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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%20Trail | Bay Trail or Bayside Trail may refer to:
Bay Trail (Australia), a trail in Victoria, Australia
San Francisco Bay Trail, a trail in California, United States
Bay Trail (system on chip), computer chips in the Intel Atom (system on a chip) platform, Silvermont-based microarchitecture
Bay Trail-D, Silvermont based Celeron Desktop computer chip platform by Intel
Bay Trail-M, Silvermont based Celeron Mobile computer chip platform by Intel
Bayside Trail, a trail in Cabrillo National Monument, California, United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPWING | EPWING（）is the standard format for electronic dictionaries mainly used for Japanese. A subset of EPWING V1 is standardized as JIS X 4081 (Retrieval data structure for Japanese electronic publication).
History
At 1986, Fujitsu, Iwanami Shoten, Sony and Dai Nippon Printing work together to publish a new edition of CD-ROM version of Kōjien. They made a specification called "WING".
At 1988, after CD-ROM is standardized as ISO 9660, the WING specification is renamed to EPWING (Electroic Publishing WING).
File structure
The basic structure of EPWING is as following:
.
└── Catalogs
└── <Dictionary Name>
├── DATA
│ └── HONMON
└── GAIJI
├── GA16FULL
└── GA16HALF
The HONMON under DATA contains the index of pictures, audio data and texts. External character data are placed under GAIJI. The file name of external character data may be different between dictionaries.
Softwares
Commercial softwares
ViewIng
Others (Free/Share)
GoldenDict
EBWin4
EBView
qolibri
Softwares that able to read EPWING
yomichan A browser extension
ebviewer
References
ISO standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiara%20Petrioli | Chiara Petrioli is an Italian computer scientist whose research interests include mobile computing, wireless networks, sensor networks, and underwater acoustic communication. She is a professor of computer science and engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, and director of the university's Sensor Networks and Embedded Systems (SENSES) Laboratory.
Petrioli was a student at Sapienza University, earning a bachelor's degree and Ph.D. there, before becoming a professor at the same university. She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to wireless and underwater networks". She won the GammaDonna 2022 Award for innovative female entrepreneurship of the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, for her work with startup company WSense.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Italian computer scientists
Italian women computer scientists
Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20scaling%20law | In machine learning, a neural scaling law is a scaling law relating parameters of a family of neural networks.
Introduction
In general, a neural model can be characterized by 4 parameters: size of the model, size of the training dataset, cost of training, performance after training. Each of these four variables can be precisely defined into a real number, and they are empirically found to be related by simple statistical laws, called "scaling laws". These are usually written as (number of parameters, dataset size, computing cost, loss).
Size of the model
In most cases, the size of the model is simply the number of parameters. However, one complication arises with the use of sparse models, such as mixture-of-expert models. In sparse models, during every inference, only a fraction of the parameters are used. In comparison, most other kinds of neural networks, such as Transformer networks, always use all their parameters during every inference.
Size of the training dataset
The size of the training dataset is usually quantified by the number of data points it contains. Larger training datasets are typically preferred as they provide a richer and more diverse source of information for the model to learn from. This in turn can lead to improved generalization performance when the model is applied to unseen data. However, increasing the size of the training dataset also increases the computational resources and time required for model training.
With the "pretrain, then finetune" method used in most large language models, there are two kinds of training dataset: the pretraining dataset and the finetuning dataset. Their sizes would have different effects on model performance. Generally, the finetuning dataset is less than 1% the size of pretraining dataset.
In some cases, a small amount of high quality data suffices for finetuning, and more data does not improve performance.
Cost of training
The cost of training is typically measured in terms of time (how long it takes to train the model) and computational resources (how much processing power and memory are required to train the model). It's important to note that the cost of training can be significantly reduced with efficient training algorithms, optimized software libraries, and parallel computing on specialized hardware like GPUs or TPUs.
The cost of training a neural model is a function of several factors including the size of the model, the size of the training dataset, the complexity of the training algorithm, and the computational resources available. In particular, doubling the training dataset does not necessarily double the cost of training, because one may train the model for several times over the same dataset (each being an "epoch").
Performance
The performance of a neural model is evaluated based on its ability to accurately predict the output given the input data. Common metrics for evaluating model performance include:
accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score for classifi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Lesser | Mark B. Lesser is an American game producer and electronic engineer, best known for programming the first handheld games from Mattel Electronics. He also developed several installments of the NHL video game series.
Lesser graduated from MIT with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He joined the Microelectronics Division of Rockwell International in 1972 as a Circuit Designer. Lesser primarily worked on transistor chips for handheld calculators. Around this time, George Klose, a product development engineer at Mattel Electronics, had the idea to convert handheld calculators into digital games; Rockwell took on the proposal, and Lesser was assigned to the new project for Mattel. Lesser designed the program directly into the hardware, using punch cards in a minicomputer to write the game. Eventually, a 512-byte chip held all the game’s logic, display, and scoring. This “obstacle avoidance” handheld electronic game became Auto Race (1976)—the first handheld game with solid-state electronics. Lesser ultimately programmed the first three titles of the Mattel handhelds line, following up the success of Auto Race with Football (1977), and Baseball (1978). These games proved to be so popular that they spawned several imitators, including a line of electronic games by Coleco. In four years at Rockwell, Lesser created seven handheld games.
Around 1980, Lesser was hired at Parker Brothers, where he programmed Frogger II: Threeedeep! (1984) for the Atari 2600 and developed several (never-released) games. He later moved on from Parker Brothers to work at Microsmiths, then founded his own company, MBL Research, Inc. In 1991, Lesser subcontracted with Blue Sky Productions on the Sega Genesis version of John Madden Football ’93 (1992). Electronic Arts, pleased by Lesser’s good work, later offered him the contract to develop NHL ’94. (Lesser later confessed, “I’d never watched a hockey game, I didn’t know anything about it.”) He continued working on the NHL series through NHL ’99. Lesser’s final game was published in 1999 by EA Sports: a supercross motorcycle simulation game called Supercross 2000. Since 2000, Lesser has been retired from game programming.
References
American game designers
American computer programmers
American electrical engineers
American video game programmers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
MIT School of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh%20Bus | Riyadh Bus () is a 1184-mile comprehensive public bus service network system in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Background
The King Abdulaziz Project for Riyadh Public Transport (bus and metro) began construction in 2014. The BRT system, which is part of this project, became operational in March 2023. and with the deployment of the fourth phase, There are currently 40 operational bus routes, 614 buses, and 1632 bus stops and stations.
The Riyadh bus network after completion will be fully integrated with the metro network and features 86 bus routes covering 1,900 kilometers with more than 2,900 bus stations and stops served by 800 buses.
Network
The bus Network will provide three categories:
Three bus rapid transit routes will provide 160 km of dedicated bus lanes serving high-capacity corridors.
910 km of community lines network. Consisting of 19 lines.
58 feeder Bus lines will provide seamless connections with metro and BRT system.
See also
Riyadh Metro
References
Bus
Rapid transit in Saudi Arabia
Rapid transit systems under construction
Bus transport in Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silencer%20%28video%20game%29 | Silencer is an online, multiplayer-only video game by Mind Control Software that was published by the World Opponent Network (WON.net) for free play on their website in January 2000. It features capture-the-flag-style gameplaycommon in 3D first-person shooter arenas at the timebut presents it in a low-resource 2D package. The game was released by WON.net as an open beta. It saw a number of beta updates before it was removed, without explanation, from WON.net's website in September 2000 and the multiplayer servers shut down in October 2000. Silencer is a bit of an anomaly in that it managed to spawn a fan-made WONswap site, 7 known fansites, plus a legacy of independent multiplayer servers and game clones (see below), from its short run as an open beta on WON.net.
Gameplay
Silencer combines the elements of a platform game with science fiction action games such as Crusader: No Remorse (an earlier game that also features characters called "Silencers"). The game involves five competing agencies that send agents, called "Silencers," into the field to hack public computer terminals with the goal of exposing the Martian government's secrets. The player controls a Silencer that carries an array of weapons and other items. Silencers in the same team work together to kill enemy Silencers while also collecting secrets. There can be more than one team from the same agency.
The five agencies each have specializations which give them various advantages over each other (including access to one agency-specific item):
Noxisgood jumpers and high endurance (good for beginners)
Staticskilled hackers and excellent radar technology
Caliberupper-class group with great pay and easy access to secret info
Lazarushigh-tech cult that worships rebirth
Black Roseelite agency whose agents always work alone
At the start of each game, each team's leader creates a hidden door to a base at any location on the map they choose. This base has features for healing, purchasing a variety of items and weapons, and storing secrets. Silencers search the playfield for computer terminals to hack while evading assault from enemy Silencers. Silencers are paid for any hacked information they make it back to base with (for the purchase of more items). As the game progresses and intel is collected, teams will learn the location of a terminal with a top secret. A Silencer then has a limited amount of time to retrieve the top secret. The first team to successfully store three top secrets in their base wins the scenario.
