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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Toto%20Sugiri | Otto Toto Sugiri (born 23 September 1953) is an Indonesian billionaire businessman. He is the CEO of Data Center Indonesia (DCI), a company that provides data center services and solutions in Indonesia. He is ranked as the 19th-richest person in Indonesia by Forbes magazine, with a net worth of US$2.5 billion, as of April 2023.
Early life and education
Sugiri was born on 23 September 1953. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Bandung Institute of Technology in 1978.
Career
Sugiri started his career as an engineer at PT Telkom, a state-owned telecommunications company, in 1983. He later became the director of network operations at PT Telkom until 2004. In 2009, he founded Data Center Indonesia, a company that offers data center infrastructure, cloud computing, network connectivity, and managed services. Data Center Indonesia operates four data centers in Jakarta and Surabaya, with a total capacity of more than 10 megawatts. In 2020, Data Center Indonesia became the first company in Southeast Asia to receive the Tier IV Certification of Constructed Facility from the Uptime Institute.
Personal life
Sugiri is married and has three children. He lives in Jakarta, Indonesia.
References
1953 births
Living people
Indonesian billionaires
Indonesian businesspeople
Indonesian engineers
Bandung Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn%20Lutz | Robyn R. Lutz is an American computer scientist whose research involves software engineering, including modeling and checking software requirements and software system safety. She is a professor of computer science at Iowa State University.
Education and career
Lutz majored in English at the University of Kansas, graduating with the highest distinction in 1974, earned a master's degree in Spanish there in 1976, and completed a Ph.D. in Spanish in 1980, under the supervision of Raymond Souza. Despite this non-technical background, she became a member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, associated with the California Institute of Technology, in 1983, and continued to hold an affiliation there until 2012.
Returning to graduate study, she earned a master's degree in computer science in 1990 from Iowa State University. She held an affiliate assistant professor title there from 1994 to 2000. In 2000 she became a regular-rank associate professor, and in 2005 she was promoted to full professor.
Recognition
Lutz was named a Distinguished Scientist in the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014. In 2021, she received the lifetime service award from the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference. She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to software requirements for safety-critical systems".
Personal life
Lutz is married to Jack Lutz, a professor of mathematics and computer science at Iowa State University; their son Neil Lutz is also a computer scientist and a visiting assistant professor of computer science at Swarthmore College. They have published together on algorithmic game theory in DNA computing.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American software engineers
American women computer scientists
Software engineering researchers
University of Kansas alumni
Iowa State University alumni
Iowa State University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricklayer%20function | In cryptography, the bricklayer function is a part of a round function that can be decomposed into identical independent Boolean operations on the partitioned pieces of its input data, so called bundles. The term was introduced by Daemen and Rijmen in 2001.
If the underlying function transforming the bundle is nonlinear, it is traditionally called an S-box. If the function is linear, Daemen and Rijmen use for it the term D-box (after diffusion).
References
Sources
Cryptographic primitives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20AI%20Safety | The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a San Francisco–based nonprofit organization that promotes the safe development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI). CAIS's work encompasses research in technical AI safety and AI ethics, advocacy, and support to grow the AI safety research field.
In May 2023, CAIS published a statement on AI risk of extinction signed by hundreds of professors of AI, leaders of major AI companies, and other public figures.
Research
CAIS researchers published "An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks", which details risk scenarios and risk mitigation strategies. Risks described include the use of AI in autonomous warfare or for engineering pandemics, as well as AI capabilities for deception and hacking. Another work, conducted in collaboration with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, described an automated way to discover adversarial attacks of large language models that bypass safety measures, highlighting the inadequacy of current safety systems.
Activities
Other initiatives include a compute cluster to support AI safety research, an online course titled "Intro to ML Safety", and a fellowship for philosophy professors to address conceptual problems.
See also
AI safety
Center for Human-Compatible AI
References
Research institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area
Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco
Artificial intelligence associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immuta | Immuta Inc. is an American data security platform and software company. The company provides a cloud-native data governance platform to businesses, governmental agencies, and healthcare organizations.
History
Founded by a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, Matt Carroll, and co-founded by Steven Touw and Mike, Schiller in 2015, Immuta is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company also has offices in College Park, Maryland; Columbus, and London, England.
Immuta's software works with various cloud computing services, including Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon, Google, and Starburst.
Product(s)
In 2022, Immuta released its latest product enhancements and integrations designed to deliver data security and monitoring across key cloud platforms at scale. The features include native integration with Google BigQuery, expanded integrations with Snowflake, including external OAuth support, audit log data export into Amazon S3, and better policy onboarding for Databricks.
Partnerships
In 2021, Okta, Inc., an American identity and access management company, partnered with Immuta.
In 2022, Immuta entered into a partnership with Nordic-Baltic-based banking group Swedbank. Immuta has also worked with Billie, the Berlin-based FinTech company.
References
Software companies based in Massachusetts
American companies established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa%20Herrera%20Magdaleno | María Herrera Magdaleno, also known as Doña Mary, is a Mexican businesswoman and human rights activist. In 2014, she founded a national network of local collectives to educate families on how to investigate disappearances after four of her eight children went missing. The network now includes almost 200 groups spread across 26 of Mexico's states.
Life
Herrera is from Michoacán and is the mother of eight children and grandmother of two stepchildren. She was born . By 2008, she had founded a business after leaving a husband whom she suspected had been unfaithful. Herrera made clothes and sold gold jewelry, at first in her home state of Michoacán. Her business later expanded to Guadalajara.
In 2008, Herrera's sons, Raúl (19) and Jesús Salvador (24) took a trip with five colleagues to Guerrero, near Atoyac de Álvarez. Her sons and their colleagues never returned.
Two years later, her sons Gustavo (28) and Luís Armando (24) vanished during a work trip in eastern Veracruz. She suspects her sons disappeared as a result of drug cartel violence.
In 2014, Herrera founded a national network of local collectives to educate families on how to investigate disappearances. She also plans conferences and gives workshops in universities on this same topic.
In May 2022, Herrera met with Pope Francis. In November 2022, Herrera sued the Mexican State in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Washington, for its failure to investigate her sons' disappearance . In April 2023, she was included on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world for her activism.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Michoacán
Mexican women activists
Children's rights activists
Women human rights activists
Mexican human rights activists
21st-century Mexican businesswomen
21st-century Mexican businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Hendrycks | Dan Hendrycks is an American machine learning researcher. He serves as the director of the Center for AI Safety.
Education
Hendrycks received a B.S. from the University of Chicago in 2018 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Computer Science in 2022.
Career and research
Hendrycks' research focuses on topics that include machine learning safety, machine ethics, and robustness.
In February 2022, Hendrycks co-authored recommendations for the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to inform the management of risks from artificial intelligence.
In September 2022, Hendrycks wrote a paper providing a framework for analyzing the impact of AI research on societal risks. He later published a paper in March 2023 examining how natural selection and competitive pressures could shape the goals of artificial agents. This was followed by "An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks", which discusses four categories of risks: malicious use, AI race dynamics, organizational risks, and rogue AI agents.
Selected publications
References
Machine learning researchers
Living people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen%20Lada | Jennifer Lada (born January 14, 1981) is an American sportscaster for ESPN. She previously worked for networks in Milwaukee and Chicago.
Early life and education
Lada grew up in the town of Spring Grove, Illinois, between Chicago and Milwaukee. She ran track at Marian Central Catholic High School. She captained the cheerleading team while studying communication at Marquette University in Wisconsin, where she graduated in 2002.
Career
Lada began her broadcasting career after college as a sports reporter and anchor for the NBC affiliate station WREX in Rockford, Illinois. A restaurant service job supplemented her income in Rockford. She moved to the Fox affiliate WITI in Milwaukee in 2006. She eventually felt "limited" in her role as a weekend sports anchor for WITI, and in early 2013 she moved to a larger media market by joining the NBC affiliate Comcast SportsNet Chicago (CSN). At first hired to cover NHL hockey, she worked as a reporter and an anchor for CSN and sometimes appeared on its Kap & Haugh radio show.
ESPN hired Lada in July 2015, originally to contribute to Colin Cowherd's ESPN Radio show, but Cowherd left the network before Lada would have begun in August 2015. She briefly co-hosted a short-lived 8 p.m. ESPN Radio show, Jorge & Jen, with Jorge Sedano. Lada recalled feeling "devastated" by her early experience at ESPN but managed to secure her role at the network by acting as a "utility player" who could contribute to a variety of shows. Since 2016, she has served in long-term roles as a features reporter for College GameDay and a host for College Football Live. She has continued to appear on or guest host other ESPN shows, including Get Up and SportsCenter. A feature by Lada for E:60 about the death of college football quarterback Tyler Hilinski won a Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary in 2020.
Lada has remained active in regional sports media in Wisconsin. In 2020, she began co-hosting, with Gabe Neitzel and Mark Chmura, a morning sports show for the ESPN radio affiliate WKTI in Milwaukee. In 2022–23, she served as the host for a weekly WKTI radio show featuring Marquette men's basketball coach Shaka Smart.
Personal life
Lada married Dario Melendez, a sports reporter in Milwaukee, in 2017; a previous marriage ended in divorce. She has three children, two with Melendez. A recreational endurance athlete, she has run multiple marathons and triathlons.
References
External links
Jen Lada on Twitter
Living people
1981 births
People from Spring Grove, Illinois
Marquette University alumni
American television journalists
American women television journalists
American radio journalists
American women radio journalists
American sports journalists
21st-century American women journalists
21st-century American journalists
ESPN people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence%20barcode | In topological data analysis, a persistence barcode, sometimes shortened to barcode, is an algebraic invariant of a persistence module that characterizes the stability of topological features throughout a growing family of spaces. Formally, a persistence barcode consists of a multiset of intervals in the extended real line, where the length of each interval corresponds to the lifetime of a topological feature in a filtration, usually built on a point cloud, a graph, a function, or, more generally, a simplicial complex or a chain complex. Generally, longer intervals in a barcode correspond to more robust features, whereas shorter intervals are more likely to be noise in the data. A persistence barcode is a complete invariant that captures all the topological information in a filtration. In algebraic topology, the persistence barcodes were first introduced by Sergey Barannikov in 1994 as the "canonical forms" invariants consisting of a multiset of line segments with ends on two parallel lines, and later, in geometry processing, by Gunnar Carlsson et al. in 2004.
Definition
Let be a fixed field. Then a persistence module indexed over consists of a family of -vector spaces and linear maps for each such that for all . This construction is not specific to ; indeed, it works identically with any totally-ordered set.
A persistence module is said to be of finite type if it contains a finite number of unique finite-dimensional vector spaces. The latter condition is sometimes referred to as pointwise finite-dimensional.
Let be an interval in . Define a persistence module via , where the linear maps are the identity map inside the interval. The module is sometimes referred to as an interval module.
Then for any -indexed persistence module of finite type, there exists a multiset of intervals such that , where the direct sum of persistence modules is carried out index-wise. The multiset is called the barcode of , and it is unique up to a reordering of the intervals.
This result was extended to the case of pointwise finite-dimensional persistence modules indexed over an arbitrary totally-ordered set by William Crawley-Boevey and Magnus Botnan in 2020, building upon known results from the structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a PID, as well as the work of Cary Webb for the case of the integers.
References
Computational topology
Representation theory
Algebraic topology
Applied mathematics
Data science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujib%20Amar%20Pita | Mujib Amar Pita () is a 2021 Bangladeshi computer-animated biography drama film. It was the first full-length Bangladeshi animated film. The film was directed by Sohel Mohammad Rana. It was Produced by Prolancer Studio & BMIT Solutions and was distributed by ICT Division. The film is based on Sheikh Mujib Amar Pita (Bengali:শেখ মুজিব আমার পিতা ) a book written by Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the recent Prime Minister of Bangladesh. The film was released on October 1, 2021.
Voice cast
Raju Ahmed as Young Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Mohammad Rafique as Teen Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Mehbuba Mehnaz Bipa as Sheikh Hasina
Tahsina Ferdous Rinia as Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib
Abul Kalam Azad Setu as Sheikh Lutfar Rahman
Merina Mitu as Sayera Khatun
Mithun as Hamid Master
Hindol Roy as Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy
Arup Kundu as Abdul Hamid Chowdhury
Kazi Rakib
Production
Development
The making of Mujib Amar Pita was started in 2020 and ended in January–February 2021.
Animation
The film's animation was done in traditional 2D animation.
Release
The film had a premiere on September 28, 2021 and later got a cinema hall release in October 1, 2021. The film had a world premiere in US.
Reception
Critical response
On the Review of News Article Info , they said "It could have been better but because its the first Bangladeshi animated film it feel something new"
References
External links
Bangladeshi animated films
Bangladeshi historical films
Bangladeshi drama films
Bangladeshi biographical films
Bangladeshi films based on actual events
Films based on the Bangladesh Liberation War
Bangladeshi war drama films
Bengali-language Bangladeshi films
2020s Bengali-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita%20Carleton | Anita D. Carleton is an American computer scientist and software engineer whose research concerns software measurement, the Capability Maturity Model, statistical process control, and their applications in managing and improving the software development process. She works in the Software Engineering Institute, associated with Carnegie Mellon University, as director of the Software Solutions Division.
Education and career
Carleton majored in applied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University; she has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She worked on missile weapon systems software at GTE and on tire modeling and simulation at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, before her move to the Software Engineering Institute in the late 1980s.
Book
Carleton is the coauthor, with William A. Floranc, of the book Measuring the Software Process: Statistical Process Control for Software Process Improvement (Addison-Wesley, 1999).
Recognition
Carleton was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for leadership in the advancement of software measurement and practices".
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American software engineers
American women computer scientists
Software engineering researchers
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Shot%20Podcast%20Network | One Shot Podcast Network is a network of podcast series about tabletop role-playing games, with many shows dedicated to actual play, interviews, and discussion. It was founded by James D'Amato to showcase a wide variety of games and systems, including indie role-playing games, as an alternative to actual play shows that focus exclusively on Dungeons & Dragons.
The network has won multiple ENNIE Awards. As of April 2023, the network was funded by collective monthly contributions of $6,699 per month from 1,046 users on Patreon.
Shows
Current shows
One Shot is the flagship show of the network. D'Amato typically runs a self-contained actual play of a different game system each week, with occasional multi-episode storylines. Episodes last about an hour. Em Friedman for Polygon recommended One Shot as one of the best actual play podcasts that don't use DnD. In 2023, fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss collaborated with One Shot to produce an actual play series set in the world of The Kingkiller Chronicle.
Asians Represent! both highlights the work of Asian creators and holds analytical conversations about the depiction of Asian people and cultures in tabletop role-playing games. It is hosted by Daniel Kwan and Agatha Cheng. Asians Represent! won the 2020 and 2021 Gold ENNIE Awards for Best Podcast. It was also nominated in 2019.
Character Creation Cast is a show where the hosts and guests create characters in a tabletop rpg system. They also discuss the design of the game and offer commentary.
Past shows
Backstory was an interview show hosted by Alex Roberts (game designer) from 2016 to 2019. She interviewed game designers and other workers in tabletop role-playing games.
The Broadswords was an all-women and non-binary Dungeons & Dragons actual play show with a focus on storytelling and inclusivity.
Related media
D'Amato is the author of Simon & Schuster's "Ultimate RPG" book series:
The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide (2018)
The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide (2019)
The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book (2020)
The Ultimate RPG Game Master's Worldbuilding Guide (2021)
The Ultimate RPG Campfire Card Deck (2023)
References
Actual play web series
American non-fiction web series
ENnies winners
Podcasting companies
Role-playing games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20and%20Communication%20Technology%20Act%2C%202006 | The Information and Communication Technology Act, 2006 is an Act passed by the Jatiya Sangsad in 2006 to encourage and regulate ICT services in Bangladesh. Cybercrimes in Bangladesh are tried under the Information and Communication Technology Act. The act was strengthen through an amendment in 2013. The law was controversial due to parts which were viewed as threatening freedom of speech and its section 57 was replaced with the controversial Digital Security Act.
History
Information and Communication Technology Act was passed in 2006 by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami government. On 20 August 2013, the Information and Communication Technology Act, 2006 was amended through the passage of an ordinance which was passed by the parliament of Bangladesh on 9 October. The amendment allowed the police to detain suspects under the act without warrants and increased the jail time. The amendment also removed the requirement for law enforcement to seek prior approval from the government before filing cases under the act. The amendment was criticized for potential for violation of human rights. Iftekharuzzaman, director of Transparency International Bangladesh, criticized the act while Shahdeen Malik said the amendment would drag Bangladesh back to the "mediaeval age".
Prominent cases
Mahmudur Rahman, editor of Amar Desh, was sued under Information and Communication Technology Act on 13 December 2012 on sedition charges for writing on the 2012 ICT Skype controversy.
Shahidul Alam, a notable photographer, was charged under Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act, 2006 by the Detective Branch during the 2018 Bangladesh road-safety protests. Shahidul Alam has challenged the legality of the Section 57 of the ICT act with the Bangladesh Supreme Court after his challenge was rejected by Bangladesh High Court.
