantasy, play-by-mail (PBM) game.
History and development
Odyssey was a computer moderated, play-by-mail game published by Gamer's Den. It was a heroic fantasy game.
The game's first module was Heroes' Quest, available for 30–50 players. In the July–August 1997 issue of Paper Mayhem, the publisher announced the release of its second module, Only the Strong, written by Mark Montero and available as a play-by-email (PBEM) game. It had six factions: The Realm, The Kingdom of Melborne, The League of Chaos, The Children of Scourge, The Greenskins, and The Dark Council. Novices could play the New Frontiers module. A third module was Black Piper.
Gameplay
Gameplay was extended, but with victory conditions, making it a closed-ended game. Elements of gameplay included fantasy adventure, conquest, and exploration. Factions did not appear in the first module, but Only the Strong featured six factions while Black Piper had two warring factions.
Reception
Reviewer Douglas W. Bierbower, in the January–February 1996 issue of Paper Mayhem magazine placed the game's quality over others in the genre: Alamaze, Hyborian War, Legends, Middle Earth, Olympia, and Suzerainty.
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy games
Fantasy role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1990s
Strategy games
Tabletop games
20th-century role-playing games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameterized%20approximation%20algorithm | A parameterized approximation algorithm is a type of algorithm that aims to find approximate solutions to NP-hard optimization problems in polynomial time in the input size and a function of a specific parameter. These algorithms are designed to combine the best aspects of both traditional approximation algorithms and fixed-parameter tractability.
In traditional approximation algorithms, the goal is to find solutions that are at most a certain factor away from the optimal solution, known as an -approximation, in polynomial time. On the other hand, parameterized algorithms are designed to find exact solutions to problems, but with the constraint that the running time of the algorithm is polynomial in the input size and a function of a specific parameter . The parameter describes some property of the input and is small in typical applications. The problem is said to be fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) if there is an algorithm that can find the optimum solution in time, where is a function independent of the input size .
A parameterized approximation algorithm aims to find a balance between these two approaches by finding approximate solutions in FPT time: the algorithm computes an -approximation in time, where is a function independent of the input size . This approach aims to overcome the limitations of both traditional approaches by having stronger guarantees on the solution quality compared to traditional approximations while still having efficient running times as in FPT algorithms. An overview of the research area studying parameterized approximation algorithms can be found in the survey of Marx and the more recent survey by Feldmann et al.
Obtainable approximation ratios
The full potential of parameterized approximation algorithms is utilized when a given optimization problem is shown to admit an -approximation algorithm running in time, while in contrast the problem neither has a polynomial-time -approximation algorithm (under some complexity assumption, e.g., ), nor an FPT algorithm for the given parameter (i.e., it is at least W[1]-hard).
For example, some problems that are APX-hard and W[1]-hard admit a parameterized approximation scheme (PAS), i.e., for any a -approximation can be computed in time for some functions and . This then circumvents the lower bounds in terms of polynomial-time approximation and fixed-parameter tractability. A PAS is similar in spirit to a polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) but additionally exploits a given parameter . Since the degree of the polynomial in the runtime of a PAS depends on a function , the value of is assumed to be arbitrary but constant in order for the PAS to run in FPT time. If this assumption is unsatisfying, is treated as a parameter as well to obtain an efficient parameterized approximation scheme (EPAS), which for any computes a -approximation in time for some function . This is similar in spirit to an efficient polynomial-time approximation scheme (EPTAS).
k-cu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyisdead | #martyisdead is a Czech thriller webseries that was released on 20 October 2019 Mall.TV. It was created in cooperation with CZ.NIC, filmed by the Czech company Bionaut. It deals with cyberbullying and was inspired by real events drawing inspiration from Blue Whale Challenge.
Plot
The series unravels story of a ninth-grade student Marty, who becomes a victim of cyberbullying. Martin dies during car-accident at the beginning of the series and his father Petr Biederman finds out from Martin's facebook profile that Marty was blackmailed by someone who pretended to be a girl named Eliška Svobodová. "Eliška" convinced Marty to send her video of him masturbating and then used it to blackmail Marty giving him various often horrendous tasks such as killing family dog by putting him in freezer. Petr starts to investigate on his own as police practices are too slow. He gradually unravels Marty's story and events that led to his demise.
Cast
Jakub Nemčok as Martin „Marty“ Biederman
Jan Grundman as Petr Biederman, Marty's father
Petra Bučková as Alena Biedermanová, Marty's mother
Sára Korbelová as Kristýna, Marty's girlfriend
Matěj Havelka as Kryštof, Marty's friend
Andrej Polák as Marty's teacher
Jan Zadražil as a van driver
Klára Miklasová as secretary
Tomáš Bambušek as criminalist
Broadcast
The pilot episode was broadcast on October 20, 2019 on its website by MALL.TV; the remaining seven episodes were published one every Sunday until 8 December 2019. During the preparation of the sequel, the series received an Emmy Award nomination.
Reception
Awards
In September 2020, #martyisdead was historically the first Czech series to be nominated for an international Emmy Award, in the category of Short-Form Series. The series won the award in November. It won the main prize at the Serial Killer festival, where it premiered. In March 2021, it won the Czech Lion Award for the Extraordinary achievement in the field of audiovisual.
Spiritual sequel
The sequel, called #annaismissing, is again co-produced by MALL.TV and Bionaut. It was originally scheduled for release in May 2021. Creators eventually decided to produce it as a feature-length film. It premiered in 2023.
References
External links
2010s Czech television series
Czech crime television series
Czech drama television series
Czech thriller television series
2019 Czech television series debuts
Works about cyberbullying
Emmy Award-winning programs
Czech Lion Awards winners (television series)
MALL.TV original programming
Czech web series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind%20the%20Enigma | Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency is an authorised history of GCHQ, written by intelligence and security expert John Ferris. It was published on 20 October 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Reception
Lawrence D. Freedman, reviewing from Foreign Affairs, commented that the book's judgement on Bletchley Park's influence was "careful". However, the book's engagement was critiqued by The Guardian, which described it as "deeply technical in places and largely lacking in colour or human drama", despite praising the coverage of intelligence during the Falklands War. The book was also reviewed by The Times and Cryptologia.
References
2020 non-fiction books
English non-fiction books
English-language books
Bloomsbury Publishing books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronto%20Computers | Pronto Computers, Inc., was an American computer company based in Torrance, California, active from 1983 to 1987. During its brief existence, the company released a duo of IBM PC compatible computer systems and a family of high-spec graphics cards. Pronto's first product, the System 16, was widely lauded for its graphical prowess and industrial design; in 1983, I.D. magazine named it the best-designed product in the field of instrumentation and equipment. The System 16 was followed up with the Pronto Transportable Solution, a portable computer. Both it and the Pronto 16 ran the Intel 80186, a microprocessor seldom used in IBM PC compatibles. Pronto Computers went bankrupt shortly after the Black Monday financial crisis of 1987.
History
Pronto Computers was incorporated in Torrance, California, in March 1983. Its founding members were Henry Gasbarro, CEO; Skip Hansen, vice president of engineering and sales; Doris V. Kaplan, comptroller; and Judy Anthony, head of product marketing. According to Computerworld, the company was established to design, manufacture, and market computer systems and peripherals for businesses. Although the firm manufactured systems that could run many applications designed for IBM's Personal Computer lineup, Gasbarro described compatibility as only a secondary design goal. He explained in 1984: "We created a professional product to solve various business needs. We didn't aim at being PC-compatible, but we do get some of the fallout".
Pronto System 16
A month after Pronto's incorporation, at COMDEX/Spring, the company unveiled the Pronto System 16, an IBM PC compatible running an 8-MHz Intel 80186 microprocessor. The System 16 was among the few compatibles based on the 80186; designing such machines based on 186 was a notoriously difficult proposition, owing to the processor's large-scale integration of support chips largely deviating in functionality from the support chips present on the original IBM PC's motherboard.
Besides the unique processor, the computer was also one of the first personal computers built into a tower form factor. According to the Smithsonian, the System 16 pioneered several design concepts in personal computers that became prevalent in the following decades, including a swivel–tilt monitor base, a compact footprint, adjustable keyboard tilt, and ample cable length for the monitor, allowing the bulkier tower to be stored a considerable distance from the monitor. (A common practice was to put the tower on the floor.) The System 16's unique industrial design earned the company an award in I.D. magazine in 1983 for best-designed product in the field of instrumentation and equipment. Its design was rendered by Joseph D. Ricchio Jr. of Ron Loosen Associates in Los Alamitos, California.
The System 16 comes equipped with 128 KB of RAM stock, expandable to a maximum of 1 MB. Depending on the computer's configuration of drives, the System 16 sold between US$2,995 and US$5,995. The system could be ordered |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji%20Muto%20Grand%20Final%20Pro-Wrestling%20%22Last%22%20Love | Keiji Muto Grand Final Pro-Wrestling "Last" Love was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on February 21, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Tokyo Dome. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. The event also featured wrestlers from Noah's sister promotions Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling and DDT Pro-Wrestling, as well from outside promotions such as New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), All Japan Pro Wrestling and Dragon Gate.
The event was themed around the final matches of Keiji Muto, who was defeated by NJPW's Tetsuya Naito in the semi-main event, and by Masahiro Chono in the main event match. After the main event, Chono announced his own retirement. The event also featured the retirement match of Nosawa Rongai, who teamed with Mazada in a losing effort against Bullet Club (Taiji Ishimori and Gedo).
Production
Background
On June 12, 2022 at CyberFight Festival, Muto announced that he would be retiring in 2023. A few days later, Noah announced the dates of Muto's retirement tour, with his final match taking place in the Tokyo Dome on February 21.
Storylines
The event featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
On January 21 at Wrestle Kingdom 17 night 2, Tetsuya Naito defeated Kenoh in the main event. After the match, Keiji Muto came to ring and asked Naito to be he his final opponent in his retirement match at Keiji Muto Grand Final Pro-Wrestling "Last" Love which Naito accepted the proposition by Muto, setting up the match for February 21.
At the same event, Kazuchika Okada and Togi Makabe took on Kaito Kiyomiya and Yoshiki Inamura in a tag team match. Before the match started Kiyomiya wanted to start the match with Okada but Okada let Makabe start for his team instead. During the match, Okada was wrestling Inamura until Kiyomiya came in the ring and attacked Okada by kicking him in the face which resulted in Okada retaliating, causing both Okada and Kiyomiya to brawl outside of the ring until the match eventually ended in a no contest. As Okada left the ring, Kiyomiya challenged Okada to a match only for Okada to return and to continue brawling with Kiyomiya until both men was pulled away by their tag team partners, officials and staff. A match was set between Okada and Kiyomiya for the Tokyo Dome on the following day.
Event
Preliminary matches
The event started with three pre-show matches broadcast on Noah's YouTube channel. In the first one, GHC Tag Team Champions of the time Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba picked up a victory over Yoshiki Inamura and Yasutaka Yano in tag team competition. Next, a dispute between wrestlers from Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling took p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Talk%20with%20Boy%20Abunda | Fast Talk with Boy Abunda is a Philippine television talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Rommel Gacho, it is hosted by Boy Abunda. It premiered on January 23, 2023 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up.
The show is streaming online on YouTube.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in Television Homes, the pilot episode of Fast Talk with Boy Abunda earned a 7.5% rating.
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
Entertainment news shows in the Philippines
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODIN%20Intelligence | ODIN Intelligence is a technology company that makes database software for law enforcement. Its primary products are SONAR (Sex Offender Notification and Registration), SweepWizard (for law enforcement raids), and HMIS (Homeless Management Information System). HMIS includes facial recognition for identification. The company's private data, including raids and personally identifiable information, was documented in a breach in January 2023.
Company history
Erik McCauley is the founder and CEO.
After the company's private databases were discovered exposed in early January 2023, TechCrunch noted three database archives, totaling approximately 16 gigabytes were released and confirmed by Distributed Denial of Secrets. AWS GovCloud private keys were published as well. The data included tactical plans for police raids, police reports, a forensic extraction report, AFR Engine data, and audio from raids, dating from 2011 to December 2022. The company's website was defaced in January 2023 in response to McCauley's denial of the exposure.