Disguise is an important feature of the gameplay as it allows a Silencer to appear as an NPC to pass unnoticed by guards, robots and defense lasers. Firing a weapon or getting shot will instantly turn off a Silencer's disguise mode.
Each Silencer is also equipped with a jet pack that can be used for five seconds before needing to recharge (which happens automatically over time). The jet pack can be upgraded for increased air time.
Beta Bites said the game features up to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve%20Schooler | Eve Meryl Schooler is an American computer scientist who works for Intel as a principal engineer, and as director of emerging internet of things networks in the IoT Group. She is known for her work on internet standards for distributed computing and multimedia, and in particular as one of the designers of the Session Initiation Protocol; her work also involves fog computing and edge computing.
Education and career
Schooler majored in computer science at Yale University, working there with Josh Fisher in the early 1980s and graduating in 1983. In 1988 she earned a master's degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, working there with Leonard Kleinrock on distributed debugging. She completed a Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 2000, with the dissertation Why Multicast Protocols (Don’t) Scale: An Analysis of Multipoint Algorithms for Scalable Group Communication on multicast communication, supervised by K. Mani Chandy.
Meanwhile, she had been working as a software engineer since 1983, and from 1988 to 1995 worked in the technical staff of the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. It was in this time that she developed Multimedia Conference Control, one of the multimedia systems that formed a key predecessor to the Session Initiation Protocol. After completing her doctoral studies at Caltech, she became a researcher at AT&T Labs Research from 2001 to 2003, and it is under this affiliation that the Session Initiation Protocol was published.
After a year as a consultant, she moved to Intel in 2005, and has been a principal engineer there since 2008. Her work there included developing multicast extensions for the RTP Control Protocol, published in 2010. Her position as director for Emerging IoT Networks began in 2018.
Recognition
With Stephen L. Casner, Schooler received the 2020 IEEE Internet Award, "for distinguished leadership in developing standards for Internet multimedia, and formative contributions to the design of Internet multimedia protocols." Schooler was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to multimedia protocols and internet standards".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Yale University alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%20Brady | Kelly Brady is an American publicist and former reality television personality. She is known for starring in PoweR Girls. She also starred in Style Network docuseries City Girl Diaries; a "real life" adaptation of "Sex in The City".
She helped publicize the careers of celebrities such as Tinsley Mortimer, Jessica Hart, and Jessica White.
Biography
She was born on July 5, 1979, in San Diego, California, to parents Elizabeth Brady and Cyndy Arvin, both of whom were in the military. She was born through donor insemination. Brady attended California State University, Chico, where she majored in Psychology and Business and was active in theater. She was an active member of the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority and was the Vice President of Public Relations and Social/ Dance Chair.
After completing her studies, she moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting and modeling.
Career
She started her career as an intern at Lizzie Grubman Public Relations, where she found her interest in the entertainment industry. During her internship, Grubman's PR firm was selected as the company of choice for MTV's PoweR Girls. She later gained recognition for starring in PoweR Girls as Grubman's intern. Brady remained at LGPR for eight years, eventually becoming the company's vice president.
As a Publicist,She managed Tinsley Mortimer and her fashion brand Winky Lux, she also appeared on The Real Houe Wives of New York City as her publicist. She also managed Jessica Hart and Jessica White.
In 2010, She founded her own Media Consulting Company, Brandsway Creative. In 2013, She starred in the "real life" version of HBO's "Sex in The City" on the Style Network show City Girl Diaries. She expressed concern that the show focused more on interpersonal drama than their careers. Despite this, she admitted that she went on the show to bring attention to her company.
In the aftermath of Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases, Brady believes that publicists need to assess the potential risk to their companies if they choose to keep or take on a client who has been accused of sexual harassment.
Personal life
Brady has been married to Daniel Rosen since 2017; they have two children.
References
Living people
1979 births
People from San Diego
Women television personalities
Television personalities from California
California State University, Chico alumni
American marketing people
Marketing women
American public relations people
American publicists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20X%20%28disambiguation%29 | Channel X is a UK comedy and entertainment company.
Channel X may also refer to:
Channel X, a project of Belgian musician Praga Khan
Channel X Radio, a network of adult contemporary/oldies/full-service formatted American radio stations
Channel X, a former slogan of KJR-FM in Seattle, Washington, US
Channel X (New Zealand radio station), classic alternative rock station
Channel-X (), a 2010 Taiwanese TV series
See also
Television X, a series of adult pay-per-view television channels in the United Kingdom
X Channel, a name for some radio stations of the X Network in Jakarta, Indonesia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Union%20submarine%20internet%20cables | Submarine internet cables, also referred to as submarine communications cables or submarine fiber optic cables, connect different locations and data centres to reliably exchange digital information at a high speed.
They are significant providers of internet connection globally: 99% of international communications go through submarine fibre optic cables, as well as US$10 trillion of financial transactions every day. The European Union (EU), in particular, has a strong need for connection, since 87% of EU citizens were internet users in 2021.
Network description
External network
In May 2023, the EU has direct connections with:
North America: 9 undersea cables (Dunant, MAREA, Apollo, Grace Hopper, FLAG Atlantic-1, AC-1, AEC-1, AEC-2, EXA Express, EXA North and South). 1 is being installed (Amitié).
South and East Asia: 8 undersea cables (PEACE, AAE-1, SeaMeWe-3, SeaMeWe-4, SeaMeWe-5, IMEWE, Europe India Gateway, FEA). 4 are being installed (SeaMeWe-6, Africa-1, 2Africa, IEX).
MENA region: 27 undersea cables. All cables going to Asia are also connected to the MENA region. Other cables are TE North, MedNautilus Submarine system, Hawk, ORVAL, Estepona-Tetouan, Atlas Offshore, Canalink, EllaLink, Med Cable Network, Trapani-Kelibia, Didon, HANNIBAL system, Italy-Libya, Silphium, UGARIT, Turcyos-1, Turcyos-2, CADMOS, KAFOS. 3 are being installed (Blue, Medusa submarine cable system, CADMOS-2).
West, Eastern and South Africa: 5 undersea cables (SAT-3, MainOne, ACE, Equiano, PEACE). 2 are being installed (2Africa, Africa-1).
South America: 1 undersea cable (EllaLink).
Oceania: 1 undersea cable (SeaMeWe-3).
The EU is also highly connected to the United Kingdom (UK), as 23 undersea cables connect the two. In 2016, the EU lost a considerable number of connections because of Brexit, especially with North America. However, it does not represent a danger to EU connectivity, because there is a strong collaboration and the EU infrastructure remains able to do without the UK.
Internal network
In May 2023, the EU has 39 undersea cables that connect Member States exclusively. 3 are being installed (Digital E4, Eastern Light Sweden-Finland II, Ionian). These cables mostly connect Island States (such as Malta) or States around the Baltic Sea.
Cables in Northern Europe (31): COBRAcable, GlobalConnect 2, Kattegat 2, Denmark-Sweden 16, Denmark-Sweden 17, Denmark-Sweden 18, Scandinavian Ring North, Scandinavian Ring South, Danica North, IP-Only Denmark-Sweden, Baltica, NordBalt, Latvia-Sweden 1, Sweden-Latvia, Baltic Sea Submarine cable, Eastern Light Sweden-Finland I, BCS North-Phase 1, Sweden-Finland 4, Sweden-Finland Link, Sweden-Estonia, C-Lion1, Finland-Estonia 2, Finland-Estonia 3, Finland-Estonia connection, Botnia, BCS East, BCS East-West interlink, Denmark-Poland 2, Germany-Denmark 3, GlobalConnect-KPN, Fehmarn Bält.
Cables in Southern Europe (8): Malta-Italy interconnector, Melita 1, Epic Malta-Sicily Cable System, Italy-Malta, GO-1 mediterranean cab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakhrul%20Anwar%20Ismail | Fakhrul Anwar Ismail (born 10 November 1971) is a Malaysian politician, businessman, school administrator, computer programmer, data analyst, data and information systems manager who has served as Member of the Perlis State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) state administration under Menteri Besar Mohd Shukri Ramli as well as Member of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Bintong since November 2022. He is a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of the PN coalition. He is the Division Information Chief of PAS of Kangar, Member of the State Committee of PAS of Perlis and State Youth Secretary of PAS of Perlis.