Criticism
The law was criticized for not defining liabilities of domain holders.
Section 57
Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act, 2006 drew criticism from writers and journalists for the potential impact on Freedom of Speech in Bangladesh. This was the most used section of the act by Bangladesh Police to file cases. The act made it illegal to post material online that is provocative, defamatory, or "hurt religious sentimentality". Jyotirmoy Barua criticized the act saying it was used Bangladesh Police and the Awami League to silence dissent. In four months of 2017, 21 journalists were sued under the act. From 2013 to 2017, a minimum of 700 cases were filed under the act with the Cyber Tribunal.
The Section was replaced by the Digital Security Act, 2018. The act has been criticized for curbing free speech in Bangladesh. The Digital Security Act has been criticized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
References
Law of Bangladesh
2006 in Bangladesh
Censorship in Bangladesh
Freedom of the press
2006 in Bangladeshi law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse%20of%20the%20Seven%20Faces | Curse of the Seven Faces is an interactive fiction video game published by Classic Computing for the ZX Spectrum in 1984. It was re-released later in 1985 by Imperial Software. The game was included in a compilation titled Assemblage in 1986 with three other games. It was published by Artic Computing.
Gameplay
The objective of the game is to retrieve four objects from an evil wizard: his spell book, staff, hat, and cloak. The game had a unique save system at the time: The user has the option to save the game to memory instead to the tape. This was faster than the normal save system.
Reception
Computer and Video Games wrote: "A variety of original locations, and some surprise ways of finding new exits, combined with well-written and fairly lengthy descriptions to make an interesting game." Crash said the plot was "weak and thin" but the location descriptions "are really quite impressive". Sinclair User called the game "disappointing but attractively produced". Your Spectrum gave a negative review and was unimpressed with the parser: "Once you've read 'You Cannot Do That' and 'Nothing Exciting Happens' for the umpteenth time in a row, you begin to believe it — nothing ever exciting happens!" Personal Computer Games called it "an enjoyable adventure". Popular Computing Weekly called it "an extremely well-crafted Adventure". Assemblage collection received four out five stars in Sinclair User.
References
External links
Curse of the Seven Faces at Spectrum Computing
1980s interactive fiction
1984 video games
Artic Computing games
Europe-exclusive video games
Fantasy video games
Single-player video games
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plop%20Boot%20Manager | The Plop Boot Manager is a proprietary bootloader written by Elmar Hanlhofer. Plop Boot Manager can make computers boot from media that the original BIOS has no support for, such as USB or IDE CD/DVDs. Optionally, Plop can be installed directly onto the hard disk of a computer.
References
External links
Boot loaders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20ThinkPad%20Stack | The Lenovo ThinkPad Stack is a computer system that includes several separate items which can be stacked on top of each other. It includes a computer, beamer, battery pack and router.
References
External links
Lenovo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ%20Tennis | Manfredi Romano (born 11 November 1970), known professionally as DJ Tennis, is an Italian electronic dance music DJ, music producer and label owner.
Biography
Romano first studied computer science; at the same time, he also organized parties and band tours. In 1995, he founded the DJ booking agency Daze in Milan. In 2010, he founded the electronica label Life And Death with Greg Oreck.
DJ Tennis has performed in numerous festivals such as Burning Man, Electro Magnetic, Tomorrowland, EDC, Glastonbury, Dour, ADE and Time Warp.
Discography
EPs
2016: Divisions Chirality
2019: Gordon Starck
Singles
2012: "Make It Good"
2012: "The Outcast" (with Pillowtalk)
2014: "Local"
2016: "Convex"
2017: "Certain Angles" (with Fink)
DJ Mix
2017: DJ-Kicks No 59
References
External links
1970 births
Living people
Italian DJs
Italian electronic musicians
Italian record producers
Electronic dance music DJs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20ProLinea | ProLinea was a line of budget desktop computers released by Compaq from 1992 to 1996. All the machines in the line were x86-based IBM PC–compatible systems, ranging from the i386SX to Pentiums. The ProLinea was succeeded by the Presario line in 1993, although the two sold concurrently for a while.
Release and price war
The ProLinea was notorious for touching off a fierce price war in the personal computer market from its launch in June 1992. Under a directive from Compaq's recent CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, the company originally sold lower-end models in the range for under US$900—a price that was virtually unheard of for brand-new desktops from a major computer vendor. Compaq's largest competitors—including IBM, Apple, DEC, and Dell—immediately followed suit with budget, no-frills desktops of their own; IBM for example released the PS/ValuePoint for under $1,000. Smaller manufacturers meanwhile struggled to compete against the major players in this price war, leading to dozens leaving the market or going bankrupt and dissolving.
Despite numerous parts shortages, Compaq sold nearly 400,000 units from the ProLinea line through to the end of 1992, helping the company come off its financial turmoil since the ouster of Compaq's original CEO, Rod Canion, in 1991.
See also
Compaq Deskpro, the company's professional line of desktop computers
References
Computer-related introductions in 1992
ProLinea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment%20Research%20Center | The Alignment Research Center (ARC) is a nonprofit research institute based Berkeley, California, dedicated to the alignment of advanced artificial intelligence with human values and priorities. Established by former OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano, ARC focuses on recognizing and comprehending the potentially harmful capabilities of present-day AI models.
Details
ARC's mission is to ensure that powerful machine learning systems of the future are designed and developed safely and for the benefit of humanity. It was founded in April 2021 by Paul Christiano and other researchers focused on the theoretical challenges of AI alignment. They attempt to develop scalable methods for training AI systems to behave honestly and helpfully. A key part of their methodology is considering how proposed alignment techniques might break down or be circumvented as systems become more advanced. ARC has been expanding from theoretical work into empirical research, industry collaborations, and policy.
In March 2023, OpenAI asked the ARC to test GPT-4 to assess the model's ability to exhibit power-seeking behavior. ARC evaluated GPT-4's ability to strategize, reproduce itself, gather resources, stay concealed within a server, and execute phishing operations. As part of the test, GPT-4 was asked to solve a CAPTCHA puzzle. It was able to do so by hiring a human worker on TaskRabbit, a gig work platform, deceiving them into believing it was a vision-impaired human instead of a robot when asked. ARC determined that GPT-4 responded impermissibly to prompts eliciting restricted information 82% less often than GPT-3.5, and hallucinated 60% less than GPT-3.5.
In March 2022, the ARC received $265,000 from Open Philanthropy. After the bankruptcy of FTX, ARC said it would return a $1.25 million grant from disgraced cryptocurrency financier Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Foundation, stating that the money "morally (if not legally) belongs to FTX customers or creditors."
See also
AI safety
References
External links
Official website
Artificial intelligence
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Hardy%20%28stalker%29 | Matthew James Hardy of Northwich, Cheshire is a British cyberstalker who pleaded guilty to harassing women online. Hardy is believed to have affected 63 victims over eleven years, making him one of the most prolific cyberstalkers in the United Kingdom.
Stalking
Hardy began stalking in 2009 while still in school, choosing schoolmates as victims. He created fake profiles on social media in an attempt to befriend his victims, sometimes impersonating friends and family members, in some cases spreading rumours about them.
Criminal penalties
Hardy has been arrested ten times and voluntarily questioned three times. In October 2011, Hardy pleaded guilty to hacking the Facebook account of a former schoolmate and impersonating her; he received a restraining order, a suspended prison sentence and 250 hours of community service. He pleaded guilty to harassment and hacking of another schoolmate in 2013 and was given a suspended sentence and a restraining order. He was arrested in February 2020 and charged in March 2021. He pleaded guilty to three counts of stalking with intent to cause alarm or distress, two counts of stalking without intent to cause alarm and breaching a restraining order from 2013, which banned him from using false details on social networking sites. He was sentenced to nine years in prison, the longest sentence handed to a cyberstalker in the UK. His attorney argued that the sentence was excessive because Hardy had Asperger syndrome and was incapable of understanding the impact of his actions on his victims. The sentence was reduced to eight years on appeal.
Podcast
Hardy was the subject of Can I Tell You a Secret, The Guardian's first standalone true crime podcast series. In the six-part podcast, Guardian reporter Sirin Kale explores Hardy's motivations and the impact of his crimes on his victims. It was named one of the best podcasts of 2023 by Esquire.
References
21st-century British criminals
Cybercrime in the United Kingdom
People from Northwich
People with Asperger syndrome
People convicted of stalking
British people with disabilities
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Squicciarini | Anna Cinzia Squicciarini is a computer scientist specializing in computer security and data privacy, including research on sentiment analysis, computational trust, and cloud computing. She is Edward Frymoyer Endowed Chair in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, and a program director for Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace at the National Science Foundation.
Squicciarini completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 2006, at the University of Milan. She joined Penn State in 2008 after postdoctoral research from 2006 to 2007 Purdue University, and was given the Frymoyer Endowed Chair there in 2022.
Squicciarini became a Fulbright Scholar in 2020, funding a research visit to King’s College London. She was named NSF program director in 2022.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Italian computer scientists
Italian women computer scientists
University of Milan alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
United States National Science Foundation officials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squicciarini | Squicciarini is an Italian surname. Notable people with the name include:
Andrew Squicciarini, documentary film editor of 16 Days of Glory
Anna Squicciarini, Italian and American computer scientist
Donato Squicciarini (1927–2006), Italian Catholic archbishop and nuncio
Italian-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Girolami | Mark A. Girolami (born 1963) is a British civil engineer, statistician and data engineer. He has held the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge since 2019. He has been the chief scientist of the Alan Turing Institute since 2021. He is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and winner of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Girolami is a founding editor of the journal Data-Centric Engineering, and also served as the program director for data-centric engineering at Turing.
Education
Girolami studied at the University of Glasgow and spent ten years working for IBM as an engineer from 1985 to 1994. After this he undertook, on a part-time basis, a PhD in statistical signal processing whilst working at the University of Paisley.
Career and research
After his PhD, Girolami held senior positions at the University of Glasgow, and University College London.
Before joining the University of Cambridge, Girolami worked at Imperial College London.
Selected publications
His publications include:
References
1963 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Alumni of the University of the West of Scotland
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders
Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge
Engineering professors at the University of Cambridge
IBM people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Surfacing | Power Surfacing is a computer-aided design software that allows users to create and edit complex freeform surfaces in SOLIDWORKS. It is developed by nPower Software, a division of IntegrityWare Inc., and is available as an add-in for SOLIDWORKS.
Overview
Power Surfacing uses subdivision surface (Sub-D) modeling and Non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) modeling methods together, to provide a flexible and intuitive way of designing organic shapes with high quality class A surfaces. Users can create and manipulate Sub-D models inside SOLIDWORKS, and convert them to NURBS models that are compatible with SOLIDWORKS features and commands. Power Surfacing also supports reverse engineering of scanned meshes with Power Surfacing RE, a separate add-in that can reconstruct Sub-D models from polygonal meshes.
Power Surfacing is designed for industrial design, product design, automotive design, jewelry design, and other applications that require complex freeform surfaces. It aims to simplify the design process and reduce the editing time for organic shapes, compared to traditional surface creation methods. It also provides video tutorials and examples to help users learn how to use the software effectively.
Features
Some of the features of Power Surfacing include:
Subdivision surface creation and editing inside of SOLIDWORKS
Import of Sub-D meshes from modo, 3ds Max, etc.
Intuitive on-screen editing with push-pull methodology
Supports downstream features like fillet, shell, cut, extrude
Creates high quality class A surfaces by default
Tightly integrated with SOLIDWORKS, works with all SOLIDWORKS commands
Reverse engineer scanned meshes with Power Surfacing RE
Usage
Power Surfacing functions as a generative design tool, generating iterative, evolutionary results based on initial constraints.
This tool is commonly used to optimize manufacturing processes for parts in various industries, such as automotive, packaging design, and medical implants.
Power Surfacing can also reverse-engineer the shapes of 3D-scanned objects and recreate their geometry algorithmically, facilitating reproduction through industrial production processes. This capability can be employed to digitally replicate physical aspects of human anatomy, such as bones, and modify the model to produce precise-fitting physical Prosthesis for patients.
References
External links
Official website
Computer-aided design software for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admela%20Jukan | Admela Jukan is an electrical engineer whose research topics include optical networking and cloud computing and, separately, animal–computer interaction. She was educated in Croatia, Italy, and Austria, and has worked in Austria, the US, Canada, and Germany, where she is Chair for Communication Networks in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Physics at the Technical University of Braunschweig.
Education and career
Jukan has an engineering degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb in Croatia. After earning a master's degree in information technology from the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy, she went to TU Wien in Austria for doctoral study in electrical and computer engineering.
She continued at TU Wien as an assistant professor and university lecturer.
She became a research assistant professor at Georgia Tech in the US, a program director for the US National Science Foundation from 2002 to 2004,
and then an associate professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Canada, before moving to her present position at TU Braunschweig.
She is co-editor-in-chief, with Martin Reisslein, of the journal Optical Switching and Networking. With Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, she runs the Animals In Computing website and blog.
Recognition
Jukan won the 2018 service award of the IEEE Optical Networking Technical Committee, "for outstanding service to the optical network community". She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to optical communications and networking".
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Electrical engineering academics
Women electrical engineers
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb alumni
Polytechnic University of Milan alumni
United States National Science Foundation officials
Academic staff of the Technical University of Braunschweig
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evide%20data%20breach | The Evide data breach was a data breach caused by ransomware in Northern Ireland.
Evide
Evide is a company based in Derry which specialises in data storage and analysis for charities. Evide manages data for around 140 organisations. At least four of the affected organisations deal with survivors of rape or sexual abuse.
Events
Breach
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has confirmed that it was contacted in March about a cyber attack and it was investigating. Gardaí are cooperating with them, including the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau.
The charity One in Four was told of the breach on 5 April 2023.
Disclosure
The news of the breach was made public on 17 April 2023.
Impact
A number of organisations were affected, including the Dublin-based charity One in Four, which supports adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Maeve Lewis, CEO of One in Four, told RTÉ News that personal data, including phone numbers and email addresses had been stolen. However, letters and reports to child protection services were not taken. About 1000 people who had been engaged with One in Four might be affected. One in Four contacted Evide to ask them to take legal action against the attackers as One in Four was not directly attacked.
Orchardville, an organisation based in Northern Ireland, said that it was not sure if any of its data was affected.
Charities affected could be investigated by the Data Protection Commissioner.
Reactions
Ossian Smyth said the investigation was in early stages and urged caution as some stories circulating may not be true.
See also
Vastaamo data breach
References
External links
Evide - home page of the targeted company
Data breaches
2023 crimes
2023 in computing
Cybercrime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Health%20Care%20for%20the%20Homeless%20Program | Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, also known as Boston Healthcare for the Homeless, Healthcare for the Homeless, and BHCHP, is a health care network throughout Greater Boston that provides health care to thousands of homeless and formerly homeless individuals and families.
Origin
Funding
In 1984, the city of Boston received funding for a homeless healthcare pilot program, one of nineteen funded across the country by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust.
In 1987, Congress passed the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, making BHCHP a federally qualified health center funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Primary Health Care.
Founding providers
In 1985, seven individuals worked together to initiate a program of coordinated clinical services for homeless people. This group created health care centers based in homeless shelters and hospitals. They utilized a team of medical staff that worked in a rotation of multiple settings.
Dr. Jim O'Connell is the founding physician and president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless. He agreed to the role of founding physician as a temporary favor to the City of Boston, but stayed with BHCHP for over forty years.
O'Connell was trained in patient engagement by Barbara McInnis, a nurse at the Pine Street Inn clinic. McInnis taught O'Connell how to build rapport with homeless patients by soaking their feet. Foot-soaking is still offered to homeless patients at the BHCHP clinic at St. Francis House, the largest day shelter in Massachusetts.
Electronic medical records systems
In 1996, BHCHP became the first homeless organization in the United States to implement a computerized electronic medical record (EMR) system, which was designed and built by the Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital.
In 2019, the organization announced a partnership with Netsmart to implement a new electronic medical record specifically designed for tracking and coordinating addiction treatment.
Haiti earthquake response
In 2010, an earthquake in Haiti caused 300,000 people to become injured, and 1.5 million people to become homeless. In response, BHCHP staggered staffing of its Massachusetts facilities, so that 41 of its providers could go to Haiti to treat patients medically impacted by the earthquake.
Medical respite programs
BHCHP has demonstrated the effectiveness of the medical respite model for homeless people. Respite centers allow people who are homeless to recuperate and heal in a safe, clean place after major hospital treatments, rather than discharging them to the streets. Respite centers within the organization have helped stabilize clients in a less traumatic environment than hospitals, reduce readmissions and over-utilization of emergency rooms, and improve overall health outcomes for homeless and formerly homeless individuals.
Lemuel Shattuck Respite
In 1985, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, led |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostr | Nostr is a decentralized network protocol for a distributed social networking system. The name is an acronym for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relay". Posts are resistant to censorship and are cryptographically validated.
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, endorses and financially supported the development of Nostr.
