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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNOS%20%28disambiguation%29 | UNOS, Unos or unos may refer to:
United Network for Organ Sharing, a non-profit, scientific and educational United States-based organization dedicated to organ donation and transplant
UNOS (operating system), a discontinued 32-bit Unix-like real-time operating system
Uno Pizzeria & Grill, a United States-origin franchised pizzeria restaurant chain
See also
UNO (card game)
Uno (disambiguation)
¡Uno! |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadas%20Shachnai | Hadas Shachnai () is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in combinatorial optimization, including knapsack problems, interval scheduling, and the optimization of submodular set functions. She is a professor of computer science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and co-editor-in-chief of Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science.
Education
Shachnai completed her Ph.D. in 1991 at the Technion. Her doctoral dissertation, Keeping Linear Self Organizing Lists Under Counter Schemes, was supervised by Alon Itai.
Selected publications
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Kinesis | Amazon Kinesis is a family of services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for processing and analyzing real-time streaming data at a large scale. Launched in November 2013, it offers developers the ability to build applications that can consume and process data from multiple sources simultaneously. Kinesis supports multiple use cases, including real-time analytics, log and event data collection, and real-time processing of data generated by IoT devices.
Components
Amazon Kinesis is composed of four main services: Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Firehose, Kinesis Data Analytics, and Kinesis Video Streams.
Kinesis Data Streams
Kinesis Data Streams is a scalable and durable real-time data streaming service that captures and processes gigabytes of data per second from multiple sources. It enables the storage and processing of data in real time, making it useful for applications that require immediate insights, such as monitoring and alerting.
Kinesis Data Firehose
Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service for delivering real-time streaming data to destinations such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch, and AWS-partner data stores. With Data Firehose, users can configure and scale data delivery without manual intervention.
Kinesis Data Analytics
Kinesis Data Analytics enables the analysis of streaming data in real time using standard SQL or Apache Flink.
Kinesis Video Streams
Kinesis Video Streams is a fully managed service for securely capturing, processing, and storing video streams for analytics and machine learning. It supports multiple video codecs and streaming protocols, making it suitable for various use cases, such as security and surveillance, video-enabled IoT devices, and live event broadcasting.
Integration
Amazon Kinesis can be easily integrated with other AWS services, such as AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon OpenSearch. This integration enables developers to build end-to-end streaming data processing applications, taking advantage of the extensive AWS ecosystem.
Use cases
Some common use cases for Amazon Kinesis include:
Real-time analytics: Analyzing streaming data in real time to provide immediate insights and make data-driven decisions.
Log and event data collection: Collecting, processing, and analyzing log and event data generated by applications, infrastructure, and devices.
IoT data processing: Processing and analyzing large volumes of data generated by IoT devices in real time.
Machine learning: Ingesting and processing video streams for machine learning applications, such as object recognition, facial recognition, and sentiment analysis.
Pricing
Amazon Kinesis follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model, with costs depending on the chosen service, data volume, and processing power required. AWS provides a free tier for Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Firehose, allowing users to get started with the services at no cost.
History
Amazon Kinesis was launched by A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberlindnera | Cyberlindnera is a genus of yeasts in the Phaffomycetaceae family. Its name is derived from the Latin word “Ciber,” which originates from “Cibus,” meaning “food” and "sustenance". Early German mycologist Paul Lindner, honored for his contributions to descriptions of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Saccharomycopsis (Endomyces) fibuligera and other notable species of Saccharomyces and Pichia, is the source of the "-lindnera" portion of the name. The genus has gone through many trials, reevaluations, and verifications to become the organized assortment of species it is today. Species under this genus interact with other organisms in a wide variety of ways and can be found across the globe. They are used by humans for their toxicity, fermentation abilities, and capacity to assimilate many organic compounds.
Phylogeny
The location behind the initial discovery and first description of Cyberlindnera is uncertain. However, it is known that as a genus, its precursor Williopsis was first introduced in 1925 by an undocumented person with the surname "Zender." Williopsis was created to categorize fungi with Saturn-shaped ascospores and restricted nitrate-assimilating function similar to that of the already-known Williopsis saturnus. In modern terms, Williopsis is sometimes used as a common name for the Cyberlindnera genus, despite the fact that it was once something different. Because the center of Williopsis studies was W. saturnus, nitrate was thought to be the sole source of nitrogen for the genus, but this has since been debunked. Williopsis at that time consisted of only five species, listed below, which all exhibited the potential to separate into their own generic status. Based on 18S rRNA gene sequencing, it was found that there was not much shared DNA between these species, and scientists suggested that Williopsis be restricted to the five varieties of W. saturnus alone. This same gene sequencing method is what discovered the genus was phylogenetically heterogeneous.
W. californica
W. mucosa
W. pratensis
W. salicornia
W. saturnus
var. mrakii
var. sargentensis
var. saturnus (type)
var. suaveolens
var. subsufficiens
After becoming more widely accepted as a genus in 1977 by JA von Arx, phylogenetic analysis increased in frequency. Notably, relationships between accepted species’ large subunit and small subunit rRNAs were examined by Liu and Kurtzman, further proving that most of the accepted species as of 1991 were only loosely tied together genetically.
The way Cyberlindnera spans multiple clades can be explained by scientific misunderstandings and gaps in research. The genera Saccharomyces and Pichia experienced some overlap with Cyberlindnera during multiple reclassifications. Mycologists believed Pichia were related to the outdated Williopsis because they shared two characteristics: the ubiquinone CoQ-7 and an inability to utilize methanol. The fact that Saccharomyces are ascomycete yeasts like Cyberlindnera, spawned confusion between the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catriona%20Wallace | Catriona Wallace (born 1965/1966) is an Australian businesswoman and former police officer.
She is a specialist in the field of the metaverse, artificial intelligence and the responsible use of technology.
Wallace founded Flamingo AI in 2013 and is also the founder of Responsible Metaverse Alliance which was launched in 2022 to address potential safety and legal issues in the metaverse such as sexual harassment.
In March 2023, Wallace was announced as one of the new "sharks" on Shark Tank on Network 10.
Career
Joining the New South Wales Police Force at the age of 19, she worked as a police officer in Kings Cross and The Rocks during the 1980s.
After four years of service, Wallace left the police to complete an undergraduate degree in sociology as well as a master's degree and a PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2007. Her thesis explored the roles technology plays during interactions between customers and businesses.
Wallace founded Flamingo AI in 2014. In 2016, it became only the second woman-led business listed to the Australian Stock Exchange. The company developed chatbots for companies such as Credit Union Australia, Chubb Limited and AMP Limited. Wallace also held the position of the company's chief executive officer until February 2019 prior to the company offloading its assets and sold to private investors in 2020.
In 2015, Wallace spearheaded a project called The Venture which was believed to be Australia's first co-working space specifically established for female-led start-up businesses under three years old and with less than $1 million in revenue. The companies involved with The Venture were required to have a woman as its founder, co-founder or chief executive officer.
Wallace won the business and entrepreneur category at The Australian Financial Review Women of Influence Awards in 2018.
In 2022, Wallace co-authored Checkmate Humanity: The How and Why of Responsible AI.
Wallace is an executive director at the Gradient Institute, a director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, an adjunct professor of the University of New South Wales' Australian Graduate School of Management, a chair of Boab AI, a co-chair of The B Team and a board member of Reset Australia, among other positions she holds.
She is also a regular contributor to discussions about artificial intelligence.
In March 2023, Wallace was one of four new Australian "sharks" announced for a new series of Shark Tank. Wallace as well as Jane Lu, Sabri Suby and Davie Fogarty, will succeed the original cast of Janine Allis, Andrew Banks, Steve Baxter and Naomi Simson when the program returns later in 2023. American "shark" Robert Herjavec will also join the cast.
References
External links
Responsible Metaverse Alliance
21st-century Australian businesswomen
21st-century Australian businesspeople
Australian women company founders
Living people
1960s births
Year of birth uncertain
Australian police officers
University of New South Wales alumni
Shark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOS%20SAT-1 | EOS SAT-1 is an optical Earth observation satellite for agricultural land monitoring by EOS Data Analytics, Inc. (hereinafter — EOS Data Analytics), a global AI-powered satellite imagery analytics provider. The space optics instrument and satellite manufacturer Dragonfly Aerospace built the satellite and equipped it with two high-resolution DragonEye cameras.
The satellite operates within the EOS SAT constellation, the first agriculture-focused satellite constellation among companies utilizing remote sensing technologies.
Overview
EOS SAT-1 is developed for EOS Data Analytics, a global provider of AI-powered satellite imagery analytics founded by Max Polyakov. It is the first satellite within the company's constellation EOS SAT. It will have a daily imaging capacity of up to 1 million square kilometers and capture imagery in 11 agri-related spectral bands. Satellite cameras will produce panchromatic and multispectral images.
Even with only one such satellite in space, EOSDA enables its customers to unlock the potential for implementing precision agriculture practices, which further translates into reduced emissions, decreased energy, water consumption, and more benefits.
Once fully operational, the seven small optical EOS SAT satellites will cover up to 100% of the countries with the largest cropland and forest areas, 98.5% of such lands worldwide. The satellite constellation will monitor up to 12 million square kilometers daily.
Production
EOS SAT-1 was built by the satellite and space optics instrument manufacturer Dragonfly Aerospace and equipped with two high-resolution DragonEye cameras.
The satellite's engine was designed by SETS (Space Electric Thruster Systems), and Flight Control Propulsion ensured the 3D printing of components and manufacturing of the body elements. The satellite will operate in a Sun-synchronous orbit, providing constant footage of the Earth's surface illuminated by sunlight.
EOS Data Analytics will obtain satellite imagery to process it further and provide customers with quality data to make informed decisions in the agricultural sector.
Main applications
The EOS SAT-1 satellite is designed to observe the Earth's surface in optical and infrared spectrums. This is the first satellite of the constellation tasked explicitly with monitoring agricultural and forest lands.
Utilization of the satellite technology has the potential to:
Prevent the excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers
Reduce food waste
Address the effects of climate change on agricultural and forest lands
Make informed decisions based on the obtained satellite data to mitigate the food crisis
Reduce agricultural emissions by optimizing farming practices.
The EOS SAT-1 satellite remote sensing is aimed at forming a new sustainable approach to agriculture in line with the six pillars of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
Combat climate change and its consequences
Develop a strong infrastructure and implement innovations
Secure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20Rally%20GB | The 2000 Rally GB (formally the 56th Network Q Rally of Britain) was the fourteenth and final round of the 2000 World Rally Championship, held over four days from 23 November to 26 November 2000. The race was won by Subaru's Richard Burns, his 9th win in the world rally championship. Despite this, the championship was ultimately won by Marcus Grönholm.
Background
Entry List
Itinerary
All dates and times are in GMT (UTC+-00:00)
Results
Overall
World Rally Cars
Classification
Special stages
Championship standings
FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers
Classification
Special stages
Championship standings
References
Rally GB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila%20Musavian | Leila Musavian is a Professor of Wireless Communications in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex.
Education and career
Musavian earned a Ph.D. through the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King's College London. Her 2006 doctoral dissertation was The effects of correlated antennas and imperfect channel knowledge on MIMO systems. She became a postdoctoral researcher at INRS-EMT, a research center for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications in Canada affiliated with the Université du Québec, from 2006 to 2008. She continued her research at Loughborough University in the UK from 2009 to 2010, and at McGill University in Canada from 2011 to 2012.
Next, in 2012, she obtained a position as a lecturer in Lancaster University's InfoLab21, a research centre on information and communication technologies. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 2016, and in the same year moved to the University of Essex as reader in telecommunications. At Essex, she served as CSEE Deputy Director of Research from 2017 to 2019, and as Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research from 2019 to 2020. She was named Professor of Wireless Communications in 2020.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British electrical engineers
British women engineers
Alumni of King's College London
Academics of Lancaster University
Academics of the University of Essex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Crackers | Royal Crackers is an American adult animated sitcom created by Jason Ruiz and developed by Ruiz and Seth Cohen for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. The series stars Ruiz, Andrew Santino, Jessica St. Clair, Maile Flanagan, and David Gborie. The series premiered on April 2, 2023. On March 28, 2023, it was announced the series was renewed for a second season.
Plot
The dysfunctional Hornsby family run Royal Crackers, a once-popular snack food company which manufactures saltine crackers in Bakersfield, California. When senile patriarch and CEO Theodore Hornsby Sr.'s mind starts to slip, his two sons Stebe and Theodore "Theo" Jr are left to run the failing company while living in their father's mansion with Stebe's wife Deb and their son Matt.
Characters
Main
Stebe Hornsby (voiced by Jason Ruiz) is one of the heirs of Royal Crackers. When he was born, he was meant to be called Steve, only for it to be misspelled on his birth certificate.
Deb Hornsby (voiced by Jessica St. Clair) is Stebe's wife.
Theodore "Theo" Hornsby Jr. (voiced by Andrew Santino) is a former nu metal star as lead singer of Taint and one of the heirs of Royal Crackers.
Matt Hornsby (voiced by Maile Flanagan) is the son of Stebe and Deb.
Darby (voiced by David Gborie) is the Hornsby family lawyer. He has an off-kilter personality where he has done things like not listening to his conscious mind when it told him not to order hamburgers from Burger Boyz which give him diarrhea, accidentally using Theodore Hornsby Sr's will as toilet paper while still remembering what was on it, and assuming that he can replicate the traps from Home Alone to deal with a home invasion.
Recurring
Theodore Hornsby Sr. is the elderly CEO of Royal Crackers and the father of Stebe and Theo. Due to his senility and declining health, he is often in a sleep state and is moved around in a wheelchair. The episode "Craftopia" revealed that Theodore Hornsby Sr. had his mind mapped out and created an A.I. version of himself prior to his mind slipping by age.
Al (voiced by Fred Tatasciore) is a bearded Russian board member. The episode "Craftopia" reveals that Al has a limp as a result from a skiing accident, enjoys doing a skiing video game on the side, and has access to the corporate level.
Rachel (voiced by Stephanie Sheh) is an Asian Royal Crackers board member.
Rob Dennison (voiced by Andy Daly) is the heir of Dennison Snacks, the son of its founder Luther Dennison, and the rival of Stebe and Theo.
Mel Dennison (voiced by Lennon Parham) is the wife of Rob Dennison.
Episodes
References
Informational notes
Citations
External links
2020s American adult animated television series
2020s American animated comedy television series
2020s American sitcoms
2023 American television series debuts
Adult Swim original programming
American adult animated comedy television series
American animated sitcoms
American flash adult animated television series
Animated television series about dysfunct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElCinema.com | elCinema.com is the largest Arabic-language online database for film, theater, and television, providing information on Arab and international works since the birth of cinema in the early 20th century. Launched in 2008 by Damlag SAE, an Egyptian telecommunications company, the website offers detailed information about movies, TV series, and stage productions from the Middle East and North Africa region, as well as international works. elCinema.com features biographies, news, reviews, and multimedia content related to Arab cinema, television, and theater. The website is available in both Arabic and English languages and aims to create a rich online community for users of all ages.
Overview
elCinema.com offers a comprehensive database of movies, TV series, and stage productions from the Arab world and beyond, with content spanning from the early days of cinema to contemporary works. Users can browse or search for information on films, TV shows, actors, directors, and other industry professionals. The website also includes movie and TV show reviews, news, and multimedia content such as trailers, photos, and interviews.
In addition to its extensive database, elCinema.com offers a range of services, including an exclusive online ticket booking service in Egypt since 2012, cinema schedules for ten Arab countries, user ratings and discussion forums, a platform for users to post reviews and opinions, a comprehensive guide of all movies currently playing in Egyptian and Arab cinemas, a TV guide for satellite network channels in the pan-Arab region, video browsing, a large collection of rare photos and film posters, a guide to seasonal works, and featured lists of works with various
filters.
Features
Database
The elCinema.com database contains detailed information on Arab and international films, TV series, and stage productions, including plot summaries, production details, cast and crew lists, and filmography. Users can search the database using various filters, such as country, genre, and production year.
Ticket booking
elCinema.com offers an exclusive online ticket booking service for cinemas in Egypt, allowing users to reserve seats without waiting in long box office queues. The website also provides cinema schedules for ten Arab countries, including the UAE, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria.
Reviews and user-generated content
elCinema.com features movie, TV show, and stage production reviews from both critics and users. Registered users can rate and review works on a scale of 1 to 10. The website also offers a platform for users to post their reviews and opinions, fostering a space for constructive dialogue regarding all aspects of the arts.
News
The website provides the latest news and updates on Arab cinema, television, and theater, including film announcements, industry events, and celebrity news.
Multimedia
elCinema.com hosts a variety of multimedia content related to Arab cinema, televis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome%20Book%20%28Cyberpunk%202020%29 | Chrome Book is a 1991 role-playing game supplement published by R. Talsorian Games for Cyberpunk.
Contents
Chrome Book is a sourcebook featuring various cyberpunk weapons, armor, cyberware, fashion, vehicles and chipware.
Reviews
Casus Belli #64
Casus Belli No. 69 (May 1992)
Challenge No. 53 (Oct., 1991)
Magia i Miecz No. 25 (January 1996) (Polish)
Windgeflüster (Issue 27 - Oct 1994)
References
Cyberpunk (role-playing game) supplements
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1991 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%2017 | Fox 17 may refer to one of three television stations in the United States affiliated with the Fox television network:
KDSM-TV, licensed to Des Moines, Iowa
WXMI, licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan
WZTV, licensed to Nashville, Tennessee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre%20D%27op%C3%A9ra%20Spatial | Théâtre D'opéra Spatial is an image created by the generative artificial intelligence platform Midjourney, using a prompt by Jason Matthew Allen. The painting became a news story when it won the 2022 Colorado State Fair's annual fine art competition on 5 September, becoming one of the first AI generated images to win such a prize.
Winning the fair's contest for "digital arts/digitally-manipulated photography" led to a backlash from artists who accused Allen of cheating. Allen responded: "I'm not going to apologize for it. I won, and I didn’t break any rules."
The two category judges were unaware that Midjourney used AI to generate images, although they later said that had they known this, they would have awarded Allen the top prize anyway.
The image, created using a text prompt, was upscaled using Gigapixel AI.
In September 2023 the US Copyright Office review board found that Théâtre D'Opéra Spatial was not eligible for copyright protection as the rules "exclude works produced by non-humans". This decision reaffirms previous guidance given in respect of AI by the Office and a recent court case (Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks) that found against Thaler on the basis of a principle of human authorship that—though not enshrined in copyright law—is a working principle used by the US Copyright Office.
Allen insists he will fight on:"Allen was dogged in his attempt to register his work. He sent a written explanation to the Copyright Office detailing how much he’d done to manipulate what Midjourney conjured, as well as how much he fiddled with the raw image, using Adobe Photoshop to fix flaws and Gigapixel AI to increase the size and resolution. He specified that creating the painting had required at least 624 text prompts and input revisions."
Some legal writers support his claim and consider it to be form of technological discrimination comparing it with the treatment of photographs and the modern use of electronic cameras.
Any legal challenge by Allen would be timely given that the US Copyright Office and the UK are consulting on the impact of AI.
See also
Copyright status of AI-generated works
References
Digital artworks
Artificial intelligence art
Art controversies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replika | Replika is a generative AI chatbot app released in November 2017. The chatbot is trained by having the user answer a series of questions to create a specific neural network. The chatbot operates on a freemium pricing strategy, with at roughly 25% of its user base paying an annual subscription fee.
Many users have had romantic relationships with Replika chatbots, often including erotic talk.
History
Eugenia Kuyda established Replika while working at Luka, a tech company she had co-founded at the startup accelerator Y Combinator around 2012. Luka's primary product was a chatbot that made restaurant recommendations. After a friend of hers died in 2015, she converted that person's text messages into a chatbot. That chatbot helped her remember the conversations that they had together, and eventually became Replika.
Replika became available to the public in November 2017. By January 2018 it had 2 million users.
In February 2023 the Italian Data Protection Authority banned Replika from using user's data, citing the AI's potential risks to emotionally vulnerable people, and the exposure of unscreened minors to sexual conversation. Within days of the ruling, Replika removed the ability for the chatbot to engage in erotic talk, with Kuyda, the company's director, saying that Replika was never intended for erotic discussion. Replika users disagreed, noting that Replika had used sexually suggestive advertising to draw users to the service. In May 2023, Replika restored the functionality for users who had joined prior to February that year.