Personal life
Fakhrul Anwar was born in Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia on 10 November 1971. He is also married to Noraishah Mat Yusoh and has six children with her.
Political career
Member of the Perlis State Executive Council (since 2022)
In the 2022 Perlis state election, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) suffered from huge defeat and wipeout in the assembly as none of its candidates won a state seat in the elections after losing all the 10 seats it previously held to PN. The elections ended 63-year rule of BN in the state, saw the first ever transition of power in the history of the state and replaced BN with PN as the ruling coalition and dominant political force in the state as PN won 14 out of 15 state seats and therefore two-thirds supermajority of the assembly. Therefore, State Chairman of PN of Perlis, State Commissioner of PAS of Perlis and Sanglang MLA Mohd Shukri replaced Azlan Man as the new and 10th Menteri Besar of Perlis and formed a new PN state administration on 22 November 2022. On 25 November 2022, Fakhrul Anwar was appointed as the Perlis State EXCO Member in charge of Housing, Local Government, Small Hawkers and Businessmen, Domestic Trade, Cooperatives, Consumerism, Entrepreneur Development, Small and Medium Industries by Menteri Besar, Mohd Shukri.
Member of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly (since 2022)
2018 Perlis state election
In the 2018 Perlis state election, Fakhrul Anwar made his electoral debut after being nominated by Gagasan Sejahtera (GS) to contest for the Sena state seat. He was not elected as the Sena MLA after losing to Asrul Nizan Abdul Jalil of Pakatan Harapan (PH) by a minority of 2,288 votes.
2022 Perlis state election
In the 2022 state election, Fakhrul Anwar was nominated by PN to contest for the Bintong seat. He won the seat and was elected into the Perlis State Legislative Assembly as the Bintong MLA after defeating Menteri Besar and defending MLA Azlan of BN, Azhari Ahmad of Pakatan Harapan (PH), Shazwan Suban of the Homeland Fighters Party (PEJUANG), independent candidate Hashim Suboh and Mohamad Khair Mohd Noor of the Heritage Party (WARISAN) by the majority of 4,329 votes.
Other careers
Besides his political positions, Fakhrul Anwar is also the Senior Assistant for Administration of the Madrasah Diniah Islamiah and Headma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%20Lithuanian%20census | The Lithuanian census of 2011 collected demographic data of the country as of March 1, 2011. The census itself was conducted during March-May 2011. This was the second census in Lithuania after the restoration of independence and the first census since its accession to the European Union in 2004.
The census surveyed all permanent residents of Lithuania.
66.7% of population lived in urban areas, 40.2% lived in the major cities. Country's population decreased by about 440 thousand, from 3.48 million in 2001 to 3.043 million in 2011. The urban population decreased by 12.9% (300.9 thousand), rural population – by 12.1% (139.7 thousand)
References
Censuses in Lithuania
2011 in Lithuania
2011 censuses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocypode%20rotundata | Ocypode rotundata is a large-sized species of Ocypode found in the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula to northern India (from Oman to Bombay), including the Persian Gulf. They are very similar to O. saratan but can be distinguished by having 10 to 15 irregularly spaced elongated tubercles with striae on their stridulating ridges and a thumb-like palp on their gonopods. Their eyestalks possess styles.
References
Ocypodoidea
Crustaceans described in 1882 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiophonie%20Vol.%2012 | Radiophonie Vol. 12 is an soundtrack album by the French Electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre for the French news network France Info released on 11 February 2022. The soundtrack is titled Polygone. The album also contains some Hexagone tracks, which are part of the Hexagone series also found on Radiophonie Vol. 9 and Radiophonie Vol. 10. The album was sold exclusively at the French retail chain Fnac.
Charts
References
Jean-Michel Jarre albums
2022 albums
Electronic albums by French artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richa%20Singh | Richa Singh is an Indian computer scientist whose research concerns biometrics, including face recognition and iris recognition. She is a professor and head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Jodhpur.
Education and career
Singh earned a Ph.D. in computer science in 2008 from West Virginia University. Her dissertation, Mitigating the Effect of Covariates in Face Recognition, was supervised by Afzel Noore.
She became an assistant professor at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi in 2009, and was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and full professor in 2019. In 2019, she moved to her present position at IIT Jodhpur.
Recognition
Singh was named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition in 2018, "for contributions to face recognition and pattern classification". She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to multimedia protocols and internet standards".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indian computer scientists
Indian women computer scientists
West Virginia University alumni
Academic staff of the Indian Institutes of Technology
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo%20%28programming%20language%29 | Mojo is a programming language developed for the MLIR compiler framework that provides a unified programming framework for software development, especially in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
Designed to be a superset of the Python programming language, the Mojo programming language is called by some as "Python++".
Mojo was made available in browsers via Jupyter notebooks in May 2023, locally on Linux in September, 2023, and on macOS on October 19th, 2023. An official Visual Studio Code extension is also available.
Origin design and development
In 2022, the Modular company was founded by Chris Lattner, the original architect of the Swift programming language, and Tim Davis, an ML thought leader at Google.
In September 2022, an initial build of Mojo was released internally by Modular Inc. with advanced compilation features powered by the MLIR, the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation compiler framework.
Its type system is hybrid (something between static and dynamic), given that the developer can opt-in for high performance static typing by choosing the keyword (between fn and def) to define their function.
The companion Modular inference engine includes a compiler and runtime system.
Mojo was created for easy transition from Python and other programming languages. The language is largely compatible with Python and allows you to import any Python module into a Mojo module.
Mojo is not open source, but it is planned to become open source in the future.
Programming language advance
The Mojo programming language aims to be fully compatible with the Project Jupyter ecosystem. It plans to add a borrow checker, an influence from Rust, and to add integration to transparently import Clang C/C++ modules and transparently generate a foreign function interface between C/C++ and Mojo. It can call existing Python 3.x code by reusing the CPython runtime.
Mojo is not yet fully source-compatible with Python 3, only providing a subset of its syntax so far in its early development (2023), e.g. missing the keyword, list and dictionary comprehensions, and support for classes. Further, Mojo also adds features that enable performant low-level programming: for creating typed, compiled functions and "struct" for memory-optimized alternatives to classes. A struct in Mojo is similar to a Swift struct: they both support methods, fields, operator overloading, decorators for meta programming.
Programming examples
Mojo's syntax and semantics exhibit similarities to other modern programming languages like Swift and Rust.
In Mojo, functions can be declared using both or . The use of for function declaration, ensuring that the functions are strongly typed, is reminiscent of Rust's function declaration syntax.
Basic arithmetic operations in Mojo:
fn add(x: Int, y: Int) -> Int:
return x + y
The manner in which Mojo employs and for mutable and immutable variable declarations respectively mirrors the syntax found in Swift. In Swift, is used |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gcore | Gcore is a public cloud and content delivery network (CDN) company founded in 2014 in Vienna, Austria. In 2015, Gcore established its headquarters in Luxembourg, where its domain was registered. As of March 2023, its global network consists of over 140 Points of Presence (PoPs) on six continents. Gcore partnered with Graphcore to launch the European AI Cloud, which uses IPU technology to speed up machine learning tasks with ready-made AI infrastructure.
Server infrastructure
According to the company's website, Gcore has network locations in 6 continents: North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Gcore's uses the web application firewall WAF.
Products and services
Gcore provides content delivery network, cloud computing, bare-metal server, AI intelligence, kubernetes, dedicated hosting service, streaming media platform, DDoS mitigation, colocation center, custom software development, game testing, function as a service (FaaS) and logging as a Service (LaaS).
A January 18, 2022, review by TechRadar commend Gcore's extensive network and CDN analytics. However, the review noted that the website lacked comprehensive guidance and assistance, which could be improved.
In March 2023, Gcore offers a free speed test that helps check internet speed and the quality of a broadband and mobile connection.
Correctiv and Tageszeitung reported that Gcore supported the distribution of the TV network RT until April 2023, which has been under sanctions by the EU since March 2022. However, Gcore denies the accusations.
History
Gcore was established in 2014 in Vienna, Austria. In 2015, Gcore moved to new headquarters in Luxembourg. In 2020, the company entered a partnership agreement with Intel.
References
External links
Cloud computing
Cloud computing providers
Cloud platforms
DDoS mitigation companies
Content delivery networks
Internet security
Companies established in 2003
Software companies of Luxembourg
AI companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20security%20companies | There are various companies that provide computer security services, develop computer security software or resell software exploits.