See also
ActivityPub
Mastodon (social network)
OStatus
References
External links
Social media
Social networking services
Public-domain software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSSN | OSSN may refer to:
Ocular surface squamous neoplasia, a cancer of the eye
Ontario Social Safety Network, a social activist organization in the Canadian province of Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iman%20FM | Iman FM (103.1 MHz) was a British community radio station based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Broadcast from a transmitter site at Wincobank, to the east of the city of Sheffield, its programming was primarily religious in nature and focused on the Muslim community. It was the first community radio station in the United Kingdom to have its broadcasting licence revoked after broadcasting a number of lectures by radical cleric and al-Qaeda extremist Anwar al-Awlaki.
History
Iman FM launched in September 2014, using the Sheffield-based FM frequency previously occupied by Burngreave Community Radio, a local station which broadcast between 2008 and 2011. It was operated by a religious group, Institute of Media, Arts and Naats.
Anwar al-Awlaki incident
The station came to the attention of media regulator Ofcom in July 2017 after a listener complained of hearing several hours of lectures by Anwar al-Awlaki during the month of Ramadan, leading Ofcom to take the unusual step of suspending the station's licence to broadcast for a period of three weeks from July 4, 2017, pending investigation.
Ofcom's subsequent investigation revealed that Iman FM had broadcast over 25 hours of material featuring al-Awlaki, in place of the station's usual morning programming during Ramadan. The regulator found that the broadcast content included "a direct call to action to members of the Muslim community to prepare for and carry out violent action against non-Muslim people" and "statements clearly condoning and encouraging acts of crime, terrorism or violent behaviour".
Responding to Ofcom, the operators of Iman FM said that they were unaware of the background of al-Awlaki, that they had obtained the "freely available" lectures from YouTube to replace scheduled morning programming, that they believed the content consisted of uncontroversial historical descriptions of the life of the Prophet Muhammad, and that monitoring of output had not been performed as management were "probably catching up on sleep" during early mornings in the month of Ramadan. After being made aware, Iman FM said that they had removed the lectures from broadcast immediately and transmitted an on-air apology.
As a result of the investigation, on July 26, 2017, the station's licence, which had not been reinstated following its temporary suspension, was permanently revoked, with Ofcom stating that Iman Media UK Ltd was "unfit to hold a licence". As of April 2023, the 103.1 MHz frequency in the Sheffield area remains unoccupied.
References
Community radio stations in the United Kingdom
Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom
Radio stations in Yorkshire
Mass media in Sheffield
2014 establishments in England
2017 disestablishments in England
Radio stations established in 2014
Radio stations disestablished in 2017
Islamic radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicomeae | Dicomeae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, subfamily Carduoideae.
Genera
Dicomeae genera recognized by the Global Compositae Database as of April 2023:
Cloiselia
Dicoma
Dicomopsis
Erythrocephalum
Gladiopappus
Macledium
Pasaccardoa
Pleiotaxis
References
Asteraceae tribes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20Super | Just Super () is a 2022 Norwegian computer-animated superhero film directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen and produced by Qvisten Animation. It follows Hedvig, an 11-year-old gamer who is tasked with taking over the role of a superhero, Super Lion, from her father.
The film was released in Norwegian cinemas on 30 September 2022. It was selected to screen at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, but the first screening at the festival on 20 February 2023 was cancelled due to concerns of blackface, to the objection of the filmmakers and the Norwegian Film Institute.
Cast
Hennika Eggum Huuse as Hedvig
Todd Monrad Vistven as Thomas
Johannes Kjærnes as Adrian
Tobias Santelmann as Super Lion
Kari Simonsen as Grandma
Henriette Marø as Teacher
Line Verndal as Aunt
Atle Antonsen as Uncle
Desta Marie Beeder as News Reporter
Charlotte Frogner as Mom
Release
Just Super had its world premiere on 10 September 2022 at TIFF Junior, a children's film festival held in Tromsø, Norway, where it won the audience award. It was released in Norwegian cinemas on 30 September 2022 and had 110,000 admissions.
In November 2022, Viva Kids acquired rights for North American distribution.
Screenings at the Berlinale
The film was due for its international premiere on 20 February 2023 in the Generation Kplus section of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). The premiere was cancelled minutes before it was due, in light of concerns raised by the Anti-Racism Taskforce for European Film (ARTEF) about "the film's depictions of Blackface and animalisation of Black people". All four subsequent screenings at the festival took place as scheduled, with a disclaimer about the concerns added. Sivertsen initially said he found the accusation of racism "incomprehensible" and the festival's decision to pull the premiere "shocking". He said, "When a film is invited to a festival, it goes without saying that it will be shown. If we cannot trust the festival to stand by its choices, one has to consider participation in Berlin in the future. The festival risks becoming irrelevant if it doesn't decide for itself which films we will see."
In a statement released on 24 February 2023, ARTEF said, after receiving the concerns from "colleagues" who had seen the film, it reached out to the Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) and Sivertsen on 18 February and to the festival on 19 February. It said, "In this film, the white heroes turn into lions that, unlike lions, have dark brown hands and partially dark brown faces and bodies which, as our colleagues pointed out, are depictions rooted in colonial thinking where Black people historically have been dehumanised and compared to animals", and while it "is not a watchdog" but "exist[s] inside the industry and merely identif[ies] problems and the systems that support them", it "wanted to avoid further harm to BIPOC audiences" and that the organisation and its members "received abhorrent emails and offensive remarks" during this pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Majestic%202023 | NOAH Majestic 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on May 4, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Fourteen matches were contested at the event, including three on the pre-show, and four of Noah's five championships were on the line. The main event saw Jake Lee defeat Naomichi Marufuji to retain the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Other top matches included El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. successfully defending the GHC National Championship against Hideki Suzuki, Hayata defeated Ninja Mack to retain the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, and Real (Timothy Thatcher and Saxon Huxley) defeated Takashi Sugiura and Shuhei Taniguchi to win the GHC Tag Team Championship.
Production
Background
The event featured fourteen 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 preshow included three matches which were broadcast live on Noah's YouTube channel. In the first bout, Super Crazy and Mohammed Yone picked up a win over Akitoshi Saito and Daishi Ozawa. Next, Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka defeated Extreme Tiger and Lanzeloth in tag team action. The third bout saw the confrontation between Sean Legacy, Stallion Rogers and Los Golpeadores (Dragon Bane and Alpha Wolf), and Jack Morris, Anthony Greene, Tadasuke and Yo-Hey, solded with the victory of the latter team.
The first bout of the main card saw a joshi confrontation in which Sumire Natsu and Ryo Mizunami picked up a victory over Maya Yukihi and Saki. Next up, Shuji Kondo, Hajime Ohara and Hi69 outmatched the team of Amakusa, Junta Miyawaki and Alejandro in six-man tag team action. In the sixth match, Kazuyuki Fujita and Masato Tanaka defeated Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba. The seventh bout saw Masakatsu Funaki defeating Shinya Aoki with an ankle lock in a Martial arts rules match. In the eighth match, Yoshinari Ogawa and Chris Ridgeway picked up a victory over Ogawa's former tag partner Eita, and Daga. During the match, Daga betrayed Eita and joined Stinger. Next up, Dralístico defeated Rey Escorpión in singles competition. In the tenth bout, Timothy Thatcher and Saxon Huxley defeated Sugiura-gun stablemate Takashi Sugiura and Shuhei Taniguchi to become the new GHC Tag Team Champions, ending the latter team's reign at their first defense. Next, Hayata defeated Ninja Mack to secure his first defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship in that respective reign. Next, El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. successfully defended the GHC National Championship against Hideki Suzuki for the fourth time in that respective reign. The semi main event portraited the return ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20on%20My%20Sleeve%20%28ghostwriter977%20song%29 | "Heart on My Sleeve", stylized as "heart on my sleeve", is a song written and produced by TikTok user ghostwriter977. The vocals for "Heart on My Sleeve" were generated by artificial intelligence (AI), made to sound like Canadian musicians Drake and The Weeknd. The song was self-released on April 4, 2023, on various streaming platforms like Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube.
Notable for its use of AI, "Heart on My Sleeve" was taken down by Universal Music Group (UMG). The song had accrued attention on TikTok and had garnered millions of views across a variety of platforms.
Background and release
In April 2023, Drake responded to an Instagram video of an AI-generated version of him covering "Munch (Feelin' U)" (2022), a song by American rapper Ice Spice, calling it "the final straw". Drake's response came days after his label, Universal Music Group (UMG), requested that Spotify and Apple Music block AI companies from accessing its songs. Voices of other artists have also been used to cover other songs, such as Barbadian singer Rihanna covering Beyoncé's "Cuff It" (2022), American rapper Kanye West covering "Hey There Delilah" (2006) by Plain White T's, British singer Freddie Mercury covering Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (1983), or American singer Ariana Grande covering Drake's "Passionfruit" (2017).
On April 4, TikTok user ghostwriter977 uploaded "Heart on My Sleeve" to Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Amazon Music, Deezer, YouTube, and Tidal. A one-minute snippet of the song was then put onto TikTok on April 15. ghostwriter977 released several videos following the song's wider release onto TikTok, including one showing an apparent screenshot of a text message between ghostwriter977 and "Rob (Attorney)" with the caption, "Offer in from Republic", referencing Republic Records, Drake and The Weeknd's label. The song was remixed by a YouTube user.
On April 17, UMG filed a takedown notice of the song across multiple platforms. ghostwriter977 then linked to his page on Laylo—a service allowing creators to notify fans of new releases—asking fans of the song to add their phone number. While some theorized that Laylo may have orchestrated the song's release to draw up attention for their service, the company later clarified that they were not involved with the song. An investigation by The Verge found that UMG may have been able to claim the video through Metro Boomin's producer tag—"If Young Metro don't trust you I'm gon' shoot you"—featured at the beginning of the song; YouTube requires copyright holders to claim that a certain part of a video infringed upon copyright. Since the song's release, UMG has been manually taking down videos using YouTube's report system. Reportedly, the company cannot use YouTube's Content ID system as it does not own the song.
Although the identity of ghostwriter977 is unknown, the user later stated that he was a ghostwriter who "got paid close to nothing just for major labels to profit". ghostwriter977's identity has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille%20Hearst | Camille Hearst is a female African-American entrepreneur and innovator, credited in several online news publications for her decades-long contribution to the technology, social network, digital music service and product design sectors. In addition, she is recognized as a leading woman of color in entrepreneurship. In 2016, she broke barriers as a Women C.E.O. and a founder of color with her startup, Kit.
Raised in San Francisco, Hearst is a graduate of Stanford University, where she studied Engineering. In her early career, she worked for Google, YouTube, Apple iTunes, and Hailo before launching Kit, a social network service. In 2020, after Patreon's acquisition of her startup, Kit, Hearst became GM, head of merchandise and products. Eventually, she left the company and became Head of Spotify for Artists. Hearst resides in Soho, Manhattan, and continues to be involved in the technology sector.
Early life and education
Hearst is a native, born and raised in San Francisco, CA, and attended public schools while growing up. According to Ebony magazine's July 2000 article featuring the Top Black High School Seniors across the U.S., Class of 2000, Hearst attended Lowell High School. During her time there, she was a student-athlete, winning the 1989–1999 city champion title in the 300m hurdles track and field event. In addition, Heart was ranked in the top 15% of her graduating senior class. At Lowell, she acted as a mentor for middle school girls living in SF.
Hearst attended Stanford University earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Science, Technology, Society/Product Design and Management, and Engineering. While Hearst was studying at Stanford, she was part of the Mayfield Fellows Program, a work/study program that educates students on the conceptual, theoretical, and practical knowledge needed to innovate, lead, scale, and sustain technology startups through an immersive entrepreneurial mindset.
Career
After graduating from Stanford's Engineering school, Hearst started her early career in 2005 as a Product Manager for Apple's iTunes division when Steve Jobs was head of Apple Inc., an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, CA. At the time, iTunes was considered the eighth largest music retailer. Hearst was employed at Apple for several years, and iTunes reached #1 when she exited in 2010. Following her five years of employment with Apple, she went on to work for Google, YouTube, and Hailo, a British taxi management app.
In March 2015, Hearst joined Expa Ventures, a New York startup incubator studio that helped conceptualize and develop her first startup, Kit, a social network service for products. She co-founded the social network with Naveen Selvadurai, one of the co-founders of Foursquare and Expa's New York-based partner. In November 2015, Expa named Hearst the first CEO of Kit, a network similar to Pinterest that permitted users to assemble "kits" of their favorite products to share online with o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Webber | David Webber may refer to:
David Webber (computer scientist) (born 1955), British/American information technologist
Mortimer Plumtree (David Webber, born 1969), American professional wrestling manager
David H. Webber, American author and law professor
David Webber (basketball) (born 1980), American basketball player
See also
David Weber (disambiguation)
David Webb (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Centre%20for%20Algorithmic%20Transparency | The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) is an institution within the European Commission which facilitates the enforcement of the Digital Services Act. It is managed by the Joint Research Centre and DG CONNECT. ECAT was launched in on April 18th 2023.
See also
Ethics of artificial intelligence
Regulation of algorithms
Regulation of artificial intelligence
Algorithmic bias
References
2023 in the European Union
European Digital Strategy
Regulation of robots
Information technology organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%20Goldman | Sally Ann Goldman is an American computer scientist specializing in computational learning theory. She was a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, and Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering, before leaving academia to join Google Research. She is also a successful amateur powerlifter.
Education and career
Goldman is originally from St. Louis, Missouri. She majored in computer science at Brown University, and then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for graduate study in computer science. She completed her Ph.D. there in 1990, with the dissertation Learning Binary Relations, Total Orders, and Read-Once Formulas supervised by Ron Rivest.
As a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis, she became Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering before leaving academia in 2008 to work for Google Research.
Personal life
Goldman was married to Kenneth J. Goldman, also a computer scientist from St. Louis with whom she went to Brown and MIT; he also became a faculty member at Washington University and a researcher for Google. He died of cancer in 2020.
After moving to the San Francisco Bay Area to work for Google, Goldman took up amateur powerlifting, and has won her division and weight class in multiple national and world championships held by USA Powerlifting (USAPL), the United States Powerlifting Association (USPA), and the International Powerlifting League (IPL).
Book
Goldman is the coauthor, with Ken Goldman, of an undergraduate textbook, A Practical Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms using Java (CRC Press, 2007).
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Brown University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Washington University in St. Louis faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latina%20Televisi%C3%B3n | Latina Televisión, better known as Latina, is a Peruvian television network.
History
The network was known as Frecuencia Latina () until November 2014.
In 2018, Latina announced that it had secured the 2022 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights for Peru, intending to show all matches on the free-to-air network. In 2022, Latina faced criticism for not broadcasting some of the 64 matches of the tournament.
References
1982 establishments in Peru
Television networks in Peru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked%20Shields | Locked Shields is an annual cyber defence exercise organised by NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn since 2010. The format is usually that a red team simulates a hostile attack while blue teams from the participating nations simulate their coordination and defence against this.
The performance of teams is assessed using a mix of automated and manual scoring. In 2022, there were 24 teams with an average of 50 experts in each team. The team from Finland was declared as the 2022 winner for the excellence of their situation reporting and solid defence.
References
Security engineering
Cyberwarfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before%20I%20Forget%20%28video%20game%29 | Before I Forget is an exploration game developed and published by 3-Fold Games. It was originally released in 2020 as a Humble Original on personal computers and was ported to consoles a year later. It depicts the effects of Alzheimer's disease on a woman who is trying to recall her life.
Gameplay
Players guide Sunita Appleby, a scientist who has early-onset Alzheimer's disease, through her house. As she interacts with now-unfamiliar objects about her house, some of her memories return. It is played from a first-person perspective. The game features some puzzle-like elements, such as recalling where mementos have been left and asking players to guide Appleby to the bathroom when she perceives her house as a shifting maze.
Development
3-Fold Games consists of writer Chella Ramanan and programmer-artist Claire Morwood. Ramanan lives in Sweden, and Morwood in Scotland. Ramanan and Morwood met at a British game jam and conceived of Before I Forget there. Ramanan had previously been considering a story about memories and felt that a video game would be the best medium to explore memories firsthand. The theme of the game jam was borders, and they saw mental health and Alzheimer's disease as an interesting metaphorical take on the subject. Neither developer has personal experience with Alzheimer's disease and always meant the game to be a character study. The two had not planned on following through with further development, but feedback at the game jam and an audience award convinced them to continue. As interest grew in their project, they became anxious to depict the disease correctly.
3-Fold had a chance meeting with a healthcare worker who corrected details about Alzheimer's disease. This led them to work with Gaming The Mind, a mental health charity, who helped 3-Fold design the game's puzzles and internal dialogue to be more authentic expressions of Alzheimer's disease. They also implemented suggestions from early playtesters, who related personal anecdotes. The game was designed to depict anxiety rather than horror. Ramanan chose the palette to reflect this. The audio and visuals reflect the protagonist's current mental state. The division between greyscale and color visuals, representing confusion and clarity, existed from the earliest versions.