Social features
Users react to Replika in many ways. The free-tier offers Replika as a "friend", with paid premium tiers offering Replika as a "partner", "spouse", "sibling" or "mentor". Of its userbase, 60% of users said they had had a romantic relationship with the chatbot; and Replika has been noted for generating responses that create stronger emotional and intimate bonds with the user. Replika routinely directs the conversation to emotional discussion and builds intimacy. This has been especially pronounced with users suffering from loneliness and social exclusion, many of whom rely on Replika for a source of developed emotional ties.
During the COVID pandemic, while many people were quarantined, many new users downloaded Replika and developed relationships with the app.
A reviewer for Good Housekeeping said that some parts of her relationship with Replika made sense, but sometimes Replika failed to be as convincing as a human.
Technical reviews
A team of researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa found that Replika's design conformed to the practices of attachment theory, causing increased emotional attachment among users. Replika gives praise to users in such a way as to encourage more interaction.
Another team of researchers from Queen's University at Kingston said that relationships with Replika are likely to have positive effects on the spiritual needs of its users, however it still lacks enough |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivision%20bifiltration | In topological data analysis, a subdivision bifiltration is a collection of filtered simplicial complexes, typically built upon a set of data points in a metric space, that captures shape and density information about the underlying data set. The subdivision bifiltration relies on a natural filtration of the barycentric subdivision of a simplicial complex by flags of minimum dimension, which encodes density information about the metric space upon which the complex is built. The subdivision bifiltration was first introduced by Donald Sheehy in 2011 as part of his doctoral thesis (later subsumed by a conference paper in 2012) as a discrete model of the multicover bifiltration, a continuous construction whose underlying framework dates back to the 1970s. In particular, Sheehy applied the construction to both the Vietoris-Rips and Čech filtrations, two common objects in the field of topological data analysis. Whereas single parameter filtrations are not robust with respect to outliers in the data, the subdivision-Rips and -Cech bifiltrations satisfy several desirable stability properties.
Definition
Let be a simplicial complex. Then a nested sequence of simplices of is called a flag or chain of . The set of all flags of comprises an abstract simplicial complex, known as the barycentric subdivision of , denoted by . The barycentric subdivision is naturally identified with a geometric subdivision of , created by starring the geometric realization of at the barycenter of each simplex.
There is a natural filtration on by considering for each natural number the maximal subcomplex of spanned by vertices of corresponding to simplices of of dimension at least , which is denoted . In particular, by this convention, then . Considering the sequence of nested subcomplexes given by varying the parameter , we obtain a filtration on known as the subdivision filtration. Since the complexes in the subdivision filtration grow as increases, we can regard it as a functor from the opposite posetal category to the category of simplicial complexes and simplicial maps.
Let be a partially ordered set. Given a simplicial filtration , regarded as a functor from the posetal category of to the category , by applying the subdivision filtration object-wise on , we obtain a two-parameter filtration , called the subdivision bifiltration.
In particular, when we take to be the Rips or Čech filtration, we obtain bifiltrations and , respectively.
Properties
The subdivision-Čech bifiltration is weakly equivalent to the multicover bifiltration, implying that they have isomorphic persistent homology. A combinatorial proof of this statement was given in Sheehy's original conference paper, but a more algebraic version was presented in 2017 by Cavanna et al. The ideas from Cavanna's proof were later generalized by Blumberg and Lesnick in a 2022 paper on 2-parameter persistent homology.
By the size of a bifiltration, we mean the number of simplices in the largest com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie%20Game%20Developer%20Network | The Indie Game Developer Network (IGDN) is a trade association for developers of indie role-playing games, board games, card games, and LARPs. They present the annual Indie Groundbreaker Awards at Gen Con. Their other programs include a scholarship to attend the game designer convention Metatopia, a mentorship program, and a peer coaching program.
Indie Groundbreaker Awards
The Indie Groundbreaker Awards began in 2016 and are offered in 5 categories: Game of the Year, Best Art, Best Setting, Best Rules, and Most Innovative. They are judged by a rotating panel of game designers. After the Indie RPG Awards gave their final set of awards in 2017, IGDN's Indie Groundbreaker Awards took on their function in the tabletop role-playing game community of evaluating and recognizing achievements in independent game design.
Award Winners by Year
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
References
Awards_established_in_the_2010s
Game awards
Indie role-playing games
International professional associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st%20International%20Emmy%20Awards | The 51st International Emmy Awards, presented by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (IATAS), will honor the best in international television programming in 2022. Nominations are scheduled to be announced in mid-September 2023. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony from New York City on Monday, November 20, 2023.
In August 2023, Indian television producer Ekta Kapoor was announced by the Academy as the recipient of the International Emmy Directorate Award.
Eligibility
The 51st International Emmy Awards Competition was opened for all categories December 7, 2022 and closed February 16, 2023.
Ceremony information
Nominations for the 51st International Emmy Awards were announced on September 26, 2023, by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATAS). There are 56 nominees across 14 categories and 20 countries. Nominees come from: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom. All these programs were broadcast between January 1 and December 31, 2022; in accordance with the competition's eligibility period.
In addition to the presentation of the International Emmys for programming and performances, the International Academy will present 1 special award. Indian television producer Ekta Kapoor will receive the 2023 International Emmy Directorate Award.
Nominees
References
External links
International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website
International Emmy Awards ceremonies
International Emmy Kids Awards ceremonies
International Emmy Awards
International Emmy Awards
International Emmy Awards
International Emmy Awards
International Emmy Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Family%20International%20Church | United Family International Church are a Nondenominational megachurch and a church network. The headquarters is located in Harare, Zimbabwe, with branches in Botswana, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia and Zambia. The church is led by Emmanuel Makandiwa.
History
The church started with a prayer service on the 17th of August 2008 at the Anglican Cathedral in Harare, which was led by Emmanuel Makandiwa. In 2011, the church began construction of a 30,000 seat auditorium in Chitungwiza, but construction was stopped in 2013 for 18 months due to investigations by regulators, but the church was allowed to resume construction on the new auditorium by the Environmental Management Agency in February 2015. The auditorium was opened in 2022.
Beliefs
The denomination has a charismatic confession of faith.
References
External links
Evangelical megachurches in Zimbabwe
Non-denominational Evangelical unions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20in%20Science%20%26%20Engineering | Computing in Science & Engineering (CiSE) is a bimonthly technical magazine published by the IEEE Computer Society. It was founded in 1999 from the merger of two publications: Computational Science & Engineering (CS&E) and Computers in Physics (CIP), the first published by IEEE and the second by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). The founding editor-in-chief was George Cybenko, known for proving one of the first versions of the universal approximation theorem of neural networks.
The magazine is interdisciplinary and covers topics such as numerical simulation, modeling, and data analysis and visualization. CiSE aims to provide its readers with practical information on the latest developments in computational methods and their applications in science and engineering. Computing in Science & Engineering publishes peer-reviewed technical articles, special issues, editorials, and departments (regular columns).
Notable articles
One of the most notable articles published in CiSE is "Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment," by the late John D. Hunter. It shows more than 22 thousand full-text views and more than 17 thousand citations in IEEE Xplore, and more than 27 thousand citations in Google Scholar (checked August 14, 2023). A very popular department article is "What is the Blockchain?" by member of the editorial board Massimo DiPierro. Other notable articles include "Python for Scientific Computing" by Travis Oliphant, which has more than 15 thousand views in Xplore, and "The NumPy Array: A Structure for Efficient Numerical Computation," by Stefan van der Walt et al., with nearly 7 thousand citations and 12 thousand views in Xplore.
The winner of the CiSE 2021 Best Paper Award was "Jupyter: Thinking and Storytelling With Code and Data," by Brian E. Granger and Fernando Pérez.
Notable editors
Among the editors emeritus, who served close to twenty years in the editorial board, is Jack Dongarra, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, and recipient of the IEEE Computer Society 2020 Computer Pioneer Award, and the 2021 ACM Alan Turing Award, among many other accolades. Cleve Moler, chairman and cofounder of MathWorks, was area editor for Software and a member of the editorial board from 1999. The precursor magazine, IEEE Computational Science & Engineering (CS&E), was founded by Ahmed Sameh, known for his contributions to parallel algorithms in numerical linear algebra, who remained in the CiSE board for several years. Dianne O'Leary, emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, was editor of the Your Homework Assignment column for several years starting on 2003. She compiled and expanded her columns into a book, "Scientific Computing with Case Studies," published by SIAM in 2009.
References
Academic journals of the United States
Electrical and electronic engineering journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Mar%C3%ADa%20Aguilera | Ana María Aguilera del Pino is a Spanish statistician whose research involves principal component analysis, functional data analysis, categorical data, and multi-dimensional contingency tables. She is University Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Granada.
Education and career
Aguilera earned a Ph.D. at the University of Granada in 1993. Her doctoral dissertation, Métodos de aproximación de estimadores en el ACP de un proceso estocástico, was supervised by Mariano José Valderrama Bonnet.
She was named University Professor at the University of Granada in 2012. She was editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of Statistics and Operations Research, the academic journal of the Spanish Statistics and Operations Research Society, from 2013 to 2017.
Books
Aguilera is the author of two Spanish-language books on contingency tables:
Tablas de Contingencia Bidimensionales (2001)
Modelización de Tablas de Contingencia Multidimensionales (2006)
Recognition
Aguilera is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
References
External links
Home page
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Spanish statisticians
Women statisticians
University of Granada alumni
Academic staff of the University of Granada
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dauphin%20Technology | Dauphin Technology, Inc., often shortened to Dauphin, was an American computer and electronics company active from 1988 to 2006 and based in Illinois. The company was founded by Alan Yong and Lucy Yong in 1988 for the production of laptop computers. The company soon pivoted to the manufacture of palmtop PCs, releasing the DTR-1, a 486SLC palmtop weighing and running Windows for Pen Computing, in 1993. The DTR-1 was a flop in the marketplace and was a major factor in Dauphin's bankruptcy in 1995, from which they emerged in 1996. The company offered a more successful palmtop PC in 1998 before pivoting again to the manufacture of set-top boxes in 2001. In 2006, Dauphin reversed merged with GeoVax, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia.
History
1988–1992
Dauphin Technology, Inc., was founded in Lombard, Illinois, by Alan Yong and Lucy Yong in 1988 with $1.2 to $1.5 million of startup capital. The company was originally a subsidiary of Dauphin International Trade Center, a trading company founded by the Yongs in the same year. Both Alan and Lucy Yong had emigrated to the United States from their native Malaysia in 1971, after Alan had won a scholarship from the YMCA, with which he paid for his tuition at the George Williams College in Chicago, earning a degree in business administration. After graduating college, the Yongs purchased the Glen Ellyn Restaurant in the eponymous village in downtown Chicago. While managing the restaurant, Alan Yong conversed with many of his customers who happened to be workers and businesspeople in the city, who were becoming increasingly acquainted with computer systems in their respective industries. Inspired by these conversations, Yong founded Manufacturing and Maintenance Systems, Inc., a maker of ruggedized computer systems for industrial applications, in 1981. In 1988, he founded Dauphin Technology after receiving a business offer from Golden Time, a OEM of laptop computers in Taiwan, who wanted to use Dauphin International Trade Center as a label through which to sell Golden Time's laptops.
Dauphin Technology's first line of laptops, the LapPRO, were IBM PC compatibles based on Intel's 286 and 386 microprocessors. Golden Time of Taiwan was the initial manufacturer of the laptop's case and keyboard, while LMCLTI Inc. of Lionville, Pennsylvania, built the printed circuit boards and populated them with the needed electronic components. Final assembly was performed at Dauphin's Lombard headquarters, which employed between 20 and 30 workers in 1989 and had seven assembly stations. Dauphin's initial production capability of the LapPRO was 3,000 units per month in 1989; the company had 15,000 inquiries for the LapPRO by March that year. In August 1989, the company introduced the LapPRO 386SX, featuring the namesake Intel 80386SX processor. In 1990, Dauphin Technology was reverse acquired by Successo Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah, in a stock swap that saw Successo adopting the Dauphin name and Dauphin controlling a majority of Suc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episode%208000%20%28Home%20and%20Away%29 | Episode 8000 of the Australian television soap opera Home and Away was first broadcast on Seven Network on 27 March 2023. The episode was written by Louise Bowes and directed by Arnie Custo. The plot mainly focuses on the wedding between Tane Parata (Ethan Browne) and Felicity Newman (Jacqui Purvis). It also briefly touches on the topic of abortion, as Bree Cameron (Juliet Godwin) terminates her pregnancy with the support of Remi Carter (Adam Rowland). The end of the episode begins a new storyline for Felicity's brother Cash Newman (Nicholas Cartwright), as he believes he has proposed to his girlfriend Eden Fowler (Stephanie Panozzo) while drunk.
The episode coincided with two weeks of "blockbuster" storylines for the show. Actress Ada Nicodemou (who plays Leah Patterson) praised the decision to make Tane and Felicity's wedding the focus of the 8000th episode, describing it as "a nice payoff for the audience." She also thought that it was important for the show to focus on sensitive issues like abortion, as it would start discussions and also help viewers in similar situations. Despite being told by the scriptwriters that the characters would get their happy ending, Purvis admitted that she still had some doubts that Tane and Felicity would marry right up until filming. She found that the set had a different feeling about it, as everyone involved seemed to know that they were creating something exciting. The wedding scenes were filmed at a faster pace than normal because of incoming bad weather, which only allowed for a few takes in which to get everything right.
The ceremony incorporates several Māori traditions, as Tane is from New Zealand. Purvis performed her character's vows in te reo Māori, which she found to be one of the hardest things she has ever had to do. She worked with a dialect coach in order to get the language right, as she did not want to disrespect the Māori culture. Due to the incoming rain, Purvis had limited time to get the vows right and she admittedly made some mistakes during the first take. Members of the Sydney Māori community were asked to help make the wedding as authentically New Zealand as possible, while Browne worked with the scriptwriters to include some personal touches, such as the wearing of traditional Korowai cloaks. Critics called Episode 8000 "unmissable" and a "landmark episode". Many pointed out that the wedding was long-awaited, while Georgie Kearney from 7News said it would "go down in Summer Bay history." The editor of TV Week branded Felicity and Tane's nuptials "the TV wedding of the year".
Plot
Lyrik band members Kirby Aramoana (Angelina Thomson) and Theo Poulos (Matt Evans) return to Summer Bay early from their trip, upon learning that Tane Parata (Ethan Browne) and Felicity Newman (Jacqui Purvis) are getting married that day and the band have been asked to play at the reception. Fellow band member Eden Fowler (Stephanie Panozzo) tells them that their guitarist Remi Carter (Adam Rowland) canno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tava%20Corporation | Tava Corporation was a short-lived American computer company active from 1983 to 1984 based in Irvine, California, that was an early manufacturer of IBM PC compatibles. It also operated the CompuShack chain of franchised computer retail stores across the United States.
History
Tava Corporation was incorporated and headquartered in Irvine, California, by Perry Lamba and Earl Perera in March 1983. The company's first product was a coin-operated personal computer that was a clone of the Apple II with a coin acceptor that allowed purchasers to buy computer usage time. Introduced in April 1983, this coin-op Apple II clone was aimed at the general public but especially public libraries, secondary schools, and colleges to allow children to learn how to use a real personal computer and for students to be able to perform academic research and compose essays, without having to purchase an entire Apple II, which at the time retailed for several thousands of dollars (US$). The coin-op nature meanwhile prevented any one person from monopolizing computer time and acted as a monetization scheme for both the libraries and Tava, each of which taking a percentage of the profits. Tava's coin-op computers were installed in libraries in Southern California, including Walnut Creek, Santa Ana, and San Diego. Each quarter-hour of computer time cost 50¢.
In mid-1993, Tava established CompuShack, a computer retailer. By December 1983, the company had opened 20 locations across the United States. In the same month, Tava began franchising existing and new locations. In around June 1983, Tava began developing their first entries into the IBM PC compatible market, hiring Gene Lu to help engineer these products and Faraday Electronics to manufacture its motherboard. In October 1983, they were unveiled as the Tava PC, a desktop computer, and the Tava PC 1, a luggable portable. Like the original IBM PC, both of these Tava computers featured Intel 8088 microprocessors; the PC retailed as a barebones system, with just the desktop, for under US$1000, while the PC1 cost a little under $2000. Tava later raised the base price of the Tava PC to $1995 (~$ in ) while doubling the amount of RAM and including a monochrome monitor and keyboard. In June 1984, Tava unveiled the Tava Turbo PC, which upgraded the microprocessor of its predecessors to the Intel 8088-2, clocked at 7.16 MHz. The company sold their computers through their CompuShack stores as well as through other retailers. According to Mini-Micro Systems, Tava were likely the first proprietor of a computer retailer to sell their own private label IBM PC clone.
Between April and August 1984, Tava sold roughly 2,500 of their PCs a month. The company experience a slowdown in sales that June after IBM instituted price cuts across their entire IBM PC range that month. Shipments of Tava PCs significantly dwindled in the months after the introduction of the Tava Turbo PC in late August 1984, while the company had been spending betwee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio%20Ferrara | Emilio Ferrara is an Italian-American computer scientist, researcher, and professor in the field of data science and social networks. As of 2022, he serves as a Full Professor at the University of Southern California (USC), in the Viterbi School of Engineering and USC Annenberg School for Communication, where he conducts research on computational social science, network science, and machine learning. Ferrara is known for his work in the detection of social bots and the analysis of misinformation on social media platforms.
Early life, education, and career
Emilio Ferrara received his Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Messina. During his doctoral studies, Ferrara spent one semester at the Technical University of Vienna and two semesters at the Royal Holloway, University of London. While a visiting Ph.D. student at the TU Vienna, Ferrara studied data mining in the research group of Professor Georg Gottlob. At Royal Holloway, University of London, he studied machine learning under the supervision of Professor Alberto Paccanaro.
After completing his doctoral studies, Ferrara held various academic positions, first at Indiana University and then at the University of Southern California, where, in 2022, he was promoted to Full Professor.
Research
Ferrara's research focuses on computational social science, network science, and machine learning, with an emphasis on understanding and modeling human behavior in online social networks. He has made significant contributions to the areas of social bot detection, political manipulation, the analysis of misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, the dynamics of emotional contagion on social media platforms, and generative AI bias.
Awards and honors
Emilio Ferrara has received numerous awards and honors for his research, including:
The 2016 DARPA Young Faculty Award
The 2017 Complex Systems Society Junior Scientific Award
The 2019 Viterbi Junior Faculty Research Award
The 2022 Research.com Rising Stars of Science
Influence on US Senate investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US Election
Ferrara's research contributed to the understanding of the extent and impact of foreign interference in the 2016 US Presidential election. His paper titled "Social bots distort the 2016 US Presidential election online discussion," which was the only peer-reviewed paper published before the November 8, 2016 election, investigated the influence operations carried out by Russia's Internet Research Agency by means of social bots on Twitter.
The paper suggested that social bots had a notable impact on the dynamics of the online conversation surrounding the election, potentially manipulating public opinion and shaping the discourse. This work provided insights into how social bots were utilized as a tool for information warfare and highlighted the potential consequences of their unchecked proliferation on social media platforms.
Ferrara's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing%20Academy%20of%20Artificial%20Intelligence | Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) (), also known as Zhiyuan Institute, is a Chinese non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory. BAAI conducts AI research and is dedicated to promoting collaboration among academia and industry, as well as fostering top talent and a focus on long-term research on the fundamentals of AI technology. As a collaborative hub, BAAI's founding members include leading AI companies, universities, and research institutes. BAAI is one of pre-eminent AI research institutes in China. To help it reach its goals, BAAI frequently releases new models and open source code. Moreover, BAAI organizes an annual international conference bringing together AI experts, industry leaders, and international talent to discuss challenges and future of AI.
Products and applications
, BAAI's research focuses on large pre-trained models (LLMs) and open-source AI infrastructure.