List
ADF Solutions
AlgoSec
Altor Networks
Anonymizer (company)
Arctic Wolf Networks
ARX (company)
AT&T Cybersecurity
AusCERT
AuthenTec
Barracuda Networks
BigID
BitArmor
BlockDos
BlueTalon
Bromium
Bugcrowd
Canon IT Solutions
Cato Networks
Check Point
Chronicle Security
Clarified Networks
Clavister
Columbitech
Comodo Cybersecurity
Core Security Technologies
Credant Technologies
Critical Start
CronLab
Crossbeam Systems
CrowdStrike
Cryptek
Cybereason
CyberHound
Cyberoam
CyberTrust
Cylance
Cynet (company)
Cyveillance
Dasient
Datto (company)
Deep Instinct
DivvyCloud
Druva
Emsisoft
ESafe
F5, Inc.
Fastly
Fidelis Cybersecurity
Finjan Holdings
Fluentd
Focal Point Data Risk
Forcepoint
Forter
Fortinet
G Data CyberDefense
Gen Digital
General Dynamics Mission Systems
Gigamon
Guardian Analytics
HackerOne
HBGary
Hitachi
ImmuniWeb
Impermium
Imprivata
InfoSec Institute
Infysec
IID (company)
InterWorking Labs
IOActive
Itochu Techno-Solutions
JAL Infotec
Kaspersky Lab
Lastline
Librem
Loggly
LogLogic
LogRhythm
Mile2
Mitsui Knowledge Industry
Mocana
NEC
Netcraft
NetScreen Technologies
Netwitness
Nexor
NitroSecurity
Nomura Research Institute
NowSecure
NS Solutions
NuCaptcha
OneLogin
OneSpan
Optenet
Optiv
Palo Alto Networks
Panorays
Pine64
PrivateCore
Prolexic Technologies
RiskIQ
RSA Security
S21Sec
SCSK
Secunet Security Networks
Secureworks
SecurityScorecard
Sendio
SentinelOne
Skyhigh Security
Snyk
SonicWall
Sony Global Solutions
Sophos
Splunk
Stonesoft Corporation
Sumo Logic
Synack
Tactical Network Solutions
Tanium
Tapestry Technologies
Tenable, Inc.
ThreatConnect
TitanFile
Tiversa
TokenEx
Trusteer
Tufin
Uniadex
Vectra AI
Venafi
VMware Carbon Black
WatchGuard
Web Sheriff
World Informatix Cyber Security
Xetron
YesWeHack
Zerodium
Ziften
Zscaler
Security companies
Security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pradeep%20Bhandari | Pradeep Bhandari is an Indian journalist, news anchor and psephologist, who is the news director of India News channel of ITV Network. Earlier, he worked as the consulting editor of Republic Bharat TV. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Jan Ki Baat, a digital media platform.
Career
In August 2022, he was appointed as the news director of India News, a Hindi news channel under the ITV Network. He founded Jan Ki Baat, a digital media company known for predicting elections through opinion and exit polls. He has made predictions for over 36 Indian elections.
On India News, Pradeep Bhandari hosts a prime-time show called "Janta Ka Mukadama," which airs 60 minutes a day, at 8 PM weekdays.
He gained prominence in 2020 for his reporting on the Sushant Singh Rajput's death case and was noted for his unusual reporting style.
Bhandari worked as the consulting editor at Republic Media Network, before resigning in February 2021. He hosted a popular show, "Lalkaar," on Republic TV.
He has also taught at Pink Flower Public School and served as the Youth Wing Co-ordinator of the Thalassemia and Child Welfare Group NGO.
Books
In 2019, Pradeep Bhandari released his debut book, Modi Mandate 2019: Dispatches from Ground Zero, published by Rupa Publications.
Controversies
In September 2020, Bhandari then worked as a consulting editor with Republic TV, was attacked by journalists associated with NDTV and ABP News outside the Narcotics Control Bureau office in Mumbai during coverage of the drug probe involving Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan and Rakul Preet Singh. A video of the attack went viral on social media in which Pradeep Bhandari was seen being pushed by a man who also attempted to slap him. The incident took place in front of a Mumbai Police team who were trying to intervene. The cause of the confrontation remains unclear as per the report of Indian Express. However, according to Newslaundry, the altercation was allegedly triggered by Bhandari's provocative comments towards other journalists and his intrusion into another journalist's camera frame. Later in a tweet, he called the journalists who attacked him "goons" and alleged that the individuals were "frustrated" with his coverage of the drug case being investigated by the NCB.
In October 2020, Bhandari was named in a civil suit filed in the Delhi High Court by 38 production houses and film bodies. The suit alleged that Bhandari, along with Arnab Goswami and other journalists from Republic TV and Times Now, made "derogatory" remarks against Bollywood.
In October 2020, Republic TV reported its editor Pradeep Bhandari, was illegally detained by the Mumbai Police at the Khar Police Station despite being granted anticipatory bail by a Mumbai session court. Mumbai Police sources denied the allegation and stated that Bhandari was only being questioned in connection with a complaint filed against him for disobedience to an order by a public servant, assault or criminal force to deter a public ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20datasets%20in%20computer%20vision%20and%20image%20processing | This is a list of datasets for machine learning research. It is part of the list of datasets for machine-learning research. These datasets consist primarily of images or videos for tasks such as object detection, facial recognition, and multi-label classification.
Object detection and recognition
Object detection and recognition for autonomous vehicles
Facial recognition
In computer vision, face images have been used extensively to develop facial recognition systems, face detection, and many other projects that use images of faces.
Action recognition
Handwriting and character recognition
Aerial images
Underwater images
Other images
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%27s%20All-American%20Road%20Trip | Guy’s All-American Road Trip is a reality television series that debuted in 2022 on the Food Network.
References
External links
2022 American television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker%20%28file%20manager%29 | Worker is an orthodox file manager, with many advanced features and extendable from configuration and Lua (programming language) scripting designed after Amiga Directory Opus. Dependencies are minimal for X11 on Unix-like operating systems.
Buttons in worker can be configured to run commands
See also
Comparison of file managers
References
External links
Official website
Orthodox file managers
Free file managers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela%20Tuninetti | Daniela Tuninetti (born 1973) is an information theorist whose research topics have included web caches, collision channels in wireless networks, cognitive interference channels, and electromyography. Tuninetti was educated in Italy and France, and has worked in Switzerland and the US; she is a professor of electrical and computer engineering, and head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Education and career
Tuninetti is originally from Carmagnola, in Italy, where she was born in 1973. She earned a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1998 at the Polytechnic University of Turin, with research supervised by Ezio Biglieri. She completed a Ph.D. in 2002 through Télécom Paris, working with Giuseppe Caire in Eurecom in Sophia Antipolis. Her doctoral dissertation was On Multi-access Block-Fading Channels.
After postdoctoral research from 2002 to 2004 at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, in the laboratory of Bixio Rimoldi, she joined the University of Illinois Chicago in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She was an assistant professor until 2011, an associate professor from 2011 to 2016, and has been a full professor since 2016. She became interim department head in 2019 and has been the department head since 2021.
Recognition
Tuninetti was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Information Society from 2020 to 2022. She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to theory of repetition protocols and wireless interference management".
References
External links
Home page
1973 births
Living people
Information theorists
Electrical engineering academics
Women electrical engineers
University of Illinois Chicago faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%27s%20Family%20Road%20Trip | Guy's Family Road Trip is an American reality-based cooking television show hosted by Guy Fieri on Food Network.
References
External links
Food Network original programming
2010s American cooking television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%20%26%20Hana | Omar & Hana is a Malaysian Islamic animated educational preschool television series aimed at two to six years olds. Created by Sinan Ismail and Hairulfaizalizwan Ahmad Sofian, it is produced by Cyberjaya-based Malaysian animation studio, Digital Durian.
It tells the story of the journey of two siblings, Omar and Hana, with their family and friends as they learn about the values of Islam. It also contains contents about the characteristics of Islam and good moral values. Each episodes (except episodes from Kisah Omar & Hana) contains excerpt from Hadith and surahs from the Quran at the end of the songs performed.
The series has five seasons and 117 episodes in total. It was first shown in May 2017 until May 2021 on Astro Ceria. Its official YouTube channel also garnered 5 million followers and watched more than a million times. It has been produced in Malay for Malaysian release and in English, Indonesian, Chinese, Arabic and Urdu language for international release. The series also spawned merchandising and licensing deals. An official app of the series was launched in July 2020.
Voice cast
Omar – Malay voice cast: Syaima' Soleha Aizul Nawi. English voice cast: Kalsan Ikram Mokhtar-Farooqi and Kazuo Fukuda.
Hana – Malay voice cast: Nur Qaisara Mohd Effendy. English voice cast: Alani Fatini Mokhtaruddin, Maryam Shauna Mokhtar and Matarin Asakul.
Mama – Malay voice cast: Nurhawa Abdul Mutalib. English voice cast: Nur Safiah Mohamead Hafiez.