The company acknowledged the data breach to the California Attorney General's Office.
The company's website was defaced in January 2023 in response to McCauley's denial of the data breach. The website was taken down on January 19 and remains offline as of January 22. The company also removed Apple and Android apps.
The company's website stated their products were Criminal Justice Information Services-compliant, which was also documented to at least one customer; WIRED stated it was clearly not compliant.
SweepWizard
SweepWizard is used to track and coordinate police raids.
SweepWizard was used in a 64-agency effort, Operation Protect the Innocent, which rounded up over 600 suspected sex offenders in September 2022.
Data from SweepWizard was found exposed in the January 2023 data breach, including personal identifying information on over 5000 individuals and social security numbers for over 1000 individuals. WIRED verified the unauthenticated API endpoint that returned breached data; in response, CEO McCauley stated "we have been unable to reproduce the alleged security compromise to any ODIN system".
HMIS
HMIS, or Homeless Management Information System, is used to catalog homeless populations, including demographic data, interaction tracking, criminal and warrant history, and labels such as "needles", "assaultive", and "registered sex offender". A company brochure for the product states "Police use ODIN facial recognition to identify even non-verbal or intoxicated individuals".
SOMS
SONAR (Sex Offender Notification and Registration) or SOMS (Sex Offender Management System) is used to register sex offenders.
References
External links
archive.org channel archive
Security breaches
Law enforcement databases in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia%20Camps | Octavia Irma Camps is an Uruguayan-American computer scientist specializing in computer vision, including the use of automated video surveillance and passenger screening technology for airport security. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Northeastern University College of Engineering in Boston.
Education and career
Camps earned bachelor's degrees in both computer science and electrical engineering at the University of the Republic (Uruguay), in 1981 and 1984 respectively. She moved to the US for graduate study at the University of Washington, where she earned a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1987 and a Ph.D. in 1992. Her doctoral dissertation, PREMIO: The Use of Prediction in a CAD-Model-Based Vision System, was supervised by Linda Shapiro.
She became a faculty member at Pennsylvania State University in 1991, working in the departments of electrical engineering and computer science and engineering there. In 2006 she moved to her present position at Northeastern University.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Uruguayan computer scientists
Uruguayan women computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni
University of Washington alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Northeastern University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceTV%20Pty%20Ltd%20v%20Nine%20Network%20Australia%20Pty%20Ltd | IceTV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd is a 2009 decision of the High Court of Australia concerning the application of copyright law to a compilation of television schedules broadcast by the Nine Network and published by IceTV.
Background
IceTV provided a subscription-based television program guide known as the "IceGuide," which used time and title information obtained in part from aggregated guides published in newspapers and online. Nine broadcast television according to a weekly schedule which was incorporated into the aggregated guides.
Nine argued before a single judge of the Federal Court of Australia that IceTV's reproduction of time and title information from the aggregated guides amounted to reproduction of a substantial part of the weekly schedules which had been prepared by Nine Network staff. On that basis, Nine argued that IceTV had infringed Nine's copyright in the weekly schedule. The trial judge disagreed. Nine successfully appealed to the Full Court of the Federal Court. The High Court granted IceTV special leave to appeal against the Full Court's decision.
Judgment
French CJ, Crennan and Kiefel JJ explained that the information–expression dichotomy has been central to the social contract which has underpinned copyright law since the Statute of Anne. While both the primary judge and the Full Court had considered whether there had been an "appropriation" of the author's skill and labour, their Honours emphasised the need to "focus on the nature of the skill and labour, and in particular to ask whether it is directed to the originality of the particular form of expression." The evidence disclosed considerable skill and labour involved in
programming decisions, but that skill and labour was not directed to the originality of the particular form of expression of the time and title information used by IceTV.
Gummow, Hayne and Heydon JJ reviewed the history of copyright law in Australia and the United States, noting the protection for "compilations of data" required by the 1994 TRIPS Agreement and 1996 Database Directive. Their Honours emphasised the dangers of adopting the rhetoric of "appropriation" of "skill and labour," which of itself cannot determine the issue of infringement of a copyright work. Referring to Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp., they found that the Full Court "approached the issue of substantiality at too high a level of abstraction, and in doing so tipped the balance too far against the interest of viewers of digital free to air television in the dissemination by means of new technology of programme listings."
All six judges agreed that the appeal should be allowed, and the orders of the trial judge dismissing Nine's claim restored.
Consequences
The decision in IceTV transformed Australian copyright law, by placing a new emphasis on the role of an author or authors in producing original works. It suggested that the courts might be retreating from the position held or assumed in previous cases, pa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpoon%20II | Harpoon II is a computer wargame published by Three-Sixty Pacific in 1994 for DOS. This was the second game in the Harpoon series. It was ported to the Macintosh in 1996 by IntraCorp.
Harpoon II received several expansion packs including BattleSet 2 - WestPac and BattleSet 3 - Cold War.
Harpoon II Deluxe: Multimedia Edition, an updated version of the game was released in 1995.
Gameplay
Harpoon II includes 15 scenarios and an in-game editor for user-made scenarios.
Reception
Computer Gaming World's Tim Carter said that "[...] HARPOON II is an immensely technical treatment of a complicated subject. It therefore requires considerable effort in order to play, and for users not familiar with the system, will involve a lot of work. However, it remains a benchmark in term of its modeling of modern warfare. [...]"
A year later Tim Carter also reviewed the Deluxe version and said "HARPOON II DELUXE MULTIMEDIA is an important, albeit mislabeled, addition to the HARPOON line. While the basic game system has not changed, and little is gained by the extra animation and sound, the new scenarios and the scenario editor should give HARPOON II a considerable lifespan on the hard drives of the converted. For those who did not like the original or HARPOON II, however, this package is unlikely to change your mind."
AllGame's Lisa Karen Savignano said that "Once you get used to the controls, the game does bring such an air of realism to play that you may find yourself on the edge of your seat. At the very least, you will feel like you are actually in the navy as you play."
References
External links
1994 video games
Classic Mac OS games
Cold War video games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Naval video games
Real-time strategy video games
Three-Sixty Pacific games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetter%20%28surname%29 | Fetter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alexander Fetter (born 1937), American physicist
Chris Fetter (born 1985), American baseball coach
Ellen Fetter, American computer scientist
Erik Fetter (born 2000), Hungarian cyclist
Frank Fetter (1863–1949), American economist and professor
György Fetter (born 1963), Hungarian sprinter
Leigh Ann Fetter (born 1969), American swimmer
Ted Fetter (1906–1996), Broadway lyricist
Trevor Fetter, American businessman
William Fetter (1928–2002), American graphic designer
See also
Fetters (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Billinghurst | Mark Nathan Billinghurst is a computer interface technology researcher. His work focuses on augmented reality (AR) technology. Billinghurst was made a Fellow of the IEEE in 2023.
Education
Billinghurst completed his school education at the New Plymouth Boys' High School. He received Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Science (first class honors) and Master of Philosophy (Applied Mathematics & Physics) degrees in 1990 and 1992 respectively. Both degrees are from Waikato University. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Laboratory in 2002. His dissertation was Shared Space: Explorations in Collaborative Augmented Reality. Billinghurst's doctoral advisors were Linda Shapiro and Thomas A. Furness III. For his PhD course, Billinghurst created the Magic Book, a children's book animated through augmented reality produced by a head-mounted display. Billinghurst describes the Magic Book as technology "that allows you to overlay computer graphics onto the real world, in real time".
Career
Billinghurst is professor of Human Computer Interaction at the University of South Australia (from 2015), professor at the University of Auckland's Bioengineering Institute (from 2018) and director of the Empathic Computing Laboratory. He is the founder and formerly the director of the University of Canterbury's HIT Lab NZ for 13 years; he is now an associate professor at the University of Canterbury. In 2001, Billinghurst co-founded ARToolworks and helped to create ARToolKit, an open source AR development platform. He is a founder of the SuperVentures AR/VR fund. Billinghurst is part of the New Zealand Government’s Growth and Innovation Advisory Board, being appointed in 2005. Billinghurst's previous work includes jobs with ATR Research Labs in Japan, British Telecom's Advanced Perception Unit, an internship with Hit Lab US, Nokia, Google, Amazon and the MIT Media Laboratory. During his career, Billinghurst has published over 650 research papers; he is one of the most cited AR researchers.
Personal life
Billinghurst was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand. He is a member of the Riccarton Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Awards and honors
2001 Discover Magazine Entertainment Award for the Magic Book technology.
Selected for the 2002 New Zealand Innovation Pavilion.
Nominated for the 2004 World Technology Network Education Award.
2006 World Class New Zealand Award.
Winner of the 2006 International Mobile Gaming Awards Grand Prix for the AR Tennis mobile game.
2007 Adweek Buzz Awards for Best Print Campaign.
2012 IEEE ISMAR Lasting Impact Award.
2013 IEEE VR Technical Achievement Award "for contributions to research and commercialization in Augmented Reality".
Elevated to Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2013.
2018 University of South Australia ITEE Research Excellence award.
2019 IEEE ISMAR Career Impact Award.
Elevated to Fellow of the IEEE in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique%20Herrera%20Viedma | Enrique Herrera Viedma (born 30 May 1969) is the Vice-Rector for Research and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Granada (UGR), Spain. He is also Professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the same university since 1994.
Biography
Enrique Herrera-Viedma received his BSc in Computer Science in 1993 and his PhD in Computer Science in 1996, both from the University of Granada. He is Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI). He was one of the founding members of the Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems research group (SCI2S), created and headed the Research Laboratory on Fuzzy Decision Making and Information Retrieval (SECABA), and also was one of the founding members of the Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI). In the University of Granada, he was Vice-Dean for Research in the Faculty of Communication and Documentation for more than 10 years and he is Vice-Rector for Research and Knowledge Transfer since 2015.
He has been identified by Clarivate Analytics as a highly cited researcher in Computer Science and Engineering every year from 2015 to 2022. His research interests also include Library and Information Science, where he has also made major contributions including publishing in the journal Science. Herrera Viedma also holds senior positions and distinctions in scientific societies in Artificial Intelligence. He is Vice-President Cybernetics in IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE SMCS) and was Vice-President Publications in IEEE SMC Society 2019-2020. He is associate editor of journals such as IEEE Transactions on SMC: Systems and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS). He has been named an IAITQM fellow (2019), an IEEE fellow (2021), and an IFSA fellow (2021), and is Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) since 2022.
At national level, he participates as an advisor in different councils. Since 2020, it is member of the Advisory Committee for public information and participation of the Nuclear Safety Council. Since the same year, Herrera Viedma is also member of the Advisory Council of the Elcano Royal Institute. He has also coordinated the participation of the University of Granada in the candidature of Granada for the IFMIF-DONES project and its development.
Awards
2011 — IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
2014 — Best Paper Herbert Simon Award of International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making
2016 — Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award
References
1969 births
Living people
Spanish computer scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20the%20Church%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20of%20Latter-day%20Saints | The demographics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints include statistical data relating to the church's population and particular groups within it.
The church reports a worldwide membership of 16 million. The church's definition of "membership" includes all persons who were ever baptized, or whose parents were members while the person was under the age of eight (called "members of record"), who have neither been excommunicated nor asked to have their names removed from church records with approximately 8.3 million residing outside the United States, as of December 2011.
According to its statistics, the church is the fourth largest religious body in the United States. Although the church does not publish attendance figures, researchers estimate that attendance at weekly LDS worship services globally is around 4 million. Members living in the U.S. and Canada constitute 46 percent of membership, Latin America 38 percent, and members in the rest of the world 16 percent. The 2012 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, found that approximately 2 percent of the U.S. adult population self-identified as Mormon.
Membership is concentrated geographically in the Intermountain West, in a specific region sometimes known as the Mormon corridor. Church members and some others from the United States colonized this region in the mid-to-late 1800s, dispossessing several indigenous tribes in the process. LDS Church influence in the area — both cultural and political — is considered strong.