3-Fold said that although investors were interested in the game, they complained that it was too short. In response, 3-Fold experimented with extending the gameplay but did not like the result. The lack of funding meant Ramanan and Morwood had to work on Before I Forget in their spare time. Humble Original eventually picked up the game, which brought financing enough to add voice acting and PR. It was included in a Humble Choice bundle in June 2020 and was released for Linux, macOS, and Windows on July 16, 2020. It was ported to the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Series X/S, on April 29, 2021.
Reception
Before I Forget received positive reviews on Metacritic. Hope Bellingh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%20Baldick | Ross Baldick is an American professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow of power and energy society. He is the chairman of the System Economics Sub-Committee of the IEEE Power Engineering and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
His research interests are optimization and economic theory application to electric power system operations, public policy, and technical issues related to electric transmission under deregulation.
Education and career
He received his bachelor of science in mathematics and physics and bachelor of engineering in electrical engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He received his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering and computer sciences from University of California, Berkeley in 1988 and 1990, respectively. From 1991-1992, after completing his doctoral studies, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. From 1992 to 1993, he was an assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. In 1993, Baldick joined the University of Texas at Austin faculty, where he remained until his retirement in 2021.
Research
Baldick's research interests in electric power span across multiple areas, and he has contributed to over one hundred peer-reviewed journal articles.
Baldick's research focuses on optimization and economic theory applied to electric power system operations and the public policy and technical issues associated with electric transmission under deregulation. He has published numerous articles on these topics and is the author of the textbook "Applied Optimization: Formulation and Algorithms for Engineering Systems."
Honors and awards
In 2008, Baldick was named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to analyzing and optimizing electric power systems.
In addition to being named an IEEE Fellow, Baldick has received the 2014 IEEE Power and Energy Society Outstanding Engineering Educator Award and the 2016 IEEE PES Prize Paper Award.
Selected publications
References
Living people
21st-century American academics
Electrical engineering
University of Sydney alumni
University of California alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Electrical engineering academics
University of Texas faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara%20Sainath | Tara N. Sainath is an American computer scientist whose research involves deep learning applied to speech recognition. She is a principal research scientist at Google Research.
Education and career
Sainath was a student of electrical and engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received a bachelor's degree, a master's degree in 2005, and a Ph.D. in 2009. Her master's thesis was Acoustic Landmark Detection and Segmentation using the McAulay-Quatieri Sinusoidal Model, supervised by Timothy Hazen, and her doctoral dissertation was Applications of Broad Class Knowledge for Noise Robust Speech Recognition, supervised by Victor Zue.
She worked for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center before moving to Google Research.
Recognition
Sainath was elected both as an IEEE Fellow and as a fellow of the International Speech Communication Association in 2022, in both cases "for contributions to deep learning for automatic speech recognition".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Speech processing researchers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny%20Chor | Ben-Zion (Benny) Chor (23 December 1956 – 10 June 2021) was an Israeli computer scientist. He was known for his research in cryptography, including traitor tracing, randomness extractors, private information retrieval, the security level and single-bit security of RSA encryption, and secret sharing. Beyond cryptography, he also made important contributions in distributed shared-memory consensus and in the discovery of patterns in gene expression data.
Early life and education
Chor was born on 23 December 1956, and raised in Tel Aviv. He was an undergraduate mathematics student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating in 1980 and earning a master's degree there in 1981.
He became a doctoral student in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working there on cryptography with Ron Rivest; he completed his Ph.D. in 1985 with the dissertation Two Issues in Public Key Cryptography: RSA Bit Security and a New Knapsack Type System. With this work, he became a series winner of the 1985 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Career and later life
After postdoctoral research at MIT and Harvard University, Chor became a faculty member at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 1987 to 1999. He moved to Tel Aviv University in 1999, where he remained for the rest of his career. He headed the Tel Aviv School of Computer Science from 2018 to 2020. In 2019, he became founding head of the French-Israeli Laboratory on Foundations of Computer Science.
Chor died on 10 June 2021.
Book
Chor was the coauthor, with Amir Rubenstein, of the book Computational Thinking for Life Scientists: Using Algorithms in Biological Research, published posthumously by the Cambridge University Press in 2022.
References
External links
1956 births
2021 deaths
Israeli computer scientists
Scientists from Tel Aviv
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NNN%20and%20NNS%20affiliates | The Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS) are Japanese commercial television networks organised by Nippon Television (NTV) in Tokyo, which is owned by The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings. NNN provides national news and current affairs programming to its regional affiliates, while NNS feeds entertainment and other non-news programmes. NNN and NNS are made up of 30 affiliates, including three stations that are double- or triple-affiliated with rival networks.
NNN was founded on April 1, 1966, while NNS was founded on June 14, 1972.
Stations are listed mostly in Japanese order of prefectures which is mirrored in ISO 3166-2:JP, with exceptions for the Kantō region, Aichi-Gifu-Mie, Kansai region (except Mie), Tottori-Shimane and Okayama-Kagawa, which form single wide broadcasting markets respectively.
Affiliate stations
Areas without an NNN/NNS station
Former affiliate stations
Single asterisk (*) indicates former primary affiliate
Affiliates that wanted to join but gave up
References
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Thatcher | James Thatcher may refer to:
James Thatcher (musician), American hornist
James Thatcher (MP), English politician
James W. Thatcher, American computer scientist
See also
James Thacher, American physician and writer
James Kingsley Thacher, professor of medicine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20Holub | Allen I. Holub (born 1955) is the computer author who was published in Dr. Dobb's Journal in the 1980s and then again in the 2010s. He also wrote for SD Times. His 1990 book Compiler Design in C was universally praised as an accessible reference. He is also a teacher, consultant, and speaker.
Career
Allen Holub received double Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science and Medieval European History. In 1982, he became an instructor for the University of California Berkeley Extension, where he has continued teaching periodically to the present day. He started his consulting company "Holub Associates" in 1983, which has also continued to the present day.
Writing
Holub is a prolific author and has written many books and articles. His "C Chest" column appeared in Dr. Dobb's Journal from 1984 to 1988. His "Java Toolbox" column appeared in JavaWorld from 1998 to 2004. His bi-monthly "JavaWatch" column was in SD Times from May 2004 to September 2006. Holub also blogged on Agile for Dr. Dobb's Journal from 2011 until its shutdown in 2014.
His 1990 book Compiler Design in C is a 984-page reference book, recommended by several library services at the time, as well as trade publications and the comp.compiler Usenet group FAQ. It is now out of print, but available as a download on his website. One reviewer stated he preferred it to the "dragon book", Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, as its code examples made the material more approachable.
Holub's book Taming Java Threads is an edited re-print of a 9-part series from his Java Toolbox column. It has some good information, although is not as broad in coverage as other books. Holub's book Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code contains a few of his more popular Java Toolbox articles, but is mostly new content. It is a valuable resource for Java software developers.
Speaking and advocacy
Holub signed the Agile Manifesto in March 2014. As of 2023, Holub positions himself as well-versed in Lean/Agile methodology. He has made several controversial statements, such as that software development teams do not need a bug tracking system, do not need estimates, and indeed should avoid most of the practices of Scrum.
Personal life
In addition to his work in the software industry, Holub is also a composer, musician, artist, and pilot. As of 2023 he resides in Berkeley, CA.
References
Living people
1955 births
American computer scientists
University of California, Berkeley alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20XIII | Android XIII may refer to:
Android 13, the thirteenth major release of the Android mobile operating system
Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!, the seventh Dragon Ball Z film
See also
Android (operating system)
Dragon Ball Z |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTA%20Ghana | MTA Ghana is a 24-hour Islamic TV channel that was launched by the MTA International network, the first country-exclusive channel by the network, and based in Accra, Ghana. It is broadcast on the terrestrial platform and airs content in a number of local languages like Twi, Fante and Hausa. The channel, which is operated by the Wahab Adam Studio, is run by 17 full-time staff, and over 60 volunteers for various departments.
History
Prior to the launch of MTA Ghana, the MTA network covered the country through its two other satellite-based African channels, MTA Africa 1 and MTA Africa 2, the latter of which was mainly for viewers of West Africa, which were launched back in August of 2016.
References
External links
Official website
Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International
Islamic television networks
Islam in Ghana
Television channels and stations established in 2021
Broadcasting in Ghana
Television stations in Ghana
Mass media in Accra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef%20Australia%20%28series%2015%29 | The fifteenth series of the Australian cooking game show MasterChef Australia premiered on 7 May 2023 on Network 10 and concluded on 16 July 2023.
The series was originally announced at Paramount's and Network 10's upfronts in October 2022. Subtitled Secrets & Surprises, the season featured 18 contestants, with 17 new to the show. Andy Allen, Melissa Leong, and Jock Zonfrillo returned to the show as judges from the previous season. The series was originally scheduled to premiere on 1 May 2023. However, following Zonfrillo's death on 30 April, the premiere was postponed until 7 May. Filming of the season had been completed in March 2023 and was thus unaffected by the death of Zonfrillo. The premiere was preceded by a special edition of The Sunday Project that paid tribute to Zonfrillo.
The series was won by Brent Draper, who previously appeared in series 13 but withdrew for mental health reasons.
Changes
Compared to previous seasons, series 15 featured 18 contestants instead of the typical 24. Like the previous season, the season omitted the broadcast of the audition stage.
Subtitled Secrets & Surprises, this season saw a secret or surprise revealed to the contestants in every episode. One example was the introduction of a surprise "second chance apron", which was won by the winner of the first challenge in the season and kept secret from the rest of the contestants; it allowed the contestant to come back from elimination and compete for re-entry at the next elimination challenge.
Weekly immunity challenge winners had a chance to win an immunity pin by winning a cook-off against a professional chef. The winner was determined with a blind tasting by the judges, while Shannon Bennett mentored the contestants.
This was the first season not to feature any MasterClasses.
Contestants
The full cast was announced on 23 April 2023. Former contestant Brent Draper, who withdrew from series 13 citing mental health concerns, returned as a contestant for the season.
Guests
Elimination chart
Episodes and ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating during the series
– Lowest rating during the series
References
MasterChef Australia
2023 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember%2C%20Hari | Remember, Hari () is a South Korean web series, starring Park Ji-ye and Hyunjun. Based on animated series, . It aired on cable network Tooniverse at 8:00 every Thursday and Friday on August 2 to September 7, 2018, in the first season. The second season aired on February 15 to April 5, 2019, at 8:00 every Friday.
The series was streamed online on YouTube.
Cast
Main
Park Ji-ye as Hari Koo
Hyunjun as Kang-lim Choi
Jang So-jung as Gaeun Lee
Jung Sung-young as Hyun-woo Kim
Supporting
Sungwoo Kang as Park Joo-min
Hyo Na Lee as Park Soo-yeon
Jeonghanbit as Snow Lady
References
External links
(Season 1)
(Season 2)
Remember, Hari Season 2 at HanCinema
The Haunted House
Korean-language television shows
2018 web series debuts
2019 web series endings
South Korean drama web series
South Korean web series
Tooniverse original programming
Works based on animated television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiling%20%28Grace%29%20Wang | Guiling (Grace) Wang is a computer scientist whose research concerns mobile wireless sensor networks, especially vehicular ad hoc networks, and their applications in intelligent transportation systems. Educated in China and the US, she is a distinguished professor of computer science and associate dean for research in the Ying Wu College of Computing at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), and the founding director of the NJIT Center for AI Research.
Education and career
Wang is a graduate of Nankai University. She completed a PhD at Pennsylvania State University in 2006, and joined the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the same year.
Recognition
Wang was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to distributed algorithm design for sensor networks and vehicular networks". In doing so, she became the first female IEEE Fellow at NJIT. She is also a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
Nankai University alumni
Pennsylvania State University alumni
New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20G.%20Allen%20School%20of%20Computer%20Science%20%26%20Engineering | The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering is the University of Washington's computer science school, located on its Seattle campus. The school offers undergraduate and graduate level courses, for their BS, MS, and PhD degree programs. Known for most of its life as the Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) department, it was elevated to a school on its 50th anniversary in 2017. It is housed in two adjacent buildings: the Bill & Melinda Gates and Paul G. Allen Centers for Computer Science & Engineering.
History
The Computer Science Group was created in March 1967 as a graduate program under the Graduate School. In 1973, the Department of Computer Science was established as an inter-college unit between the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Engineering. An undergraduate major started accepting students in the 1975-76 academic year. In 1989, the department became a unit of the College of Engineering and the Computer Engineering degree program was added. The professional master's program, which features evening courses, debuted in 1996. The five year combined BS/MS program started in 2008.
In March 9, 2017, CSE's 50th anniversary, the UW Board of Regents voted to elevate the CSE department to a school, naming it after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen with a $50 million endowment from Allen and Microsoft.
As of 2023, the Allen School employs an equivalent of 92 full-time employees across tenure-track, teaching-track, and research professors. Turing Award laureate Richard M. Karp was on the faculty from 1995-1999. Over 650 PhD students have graduated from the school.
Buildings
In 1964, the UW Computer Center was constructed near Roberts Hall in a building then known as Roberts Hall Annex, now known as Wilcox Hall. Offices for the Computer Science Group were housed in Roberts Hall, until they moved to Sieg Hall in 1974 when it became a department.
They stayed there until the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering was constructed in 2003. The building was completed in 2003, along with the adjoined Electrical & Computer Engineering building. It was designed by LMN Architects.
In 2015, the school started the campaign to build a second building, sited across the street from the Allen Center, on the site of the decommissioned UW nuclear reactor. This 135,000 square foot building was designed by LMN Architects, who also designed the Allen Center. It contains a 250-seat auditorium, two large classrooms, undergraduate work spaces, and office space for faculty and graduate students.
Funding was secured through a combination of $41.5 million in public funds and $68.5 million in private donations, mostly from Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, totaling $110 million. Although Bill & Melinda Gates did not donate any money themselves, a group including Microsoft and 13 couples who called themselves "friends of Bill & Melinda Gates" succeeded in naming the building after the couple.
On February 28, 2019, the Bill & M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Freedom%20Caucus%20Network | The State Freedom Caucus Network (SFCN) is a 501(c)(4) conservative organization founded in December 2021 by veteran GOP strategist Andy Roth. The SFCN is a partner organization of the Conservative Partnership Institute and serves as an extension of the U.S. Congress House Freedom Caucus with operations in nearly a dozen state legislatures.
Mission
The mission of the SFCN is "to provide conservatives in state capitals nationwide the resources they need to win." The SFCN provides support in areas such as staffing, communication, strategy, tactics and logistics. State lawmakers who are part of State Freedom Caucuses battle for what they call “open, accountable and limited government, the Constitution and the rule of law, and policies that promote the liberty, safety and prosperity of all Americans”
States With Freedom Caucuses
As of 2023 the SFCN has formed caucuses within eleven state legislatures including Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming.
Battles with Leadership
The SFCN "advises its state members to “be loud” against Republicans who have compromised on fiscal and cultural conservative principles." This philosophy has led to a number of battles between Republican leadership and caucus members such as in the Mississippi legislature where the caucus helped kill an economic development bill that would have created an inter-state agency that opponents feared would be able to unaccountably levy taxes and seize property through eminent domain. In South Carolina, freedom caucus members filed a lawsuit against the House ethics commission after they were kicked out of the House Republican Caucus by leadership due to refusing to sign what the freedom caucus members called a ‘loyalty pledge’.
References
Conservative organizations by country
Conservatism
Political advocacy groups
501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20IV | Android IV may refer to:
Android Ice Cream Sandwich, the fourth major version of the Android mobile operating system
Android Jelly Bean, the codename given to the tenth version of the Android mobile operating system
Android KitKat, the codename for the eleventh Android mobile operating system
See also
Android (operating system)
Android version history |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Batang%20Quiapo%20episodes | FPJ's Batang Quiapo is a Philippine action drama series broadcast by Kapamilya Channel. It premiered on the network's Primetime Bida evening block, A2Z's A2Z Primetime, Cine Mo! and TV5's TodoMax Primetime Singko and worldwide via The Filipino Channel on February 13, 2023, replacing Mars Ravelo's Darna.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2023)
Season 2 (2023)
References
Batang Quiapo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20FNN%20and%20FNS%20affiliates | The Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS) are Japanese commercial television networks organised by Fuji Television (Fuji TV) in Tokyo, which is owned by Fujisankei Communications Group. FNN provides national news and current affairs programming to its regional affiliates, while FNS feeds entertainment and other non-news programmes. FNN and FNS are made up of 28 affiliates, including two stations that are double- or triple-affiliated with rival networks.
FNN was founded on 3 October 1966, while FNS was founded on 1 October 1969.
Stations are listed mostly in Japanese order of prefectures which is mirrored in ISO 3166-2:JP, with exceptions for the Kantō region, Aichi-Gifu-Mie, Kansai region (except Mie), Tottori-Shimane and Okayama-Kagawa, which form single wide broadcasting markets respectively.