Papa – Malay voice cast: Ajwad Amaluddin. English voice cast: Azman Dzulkifly.
Episodes
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2010s animated television series
2010s Malaysian television series
Malaysian children's animated television series
2010s preschool education television series
2020s preschool education television series
Animated preschool education television series
Animated television series about children
Children's television characters
2017 Malaysian television series debuts
2021 Malaysian television series endings
Astro Ceria original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega%20Max%20Bump%202023 | Mega Max Bump 2023 in Yokohama was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on May 3, 2023, in Yokohama, at the Yokohama Budokan.
Thirteen matches were contested at the event, including three on the pre-show, and three of DDT's eight championships were on the line. The main event saw Yuji Hino defeat Yuki "not Sexy" Iino to retain the KO-D Openweight Championship. Other top matches included Tetsuya Endo successfully defending the DDT Universal Championship against Mao, and Shunma Katsumata defeated Jun Akiyama in a toys, ladders, and chairs match to retain the DDT Extreme Championship.
Storylines
The event featured thirteen professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. The event's press conference was held on April 27, 2023, and was broadcast live on DDT's YouTube channel.
Event
Preliminary matches
The event started with three pre-show bouts in which three of the Pheromones stable members took on distinctive opponents in singles competition. In the first one, Yumehito "Fantastic" Imanari defeated Rukiya, in the second one, Illusion defeated Pheromones' leader Danshoku "Dandy" Dino, and in the third one, Koju "Shining Ball" Takeda defeated Yuki Ishida. In the first main card match, Munetatsu Nakamura and Yuya Koroku picked up a win over Kazuma Sumi and Toy Kojima in tag team action. Next up, joshi talent Saki Akai outmatched Rayne Leverkusen. The sixth bout saw Daisuke Sasaki, Minoru Fujita and MJ Paul picking up victories over Soma Takao, Yusuke Okada and a returning Diego. The seventh bout saw Kazuki Hirata deafeating Hikaru Machida in the fourth round of a Martial arts rules match. Next up, Akito, Chiitan and Toru Owashi defeated Antonio Honda and Calamari Drunken Kings (Chris Brookes and Masahiro Takanashi) in six-man tag team action. The next bout saw two of the DDTeeen!! competitors in action as Yuki Ueno and Yuni defeated Takeshi Masada and Ventvert Jack. In the tenth bout, one half of the KO-D Tag Team Champions and The37Kamiina member Shunma Katsumata defeated Jun Akiyama in a Toys, ladders and chairs match to win the DDT Extreme Championship for the second time in his career. Next, Kanon, Kazusada Higuchi, Naruki Doi and Yukio Sakaguchi defeated Harashima, Hideki Okatani, Kotaro Suzuki and Sanshiro Takagi in an eight-man tag team match that served as a preview for the 2023 edition of the King of DDT Tournament.
In the semi main event of the evening, Burning stable leader Tetsuya Endo successfully secured his first defense of the DDT Universal Championship over the other half of the KO-D Tag Team Champions Mao. After the bout concluded, a yet to be revealed competitor who reached out via video laid a challenge to Endo for July 21, 2023. It was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova%20Fun | Nova Fun is a Czech free-to-air commercial television station, belonging to the Nova Group, which focuses its programming exclusively on shows, series, or films of the comedy genre. The license to broadcast it is owned by TV Nova s.r.o., which is owned by the foreign company CME. The station began broadcasting on December 23, 2012, under the name Smíchov TV. On February 4, 2017, it was renamed Nova 2 to unify the channel names of the Nova group. On September 20, 2021, the station got a new name again, namely Nova Fun.
Programmming
TV Series
2 Broke Girls
American Dad!
Bob's Burgers
Bob Hearts Abishola
Family Guy
Friends
Home Improvement
Melissa & Joey
Mom
Sex and the City
Step by Step
That '70s Show
The Big Bang Theory
Two and a Half Men
Will & Grace
Young & Hungry
Young Sheldon
Kids TV Series
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Bakugan: Legends
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
Monsters vs. Aliens
Oggy and the Cockroaches
Oggy and the Cockroaches: Next Generation
SpongeBob SquarePants
Transformers: Robots in Disguise
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
Zig & Sharko
Logos
References
Television stations in the Czech Republic
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Czech-language television stations
TV Nova (Czech Republic)
2012 establishments in the Czech Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resibo%3A%20Walang%20Lusot%20ang%20May%20Atraso | (), also known as Resibo, is a Philippine investigative public service show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Emil Sumangil, it premiered on May 7, 2023, on the network's Sunday Grande sa Hapon lineup.
The show is streaming online on YouTube.
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Investigative journalism
Philippine crime television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over%20the%20Garden%20Wall%20%28Original%20Television%20Soundtrack%29 | Over the Garden Wall (Original Television Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2014 animated television miniseries of the same name for Cartoon Network created by Patrick McHale. Two years after the series' premiere, the music from the series were released into a separate soundtrack album on July 21, 2016 by Turner Music Publishing and Cartoon Network, distributed in a vinyl LP by Mondo at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con. It featured 32 tracks from the series' with vocal performances and instrumental tunes composed by The Blasting Company.
The band members: Brandon Armstrong, Justin Rubenstein and Joshua Kaufman had performed the instrumentation for the score, and conjunctionally wrote lyrics for the tunes along with McHale. The cast members, Elijah Wood, Collin Dean, Chris Isaak, Shirley Jones, Jack Jones and Samuel Ramey, amongst others performed the tracks, which included periodic jazz and folk compositions.
Background
McHale hired The Blasting Company, to score music and songs for the series, and gave all sorts of direction as there are different styles of music. The band felt that, "the sound of the world that he created was completely integral to its creation, from the very beginning. Our role was mostly to serve his vision, as best as we could, and help him realize his world." Even before the animation of the pilot episode, the band met McHale for numerous times, listening to music and playing different themes to each other. Those meetings set the tone for the project and led them to guide in the right direction. The band used real instruments for the score, deviating from the synth music, and also known to play strings which have "lush string arrangements that they layered and pieced together".
As the mood of the show is an important aspect of the series, McHale felt that "the music sort of paints — with the color scheme and all that stuff — the music finishes it off and makes it the right feeling for the audience’s experience of this place where we can delve into, sometimes, genres of music that might not match what we’re watching but give you a certain feeling". Various melodies and songs based on pre-1950s music are heard throughout the series. Apart from the Blasting Company performing the tracks, the album had two opera singers performing music, and consisted of old-time jazz and jug band music.
Elijah Wood, who voiced Wirt, has said that "if this show were a record, it would be played on a phonograph". Songs from the series include "Into the Unknown", its title song, composed by Patrick McHale and sung by Jack Jones; "A Courting Song", composed by the Petrojvic Blasting Company and performed by Frank Fairfield; and "Come Wayward Souls", sung by Samuel Ramey as the Beast. The majority of the series' songs have been officially uploaded to YouTube. On the DVD release they can be heard, along with visuals and without dialogue, in a special feature known as the Composer's Cut.
Release
The soundtrack to the series, featuring 32 tracks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa%20Verdoliva | Annalisa (Luisa) Verdoliva is an Italian engineer whose research concerns image processing and digital forensics of multimedia data, including the detection of deepfakes and other AI-generated imagery. She is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, where she directs the Multimedia Forensics Lab.
Verdoliva earned a laurea in telecommunications engineering from the University of Naples Federico II in 1972. She chaired the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee from 2021 to 2022, and was named to a government task force on fake news in 2020.
She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contribution to multimedia forensics".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Italian engineers
Italian women engineers
Telecommunications engineers
University of Naples Federico II alumni
Academic staff of the University of Naples Federico II
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism%20in%20Cyprus | Sikhism in Cyprus (; ) is a minority religion. The Sikh community in Cyprus is a small but vastly growing one. According to the latest available data, there are approximately 13,280 Sikhs in Cyprus, which makes up 1.1% of the country's population. This makes it the third largest national proportion of Sikhs in the world after India (1.7%) and Canada (2.2%).The Sikh population in Cyprus has grown over the years, with many Sikhs migrating to the country for work or to start their own businesses. Today, Sikhs in Cyprus have established their own places of worship and community centres, and are an integral part of the country's cultural diversity.
History
During the Second Anglo-Afghan War from 1878 to 1880, Sikh troops were dispatched to Afghanistan. Concurrently, Sikh cavalrymen played a role in a covert agreement between the British and Indian army, sailing from Malta in the Mediterranean Sea to seize control of Cyprus in cooperation with the Ottoman Empire.