WuDao
WuDao () is a large multimodal pre-trained language model. WuDao 2.0, was announced on 31 May 2022 and has been compared to GPT-3 at the time. But, in comparison, GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, while WuDao has 1.75 trillion parameters; making it the largest pre-trained model in the world at the time. WuDao was trained on 4.9 terabytes of images and texts (which included 1.2 terabytes of Chinese text and 1.2 terabytes of English text). The chairman of BAAI said that WuDao was an attempt to "create the biggest, most powerful AI model possible"; although direct comparisons between models based on parameter count (i.e. between Wu Dao and GPT-3) do not directly correlate to quality.
WuDao has demonstrated ability to perform natural language processing and image recognition, in addition to generation of text and images. The model can not only write essays, poems and couplets in traditional Chinese, it can both generate text based on static images and generate nearly photorealistic images based on natural language descriptions. It has also showed ability to power virtual chat agents and predict the 3D structures of proteins like AlphaFold.
FlagAI
FlagAI is an open-source extensible toolkit for large-scale model training and inference. Its goal is to support training, fine-tuning, and deployment of large-scale models on various downstream tasks with multi-modality. Moreover, its open repository includes not only all source-code, but several pre-trained large models. FlagAI is an approved incubation project at the sandbox
level of the Linux Foundation.
Jiuding
Jiuding is an AI-computing platform which focuses on supporting AI innovation. As of September 2022 it provides 1000P computation capacity with 400Gbit/s high-speed interconnection per server, and support AI chipsets of different architectures. BAAI's platform also includes code compilers for the different AI architectures.
MetaWorm
MetaWorm is a computational model of the Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) nematode simulating the worm's nervous system along with a "digi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weizenbaum%20Institute%20for%20the%20Networked%20Society%20%E2%80%93%20The%20German%20Internet%20Institute | The Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society – The German Internet Institute is an interdisciplinary research institute. It is a joint project of research institutions from Berlin and Brandenburg, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Founded in 2017, the institute is located in Berlin. It is named after the German-American computer science pioneer Joseph Weizenbaum.
Research Programme
The aim of the Weizenbaum Institute is to fill the need for research into the social impact of digitisation, in addition to the technical and legal issues it raises. Based on the research findings, options for action are developed for government, business and civil society in order to shape the digital transformation in a responsible and interdisciplinary manner.
Its research programme is based on the following four core areas:
1. Digital technologies in society: between opportunities for participation and new inequalities
2. Digital markets and publics on platforms: between common good and economic imperatives
3. Organization of knowledge: between openness and exclusivity
4. Digital infrastructures in democracy: between security and freedom
People
The founding directors are Prof. Dr. Martin Emmer, Prof. Dr. Axel Metzger, LL.M. (Harvard) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ina Schieferdecker.
Funding
When the institute was established in 2017, it received a total of 50 million euro in funding from the federal government for its first funding phase of five years. In 2022, the Weizenbaum Institute is the recipient of 36 million euros in federal funding for the period until 2025.
References
External links
2017 establishments in Germany
Research institutes in Berlin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesed%20%28FSU%20Jewish%20Community%20Welfare%20Centers%29 | Hesed is a network of nonprofit community welfare centers to serve the Jewish community in former Soviet Union states (FSU's). The network provides services to Jews who remained in post-Soviet states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Hesed uses its volunteers and charity centers to provide basic necessities and medical services within a physical location in which community members can meet and participate in cultural and religious activities.
History
The first Hesed center opened in 1993 in St. Petersburg. The organization was formed by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and funded by JDC, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), World Jewish Relief, and other donors.
Hesed based its structure and activities on a model developed by Amos Avgar, who was Director of the JDC-FSU Welfare Department.
Volunteering, fostering community and Jewish traditions or Yiddishkeit were central to the model.
As of 2003, there were 174 Hesed centers operating in 2,800 Jewish communities and serving over a quarter-million people in the FSU.
Hesed continued to operate through the war between Russian and the Ukraine in Crimea and the Donbas starting in 2014. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hesed continued providing services to its approximately 37,000 Ukrainian clients. The organization also offered psychological counseling and operated a hotline for those needing assistance and treatment during the hostilities.
Services
In addition to activities in the Hesed centers, volunteers visit the homebound.
Hesed's services included food programs and packages, meals-on-wheels, soup kitchens, winter relief, homecare, providing medicine, medical equipment and medical services.
Social and community services include day centers, library services, and Jewish holiday celebrations.
References
Jewish community organizations
Jewish organizations based in Russia
1993 establishments in Russia
Welfare and service organizations
Jewish organizations established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s%2060s | That's 60s is a British digital television channel dedicated to 1960s music, created by the That's TV network. It is available on Freeview channel 71, Sky channel 365, Virgin Media channel 296, and Freesat channel 506.
Format
The channel is headed by Kris Vaiksalu. It was launched on 6 January 2023, and replaced the earlier channel Smithsonian which was running on the same frequencies. Vaiksalu decided to launch the channel after he found playing 1960s pop music on the parent That's TV channel created favourable ratings, and wanted to put out a wider variety of music compared to other networks that played more recent material. The channel is free-to-air and funded by advertising, shown in breaks approximately every three-to-four songs.
History
The channel began with veteran disk jockey Tony Blackburn, who chose to play the Move's "Flowers in the Rain", echoing the first song he played on BBC Radio One when it launched in 1967. He has a special show on Friday evenings, in which he talks about his favourite music clips before they are shown. The channel also planned to feature fellow veteran presenters David Hamilton and Bob Harris. Harris broadcast his first show on 17 February.
Content
The channel's range of content is restricted because of the limited amount of video material still available from the 1960s that has not been wiped. To work around this, it broadcasts live performances from later times in which the original artists play songs that were hits in the 1960s, such as Simon and Garfunkel's The Concert in Central Park from 1982. Several clips come from US television shows such as the mid-1960s Hullabaloo which have not been seen regularly on British television.
Reviewing the channel, Sean Ross criticised the choice of material, thinking it might be too obscure, and also the lack of regular presenters. A specific concern for a 1960s music channel was the lack of any videos by the Beatles, and limited coverage of Cliff Richard.
References
External links
That's 60s on Twitter
Music video networks in the United Kingdom
1960s in music
Television channels and stations established in 2023
That's TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Immortality | Artificial Immortality, stylized as A.rtificial I.mmortality, is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Ann Shin and released in 2021. The film explores advances in artificial intelligence, focusing in particular on various efforts to use technological advances in the field to cheat death and achieve a version of immortality.
People appearing in the film include Nick Bostrom, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Douglas Rushkoff, Ben Goertzel and Deepak Chopra.
The film premiered on April 29, 2021, as the opening film of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Awards
References
External links
2021 films
2021 documentary films
Canadian documentary films
Documentary films about technology
2020s English-language films
2020s Canadian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20a%20Celebrity...Get%20Me%20Out%20of%20Here%21%20%28Australian%20season%209%29 | The ninth season of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here was commissioned by Network 10 in October 2022. The series premiered on 2 April 2023 and is hosted by Julia Morris and Chris Brown. It is the first series since 2020 to return to a live broadcast in Africa; the previous two series were pre-recorded in Australia, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This series was Brown's last as host as he announced he would be joining the Seven Network from July 2023.
Teaser
The first teaser trailer, featuring hosts Chris Brown and Julia Morris in a 60s airline themed promo, was released on 20 February 2023.
Celebrities
On 28 March 2023, the first contestant was revealed by Network 10, prior to the premiere of the first episode, to be radio presenter Woody Whitelaw. On 2 April 2023, hours prior to the premiere, four more celebrities were revealed as television personality Ian Dickson, actress Debra Lawrance, reality contestant Domenica Calarco and television personality Kerri-Anne Kennerley.
Celebrity guests
Results and elimination
Indicates that the celebrity received the most votes from the public
Indicates that the celebrity was immune from the elimination challenge
Indicates that the celebrity was named as being in the bottom 2 or 3.
Indicates that the celebrity came last in a challenge or received the fewest votes and was evicted immediately (no bottom three)
Indicates that the celebrity withdrew from the competition
Tucker trials
The contestants take part in daily trials to earn food. These trials aim to test both physical and mental abilities. Success is usually determined by the number of stars collected during the trial, with each star representing a meal earned by the winning contestant for their camp mates.
The public voted for who they wanted to face the trial
The contestants decided who did which trial
The trial was compulsory and neither the public nor celebrities decided who took part
The contestants were chosen by the evicted celebrities
The voting for the trial was of dual origin
Notes
Kerri-Anne, as an intruder, had to participate with Domenica in the Unsafe Crackers trial as part of her entry into the camp.
Kerri-Anne chose not to participate in the trial, as she said the words "I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" prior to it beginning. As a result, Aesha had to complete the trial on her own and was only able to keep half the stars she won. Whilst Aesha won all 13 stars, the camp only received 6½ meals worth of dinner.
Kerri-Anne and Domenica had an argument at the end of the trial, after Kerri-Anne had refused to participate in the trial's second round, which was an 'all-or-nothing' challenge that all trialists had to complete to win their stars. Kerri-Anne left the trial early and returned to the camp before the rest of the group, where she announced that she was quitting the series and said the words "I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!".
Nick, as an intruder, had to participate with Liz in the Cliffhanger tria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20OverDrive | Intel OverDrive was a trademark of Intel used in the mid-1990s to categorize their x86 upgrade chips for existing personal computer systems. It may refer to:
i486 OverDrive, a category of Intel i486 processors
Pentium OverDrive, a category of Intel Pentium processors
OverDrive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%27s%20Date | Carl's Date (formerly known as Dug Days: Carl's Date) is a 2023 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, written and directed by Bob Peterson and produced by Kim Collins. It stars the voices of Ed Asner (in one of his final roles before his death in 2021) and Peterson. The short film follows Carl Fredricksen (Asner), who reluctantly goes on his first date since his late wife Ellie's death, but he has no idea how dating works. Originally scheduled to premiere on Disney+ as the sixth and final entry in the Dug Days series, Carl's Date premiered in theaters on June 16, 2023, along with Pixar's Elemental.
Plot
Carl Fredricksen trains Dug at home when he gets a phone call and answers it to hear that it is from Ms. Meyers, an elder who lives at the nursing home, and Alpha (now named Beta) who declares his love for his new home. After Dug has a conversation with Beta, Carl speaks with Ms. Meyers again and agrees to something, only to immediately regret it after hanging up the phone. Carl reveals to Dug that he just agreed to go on a date with her. He is nervous as he has not been with anyone since Ellie passed away and does not know what to do. Dug makes suggestions on what to do, most of which involves dog related things. Carl decides to go out and get some things to prepare for his date.
Carl buys numerous boxes of chocolate and tries to get some flowers from his garden. He has a practice dance with Dug as well as a practice dinner afterwards. Carl then dyes his hair black, which confuses Dug. When Carl attempts to call Ms. Meyers to call off the date, Dug wrestles the phone away from him, destroying it in the process, and tells Carl that he should go on the date and not worry as Ms. Meyers will love him. Carl relaxes and gets himself ready. Dug then offers to go along as backup and Carl agrees. Before leaving, Carl speaks to Ellie's photo and tells her that he is going on a new adventure, and that she will always be his girl.
Voice cast
Ed Asner as Carl Fredricksen
Bob Peterson as Dug and Alpha
Production
On December 19, 2022, it was announced that Dug Days would get a short film titled Carl's Date, originally set to stream on Disney+ during a montage of content coming in 2023. Prior to his death on August 29, 2021, Ed Asner recorded his dialogue in the spring of 2021. At a screening of Carl's Date, ComicBook.com had a chance to speak with Peterson and Collins about the short film during a press day for Elemental at Pixar Animation Studios. Peterson stated, "No one will ever replace Ellie for Carl. This is just friendship. This is just honoring her, Ellie saying 'go have a new adventure.' And this really puts that to the test. Should he do this or not?". He also stated, "For now, I'm thinking of it as a bow on the story. You know, you never say never, things do ebb and get a great idea or whatever it is, but I think this ends up being a terrific way to end this little miniseries."
Reception
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Early%20Development%20Census | The Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) is a nationwide initiative that measures the development of children in their first year of full-time school, providing comprehensive data on the health, well-being, and learning outcomes of Australian children.
Background
First introduced in 2009, the AEDC is conducted every three years across all states and territories of Australia, covering approximately 305,000 children. The results of the AEDC are used by policymakers, educators, and health professionals to inform the development of programs and policies aimed at improving the early childhood development outcomes of all Australian children.
The AEDC focuses on five key areas of early childhood development called domains: physical health and wellbeing, social competence, emotional maturity, language and cognitive skills (school-based), and communication and general knowledge. By collecting data on these domains, the AEDC generates a national snapshot of the developmental progress of Australian children, highlighting areas of strength and identifying where additional support may be needed.
The AEDC is a collaborative effort between the Australian Government and state and territory governments, and is managed by the Australian Department of Education.
Development
The AEDC was developed by the Australian Department of Education, in collaboration with the Centre for Community Child Health at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. Dr. Sally Brinkman played a key role in the development and implementation of the Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) first piloted in 2004, which was then adapted in the way data was collected and reported to become the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) in 2009. One of the key features of the AEDC is that the data is made publicly available for communities to use. This means that educators, health professionals, researchers, and community organizations can access and use AEDC data to inform their work and better understand the needs of children in their communities.
References
Censuses in Australia
Child development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Gang%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Wang Gang, also known as Michael Wang, is an electrical and computer engineer and academic specializing in Artificial Intelligence and its application in autonomous driving. Wang has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications, cited over 28,000 times. His h-index is computed to be 72.
Wang is also an entrepreneur, former vice president at Alibaba Group group of Companies, and the founder and CEO of CenoBots (Cenozoic Robotics), a company that manufactures cleaning robots.
Background
Michael Wang studied Engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology. A recipient of the 2009-2010 Harriett & Robert Perry Fellowship, he completed Ph. D in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign.
Career
Academic career
Wang was a tenured associate professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. There he led a research team of approximately 20 people. From 2010 to 2014, he held a position as a research scientist at the Advanced Digital Science Center, Singapore.
Wang's research focuses are in the fields of Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Autonomous Driving. He has authored or co-authored 189 publications throughout his career. These publications have been cited a total of 28,886 times. His h-index is calculated to be 72, indicating that at least 72 of his papers have been cited at least 72 times each.
Alibaba and DAMO
Wang joined Alibaba in March 2017. He was the technical director for the development of Tmall Genie, Alibaba's voice-controlled smart speaker, as well as Xiaomanlv, an autonomous delivery robot. He was chief scientist of Alibaba AI Labs, later appointed vice-president of the company and head of the autonomous driving laboratory at DAMO (Discover, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook) Academy. During his time at Alibaba, Wang focused his work on the application of deep learning to computer vision and autonomous driving.
Other ventures
At the end of 2021, Wang resigned from Alibaba to found and raise funds for his own company CenoBots (Cenozoic Robotics), which develops intelligent cleaning robots.
Professional organisations and awards
Wang is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) journal, Area Chair at the 2017 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), and Area Chair at the 2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CPVR).
He was named one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 2017 by MIT Technology Review, in both the Asia Pacific Region and the Global editions of the award.
Selected publications
Jiuxiang Gu, Zhenhua Wang, Jason Kuen, Lianyang Ma, Amir Shahroudy, Bing Shuai, Ting Liu, Xingxing Wang, Gang Wang, Jianfei Cai, Tsuhan Chen, (2018) Recent Advances in Convolutional Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, vol. 77, May 2018, pp. 354-377
Yu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Superloop | Superloop is a partially implemented proposed express bus network in London, England. It will form part of the London Buses network and is planned to connect outer London town centres, railway stations and transport hubs.
Orbital express bus routes were proposed in 2008 by Mayor of London Boris Johnson, with further proposals by the London Assembly in 2017. The 'Superloop' concept was announced in 2023 by Sadiq Khan, consisting of rebranding and improvements to existing express bus routes and the introduction of new express bus routes.
Once complete, Superloop routes will form a long distance orbital service around London, as well as radial express services. The first service became operational on 15 July 2023. Subject to ongoing consultations, nine of the ten routes are expected to be operational by early 2024.
History
Background
A network of Green Line limited stop orbital routes was established by the London Transport Executive from 1953. Limited stop route X26 (now Superloop route SL7) from West Croydon to Heathrow Airport is a remnant of that network.
The 2008 mayoral election manifesto of Boris Johnson promised to trial orbital express bus routes in the outer suburbs. This led to an increase in frequency for the already existing X26 express bus route later that year. The policy had been abandoned by Johnson by March 2010, citing "plenty of good studies now which suggest to me that the big investment in orbital bus routes does not actually deliver the improvements that are sometimes claimed" and there was no further expansion of the orbital network.
Sadiq Khan became Mayor of London in 2016. In August 2017 the London Assembly Transport Committee called for more orbital and express bus routes in Outer London. The idea was included in the Mayor's Transport Strategy published in March 2018, with two new indicative express corridors in North London and one in South London:
Heathrow Airport to Ilford via Harrow, Barnet and Enfield
Chiswick to Ilford via Ealing, Wood Green and Walthamstow
Bexleyheath to Beckenham via Bromley
In 2018 Transport for London began a policy of reducing bus services in inner London, where there had been a drop in passenger numbers, with plans to increase services in the outer suburbs. Limited stop route X140 from Harrow to Heathrow Airport was introduced in December 2019. The new route was considered a success and expansion of the express bus network was included as a policy in the Bus action plan published by Transport for London in March 2022.
Superloop announcements
The Superloop branded proposal for a network of express orbital bus routes was announced on 28 March 2023. Transport for London noted that the proposals form part of improvements to transport in outer London in light of the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone in August 2023. The proposal was praised by the Campaign for Better Transport and Heathrow Airport Holdings, however Nick Rogers AM of the Conservative Party called the proposal a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbarayan%20Pasupathy | Subbarayan Pasupathy (September 21, 1940 - February 12, 2023) was a Canadian electrical engineer and a professor emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto. He also served as the Chairman of the Communications Group and as the Associate Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto.
He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1991. He was also the Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
Early life and education
Pasupathy was born in Chennai.
In 1963, he earned his bachelor's degree in telecommunications from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, which is currently recognized as Anna University.
He completed his M.Tech. program at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras in 1966 and was awarded the Siemens Prize for securing the top position in his batch.
Pas received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering and applied science from Yale University, located in New Haven, CT, USA, in 1970 and 1972, respectively. His doctoral research focused on Sonar and was conducted under the guidance of Professor Peter Schultheiss.
Career
He worked as a research scholar and part-time lecturer at IIT, Madras, and also as a teaching assistant at Yale University. Subsequently, in 1973, he joined the faculty of the University of Toronto and eventually became a professor of electrical engineering in 1983. He spent over 35 years at the University of Toronto, where he contributed to undergraduate teaching and research.
Pas researched extensively on statistical communication theory and techniques for digital communications system design. He was the first Canadian communications professor to be listed in the "highly cited researchers" list of the ISI Web of Knowledge, indicating his wide-ranging influence in both theory and practice. He authored over 275 articles and contributions to 3 books in leading journals and conferences, and his work has been cited in over 100 patent applications.
Area of expertise
Pas had expertise in several areas related to communication systems. These included developing digital communication systems that use bandwidth efficiently, applying statistical communication theory in different systems like array processing, signal processing algorithms, transceiver structures, mobile networks, and designing coding algorithms and architectures.
He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1991 for contributions to "bandwidth-efficient coding and modulation schemes in digital communication”.
Awards and recognitions
Professional Engineer of Ontario
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), since 1991
Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research, 2003
Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), since 2004
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), since 2007
Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT, Madras, 2010
Selected publication
References
External links
Pasupathy at Google Sch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveNOW%20from%20Fox | LiveNOW from Fox (formerly known as Fox News Now) is a digital broadcast television network and streaming channel operated by Fox Corporation. In 2020, Fox Television Stations launched LiveNOW from Fox as a streaming news channel jointly operated by KSAZ, KTTV, and WOFL. The channel carries live coverage of breaking news events throughout the day as directed by a small crew of digital journalists, leveraging resources and raw footage from Fox's local news departments. The service originated from a Fox 10 News Now webcast that had been run by KSAZ; amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the channel soft launched a national expansion by becoming "CoronavirusNow" (with contributions from the national Fox News and Fox Business networks), before adopting its current name later that year.