Affiliate stations
Areas without an FNN/FNS station
Former affiliate stations
Single asterisk (*) indicates former primary affiliate
Affiliates that wanted to join but gave up
References
External links
Fuji Network System at Fuji Television
FNN
Japanese television-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbox%20and%20outbox%20pattern | The inbox pattern and outbox pattern are two related patterns used by applications to persist data (usually in a database) to be used for operations with guaranteed delivery. The inbox and outbox concepts are used in the ActivityPub protocol and in email.
The inbox pattern
The application receives data which it persists to an inbox table in a database. Once the data has been persisted another application, process or service can read from the inbox table and use the data to perform an operation which it can retry upon failure until completion, the operation may take a long time to complete.
The inbox pattern ensures that a message was received (e.g. to a queue) successfully at least once.
The outbox pattern
The application persists data to an outbox table in a database. Once the data has been persisted another application or process can read from the outbox table and use that data to perform an operation which it can retry upon failure until completion.
The outbox pattern ensures that a message was sent (e.g. to a queue) successfully at least once.
See also
Enterprise service bus
Message broker
External links
Push-based Outbox Pattern with Postgres Logical Replication
Software design patterns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Project%20EGG%20games | Project EGG is an emulation-based video game distribution service for Windows operating systems - originally launched by Bothtec on November 24, 2001 and now managed by D4 Enterprise.
There have been a total of 1149 titles added to the service, originating from across 22 different platforms. However, 102 of these titles (including all titles for the Neo Geo and SG-1000 platforms) have since been delisted and are thus no longer available for purchase.
The following is a mostly-comprehensive list of all titles released on Project EGG, sorted by platform and release date:
FM-7
The FM-7 was a Japanese home computer released by Fujitsu in 1982 - and FM-7 games started to be made available through Project EGG on November 24, 2001.
There are currently 26 original FM-7 titles available on Project EGG:
FM77AV
The FM77AV was a Japanese home computer released by Fujitsu in 1985, as an upgraded version of their earlier FM-7 platform - and FM77AV games started to be made available through Project EGG on November 24, 2001.
There have been 12 FM77AV titles available on Project EGG, 1 of which is no longer available for purchase:
PC-8801
The PC-8801 was a Japanese home computer released by NEC in 1981 - and original PC-8801 games (as opposed to titles from later revisions of the platform) started to be made available through Project EGG on November 24, 2001.
There have been 183 original PC-8801 titles available on Project EGG, 25 of which are no longer available for purchase:
PC-9801
The PC-9801 was a Japanese home computer released by NEC in 1982 - and PC-9801 games started to be made available through Project EGG on November 24, 2001.
There have been 293 PC-9801 titles available on Project EGG, 14 of which are no longer available for purchase:
Sharp X1
The X1 was a Japanese home computer released by Sharp Corporation in 1982 - and Sharp X1 games started to be made available through Project EGG on November 24, 2001.
There have been 26 Sharp X1 titles available on Project EGG, 1 of which is no longer available for purchase:
MSX
The MSX was a Japanese home computer released by ASCII Corporation in 1983 - and original MSX games (as opposed to titles from later revisions of the platform) started to be made available through Project EGG on May 17, 2002.
There have been 90 original MSX titles available on Project EGG, 10 of which are no longer available for purchase:
MSX2
The MSX2 was a Japanese home computer released by ASCII Corporation in 1985, as an upgraded version of their earlier MSX platform - and MSX2 games started to be made available through Project EGG on May 17, 2002.
There have been 129 MSX2 titles available on Project EGG, 11 of which are no longer available for purchase:
MSX2+
The MSX2+ was a Japanese home computer released by ASCII Corporation in 1988, as an upgraded version of their earlier MSX platform - and MSX2+ games started to be made available through Project EGG on July 1, 2002.
There have been 4 MSX2+ titles available on P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Connect | Open Connect is a content distribution network specifically developed by Netflix to deliver its TV shows and movies to avoid the traffic and fees.
Netflix provides physical appliances to internet service providers that allow them to avoid traffic during peak hours of streaming or sustain the anticipated ones. By shipping copies of content to these appliances ahead of time, the devices can store duplicates of titles, thereby reducing the network burden. Also, Netflix places its servers in locations with the highest number of subscribers and forms partnerships with ISP networks or IXPs.
Furthermore, Netflix adapts its content to the quality of the network. This is achieved by sending three copies of each title, each at a different quality level, to its servers. For example, if a user's ISP is overwhelmed or the Internet connection is poor, the system can select a lower-bitrate version of the title.
History
Netflix launched Open Connect in 2012. Since then, Netflix has spent over $1 billion to develop and distribute more than 8,000 Open Connect Appliances (OCA). The service started working on the free-of-charge distribution of OCAs in cooperation with ISPs. So far, more than 1,000 ISPs have acquired and installed OCAs, which has allowed them to save $1.25 billion by 2021.
In the case of an OCA that is hosted at an IXP, Netflix maintains ownership of the OCA and is responsible for covering its own expenses such as power consumption, colocation fees, cross-connect fees, and other related costs. Netflix has installed OCAs in over 52 IXPs around the world, enabling a connection with any ISP.
Deployment
IX deployment
Netflix deploys OCAs within IXPs located in major Netflix markets around the world. These OCAs are interconnected with ISPs present at the same location through free public or private peering.
Embedded deployment
OCAs are directly installed within ISP networks. While Netflix supplies the server hardware at no cost, ISPs are responsible for providing space, power, and connectivity.
Requirements
Three primary factors that determine the number of appliances that need to be deployed are:
The network architecture requirements
The maximum amount of Netflix traffic to be delivered from a particular site
The availability and failover options that can be implemented at that site.
Hardware
Open Connect is a combination of local servers, referred to as OCAs, and additional infrastructure. Netflix has developed storage appliances that are used to store the content in many IX locations globally and are embedded at larger ISP partner locations. The storage holds up to 350 TB, therefore, if something from storage becomes popular, Netflix will move that title onto the other server called flash server which serves large traffic.
Software
These are used software for designing Open Connect Appliance Software:
Operating system – FreeBSD
Web server – NGINX
Routing Intelligence Proxy – BIRD internet routing daemon
IP support – IPv4 a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20F.%20Weaver | Donald F. Weaver is a Canadian chemist and neurologist based at the Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Canada. He is Senior Scientist of the Krembil Research Institute and Professor of Neurology, Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Canada), Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Weaver specializes in memory and seizure disorders; his clinical practice included research in both basic and translational science as well as the presidency of Epilepsy Canada, the directorship of the Krembil Research Institute & the Krembil Brain Institute as well as appointments as Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs. He is known for his research into the biomolecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases with a current focus on innate immunity and re-conceptualizing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as an disorder of autoimmunity. His contributions also include the design and synthesis of new chemical entities as putative therapeutics for AD and related dementias.
He has also co-founded Neurochem Inc. and Treventis Corp., both focused on developing drugs for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Neurochem proceeded to an initial public offering (IPO) on the TSX and NASDAQ and advanced two compounds to Phase III human trials. Treventis, similarly arose from Weaver’s academic laboratory, and has developed small molecule therapeutics targeting tau in AD and has established collaboration with Takeda Inc. for their continued development.
Biography
Weaver was born in North Bay, Ontario. He completed his MD at Queen’s University, followed by an internal medicine internship at the Hôtel-Dieu and Kingston General Hospitals. He next completed clinical residency training in Neurology at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University; where he also undertook additional training in behavioural neurology. He returned to Queen’s University obtaining a Ph.D. in theoretical and organic chemistry, defending a dissertation on the applications of quantum mechanics and synthetic organic chemistry to neurologic drug design.
In his first academic appointment, he taught chemistry and neurology at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s, he established the first memory disorders clinic at that institution and was Professor and Head of the Division of Neurology from 1998 to 2001. He subsequently moved to Dalhousie University as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Neurodegenerative Diseases. While there he also became the inaugural Sobey Endowed Chair in Curative Approaches to Alzheimer’s Disease. He next relocated to Toronto as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Protein Misfolding and as the inaugural Director of the Krembil Research Institute.
He has been studying Alzheimer’s disease using theoretical/computational chemistry methods for more than 30 years. He was the computational chemist whose in silico screen id |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifiable%20temporal%20unit%20problem | The Modified Temporal Unit Problem (MTUP) is a source of statistical bias that occurs in time series and spatial analysis when using temporal data that has been aggregated into temporal units. In such cases, choosing a temporal unit (e.g., days, months, years) can affect the analysis results and lead to inconsistencies or errors in statistical hypothesis testing.
Background
The MTUP is closely related to the modifiable areal unit problem or MAUP, in that they both relate to the scale of analysis and the issue of choosing an appropriate analysis. While the MAUP refers to the choice of spatial enumeration units, the MTUP arises because different temporal units have different properties and characteristics, such as the number of periods they contain or the amount of detail they provide. For example, daily sales data for a product can be aggregated into weekly, monthly, or yearly sales data. In this case, using monthly data instead of daily data can result in losing important information about the timing of events, and using yearly data can obscure short-term trends and patterns. However, the daily data in the example may have too much noise, temporal autocorrelation, or be inconsistent with other datasets. With only daily data, conducting an analysis accurately at the hourly rate would not be possible. In addition, the Modifiable Temporal Unit Problem can also arise when the time units are irregular or when the data is missing for some periods. In such cases, the choice of the time unit can affect the amount of missing data, which can impact the accuracy of the analysis and forecasting.
Overall, the Modifiable Temporal Unit Problem highlights the importance of carefully considering the time unit when analyzing and forecasting time series data. It is often necessary to try different time units and evaluate the results to determine the most appropriate choice.
Implications
Crime
The impact of MTUP on crime analysis can be significant, as it can affect the accuracy and reliability of crime data and its conclusions about crime patterns and trends. For example, suppose the temporal unit of analysis is changed from days to weeks. In that case, the number of reported crimes may decrease or increase, even if the underlying pattern remains constant. This can lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of crime prevention strategies or the overall level of crime in a given area.
Food accessibility
The MTUP can also have an impact on food accessibility. This issue arises when the temporal unit of analysis is changed, leading to changes in the patterns and trends observed in food accessibility data. For example, if food accessibility data is analyzed from different years or aggregated differently, then the results of a study are likely to be impacted. This can affect our understanding of the availability of food in different areas over time, and can result in incorrect or incomplete conclusions about food accessibility.
Epidemiology
The MTUP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20WON-Enabled%20games | The World Opponent Network (WON) operated in its original form, more or less, from 1996 until about 2001. WON then went through many changes until the last of the WON-based game servers shut down in 2008. See the main WON article for its complex history after 2000.
WON provided features for online game serversprimarily for multiplayer gamesfor matchmaking and chat. Games that used these features were tagged as "WON Enabled" in the WON downloads database. While this database ultimately included hundreds of titles regardless of WON capabilities, this is a list of only the WON-enabled titles (with some exceptions as noted below).
A sister feature of WON, called "WONswap," allowed for user-created DLC sharing. While many titles supported by WONswap were also WON enabled, this was not always the case and this list does not include WONswap-only titles. For example, StarCraft is not in this list because, even though it appeared on WONswap, the game itself was served by Battle.net instead of WON.
Retail games
Most of these games used WON game servers to enable online multiplayer capabilities. A few, however, such as Shivers II, just used some of the other WON features such as chat (for chatting while playing solo) and puzzle sharing. This list also includes WON-enabled demos of retail games that were, essentially, free online multiplayer mini-games.
While chess.net for Windows (1999) is a retail game that was linked to from WON.net (eventually replacing/outlasting Power Chess), it is not included in the list below because there is no indication that any chess.net products were WON enabled.
Nested references from notes above: * † ‡ **
Announced retail games
Games announced as coming to WON.net but never appeared.
Front Page Sports: Ski Racing (1997) Sierra On-Line
Skiing, 1999 Edition (1998) Sierra Sports
Shanghai: Dynasty (1997) Activision
Shanghai: Second Dynasty (1999) Activision
Heavy Gear II (1999) Activision
Free games
This is a list of all free/ad-supported, browser-based/download-on-demand games that were featured on WON.net. Some are WON enabled (such as ARC and Silencer); some not (such as the single-player "Quick Games"); some difficult to tell after the fact. Hence, all free games are included here as the list is not very long.
The PrizeCentral.com games are not listed here (which could be the topic of its own list). Likewise, games that appeared after the breakup of WON.net into to Flipside.com and, later, UPROAR.com also are not listed here. These games came with the acquisition of WON.net by Havas (who had also acquired PrizeCentral.com and other properties). It is not known that any of these later Havas-acquired games are WON enabled.
The instant messaging games are not included here (which appeared in download.won.net in Sep 2000, and later on Flipside.com). Even though some like IM Backgammon are tagged as WON Enabled in the downloads database, they are built upon ICQ and not WON (and have no known WON components).
H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Harrison | Rachel Harrison may refer to:
Rachel Harrison (artist), American visual artist
Rachel Harrison (computer scientist), British computer scientist
Rachel Harrison (writer), writer of horror fiction
See also
Rachel Harris (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPTZero | GPTZero is an artificial intelligence detection software developed to identify and analyze artificially generated text, specifically focusing on text produced by AI language models such as GPT-3.
GPTZero was designed with the intention of helping maintain trust and accuracy in the education sector by trying to help distinguish between artificial intelligence and human-generated text.
While the tool has been met with positive reception, its received criticism as well. There is also an ongoing debate about the accuracy of AI detection tools, including GPTZero.
Development
GPTZero was developed by Edward Tian, a Princeton University undergraduate student, and launched online in January 2023 in response to concerns about AI-generated content in academia and its potential impact on plagiarism. Leveraging machine learning techniques and NLP algorithms, GPTZero has demonstrated capable of analyzing and classifying content with accuracy in some instances.
The development process involved collaboration with AI experts and extensive testing on various datasets, including AI-generated content from GPT-3 and human-generated content. GPTZero has received attention from academic institutions, news outlets, and the broader AI community for its ability to detect AI-generated content, which is essential for ensuring the integrity of academic work and other text-based content.
Functionality
GPTZero uses perplexity and burstiness to determine if a passage was written by a bot.
In order to properly understand what constitutes "perplexity" and "burstiness", artificial intelligence has been trained through the analysis of an incredibly large amount of human work.
Perplexity is how random the text in the sentence is, and whether the way the sentence is constructed is unusual or "surprising" for the application. It relies on language models, and the more such models, the higher the chance that the text was not written by a person.
Burstiness compares sentences with each other, determining their similarity. Human text is more discontinuous, meaning we tend to write with more sentence variation than AI. Thus, if this variability does not correspond to the needed level, there could be a higher probability that the text is artificially composed.
Use cases and applications
GPTzero is primarily used to try and detect instances of AI written text. It is currently being further developed to assist educators. In October 2023, it was announced that GPTzero had partnered with the American Federation of Teachers. Currently, GPTzero offers an AI text detection tool, and a Google Chrome extension called "Origin", which watches the history and keystrokes made in a Google doc.
Reception and impact
The academic community has attempted using GPTZero to tackle concerns about AI-generated content for plagiarism. Educators and institutions all over the world have adopted the tool. Notable educational institutions, including Princeton University, have discussed the use of GP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20Colombian%20representatives%20from%20C%C3%B3rdoba | The following is an alphabetical list of the members of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from the department of Córdoba. The name list should be complete, but other data may be incomplete.
Current representatives
Andrés Calle (L) (since 2018)
Wadith Manzur (C) (since 2018)
Nicolás Barguil (C) (since 2022)
Saray Robayo (U) (since 2022)
Ana Paola García (U) (since 2022)
List of members
See also
Congress of Colombia
Chamber of Representatives of Colombia
References
Congress of Colombia
Politics of Colombia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot%20Mobile | Patriot Mobile is an American mobile virtual network operator based in Grapevine, Texas. It uses the T-Mobile US network to deliver wireless services.
In 2022, the company created Patriot Mobile Action, a political action committee, to support candidates in school board races in Fort Worth, Texas. All 11 candidates supported by the company won their races across four school districts. The company has received praise from Steve Bannon.
References
External links
Mobile phone companies of the United States
Mobile virtual network operators
Companies based in Grapevine, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitar%20Ouzounov | Dimitar Ouzounov (Bulgarian: Димитър Узунов) is a Bulgarian–American geophysicist, research scientist, academic, and author. He is a research professor of geophysics at Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (Institute for ECHO), Chapman University.
Ouzounov has worked in cross-disciplinary problem-solving related to Earth system science, Geophysics, and Natural Hazards, with a focus on geohazards, earthquake science, geospace observations, and the interaction between geospheres. In particular, he has researched using near-space Earth observations to study geodynamic processes and contributed to the validation of a new geophysical theory related to earthquake processes. Using data from an electromagnetic environment survey of the Earth, he developed diagnostics of the atmospheric environment related to natural and man-made disasters as well. He has also co-authored three books, including The Possibility of Earthquake Forecasting: Learning from Nature, twelve book chapters as well as published 74 refereed journal paper. in addition to having three patents.
Education
Ouzounov received his first Master of Science degree in Applied Geophysics from the University of Mining and Geology in Sofia, Bulgaria. He then pursued his second master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics at the Technical University, Sofia. Later, he received his PhD in Mathematics/Physics/Geophysics from The Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth in Moscow, Russia.