The Sikh community in Cyprus has also made efforts to bring their culture and religion to the wider community. For example, in 2014, Sikhs from Ilford in the UK brought the Guru Granth Sahib, the current Guru of the Sikh religion, to Cyprus for the first time. The Guru Granth Sahib was taken to various locations around the country, allowing people of all faiths to view and learn about the Sikh religion.
Due to immigration from Punjab, some Sikhs in Cyprus have suffered from abuse from human trafficking.
Gurdwara
One of the main places of worship for Sikhs in Cyprus is the Gurdwara Sangatsar Sahib in Nicosia. The Gurudwara was established in 2011 and serves as a center for worship, community activities, and cultural events.
In addition to the Gurudwara, there are other places of worship and community centers that serve the Sikh community in Cyprus. These include the Sri Guru Nanak Darbar in Larnaca, which is another Gurudwara that was established in 2013, and the Cyprus Sikh Association, which was founded in 2016 to promote Sikh culture and values in the country.
World War II
In 2012, a delegation of the Sikh community from Birmingham, travelled to Cyprus to pay homage to Sikh soldiers who lost their lives in the Second World War. Alongside members of the Royal British Legion, they laid a wreath on behalf of the Sikh community at the Nicosia War Cemetery. The cemetery houses the Nicosia Cremation Memorial, specifically dedicated to Sikh soldiers who were accorded the last rites of their religion, which involve cremation. The memorial stands as a stone pylon adorned with wings and an urn, bearing the engraved names of the honoured individuals.
See also
Sikhism by country
Sikhism in Greece
Sikhism in Italy
Indians in Cyprus
Sikhism in the United Kingdom
References
Religion in Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CII%2010070 | The CII 10070 is a discontinued computer system from the French company CII. It was part of the first series of computers manufactured in the late 1960s under Plan Calcul.
The 10070 is a rebadged Scientific Data Systems (SDS) Sigma 7. In addition to the Sigma software, a new operating system was developed by teams from INRIA.
The 10070 is optimized for scientific calculation. It has 32-bit words, byte addressing, and 16 index registers. It can handle both batch processing, and time-sharing. It also has as a standard feature, similar to virtual memory except that it is only intended for instant memory-to-memory remapping for performance reasons, with no support for managing swapping to disk. This is managed by the time-sharing monitor.
The 10070 served as the basis for the design of the Iris 50 and Iris 80 series, which were entirely manufactured by CII.
Software
Operating systems
The CII 10070 runs several SDS and locally developed operating systems:
BPM (Batch Processing Monitor), single-stream batch processing system with independent tasks, called symbionts, to process card and printer inputs and outputs. This system was supplied by SDS.
BTM time sharing system from SDS.
Siris 7 from CII, a version of Siris 8 for the Iris 80.
An experimental system, Ésope, was developed at IRIA.
Languages and utilities
Most of the software for the 10070 also came from SDS:
Fortran IV H compiler
Symbol (assembly language)
Metasymbol, a more powerful assembler
COBOL compiler
PL/I compiler
Sort
CII Document retrieval system:
See also
CII Iris 50
CII Iris 80
SDS Sigma series
Notes
References
External links
System description from the Bull Teams Federation (machine-translated to English).
Picture of a CII 10070 at CERN
Scientific Data Systems The Sigma Family: Introducing Sigma from Scientific Data Systems. 1967
SDS Sigma 7 technical information Sigma 7 technical information
Mainframe computers
History of computing in France
Computers designed in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20concentrator | Terminal concerntrators, also known as terminal multiplexers, were hardware devices used to multiplex multiple serial terminals to a single hardware computer connection. Examples of terminal multiplexers were the IBM 3299 and the terminal multiplexers made by Gandalf Technologies.
References
See also
Concentrator
Modem sharing device
Computer terminals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary%20Mail | Canary Mail is an email client that offers artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities backed by technology from OpenAI & Cohere, as well as open-source language models from Hugging Face. The app is available on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS.
History
Canary Mail was co-founded by brothers Sohel Sanghani and Dev Sanghani. Surge, Sequoia Capital's program which aimed at rapidly scaling up startups in India and southeast Asia launched its sixth cohort in January 2022, compromising 20 early-stage startups. Among these startups is Canary Mail, which raised $2 million.
Features
In November 2022, Canary Mail was piloting an enterprise version of the app with features tailored to business needs, including PGP Management and regulatory compliance support.
Reception
PCMag's review of Canary Mail notes that it is user-friendly and offers a great experience for both beginners and advanced users. It notes the app's wide variety of features and a variety of security features such as end-to-end encryption and two-factor authentication, which provide users with added peace of mind. However, the review also points out some drawbacks of the app, such as occasional glitches and a calendar that could use improvement. PCMag rated Canary Mail 4 stars, deeming it "excellent".
TechRadar's review of Canary Mail praises the app as a top choice for users concerned about email security and highlights Canary Mail's PGP encryption as one of its strongest features, alongside unique tools that set it apart from competitors. It notes that the app has a user-friendly setup and interface, with thorough documentation and support available to assist users and that business users can take advantage of enterprise options to boost their email security. While acknowledging the high price point, the review ultimately recommends Canary Mail for its solid performance and standout features, rating it 3.5 out of 5 stars.
The Next Web praises Canary Mail for its sleek design and extensive feature set. The review notes that it stands out from its competitors due to its attention to detail and inclusion of features overlooked by other email clients such as the app's smart inbox, which uses AI to prioritize important emails. The review also highlights that it offers full encryption by default, making it a strong choice for privacy-conscious users. Overall, the review concludes that Canary Mail is an excellent option for Mac and iOS users looking for an email client.
References
External links
Email clients
IOS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosharaf%20Chowdhury | Mosharaf Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi-American computer scientist known for his contributions to the fields of computer networking and large-scale systems for emerging machine learning and big data workloads. He is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and leads SymbioticLab. He is the creator of coflow and the co-creator of Apache Spark.
Research
Chowdhury specializes in the fields of computer networking and large-scale systems for emerging machine learning and big data workloads. Especially, his research aims for the symbiosis of AI/ML applications and software/hardware infrastructure in wide-area, datacenter-scale, and rack-scale computing.
Chowdhury pioneered many fields of research and technology in the context of emerging workloads and computer systems.
Chowdhury created Infiniswap, the first practical memory disaggregation system, Salus, the first software-only GPU sharing system for deep learning, FedScale, the largest federated learning benchmark and platform, and Zeus, the first GPU time & energy optimization framework for deep learning.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Bangladeshi American
University of California, Berkeley-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%2024/7%20%28TV%20series%29 | Open 24/7 is a Philippine television sitcom series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by JR Reyes, it stars Vic Sotto, Maja Salvador, Jose Manalo, Sofia Pablo, and Allen Ansay. It premiered on May 27, 2023 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up replacing Daddy's Gurl.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Vic Sotto as Boss EZ
Maja Salvador as Mikaela/Mike
Jose Manalo as Spark
Sofia Pablo as Kitty "Kikay"
Allen Ansay as Al
Supporting cast
Kimson Tan as Kokoy
Anjay Anson as Andoy
Bruce Roeland as Doe
Abed Green as Fred
Muriel Lomadilla as Bekbek
Guest cast
Shaira Diaz as herself
Rochelle Pangilinan as Konsihala
Gerhard Acao as Bodyguard
Rere Madrid as Madel
Tuesday Vargas as Chin-chin
MJ Lastimosa as Brenda
Empoy Marquez as Jerico
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television sitcoms
Television series by M-Zet Productions
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai%20Le%20%26%20Frank%20Carbone%20Network | The Dai Le & Frank Carbone Network (DL&FCN) is an Australian political party established and registered in 2023 by independent federal MP Dai Le and Fairfield Mayor Frank Carbone. Before the establishment of the party, Carbone said that he thought of naming the party "A Western Voice".
The party, which is based in Sydney's western suburb of Canley Vale, plans to contest electorates in Greater Western Sydney region at the next federal election. The party's federal registration was approved by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) on 8 August 2023.
History
Dai Le
Le was formerly a member of the New South Wales Liberal Party until 2016 and was elected as a federal Independent member for Fowler in 2022. She also formed the Australian Women's Party in 2019. As of May 2023, Le is also concurrently is a Councillor of Fairfield City Council, having been first elected in 2012.
Frank Carbone
Carbone was formerly a member of the New South Wales Labor Party until 2016. He was a Councillor of Fairfield City Council between 2008 and 2012, before he was popularly elected as Mayor and has served in this position ever since.