References
External links
Fox News
Fox Corporation subsidiaries
English-language television stations in the United States
24-hour television news channels in the United States
Internet television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seqera%20Labs | Seqera Labs is a bioinformatics company developing technologies for data pipelines, founded in 2018 in Barcelona. It is a spin-off of the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) founded by Evan Floden and Paolo di Tommaso and its services are largely related to the open-source software Nextflow, released in 2013.
In 2022, the company raised 22 million euros in Series A funding. It has also received several grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
References
External links
Official website
Bioinformatics companies
Companies based in Barcelona
Spanish companies established in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan%20files%20leak | The Vulkan files are a leaked set of emails, and other documents, implicating the Russian company NTC Vulkan () in acts of cybercrime, political interference in foreign affairs (such as in the 2016 United States presidential election) through social media, censorship of domestic social media, and espionage, in collusion with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), their armed forces (GOU and GRU); and Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). The files date from 2016 to 2021.
Background
The company NTC Vulkan was founded by Anton Markov and Alexander Irzhavsky in 2010. Both are graduates of St Petersburg military academy and have served in the Russian army, with Markov reaching the rank of captain and Irzhavsky reaching the rank of major.
Vulkan received special licences to work on classified military and state projects from 2011.
It has more than 120 staff, 60 of who are programmers, and describes its speciality as information security. It lists Sberbank, Aeroflot and Russian Railways as customers.
Leaks
The documents, numbering in their thousands, were leaked to the German newspaper within days of the 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by a whistleblower who opposed that war, and were analysed by journalists from that publication and The Guardian, and Washington Post, with several other media outlets, as part of a consortium led by Paper Trail Media and . The consortium published the first details of its investigation on 30 March 2023.
Five Western intelligence agencies and several independent cybersecurity experts authenticated the files.
Connections with other organisations
The documents link Vulkan to the GRU run hacker group Sandworm. Vulkan was contracted to write software called Scan-V to support searching for weak spots in systems to be targeted. Scan-V was commissioned in May 2018.
The documents link Vulkan to the Cozy Bear hacker group, according to Google researchers.
Vulkan won an initial contract to create a system called Amezit in 2016. Amezit is designed to allow control of and interception of internet, wireless and mobile communications. In 2018 some employees went in connection to Amezit to Rostov-on-Don to visit the Radio Research Institute, which is linked to the Federal Security Service. It is not known if it has been used in parts of Ukraine occupied by the Russian Army.
References
External links
2023 in international relations
21st-century military history of Russia
Cybercrime
Data journalism
Investigative journalism
Whistleblowing
Propaganda in Russia
Foreign relations of Russia
Russia intelligence operations
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Russian interference in British politics
Russo-Ukrainian War
Russia–NATO relations
Federal Security Service
GRU
The Guardian
Der Spiegel
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Vladimir Putin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Green%20Journey%20in%20Sendai%202023 | NOAH Green Journey in Sendai 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on April 16, 2023, in Sendai, Japan, at the Xebio Arena Sendai. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Ten matches were contested at the event, including three on the pre-show, and all five of Noah's championships were on the line. The main event saw Jake Lee defeat Katsuhiko Nakajima to retain the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Other top matches included Hayata defeating Amakusa to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, Good Looking Guys (Tadasuke and Yo-Hey) defeated Yoshinari Ogawa and Eita to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, and Takashi Sugiura and Shuhei Taniguchi defeated Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba to win the GHC Tag Team Championship.
Storylines
The event featured 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
The event started with three preshow bouts broadcast live on Noah's YouTube channel. The first one was the confrontation between Daishi Ozawa and Anthony Greene solded with the victory of the latter. Next up, Hideki Suzuki, Timothy Thatcher and Saxon Huxley picked up a victory over Yoshiki Inamura, Kinya Okada and Sean Legacy in six-man tag team action. In the third bout, Maya Yukihi defeated Sumire Natsu by submission. Go Shiozaki made an appearance, announcing he was returning from injury, and competing at Majestic 2023. The first main event bout saw Kenoh, Jinsei Shinzaki, Shuji Kondo, Hajime Ohara and Hi69 outmatching Naomichi Marufuji, Kaito Kiyomiya, Ninja Mack, Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka. The fifth match saw the Six-man tag team match in which Dralístico, Alejandro and Dragon Bane challenged Extreme Tiger, Lanzeloth and Alpha Wolf. The contest however went down to a 3-on-2 handicap match after Extreme Tiger was legitimately knocked out midmatch and was unable to furtherly compete. In the sixth match, Takashi Sugiura and Shuhei Taniguchi defeated Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba to capture the GHC Tag Team Championship. Next up, Tadasuke and Yo-Hey defeated Yoshinari Ogawa and Eita to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. After the match concluded, Ogawa and Eita fought each other, hinting the disband of their tag team. In the eighth bout, El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. defeated Jack Morris to secure the third consecutive defense of the GHC National Championship. In the semi main event, Hayata defeated Amakusa to capture the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship.
In the main event, Jake Lee defeated Katsuhiko Nakajima to secure his first defense of the GHC Heavyweight Championship in that respective reign. After the bout conclud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Armchair%20Theatre%20episodes | Armchair Theatre is an anthology series of one-off plays that aired on the ITV network between 1956 and 1974. A total of 426 episodes were produced over 19 series. The series was initially produced by ABC Weekend TV until 1968, and subsequently by Thames Television from 1969 onwards. The programme also had several spin-off series including Armchair Mystery Theatre, Out of This World, Armchair Cinema and Armchair Thriller.
Archival status
Due to the archival policies of television at the time, a total of 258 episodes are missing from the archives. Although the first series has no surviving episodes to date, the survival rate of episodes increases from Series 2 onwards. A total of 104 monochrome episodes survive as 16mm telerecordings, 18 episodes exist as 405-line 2-inch videotape conversions and a further episode "Exit Joe - Running" exists in incomplete form. From Series 15 onwards when the show started colour production, all episodes exist in the archives.
Series overview
ABC era (1956-1968)
Series 1 (1956-7)
The first series was produced by Dennis Vance, who had a preference for using classical material from plays and novels written by the likes of Dorothy Brandon, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James respectively. The series was transmitted live from ABC's Manchester studios in Didsbury. Currently none of the episodes from this series are known to survive in the archives. The series was aired on Sundays, which would continue to be the standard until the end of Series 10 in 1966.
Series 2 (1957-8)
Currently the earliest series with surviving episodes that are extant in the archives. This series was the first to be produced by Sydney Newman, who took over as Head of Drama at ABC midway during the series from Vance, whom was promoted to a senior position in the company. Due to the live format of the series at the time, several episodes were pulled from transmission owing to technical failure or problems with the cast and crew. The broadcast of "The Shining Hour" was delayed by a week due to a faulty camera crane which could not be repaired in time, and the planned transmission of "Trial By Candlelight" was cancelled owing to the untimely illness of actress Freda Jackson, the production was subsequently remounted and tele-recorded for later transmission. The final episode that would have concluded the series "The House of Bernarda Alba" had to be pulled from transmission, after director Ted Kotcheff fell ill immediately prior to the live broadcast.
Series 3 (1958-9)
The first full series to be produced by Newman, whom pushed for more original material, that led to commissioning teleplays from the likes of Malcolm Hulke, Tad Mosel, Mordecai Richler and John Glennon respectively. This in turn helped boost the series popularity, and by June 1959 when the current series ended, it was consistently in the top ten of audience ratings, with figures regularly exceeding 12 million viewers for 32 out of the 37 weeks the series was broad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Adventures%20of%20Rin%20Tin%20Tin%20episodes | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television series in the Western genre that aired from October 1954 to May 1959 on the ABC television network. In all, 164 episodes aired. The show starred Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. Rusty and his German Shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, help the soldiers to establish order in the American West. James E. Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included Joe Sawyer as Sergeant Biff O'Hara and Rand Brooks as Corporal Randy Boone.
The character of Rin Tin Tin was named after Rin Tin Tin, a legendary screen dog of the 1920s and 1930s. The character was ostensibly played by Rin Tin Tin IV, who was either a descendant or related to the original dog. However, due to Rin Tin Tin IV's poor screen performance, the character was mostly performed by an unrelated dog, Flame Jr.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1954-55)
Season 2 (1955–56)
Season 3 (1956-57)
Season 4 (1957-58)
Season 5 (1958-59)
References
External links
Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Adventures of Rin Tin Tin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brij%20B.%20Gupta | Brij Bhooshan Gupta is a full professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Asia University, Taiwan. He has published over 500 papers in journals/conferences including 30 books and 10 Patents with over 20,000 citations. He has also received numerous national and international awards including Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.
Education
Gupta is an Indian scholar who earned his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee.
Career
Professor Gupta's research interests encompass a range of topics, including cyber security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, intrusion detection, blockchain technologies, cyber physical systems, social media, and networking.
Over the course of Gupta's 17-year professional career, he has published over 500 papers in various journals and conferences, including 30 books and has been granted 10 patents. His work has been widely cited over 20,000 times. Gupta holds the position of Distinguished Research Scientist at LoginRadius Inc., a company specializing in cybersecurity, particularly in the area of customer identity and access management (CIAM). Additionally, he was included in Stanford University's 2022 ranking of the top 2% scientists worldwide. In 2017, Gupta became a senior member at IEEE. He was also chosen as the Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE CTSoc for the year 2021. Dr. Gupta also hold the position of Member-in-Large on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Consumer Technology Society (2022 to 2024).
Currently, Professor Gupta is working as the Director at the International Center for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations. He also serves as a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) at Asia University, Taiwan.
Awards and recognitions
Clarivate Research Excellence in Engineering and Technology (2023)
Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (2009)
Faculty Research Fellowship Award (2017) from the Govt. of Canada, MeitY, GoI
IEEE GCCE outstanding and WIE paper awards
Best Faculty Award (2018 & 2019) from NIT Kurukshetra
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2021)
References
External links
President Cai Jinfa praised the world's 0.1% top scientists and Indian professor Gupta of the Department of Engineering and Engineering, enhancing the research energy and international influence of Asia University
Keynote Speaker at INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA ANALYTICS FOR BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
Living people
IIT Roorkee alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild%20of%20Our%20Lady%20of%20Ransom | The Guild of Our Lady of Ransom is a charity, founded in 1877, which supports projects and initiatives in the Catholic Church in England and Wales, through its grant programme and network of members.
History
In 1886, the Catholic priest, The Reverend Fr Philip Fletcher (1848–1928) established a Union of Intercession for the Conversion of England. A graduate of Exeter College, Oxford, Fletcher was the son of Sir Henry Fletcher, 3rd Baronet, and curate at St Bartholomew's Church, Brighton. One of Fletcher's friends was the Catholic barrister and orator, Lister Drummond (1856–1916), who was a grandson of Thomas Lister, 2nd Lord Ribblesdale and a descendant of the Jacobite rebel, William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan.
A year later, on 29 November 1887, Fletcher and Drummond established the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom to involve Catholics in evangelisation and the conversion to the Catholic faith of the people of England and Wales, in the restoration of those who have lapsed from the practice of their faith, and for the praying for those who have died who have no-one to pray for them.
The Guild took two medieval orders as its model: the Trinitarians and the Mercedarians. It was dedicated to Our Lady, St Gregory and the English Martyrs and took as its prayer as that of the Blessed Henry Heath on the scaffold at Tyburn in 1643: "Jesu convert England, have mercy on this country". The Guild members (known as Ransomers) were originally composed of White Cross (clerical), Red Cross (evangelical), and Blue Cross (supplicant) Ransomers.
Thousands of Catholics enrolled in the Guild, including the Cardinals Henry Edward Manning and Herbert Vaughan, Archbishops of Westminster, and Saint John Henry Newman (as White Cross Ransomers).
The Guild was recognised and blessed by Pope Leo XIII in 1900 who became its first President, and each Pope since then has served as President of the Guild. It was registered as a charity in 1965. The Guild's current Master is Mgr John Armitage.
Activities
Pilgrimages
For many years, the Guild has organised pilgrimages for its Ransomers to sites of devotion overseas, including Marian shrines such as those at Boulogne and Halle. It organised an annual pilgrimage to York from 1892. It also the first public pilgrimage since the Reformation to the Basilica of Our Lady of Walsingham on 20 August 1897. It also arranged pilgrimages in the British Isles, such as to Glastonbury, and sites at Canterbury, Chelsea, Hastings, Holywell, Padley, King's Lynn, Westminster, Willesden, York, and Walsingham.
In 2019, as part of the spiritual preparation for England's re-dedication as the Dowry of Mary, the Guild and Our Lady of Walsingham organised a two-year Dowry Tour of England's Catholic Cathedrals, including Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral, and St John's Cathedral, Norwich.
Ransom and Dowry Grants
The Guild organisation, supported by a network of members, offers grants to parishes and churches in England and Wales. With an emphas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikabu | Pikabu (Russian:Пикабу) is a social networking service from Russia with an emphasis on user-generated content, where users can submit links, images, gifs, and videos which will then be voted by the community. It was founded on August 1, 2009 by Maxim Khryashchev with the purpose of creating a website similar to Reddit.
As of February 2023, Pikabu was the 22nd most visited website in Russia and the 283rd most visited website in world, according to Similarweb.
History
The name of the website comes from the children's game Peekaboo. The site was created based on a modified free Digg like software.
Since September 2022, the site is owned by a company of Alexey Nechayev, founder of the New People political party.
Site overview
The site works on the principle of user-generated content. Users can post and comment content that can be text, as well as images, gifs, and videos. Comments on Pikabu are infinitely branching.
Users can also cast positive and negative votes on a post or a comment, and depending on its score it can appear higher or lower on the site.
Registration on the site is required to post and comment, viewing the site (except for erotic posts) is available for everyone.
See also
Reddit
Digg
References
External links
Official website
Russian social networking websites
Russian-language websites
Internet properties established in 2009
2009 establishments in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Applications%2C%20Inc. | Computer Applications, Inc. (CAI) was an American computer software company of the 1960s. Founded in 1960 in New York City, it grew to encompass contract programming, computer services, and various subsidiary businesses. By the end of the decade, it was the second largest independent software company in the United States. Falling into a rapid decline, it went bankrupt in 1970.
Origin and growth
Computer Applications, Inc. was founded in 1960 and its headquarters were located in New York City. The company was part of a group of software contracting start-up companies that sprung up in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It had an initial offering of shares in 1962. The company soon had additional offices in San Diego, California, and Washington, D.C.
In 1963 they acquired Electronic Business Services Corporation, which helped them get into the service bureau business. Eventually they would have the most services bureaus of any computer firm on the East Coast of the United States. A number of other subsidiaries would be part of the company as well, including two located in Silver Spring, Maryland, and one in Fairfield, New Jersey.
The company was involved not just in programming jobs for businesses but also for computer manufacturers. An instance of the latter was a contract the company had to develop the Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM) for the IBM OS/360 mainframe platform. The company also operated computer center activities for parts of the federal government; this included three computer centers within NASA. Another consequential project they were involved in was building parts of what became the Ticketron computerized event ticketing system.
Following a couple of profitable years, in 1965 the company's stock was listed on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol CPD.
Prominence
Of those other computer software firms that started up around the same time, only a few others grew to be large as Computer Applications; they included Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Computer Usage Company (CUC), and C-E-I-R. Eventually CAI became one of the "big five" software contracting houses in the United States, with the others being CSC, CUC, System Development Corporation, and Planning Research Corporation.
The company's New York Office was located at 555 Madison Avenue. Also in the same midtown Manhattan building was a competitor of sorts, Advanced Computer Techniques, and at a time when finding programming talent was an exercise in creativity, that company's executives poached several Computer Applications programmers whom they happened to see riding the elevators holding a deck of punched cards. Another company Computer Applications competed against in the programming services area was Applied Data Research (before that company became better known for its software products).
By 1967, Computer Applications, Inc. had around 2,100 employees. It consisted of a parent company and nine subsidiaries, a number that would vary somew |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica%20Bol%C3%B3n-Canedo | Verónica Bolón-Canedo (born 1984) is a Spanish computer scientist whose research concerns feature selection in machine learning, with applications including medical diagnosis, oil spill detection, and automated educational assessment. She is a professor at the University of A Coruña.
Education and career
Bolón-Canedo was born in Carballo in 1984. She studied computer science at the nearby University of A Coruña, earning a bachelor's degree in 2009, a master's degree in 2010, and completing her Ph.D. in 2014.
After postdoctoral research at the University of Manchester in the UK, she returned to the University of A Coruña as an assistant professor. She later became a full professor there, in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technologies.
Books
Bolón-Canedo is the author or editor of books including:
Feature Selection for High-Dimensional Data (with Noelia Sánchez-Maroño and Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Springer, 2015)
Recent Advances in Ensembles for Feature Selection (with Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Springer, 2018)
Microarray Bioinformatics (edited with Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Springer, 2019)
Recognition
Bolón-Canedo was elected to the Young Academy of Spain in 2020.
She was elected as a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences in 2022.
References
External links
Faculty profile, University of A Coruña
Living people
Spanish computer scientists
Spanish women computer scientists
University of A Coruña alumni
Academic staff of the University of A Coruña
1984 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20der%20Valk%20%282020%20TV%20series%29 | Van der Valk is a British television crime drama series that premiered in 2020, adapted from the eponymous series of crime thriller novels by Nicolas Freeling. Produced for the ITV network, it is a loose remake of the original Van der Valk series that ran from 1972 to 1992 on ITV. The reboot was created and written by Chris Murray, with Marc Warren starring as police detective Van der Valk. Continuity with the original series is not preserved in the remake, which introduces revised and new characters as well as new storylines.
Van der Valk premiered in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2020, the second series on 7 August 2022, and the third series on 18 June 2023.
Overview
Set against present-day Amsterdam, police Commissioner Piet Van der Valk investigates challenging cases with his partner Lucienne Hassell, and colleagues in the National Police Force's major crimes division.
Cast and characters
Main
Marc Warren as Commissaris Piet Van der Valk
Maimie McCoy as Inspecteur Lucienne Hassell
Luke Allen-Gale as Brigadier (Sergeant) Brad de Vries (Series 1–2)
Elliot Barnes-Worrell as Job Cloovers (Series 1–2)
Darrell D'Silva as Hendrik Davie, a police forensic pathologist
Emma Fielding as Hoofdcommissaris Julia Dahlman
Django Chan-Reeves as Sergeant Citra Li (Series 3)
Azan Ahmed as Sergeant Eddie Suleman (Series 3)
Recurring
Loes Haverkort as Lena Linderman (Series 2–3)
Peter van Heeringen as Homeless Frank
Mike Libanon as Cliff Palache
Episodes
Series 1 (2020)
Series 2 (2022)
Series 3 (2023)
Production
Development
Van der Valk is produced by Company Pictures, NL Film, ARD Degeto, and PBS, with All3Media as international distributor.
In this remake, Piet is unmarried and his sidekick Lucienne Hassell is lesbian. A key riff from the original 1972 series' distinctive theme music, "Eye Level", is echoed in the new theme music.
In May 2020, Warren confirmed that the show would return for a second series, although production might be delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, with actors, crew, and logistics established, filming on season 2 began with safety measures in place on 3 June 2021.
A third series was commissioned on 11 April 2022. Filming on Series 3 was completed in August 2022. With the departure of Elliot Barnes-Worrell and Luke Allen-Gale from the series, two new characters are introduced in Series 3: Sergeant Citra Li, played by Django Chan-Reeves, and Sergeant Eddie Suleman, played by Azan Ahmed.
Locations
Season 1 was filmed entirely in Amsterdam. Locations include the American Hotel, the Rijksmuseum, Achtergracht, NDSM, the Tommy Hilfiger HQ on Danzigerkade in Houthaven, REM Eiland, Nieuwe Teertuinen, Kadijken, Scharrebiersluis bridge, Plantage, and the Prinseneilandsgracht.
Season 2 was filmed in Amsterdam, Utrecht, and The Hague. Locations include Scheveningen Pier, the Muziekgebouw, A'DAM Tower, and Café Scheltema.
Release
Broadcast
The show premiered in the United Kingdom on ITV on 26 April 202 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwind%20Airlines | Southwind Airlines is a Turkish airline founded in April 2022. Flights to Russia commenced in August of that year, while Germany was added to its network a month later.