Membership
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) releases membership, congregational, and related information on a regular basis. The latest membership information LDS Church releases includes a count of membership, stakes, wards, branches, missions, temples, and family history centers for the worldwide church and for individual countries and territories where the church is recognized. The latest information released was as of December 31, 2021, for the worldwide church, and December 31, 2019, for individual countries and selected territories.
At the end of 2021, the LDS Church had 31,315 congregations and a reported membership of 16,805,400.
In 2005, Peggy Fletcher Stack, longtime religion columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune, estimated that about one-third of the reported LDS membership was "active" (i.e., regularly attending church services and participating in other expected meetings and obligations). In 2005, this would have amounted to approximately 4 million active members among a worldwide LDS population of 12 million. Active membership varied from a high of 40 to 50 percent in congregations in North America and the Pacific Islands, to a low of about 25 percent in Latin America. Fletcher Stack's data was compiled from several sources, including a 2001 survey of religious affiliation by scholars at City University of New York and a demographer at LDS-owned Brigh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumble%27s%20Crisis | Crumble's Crisis is an action-adventure video game written by Ivan Mackintosh and published by Red Rat Software in 1986 for the Atari 8-bit home computer. This is the first game in a trilogy of Captain Crumble's adventures, the others being Space Lobsters and Time Runner.
Plot
Dozens of alien Fuzzie's have escaped from the inter-galactic zoo. Captain Crumble has to search all the five levels of the multiverse to find and snare the Fuzzies in the containment cages.
Gameplay
Crumble's Crisis is a flip-screen action-adventure game in which the player controlling Captain Crumble equipped with a jet backpack flies through maze-like levels, dodges hostile fauna and searches for escaped zoo creatures. There are 5 unique zones to search, each containing 6 hiding Fuzzies. The player has only one life and if they touch any wall or enemy, it will deplete the suit's energy, but it can be recovered by collecting energy packs. As in Space Lobsters - the action takes place in a shrunken window - about 1/2 of the game screen, while the rest of it is filled with decorations and cages showing the number of captured Fuzzies.
Reception
Crumble's Crisis received very positive reviews. In the review for Page 6 magazine, Jim Short found the game's graphics, sound, animation and gameplay "truly astounding". He also praised "a stunning comic title screen and accompanying music." Similarly, Niels Reynolds, who reviewed the game for Atari User magazine, rated it at 8 points overall, including a 9 out of 10 points for playability.
References
External links
Crumble's Crisis at Atari Mania
1986 video games
Action-adventure games
Atari 8-bit family games
Atari 8-bit family-only games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Red Rat Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongly%20typed%20identifier | A strongly typed identifier is user-defined data type which serves as an identifier or key that is strongly typed. This is a solution to the "primitive obsession" code smell as mentioned by Martin Fowler. The data type should preferably be immutable if possible. It is common for implementations to handle equality testing, serialization and model binding.
The strongly typed identifier commonly wraps the data type used as the primary key in the database, such as a string, an integer or universally unique identifier (UUID).
Web frameworks can often be configured to model bind properties on view models that are strongly typed identifiers. Object–relational mappers can often be configured with value converters to map data between the properties on a model using strongly typed identifier data types and database columns.
Examples
C#
C# have records which provide immutability and equality testing. The record is sealed to prevent inheritance. It overrides the built-in ToString() method.
This example implementation includes a static method which can be used to initialize a new instance with a randomly generated globally unique identifier (GUID).
/// <summary>
/// Represents a user identifier.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="Id">The user identifier.</param>
public sealed record UserId(Guid Id)
{
/// <summary>
/// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="UserId" /> record.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>A new UserId object.</returns>
public static UserId New() => new(Guid.NewGuid());
public override string ToString() => Id.ToString();
}
C++
C++ have structs but not immutability so here the id field is marked as private with a method named value() to get the value.
struct UserId {
UserId(const string _id)
{
id = _id;
}
string value() const
{
return id;
}
bool operator==(const UserId& rhs) const
{
return value() == rhs.value();
}
private:
string id;
};
ostream& operator << (ostream &os, const UserId &id)
{
return os << id.value() << std::endl;
}
D
D have immutable structs.
import std;
/** Represents a user identifier. */
immutable struct UserId
{
immutable UUID id;
/** Initializes a new instance of the UserId struct. */
this(immutable string id)
{
this.id = UUID(id);
}
public static UserId create()
{
return UserId(randomUUID.toString());
}
string toString()
{
return this.id.toString();
}
}
Dart
Dart have classes with operator overloading.
import 'package:meta/meta.dart';
/// Represents a user identifier.
@immutable
final class UserId {
final String id;
/// Initializes a new instance of the UserId struct.
const UserId(this.id);
@override
operator ==(other) => other is UserId && other.id == id;
@override
int get hashCode => id.hashCode;
@override
String toString() => id;
}
F#
F# lets you create override the Equals, GetHashCode and ToString methods.
open Syst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbreak%20My%20Heart%20%28TV%20series%29 | Unbreak My Heart is a 2023 Philippine romantic drama television series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Emmanuel Quindo Palo and Dolly Dulu, it stars Joshua Garcia, Gabbi Garcia, Richard Yap and Jodi Sta. Maria. It premiered on May 29, 2023 in the network's Telebabad line up. The series is set to conclude on November 16, 2023 with a total of 2 seasons and 100 episodes. It will be replaced by Lovers/Liars in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on Viu.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jodi Sta. Maria as Rose Jacinto
Richard Yap as Matteo "Matt" T. Zhang
Gabbi Garcia as Alexandra "Alex / Xandra" J. Zhang
Joshua Garcia as Lorenzo "Renz" Isidro
Supporting cast
Laurice Guillen as Lily Tansengco-Zhang
Eula Valdez as Vangie Isidro
Sunshine Cruz as Christina Romualdez
Romnick Sarmenta as Mario Isidro
Victor Neri as Dante Manalad
Nikki Valdez as Luz Keller
Will Ashley as Jeremiah "Jerry" Keller
Jeremiah Lisbo as Franco Lauchengco
Bianca de Vera as Gwen Romualdez Zhang
Maey Bautista as Elsie
Dionne Monsanto as Queenie
PJ Endrinal as Barry
Mark Rivera as Jacob
Marvin Yap as Arthur Dimalanta
Guest cast
Art Acuña as Raymond Jacinto
Zach Castañeda as a nurse
Iana Bernardez as Jennifer "Jenny" Antonio / Jessa Antonio
Junjun Quintana as Karlo
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1
Season 2
Production
Development
In December 2022, executives of GMA Network and ABS-CBN were in discussions for a collaboration of a television series, with both companies casting their respective artists and the latter's production unit Dreamscape Entertainment developing the series.
Filming
Principal photography commenced in January 2023. In February 2023, casts and crew flew to Europe to film in Switzerland and Italy.
In April 2023, Gardo Versoza was replaced by Romnick Sarmenta, after the former had a heart attack on March 28, 2023. Scenes featuring Versoza were eventually reshot with Sarmenta taking over the role.
Release
The series' two episodes were released on Viu, iWantTFC and GMANetwork.com on May 27, 2023, ahead of its broadcast television debut.
Notes
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in Switzerland
Television shows set in Italy
Television series by Dreamscape Entertainment Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20multicast%20television%20network | A digital multicast television network, also known as a diginet or multichannel, is a type of national television service designed to be broadcast terrestrially as a supplementary service to other stations on their digital subchannels. Made possible by the conversion from analog to digital television broadcasting, which left room for additional services to be broadcast from an individual transmitter, regional and national broadcasters alike have introduced such channels since the 2000s. By March 2022, 54 such services existed in the United States.
Typically run on a lesser budget, national multicast services often rely on archive and imported content and are tailored to allow advertisers to reach specific demographics. Most of their revenue is derived from national advertising.
Digital multicast services by country
Australia
The first multichannel broadcast in Australia was ABC Kids, which broadcast from 2001 to 2003; in the succeeding years, the country's commercial broadcasters also launched secondary services to compete against DVDs and online piracy. However, their ability to do so was hampered at first by a ban on adding channels, with a focus on such services as datacasting and high-definition. It was not until 2009 that commercial broadcasters were allowed to add multichannels; in that year, the three major networks all did so, bringing the number of channels they offered from three to eleven.
The original commercial multichannels were generalist in nature, which made it difficult for advertisers to target specific demographics and therefore made them less lucrative. The shift to specifically targeted services and their reliance on existing programming has allowed these channels to survive despite drawing comparatively low shares of the audience: in 2018, 7mate led the group with an audience share of 4.1 percent among metropolitan audiences. However, after the Australian Communications and Media Authority permitted the commercial broadcasters to move required children's programming and national drama commitments to their multichannels, ratings and visibility fell precipitously; by 2013, the ABC had more viewers for its children's channels than the commercial broadcasters combined. The commercial broadcasters also became more reliant on news, sport, and reality competitions on their main channels.
Each of the five major broadcasters offers its own suite of multichannels:
ABC: ABC Kids, ABC Me, ABC News, ABC TV Plus
SBS: SBS Food, SBS Viceland, SBS World Movies, SBS WorldWatch, National Indigenous Television
Seven Network: 7Two, 7mate, 7flix, 7Bravo
Nine Network: 9Go!, 9Gem, 9Life, 9Rush
Network 10: 10 Bold, 10 Peach, Nickelodeon
Mexico
In 2017, TV Azteca launched a+ (now A Más), initially conceived as a hybrid regional-national service to be carried on its existing Azteca 7 transmitters in most of Mexico. The new channel—as well as news channel adn40, aired on Azteca Uno transmitters, achieved sufficient national coverage to be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Experience%20%28season%2035%29 | Season thirty-five of the television program American Experience aired on the PBS network in the United States on January 3, 2023. The season began with the film The Lie Detector.
Episodes
References
2023 American television seasons
American Experience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten%20Mobile | Rakuten Mobile, Inc. (commonly known as Rakuten Mobile) is a Japanese mobile network operator (MNO) headquartered in Setagaya, Tokyo. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten. Currently, Rakuten Mobile offers 4G and 5G services.
History
Rakuten Mobile was founded in January 2018 in Tokyo.
Services
LTE (4G)
Rakuten Mobile launched its cellular service in Japan (which was LTE) in April 2020 and with this, it became the 4th telecom operator in the country.
5G
Rakuten mobile started rolling out its 5G service in October 2020 in selected regions of Japan.
References
External links
Official Japanese website
Rakuten
Mobile phone companies of Japan
Japanese companies established in 2018
Telecommunications companies based in Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon%20Tsay | Brandon Tsay (born ) is an American hobbyist computer programmer who disarmed the 2023 Monterey Park shooting gunman.
Personal life
He was born in 1996 or 1997 to father Tom Tsay and mother Yvonne Hwei Fung Lin, a first-generation American whose mother is from Taiwan. She died of lung cancer in December 2017.
He attended Pasadena City College and lives in San Marino.
Tsay was job-seeking while working at his parents' Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in Alhambra.
Monterey Park shooting
On January 21, 2023, Tsay wrestled a pistol from Huu Can Tran in the midst of the 2023 Monterey Park shooting. Police credited Tsay with preventing more shootings and a larger death toll. The local police department awarded Tsay a medal of courage for his actions.
Tsay appeared on CNN, Good Morning America and in the New York Times talking about his intervention. United States Representative Judy Chu honored Tsay at a city of Alhambra Lunar New Year ceremony in February 2023 saying that "The carnage would have been so much worse had it not been for Brandon Tsay." California Governor Gavin Newsom visited Tsay after the event. US President Joe Biden invited Tsay to the 2023 State of the Union Address. Tsay attended as a guest of Jill Biden. President Biden thanked Tsay for his life-saving actions, before Congress gave him a standing ovation.
Tsay collaborated with the Asian Pacific Community Fund to launch the Brandon Tsay Hero Fund, aiming to help local community causes.
Monterey Park City Council honored Tsay on February 15, 2023.