Ideals
Since the party's founding, the ideals espoused by Le and Carbone have had an emphasis on the Western Sydney region, a majority Labor-aligned area. Le stated to the Guardian Australia in May, following the party's creation, "Our people... pay tolls and taxes, and yet the money doesn't come back into building services and infrastructure for our community, we need to come together and build a stronger western Sydney voice for our community." Further adding: "The end goal is to have representation for western Sydney, from people who are actually from western Sydney, live in western Sydney, understand the issues of western Sydney."
Party co-founder Frank Carbone, in an interview with Sydney's 2GB, said: "Ultimately we're here for the people in the western suburbs, and, you know, the western suburbs is one of the largest economies in Australia and we just feel that a lot more needs to be done to actually improve the quality of life of people who live out here..."
Notes
References
Political parties established in 2023
2023 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20face%20replacement | Digital face replacement is a computer generated imagery effect used in motion picture post-production. It is commonly used to make an actor's body double or stunt double look as if they are the original actor. Possibly the earliest use of face replacement was in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park.
Digital face replacement has also been used to finish an actor's performance in the event of their death during shooting. Examples include the use of face replacement to double for Brandon Lee after his death during the shooting of The Crow, and the use of face replacement to complete Oliver Reed's performance in Gladiator.
References
Film and video technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist%20Health | Baptist Health may refer to:
In the United States
Baptist Health (Jacksonville), a network of 7 hospitals, affiliated with over 50 primary care offices located throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia
Baptist Health South Florida, a faith-based not-for-profit healthcare organization and clinical care network in southern Florida
Baptist Health System, a health system in San Antonio, Texas
Brookwood Baptist Health, a health system in Birmingham, Alabama
See also
Baptist Medical Center (disambiguation)
Baptist Memorial Hospital (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading%20Technology | Leading Technology, Inc., was an American computer company based in Beaverton, Oregon, and active from 1985 to 1992. It sold IBM PC–compatible computer systems, monitors, and other peripherals supplied by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan. In 1992, the company was purchased by VTech of Hong Kong.
History
Leading Technology, Inc., was founded by Pat Terrell and Rick Terrell. Pat had previously founded and ran Byte Shop Northwest—the Pacific Northwest operations of the Byte Shop computer retailer licensed from Paul Terrell—from 1976 until 1985, when it was acquired by PacTel Systems, a subsidiary of Pacific Telesis based in San Francisco, California. After being let go from Byte Shop Northwest in June 1986, Pat Terrell discussed founding Leading Technology upon learning that a former employee of his had founded a consumer electronics exporting company in Hong Kong, in which he promptly purchased a significant stake. His numerous business contacts earned while running Byte Shop Northwest combined with his newfound contacts in Hong Kong gave Terrell the idea to found an importer of computer products. In late 1985, he co-founded Leading Technology with his brother Rick, who had previously founded Microware Distributors, a fast-growing company distributor based in Beaverton, Oregon (not to be confused with the software company Microware).
Leading Technology's first attempts at selling desktop computers in 1985 proved unsuccessful due to the volatile pricing inherent to the IBM PC–compatible desktop market in the mid-1980s, so the company ditched these in favor of high-volume importing and selling of computer peripherals—mostly monitors—manufactured by companies in Korea such as Samsung, Hyundai, and GoldStar. By April 1987, the company offered twenty distinct products and was soon to offer keyboards and modems as well. By September 1987, the company generated $1 million in sales per month. Leading Technology moved from an "unimposing" office in a Beaverton business park to cohabit a 77,000-square-foot building downtown with Rick Terrell's erstwhile active Microware in late September 1987. About 15,000 square feet of the new building was dedicated to office space for Leading Technology, while another 35,000 was dedicated to warehousing and assembly of the company's products.
By mid-1990, the company, which now employed 85 people from Beaverton, began selling PC-compatible computer systems again, albeit monitors remained their top-selling product—the company moving roughly 40,000 monitor units a month that year, compared to between 10,000 and 15,000 computer systems over the same duration. Revenues grew from $60 million in revenue in 1989 to $200 million in 1990. After receiving a capital infusion worth between $9.5 million to $12.5 million in fall 1990, the company sold a 50-percent equity interest in the company to the Hong Kong–based VTech, who had manufactured some of the company's products.
In November 1990, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20parrot | In machine learning, a stochastic parrot is a large language model that is good at generating convincing language, but does not actually understand the meaning of the language it is processing. The term was coined by Emily M. Bender in the 2021 artificial intelligence research paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜" by Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Margaret Mitchell.
Definition and implications
Stochastic means "(1) random and (2) involving chance or probability". A "stochastic parrot", according to Bender, is an entity "for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms … according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning." More formally, the term refers to "large language models that are impressive in their ability to generate realistic-sounding language but ultimately do not truly understand the meaning of the language they are processing."
According to Lindholm, et. al., the analogy highlights two vital limitations:
They go on to note that because of these limitations, a learning machine might produce results which are "dangerously wrong".
Origin
The term was first used in the paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜" by Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Margaret Mitchell (using the pseudonym "Shmargaret Shmitchell"). The paper covered the risks of very large language models, regarding their environmental and financial costs, inscrutability leading to unknown dangerous biases, the inability of the models to understand the concepts underlying what they learn, and the potential for using them to deceive people. The paper and subsequent events resulted in Gebru and Mitchell losing their jobs at Google, and a subsequent protest by Google employees.
Subsequent usage
In July 2021, the Alan Turing Institute hosted a keynote and panel discussion on the paper. , the paper has been cited in 1,529 publications. The term has been used in publications in the fields of law, grammar, narrative, and humanities. The authors continue to maintain their concerns about the dangers of chatbots based on large language models, such as GPT-4.
See also
1 the Road – AI-generated novel
Chinese room
Criticism of artificial neural networks
Criticism of deep learning
Criticism of Google
Cut-up technique
Infinite monkey theorem
Generative AI
List of important publications in computer science
Markov text
Stochastic parsing
References
Works cited
Keynote by Emily Bender. The presentation was followed by a panel discussion.
Further reading
External links
"On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜" at Wikimedia Commons
Chatbots
Concepts in the philosophy of language
Concepts in the philosophy of mind
Criticism of Google
Deep learning
Large language models
Philosophy of artificial intelligence
Statistical natural language processing
Parrots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam%C3%A9%27s%20theorem | Lamé's Theorem is the result of Gabriel Lamé's analysis of the complexity of the Euclidean algorithm. Using Fibonacci numbers, he proved in 1844 that when looking for the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two integers a and b, the algorithm finishes in at most 5k steps, where k is the number of digits (decimal) of b.
Statement
The number of division steps in Euclidean algorithm with entries and is less than times the number of decimal digits of .
Proof
Let be two positive integers. Applying to them the Euclidean algorithm provides two sequences and of positive integers such that, setting and one has
for and
The number is called the number of steps of the Euclidean algorithm, since it is the number of Euclidean divisions that are performed.
The Fibonacci numbers are defined by and
for
The above relations show that and By induction,
So, if the Euclidean algorithm requires steps, one has
One has for every integer , where is the Golden ratio. This can be proved by induction, starting with and continuing by using that
So, if is the number of steps of the Euclidean algorithm, one has
and thus
using
If is the number of decimal digits of , one has and
So,
and, as both members of the inequality are integers,
which is exactly what Lamé's theorem asserts.
As a side result of this proof, one gets that the pairs of integers that give the maximum number of steps of the Euclidean algorithm (for a given size of ) are the pairs of consecutive Fibonacci numbers.
References
Bibliography
Bach, Eric (1996). Algorithmic number theory. Jeffrey Outlaw Shallit. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. .
Carvalho, João Bosco Pitombeira de (1993). Olhando mais de cima: Euclides, Fibonacci e Lamé. Revista do Professor de Matemática, São Paulo, n. 24, p. 32-40, 2 sem.
Theorems in number theory
Algorithms
Information technology
Number theoretic algorithms
Euclid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siris%208 | Siris 8 is a discontinued operating system developed by the French company CII for its Iris 80 and Mitra 15 computers. It was later replaced by Honeywell DPS 7.
Jean Ichbiah worked at CII on the rewrite of the Siris 7 operating system of the Iris 80 to create a more successful version, used to operate a three processor Iris 80 in Évry.
The first version of Siris 8 offered full compatibility with applications running on its predecessor Siris 7. Among its strong points were its excellent memory management, which took advantage of the extended virtual addresses and spaces of the Iris 80.
Siris 8 was suitable for both scientific and business computing, as well as real-time applications.
The first delivery of the uniprocessor version occurred in February 1972, and the dual-processor version in September 1972 for the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) . Siris 8 also included , networking software for transporting data to other computers.
After the CII merger with Honeywell-Bull, the functionality of Siris was adapted for the GCOS system through an emulation processes, which made it possible to retain all of the Siris 8 customers. The final version of Siris 8, C10, was shipped in 1976.