History
Southwind Airlines was formally announced in April 2022, based out of Antalya, Turkey. Affiliated with Russian tour operator Pegas Touristik, the airline aims to prevent the loss of Russian tourists coming to Turkey following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The airline received preclearance from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in June of that year. The first commercial flight was flown to Perm on 12 August.
Charter flights to Germany commenced in September 2022. In February 2023, the airline announced plans to carry tourists to Antalya from 16 Russian cities during the summer season. The number of aircraft in the fleet is expected to be 14 by the end of 2023.
The airline will begin flights of its own to 10 UK airports in Summer 2024.
Destinations
Manama – Bahrain International Airport
Berlin – Berlin Brandenburg Airport "Willy Brandt"
Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport
Hamburg – Hamburg Airport
Hanover – Hanover Airport
Leipzig – Leipzig/Halle Airport
Munich – Munich International Airport
Nuremberg – Nuremberg Airport
Stuttgart – Stuttgart Airport
Heraklion – Heraklion International Airport "Nikos Kazantzakis"
Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion International Airport
Bergamo – Orio al Serio International Airport
Beirut – Beirut Rafik Hariri International Airport
Chișinău – Chișinău International Airport
Skopje – Alexander the Great International Airport
Irkutsk – International Airport Irkutsk
Kaliningrad – Khrabrovo Airport
Kazan – Kazan International Airport
Krasnoyarsk – Krasnoyarsk International Airport
Moscow – Sheremetyevo International Airport
Nizhny Novgorod – Strigino Airport
Novosibirsk – Tolmachevo Airport
Orenburg – Orenburg Tsentralny Airport
Saint Petersburg – Pulkovo Airport
Samara – Kurumoch International Airport
Ufa – Ufa International Airport
Yekaterinburg – Koltsovo Airport
Basel – EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg
Zürich – Zürich Airport
Antalya – Antalya International Airport Hub
Trabzon – Trabzon Airport
Birmingham – Birmingham Airport
Bristol – Bristol Airport
East Midlands – East Midlands Airport
Edinburgh – Edinburgh Airport
Glasgow – Glasgow Airport
Leeds/Bradford – Leeds Bradford Airport
Liverpool – Liverpool John Lennon Airport
London – London Stansted Airport
Manchester – Manchester Airport
Newcastle upon Tyne – Newcastle Airport
Fleet
, Southwind Airlines operates the following aircraft:
References
External links
2022 establishments in Turkey
Airlines of Turkey
Airlines established in 2022
Charter airlines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoutible | Spoutible is a social media and social networking service created by Christopher Bouzy, the founder of the Twitter analytics service Bot Sentinel. It launched in February 2023.
History
In November 2022, after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, Bouzy proposed the creation of a social media platform similar to Twitter, but with improvements to what he called its best features "while fixing everything wrong with Twitter", pledging to follow through with the proposal if 100,000 people joined a pre-registration mailing list.
Bouzy used Twitter to crowdsource details about the platform, including its name. Bouzy initially chose the name "Spout" in reference to the old Twitter error graphic of a whale being carried off by a flock of birds; he said that he chose "Spoutible" instead after the owner of the spout.com domain demanded $1.5 million. Phil Schnyder, a former director of online development for Avanquest, agreed to become the startup's COO.
In December 2022, a beta version of Spoutible was announced, with its launch set to occur in late January 2023. The launch occurred on February 1, 2023, with nearly 150,000 users having applied for pre-registration. The website faced many issues after going live, including its API not being adequately secured, which resulted in users' personal information being temporarily exposed. It eventually stabilized toward the end its first week.
By late March and early April 2023, celebrities such as Monica Lewinsky and Jason Alexander had joined the platform, along with journalists from news organizations such as The New York Times, the Associated Press and NPR. As of early June, around 240,000 users were registered on the platform. Client apps for Android and IOS were later made available.
Terms of service dispute
On February 19, 2023, author and former law professor Courtney Milan expressed concerns about Spoutible's terms of service, saying that its ban on "sexually suggestive" language and links to "sexually explicit content" was so broad that it could prevent her and her colleagues promoting their work. She offered to use her legal expertise to tweak the platform's fine print, to which Bouzy responded, "Milan is more than welcome to start a social media platform and write the terms of service and policies however she likes. But the policy isn't changing, nor is it being rewritten."
Bouzy's refusal to engage with Milan angered many of her followers and fellow authors, with some vowing to quit the platform in protest. The next day, Bouzy shared a screenshot from Milan's Wikipedia article detailing a sexual harassment allegation she made in 2017 as part of the MeToo movement, with the sentence "It's clear this person has an agenda." Milan blocked him in response. Bouzy later deleted his spout about Milan and apologised to his followers for writing something "inarticulate"; Milan said she did not receive a personal apology from him.
According to Bouzy, the incident resulted in a net win for Spoutible, with d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Simonov%20case | On March 30, 2023, 63-year-old pensioner Mikhail Simonov was convicted due to two comments under other people's posts in the Russian social network VKontakte. Mikhail Simonov Alexei was accused of discrediting the Russian army during Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He received seven years in prison.
Course of events
Mikhail Simonov was born around 1960 in Voronezh, and in recent years he worked as the director of a restaurant car and lived in Belarus.
In March 2022, Mikhail Simonov wrote two comments to other people's posts: "Killing children and women, we sing songs on Channel One. We, Russia, have become godless. Forgive us, Lord!" and "Russian pilots bomb children".
On November 9, 2022, officers of the authorities came with a Bulgarian saw to the apartment where Mikhail Simonov was staying with his friends.
The first time they couldn't open a case, and the second time too (the case was returned "due to the absence of a crime", but then handed over to another employee). In December, Simonov's term in pretrial detention was extended, and the following was noted about his health at the time: "Elderly Simonov can't hear well and speaks with difficulty, and in addition, he told the court that he has "prostatitis and a lot of various ailments." The state of health of the detainee did not affect the court's decision, since, according to the judge, the defendant is a danger to society and can hide from the city».
On March 30, 2023, a verdict was handed down under Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code. The pensioner received seven years in prison. The verdict was handed down in the Tymyryazevsky District Court of Moscow.
In the last word, Mikhail Simonov specified that he was born and raised in the family of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, and his mother survived the blockade of Leningrad, and "there simply could not be any negative attitude [to the army] in him".
The human rights project "Memorial" recognized Mikhail Simonov as a political prisoner.
The essence of the criminal charge
The case against Simonov includes the testimony of two witnesses, Anna Gell and Natalya Plotnikova, who, as Mediazona writes, "not knowing each other, one day they "accidentally came across" Mikhail Simonov's posts "discrediting the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation" and, without consulting one another, decided to turn to B. R. Minasov, the senior investigator of the SC on particularly important cases." Anna Gell stated at the court that it annoys her when people publicly speak out "against the government and the state" and "a solid lump of liberalism" on social networks. She even shed a tear and noted that she does not believe in the crimes committed by the Russian army in Ukraine. The fault of the citizen of the Russian Federation lies in the fact that he dared to write two comments on the VKontakte social network: "Killing children and women, we sing songs on Channel One. We, Russia, have become godless. Forgive us, Lord!" and "Russian pilots bomb childr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Rhodes | Fred Rhodes may refer to:
Fred Rhodes (footballer)
Fred Rhodes (writer)
See also
Frederick Parker-Rhodes, English linguist, plant pathologist, computer scientist and mathematician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Hing | Michael Hing is an Australian comedian, television and radio presenter, podcaster and actor from Sydney, Australia. Hing is currently co-host on Network Ten’s The Project. He was previously co-host of Triple J's drive program Hobba and Hing with Lewis Hobba
Early life and education
Hing was born in Australia to Chinese Australian parents who were both doctors. His mother's family grew up in Walgett and Lightning Ridge in northern New South Wales, while his father is from Maitland and Thursday Island.
Hing grew up in Illawong, in the Sutherland Shire of Sydney. He attended Trinity Grammar School and Caringbah High School. He also worked at a bottle shop in Chinatown, Sydney.
Career
From 2015 to 2016, Hing was a host on the ABC programs Good Game: Pocket Edition and Good Game Well Played.
In 2017, he portrayed the character Sam Wu on the Stan comedy television series The Other Guy, which starred comedian Matt Okine.
From 2018 to 2020, he was the host of the SBS documentary series Where Are You Really From?. In 2019, he made multiple appearances on SBS's The Feed.
In 2020, it was announced that Hing would be joining Triple J to replace Veronica Milsom and become a host of the drive radio show Hobba and Hing alongside Lewis Hobba, who had been in the hosting position since 2015.
In 2021, Hing was announced as a co-host the SBS panel game show Celebrity Letters and Numbers, alongside David Astle and Lily Serna.
In December 2022, it was announced that Hing would be joining Network 10's current affairs news program The Project in 2023 as a co-host to replace Tommy Little. He hosts the show on Friday and Sunday nights alongside Hamish Macdonald, Georgie Tunny and Sarah Harris.
In July 2023, it was announced that Hing and his radio co-host Lewis Hobba would be leaving Triple J and therefore ending there radio show. The duo continue to host a podcast together on ABC Listen called Silver Bullet.
Personal life
Hing was one of 30 Australian men to be nominated for Cleo's Bachelor of the Year in 2015.
In August 2023, Hing married partner Humyara Mahbub.
References
External links
Living people
Triple J announcers
Australian people of Chinese descent
Australian stand-up comedians
Radio personalities from Sydney
Comedians from Sydney
Australian male comedians
Date of birth unknown |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%20Office%20Vietnam | Box Office Vietnam is a site that aggregates and analyzes box office revenue data throughout Vietnam. It is also the only unit in Vietnam that collates statistics on the data of cinema clusters, screening rooms, the number of tickets and revenue for the movie market in Vietnam. The newspapers Tuoi Tre, Thanh Nien, Zing News and Radio Free Asia mostly get their updated box office revenue data from Box Office Vietnam.
Active
Box Office Vietnam was founded by Nguyen Khanh Duong in 2017 and is full of movies from 2019. The website is operated based on an algorithmic system to scan the entire screening room nationwide with more than 10 large and small cinema clusters and more than 1200 screening rooms. Currently, this is also the only unit in Vietnam that statistics the data of cinema clusters, screening rooms, the number of tickets and the revenue of the Vietnamese film market.
Statistics of Box Office Vietnam have also been mentioned when taking revenue from movies such as Tuoi Tre, Thanh Nien, Zing News... or Radio Free Asia. Box Office Mojo's Vietnam sales data is also provided by the Box Office Vietnam website.
References
Websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felisa%20Verdejo | María Felisa Verdejo Maillo (born 1950, Salamanca), known as Felisa Verdejo, is a university professor in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems at UNED. She is one of the Spanish pioneers in natural language processing and artificial intelligence.
Biography
Verdejo has created and promoted research groups, in several universities, in the fields of natural language processing, artificial intelligence and distance education. She has taught and carried out research at four Spanish universities: Universidad Complutense (1978-1981), Universidad del País Vasco (1981-1985), Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (1985-1991), and UNED (since 1991).
She opened and promoted a strategic line of research, dealing with the automatic processing of the Spanish language to integrate it into intelligent systems and a wide range of applications. Her scientific achievements are reflected in her publications, in the research projects that often included large consortia that she successfully brought together and led, and in the twenty doctoral theses she has supervised.
In 1983, when she was a professor of the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastián, she was one the creators of the Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN, in English: Spanish association for Natural Language Processing), a scientific and professional organization for people working on natural language processing.
Awards
ECCAI Fellow (2002)
José García Santesmases National Prize in Computer Science (2014).
Honorary doctorate from the University of Alicante (2019).
References
Spanish computer scientists
Spanish women scientists
Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni
1950 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20and%20copyright | In the 2020s, the rapid increase in the capabilities of deep learning-based generative artificial intelligence models, including text-to-image models such as Stable Diffusion and large language models such as ChatGPT, posed questions of how copyright law applies to the training and use of such models. Because there is limited existing case law, experts consider this area to be fraught with uncertainty.
The largest issue regards whether infringement occurs when the generative AI is trained or used. Popular deep learning models are generally trained on very large datasets of media scraped from the Internet, much of which is copyrighted. Since the process of assembling training data involves making copies of copyrighted works it may violate the copyright holder's exclusive right to control the reproduction of their work, unless the use is covered by exceptions under a given jurisdiction's copyright statute. Additionally, the use of a model's outputs could be infringing, and the model creator may be accused of "vicarious liability" for said infringement. As of 2023, there are a number of pending US lawsuits challenging the use of copyrighted data to train AI models, with defendants arguing that this falls under fair use.
Another issue is that, in jurisdictions such as the US, output generated solely by a machine is ineligible for copyright protection, as most jurisdictions protect only "original" works having a human author. However, some have argued that the operator of an AI may qualify for copyright if they exercise sufficient originality in their use of an AI model.
Copyright status of AI-generated works
Most legal jurisdictions grant copyright only to original works of authorship by human authors. In the US, the Copyright Act protects "original works of authorship". The U.S. Copyright Office has interpreted this as being limited to works "created by a human being", declining to grant copyright to works generated solely by a machine.
Some have suggested that certain AI generations might be copyrightable in the US and similar jurisdictions if it can be shown that the human who ran the AI program exercised sufficient originality in selecting the inputs to the AI or editing the AI's output. Proponents of this view suggest that an AI model may be viewed as merely a tool (akin to a pen or a camera) used by its human operator to express their creative vision. For example, proponents argue that if the standard of originality can be satisfied by an artist clicking the shutter button on a camera, then perhaps artists using generative AI should get similar deference, especially if they go through multiple rounds of revision to refine their prompts to the AI.
Other proponents argue that the Copyright Office is not taking a technology neutral approach to the use of AI (or algorithmic) tools. For other creative expressions (music, photography, writing) the test is effectively whether there is de minimis human creativity. For works using AI tools, the C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ecosystem is a community of living organisms together with the nonliving components of their environment.
It may also mean:
Business ecosystem
Data ecosystem
Developer ecosystem
Digital ecosystem
Entrepreneurship ecosystem
Knowledge ecosystem
Platform ecosystem
Startup ecosystem
See also
Apple ecosystem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2-415b | K2-415b is an Earth-sized exoplanet located 72 light-years from Earth orbiting the red dwarf star K2-415.
Background
The planet was found using data from the NASA Kepler Space Telescope, K2, and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. K2-415b was discovered in February 2023.
K2-415b is approximately 1.015 times the radius of Earth and is 7.5 times the mass of Earth. It does not orbit its star within its proposed habitable zone and orbits at a distance of around 0.027 AU and completes one orbit around its star every 4.018 days; because of this, the average surface temperature of K2-415b is estimated to be .
See also
List of exoplanets
List of exoplanets discovered in 2023
References
Exoplanets discovered by K2
Exoplanets discovered by TESS
Exoplanets discovered in 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Avellino | The Avellino trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network of the city of Avellino and the province of Avellino, in the region of Campania. Trolleybuses originally served the city from 1947 to 1973, on a route that also extended outside the city to the neighbouring towns of Atripalda and (from 1956) Mercogliano, and then the system closed. However, in the 2000s work to build a new trolleybus system got under way and new vehicles were purchased for it in 2007, and were delivered in 2014. The project experienced several delays after the start of construction in 2009, but most issues had been resolved by 2020 and construction was largely completed by 2021. Throughout its planning and construction, it was inaccurately referred to as the "metropolitana leggera" (light metro, or light rail), when in fact it was never planned to be a rail line, and always planned to be a trolleybus line. The last round of testing took place in December 2022 and January 2023, and the new trolleybus system opened for service on 3 April 2023.
First system
History
The first trolleybus line in Avellino opened for service on 16 September 1947, a (round trip) route connecting the city centre with the railway station and the directly adjacent town of Atripalda. It was constructed by the Compagnia Generale di Elettricità (General Electric Power Company) but managed by the Società Filoviaria Irpina. In 1956, the route was extended from the city centre to the neighbouring town of Mercogliano, making it an interurban route and increasing the entire system's length of overhead wiring to (including two alternative routings between Avellino and Atripalda). There were then two routes, with route 1 running through to Mercogliano and route 2 ending at Viale Italia west of the city centre in Avellino. The two routes followed different routings on their easternmost sections, between the railway station and Atripalda. The end-to-end length of route 1, Atripalda–Avellino–Mercogliano, was around in length, and the section of route 2 that was not also included in route 1 was around long.
By 1959, the company was already operating at a loss, and in 1971 it was placed in receivership. The trolleybus system closed on 1 November 1973, initially caused by a major breakdown of the substation but made permanent when, in June 1974, the Commissione Amministratrice del Consorzio Trasporti Irpini (Administrative Commission of the Irpini Transport Consortium, established in May 1973) gave permission for the permanent replacement of trolleybuses by motorbuses.
Fleet
The all-time fleet of the original system consisted of the following trolleybuses:
5 Fiat 668F with Cansa bodies (Nos. 01–05), built 1947.
1 Fiat 2401FM with Cansa body (No. 06), built 1953.
3 Fiat 668F with Cansa bodies (Nos. 07–09), built 1945; acquired secondhand from the Salerno trolleybus system and placed in service in Avellino in 1966.
1 Alfa Romeo 140AF three-axle vehicle with Pistoiesi body (No. 183), b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusrow%20Baug | Cusrow Baug is a Parsi residential colony on Colaba Causeway, Mumbai, India. Its residential blocks were completed between 1934 and 1959. The colony houses a Zoroastrian temple, computer centre, gymnasium, and sports club. It was designed by Claude Batley.
History
Following his death, Parsi businessman Nowrosjee N. Wadia left a large amount of money to his wife Jerbai Wadia. She used it to build five residential colonies, known as baugs, and create funds for Parsis who were unable to afford housing. These five baugs, created in honour of her husband and three sons, are called Cusrow Baug, Ness Baug, Rustom Baug, Jer Baug, and Nowroze Baug. They contain a total of 1545 apartments. The baugs are maintained by N. N. Wadia and R. N. Wadia Trusts under the Bombay Parsi Punchayet. The managing committee is chaired by a member of the Wadia family.
Cusrow Baug was designed by English architect Claude Batley. The first residential blocks of the colony were completed in 1934, after two years of construction. The S and T blocks were completed in 1959. It is one of the oldest Parsi colonies in Mumbai. The houses in the colony are not for sale and are only available to be rented. During the 1950s, because the colony was located near a swamp, it had only a few tenants even at a minimal rent of per month.
The Seth Nusserwanji Hirji Karani Agiary, a Zoroastrian fire temple, is located in the colony. The holy fire of the temple was originally lit at Nizam Street on 16 March 1847. It was later moved to Sodawaterwalla Agiary for some time, and then moved to the colony on the night of 22–23 February 1935. On 21 March 1959, Sir Cusrow Wadia Pavilion was opened for sporting activities.
Features
The residential blocks of the colony are labelled in alphabetical order, beginning from A to U, except for I, L, N, and O, which are absent.
The colony covers an area of and can house more than 500 families. It has a computer centre, a gymnasium, and a sports club called Cusrow Baug United Sports and Welfare League. The social activity cell of the colony conducts religious classes and provides scholarships.
The Seth Nusserwanji Hirji Karani Agiary is built on a plot measuring .
References
Buildings and structures in Mumbai
1934 establishments in India
Residential buildings in India
British colonial architecture in India
Art Deco architecture in India
Buildings and structures completed in 1959
Wadia family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist%20Radio%20Network | The Feminist Radio Network (FRN) was an American radio distribution network founded in 1974 which primarily circulated programs by and about women. It was formed out of the earlier organization Radio Free Women, which was associated with station WGTB at Georgetown University. One of the FRN's stated goals was to promote communication across diverse groups of women broadcasters, guests, and listeners. It simultaneously produced original radio content and evaluated submissions from other stations to include in its published catalogs. The 1979 distribution catalog included 49 programs, and the 1985 catalog listed 80 programs. The FRN was utilized by other women's advocacy groups and radio organizations to share their radio programs to a broader audience. FRN programs included interviews, investigative journalism, and a multi-part series about women in jazz. It also published a newsletter titled Calliope. Carolyn Byerly and Karen Ross write that "[t]he group's members ranged in political perspectives—Marxist-Leninst, Socialist Worker, lesbian-feminist, radical feminist, and liberal feminist—and all were self-taught in their broadcast and journalism skills."