References
Living people
1990s births
Year of birth uncertain
Pasadena City College alumni
People from San Marino, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dka%20ikki | The Kōka ikki or Kōka Confederacy, historically known as the Kōka-gun Chūsō, was a military confederation and network of ninja (then known as shinobi) in Kōka District (often spelled Kōga) in Southern Ōmi Province during the Sengoku period of Japan. Kōga-ryū, one of the two major traditions of ninjutsu that survived by fleeing to the mountains, is named after the confederacy and attributes its origins to it. A third tradition nearly extinct Kimitake-ryu had most of its members wiped out, the handful of remaining fled to the city where they found refuge with in what would become the Yakuza. After centuries of rivalry with Iga Province to the south, eventually the district worked closely in alliance with Iga. It also frequently allied with the Rokkaku clan that controlled the portions of Southern Ōmi province immediately to the north. While in Iga the ninja families essentially gained control of the entire province in a de facto republic, Ōmi province was too large, diverse, and strategically valuable for the families in Kōka to project their control over the entire area. The independence of the confederation ended with the subjugation of Kōka in 1574 to the Oda clan. After that conquest, Kōka ninjas served Tokugawa Ieyasu and then his descendants late into the Edo period.
History
Formation
In 15th and 16th-century Japan, Kōka, in Ōmi Province, had some 53 clans and adjacent Iga Province contained some 300–500 small estates. Both regions were in anarchy, their estates and families constantly engaged in low-level, small-scale feuds and squabbles within and between each region. This and the constant external threats posed by the incessant warfare of the period necessitated that the local jizamurai (lower-ranking military nobility) and their soldiers develop specialized espionage and combat skills. The remoteness of the hill country in this part of Japan might also have encouraged the development of these skills. The militant mountain-monks, yama-bushi, were also likely an influence as even the bandits in the area wore yellow scarfs that seem to have been copies of those worn by the mountain monks. Reputedly, the units from these two regions often offered their services to nearby provinces as professionally trained, highly trained mercenaries. However, political self-interest, including continued survival, could also have equally motivated the activities of Iga units in these provinces. The usages of the term shinobi, specifically shinobi-mono, later known as ninjas, appearing in the late 1580s and early 1600s, referred to the soldiers from Iga and Kōka. The anarchy of the period and, in the case of Iga, the remoteness of the territory encouraged autonomy, and the communities began organizing into ikki - "revolts" or "leagues". While Iga was surrounded by mountains and thus difficult to access, Kōka was situated along a major road that during the Edo period became the famous Tōkaidō. It thus bridged the isolation of Iga to the key communication li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Great%20Voyage%20in%20Osaka%202023 | NOAH Great Voyage in Osaka 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on February 12, 2023, in Osaka, Japan, at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. The event aired CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
The event featured ten matches with three of Noah's five championships on the line. The main event saw Kaito Kiyomiya defeat Jack Morris to retain the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Other top matches included Yoshinari Ogawa and Eita successfully defending the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Junta Miyawaki and Alejandro, and Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba defeated TakaKoji (Takashi Sugiura and Satoshi Kojima) to win the GHC Tag Team Championship. The event also featured special appearances by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) wrestlers Tetsuya Naito and Kazuchika Okada.
Storylines
The event featured ten professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
Preliminary matches
The event started with the confrontation between (Muhammad Yone and Akitoshi Saito) and Kinya Okada and Taishi Ozawa which solded with the victory of the preceding team. Next, Chris Ridgeway and Daga picked up a victory over Kongo's Tadasuke and Hajime Ohara. In the third bout, Timothy Thatcher, Kazuyuki Fujita and Hideki Suzuki outmatched Masato Tanaka, Masaaki Mochizuki and Yoshiki Inamura. Next up, Kongo (Masakatsu Funaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Shuji Kondo and Hi69) defeated Naomichi Marufuji, El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Amakusa and Ninja Mack. In the fifth match, NJPW's El Desperado teamed up with Nosawa Rongai to defeated Yo-Hey and Yasutaka Yano. In the sixth bout, Kongo's Kenoh and Manabu Soya defeated Good Looking Guys (Jake Lee and Anthony Greene) in a tag team match, victory after which they expressed their intention of going after the GHC Tag Team Championship in the near future. the next bout saw Dralístico defeating Atsushi Kotoge in singles competition. Next, Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba defeated TakaKoji (Takashi Sugiura and Satoshi Kojima) to win the GHC Tag Team Championship for the first time as a team, while it was the seventh individual win for Kitamiya and the first for Inaba, ending the latter team's reign at 140 days. In the semi main event, Yoshinari Ogawa and Eita defeated Junta Miyawaki and Alejandro to retain the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the first time in that respective reign. After the match concluded, Chris Ridgeway and Hayata stepped up and issued a challenge and attacked both Ogawa and Eita, leaving Ogawa's status in Stinger hanging up in the air.
Main event
Before the main event took place, Keiji Mutoh came up to the commentary booth. Tetsuya Naito |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yixin%20Chen | Yixin Chen is a computer scientist, academic, and author. He is a professor of computer science and engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.
Chen's research interests are focused on computer sciences, with a particular focus on the fields of machine learning, deep learning, data mining, and computational biomedicine. He has contributed to several publications and has written several book chapters, including Clustering Parallel Data Streams and The Evaluation of Partitioned Temporal Planning Problems in Discrete Space and its Application in ASPEN. He also co-authored the book Introduction to Explainable Artificial Intelligence.
Chen is an elected IEEE Fellow for his contributions towards deep learning systems and an AAIA Fellow. He also served as a Program Co-chair for IEEE Conference on Big Data 2021.
Education
Chen completed his Bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1999 and Master's in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. He then pursued his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the guidance of Benjamin Wah and completed it in 2005.
Career
Chen started his academic career as an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 2005. In 2010, he was appointed as an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. As of 2016, he is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the Director of the Center for Collaborative Human-AI Learning and Operation (HALO) at Washington University.
Chen has taken a leave from academia and served as the Chief Data Officer (CDO) and later Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of China Asset Management (ChinaAMC). He was named Leader of the Year for Digital Transformation in Finance, at the 2020 Sensors Data-Driven Conference.
Research
Chen has authored numerous publications. His research interests are focused in the fields of machine learning, applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare, optimization algorithms, data mining, and computational biomedicine.
Resource efficient deep learning
Chen has done significant research on compactness and applicability of deep neural networks (DNNs). He proposed the concept and architecture of lightweight DNNs. His group invented the HashedNets architecture, which compresses prohibitively large DNNs into much smaller networks using a weight-sharing scheme.
Chen also developed a compression frameworks for convolutional neural networks (CNNs). His lab invented a frequency-sensitive compression technique in which more important model parameters are better preserved, leading to state-of-the-art compression results.
Deep learning on graphs and time series
Chen has made significant contributions to graph neural networks (GNNs). Chen an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N9%20highway | National Route 9 (N9) is a , two to six major primary route network connecting the provinces of connecting the provinces of Agusan del Norte, Misamis Oriental, Lanao del Norte, and Zamboanga del Sur.
History
Route description
Caraga
Butuan City
National Route 9 starts in Ampayon, Butuan as Butuan–Cagayan de Oro–Iligan Road in a Y-junction stemmed from the Daang Maharlika. An section of the latter refers a side of the triangle roundabout as part of N9. It is unknown if this is a mistake or not. The other side is named Butuan–Cagayan de Oro–Iligan Road. It passes through urban portions of the city and is the main highway for the city. It meets a Y-junction which stems a diversion road called Mayor Democrito D. Plaza II Avenue (N951). It enters a roundabout with the aforementioned highway and Bancasi Airport Road (N954).
Agusan del Norte
The road enters the province of Agusan del Norte and traverses through the towns of Buenavista, the industrial Nasipit and Carmen. The region ends in the Carmen-Magsaysay border.
Northern Mindanao
Misamis Oriental
N9 and its assigned highway reaches the municipality of Magsaysay and reaches a sharp turn where the direction goes south. It is a road with many turns. After reaching Gingoog, the road is met with the Gingoog–Claveria–Villanueva Road, a diversion that ignores most of the towns in the eastern side of the province. After traversing through many municipalities, it is met again with the western end of the aforementioned road. Upon reaching the city of Cagayan de Oro, it reunites with the Asian Highway 26, albeit it is a spur route. It also reaches the junction of a coastal highway that ends in Opol instead of the eponymous town. It also gives access to the port road (N946) and two other streets designated as N945. It traverses to the industrial areas of Opol and El Salvador. It passes through multiple more towns including Laguindingan, which is the location of a non-national airport road. Upon reaching Gitagum, a road to the sharp left turn is actually the true route of the Butuan–Cagayan de Oro–Iligan Road because it gives access to its municipal hall and a part of the poblacion, the former road is actually a diversion road. After more towns have been passed, N9 reaches the Misamis Oriental-Iligan border, thus ending the Butuan–Cagayan de Oro–Iligan Road.
Iligan City
N9 starts in Iligan as Misamis Oriental–Maria Cristina Boundary Road. Upon reaching the urban area of the city, it is met with a diversion road that ends near the N77 junction. The route changes to N77 where it goes left while N9's designated highway is Linamon–Zamboanga Road.
Lanao del Norte
The Lanao del Norte portion of the road enters multiple towns including the provincial capital Tubod, which is home to the a port road and Panguil Bay Bridge, which will connect Tangub and significantly cut travel time between Misamis Occidental and the aforementioned province.
Zamboanga del Sur
After reaching Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, the r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BharOS | BharOS (formerly IndOS) is a mobile operating system allegedly designed by IIT Madras. It is an Indian government-funded project to develop a free and open-source operating system (OS) for use in government and public systems. The Indian Express Android.
History
Google is facing a crackdown from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for its practices pertaining to its Android mobile operating system. There have been several demands for the need for an Indian app store that does not levy exorbitant fees for sales. The BharOS project aims to reduce the dependence on foreign operating systems in smartphones and promote the use of locally developed technology. It was developed by JandK Operations Private Limited (JandKops), which was incubated at IIT Madras. Minister for telecommunications and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw and education minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the operating system in a public event.
Features
BharOS targets security-conscious groups. BharOS does not come with any preinstalled services or apps. This approach gives the user more freedom and control over the permissions that are available to apps on their device. Users can choose to grant permissions only to apps that they require to access certain features or data on their device. The software can be installed on commercially available handsets, providing users with a secure environment, the company stated in a statement. The new operating system will provide access to trusted apps via organisation-specific Private App Store Services (PASS), which is a list of curated apps that meet security and privacy standards. Security updates and bug fixes will be automatically installed rather than users having to manually check for updates and install them.
Criticism
Divya Bhati writing for India Today noted that instructions on downloading, installing BharOS on compatible devices, or plans for new devices, or its support for security and software updates were scant.
In September 2023, a fork of GrapheneOS containing references to BharOS was made public on github. Although the Github Profile of Sadhasiva, which hosted the code has since been deleted, it can be viewed through unofficial forks by archival websites. Through a tweet, IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation identified the code to have originated from Megam Solutions, a Chennai-based software company which was not connected with JandKops. In a subsequent tweet, the organization highlighted communications with the CEO of Megam Solutions, that the name BharOS was unintentionally used.
External links
https://jandkops.in/, JandKops website
References
State-sponsored Linux distributions
2023 software
Mobile Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranelift | Cranelift (formerly known as Cretonne) is an optimizing compiler backend that converts a target-independent intermediate representation into executable machine code. It is written in Rust. The project started in 2016 and is currently developed by Bytecode Alliance. Unlike compiler backends such as LLVM that focus more on ahead-of-time compilation, Cranelift instead focuses on just-in-time compilation with short compile time being an explicit goal of the project.
As of 2023, Cranelift supports instruction set architectures such as x86-64, AArch64, RISC-V, and IBM z/Architecture.
History
Prior to the backend framework rewrite in 2020, the project made use of only one intermediate representation (IR) across all compilation stages prior to machine code emission, namely CLIF (Cranelift IR Format). The old design made use of instruction legalizations, which involved transforming the high-level IR continuously until each CLIF instruction corresponded to an instruction of the target machine, at which point the executable code could be emitted.