Career
Ouzounov began his academic career as a Post-Doc/Research Scientist at the Geophysical Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria. Later, he became an adjunct professor at George Mason University and subsequently, moved on to become an associate professor of geophysics in the Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations (CEESMO) at Chapman University from 2009 to 2013. He held concurrent appointment as a guest professor at the Technical University of Catalonia and has been a research professor of geophysics at Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (Institute for ECHO), Chapman University since 2014.
Ouzounov was an SSAI Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA in 1999. As a NASA GES DISC center member, he provided the first data mission support for MODIS NASA Terra & Aqua satellites. He then received a NASA research grant and joined the Goddard SFC Geodynamics team, where he developed a technique for detecting transient thermal radiation related to geodynamics and pre-earthquake processes, studying electromagnetic signals from space concerning earthquakes and volcanoes and contributing to cross-sensor validation efforts. He has been a Keynote and Plenary Speaker at various international conferences, including NASA conferences (2011), EMSEV Taiwan (2022), TIEMS-Philippines (2018), SATELLITE-Houston (2015), Kansai Science Forum Osaka-Japan (2012), and the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valnet | Valnet may refer to:
ValNet, Valencian pilota association
VALNET, the Veterans Affairs Library Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane%20leak | A methane leak comes from an industrial facility or pipeline and means a significant natural gas leak: the term is used for a class of methane emissions. Satellite data enables the identification of super-emitter events that produce methane plumes. Over 1,000 methane leaks of this type were found worldwide in 2022. As with other gas leaks, a leak of methane is a safety hazard: coalbed methane in the form of fugitive gas emission has always been a danger to miners. Methane leaks also have a serious environmental impact. Natural gas can contain some ethane and other gases, but from both the safety and environmental point of view the methane content is the major factor.
As a greenhouse gas and climate change contributor, methane ranks second, following carbon dioxide. Fossil fuel exploration, transportation and production is responsible for about 40% of human-caused methane emissions. Smaller leaks than can be spotted from space comprise a long tail of emissions. They can be identified from planes flying at . According to Fatih Birol of the International Energy Agency, "Methane emissions are still far too high, especially as methane cuts are among the cheapest options to limit near-term global warming".
Examples of methane leaks
Individual methane leaks as reported are specific events, with a large quantity of gas released. An example followed the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage. Following early reports that the escape might exceed 105 tonnes, The International Methane Emissions Observatory of the United Nations Environment Programme analysed the release. In February 2023 it put the mass of methane gas in the range 7.5 to 23.0 x 104 tonnes. In terms of overall human-made methane emissions, these figures are under 0.1% of the annual total.
Satellite data detection has shown that methane super emitter sites in Turkmenistan, USA and Russia are responsible for the biggest number of events from fossil fuel facilities. Equipment failures are normally responsible for the releases, which can last for weeks.
The Aliso Canyon gas leak of 2015 has been quantified as at least 1.09 x 105 tonnes of methane. Satellite data for the Raspadskaya coal mine, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia indicated in 2022 an hourly methane leakage rate of 87 tonnes; this compares to 60 tonnes per hour of natural gas leaking from the Aliso Canyon incident, considered among the worst recorded leak events.
Spain's Technical University of Valencia, in a study published in 2022, found that a super emitter event at a gas and oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico released around 4 x 104 tonnes of methane during a 17-day time period in December 2021 (hourly rate around 98 tonnes). Another major event in 2022 was a leak of 427 tonnes an hour in August, near Turkmenistan's Caspian coast and a major pipeline.
Units
Quantitative reports of methane leaks often use the standard cubic foot (scf) of the United States customary system. Applied to natural gas, a complex mixture of uncertain proportions, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBYY | ABBYY is a US-based company that develops solutions in the fields of intelligent document processing, data capture, process intelligence and optical character recognition (OCR). The company serves clients worldwide. One of ABBYY's best-known products is the ABBYY FineReader — an OCR application.
History
The history of ABBYY dates back to 1989, when David Yang founded BIT Software company in Moscow. In the early 1990s, the company introduces optical character recognition (OCR) and since then kept investing in artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML). In July 1993, the first version of the text recognition software ABBYY FineReader was released.
ABBYY entered the professional translation market in 2007. It partners with AI, analytics, and RPA vendors UiPath, Blue Prism, Alteryx, PwC India, and others. In 2019, ABBYY acquired TimelinePI, a process mining company, and Marlin Equity Partners became its biggest shareholder in 2021.
In 2022, the company declared a complete exit from the Russian market: it stopped sales/provision of services in Russia and Belarus, relocated critical personnel, and filed for the liquidation of its Russian legal entities.
Offices & management
The company is headquartered in the USA (Milpitas, California), with regional offices in 15 countries. As of May 2023, ABBYY Group employs over 1000 employees.
ABBYY's CEO (since 2017) is Ulf Persson, who lives in London.
Company products
ABBYY FineReader, an application for documents and PDF files, based on ABBYY OCR technology.
ABBYY Vantage, a platform for intelligent document processing (recognition, classification, and data retrieval) of documents.
ABBYY FlexiCapture, a platform for intelligent document processing of information from documents. In 2019, natural language processing technologies were added to the solution.
ABBYY Proof of Identity, a solution for instant recognition and verification of documents.
ABBYY Timeline, a platform for business process analysis and task mining.
Additional products include NeoML, a cross-platform open-source machine learning library.
Notes
External links
Official website
Companies established in 1989
Software companies of the United States
Commons category link is on Wikidata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitoma | Mitoma may refer to:
Kaoru Mitoma (born 1997), Japanese footballer
Mitoma Station, railway station in Fukuoka, Japan
See also
Mitomi, Yamanashi, village in Japan
Miitomo, social network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50th%20Daytime%20Creative%20Arts%20%26%20Lifestyle%20Emmy%20Awards | The 50th Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), will honor the best in US daytime television programming in 2022. The award ceremony was originally planned to be held on June 17, 2023, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, but has been postponed indefinitely due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike.
The nominations were announced on April 26, 2023, alongside the nominees for the main ceremony categories. Syndicated talk show The Kelly Clarkson Show received the most creative arts nominations with nine, followed by Island of the Sea Wolves with seven, and The Bold and the Beautiful and Book of Queer with six each.
The ceremony will be streamed on the NATAS OTT channel at Watch.TheEmmys.TV.
Winners and nominees
The nominations for both the 50th Daytime Emmy Awards and the 50th Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmy Awards were announced on April 26, 2023.
Programming
Crafts
Nominations and wins by program
References
External links
Daytime Emmys website
050 Creative Arts
2023 television awards
2023 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashiru | Bashiru is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Bashiru Ally, Tanzanian academic, diplomat and politician
Bashiru Aremu (born 1974), Nigerian computer scientist
Bashiru Gambo (born 1978), Ghanaian footballer
Bashiru Kwaw-Swanzy (1921–1997), Ghanaian politician
Bashiru Ademola Raji, Nigerian soil scientist
Surname
Abdul Bashiru (born 1992), Ghanaian footballer
Osman Bashiru (born 1989), Ghanaian footballer
Umar Bashiru (born 1997), Ghanaian footballer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperdimensional%20computing | Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an approach to computation, particularly artificial intelligence, where information is represented as a hyperdimensional (long) vector, an array of numbers. A hyperdimensional vector (hypervector) could include thousands of numbers that represent a point in a space of thousands of dimensions. Vector Symbolic Architectures is an older name for the same broad approach.
Process
Data is mapped from the input space to sparse HD space under an encoding function φ : X → H. HD representations are stored in data structures that are subject to corruption by noise/hardware failures. Noisy/corrupted HD representations can still serve as input for learning, classification, etc. They can also be decoded to recover the input data. H is typically restricted to range-limited integers (-v-v)
This is analogous to the learning process conducted by fruit flies olfactory system. The input is a roughly 50-dimensional vector corresponding to odor receptor neuron types. The HD representation uses ~2,000-dimensions.
Transparency
HDC algebra reveals the logic of how and why systems makes decisions, unlike artificial neural networks. Physical world objects can be mapped to hypervectors, to be processed by the algebra.
Performance
HDC is suitable for “in-memory computing systems,” which compute and hold data on a single chip, avoiding data transfer delays. Analog devices operate at low voltages. They are energy-efficient, but prone to error-generating noise. HDC's can tolerate such errors.
Various teams have developed low-power HDC hardware accelerators.
Nanoscale memristive devices can be exploited to perform computation. An in-memory hyperdimensional computing system can implement operations on two memristive crossbar engines together with peripheral digital CMOS circuits. Experiments using 760,000 phase-change memory devices performing analog in-memory computing achieved accuracy comparable to software implementations.
Errors
HDC is robust to errors such as an individual bit error (a 0 flips to 1 or vice versa) missed by error-correcting mechanisms. Eliminating such error-correcting mechanisms can save up to 25% of compute cost. This is possible because such errors leave the result "close" to the correct vector. Reasoning using vectors is not compromised. HDC is at least 10x more error tolerant than traditional artificial neural networks, which are already orders of magnitude more tolerant than traditional computing.
Example
A simple example considers images containing black circles and white squares. Hypervectors can represent SHAPE and COLOR variables and hold the corresponding values: CIRCLE, SQUARE, BLACK and WHITE. Bound hypervectors can hold the pairs BLACK and CIRCLE, etc.
Orthogonality
High-dimensional space allows many mutually orthogonal vectors. However, If vectors are instead allowed to be nearly orthogonal, the number of distinct vectors in high-dimensional space is vastly larger.
HDC uses the concept of di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalabi%20network | The "Chalabi network" was the name given to a French Islamist network led by Mohamed Chalabi that supported the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) during the Algerian Civil War in the 1990s. A total of 138 suspected members of the group were subject to a controversial mass trial that took place from September 1998 to January 1999 following police raids in 1994 and 1995, with charges of "criminal association with a terrorist enterprise"; in the end 87 people were convicted.
Arrests and trial
The 138 suspects tried in 1998 were arrested in two mass-arrests, the first in November 1994 when 93 people were arrested in a single day, and on 25 June 1995 when 131 people were arrested in five different cities across France. The highly controversial trial was held in a prison gymnasium on the outskirts of Paris because of a lack of space in the central court house. 120 lawyers and 300 police took part in the trial which was described as the largest in France in 50 years. The trial was heavily criticised by civil rights activists and newspapers, and most defence lawyers walked out of the trial on the first day. Most of the trial consisted of the reading of a 600-page summary of the 50,000-page indictment.
A total of 87 suspects were convicted in the trial that concluded in January 1999; the three prime defendants, including the presumed ringleader Mohamed Chalabi, Mohamed Kerrouche and Mourad Tacine, received sentences of eight years in prison to be followed by permanent expulsion from France to Algeria for collecting weapons, money and counterfeit documents on behalf of Muslim fundamentalists fighting to overthrow the Algerian government.
See also
1995 France bombings
1998 World Cup terror plot
References
Counterterrorism in France
Islamic terrorism in France
Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
1990s in France
Police raids on Islamists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20Data%20Happened | How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms is a 2023 non-fiction book written by Columbia University professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones. The book explores the history of data and statistics from the end of the 18th century to the present day.
Publication
It has 336 pages and was published in 2023 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Synopsis
The book starts at the end of the 18th century, when European states began tabulating physical resources, and ends at the present day, when algorithms manipulate our personal information as a commodity. It looks at the rise of data and statistics, and how early statistical methods were used to justify eugenics, quantify supposed racial differences, and develop military and industrial applications. The authors also discuss the impact of the internet and e-commerce on data collection, the rise of data science, and the consequences of government-run surveillance systems collecting vast amounts of personal data for customized, targeted advertising. They emphasize the importance of privacy and democracy, and propose remedies to the problems caused by mass data collection, including stronger regulation of the tech industry and collective action by its employees. The book is a historical analysis that provides context for understanding the debates surrounding data and its control.
References
2023 non-fiction books
Data science
History books about the 19th century
History books about the 20th century
History books about the 21st century
Books about mathematics
Computer science books
W. W. Norton & Company books
External Links
The wild evolution of data science and how to unpack it, book excerpt on Big Think
From Eugenics to Targeted Advertising: The Dark Role of Data in Sorting Humanity, book excerpt on Literary Hub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%20Liu%20%28speech%20recognition%29 | Yang Liu () is a Chinese and American computer scientist specializing in speech recognition, and a principal scientist for Amazon Alexa.
Education and career
Liu was a student of electrical engineering at Tsinghua University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1997 and a master's degree in 2000. She went to Purdue University for doctoral study in electrical and computer engineering, completing her Ph.D. in 2004.
After postdoctoral research at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, she became an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2005, and was tenured as an associate professor there in 2011. She moved from academia to Silicon Valley in California in 2015, but retained her faculty position in Dallas on leave until 2018.
Meanwhile, she was a visiting scientist at Google Research from 2015 to 2016, a researcher for Facebook from 2016 to 2017, and head of the AI lab for LAIX Inc. from 2017 to 2019. In 2019, she took her present position at Amazon Alexa, as a principal scientist for Alexa AI.
Recognition
Liu was named an IEEE Fellow in 2021, "for contributions to speech understanding and language learning technology". In the same year, she was also named a Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association, "for her contributions to speech recognition and understanding, prosody modelling, summarization, sentiment analysis, and social media research".
References
External links
Yang Liu, Senior Principal Scientist, Amazon Science
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Speech processing researchers
Tsinghua University alumni
Purdue University alumni
University of Texas at Dallas faculty
Amazon (company) people
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20network%20of%20Sicily | Sicily's rail network, which has included only standard-gauge lines since 1986, is operated entirely by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana; an exception is the 111-km narrow-gauge Catania-Randazzo-Linguaglossa-Riposto line, which is operated by Ferrovia Circumetnea. As of 2018, the FS network in operation covers a length of 1369 km.
The Sicilian railways consist of 8 lines, spanning all nine provinces of the region. Many lines were decommissioned and generally dismantled, particularly in the 1960s (but even up to almost the threshold of the 1990s, decommissioning took place), mainly because they were uncompetitive in comparison with road transport, or because the needs for which they were created, such as the transport of sulfur extracted in large quantities in the mines in the center of the region, had ceased.
The Sicilian network constitutes the most extensive island rail network in the Mediterranean, but the routes have, by and large, remained original and circuitous, and modernization works during the 20th century have been very limited. It was only in the first decade of the 21st century that route modifications were planned and in some cases initiated to adapt them to transportation needs.
History
If the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies had the pride of having the first railroad in Italy, this was not the case for Sicily despite the fact that the exploitation of the island's sulfur had long since been undertaken. There were numerous instances from the various agricultural and industrial business sectors; in 1859 the Palermo entrepreneur Gaspare Ciprì had even founded a newspaper entitled Le ferrovie sicule and had undertaken negotiations with Belgian and Dutch investors for the possible establishment of a railway company that would build the routes afferent to the two ports most useful for the purpose, the Palermo-Bagheria (for the embarkation at the port of Palermo of sulfur from Lercara) and the Caltanissetta-Licata (for the embarkation at the port of Licata from that of Caltanissetta). A short time later the Institute for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Crafts in Palermo announced a competition for the study of a rail network of Sicily; in this context a project that set as a priority the construction of the Palermo-Girgenti railroad with a branch line to Caltanissetta and Licata arose. With the proclamation of Giuseppe Garibaldi's Provisional Dictatorial Government all this fervor had immediate effect, and on 25 September 1860 a Convention was signed with the Adami and Lemmi Company formed by the bankers Pietro Augusto Adami and Adriano Lemmi of Livorno for the realization of the island's railroad network. Shortly afterwards, the newly formed Savoy government revoked the convention and transferred the concession deed to the Victor Emmanuel Railway (with predominantly French capital); nevertheless, the railways in Sicily were built late and slowly given the gradual insolvency and financial collapse in which the said company soon found itse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alon%20Gal | Alon Gal is an Israeli cybersecurity expert and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Hudson Rock, a cybercrime intelligence company.
Data breaches
One of Gal's contributions to the industry was to uncover a massive data breach that affected over 533 million Facebook users. The breach included users' phone numbers, email addresses, birthdays, and other personal information. Gal was the first to report the breach, which ultimately led to a $276 million fine for Facebook from the Irish Data Protection Commissioner for violating General Data Protection Regulation laws.
In addition to the Facebook breach, Gal also played a role in uncovering a 2023 data breach that affected over 200 million Twitter users. The breach involved user information, including email addresses, usernames, and other personal information.
Gal's work has also led to the uncovering of other significant data breaches, including a T-Mobile breach that exposed the personal information of 40 million customers.
For a period of time between 2019 and 2021, Gal operated a pseudo-anonymous Twitter account and a Medium (website) blog called "Under The Breach", the account gained popularity for the uncovering of several additional data breaches such as the 91 million Indonesian Tokopedia users data leak, the 337,000 Maltese voters database leak which resulted in a 65,000 euro fine, and the 20 million BigBasket users data leak.
References
External links
Official website
Under The Breach
Alon Gal at LinkedIn.
Alon Gal's interview at PureVPN.