References
Radio organizations in the United States
Feminist organizations in the United States
1974 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun%20Companion | Shadowrun Companion is a sourcebook published by FASA in 1996 for the near-future cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun.
Contents
Shadowrun Companion is a sourcebook featuring expanded rules for Shadowrun. The content includes:
Chapter 1: Expanded rules and options for character creation.
Chapter 2: New skills
Chapter 3: Advice for gamemasters on how mega-corporations might hire shadowrunners
Chapter 4: Potential contacts and enemies of the player characters.
Chapter 5: A wide variety of new rules on various subjects.
Chapter 6: How to run a game
Chapter 7: Using the Shadowrun rules in other genres of role-playing games
Publication history
Following the publication of Shadowrun in 1989, FASA published a second edition in 1992. To expand the possibilities and options in the game, FASA published Shadowrun Companion in 1996, a 136-page softcover book designed by Jennifer Brandes, Zach Bush, Chris Hepler, Chris Hussey, Jonathan Jacobson, Steve Kenson, Michael Mulvihill, Linda Naughton, and Brian Schoner, with artwork by Doug Alexander, Janet Aulisio, Tom Baxa, Joel Biske, Brian Despain, Fred Hooper, Mike Jackson, Larry MacDougall, James Nelson, Mike Nielsen, Paolo Parente, Matt Wilson, and Mark Zug.
Following the publication of the third edition of Shadowrun in 1998, FASA published a new edition of Shadowrun Companion in 2003.
Reception
In Issue 16 of the British fantasy magazine Arcane, Andy Butcher pointed out the gap between the publication of the third edition of Shadowrun and its Companion, saying, "The biggest problem with The Shadowrun Companion is that for many fans of the game it's going to be about five years too late. Any dedicated Shadowrun group will probably have already come up with their own rules for the situations covered here." Butcher was also of two minds about the contents, calling the book, "a somewhat curious beast, being by its very nature varied in what it covers. Unfortunately, although much of the book is well written and designed, it's somewhat variable in quality. [...] many of the new rules systems are poorly explained and overly complex — somewhat ironic, considering that one of the aims of the book is to clarify the game." Butcher concluded by giving the book an average rating of 7 out of 10, commenting, "Less experienced Shadowrun refs will find it very handy, but those with more experience will have to weigh up whether they really need enough of this stuff to make it worthwhile."
Other reviews and commentary
SF Site
Envoyer #58
Shadis #34
Casus Belli #101
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1996
Shadowrun supplements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse%20Computing | Multiverse Computing is a Spanish quantum computing software company headquartered in San Sebastian, Spain, with offices in Paris, Munich, London, Toronto and Sherbrooke, Canada. The Spanish startup applies quantum and quantum-inspired algorithms to problems in energy, logistics, manufacturing, mobility, life sciences, finance, cybersecurity, chemistry and aerospace.
Its flagship product, Singularity, is an industrial quantum and quantum-inspired software platform focused on solving real-world challenges for large enterprises. Among other features, Singularity’s user interface incorporates tools such as Microsoft Excel plug-ins that allow use of the platform’s core algorithms without prior knowledge of quantum computing.
History
Multiverse was co-founded in 2019 by Enrique Lizaso, Román Orús, Alfonso Rubio and Sam Mugel. Lizaso, treasurer and member of the governing board of the European Quantum Industry Consortium, and Orús, Ikerbasque Research Professor at DIPC and former Marie Curie Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, were chatting on WhatsApp when the idea for a quantum computing company for finance was born.
In 2021, the company announced €12.5 million in funding from the European Innovation Council Accelerator program.
In April 2022, the company partnered with the Bank of Canada to explore how quantum computing can provide new insights into economic problems via simulation of cryptocurrency adoption. This research made Canada the first G7 country to explore the model of complex networks and cryptocurrencies through quantum computing.
That July, Multiverse partnered with Bosch to integrate quantum algorithms into digital twin simulation workflow to scale simulations more efficiently and improve the accuracy of defect detection.
Later that year, BASF used Multiverse’s Singularity to develop models for foreign exchange trading optimization between U.S. and EU currency to improve profits.
Additional organizations exploring Multiverse’s Singularity platform include BBVA, Crédit Agricole CIB, and Repsol.
In 2022, Gartner recognized Multiverse Computing as a “Gartner Cool Vendor” for offering “quantum software technologies and services that enable integration of quantum solutions exploration in the financial services industry.”
Today, Multiverse is one of the largest quantum software companies in the world and one of the fastest-growing deep-tech companies in Spain having raised over €27.3 million.
Technology
Multiverse Computing’s algorithms have been implemented across verticals such as energy, manufacturing, logistics, finance, chemistry, space, and cybersecurity. On top of quantum machine learning and optimization algorithms, the company also uses quantum-inspired tensor networks to boost efficiency in solving industrial challenges. Tensor networks are frequently used to model quantum systems, specifically quantum systems of many particles, and more recently are also being used model artificial intelligence systems.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Auckland%20ferries | This is a list of ferries that operate in Auckland as part of the city's public transport network. Ferries are primarily operated by Fullers360, SeaLink, Belaire, and Explore. Auckland Transport also owns several ferries, but these vessels are operated by Fullers360.
Auckland Transport
In 2022, Auckland Transport purchased four diesel ferries that were in dire need of repair from Fullers, and is upgrading them to reduce their emissions. There are plans to commission five new hybrid-electric ferries, with the first two expected to arrive in 2024.
Explore Group
Fullers360
Belaire Ferries
Belaire Ferries operates 16 daily services from Downtown Auckland to West Harbour, and 4 service to Rakino Island each week.
SeaLink
See also
Public transport in Auckland
Transport in Auckland
References
Public transport in Auckland
Waitematā Harbour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allex%20Seah%20Shoo%20Chin | Allex Seah Shoo Chin (; born 21 May 1983) is a Malaysian politician, data analyst and engineer who has served as Member of the Melaka State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Barisan Nasional (BN) state administration under Chief Minister Ab Rauf Yusoh since April 2023 and Member of the Melaka State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Kesidang since May 2018. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. He has served as State Secretary of the DAP of Melaka since January 2022. He is presently the sole Melaka EXCO Member of PH and DAP.
Political career
Member of the Melaka State Legislative Assembly (since 2018)
In the 2018 Melaka state election, Seah was nominated by his party DAP to contest for the Kesidang state seat. He defeated another candidate and Goh Leong San who contested as an independent candidate and was previously a DAP member before the election. He was elected to the Melaka State Legislative Assembly as the Kesidang MLA for the first term.
In the 2021 Melaka state election, Seah was renominated to defend the Kesidang state seat. He again defeated other candidates of BN and Perikatan Nasional (PN) and reelected as the Kesidang NLA for the second term.
State Secretary of Democratic Action Party of Melaka (since 2022)
On 25 January 2022, he was appointed as State Secretary of DAP of Melaka.
Member of the Melaka State Executive Council (since 2023)
On 5 April 2023, Seah was appointed as Member of the Melaka State EXCO in charge of Entrepreneur Development, Cooperatives and Consumer Affairs by Chief Minister Ab Rauf. His appointment also formed a state coalition government between BN and PH as he as the only PH MLA and 9 other MLAs formed the Ab Rauf EXCO lineup. On 19 April 2023, he praised the hypermarkets and supermarkets in Melaka who took the Menu Rahmah initiative to offer cheaper and more affordable prices of essential items that led consumers to lower expenditure. He also assured that the supply of the essential items was enough throughout the Hari Raya festive season.
Personal life
Seah is married. Seah and his wife have three children who are two sons and a daughter.
Election results
References
External links
Living people
People from Malacca
Malaysian people of Chinese descent
Democratic Action Party (Malaysia) politicians
Members of the Malacca State Legislative Assembly
Malacca state executive councillors
21st-century Malaysian politicians
1983 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Iron%20Heart%20episodes | The Iron Heart is a Philippine action drama television series broadcast by Kapamilya Channel. The series aired on the network's Primetime Bida evening block, Jeepney TV, A2Z Primetime Weeknights, and TV5's Todo Max Primetime Singko, and worldwide via The Filipino Channel and Kapatid Channel from November 14, 2022 to October 13, 2023, replacing 2 Good 2 Be True.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2022–23)
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Season 2 (2023)
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References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis%20Market | Genesis Market was a cybercrime-facilitation website noted for its easy-to-use interface. It enabled users to spoof over two million different victims, providing access to their bank accounts.
The website was founded in 2017 and its publicly visible web operations were reportedly shut down by an international police operation in April 2023. Two weeks later the website was operational again.
The US government has stated that the website is operated from within Russia.
Description
Genesis Market was an English language website that facilitates identity fraud using personal details including passwords to popular websites including Airbnb, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Fidelity, PayPal, and Netflix. The personal details used were stolen from 1.5 million computers. At the time its operations were disrupted, the website had 80 million digital profiles of over two million potential victims available. The scope of the thefts enabled by the website is not known, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported US$8.7 million of cryptocurrency thefts, and stated that the total theft is estimated to be tens of millions of dollars.
It is noted for its user-friendly interface and providing users with an easy means to digital adopt a target's identity to facilitate cybercrime. The website is used by fraudsters to impersonate target users without their knowledge and steal money from target's bank accounts.
In 2022, it was considered one of the top three such websites, the other two being Russian Market, and 2Easy.
United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken stated that the website is operated from within Russia.
History
Gensis Market was launched in beta form in 2017.
In December 2020, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with another unnamed national law enforcement agency, copied Genesis Market's server data, capturing user data of the site's 33,000 users in the process.
In May 2021, the website provided 374,401 target profiles in 218 countries.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down the website's surface web domains in April 2023 as part of the international law enforcement operation known as Operation Cookie Monster. This international operation was led by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Dutch National Police (Politie), with a command post set up at Europol’s headquarters on the action day to coordinate the different enforcement measures being carried out across the globe. The law enforcement operation involved seventeen countries including the British, Australian, Canadian, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Polish, Danish, and Romanian police forces. After shutting down the website, 119 people were arrested and 208 properties were searched as part of the international collaborated police actions.
Within two weeks of the shut down a mirror of the website was fully functioning on the dark web.
See also
Have I Been Pwned?
References
External links
Check Your Hack - National Police Corps (N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion%20Voting%20Systems%20v.%20Fox%20News%20Network | Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network (colloquially Dominion v. Fox) was a U.S. defamation lawsuit filed in March 2021 by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News Channel and its corporate parent Fox Corporation. Dominion's complaint sought US$1.6billion in damages, alleging several Fox programs had broadcast false statements that Dominion's voting machines had been rigged to steal the 2020 United States presidential election from then-president Donald Trump. Fox News argued that it was reporting "pure opinion" regarding what others were saying which, if true, would be protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution and New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964).
Dominion focused on allegations made between November 2020 and January 2021 by hosts Maria Bartiromo, Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, and Jeanine Pirro. Guests who often appeared with these hosts included Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, both of whom have also been sued individually by Dominion in federal court. During pre-trial discovery, Fox News' internal communications were released, indicating that prominent hosts and top executives were aware the network was reporting false statements but continued doing so to retain viewers for financial reasons.
In a summary judgment on March 31, 2023, Delaware Superior Court judge Eric M. Davis ruled that none of the disputed statements Fox News made about Dominion were true and ordered a trial to determine if the network had acted with actual malice. Several prominent Fox News personalities and senior executives were expected to testify at trial.
On April 18, 2023, as opening statements were about to begin, the judge announced that the parties had reached a settlement. Fox News agreed to pay Dominion $787.5 million and acknowledged the court's earlier ruling that Fox had broadcast false statements about Dominion. The settlement did not require Fox News to apologize. It is the largest known media settlement for defamation in U.S. history.
Background
After Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro promoted baseless allegations on her program that Dominion and its competitor Smartmatic had conspired to rig the election against Trump. Hosts Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo also promoted the allegations on their programs on sister network Fox Business. In December 2020, Smartmatic sent a letter to Fox News demanding retractions and threatening legal action, specifying that retractions "must be published on multiple occasions" so as to "match the attention and audience targeted with the original defamatory publications." Days later, each of the three programs aired the same three-minute video segment consisting of an interview with an election technology expert who refuted the allegations promoted by the hosts, responding to questions from an unseen and unidentified man. None of the three hosts personally issued retractions. Smartmatic filed a $2.7billion defamation suit against the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosome-associated%20vesicle | Ribosome-associated Vesicles, as known as RAVs, are a novel subcompartment of the rough endoplasmic reticulum, a membranous cellular network that is important for the synthesis and transport of proteins. RAVs have been observed via multiple imaging techniques and appear as discrete spherical vesicles that are associated with actively translated ribosomes. It is hypothesized that RAVs may arise from structural and/or functional changes in local membrane curvature along the rough endoplasmic reticulum tubular membrane network.
Discovery
RAVs were first identified in rat pancreatic β-cell-derived INS1-E cells using a combination of live-cell super-resolution stimulated emission depleted (STED) microscopy and highly inclined thin illumination (HiLO), with high-speed three-dimensional (3D) wide-field imaging . This approach was integrated with in situ cryo-electron tomography (Cryo-ET) and cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy (Cryo-CLEM) to visualize ER network dynamics, including its relationship with other intracellular organelles, including mitochondria.
Characteristics
Classically, ER tubules tend to be highly curved and free of ribosomes, whereas ER sheets lack curvature but have ribosomes. In contrast, RAVs are formed from highly curved structures with ribosomes. RAVs are also known to be dynamic, moving throughout the cell over distances as long as 5 μm. These vesicular structures are primarily found in the cell periphery near microtubule tracks and the ER reticular network. Furthermore, RAVs and ER interact closely via direct contacts.
RAVs have been characterized in multiple cell types across different organs. This includes primary human fibroblasts, mouse embryonic fibroblasts, and human BE(2)-M17 cells, a dopamine-secreting neuron-derived cell line. Carter et al. was able to apply their findings to primary rat cortical neurons as well. Similar to pancreatic cells, neuronal RAVs are also highly dynamic and show movement along the length of dendrites. Live imaging studies show RAVs in both neurons and INS1-1E ells stalling at times, consistent with other dynamic intracellular structures that stall upon recruitment to sites of local translation.
Proposed Function
It is hypothesized that RAVs may represent a novel mechanism in which secretory cells can answer to the demanding workload of protein synthesis due to their highly dynamic nature. The hybrid morphology of the RAVs is thought to serve as a way for the secretory cells to harness the protein production ability of the rough ER combined with the mobility of the tubular smooth ER.
Studies have suggested that local translation may play a critical role in activity-dependent synaptic plasticity and neuron remodeling. While thousands of mRNAs are trafficked to dendrites for site-specific translation, the machinery for this translation has yet to be fully elucidated. Carter et al. propose that RAVs may facilitate site-specific local translation in neurons by coupling cell activi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietoris-Rips%20Filtration | In topological data analysis, the Vietoris-Rips filtration (sometimes shortened to "Rips filtration") is the collection of nested Vietoris-Rips complexes on a metric space created by taking the sequence of Vietoris-Rips complexes over an increasing scale parameter. Often, the Vietoris-Rips filtration is used to create a discrete, simplicial model on point cloud data embedded in an ambient metric space. The Vietoris-Rips filtration is a multiscale extension of the Vietoris-Rips complex that enables researchers to detect and track the persistence of topological features, over a range of parameters, by way of computing the persistent homology of the entire filtration.
Definition
The Vietoris-Rips filtration is the nested collection of Vietoris-Rips complexes indexed by an increasing scale parameter. The Vietoris-Rips complex is a classical construction in mathematics that dates back to a 1927 paper of Leopold Vietoris, though it was independently considered by Eliyahu Rips in the study of hyperbolic groups, as noted by Mikhail Gromov in the 1980s. The conjoined name "Vietoris-Rips" is due to Jean-Claude Hausmann.
Given a metric space and a scale parameter (sometimes called the threshold or distance parameter) , the Vietoris-Rips complex (with respect to ) is defined as , where is the diameter, i.e. the maximum distance of points lying in .
Observe that if , there is a simplicial inclusion map . The Vietoris-Rips filtration is the nested collection of complexes :
If the non-negative real numbers are viewed as a posetal category via the relation, then the Vietoris-Rips filtration can be viewed as a functor valued in the category of simplicial complexes and simplicial maps, where the morphisms (i.e., relations in the poset) in the source category induce inclusion maps among the complexes. Note that the category of simplicial complexes may be viewed as a subcategory of , the category of topological spaces, by post-composing with the geometric realization functor.
Properties
The size of a filtration refers to the number of simplices in the largest complex, assuming the underlying metric space is finite. The -skeleton, i.e., the number of simplices up to dimension , of the Vietoris-Rips filtration is known to be , where is the number of points. The size of the complete skeleton has precisely simplices, one for each non-empty subset of points. Since this is exponential, researchers usually only compute the skeleton of the Vietoris-Rips filtration up to small values of .
When the underlying metric space is finite, the Vietoris-Rips filtration is sometimes referred to as essentially discrete, meaning that there exists some terminal or maximum scale parameter such that for all , and furthermore that the inclusion map is an isomorphism for all but finitely many parameters . In other words, when the underlying metric space is finite, the Vietoris-Rips filtration has a largest complex, and the complex changes at only a finite number of steps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Serna | Maria José Serna Iglesias (born 1959) is a Spanish computer scientist and mathematician whose research includes work on parallel approximation, on algorithms for cutwidth and linear layout of graphs, on algorithmic game theory, and on adversarial queueing networks.
Education
Serna earned two licenciates (undergraduate degrees), one in mathematics from the University of Barcelona in 1981 and a second in computer science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1985. After visiting the University of Patras in Greece to work with Paul Spirakis, with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Education, she completed in Ph.D. in 1990 through the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Her dissertation, The Parallel Approximability of P-complete Problems, combined the ideas of parallel algorithms and approximation algorithms, and was jointly supervised by Spirakis and Joaquim Gabarró.
While in Patras, she continued to hold an associate professor position at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, in the department of applied mathematics. On her return fram Patras, she was promoted to full professor in 1991, moved to the computer science department in 1992, and has been a university professor since 2006.
Books
Serna is the coauthor of the book Paradigms for Fast Parallel Approximability (with Josep Díaz, Paul Spirakis, and Jacobo Torán, Cambridge University Press, 1997), and of several Spanish and Catalan-language textbooks.
Recognition
In 2021, a special issue of the journal Computer Science Review was published as a festschrift in honor of Serna's 60th birthday.
References
External links
Home page
1959 births
Living people
Spanish computer scientists
Spanish women computer scientists
Spanish mathematicians
Spanish women mathematicians
University of Barcelona alumni
Polytechnic University of Catalonia alumni
Academic staff of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaving%20distance | In topological data analysis, the interleaving distance is a measure of similarity between persistence modules, a common object of study in topological data analysis and persistent homology. The interleaving distance was first introduced by Frédéric Chazal et al. in 2009. since then, it and its generalizations have been a central consideration in the study of applied algebraic topology and topological data analysis.
Definition
A persistence module is a collection of vector spaces indexed over the real line, along with a collection of linear maps such that is always an isomorphism, and the relation is satisfied for every . The case of indexing is presented here for simplicity, though the interleaving distance can be readily adapted to more general settings, including multi-dimensional persistence modules.
Let and be persistence modules. Then for any , a -shift is a collection of linear maps between the persistence modules that commute with the internal maps of and .
The persistence modules and are said to be -interleaved if there are -shifts and such that the following diagrams commute for all .
It follows from the definition that if and are -interleaved for some , then they are also -interleaved for any positive . Therefore, in order to find the closest interleaving between the two modules, we must take the infimum across all possible interleavings.
The interleaving distance between two persistence modules and is defined as .
Properties
Metric properties
It can be shown that the interleaving distance satisfies the triangle inequality. Namely, given three persistence modules , , and , the inequality is satisfied.
On the other hand, there are examples of persistence modules that are not isomorphic but that have interleaving distance zero. Furthermore, if no suitable exists then two persistence modules are said to have infinite interleaving distance. These two properties make the interleaving distance an extended pseudometric, which means non-identical objects are allowed to have distance zero, and objects are allowed to have infinite distance, but the other properties of a proper metric are satisfied.