In 2020, the backend was rewritten to use a separate, machine-specific IR called VCode for later compilation stages instead. After this rewrite, a high-level input CLIF would be optimized by a middle layer before being lowered into VCode, which would be further transformed by remaining passes in the backend. Peepmatic, a tool used to generate a peephole optimizer from a domain-specific language (DSL), was also added, though it was later removed.
In 2022, a new register allocator, which was adapted from the register allocator from IonMonkey, was added. In addition, the backend framework was reworked to utilize ISLE (Instruction Selection/Lowering Expressions DSL), another DSL in the project that was made to ease the development of the instruction selection stage in backends.
The mid-end saw addition of optimization passes that make use of e-graphs in 2022. The optimization passes are enabled by default starting in 2023.
Applications
Currently, Cranelift is being utilized by multiple WebAssembly runtimes, such as Wasmtime and Wasmer, with performance comparable to LLVM-based runtimes.
An alternative code generator for the Rust compiler that is powered by Cranelift also exists.
See also
Emscripten
GNU Compiler Collection
LLVM
References
Compilers
Free compilers and interpreters
Register-based virtual machines
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored%20Moon%3A%20The%20Next%20Eden | Armored Moon: The Next Eden is a 1998 real-time strategy video game from Korean company Sung Jin Multimedia.
Reception
Computer Games Magazine gave the game a score of 3 out of 5, stating: "Armored Moon includes ten missions, which isn't much by today's gaming standards, and the game probably won't be in contention for Game of the Year—it lacks the glitz and longevity of some of its more expensive real-time brethren. But for half the price of those titles, this software packs quite a gaming wallop"
References
1998 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Real-time strategy video games
Video games developed in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor%20authentication%20fatigue%20attack | A multi-factor authentication fatigue attack (or MFA fatigue attack) is a computer security attack against multi-factor authentication that makes use of social engineering. When MFA applications are configured to send push notifications to end users, an attacker can send a flood of login attempt in the hope that a user will click on accept at least once.
In September 2022 Uber security was breached by a member of Lapsus$ using a multi-factor fatigue attack.
In 2022, Microsoft has deployed a mitigation against MFA fatigue attacks with their authenticator app.
Further reading
References
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20W.%20Holland | Paul William Holland (born 25 April 1940) is an American statistician. He has worked on a wide range of fields including: categorical data analysis, social network analysis and causal inference in program evaluation.
Paul Holland was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He went to the University of Michigan as an undergraduate, and Stanford University for the master's and doctorate in statistics, supervised by Patrick Suppes. Michigan State University and Harvard University were his first teaching posts. He started at Educational Testing Service in 1975. From 1993 to 2000 he taught at University of California, Berkeley, before returning to Educational Testing Service.
He held the Frederic M. Lord Chair in Measurement and Statistics at the Educational Testing Service.
Selected publications
Paul W. Holland & Samuel Leinhardt (editors) (1979) Perspectives on Social Network Research, Academic Press , proceedings on structural balance theory
Holland, P. W. (1986) "Statistics and causal inference", Journal of the American Statistical Association 81(396): 945-960.
Holland, P. W., & Welsch, R. E. (1977) "Robust regression using iteratively reweighted least-squares", Communications in Statistics-theory and Methods 6(9): 813-827.
Holland, P. W., & Howard Wainer (editors) (2012) Differential Item Functioning. Routledge
References
American statisticians
1940 births
Living people
University of Michigan alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty
People from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Network scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informer%20Computer%20Terminals | Informer Computer Terminals, Inc., originally Informer, Inc., and later Informer Computer Systems, Inc., was a privately held American computer company active from 1971 to 2007. It manufactured data terminals that could communicate with mainframes and minicomputers, mainly those manufactured by IBM and Digital. It was originally based in Los Angeles, California; in the early 1980s, it moved to Laguna Beach, and in the late 1980s, to Garden Grove.
Corporate history
Informer, Inc. was co-founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1971 by Donald Allen Domike (1927–2017). Originally located in the far corner of West Los Angeles, Informer moved to Westchester, Los Angeles, in fall 1976, occupying a facility as their headquarters, manufacturing plant, and research and development laboratory. Informer in the mid-1970s appointed Bryon Cole as president of the company and Wilfred "Will" R. Little as vice president of marketing. By 1981, Little replaced Cole as president.
Informer in 1976 manufactured glass terminals with small CRTs as well as traditional keyboard-send-and-receive and receive-only teleprinters. It achieved sales of US$1 million in fiscal year 1976, projecting a doubling of sales for the following year. By 1981, the company had achieved yearly sales in excess of $10 million. The company established ten branch offices in the United States by that year; at some point in the mid-1980s, they also opened a Canadian subsidiary in Richmond, British Columbia.
Its products in the early 1980s comprised not only glass terminals and teleprinters but also barcode readers and batch terminals. Informer's terminals were used for data entry, data monitoring, remote job entry, and software programming. Following struggling sales in the mid-1980s, the company appointed Malcolm K. Green, formerly of Emulex as president and CEO. Green shortly thereafter relocated the company's headquarters to Garden Grove, California.
By the early 1990s the company had renamed itself to Informer Computer Systems, Inc. In 1994, the company spun off its local area and dial-up networking security software operations as Informer Data Security, Inc. Bradley Little was named president of the new company. Beginning in the mid-1990s, the company began orienting their products toward state emergency services, manufacturing terminals and call-tracking systems for 9-1-1 call centers, though they still offered general-purpose terminals as well. Edward P. Dailey replaced Little as president and CEO around this time. In 2000, the company employed 20 in Garden Grove.
Informer went defunct in 2007.
Notable products
In May 1990, the company unveiled the Informer 213PT, a portable terminal that also doubles as a PC-compatible computer, complete with an i386 processor and DOS 3.3 in ROM. The 213PT contains a 9,600-bps V.32 modem that establishes connections with IBM mainframes using the 3270 terminal protocol. Switching between terminal and PC modes is achieved via a single keystroke. In PC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein%20Abbass | Hussein A. Abbass is a researcher into artificial intelligence and professor at the University of New South Wales. He joined the university in 2000 and became a professor in 2007. He is known for his research into the language Jingulu and its uses for artificial intelligence. He is the founder and first editor of the IEEE's Transactions on Artificial Intelligence journal. Abbass was made a fellow of the IEEE in 2020 "for contributions to evolutionary learning and optimization".
In the past, Abbass served as the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's vice-president of technical activities from 2016 to 2019 and the President of the Australian Society for Operations Research (2017-2019). He was a visiting fellow at Imperial College London (2003), visiting professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2005), visiting professor at National Defence Academy, Japan (2013) and a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore (2014).
Publications
Green, David; Abbass, Hussain and Liu, Jing: Dual Phase Evolution. Springer, 2013.
Abbass, Hussain: Computational Red Teaming. Springer, 2014.
Liu, Jing; Abbass, Hussain and Chen Tan, Kay: Evolutionary Computation and Complex Networks. Springer, 2018.
Tang, Jiangjun; Green, David and Abbass, Hussain: Simulation and Computational Red Teaming for Problem Solving. Wiley, 2019.
References
External links
Abbass' website
1960s births
Living people
Australian people of Egyptian descent
Cairo University alumni
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Artificial intelligence researchers
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Australian computer scientists
Egyptian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeda%20Computers | Zeda Computers International Limited, trading as Zeda Computer Systems, was an American computer company based in Provo, Utah, and with overseas office in Nottingham. Founded in 1974, their best-selling computer was the Zeda 580, a Zilog Z80-based all-in-one microcomputer.
Corporate history
Zeda Computers International was founded in 1974 by John McMullen. Beginning life as a electronics research and development laboratory, with few years later the company expanded to full-time production and marketing of computer systems and electronic word processors from within its 7,000-square-foot headquarters. Expansion was hastened after the company earned a contract to design a computer terminal and a data buffer system for a computer peripheral manufacturer out of San Jose, California, in the mid-1970s. In 1976, the company established an overseas sales office in Nottingham.
After Zeda released its first microcomputers in late 1977, the company's revenues soon rose to US$1.5 million. The company's Z80-based all-in-one, the Zeda 580, sold especially well and prompted Zeda's expansion into a 1,500-square-foot building adjacent to its Provo headquarters to where they moved their marketing department. They released a companion dumb terminal, the Zeda 550, in December 1979, allowing two users to operate the computer at once with the computer's special operating system, InfiNet.
Zeda had by 1980 dealer networks in the Western United States, England, Australia, and the South Pacific. That year's summer, the company earned two additional contracts from dealers in Portland, Oregon, and Rantoul, Illinois, to distribute $5.7 million worth of Zeda's 580 systems. The computer topped $1 million in domestic sales in August 1981; in the United Kingdom, the company topped 1 million in sales turnover in 1984. Its Brighton sales office staffed 40 that year. The branch was commissioned by the Peterborough Building Society to transform the bank's Westgate branch into having a computerized open office floor plan.
Products
Zeda Computer System
Zeda-80
Zeda 520
Zeda 550
Zeda 580
References
1974 establishments in Utah
American companies established in 1974
Companies based in Provo, Utah
Computer companies established in 1974
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer companies of the United Kingdom
Defunct computer hardware companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeda | Zeda may refer to:
Companies
Zeda Computers International Limited, a defunct American computer company
Places
Georgia
Zeda Vardzia, an 11th-century Georgian Orthodox church located in the Aspindza Municipality in Samtskhe-Javakheti
Zeda Tmogvi, a medieval Christian church in south Georgia
Zeda Sakara, a community in the west of Georgia, about 40 km to the southeast of Kutaisi
Zeda Uchkhubi, a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia
Zeda Bakhvi, a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia
Zeda Dzimiti, a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia
Italy
Monte Zeda, a mountain in the Lepontine Alps belonging to the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
People
Zeda Zhang, an American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist
Zeda Rosenberg, an American microbiologist and epidemiologist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLever%20Audio%20Plug-in | CLever Audio Plug-in or CLAP is an open source software architecture, application programming interface and reference implementation suite for audio effects plugins in digital audio workstations. The specification and reference implementation was released in 2022 by u-he and Bitwig.
CLAP was started to overcome technical and legal limitations of the VST plug-in format. CLAP was designed for non-destructive parameter automation, multi-voice envelopes, true MIDI 2.0 support, better multi-core CPU performance and greater ease writing plugins in a non-proprietary licensing framework under the MIT License. CLAP is supported by 7 DAWs and more than 40 plugin producers who have produced more than 150 CLAP plugins.
See also
LADSPA and LV2, similar open-source standards
References
External links
CLAP Audio Software Database
2022 software
Music software plugin architectures
Software synthesizers
Application programming interfaces
Free audio software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACFA-8 | The ACFA-8 (Affordable Computers for All-8) was a microcomputer based on the Motorola 6808. It was released in 1979 by Andrew M. Veronis, a doctorate of computer science more well-known for his books on computer engineering.
Description and history
The ACFA-8 was a single-board microcomputer running the Motorola 6808. The board's memory layout comprised an array of eight chip sockets, onto which 3 KB or 6 KB DRAM chips can be populated, for a maximum of 48 KB of RAM. As stock it came with 16 KB of RAM. The computer's cassette interface supports the Kansas City standard, and the computer came shipped with 8-KB BASIC on cassette. The board features a built-in color RF modulator; American buyers got shipped a color video display for the price of the computer. Both American and overseas buyers however both got the board with an enclosure, a keyboard, and the power supply unit.
The ACFA-8 was one of the few microcomputers based on the 6808 microprocessor, being a lesser-cost component in the Motorola 6800 family. It was more popular with embedded processing systems in industrial environments. The computer came shipped with manuals describing the principles of operation, which Electronics Today International described as "really a computer course on their own". ACFA, Inc. (Affordable Computers for All), was founded by Andrew M. Veronis, a doctorate of computer science more well-known for his books on computer engineering. In the United States, the computer sold for $695 as an assembled kit or $595 unassembled. Computer journalist Fred Ruckdeschel felt that it needed an additional $300 in hardware on top of the cost of the unassembled kit to bring it on par with its contemporaries. To that end the ACFA-8 came with a RS-232C serial port for peripherals including teletypes.