Israeli company founders
1996 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Consumer%20Financial%20Protection%20Bureau%20data%20breach | The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) data breach occurred in March 2023 at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Data breach
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) experienced a significant security breach when a former employee transferred confidential information on approximately 256,000 consumers and forty-five financial institutions to their personal email account. The unauthorized transfer involved data from seven firms, though the majority of the consumer information came from one institution. The data was sent over fourteen emails and it contained personally identifiable information (PII) of consumers. The employee also sent two spreadsheets with names and transaction-specific account numbers for about 256,000 consumer accounts at a single institution. Neither the firms nor the employee have been publicly identified.
The CFPB first became aware of abuse on 14 February 2023. They informed U.S. lawmakers of the incident on March 21, but it was not made public until April 24th. Shortly following the data breach, Senator Cruz and Rep Donalds authored a bill seeking to eliminate the CFPB.
References
Data breaches in the United States
data breach
March 2023 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinci%20Airports | Vinci Airports is a subsidiary of Vinci Group, which develops and operates civil airports. The company develops a network of 65 airports in 12 countries including France, Portugal, Brazil, United States, Cambodia, Japan, Dominican Republic, Chile, Serbia, United Kingdom, and Costa Rica.
History and development
In 1995, Vinci Airports obtained its first airport concession. A contract was signed, via its subsidiary Cambodia Airports, until 2040 for the airports of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. Since 2006, Vinci Airports has also held the concession for a third international airport in Cambodia: Sihanoukville.
In France Vinci Airports won its first tender for Grenoble Airport in 2003, followed by a second in 2004 for Chambéry Airport.
VINCI Airports was set up in Chile in 2015. The Nuevo Pudahuel consortium, including Vinci Airports (40%), Aéroports de Paris (45%) and Astaldi (15%), took over the operation of Santiago de Chile Airport for 20 years.
It was also in 2015 that Vinci Airports and its partner Orix were appointed prospective concessionaires for Kansai and Osaka International airports for a 44-year period starting 1 April 2016.
In 2018 Vinci Airports signed the concession contract for Belgrade Airport, Serbia and officially became the concessionaire in December 2018 for a 25-year term. In April 2018, Vinci Airports announced the acquisition of Airports Worldwide, a U.S. airport concession company, and thus became concessionaire for 8 airports including Belfast International Airport, Northern Ireland, Stockholm-Skavsta Airport, Sweden, Orlando-Sanford Airport, U.S.A., and Guanacaste Airport, Costa Rica.
In December 2018 Vinci Airports reached an agreement to buy 50.01% of the shares in Gatwick Airport Limited, the company that owns London Gatwick Airport, from its current shareholders, enabling it to become the majority shareholder for €3.2 billion.
In 2021 Vinci Airports won the concession for seven new airports (Manaus, Tabatinga, Téfé, Cruzeiro do Sul, Porto Velho, Rio Branco, Boa Vista) in the Amazon region of northern Brazil, for 30 years.
In December 2022 Vinci Airports acquired 30% of OMA (Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte), the leading Mexican airport operator, which operates 13 airports in that country.
in July 2023, it was announced Vinci Airports had secured €60 million in financing to acquire seven airports in Cape Verde.
Subsidiaries
The company's subsidiaries in 2022:
SEAGI – Grenoble Airport 100%
SEACA – Chambéry Airport 100%
SEACFA – Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport 100%
SEAPA – Ancenis Airport 100%
SEATH – Toulon-Hyères Airport
ANA – ANA Aeroportos de Portugal 100%
Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (Aerodom) 100%
Concessionária do Aeroporto de Salvador S.A. 100%
Concessionária dos Aeroportos da Amazônia S.A. 100%
Aéroports du Grand Ouest 85%
Cambodia Airports 70%
SEARD – Rennes and Dinard airports 49%
Nuevo Pudahuel 40%
Kansai Airports 40%
Aéroports de Lyon 31%
Gatwick Airport 50.01%
Annecy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20orchestration | Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) is a group of cybersecurity technologies that allow organizations to respond to some incidents automatically. It collects inputs monitored by the security operations team such as alerts from the SIEM system, TIP, and other security technologies and helps define, prioritize, and drive standardized incident response activities.
Organizations uses SOAR platforms to improve the efficiency of physical and digital security operations. SOAR enables administrators to handle security alerts without the need for manual intervention. When the network tool detects a security event, depending on its nature, SOAR can raise an alert to the administrator or take some other action.
Components
"Orchestration" connects the different security tools and systems of the Information system. It integrates custom-built applications with built-in security tools, so they all work with each other. It also connects divers endpoints, firewalls and behavior analysis tools.
"Automation" takes the huge amount of information generated through orchestration and analyzes it through machine learning processes. SOAR handle a lot of manual tasks of log analysis and can also handle ticket requests, vulnerability checks and auditing processes.
"Incident response" allows security teams to react when a potential threat is indicated. This component also handles post-incident activities such as threat intelligence sharing in an automated way.
Playbooks and runbooks
SOAR allows security administrators to define the potential incidents and the response, thanks to playbooks and runbooks.
A playbook is a document that describes how to verify a cybersecurity incident and how the incident should be responded. The purpose of the playbook is to document what the runbook should do. Playbook can be used as a manual backup in case the SOAR fails.
A runbook implements the playbook data into an automated tool so that it performs predefined actions to mitigate the threat.
References
Data security
Security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Dragons%20Rising | Ninjago: Dragons Rising is a computer-animated epic-fantasy superhero television series produced by The Lego Group. It is based on the Lego Ninjago brand of construction toys and a sequel to Ninjago, which ran for 15 seasons from 2011 until 2022. Part 1 of the first season of the show premiered on Netflix on 1 June 2023. Part 2 of the first season was released on 12 October 2023, with a second season set for release in 2024.
Synopsis
Season 1 Part 1
Sometime after Crystalized, a phenomenon known as "The Merge" combines Ninjago with the rest of the sixteen realms of creation, introducing new threats, and causing chaotic aftershocks called Mergequakes. Years later, Lloyd befriends two civilians: Arin and Sora, the former, a fan of the Ninja, and the latter, a technopath from the totalitarian kingdom of Imperium. The three are tasked with finding the rest of the scattered ninja and combating the Claws of Imperium, who covet Source Dragons in order to drain their elemental energy as a resource.
Season 1 Part 2
The ninja, having successfully rescued the dragons trapped in Imperium, set out on a quest to find the three Dragon Cores, that can stop the Mergequakes. They split off into three teams: Lloyd and Arin, Nya and Sora & Kai and Wyldfyre. Together, they search the Merged realms looking for the cores, coming across new elemental masters, Cole, and even new creatures. But Empress Beatrix manages to steal the Dragon Cores in order to power her weapon, so she can destroy the realms for good.
Voice cast
Deven Mack as Arin, a civilian who idolized the Ninja in his youth. He lost his parents after The Merge and somehow managed to teach himself Spinjitzu, an ability thought impossible. He also inadvertently invented Object Spinjitzu.
Sabrina Pitre as Sora, known in her past as Ana, a technopathic engineer originally from Imperium who gained recognition for creating a hard light hologram projection device called Photac. She defected from Imperium when she found out how cruelly they treated dragons, leading to her parents and classmates shunning her. After The Merge, she befriended Arin and lived in the Crossroads, becoming a mech racer. She discovers that she has technopathy that was boosted in the presence of Riyu, until she unlocked her True Potential.
Sam Vincent as Lloyd Garmadon, the legendary Green Ninja and chosen guardian of Ninjago, and the son of Misako and the former supervillain Garmadon. He wields elemental energy and remains in Ninjago City to prevent Mergequakes and train Arin and Sora.
Brian Drummond as:
Riyu, a baby dragon said to have great power, and like his kin he's capable of boosting an individual's powers in close proximity.
Ras, a black and purple colored tiger warrior who served on Imperium's military, aiding the Claws in capturing Source Dragons until he was stripped of his position and escaped to recruit Jordana for his master. He's physically strong and wields a hammer.
Nicole Oliver as Beatrix, the former power |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20Centre%E2%80%93M%C4%81ngere%20Line | The City Centre–Māngere Line is a planned Light Rail line in Auckland, New Zealand, the first line in the Auckland Light Rail network. The planned route for the line travels from the City Centre to Auckland Airport in Māngere. Current plans are for part of the 24 km line to be underground, with a cost of $14.6 billion which would make it the single biggest transport project in New Zealand history.
History
Initial proposals (pre 2017)
City Centre Light Rail
Around 2015, Auckland Transport (AT) began investigating light rail as a method of relieving heavy bus congestion on arterial roads. AT's Chief Engineer pointed to the fact that major bus corridors, such as Fanshawe Street and Symonds Street, were carrying as many as 150 buses an hour at the time. AT believed that solutions such as double-decker buses and bus rapid transit would do little to address the issue as they would not provide sufficient capacity in the long-term. Many of these corridors also ran through what were deemed to be "critical locations [that] cannot be served effectively by commuter rail" such as university campuses and the Wynyard Quarter, therefore a solution in-between bus routes and heavy rail would need to be found. Light Rail appeared in the 2015-2025 Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan with Queen Street, Symonds Street, Dominion Road, Sandringham Road, Manukau Road, and Mt Eden Road considered to be the most appropriate corridors for light rail. Incidentally, these were routes that had been served by tram lines up until the mid-1950s.
In early 2016, AT was considering light rail options between the City Centre and the outer Auckland Isthmus. It was proposed that light rail would start with a Wynyard Quarter to Britomart connection, it would then run along Queen Street and Dominion Road to Mt Roskill before terminating at a depot in Sandringham.
Extension to Māngere and Auckland Airport
At around the same time, AT was investigating rapid transit options to Auckland Airport and the surrounding Māngere area. Extending the isthmus light rail line to the airport began to be considered as a possibility in late 2015. A heavy rail connection was the existing preference but AT decided to explore light rail as a potential alternative, comparing the two rail options as part of their investigation.
In early 2016, AT was progressing work to compare extending the planned light rail system or the existing heavy rail system to the Airport and Mangere. Early figures released in a video by AT suggested that a light rail extension performed better than a heavy rail extension on most metrics. Light rail was expected to have a greater catchment (of both people and jobs as well as future growth), a lower cost, and a higher benefit-cost-ratio.
On 27 June 2016, AT and the NZTA decided that light rail would be the preferred option for a rapid transit connection to the airport. The tw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpatico%20Software%20Systems | Simpatico Software Systems is an American data mining company founded in 2001 by Ken Block that is used by government agencies and private businesses to track waste and fraud. Additionally, it supplies software services to the SNAP program. Simpatico Systems has also provided engineering and consulting services.
Its clients have included the EVERTEC and GTECH Corporations, Northrop Grumman, and the state government of Texas. In Texas, Simpatico developed a statewide debit card system for food stamp and welfare recipients that saved the state more than $1 billion.
Election investigation
In 2020, Block was hired by the Donald Trump campaign to investigate claims of fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The Washington Post reported that Simpatico was paid around $750,000 to perform the investigation.
After investigating, Simpatico found no evidence of electoral fraud. According to Block, the theories advanced by the Trump campaign were "all false".
In 2023, Simpatico was the subject of a subpoena brought by Jack Smith, a special counsel appointed as part of an investigation by the federal government into multiple claims against Trump. Block has stated that he has spoken to investigators.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano%20Pi | The NanoPi is a series of single-board computer produced by FriendlyElec. Various versions of the board were released including the NanoPi M1+, NanoPi M3, NanoPi M4v2, NanoPi Neo3, NanoPi Neo4, NanoPi Neo Air, NanoPI R5C.
Background
The NanoPi M1+ and Neo3 were reviewed as a smaller, cheaper, but less capable board than equivalent Raspberry Pi computers. The NanoPi 4 R6S have three ethernet ports.
Nano Pi computers have been used in experimental drones for disaster recovery and air quality monitoring.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPlaymate | MacPlaymate is an erotic computer game released for the Macintosh by PEGASUS Productions in 1987. Developed by Mike Saenz, the game is an interactive erotica where the player can sexually interact with the female avatar Maxie in a variety of ways.
Gameplay
The game opens with Maxie (voiced by Raquel Shapira) fully clothed and introducing herself as the player's date. The player can click on the 'Yes' button to gradually remove her clothes. Maxie will fish for compliments, and if the player selects no, Maxie will get insulted and close the program on the player. Once fully nude, she offers the player to open her toy box. This brings the player to a new interface where they can interact with Maxie and view short animations with voice acting.
The Toy box includes a vibrator, the Mighty Me Throbber, the Deep Plunger, the Anal Explorer, Lusty Lube, and disembodied Helping Hands. In the tabs, under 'Watch Me' the player can choose 6 different masturbation animations for the sprite to do. Under costumes, the player can have Maxie wear stockings, a corset, gloves & spike heels outfit, a bondage ensemble, a full fetish ensemble, or fully nude. The player can also add a sex partner to the scene, either a female partner named Lola, nude or in a fetish ensemble, or a male partner named Melvin, a tiny man with an 8-ball for a head.
The game features a panic button that when clicked on will cover the computer screen with a fake spreadsheet. The player can also choose to print out Maxie's current pose as a pinup.
Development and release
The game's origins come from Mike Saenz experimenting with the MacroMind’s Videoworks Interactive and wondering, with the limitations currently on digital animation, what kind of game could be built that was repetitive but still held people's interest. He concluded interactive erotica was the solution, inspired by the issues of Playboy magazine he read as a kid and cheap novelty sex toys. He then spent the 2 weeks in 1986 programming the game.
Frank Brooks, a Connecticut banker, expressed interest in the game and wanted to sell it as a commercial product. He assisted Saenz in cleaning up the code and packaging the product. In January 1987, the game debuted at Macworld, selling for $50.
Reception
The game was widely popular at the 1987 Macworld show, selling out on the first day and earning a total of $60,000.
MacroMind openly condemned the game, the spokesperson calling it "a form of exploitation", and requested the developer that some of the profits for the game sold be donated to the Chicago Abused Women Coalition.
The game was popular among male office workers of the time, who saw the program as an amusing novelty. The software tended to be viewed at work, which brought on criticisms from female employees, who saw the software as a modern iteration of the office pinup poster and a form of sexual harassment.
Playboy cease and desist
Playboy sent a cease-and-desist letter to the publisher PEGASUS Productions over |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathalie%20Japkowicz | Nathalie Japkowicz is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in machine learning. She is a professor and department chair of computer science at the American University College of Arts and Sciences.
Life
Japkowicz was born to Michel and Suzanne Japkowicz. She completed a B.Sc. at McGill University in 1988. She earned an M.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1990. She completed a Ph.D. at Rutgers University in 1999. Her dissertation was titled Concept-learning in the absence of counter-examples: an autoassociation-based approach to classification. Andrew Gelsey was her interim doctoral advisor from January to August 1995. Stephen José Hanson and Casimir Alexander Kulikowski were her doctoral advisors. Japkowicz dedicated her dissertation to her parents and husband, Norrin M. Ripsman.
Japkowicz worked at the University of Ottawa in the school of electrical engineering and computer science. She was the lead of its laboratory for research on machine learning for defense security. From 2003 to 2005, Japkowicz was the secretary of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC). She was CAIAC vice president from 2009 to 2014 and president from 2013 to 2015, and part-president from 2015 to 2017.
Japkowicz is a professor and department chair of computer science at the American University College of Arts and Sciences. She researches artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, and big data analysis.
Selected works
See also
Autoencoder
Citation graph
One-class classification
Women in computing in Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Lascarides | Alexandra Lascarides is a linguist and chair in Semantics in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research investigates computational linguistics and artificial intelligence.
Early life and education
Lascarides graduated from Durham University where she was a student of Van Mildert College, Durham with a first-class degree in mathematics. She moved to the University of Edinburgh for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in cognitive science in 1985. She stayed at Edinburgh for her doctoral research on semantic analysis.
Research and career
Her research investigates the semantics of communicative actions in conversation. She explored the science of conversation in the Logics of Conversation, and presented a framework known as Segmented Discourse Representation Theory to better understand linguistics and language.
Select publications
Lascarides publications include:
Awards and honours
In 2023 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine%20Morse | Katherine Lee Morse is an American computer scientist whose work has centered on distributed simulation, on the integration of heterogenous simulation environments, and on standardization of methods for interoperability in simulation, including participating in the development of the High Level Architecture for modeling and simulation. She is a member of the principal professional staff at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Education and career
Morse began working as a computer programmer as a high school graduate. She went to the University of Arizona, where she earned bachelor's degrees in both mathematics and Russian, and a master's degree in computer science, in 1982, 1983, and 1986, respectively. She continued her education at the University of California, Irvine, earning a second master's degree and a Ph.D. in information and computer science Her 2000 doctoral dissertation, An Adaptive, Distributed Algorithm for Interest Management, was jointly supervised by Lubomir Bic and Michael Dillencourt, and included some of her work on data distribution in the High Level Architecture.
Morse worked for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where she was a technical fellow, chief federation engineer, and assistant vice president of technology. She moved to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in 2008.