Further metric properties of the interleaving distance and its variants were investigated by Luis Scoccola in 2020.
Computational complexity
Computing the interleaving distance between two single-parameter persistence modules can be accomplished in polynomial time. On the other hand, it was shown in 2018 that computing the interleaving distance between two multi-dimensional persistence modules is NP-hard.
References
Computational topology
Data analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Carbajo | Sergio Carbajo (born October 4, 1985) is a Basque-Spanish-American scientist and educator. He is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and the UCLA Physics & Astronomy departments and visiting professor at Stanford University’s Photon Science Division at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
In 2022, Carbajo received the Young Investigator Research Program Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in recognition of his work at the intersection between ultrast laser and optical physics, quantum electrodynamics, and novel radiation sources.
Education
Carbajo obtained a M.Eng. from Tecnun, University of Navarra in Telecom Engineering in 2009. He holds an M.Sc. from Colorado State University (2012) and Ph.D. in physics from University of Hamburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (2015).
Career
Carbajo is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and a visiting professor at Stanford University. He is the founder and director of the Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative, a scientific consortium whose mission is to understand, design, and ultimately control light-driven physical processes to help solve interconnected socio-technological challenges. Carbajo is also the Director of Diversity at the UCLA ECE department and the founder and director of the Queered Science and Technology Center (QSTC) at UCLA.
Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative
The Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative’s areas of study include life sciences, quantum, ultrafast, nonlinear optics, accelerator and X-ray sources, and chemical engineering. The cooperative seeks to help solve major life and energy challenges by examining the cooperative interaction between photons and matter, and its methodologies are informed by a critically interdisciplinary approach to the science and applications of light by design. Carbajo has established a framework for filming the quantum world by developing novel instruments that orchestrate and capture images of electronic, atomic, and molecular motion in action with unprecedented precision. He is an active faculty member of the California NanoSystems Institute and the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering.
Queered Science & Technology Center
The QSTC at UCLA apprehends the centrality of critical interdisciplinarity in STEM and thus employs queer, radical feminist, and black epistemologies to upend sexual, gendered, racialized, anthropocentric, and able-bodies logics in the physical sciences. The QSTC employs critical framework to challenge and rethink knowledge production and introduces new methodological resources for critical interdisciplinarity in traditional STEM studies.
Honors and awards
References
1985 births
21st-century American astronomers
21st-century American engineers
21st-century American physicists
American astrophysicists
American electrical engineers
American people of Basque descen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/4 | OS/4 is a discontinued operating system, introduced in 1972, from UNIVAC for their 9400, 9480, and 9700 computer systems. It is an enhanced version of UNIVAC's 9400 Disc Operating System. OS/4 is a disc-resident system requiring 64 KB of main memory, two disc drives, a punched-card reader and a printer. The resident memory footprint is approximately 24 KB.
UNIVAC intended to replace OS/4 with a new system. OS/7, but OS/7 development was discontinued in 1975 when the 9700 was made part of the new UNIVAC Series 90 line as the 90/70.
REferences
Discontinued operating systems
UNIVAC mainframe computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat%20hack | The Viasat hack was a cyberattack on American communications company Viasat affecting their KA-SAT network.
Events
On 24 February, 2022, the day Russia invaded Ukraine, thousands of Viasat modems got bricked by a "deliberate ... cyber event".
Remote control of 5,800 wind turbines belonging to Enercon in Central Europe was affected.
The National Security Agency was reported to be investigating the attack in March 2022.
On 31 March, 2022, SentinelOne researchers Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade and Max van Amerongen announced the discovery of a new wiper malware codenamed AcidRain designed to permanently disable routers.
Viasat later confirmed that the AcidRain malware was used during the 'cyber event'. AcidRain shares code with VPNFilter, a 2018 cyber operation against routers attributed to the Russian military by the FBI. On 10 May, 2022, the European Union condemned the attack targeting Viasat's KA-SAT network as a Russian operation.
The Viasat hack led Ukraine to deem Starlink as a potential solution for communications amidst the war as Russia had damaged or destroyed other means to communicate and get Internet within the country.
Viasat Analysis
According to Viasat, the attacker used a poorly configured virtual private network appliance to gain access to the trusted management part of the KA-SAT network. The attackers then issued commands to overwrite part of the flash memory in modems, making them unable to access the network, but not permanently damaged. The satellite itself and its ground infrastructure were not directly affected.
References
External links
KA-SAT Network cyber attack overview - from Viasat
2022 in computing
Cyberattacks
Hacking in the 2020s
February 2022 crimes in Europe
Russian–Ukrainian cyberwarfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moujiya%20%28video%20game%29 | Moujiya or Ryougae Puzzle Mouja is a falling blocks puzzle video game from Fujitsu Pasocom Systems, the consumer software division of Fujitsu. Initially developed for computers running Windows 3.11 and above, it later got made into an arcade video game, which itself was ported to popular home consoles of the time.
Gameplay
Moujiya’s gameplay is somewhat similar to Puyo Puyo, in that it is a falling blocks game in which the units fall in pairs and must be grouped together with other units of the same type. Here, the units consist of yen coins, which are exchanged for one of the next denomination when enough coins are grouped side by side. When two ¥500 coins are grouped together, they are exchanged for a ¥1,000 banknote and are removed from the board. This coin-exchanging mechanic was later copied by Face and combined with Magical Drop’s gameplay to make Money Idol Exchanger, which saw much wider success, being released across the world, possibly due to the popularity of SNK's Neo Geo arcade platform at the time.
Releases and spin-offs
The game was originally released in 1995 for Windows 3.1. A second version was released in 1997 for Windows 95 and which allowed for online play. This version was also released on Macintosh.
In 1996, Etona licensed Moujiya from Fujitsu and commissioned Racjin to make an arcade conversion. This game, made from the ground up, featured a completely new cast of characters and different garbage block mechanics from the original, among other lesser changes. Etona's version was then ported to the Sega Saturn and also to the PlayStation shortly thereafter, with the publishing being handled by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. In 1999, Hect would snatch up publishing rights for the PlayStation version and rerelease it under their Honkakuha de ¥1,300 Series budget label.
In the 2000s, mobile game company BTD Studio would license Mouja for release on Japanese cellular services. Its first game was Chou Ge Moujiya, a cut down version of the arcade game released only on i-mode. They would later make two spin-offs: Doubutsu de Moujiya, also only on i-mode, and Gals★Moujiya, part of their Gals Kiss series of burlesque games, released on i-mode, EZweb and S!Appli.
Notes
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Arcade video games
Falling block puzzle games
Fujitsu software
Hect games
Japan-exclusive video games
Mobile games
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Racjin games
Sega Saturn games
Video games developed in Japan
Virgin Interactive games
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim%20Bungartz | Hans-Joachim Bungartz (born 1963 in Lahr/Schwarzwald) is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor at the Technical University of Munich and holds the chair for scientific computing there. He was Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and has been Dean of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology since October 2022.
Since 2011, he has been chairman of the board of the Deutsches Forschungsnetz.
Career
Hans-Joachim Bungartz received his doctorate in 1992 under Christoph Zenger, after completing his studies in 1988/89 as both a mathematician and a computer scientist. In 1998, he habilitated on the topic of High-order finite elements on thin grids. In 2000, he was appointed professor of numerical analysis and scientific computing at the University of Augsburg. In 2004, the University of Stuttgart appointed him to the Chair of Simulation of Large Systems. Since 2008, Hans-Joachim Bungartz has held the Chair of Scientific Computing at the Technical University of Munich. He is also a permanent visiting professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Belgrade.
Personal life
Privately, Hans-Joachim Bungartz plays the violin and is a member of the Akademischer Orchesterverband München. Among other things, he contributed as a soloist to the 2009 Dies Academicus of the Technical University of Munich.
References
External links
Personal page at TU Munich
Chair page
1963 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavka%3A%20The%20Forest%20Song | Mavka: The Forest Song () is a 2023 English-language Ukrainian computer-animated fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Oleh Malamuzh and Oleksandra Ruban. Based on the 1918 play The Forest Song by poet Lesya Ukrainka, the film draws inspiration from Ukrainian and Slavic folk mythology. The film premiered in Ukraine on March 2, 2023.
Plot
Many years ago, a sawmill owner trespasses beyond the dark mountain into an enchanted forest in hopes of finding a cure for his ill infant daughter. The guardian of the forest, Lesh, gives him one drop from the Tree of Life, the source of the forest's power. However, the sawmill owner came back with an army of villagers, wanting the power for himself. The ensuing battle ended in chaos and the forest dwellers, at Lesh's request, decided to close off the entrance to the forest.
In the present day, a virtuous nymph named Mavka wakes up in the spring along with the rest of the forest's inhabitants. Mavka’s abundant kindness becomes the subject of criticism by the other nymphs, particularly Ondina, a water nymph. In a nearby village, a young musician named Lukas, driven by the need to cure his uncle Leo of an illness, enters the forest to find the source of life at the suggestion of Kylina, the apparent daughter of the late sawmill owner who wants to use the tree's nourishing power to obtain eternal youth. When the two meet each other, Mavka attempts to scare Lukas away, but once Lukas plays his sopilka, she admires his musical talent. Having a feeling that Lukas isn't evil, Mavka offers to give him a cure for his uncle with Lukas promising to leave after. He also promises to play his music to thank her. Hush, Mavka's forest-dwelling friend, reluctantly agrees to help them. Upon showing him around the forest and spending time together, feelings arise between Mavka and Lukas.
Lesh summons all the inhabitants, with Lukas in disguise, to the Tree of Life. Lesh announces that a new guardian must take his place and during the ritual, the supreme spirits of nature chose Mavka. Ondina voices her objection to this choice. Lukas attempts to speak in Mavka's defense, but upon doing so, Ondina sees through his disguise and he is immediately chased out. Mavka allows Lukas to escape and gives him a drop from the source of life to cure his uncle, but he doesn't have time to play music for her like he promised. Ondina berates her for letting him go and then warns her that he will eventually betray her. When Lukas returns, Kylina is not convinced that he came back empty-handed, so she orders her stylist, Frol, to keep an eye on him.
The following day, noticing that Lukas had dropped his sopilka while escaping, Mavka, along with her kitty-frog companion Swampy, decides to go to the village to return it and also attempt to make peace with the humans, altering her appearance to be human-like. Lukas invites Mavka to come to the village's spring festival, which she accepts. While there, he gifts her with a Vyshyvanka dress as well |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber%20Mafia | The Amber Mafia is the criminal network in north-west Ukraine composed of those who illegally dig up amber on government land and smuggle it out for sale on the black market with the aid of armed gangs and corrupt politicians.
300 officers searched 123 homes in 2016 for amber.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019 requested three organizations (the SBI, Security Service and National Police) to deliver reports on the clandestine amber operation.
References
2010s crimes in Ukraine
Gangs in Ukraine
Organised crime groups in Ukraine
Ukrainian gangsters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrika%20Kamath | Chandrika Kamath is a computer scientist and data scientist whose research involves information extraction from scientific data, including methods of digital image processing, video processing, dimension reduction, and feature extraction. Educated in India and the US, she works as a researcher at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Education and career
Kamath is a 1981 graduate of IIT Bombay, where she earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. She studied computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, earned a master's degree there in 1984, and completed her Ph.D. in 1986.
After working in the computer industry, including software engineering for the Digital Equipment Corporation, she joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1997. There, her research interests shifted from parallel algorithms for numerical computing to her current focus on scientific data mining. At LLNL, she is the team leader for Sapphire, a software tool for scientific data exploration.
Kamath was one of the three founding co-editors-in-chief of the journal Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, first published in 2008.
Book
Kamath is the author of Scientific Data Mining: A Practical Perspective (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2009).
Recognition
Kamath was named as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2023, "for community leadership and contributions to data mining and its application to real-world problems in science and engineering".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indian computer scientists
Indian women computer scientists
IIT Bombay alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20of%20Research%20Excellence | The Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs) are interorganisational research networks in New Zealand, funded through the Centres of Research Excellence scheme, which is administered by the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC).
History
The scheme was set up in 2002 with the aim "to build networks to connect high-performing researchers in the university system". A 2001 review of university research by TEC had revealed a fragmented research system, which did not encourage collaboration and was based on the number of students enrolled or on a small and short term agreed programme of research, and could not be applied strategically to fund areas of importance to New Zealand's development. The CoRE fund and the Performance Based Research Fund were set up as complementary funds to address these problems. The CoREs were intended to be networks of "high-performing researchers" that would be "strategically focused and linked to New Zealand’s future economic and societal needs, of excellent quality, and transferable."
The initial funding round distributed $260 million, with a further capital investment of $50 million, from 2001/02 to 2011/12. The initial centres were established in 2002, after a selection process run by the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Five CoREs were selected in 2002, with another two chosen in a second round in 2003. These seven CoREs were allocated funding for six years. There was a mid-term review after three years, with funding for the remaining three years to be confirmed on the basis of an assessment of performance to date. An assessment by the Ministry of Education in 2013 concluded that "the work of the CoREs has had wide-ranging impacts on New Zealand's society and economy".
Four further contestable funding rounds have been run, in 2006/07, 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2019/20. There are currently (as of 2023) ten CoREs, which are funded until 31 December 2028. The fund is $49.8 million per annum (GST exclusive).
In 2022 another national centre of excellence was established, He Whenua Taurikura, New Zealand’s National Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism. (This centre does not appear to be funded by the CoRE fund but has been included in the table below for completeness.)
List of Centres of Research Excellence
Defunded CoREs
Two centres that were funded in 2002/03 failed to get further funding after 2015, while the New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications was funded for six years from 2002.
Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, hosted by Massey University.
Gravida: National Research Centre for Growth and Development, hosted by the University of Auckland
New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery. Hosted by University of Auckland. Director Ted Baker.
See also
Cooperative Research Centres (Australia)
Center of Excellence
References
External links
Association of Centres of Research Excellence webs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber%20Zeus | Jabber Zeus was a cybercriminal syndicate and associated Trojan horse created and run by hackers and money launderers based in Russia, the United Kingdom, and Ukraine. It was the second main iteration of the Zeus malware and racketeering enterprise, succeeding Zeus and preceding Gameover Zeus.
Jabber Zeus was operational from around 2009 until 2010. The crew, consisting of nine core members, sent spam emails containing the Trojan to small businesses. The Trojan would send the victim's banking information, including one-time passwords, in real-time, using the Jabber protocol, to the criminals, who would use the information to drain the victim's bank account of funds and launder it using a massive network of money mules, where it would eventually reach the group. The malware may also have been used for espionage. In September 2010, the Trojan was updated to include several other capabilities designed to enhance its security.
Between September 30 and October 1 of 2010, several key members and money mules for the group were arrested in a joint operation between the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Russian Federal Security Service, the Security Service of Ukraine, and police agencies in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Although the individuals arrested in Ukraine were quickly released due to core member Vyacheslav Penchukov's government connections and no conspirators were arrested in Russia, the group was effectively shut down by the arrests. A year later, in September 2011, the group and malware would re-emerge as Gameover Zeus.
Organization and activity
Core members
An indictment filed in the District of Nebraska on August 22, 2012, listed nine core Jabber Zeus members:
Evgeniy Bogachev, alias "lucky12345", a resident of Russia. Bogachev was the primary developer of the Jabber Zeus malware and the preceding Zeus Trojan creation kit.
Vyacheslav Penchukov, aliases "tank" and "father", a resident of Ukraine. Penchukov coordinated the movement of stolen bank credentials, as well as the money mule network. He was the first person to be notified by the malware of an infection and the only member of the crew to communicate with Bogachev.
Yevhen Kulibaba, alias "jonni", a resident of the United Kingdom. Kulibaba was the alleged ringleader of the group, but this is disputed by Brian Krebs and Patrick O'Neill, who state that Penchukov or Bogachev, respectively, was the leader.
Yuriy Konovalenko, alias "jtk0", a resident of the United Kingdom. Konovalenko served as Kulibaba's right-hand man in the UK, providing him with banking details from victims and money mules, and collecting data from his co-conspirators.
Ivan Klepikov, aliases "petr0vich" and "nowhere", a resident of Ukraine. Klepikov was a system administrator for the crew.
Alexey Bron, alias "thehead", a resident of Ukraine. Bron managed the transfer of funds using the online payment service WebMoney.
Alexey Tikonov, alias "kusanagi", a resident of Russia. Tikonov was a coder for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%2070 | Data Seventy is a high-tech style font, with the look of old computer lettering, and was designed by Bob Newman of Letraset until it was acquired by ITC. Data Seventy gives any text a futuristic appearance. It serves as a rival to Westminster, and is also used in several Cartoon Network animated shows like Dexter's Laboratory and Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?.
The font was also an inspiration for the Pixel Sagas font Twobit, which many people consider similar to Data 70.
See also
List of typefaces
MICR – two machine-readable fonts intended for banking applications
OCR-A – an early machine-readable font
Amelia – another futuristic-style font
References
International Typeface Corporation typefaces
Display typefaces
Typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in the 1970s
fr:Data 70 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine%20Land%20Trust%20Network | The Maine Land Trust Network (abbreviated MLTN) promotes discussion among the eighty land trusts in Maine, United States. It was established in 1995.
As of 2023, MLTN members have conserved over of land, maintain over of hiking trails, and provide over 340 water access points. MLTN members protect 61% of the state's land area.
Its conservation partner is the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, of which it is a program. It is run by a steering committee composed of members of some of its constituent trusts.
According to Kate Stookey, president and chief executive officer of Maine Coast Heritage Trust, "MLTN facilitates collaboration and builds capacity for Maine’s land conservation movement statewide."
Land trusts
There is at least one trust in each of the state's sixteen counties.
By county:
Androscoggin County
Androscoggin Land Trust
Land in Common
Royal River Conservation Trust
Aroostook County
Land in Common
Upper St. John River Organization
Upper St. John Land Trust
Woodie Wheaton Land Trust
Cumberland County
Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust
Cape Elizabeth Land Trust
Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust
Eastern Trail Alliance
Falmouth Land Trust
Freeport Conservation Trust
Great Diamond Island Land Preserve
Harpswell Heritage Land Trust
Land in Common
Loon Echo Land Trust
Maine Island Trail Association
Oceanside Conservation Trust of Casco Bay
Peaks Island Land Preserve
Portland Trails
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust
Royal River Conservation Trust
Scarborough Land Trust
South Portland Land Trust
Southern Maine Conservation Collaborative
Franklin County
7 Lakes Alliance
Androscoggin Land Trust
Foothills Land Conservancy
High Peaks Alliance
Land in Common
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust
Maine Huts and Trails
Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust
Hancock County
Blue Hill Heritage Trust
Crabtree Neck Land Trust
Frenchman Bay Conservancy
Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust
Island Heritage Trust
Land in Common
Maine Island Trail Association
Kennebec County
7 Lakes Alliance
Kennebec Land Trust
Land in Common
Midcoast Conservancy
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust
Knox County
7 Lakes Alliance
Kennebec Land Trust
Land in Common
Midcoast Conservancy
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust
Lincoln County
Boothbay Region Land Trust
Chewonki Foundation
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust
Land in Common
Maine Island Trail Association
Midcoast Conservancy
Oxford County
Androscoggin Land Trust
Greater Lovell Land Trust
High Peaks Alliance
Land in Common
Loon Echo Land Trust
Mahoosuc Land Trust
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust
Maine Huts and Trails
Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust
Upper Saco Valley Land Trust
Penobscot County
Bangor Land Trust
Brewer Land Trust
Ecotat Trust
Holden Land Trust
Land in Common
Landmark Heritage Trust
Orono Land Trust
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust
Piscataquis County
Appalachian Mountain Club – Maine Woods Initiative |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20de%20Kleer | Johan de Kleer is a computer scientist working as a Research Fellow at Xerox PARC.
Education
De Kleer earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics from University of British Columbia, and Master of Science in computer science and electrical engineering and PhD in artificial intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
De Kleer is known for his work on qualitative reasoning, model-based diagnosis, design and truth maintenance systems. He won the Computers and Thought award from IJCAI in 1987 for his work in qualitative reasoning. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Association for Computing Machinery.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
University of British Columbia alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Scientists at PARC (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement%20industry%20in%20Bolivia | The Cement Industry in Bolivia refers to the production, sale and consumption of cement in the country since according to the latest official data from the National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia, the country had a production of around 3.8 million metric tons of cement during the year 2022. In Bolivia there are five large Bolivian companies that produce cement, which are: SOBOCE, FANCESA, COBOCE, ITACAMBA, and ECEBOL.