ACFA, Inc. was incorporated at 130 Main Street in Annapolis, Maryland. This location was previously the home of Wicker Basket Ltd., a seller of wicker furniture, cookware, and fine china. Veronis bought that company in 1977 and was the proprietor of the store for a few years. Veronis forfeit ACFA shortly after its incorporation. He continued working in the computer industry in the following decades while also teaching computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
References
68xx-based computers
Computer-related introductions in 1979
Microcomputers
Single-board computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3R%20Computers | 3R Computers, Inc., or RRR Computers, Inc., later Avatar Technologies, was an American computer company based in Westborough, Massachusetts, known for their Avatar series of dumb terminal-to-workstation devices.
History
As 3R Computers (1981–1983)
3R Computers was founded in Westborough, Massachusetts, in December 1981 by Edward G. Grace, Brad Hebert (born 1944), and Fred Schlaffer. All three had previously worked for the Data General Corporation, a large minicomputer manufacturer whose headquarters were in the same city. Grace was named chief executive officer and president, while Hebert and Schlaffer both shared vice president status. The company spent a year in research and development before releasing the company's first product, the Avatar Terminal Converter (TC1), in late 1982. Grace cited dissatisfaction with Data General's reduction in complex projects amid the recession of the early 1980s as his reason for quitting: "Some companies are cutting back on [research and development], and frustrated engineers unable to work on their pet projects start looking around. ... It is not the money so much as the personal reward and the chance to work with the latest technology."
The company's flagship line, the Avatar Terminal Converter family, comprised devices that are in essence full-fledged microcomputers equipped with special versions of operating systems that convert the extended ASCII output of programs developed for those OSes (including terminal emulators) into the protocol supported by various dumb terminals in real time. This allowed inexpensive dumb terminals to either be used as standalone desktop computers, as intelligent terminals able to talk to a host minicomputer or mainframe, or as both. The first in line, the TC1, was released in October 1982; it ran off a Zilog Z80A and came with CP/M 2.2. It was equipped with one or two 5.25-inch floppy disk drives. In July 1983, 3R introduced the TC100 and TC3278, which paired the sole Z80A microprocessor with an Intel 8088-2 clocked at 8 MHz and features 128 KB of RAM stock (expandable to 256 KB) and one or two floppy drives. The TC100 is compatible with simple ASCII local and remote terminals while the TC3278 is specifically meant to be used with the IBM's 3270 glass terminal. In September 1983, the company released the Avatar PA1000, a protocol converter that hooked up to terminals and IBM PCs and compatibles to allow them to communicate with the newest IBM mainframes of the day.
As Avatar Technologies (1983–1992)
In developing these products 3R incurred a significant amount of debt by the summer of 1983. In September that year, the company was granted $2.3 million in a private placement of stock by six investors in order to alleviate debts and raise working capital. By January 1984, the company had changed its name to Avatar Technologies, Inc., and moved its headquarters to Hopkinton, Massachusetts. In March 1985, Avatar Technologies was acquired by Orange Nassau Electronics, the Arizon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegyptus%20%28game%29 | Aegyptus is a computer moderated play-by-mail (PBM) game. Announced in 1984, it was published by World Campaigns
History and development
Aegyptus was a role-playing play-by-mail game published by World Campaigns. It was computer moderated, and open-ended. It was a strategic-tactical, historical game of medium to hard complexity.
The game was announced in the May–June 1984 issue of Paper Mayhem.
Gameplay
The game setting was an imaginary country on historical Earth, akin to the Greek city-states. Players roleplayed through the copper, bronze and iron ages. Up to 150 players could play in a game. As part of gameplay, "Players begin as the leader of a herding tribe. You progress to a farming tribe, to a city, state, and then an empire." Play possibilities and turn fees increased as players rose in stature, with $15 turn fees for players leading empires which could comprise thousands of people. Combat, economics, and technology were elements of gameplay.
Reception
Editor Bob McLain reviewed the game in a 1984 issue of Gaming Universal. He recommended the game, stating that it was "A truly impressive game of developing civilization." Overall, McLain rated it four stars of five, or "exceptional".
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
Further reading
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Historical role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1980s
Role-playing games introduced in 1984
Strategy games
Tabletop games
20th-century role-playing games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical%20systems%20equation | The biochemical systems equation is a compact equation of nonlinear differential equations for describing a kinetic model for any network of coupled biochemical reactions and transport processes.
The equation is expressed in the following form:
The notation for the dependent variable x varies among authors. For example, some authors use s, indicating species. x is used here to match the state space notation used in control theory but either notation is acceptable.
is the stoichiometry matrix which is an by matrix of stoichiometry coefficient. is the number of species and the number of biochemical reactions. The notation for is also variable. In constraint-based modeling the symbol tends to be used to indicate 'stoichiometry'. However in biochemical dynamic modeling and sensitivity analysis, tends to be in more common use to indicate 'number'. In the chemistry domain, the symbol used for the stoichiometry matrix is highly variable though the symbols S and N have been used in the past.
is an n-dimensional column vector of reaction rates, and is a p-dimensional column vector of parameters.
Example
Given the biochemical network:
where and are fixed species to ensure the system is open. The system equation can be written as:
So that:
The elements of the rate vector will be rate equations that are functions of one or more species and parameters, p. In the example, these might be simple mass-action rate laws such as where is the rate constant parameter. The particular laws chosen will depend on the specific system under study. Assuming mass-action kinetics, the above equation can be written in complete form as:
Analysis
The system equation can be analyzed by looking at the linear response of the equation around the steady-state with respect to the parameter . At steady-state, the system equation is set to zero and given by:
Differentiating the equation with respect to and rearranging gives:
This derivation assumes that the stoichiometry matrix has full rank. If this is not the case, then the inverse won't exist.
Example
For example, consider the same problem from the previous section of a linear chain. The matrix is the unscaled elasticity matrix:
In this specific problem there are 3 species () and 4 reaction steps (), the elasticity matrix is therefore a matrix. However, a number of entries in the matrix will be zero. For example will be zero since has no effect on . The matrix, therefore, will contain the following entries:
The parameter matrix depends on which parameters are considered. In Metabolic control analysis, a common set of parameters are the enzyme activities. For the sake of argument, we can equate the rate constants with the enzyme activity parameters. We also assume that each enzyme, , only can affect its own step and no other. The matrix is the unscaled elasticity matrix with respect to the parameters. Since there are 4 reaction steps and 4 corresponding parameters, the matrix will |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terak%20Corporation | Terak Corporation was an American computer company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company was among the first to market graphical workstations, with their most successful being the Terak 8510/a in 1977. After going public in 1983, the company was acquired by Sanders Associates, who placed it under their CalComp division.
History
Terak 8000 family (1977–1984)
Terak was founded by William Mayberry, Dennis Kodimer, and Brian Benzar in 1975. Originally a privately owned corporation, Terak employed 40 in 1979. The company spent over a year developing their first product, the Terak 8510, which was released in late 1976.
The Terak 8510 was a tabletop computer system (alternatively described as a minicomputer and a microcomputer) built from a DEC LSI-11. The chassis that houses the processor contains one 8-inch floppy disk drive, plugged into a controller that supports writing 3740-formatted disks; three additional external drives could be installed (Terak 8512). The 8510 comes with a minimum of 4 KB of memory stock, expandable to 20 KB. A 12-inch CRT-based terminal (the Terak 8530) and series of line printers (the Terak 8540 family) were available as options. The computer was aimed at education and small businesses and had an initial software base comprising a line editor, a linker, a batch processor and a macro assembler, as well as compilers for Fortran IV and BASIC. The company followed up with the graphical Terak 8510/a in December 1977. The 8510/a bumped its predecessor's maximum RAM to 56 KB and included the terminal as standard issue. It was capable of displaying monochrome bitmapped graphics at a resolution of 320 by 240 pixels from any contingent area of memory. As well, it could display text; the computer was also capable of display text and graphics simultaneously, contents overlapping, since both modes of display were independently controlled. The Terak 8510/a was succeeded by the Terak 8600, which featured dual 16-bit microprocessors and Q-Bus slots for expansion. It came with a litany of framebuffer boards, allowing the display of eight colors in the new 640-by-480-pixel and 320-by-240-pixel modes. Additional framebuffer boards could be installed to allow the computer to display 64 colors in 640-by-480-pixel mode.
The company achieved sales of $4 million in 1979 and $6 million in 1980, with the company sales in $8 million in 1981. Although Terak was growing, the rate of growth had been straining the company's cash flow in the backdrop of the early 1980s recession, according to Mayberry, who stated that "[l]ike so many dynamic young companies, our success has been one of our worst enemies." In July 1981, a five-member investment consortium infused Terek with $2.5 million in stock to alleviate the company's growing pains. In August 1983 Terak filed its initial public offering with the SEC with a registration statement filed by Ladenburg Thalmann. It had a peak employee count of 100 in 1984.
Bankruptcy and acquisition (1984–1985)
In D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20The%20Best%202022 | NOAH The Best 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on November 23, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Background
Storylines
The event featured eight professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
Event started with the confrontation between Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito and Mohammed Yone) and Kongo (Hi69 and Tadasuke) solded with the victory of the preceding team. Next, Hideki Suzuki defeated Shuhei Taniguchi in singles action. The third match saw Jack Morris picking up a victory over Daiki Inaba in singles competition as well. The fourth bout portraited Masaaki Mochizuki, Masato Tanaka and Naomichi Marufuji picking up a victory against Sugiura-gun (Kazuyuki Fujita, Takashi Sugiura and Timothy Thatcher). Next, Alejandro and Amakusa defeated Dante Leon and Yo-Hey in tag team action. In the sixth match, Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya and Satoshi Kojima defeated Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh and Manabu Soya). In the semi main event, Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka defeated Kongo's Hajime Ohara and Shuji Kondo to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
The main event portraited the confrontation between the reigning champion El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. and Yoshiki Inamura in which the title holder marked his first successful defense of the GHC National Championship.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
December 2022 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
Pro Wrestling Noah shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centroneuralia | Centroneuralia is a proposed clade of animals with bilateral symmetry as an embryo, consisting of the Chordata and Protostomia, united by the presence of a central nervous system. An alternative to the traditional protostome-deuterostome dichotomy, it has found weak support in several studies. Under this hypothesis, Centroneuralia would be sister to Xenambulacraria (Xenacoelomorpha + Ambulacraria) at the base of Bilateria.
Centroneuralia, as a proposed clade, originates in phylogenomics. More precisely, recent studies correlate support for Deuterostomia with simpler, site-homogeneous models, while more sophisticated and site-heterogeneous models recover Centroneuralia more often.
Phylogeny
References
Controversial taxa
Bilaterian taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Majestic%202022 | NOAH Majestic 2022 was a two-night professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on April 29 and 30, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Ryogoku Kokugikan. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Storylines
Both of the nights featured a total of twenty-one professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Noah Majestic - N Innovation
Event
The first night event started with the confrontation between Ikuto Hidaka and Kai Fujimura solded with the victory of the preceding one. Next, Melbourne City Wrestling's Slex picked up a victory over Yasutaka Yano. In the third bout, Kotaro Suzuki and Yuya Susumu fought in a ten-minute time-limit draw. The fourth match portraited the competition between El Texano Jr., Nosawa Rongai and Super Crazy and Hajime Ohara, Tadasuke and Shuji Kondo which ended with the victory of the first team. Next, Hao defeated Nio in singles action. Next, Xtreme Tiger picked up a victory over Seiki Yoshioka. In the seventh match, Dragon Gate's Z-Brats (H.Y.O, SB Kento and Shun Skywalker) defeated Alejandro, Daisuke Harada and Junta Miyawaki. In the eighth match, Ninja Mack defeated Alpha Wolf and Dragon Bane, two of International Wrestling Revolution Group's roster talent sent to an excursion in Japan. In the semi main event, Chris Ridgeway and Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Atsushi Kotoge and Yo-Hey to capture the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
In the main event, Hayata defeated Eita to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship for the fourth time in his career.