Standardization efforts
Morse was a leader in the IEEE 1516 Standards Development Group, which produced the High Level Architecture, and in the Simulation Interoperability Standards Committee (later part of the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, SISO), beginning in the late 1990s. She chaired the Standards Activity Committee of the SISO beginning in 2007, and was technical lead for the Federation Engineering Agreements Template of the SISO. She has also been one of the leaders in the IEEE 1730 committee for standardization of the Distributed Simulation Engineering and Execution Process, and with the NATO MSG-136 Allied Framework for Modeling and Simulation as a Service.
Recognition
Morse won the 2007 Hans Karlsson Standards Award of the IEEE Computer Society "for leadership in development of modeling and simulation standards and exemplary collaboration in establishing the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) Standards Activity Committee (SAC) as an IEEE standards sponsor". As part of NATO M&S Group 136, she won the Scientific Achievement Award of the NATO Science and Technology Organization in 2019. The Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization gave her their Meritorious Service Award in 2020.
She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to standardization of simulation technologies".
Other works
Morse writes The Adventures of Drake & McTrowell, a steampunk adventure series, with her husband, David L. Drake. They have written four novels in the series and present interactive literary experiences at conventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netprov | Netprov is "networked, improvised literature" or collaborative literary improvisations performed on the internet. The word netprov is a portmanteau of "networked" and "improv" as in improvisational theatre. Netprov is considered a genre of electronic literature.
Background
Netprov is explicitly related to improvisational theatre, and also has a lot in common with live action role-playing games. Rob Wittig, one of netprov's originators, was also involved in Invisible Seattle, a novel created in the early 1980s by a group of "literary workers" who gathered stories from Seattle residents, in part using an early online bulletin board system.
An early example of netprov was Rob Wittig's Grace, Wit, and Charm (2011), which centred around a fictional company that offered services to people who wanted help making their online avatars more successful. Participants took the roles of workers in the company and clients writing in to request services, and the netprov was performed in online writing, in weekly theatre performances and streaming.
While many netprovs are mostly playful, like #1WkNoTech, some offer powerful political critique, such as Occupy MLA, a netprov held during the Modern Language Association conference in 2011. I Work for the Web is another example that critiques the exploitation of online gig workers.
Scholarship
Netprov is included in many discussions of Electronic literature. Lyle Skains describes netprov as "online, collaborative, real-time, carnivalesque performances". Scott Rettberg notes that netprov is told in real-time, using social media, and are collaborative and interactive in the sense that readers can join in as participants.
Wittig and Marino have also contributed chapters about netprov to a number of scholarly anthologies on electronic literature.
Netprovs have also been taught at universities, both as a literary genre and as a classroom activity.
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Improvisation
Internet culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heng%20Xu | Heng Xu is a professor specializing in corporate social responsibility regarding big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. She is a Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Analytics and the Director of Kogod Cybersecurity Governance Center at the Kogod School of Business of American University.
Life
Xu earned a B.B.A. in Information Systems from the Shandong University School of Management in 2001. In 2006, she completed a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the National University of Singapore School of Computing. While completing her doctoral studies, Xu studied fashion designing, enrolling part-time at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
Xu joined the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University as an assistant professor in 2006. She became director of its privacy analytics lab in 2007. From 2012 to June 2018, she was an associate professor with tenure. In this role, she researched the social and technical aspects of information privacy. From August 2013 to August 2016, Xu was a program director in the directorate for social, behavioral, and economic sciences at the National Science Foundation. In that role, she oversaw secure and trustworthy cyberspace (SaTC), critical technics, and technologies for advancing big data science and engineering.
In July 2018, Xu joined the Kogod School of Business at American University as a professor of information technology and analytics. She is the director of the Kogod cybersecurity governance center and co-director of the robust analytics lab. She researches corporate social responsibility with big data and artificial intelligence, fairness in machine learning, and cybersecurity management.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven%20model | Data-driven models are a class of computational models that primarily rely on historical data collected throughout a system's or process' lifetime to establish relationships between input, internal, and output variables. Commonly found in numerous articles and publications, data-driven models have evolved from earlier statistical models, overcoming limitations posed by strict assumptions about probability distributions. These models have gained prominence across various fields, particularly in the era of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, where they offer valuable insights and predictions based on the available data.
Background
These models have evolved from earlier statistical models, which were based on certain assumptions about probability distributions that often proved to be overly restrictive. The emergence of data-driven models in the 1950s and 1960s coincided with the development of digital computers, advancements in artificial intelligence research, and the introduction of new approaches in non-behavioural modelling, such as pattern recognition and automatic classification.
Key Concepts
Data-driven models encompass a wide range of techniques and methodologies that aim to intelligently process and analyse large datasets. Examples include fuzzy logic, fuzzy and rough sets for handling uncertainty, neural networks for approximating functions, global optimization and evolutionary computing, statistical learning theory, and Bayesian methods. These models have found applications in various fields, including economics, customer relations management, financial services, medicine, and the military, among others.
Machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, is closely related to data-driven modelling as it also focuses on using historical data to create models that can make predictions and identify patterns. In fact, many data-driven models incorporate machine learning techniques, such as regression, classification, and clustering algorithms, to process and analyse data.
In recent years, the concept of data-driven models has gained considerable attention in the field of water resources, with numerous applications, academic courses, and scientific publications using the term as a generalization for models that rely on data rather than physics. This classification has been featured in various publications and has even spurred the development of hybrid models in the past decade. Hybrid models attempt to quantify the degree of physically based information used in hydrological models and determine whether the process of building the model is primarily driven by physics or purely data-based. As a result, data-driven models have become an essential topic of discussion and exploration within water resources management and research.
The term "data-driven modelling" (DDM) refers to the overarching paradigm of using historical data in conjunction with advanced computational techniques, including machine learning and a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai-Chun%20Pang | Ai-Chun Pang () is a Taiwanese computer scientist specializing in mobile networks, edge computing, and the artificial intelligence of things. She is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of National Taiwan University.
Education and career
Pang was a student of computer science and information engineering at National Chiao Tung University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1996, master's degree in 1998, and Ph.D. in 2002. Her doctoral dissertation, Wireless Voice over IP, was supervised by Lin Yi-bing.
Since completing her doctorate in 2002, she has been a member of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University, where she is a full professor, and associate dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
As well, she co-founded startup company OmniEyes, Inc., in 2017.
Book
Pang is a coauthor of the book Wireless and Mobile All-IP Networks (with Lin Yi-bing, Wiley, 2005).
Recognition
Pang was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for 2018–2020. In 2020 she became the inaugural recipient of the Vehicular Technology Society's Women's Distinguished Career Award, recognized "for resource management and service development for mobile edge/fog networks". She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to resource management and service provisioning for mobile edge networks".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1ng%20%28surname%29 | Páng () is a Chinese surname, one of the Hundred Family Surnames. Notable people with the name include:
Ai-Chun Pang (), Taiwanese computer scientist
Pang Ji (, died 202), Eastern Han dynasty politician
Pang Yao (, born 1995), Chinese cyclist
Pang Zhiquan (, born 1990), Chinese footballer
Chinese-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion%20City | is a role-playing video game originally developed and published by Microcabin for the MSX Turbo R home computer. It was later ported to PC-88 and PC-98 computers, FM Towns, X68000, and Sega Mega-CD. The story takes place in the 21st century after Hong Kong was devastated by a demonic attack, before the crisis was isolated and the region was reformed under new order by SIVA corporation. The game follows demon hunter Tianren, gathering information in order to unravel the mystery surrounding the demonic beings and SIVA corporation. Gameplay features a growing party led by Tianren navigating the city, talking with non-playable characters, exploring complex areas, and taking part in turn-based battles against enemies.
Illusion City was developed by "Project I", a group within Microcabin which previously worked on Fray in Magical Adventure (1990) under the name "Team Piku Piku". Yasuhiko Nakatsu acted as director, planner, and co-programmer. His motivation for creating the game was because he wanted to bring more world variety into the role-playing genre. The character design concepts were created by under the pseudonym "Hyakkimaru", with Yukio Kitta acting as art illustrator. Masashi Katō, who worked on Xak II: Rising of the Redmoon, served as scenario writer. The music was composed by Tadahiro Nitta, Yasufumi Fukuda, and Yukiharu Urita.
Illusion City proved popular among Japanese players and garnered favorable reception from critics, but the Mega-CD version received mixed response and sold over 2,164 copies in its first week on the market. Retrospective commentary has been more positive.
Gameplay
Illusion City is a Japanese role-playing game. The player controls the main character Tianren, a demon hunter gathering information in order to unravel the mystery surrounding the demonic beings and SIVA corporation. It features a growing party led by Tianren navigating the city, talking with non-playable characters, exploring complex areas, and taking part in turn-based battles against enemies.
Synopsis
Setting and characters
The story takes place in the 21st century after Hong Kong was devastated by a demonic attack, before the crisis was isolated and the region was reformed under new order by SIVA corporation.
Plot
Development
Illusion City was developed by "Project I", a group within Microcabin (known for the Xak series) which previously worked on Fray in Magical Adventure under the name "Team Piku Piku". Yasuhiko Nakatsu (who worked on Fray) acted as director, planner, and co-programmer with Katsumi Ito. The character design concepts were created by under the pseudonym "Hyakkimaru", while Yukio Kitta served as art illustrator and Yasuhiro Jinnai was responsible for the monster designs. Nakakita and Jinnai also contributed as a co-graphic artists alongside Fumihide Aoki, map designer Hitoshi Suenaga (who also worked on Fray), Kenzo Furuya, Yasuaki Kubo, and Yoichiro Kawaguchi. Masashi Katō, who worked on Xak II: Rising of the Redmoon, is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity%20in%20popular%20culture | Cybersecurity in popular culture examines the various ways in which the themes and concepts related to cybersecurity have been portrayed and explored in different forms of popular culture, such as music, movies, television shows, and literature. As the digital age continues to expand and the importance of protecting computer systems, networks, and digital information grows, the awareness and understanding of cybersecurity have increasingly become a part of mainstream culture. Popular culture often portraits the gloomy underworld of cybersecurity, where unconventional tactics are used to combat a diverse range of threats to individuals, businesses, and governments. The integration of dark and mysterious elements into cybersecurity stories helps create a sense of uncertainty, rule-breaking, and intriguing ambiguity. This captures the public's attention and highlights the high stakes involved in the ongoing struggle to protect our digital world. This article highlights the creative works and cultural phenomena that have brought cybersecurity issues to the forefront, reflecting society's evolving relationship with technology, privacy, and digital security.
Historical evolution of cybersecurity in popular culture
The portrayal of cybersecurity themes in popular culture has evolved along with the growth of Internet and computer technology. Early examples from the 1980s and 1990s, such as "WarGames" (1983), "Neuromancer" (1984), "The Net" (1995), "Snow Crash" (1992), and "Hackers" (1995), introduced the hacker archetype and explored virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and ethical implications of hacking, as well as the risks of identity theft and cyberstalking.
In the 2000s, with the Internet becoming more prevalent, popular culture addressed the consequences of an interconnected world, including surveillance, privacy, and cybercrime. Television shows like "Person of Interest" (2011-2016) and "Mr. Robot" (2015-2019) tackled mass surveillance and digital vigilantism. Movies such as "Live Free or Die Hard" (2007) and "Blackhat" (2015) engaged with topics such as cyberterrorism and state-sponsored cyberattacks.
Educational and awareness initiatives emerged, leveraging popular culture themes to make cybersecurity concepts more engaging and accessible. Examples include National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Capture The Flag (CTF) events, and educational resources like comic books, cartoons, and video games for children and young adults.
The portrayal of cybersecurity in popular culture will continue to evolve, reflecting the growing sophistication of cyber threats and the increasing role of technology in our lives, shaping our understanding of these issues and potential solutions to protect our digital world.
Literature
"Neuromancer" (1984) by William Gibson - This seminal cyberpunk novel tells the story of a washed-up computer hacker who is hired to pull off the ultimate hack. The book explores themes of artificial intelligence, virtual rea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza%20Violet%20Gist%20Blair | Eliza Violet (Gist) Blair (November 10, 1794 – July 5, 1877) was an American journalist and political hostess who developed a network of political figures which provided contacts for newspaper articles and editorials and to help build her husband's and son's careers. Blair and her husband Francis Preston Blair managed the Washington Globe. She was the mother of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General and a judge. Daughter Elizabeth Blair Lee was manager and directress of the Washington City Orphan Asylum. James, a naval officer and a fortune-maker, died of exposure during the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842). Son Francis Preston Blair Jr. was a Union Army officer of William Tecumseh Sherman's Army during the Civil War. He campaigned for vice president with presidential candidate Horatio Seymour.
Blair hosted events up to six times per week. Among their friends and political connections were Presidents Andrew Jackson and his family, Martin Van Buren, and Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. The Blairs became very influential within Washington, D.C. politics, but President James K. Polk, but Polk was not interested in Preston's support and had him sell the Washington Globe. Preston supported John C. Frémont and helped get him nominated as a presidential candidate for the Republican Party, to his wife's chagrin.
Early life
Eliza Violet Gist, the daughter of Nathaniel Gist and Judith Cary (Bell) Gist was born November 10, 1794. Nathaniel Gist was a colonel in the Virginia Continental Line during the American Revolutionary War. The Gist family and their enslaved people moved from Virginia to Bourbon County, Kentucky in the spring of 1793, or 1794. Her father, a planter and Indian Agent, established a 4,000 acre plantation called Canewood. Gist was either born in Bourbon County, Kentucky or Virginia.
Her sisters were Sarah Howard (wife of Jesse Bledsoe), Anne Cary (wife of Nathaniel G. S. Hart), and Maria C. Gist (wife of Benjamin Gratz). Her brothers were Henry Clay and Thomas Cecil Gist. Nathaniel died in 1797, just before the birth of his youngest child, Maria. Judith was a widow for about ten years when she married Charles Scott in 1807. In 1808, he became the governor of Kentucky. Judith and her younger daughters moved to Frankfort, Kentucky to be with Scott in 1808. Gist moved there in 1810.
Henry Clay was a relative by marriage. Gist was the granddaughter of Christopher Gist, frontiersman, explorer, and friend of Daniel Boone. She descends from the Carys of Virginia and the Howards of Maryland. Archibald Cary, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, was Judith's granduncle.
Marriage and children
She married Francis "Preston" Blair in the Kentucky Governor's Mansion on July 21, 1812, becoming Eliza Violet Blair. At the time of their marriage, Preston worked at the state circuit court. Preston suffered from tuberculosis, which concerned her mother and stepfather. Preston's health improved with his wife's lung remedy, cookin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna%20tramway | The Bologna tramway network () is a tramway network under construction in Bologna, Italy.
History
The reintroduction of a tram network in Bologna is foreseen by the Piano Urbano della Mobilità Sostenibile (PUMS, Italian for Urban Sustainable Mobility Plan), adopted on 27 November 2018. Bologna's PUMS plans the gradual replacement of the main urban bus and trolleybus lines by 4 tram lines:
Red line: from Borgo Panigale to Centro Agro-Alimentare di Bologna, via Bologna Centrale railway station
Green line: from Bologna Corticella railway station to Due Madonne/via Larga, via Bologna Centrale railway station
Yellow line: from Casteldebole railway station to Rastignano railway station
Blue line: from Casalecchio Garibaldi railway station to San Lazzaro di Savena railway station
On 7 March 2019, the mayor of Bologna officially announced plans to build a new citywide tramway network.
As of June 2022, the tender for the executive design and construction of tramway line 1 (red line) has been awarded: the whole line is expected to be operational by 2026. Funding for construction of line 2 (green line) was approved by the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in November 2021; activation is also expected by 2026. A further segment of line 2 (blue line) has been announced on 11 December 2021; the planning tender will be launched by the end of 2021, with completion to be expected at a later date than the first two lines. Construction of the new network started on 26 April 2023.
Network
As of November 2021, construction of the following tram lines has been fully financed:
Furthermore, the following tram lines (or sections) are in the planning stage:
Line 1 (red)
Line 1 will have its western terminus at Borgo Panigale Terminal, where a 400-car parking lot is planned, joined with an interchange terminal with intercity bus services. In the opposite direction there will be a double terminus, at the CAAB and at the Michelino parking lot. The main attractors served by the line are Bologna Borgo Panigale railway station, the Maggiore Hospital, the city center, Bologna Centrale railway station, Bologna's Fiera District, the Pilastro district, the Faculty of Agriculture and the CAAB.
Line 1 will feature 34 stops, for a total length of 16.5 km, of which 14.5 km with an overhead contact line; the 2-km tracks in the city center, from Porta San Felice to via Matteotti, won't feature any suspended power line, as the tram will be powered by batteries.
The technical and economic feasibility study for the first line has been carried out by a temporary association of companies formed by Systra, Sotecni, Architecna, Studio Mattioli, Aegis and Cooperativa Archeologia.
The definitive project was published on 25 November 2020. The tender for the executive design and construction was launched on 6 August 2021 and closed on 1 December, receiving four bids.
As of December 2021, the expected timetable is as follows:
Spring 2022: awarding of the executive p |
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