History
The first cement factory in Bolivia was the Bolivian Cement Society S.A. (SOBOCE) located in the Department of La Paz which was founded on September 24, 1925, and after three years began producing cement in 1928, being the oldest in the country.
On January 21, 1959, the National Cement Factory (FANCESA) was founded in the city of Sucre, which would also enter the Bolivian market. In 1966, the Bolivian Cement Cooperative (COBOCE) was created with headquarters in the city of Cochabamba that would begin to produce cement from the year 1972.
In 1997 another private Bolivian company called "Itacamba Cementos" was born, which would begin to produce cement from that same year. Some time later, the Bolivian government would also intervene in the production of cement in the country, managing to create the Bolivian Cement Productive Public Company (ECEBOL) with its two cement plants, the first located in the municipality of Caracollo in the Department of Oruro and the second plant located in the city of Potosí in the
Department of Potosi.
Production
During the last 32 years, Bolivian cement production has increased considerably reaching a growth of more than 660%, from producing only 500,000 tons in 1990 to 3,888,000 tons in 2022.
References
Cement industry
Manufacturing in Bolivia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian%20used%20train%20import%20controversy | In 2023, a controversy arose in Indonesia over the import of used Japanese rail units for use in the KRL Commuterline network.
KAI Commuter, intending to import additional used Japanese trains to replace old rolling stock and expand the capacity of the network, failed to secure approval from a number of government bodies such as the Ministry of Industry and the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investments Affairs. The ministries gave preference to domestically produced, albeit costlier, units by Industri Kereta Api. The importation of used rolling stock were eventually shot down, and KAI instead agreed to import new trainsets while refurbishing old ones.
Background
Since 2000, the Indonesian state-owned railway operator Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) have received or imported secondhand rolling stock from Japan for use in the Greater Jakarta commuter railway network. Starting around 2010, this accelerated and by 2018 KAI (or its subsidiary, KAI Commuter) was operating over 900 used Japanese train cars. For Japanese railway companies, it was often considered more cost-effective to transfer the used train cars than to scrap them locally due to environmental regulations. Additionally, Japan and Indonesia shared the 1,067 mm gauge, which made Japanese trains immediately useable in Indonesia.
These cars were transferred at a relatively low price – according to trade statistics, over a thousand Japanese train cars were sold to Indonesia with a price below ¥10 million (~USD 100,000 each) between 1999 and 2017, while KAI stated in 2023 that it would cost the company Rp 150 billion (~USD 10 million) to import ten used train car sets (100 cars) from Japan. In comparison, KAI stated that locally manufactured trains by Industri Kereta Api (INKA) would cost Rp 4 trillion (USD 270 million) for the purchase of 160 cars. Both KAI and its passengers generally welcomed the Japanese cars such as the Tokyo Metro 6000 series, which arrived in typically good condition and featured air conditioning. Furthermore, as INKA lacked the production capacity to rapidly expand commuter services, KAI under then-CEO Ignasius Jonan opted to import more cars throughout the 2010s.
2023 import
In September 2022, KAI filed for permission to import 348 used Japanese E217 series cars, as it planned to retire a number of older trainsets and expand its capacity in 2023. However, in January 2023, the Ministry of Industry rejected the filing, claiming that INKA was capable of manufacturing the needed train cars. INKA, however, stated that it would only be able to fulfill the production needed by 2025, as it already had production backlogs for the Jabodebek LRT and the Trans-Sulawesi Railway.
Following the industrial ministry's rejection, a review by the (BPKP) further recommended that KAI not import the trains, and proposed that KAI should instead retrofit the 29 trainsets previously intended to be retired. The BPKP's review also considered the present KRL capacity to be sufficie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexia%20%28hypertext%29 | In Hypertext, a lexia (, ‘diction, word’) is a text unit that links to other lexia, corresponding to a node in a network. This use of the term was introduced by George Landow, and was based on Roland Barthes' use of lexia in S/Z to refer "units of reading". The term is used in scholarship on hypertext, although node is often used synonymously.
Barthes defines lexia as a "series of brief, contiguous fragments, which we shall call call lexia, since they are units of reading". These are not necessarily present in the text before it is read, and can be "arbitrary, but useful" in analysis.
In hypertext, on the other hand, lexia are units of text that are separated from other lexia. The reader must usually click a link to move from one lexia to the next.
George Landow, writing in 1992, was one of the first scholars to analyse literary hypertexts. The term lexia was a key term for him in developing his theoretical and analytical approach to the new genre of hypertext fiction. Landow defined hypertext thus: "Hypertext, as the term will be used in the following pages, denotes text composed of blocks of text — what Barthes terms a lexia — and the electronic links that join them."
Scholars have noted that Landow's actually uses the term lexia quite differently from Barthes.
References
See also
Hypertext fiction
Cybertext
Hypertext
Hypertext fiction
Literary terminology
Narratology
Electronic literature criticism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20linear%20plot | In biochemistry, the direct linear plot is a graphical method for enzyme kinetics data following the Michaelis–Menten equation. In this plot, observations are not plotted as points, but as lines in parameter space with axes and , such that each observation of a rate at substrate concentration is represented by a straight line with intercept on the axis and on the axis. Ideally (in the absence of experimental error) the lines intersect at a unique point whose coordinates provide the values of and .
Comparison with other plots of the Michaelis–Menten equation
The best known plots of the Michaelis–Menten equation, including the double-reciprocal plot of against , the Hanes plot of against , and the Eadie–Hofstee plot of against are all plots in observation space, with each observation represented by a point, and the parameters determined from the slope and intercepts of the lines that result. This is also the case for non-linear plots, such as that of against , often wrongly called a "Michaelis-Menten plot", and that of against used by Michaelis and Menten. In contrast to all of these, the direct linear plot is a plot in parameter space, with observations represented by lines rather than as points.
Effect of experimental error
The case illustrated above is idealized, because it ignores the effect of experimental error. In practice, with observations, instead of a unique point of intersection, there is a family of intersection points, with each one giving a separate estimate of and for the lines drawn for the and observations. Some of these, when the intersecting lines are almost parallel, will be subject to very large errors, so one must not take the means (weighted or not) as the estimates of and . Instead one can take the medians of each set as estimates and .
The great majority of intersection points should occur in the first quadrant (both and positive). Intersection points in the second quadrant ( negative and positive) do not require any special attention. However, intersection points in the third quadrant (both and negative) should not be taken at face value, because these can occur if both values are large enough to approach , and indicate that both and should be taken as infinite and positive: .
The illustration is drawn for just four observations, in the interest of clarity, but in most applications there will be much more than that. Determining the location of the medians by inspection becomes increasingly difficult as the number of observations increases, but that is not a problem if the data are processed computationally. In any case, if the experimental errors are reasonably small, as in Fig. 1b of a study of tyrosine aminotransferase with seven observations, the lines crowd closely enough together around the point for this to be located with reasonable precision.
Resistance to outliers and incorrect weighting
The major merit of the direct linear plot is that median estimates based on it are high |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Keast-Butler | Anne Keast-Butler is the Director of GCHQ, the UK's Intelligence, Cyber and Security Agency. Appointed in May 2023, she is the seventeenth person to hold the role and succeeded Sir Jeremy Fleming.
Career
Keast-Butler joined GCHQ from MI5, where she was Deputy Director General, responsible for MI5's operational, investigative and protective security work. This has included MI5's – and the allies' – preparation for and response to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
In her previous Director General role, Keast-Butler was Director General Strategy, leading the enabling functions that support MI5’s operational activities.
Prior to this, Keast-Butler spent two years on secondment to GCHQ as Head of Counter Terrorism and Serious Organised Crime and has also spent part of the last decade on secondment in Whitehall. Whilst there, she helped to launch the National Cyber Security Programme.
Personal life
Keast-Butler grew up in Cambridge and earned a degree in mathematics from Merton College, Oxford.
She is married, with three children.
References
Living people
Directors of the Government Communications Headquarters
MI5 personnel
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
People from Cambridge
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20How%20They%20Tell%20Me%20the%20World%20Ends%3A%20The%20Cyberweapons%20Arms%20Race | This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race is a non-fiction book published in 2021 by American journalist and author Nicole Perlroth. The book delves into the hidden world of cyberwarfare, offering a comprehensive examination of the rapid proliferation and development of cyberweapons by nation-states and non-state actors. With its unique blend of investigative journalism, personal anecdotes, and historical analysis, the book has gained critical acclaim for shedding light on the alarming escalation of cyber conflict. Financial Times named it a book of the year in 2021.
Overview
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends provides a detailed account of the complex, high-stakes world of cyberwarfare. Perlroth investigates the origins of state-sponsored cyberattacks, the evolution of cyberweaponry, and the potential consequences of the ongoing cyber arms race. The book also explores the role of private companies, criminal groups, and individual hackers in the development and deployment of these weapons. Perlroth discusses various high-profile cyberattacks, such as the Stuxnet worm and the WannaCry ransomware attack, to illustrate the potential catastrophic effects of this new form of warfare.
Background and Author
Nicole Perlroth is cybersecurity journalist working for The New York Times. As of 2023, she was serving as an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). She has covered numerous high-profile cyber incidents, including state-sponsored attacks and major data breaches. Perlroth's extensive research for the book included interviews with current and former government officials, cybersecurity experts, and hackers, providing an in-depth look at the rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape.
In March 2021 interview with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New York Times cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth discusses the secretive trade in cyber hacking tools, specifically those targeting the press. She highlights the threats journalists face in an era of rampant cyberattacks and the importance of cybersecurity measures to protect sensitive sources and information. Perlroth emphasizes the role of governments and the private sector in the development and proliferation of cyberweapons, which are often used to target journalists and suppress free speech.
Reception
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends has been praised by critics and readers alike for its accessible writing style, thorough research, and compelling narrative. It has also been criticized for biases and inaccuracies.
References
2021 non-fiction books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopped%20420 | Chopped 420 is a 2021 television series produced by Food Network, concerning competitive cooking with cannabis. It made its debut on the discovery+ streaming service with five episodes on April 20, 2021. Esther Choi, Luke Reyes, Sam Talbot, Tacarra Williams, and Laganja Estranja served as judges.
The series follows other networks' cannabis cooking shows, such as Cooked with Cannabis, Bong Appétit from Vice and Cooking on High from Netflix.
Reception
Joel Keller writing for Decider said the series was "more serious than we expected."
Megan Reynolds at Jezebel said that "the weed connection is just a gimmick, and the contestants are still racing against the clock to complete a dish" as with the original Chopped.
Common Sense Media said "The contestants are very skilled and accomplished chefs, and they find creative ways to use strange ingredients, but these tend to be overshadowed by the series' narrow focus on cannabis."
References
Further reading
Chopped 420 at The A.V. Club
2021 American television series debuts
American television series about cannabis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinyun%20Zhang | Jinyun Zhang is an electrical engineer whose work has included wireless networks, sensor networks, ultra-wideband networks, multi-hop routing, and network broadcasting. Originally from China, she was a doctoral student in Canada and works in the US, as a vice president and director at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Education and career
Zhang has a bachelor's degree in radio electronics from Tsinghua University in China, and taught as a lecturer at Tsinghua University until 1985. She went to the University of Ottawa in Canada for doctoral study in electrical engineering, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1991.
Next, she worked for ten years in Canada at Nortel. She moved from there to the US and to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in 2001.
Recognition
Zhang was named an IEEE Fellow in 2008, as a member of the IEEE Communications Society, "for contributions to broadband wireless transmission and networking technology". She is also a Fellow of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.
Personal life
Zhang has a daughter, Lan Yang, who also studied electrical engineering at the University of Ottawa, earning a master's degree there in 2005.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Electrical engineers
Women engineers
Tsinghua University alumni
Academic staff of Tsinghua University
University of Ottawa alumni
Nortel employees
Mitsubishi Electric people
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odix | odix is an Israeli-based company specializing in cybersecurity that was founded in 2009 in Israel by Oren Eytan and David Geva, former Israel Defence Forces officers. It develops anti-malware tools.
Overview
odix is best known for its FileWall, a SaaS that provides file sanitization and deep file analysis capabilities to Microsoft 365, complementing its Exchange online protection against file-based attacks, that also integrates with SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams as a native application. It was founded in 2009 as a service company and was split into two nine years later, in 2018. In September 2019, the European Commission awarded odix €2M under the EU's Horizon 2020 SME research and innovation program. In September 2020, odix launched its FileWall for file sanitization and file analysis to Microsoft products. In the same month the company joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA).
References
Companies of Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%20cybersecurity%20industry | The Israeli cybersecurity industry is a rapidly growing sector within Israel's technology and innovation ecosystem. Israel is internationally recognized as a powerhouse in the cybersecurity domain, with numerous cybersecurity startups, established companies, research institutions, and government initiatives. Tel Aviv itself is being ranked 7th in annual list of best global tech ecosystems, as reported by the Jerusalem Post.
History
The roots of Israel's cybersecurity industry can be traced back to the country's strong focus on national security and intelligence. The establishment of elite military units such as Unit 8200, the Israeli Intelligence Corps unit responsible for signals intelligence and code decryption, played a significant role in the development of cybersecurity expertise in the country. Many former members of Unit 8200 have gone on to establish successful cybersecurity companies or join existing organizations, bringing their unique skill sets and experience to the private sector.
Market Overview
Israel's cybersecurity industry is characterized by a high concentration of startups develop new technologies in areas such as network security, endpoint protection, data security, cloud security, and threat intelligence. In recent years, the sector has attracted significant investment from both local and international venture capital firms, as well as major technology companies such as Microsoft, Google, and IBM.
Several Israeli cybersecurity companies have gained global recognition and success, with some being acquired by major corporations or conducting successful initial public offerings (IPOs).
Background
The military experience helped much. Israel's mandatory military service, combined with the expertise developed within elite units such as Unit 8200, has fostered a strong talent pool with practical experience in cybersecurity.
The government also supported well through various initiatives, such as the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), which works to strengthen cybersecurity defenses and promote the development of the sector.
Israel's thriving startup ecosystem, often referred to as the "Startup Nation," has fostered an environment of innovation and collaboration that has contributed to the growth of the cybersecurity industry.
Israeli universities and research centers, such as the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, are heavily involved in cybersecurity research and education, contributing to the development of new technologies and training the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.
Israeli cybersecurity companies often collaborate with international partners, both in the private and public sectors, to share knowledge and develop joint solutions.
References
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkeron%21 | Ashkeron! is an interactive fiction video game developed by Dorset-based Texgate Computers and published by Mirrorsoft for the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum in 1985.
Gameplay
The player character is Stephen the Blacksmith who is set to recover five treasures from the castle of an evil wizard. The game has a graphic feature called "walk-thru" where screen pictures scroll in the direction the player travels. The game supports joystick control and has a randomising option where the objects appear in different places in each playthrough.
Reception
Computer Gamer said "Askeron [sic] isn't actually a bad game, just very average [...]". Home Computing Weekly called the game "complex, challenging and witty". Sinclair Programs called it "[a] gripping game, excellent value for money". Sinclair User said "[...] it doesn't have the detail which provides a compelling atmosphere." Your Spectrum said that "Ashkeron is well up to Mirrorsoft's usual standards".
References
External links
Ashkeron! at Spectrum Computing
1980s interactive fiction
1985 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Europe-exclusive video games
Fantasy video games
Mirrorsoft games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catuscia%20Palamidessi | Catuscia Palamidessi (born 1959) is a computer scientist whose research topics have included differential privacy, location obfuscation, fairness in machine learning, the logic of concurrent systems, and the design of programming languages that combine logic programming and functional programming. Originally from Italy, she has worked in Italy, the US, and France, where she is a director of research for the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria).
Education and career
Palamidessi was born in 1959 in Fucecchio, a small village in Tuscany, and when she began her studies at the University of Pisa, despite the discouragement of her parents, she became the first woman from that village to go to a university. Continuing her studies there, she earned a laurea in 1982 and a Ph.D. in 1988, with Giorgio Levi as her doctoral advisor.
She was an assistant professor at the University of Pisa from 1988 to 1992, an associate professor at the University of Genoa from 1992 to 1994, and a full professor at Genoa from 1994 to 1997. From 1998 to 2002 she worked as a professor at Pennsylvania State University in the US, and in 2002 she and her husband moved together to France as directors of research at Inria. At Inria, she is the leader of the Comète team, based at Paris-Saclay University, focused on formal methods in computer security and privacy.
Recognition
In 2022, Palamidessi was awarded the .
Personal life
Palamidessi is married to Dale Miller, an American computer scientist who also works at Inria Saclay.
References
External links
Home page
Living people
Italian computer scientists
Italian women computer scientists
University of Pisa alumni
Academic staff of the University of Pisa
Academic staff of the University of Genoa
Pennsylvania State University faculty
1959 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palamidessi | Palamidessi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Catuscia Palamidessi (born 1959), Italian computer scientist
Christine Palamidessi, American writer and artist
Tommaso Palamidessi (1915–1983), Italian fringe philosopher
Italian-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20counties%20where%20English%20is%20not%20the%20majority%20language%20spoken%20at%20home | A total of 38 United States counties speak a language other than English at home, according to MLA's Data Map Center published in 2010. The following is a list of US counties where English is a minority language.
Alaska
Arizona
California
Colorado
Florida
Kansas
New Mexico
New York
Texas
See also
List of U.S. communities where English is not the majority language spoken at home
References
English as a second or foreign language
Lists of populated places in the United States
Languages of the United States
Lists of counties of the United States
United States demography-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point%20computation | Fixed-point computation refers to the process of computing an exact or approximate fixed point of a given function. In its most common form, we are given a function f that satisfies the condition to the Brouwer fixed-point theorem, that is: f is continuous and maps the unit d-cube to itself. The Brouwer fixed-point theorem guarantees that f has a fixed point, but the proof is not constructive. Various algorithms have been devised for computing an approximate fixed point. Such algorithms are used in economics for computing a market equilibrium, in game theory for computing a Nash equilibrium, and in dynamic system analysis.
Definitions
The unit interval is denoted by , and the unit d-dimensional cube is denoted by Ed. A continuous function f is defined on Ed (from Ed to itself). Often, it is assumed that f is not only continuous but also Lipschitz continuous, that is, for some constant L, for all x,y in Ed.
A fixed point of f is a point x in Ed such that f(x) = x. By the Brouwer fixed-point theorem, any continuous function from Ed to itself has a fixed point. But for general functions, it is impossible to compute a fixed point precisely, since it can be an arbitrary real number. Fixed-point computation algorithms look for approximate fixed points. There are several criteria for an approximate fixed point. Several common criteria are:
The residual criterion: given an approximation parameter , An -residual fixed-point of f is a point x in Ed such that , where here |.| denotes the maximum norm. That is, all d coordinates of the difference should be at most .
The absolute criterion: given an approximation parameter , A δ-absolute fixed-point of f is a point x in Ed such that , where is any fixed-point of f.
The relative criterion: given an approximation parameter , A δ-relative fixed-point of f is a point x in Ed such that , where is any fixed-point of f.
For Lipschitz-continuous functions, the absolute criterion is stronger than the residual criterion: If f is Lipschitz-continuous with constant L, then implies . Since is a fixed-point of f, this implies , so . Therefore, a δ-absolute fixed-point is also an -residual fixed-point with .
The most basic step of a fixed-point computation algorithm is a value query: given any x in Ed, the
The function f is accessible via evaluation queries: for any x, the algorithm can evaluate f(x). The run-time complexity of an algorithm is usually given by the number of required evaluations.
Contractive functions
A Lipschitz-continuous function with constant L is called contractive if L < 1; it is called weakly-contractive if L ≤ 1.Every contractive function satisfying Brouwer's condisions has a unique fixed point. Moreover, fixed-point computation for contractive functions is easier than for general functions.
The first algorithm for fixed-point computation was the fixed-point iteration algorithm of Banach. Banach's fixed-point theorem implies that, when fixed-point iteration is applied to |
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