Results
Noah Majestic
Event
The second show started with the confrontation between Kai Fujimura and Slex and Alejandro and Yasutaka Yano solded with the victory of the preceding team. Next, Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Manabu Soya and Tadasuke) defeated Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito, King Tany and Mohammed Yone) in six-man tag team action. The third bout saw Stinger (Chris Ridgeway, Hayata, Seiki Yoshioka, Yoshinari Ogawa and Yuya Susumu) defeating Los Perros del Mal de Japón (Eita, El Texano Jr., Kotaro Suzuki, Nosawa Rongai and Super Crazy) by disqualification. In the fourth match, Kazushi Sakuraba and Kendo Kashin picked up a victory over Daiki Inaba and Masato Tanaka. Next, Michael Elgin defeated Masa Kitamiya in singles action. The sixth match saw Masakatsu Funaki securing the third consecutive defense of the GHC National Championship against Simon Gotch. The eighth match portraited Alpha Wolf and Dragon Bane teaming up with Xtreme Tiger and Ninja Mack to defeat Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada, Junta Miyawaki and Yo-Hey. Next, Naomichi Marufuji and Satoshi Kojima defeated Kinya Okada and Yoshiki Inamura. The semi main event saw Hidek |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll%20Morgan | Carroll Morgan may refer to:
Carroll Morgan (boxer)
Carroll Morgan (computer scientist)
See also
Carol Morgan, Irish ultrarunner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleram | Teleram Communications Corporation was a pioneering American computer company that manufactured the first commercially successful portable computers in the mid-1970s. Based in Mamaroneck, New York, Teleram was founded by Charles J. Satuloff in 1973.
History
1973–1980
Charles J. Satuloff (1929–2022) founded Teleram Communications Corporation in December 1973 in Mamaroneck, New York. Satuloff, a native of Brooklyn, was a graduate of the United States Military Academy where he studied computer engineering, telecommunications and electronics. The class of 1951, he graduated during the beginning of the Korean War, in which he served with the 45th Infantry as a unit of the Signal Corps until the end of his service in 1954. During the 1950s, he got married and landed a job at Westinghouse Electric Corporation as an international salesman. In 1961 he formed Cane Technical Services, a dealer and sales representative of computers and electronic instruments, from the attic of his home in New Rochelle. He later moved the company to Mamaroneck along the Boston Post Road before finally settling the company on Mamaroneck Avenue.
The genesis for Teleram came when the specifications for a device allowing journalists to compose, edit, and submit articles to their newsrooms electronically were drafted and submitted by the American Newspaper Publishers Association and The New York Times to various computer firms. Four companies including Cane Technical Services delivered their proposals to ANPA and the Times in 1973; in the end, only Satuloff's proposal was accepted. He incorporated Teleram in December to develop and market the product behind his proposal, headquartering the company in Mamaroneck while also opening a 9,000-square-foot factory in Denville, New Jersey. In February 1974, Satuloff and his team delivered the first working prototype of Teleram's first product, a portable video display terminal that also doubled as a word processor with scratch RAM and a cassette interface for saving documents. He demonstrated the prototype to the ANPA, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, to great interest and immediate orders. The product was named the P-1800 and announced to the public in May 1974. Mass production of the P-1800 commenced in July 1974, and general availability was achieved the following September.
The Teleram P-1800 is a portable terminal measuring and weighing . Its exterior chassis was described by The New Yorker as a "small blue suitcase". It contains a seven-inch cathode-ray tube for editing and communications functions and a Selectric-style keyboard with various function keys, including , , , , , , and . The terminal's scratchpad memory allows 2,048 characters to be stored at a time; when this is used up, the preceding portion of the article is automatically saved to cassette tape via the built-in tape deck. Each cassette can store up to 170,000 characters. The CRT monitor can display up to 616 characters simultaneously, adjacent seg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Omar%20Salihi | Mohamed Omar Salihi, (, ; ) was a marine scientist, engineer, and maritime advisor to the Somali presidency credited for the protection of Somalia's maritime database during the civil war that broke in 1991, a statement by the presidency, Farmajo has described the late academic as a "backbone of the Somalia-Kenya maritime case at ICJ" and serving his country tirelessly and faithfully, He played a key role in documentation, mapping among other tasks during the Somalia -Kenya maritime case which began in 2014 and concluded in March 2021, He spoke English, Italian, Polish, Arabic and Russian
Biography
Mohamed Omar Salihi was born on 1952 in Luuq, Somalia, His father worked for the local administration in Luuq where he also went to primary school between the years 1958 and 1964, In 1965 He enrolled at middle school in Baidoa, Bay province where he graduated in 1968. Mohamed later moved to the capital Mogadishu for his secondary school education in Banadir Secondary School in Mogadishu, where he did exceptionally well, so exemplarily that he was among the top 5 best students nationally in Somalia, This qualified him to a scholarship to study in Poland, He completed his undergraduate & postgraduate education at Warsaw Polytechnical University, Faculty of Geodesy in Warsaw from 1973 to 1979 and left for home to give back to Somalia.
Career
Mohamed Omar Ibrahim Salihi upon his return to Somalia undertook the Bay Project which modernized Baidoa into a major Somali city with modern architecture and social amenities, This was under a developmental project by the USAID, Moving on from tenuous work to another he would later find himself working for the Directive of Surveys and Maps at the Ministry of Defense where he served as a soldier and simultaneously attained the rank of colonel in the Somali National Army due his added advantage of skilled higher educational level, The cartographic maps he helped develop in the Ministry would later help clear a lot of border issues and provincial lines and can still be found at the Somali Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Between 1983 and 1987 Engineer Saalihi would aid in surveying of lands and building of landmarks like The National Museum, Ministry of Defense owned farms and construction of water canals, He was also the Director General in the Irrigation Directive of Lower Shabelle from 1987 to 1990, The Military Government also appointed him to a special committee to demarcate the invisible and unofficial “borderline” between Somali and Ethiopia, He later helped facilitate humanitarian works under UNSOM and UNOPS in Gedo province during the tough period following the destructive civil war, Under the tedious Transitional National Government of president Abdiqassim he was deputy Minister for Agriculture
He later went to Dar Es Salam, Tanzania to study remote sensing and satellite photos to gather sensory data. He also worked for a British company-Done International where he was contracted for ten years to undertake Coa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Tyl | Jan Tyl (born 26 May 1979) is a Czech developer and analyst. His main concern is popularization and development of artificial intelligence. He is the founder and CEO of the company Alpha Industries.
Education and career
Tyl graduated from the Hussite Theological Faculty of Charles University focusing on the field of ethics, philosophy and religion. He started his career as an analyst and consultant in various banking houses, where he mainly concerned himself with e-banking security and digital signatures.
He studied artificial Intelligence on MIT, Google Brain, Yonsei, Moscow and lectured about it at various schools and conferences. In 2018, he founded Alpha Industries, a company dedicated to the development and research of artificial intelligence and projects such as Insult Detector, Emotion Detector, and Magic Diary. He completed his MBA in the field of Startups and Entrepreneurship in 2022.
Alpha Industries
In 2018, Jan Tyl founded Alpha Industries, a start-up whose main objective is the research and development of artificial intelligence. Just a year later, in 2019, the company won the competition AI Awards for the best idea in the field of artificial intelligence. The award was for a project called Digital Philosopher.
Other Alpha Industries projects concerned with AI research include Emotion Analysis, where a trained deep neural network recognizes feelings in texts and creates an emotional picture of a person, analysis of vulgar text in the Insult Detector app, the Keyword Project, where a smart network recognizes a spoken "keyword" and, for example, triggers a device, and the Name Generator.
Projects
Matylda
For Czech Television, Tyl created a digital persona called Matylda for the 2021 election superdebate, which asked politicians unusual questions. To create the questions, Matylda was given the programmes of parties, movements and coalitions concerning the future and digitalisation, as well as the biographies of the individual chairmen. The project was met with critical feedback on social media.
Digital philosopher
In the autumn of 2019, the Digital Philosopher project was created as part of the Contemporary Philosophy course taught at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, in collaboration with Dita Malečková and students of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. Digital Philosophers are programs based on deep neural networks that have thoroughly studied the works of famous philosophers and try to think like them. The aim was to interconnect artificial intelligence and philosophy in a university setting.
In addition to Václav Havel, other thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the economist Tomáš Sedláček were created as a part of the project. The generated personalities are available online for ordinary users to test out.
Digital writer
A digital writer is an artificial intelligence algorithm (a neural network combining GPT-3 and Deep Tree technologies) that creates its own literary texts by st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20Global%20200%20singles%20of%202022 | The Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. US are charts that ranks the best-performing singles globally and globally excluding the United States, respectively. Its data is published by Billboard weekly and based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as streaming. At the end of a year, Billboard publishes an annual list of the 200 most successful songs throughout that year on the Global 200 and Global Excl. US charts based on the information. For 2022, its second year, the list was published on December 2, calculated with data from November 20, 2021, to November 12, 2022.
Year-end list
See also
2022 in music
List of Billboard Global 200 number ones of 2022
References
United States Hot 100 Year end
Billboard charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Great%20Voyage%20in%20Fukuoka%202022 | Noah Great Voyage in Fukuoka 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on March 21, 2022, in Fukuoka, Japan, at the Fukuoka Convention Center. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Background
Storylines
The event featured nine professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The event started with the bout between Kinya Okada, Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura and Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito, King Tany and Mohammed Yone), solded with the victory of the preceding team. Next, Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Nio and Tadasuke) defeated Alejandro, Hao and Kai Fujimura in another six-man tag team action match. The third match saw Naomichi Marufuji defeat Yasutaka Yano in singles competition. Next, Hayata and Yoshinari Ogawa picked up a victory over Eita and Super Crazy by disqualification. In the fifth match, Daiki Inaba and Kaito Kiyomiya defeated Daisuke Harada and Junta Miyawaki. Next, Go Shiozaki defeated Masaaki Mochizuki in singles competition. In the seventh match, Atsushi Kotoge and Yo-Hey defended the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the first time in that respective reign against Kotaro Suzuki and Nosawa Rongai. In the semi main event, Sugiura-gun (Hideki Suzuki, Kazushi Sakuraba, Kendo Kashin and Takashi Sugiura) defeated Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh, Manabu Soya and Masakatsu Funaki) in eight-man tag team action.
The main event portraited the confrontation between Kazuyuki Fujita and Masato Tanaka in which Fujita successfully defended the GHC Heavyweight Championship for the firs time in that respective reign.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
December 2022 events in Japan
Pro Wrestling Noah shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImHex | ImHex is a free cross-platform hex editor available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
ImHex is used by programmers and reverse engineers to view and analyze binary data.
History
The initial release of the project in November 2020, saw significant interest on GitHub.
Features
Features include:
Hex editor
Custom Pattern matching and analysis Scripting Language
Visual, node based data pre-processor
Disassembler
Running and visualizing of YARA rules
Bookmarks
Binary data diffing
Additional Tools
MSVC, Itanium, D and Rust name demangler
ASCII Table
Calculator
Base converter
File utilities
IEEE 754 floating point decoder
Division by invariant multiplication calculator
Support for:
Data importing and exporting
ASCII string, Unicode string, numeric, hexadecimal and Regular expressions search
Byte manipulation
File hashing
Plug-ins
See also
Comparison of hex editors
Reverse engineering
References
External links
Hex editors
Programming tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet%20Dreams%21%202023 | Sweet Dreams! 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on January 29, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Nine matches were contested at the event, including two on the pre-show, and three of DDT's eight championships were on the line. The main event saw Yuji Hino defeat Kazusada Higuchi to win the KO-D Openweight Championship for the second time. In other prominent matches, ShunMao (Mao and Shunma Katsumata) successfully defended the KO-D Tag Team Championship against Omega (Makoto Oishi and Shiori Asahi), and Burning (Tetsuya Endo, Kotaro Suzuki and Yusuke Okada) defeated Pheromones (Yuki "Sexy" Iino, Danshoku "Dandy" Dino and Koju "Shiningball" Takeda) to retain the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship.
Storylines
The event featured nine professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The preshow portraited a comedic No fee rumble match featuring cosplayers of various popular wrestlers from other consecrated promotions such as Drew McIntyre, Luke Gallows, Great-O-Khan, Asuka or Tiger Mask. It was won by Fuminori Abe who last eliminated Sanshiro Takagi. The first match of the main card saw Kanon and MJ Paul picking up a victory over the teams of Disasterbox (Kazuki Hirata and Toru Owashi), Akito and Antonio Honda, and Yuki Ishida and Yuya Koroku in four-way tag team action. Next, Hideki Okatani defeated Kazuma Sumi and Keigo Nakamura defeated Takeshi Masada in the first ever edition of the D Generations Cup, the successor of the former and folded Young Drama Cup. Next, The37Kamiina (Toui Kojima and Yuki Ueno) and Shinya Aoki defeated Hikaru Machida, Thanomsak Toba and Yukio Sakaguchi in six-man tag team action. Another six-action saw Chris Brookes, Harashima and Yukio Naya defeating Jun Akiyama, DDT Universal Champion Naruki Doi and Soma Takao. On the seventh bout of the event, Tetsuya Endo, Kotaro Suzuki and Yusuke Okada marked their first successful defense of the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship against Pheromones (Danshoku Dino, Koju Takeda and Yuki Iino). In the semi main event, Mao and Shunma Katsumata secured their first defense of the KO-D Tag Team Championship against Makoto Oishi and Shiori Asahi.
In the main event, Yuji Hino defeated Kazusada Higuchi to win the KO-D Openweight Championship for the second time in his career, ending the latter's reign at 210 days.
Results
Notes
References
External links
The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website
2023 in professional wrestling
CyberAgent
DDT Pro-Wrestling shows
January 2023 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
DDT Sweet Dreams! |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Gain%20Control%202022%20In%20Nagoya | Noah Gain Control 2022 In Nagoya was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on February 23, 2022, in Nagoya, Japan, at the Nagoya Congress Center. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
The event featured ten matches with three of Noah's five championships on the line. The main event saw Kazuyuki Fujita defeat Katsuhiko Nakajima to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship for the first time. Other top matches included Daisuke Harada successfully defending the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against Super Crazy, and Atsushi Kotoge and Yo-Hey defeated Stinger (Hayata and Yuya Susumu) to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
Storylines
The event featured ten professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The event started with the internal stable clash of Funky Express' teams of King Tany and Mohammed Yone, and Akitoshi Saito and Masao Inoue solded with the victory of the preceding team. In the second match, Nio defeated Kinya Okada in singles action. Next, Kotaro Suzuki and Nosawa Rongai picked up a victory over Yasutaka Yano and Yoshinari Ogawa. The fourth bout saw Aleja, Hajime Ohara and Tadasuke defeating Hao, Junta Miyawaki and Kai Fujimura in six-man tag team action. Aleja, began showing compassion towards real life brother Kai Fujimura, after stopping Tadasuke's attack on him, hinting his defection from Kongo which eventually happened two days later on February 25 at "Noah Step Forwrard". Next, Kendo Kashin vs. Masato Tanaka ended in a double count-out. In the sixth match, Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura defeated Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura. The seventh bout saw Atsushi Kotoge and Yo-Hey defeating Hayata and Yuya Susumu to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Next up, Daisuke Harada retained the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship for the second time in a row against Super Crazy. In the semi main event, the team of Daiki Inaba, Go Shiozaki and Kaito Kiyomiya defeated Kongo (Kenoh, Manabu Soya and Masakatsu Funaki).
In the main event, Kazuyuki Fujita defeated Katsuhiko Nakajima to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship for the first time in his career, ending Nakajima's reign at 136 days. After the match concluded, Fujita received a challenge from Takashi Sugiura.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
December 2022 events in Japan
Pro Wrestling Noah shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk%20Englund | Dirk Robert Englund is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his research in quantum photonics and optical computing.
Biography and education
Dirk Robert Englund grew up in Germany and California. He attended the California Institute of Technology, where he majored in physics and received his B.S. in 2002. After spending one year at the Technical University of Eindhoven on a Fulbright scholarship, he returned to the United States to earn his M.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 2008 under the supervision of Jelena Vuckovic. He then completed postdoctoral research in the group of Mikhail Lukin at Harvard University. Dirk Englund is the son of American Assyriologist, Robert Keith Englund.
Career and research
From 2010 to 2013, Englund was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics at Columbia University. In 2013, he moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Englund’s research focuses on photonic devices and systems for quantum information technologies and machine learning acceleration. He has contributed to a wide range of topics in photonics including quantum dot light emission in photonic crystals, solid-state quantum memories in nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond, graphene integration for photodetectors, optical accelerators for machine learning, and programmable photonic circuits for cryogenic environments. In 2022, he and his team demonstrated power-efficient neural network inference on network edge devices using a fiber optic link and telecommunication components.
His work has led to several spin-off companies: DUST Identity is developing diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers for authentication; Lightmatter is developing photonic computing platforms; QuEra Computing is building quantum computers using neutral atoms; and Quantum Network Technologies is developing quantum repeaters for networks.
Awards
Englund has received numerous awards in recognition of his research, including a Humboldt Professorship, the Optica Adolph Lomb Medal, and an IBM Faculty Award. He is an Optica Fellow.
References
German physicists
German engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natatolana%20albicaudata | Natatolana albicaudata is a species of crustacean in the family Cirolanidae, and was first described by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing in 1900 as Cirolana albicaudata, based on specimens collected in Blanche Bay, New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
It is a benthic species, living at depths of 0 m - 250 m in tropical waters, and has been found on coral reefs in waters off Queensland, Western Australia and Papua New Guinea. It is not a scavenger. Keable (2006) gives the latest description and diagnosis.
References
Cymothoida
Crustaceans described in 1900
Taxa named by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airis%20Computer | Airis Computer Corporation (originally Pair Computer Corporation) was a short-lived mail-order American computer company active from 1989 to 1993. Its only product, the Airis VH-286 notebook, was widely anticipated for its slim yet powerful design and long-battery life, owing to the use of disposable C batteries as its primary source of power. The product was met with a number of delays owing to FCC regulations and other unspecified reasons. Airis collapsed in 1993, amid the conclusion of a trademark infringement lawsuit with Harris Corporation; Airis' rights to their namesake trademark lapsed in late 1992. Both Byte and PC Magazine claim that Airis never sold any units of the laptop.
History
Foundation
Airis Computer Corporation was founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Jeffrey A. Maziarek and Steven R. Valentor. The company was initially incorporated as Pair Computer Corporation on July 24, 1989, but the company soon changed it to Airis after a search for registered trademarks in their field turned up empty. Maziarek and Valentor were ex-employees of Zenith Data Systems who left that company after it had been acquired by Groupe Bull in 1989. Valentor was a systems engineer, while Maziarek worked in Zenith's marketing department. Talks into starting Airis had been ongoing for years while the two were employed at Zenith. The company's incorporation was kickstarted after the two received venture capital from Mark IV Realty Corporation in Chicago; as part of the agreement, Maziarek had to serve as vice president of sales and marketing for PaceMark Technologies, a printer peripheral maker whom Marks owned, for six months.
The two were joined in Airis by Maziarek's brother Mike, who was named president of the company. Before Airis, Mike Maziarek was formerly the head of a chain of picture-framing stores and had no prior experience in the tech sector. Airis was headquartered in an eight-room office on the second story of the Elston Corridor building on North Besley Court, the first floor of which was occupied by the Chicago Brewing Company. The two set out Airis to compete in the notebook computer marketplace with a powerful but inexpensive unit with a performant battery. They were to compete against market leaders such as Compaq and Toshiba. They delivered the first prototype of their first and only notebook to the Midwest Computer Show in Chicago in May 1990.
Airis VH-286
The notebook was named the Airis VH-286 and featured an Intel 80286 microprocessor clocked at 12.5 MHz, a socket for an Intel 80287 math coprocessor, 2 MB of SIMM RAM standard (expandable to 4 MB), a built-in 2400-baud modem, and a monochrome super-twisted nematic LCD measuring 11 inches diagonally and capable of displaying video at VGA resolution, 640 by 480 pixels. (The prototype shown off to the Midwest Computer Show was only capable of displaying EGA video.) Airis sourced the notebook's 2.5-inch 20 MB hard drive from PrairieTek and Conner Peripherals; the drivers were supported |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizuoka%20Asahi%20Television | , also known as SATV, is a television network headquartered in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The station, which began broadcasting on July 1, 1978, is an affiliate of ANN.
History
SATV is the 3rd commercial television station in Shizuoka prefecture. When it was founded, the company name was Shizuoka Prefectural Television (静岡けんみんテレビ, SKT), and it was affiliated with NNN and ANN. After Shizuoka Daiichi Television founded, Shizuoka Prefectural Television became a sole affiliate of ANN. In 1993, it renamed to Shizuoka Asahi TV.
On March 23, 2005, SATV began testing its digital terrestrial transmissions, which would formally commence on November 1 of that year.
References
External links
Official website
All-Nippon News Network
1976 establishments in Japan
Japanese-language television stations
Mass media in Shizuoka (city)
Television channels and stations established in 1976
Television stations in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Health%20Data%20Space | The European Health Data Space (EHDS) is a data sharing framework for health data in the European Union. The EHDS was tabled as a regulatory proposal by the European Commission on 3 May 2022. It aims to provide EU citizens better control over their personal health data. Its objective is also to ensure that various relevant actors such as researchers and policy-makers have access to health data.
See also
Healthcare in the European Union
Data Act
Data Governance Act
General Data Protection Regulation
References
External links
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the European Health Data Space
European Parliament Legislative Observatory page for EHDS regulation
European Commission European Health Data Space explainer page
2022 in the European Union
Data laws of Europe
Database law
European Digital Strategy
European Union technology policy
Health and the European Union
Health informatics organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20version%20control | Data version control is a method of working with data sets. It is similar to the version control systems used in traditional software development, but is optimized to allow better processing of data and collaboration in the context of data analytics, research, and any other form of data analysis. Data version control may also include specific features and configurations designed to facilitate work with large data sets and data lakes.
History
Background
As early as 1985, researchers recognized the need for defining timing attributes in database tables, which would be necessary for tracking changes to databases. This research continued into the 1990s, and the theory was formalized into practical methods for managing data in relational databases, providing some of the foundational concepts for what would later become data version control.
In the early 2010s the size of data sets was rapidly expanding, and relational databases were no longer sufficient to manage the amounts of data organizations were accumulating. The rise of the Apache Hadoop eco system, with HDFS as a storage layer, and later object storage had become dominant in big data operations. Research into data management tools and data version control systems increased sharply, along with demand for such tools from both academia and the private and public sectors.
Version controlled databases
The first versioned database was proposed in 2012 for the SciDB database, and demonstrated it was possible to create chains and trees of different versions of the database while decreasing both the overall storage size and access speeds associated with previous methods. In 2014, a proposal was made to generalize these principles into a platform that could be used for any application.
In 2016, a prototype for a data version control system was developed during a Kaggle competition. This software was later used internally at an AI firm, and eventually spun off as a startup. Since then, a number of data version control systems, both open and closed source, have been developed and offered commercially, with a subset dedicated specifically to machine learning.
Use cases
Reproducibility
A wide range of scientific disciplines have adopted automated analysis of large quantities of data, including astrophysics, seismology, biology and medicine, social sciences and economics, and many other fields. The principle of reproducibility is an important aspect of formalizing findings in scientific disciplines, and in the context of data science presents a number of challenges. Most datasets are constantly changing, whether due to the addition of more data or changes in the structure and format of the data, and small changes can have significant effects on the outcome of experiments. Data version control allows for recording the exact state of data sets at a particular moment of time, making it easier to reproduce and understand experimental outcomes. If data practitioners can only know the present state of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20version%20control%20%28disambiguation%29 | Data version control is a method for managing different versions of data.
Data version control may also refer to:
Data Version Control (software), an open source system for versioning data
See also
Version control
Revision Control System |
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