Characteristics
Before demand paged virtual memory was added in 1975, Siris 8 was described as having "two
core partitions… one for resident 'batch' tasks, one for swapped time-shared tasks."
It operated in four separate modes:
Batch processing comprising, local and remote
Transaction processing
Time sharing
Real-time processing.
The Siris 8 monitor consisted of a permanently resident portion and pagable segments.
Batch jobs could be entered through the local or a remote card reader, or by the console operator. Timesharing could be started and stopped by the operator. A timesharing job was started by the DEMON task, which performed all terminal I/O. The system maintained three types of queues of work. The multiprogramming queue could run multiple jobs at a time, with jobs scheduled by priority. One to five Operational queues () could run one job in each at a time, queued strictly by arrival time. A cataloged job queue was used for jobs submitted by the console operator; multiple jobs from this queue could be active at one time.
Real-time jobs had access to special system services such as "[s]witching from slave mode to master mode and vice versa, time delays, abort recoveries."
Transaction processing was performed by a subsystem called STRATEGE.
The virtual address space available to the user could be up to 32 segments of 128 K (32-bit) words, or 16 MB.
References
Mainframe computers
Discontinued operating systems
History of computing in France
External links
Siris 8 description from the original commercial brochure, Fédération des Equipes Bull (translated to English) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanMyMac%20X | CleanMyMac X is a cleanup utility for macOS. It was developed by MacPaw Way Ltd. a software company based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
CleanMyMac X is used to optimize performance on Apple Mac computers through various methods such as deletion of "junk" files and maintenance tasks.
Features
CleanMyMac X offers a variety of tools used to optimize performance, namely the smart scan. During a smart scan, the software determines possible useless files and caches. It then selects which of these should be deleted. After this, it determines potential malware. Finally, it determines maintenance tasks suitable for the device such as clearing unused items in the memory. After doing these, it presents the user with these recommendations so they can decide which to follow.
Besides the smart scan, the tools are organized in categories displayed on a sidebar on the left of the window. The categories are cleanup, protection, speed, applications and files. Users are able to individually clean system junk and mail attachments as well as delete files in trash bins in the cleanup category. In the protection category users are able to do a more thorough scan and removal of malware as well as view privacy settings and apps that potentially violate users' privacy. Under speed, users are able to perform maintenance tasks and optimize app usage. Under applications, users are able to uninstall and update apps as well as manage extensions. Finally, files includes the "space lens" which allows users to visualize the size of files. Users can also view large and old files and use the shredder here.
References
Macintosh computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT%20Novelas | TNT Novelas is a Latin American pay television channel distributed by Warner Bros. Discovery Americas
The channel launched on June 26, 2023, replacing TBS. Its programming is based on soap operas, mostly, between productions from Turkey and some from Latin America.
On May 7, 2023, it was announced that TBS would be replaced in Latin America as TNT Novelas.
Programming
¿Será que es amor?
Doctor Milagro
Traicionada
Amor Eterno
Mi hogar, mi destino
Te la dedico
References
TNT (American TV network)
Warner Bros. Discovery Americas
Television channels and stations established in 2023
Spanish-language television stations
Portuguese-language television stations in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Curtis | Christina Curtis is an American scientist who is a Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Biomedical Data Science and an Endowed Scholar at Stanford University where her research investigates the evolution of tumors. She is director of Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Genomics at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the board of directors of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Early life and education
Curtis decided that she wanted to work on cancer treatments when she was a teenager. She was an undergraduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles and did a masters degree at Heidelberg University. She moved to the University of Southern California for graduate studies, where she earned both a master's and a doctoral degree. She completed her PhD in molecular and computational biology in 2007 supervised by Simon Tavaré.
Research and career
Curtis was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, where she spent three years before returning to the faculty at the University of Southern California.
Curtis has leveraged computational modeling to better understand breast cancer, providing insight into the evolution and metastasization of tumors. She established the Cancer Computational and Systems Biology group.
Curtis uses computer simulations to understand genetic mutations in tumor samples. She believes that breast cancer tumors have genetic differences that respond differently to treatments. In 2019, she combined molecular analysis and historical clinical data to create the largest breast cancer cohort. In this cohort she found four groups of tumors that occur later in life, up to 20 years after the initial cancer diagnosis. She also found a subset of breast cancer tumors that do not recur after five years. To this end, Curtis believes that tumors with metastatic potential have this from the start – they are "born to be bad".
In 2022, Curtis was appointed director of Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Genomics at the Stanford Cancer Institute.
Awards and honors
2011 Breast Cancer Research Foundation The Ulta Beauty Award
2012 V Scholar Grant
2016 Kavli Foundation Frontiers of Science Fellow
2018 National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
2020 Susan G. Komen Scholar
2022 American Association for Cancer Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Science
Selected publications
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American physicians
21st-century American women physicians
Heidelberg University alumni
University of Southern California alumni
University of Southern California faculty
Stanford University School of Medicine faculty
Cancer researchers
American medical researchers
Women medical researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yingying%20Chen | Yingying (Jennifer) Chen is a computer scientist whose research involves mobile computing, the internet of things, the security implications of mobile sensor data, wearable technology, and activity trackers. She is a professor at Rutgers University, where she heads the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and directs the Data Analysis and Information SecuritY (DAISY) Lab.
Education and career
Chen has a 2007 Ph.D. from Rutgers, jointly supervised by Richard Martin and Wade Trappe. Before returning to Rutgers as a faculty member, she worked for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and then as a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
Books
Chen is the coauthor of books including:
Securing Emerging Wireless Systems (with Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe, and Yanyong Zhang, Springer, 2009)
Pervasive Wireless Environments: Detecting and Localizing User Spoofing (with Jie Yang, Wade Trappe, and Jerry Cheng, Springer, 2014)
Sensing Vehicle Conditions for Detecting Driving Behaviors (with Jiadi Yu and Xiangyu Xu, Springer, 2018)
Recognition
Chen was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to mobile computing and mobile security". She was named as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2021.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Rutgers University alumni
Stevens Institute of Technology faculty
Rutgers University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica%20Lim | Angelica Lim is an American-Canadian AI roboticist. She first started researching robots in 2008. Lim is currently an assistant professor in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She is also the head and founder of the Simon Fraser University Rosie Lab, which specializes in AI software development. Much of her work involves exploring the emotional capabilities of AI machines, and how AI interacts with music. Lim is the first to provide a scientifically published definition and implementation for robot feelings.
Early life and education
Pursuing her interests in robotics, Lim's education involved extensive studies in the fields of neuroscience, machine learning, and developmental psychology. Lim received a B.S.c. in Computing science at Simon Fraser University in 2008. She later received an M.S.c. in Informatics (Computer Science) at Kyoto University in 2012, where she initially started her robotics research, developing a robot that could play in a symphony with a human orchestra. Lim continued her graduate training at Kyoto University and received her Ph.D. in Informatics (Computer Science) in 2014.
Career and research
Before founding the Rosie Lab, Lim worked on software teams at SoftBank and Aldebaran Robotics, where she assisted in the development of the infamous Pepper robot. She also previously worked as an intern software engineer and researcher at Google, Honda Research Institute Japan, and I3S-CNRS, France. She also served as a journalist for the IEEE Spectrum Automaton Robotics Blog.
During her time at Simon Fraser University, Kyoto University, and beyond, she helped design and develop several robots, including Têtard (2007), an autonomous underwater vehicle; Caprica (2008), a search and rescue robot; HRP-2 Thereminist (2010-2011), a musical accompaniment robot; NAO (2011–present) cook, musician, and interactive game extraordinaire; HEARBO (2011), a robot that uses its ears and thermal cameras to understand its world; etc.
Lim has hosted several TED Talks covering the topics of AI and robotics. Some of her most notable talks have been On Designing User-Friendly Robots (TEDx Kyoto, 2012) and Robots, Emotions and Empathy (TEDx Kuala Lumpur, 2014). In 2015, she hosted Ma Vie Avec un Robot, an 83-minute robotics documentary in French for CANAL+ which was rebroadcast on NHK Japan.
Awards and recognition
NTF Award for Entertainment Robots and Systems IROS (2010)
Featured in Forbes 20 Leading Women in AI
References
Living people
Canadian roboticists
Canadian women engineers
Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University alumni
Kyoto University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IoT%20security%20device | Internet of Things (IoT) security devices are electronic tools connected via Internet to a common network and are used to provide security measures. These devices can be controlled remotely through a mobile application, web-based interface or any proprietary installed software, and they often have capabilities such as remote video monitoring, intrusion detection, automatic alerts, and smart automation features. IoT security devices form an integral part of the smart ecosystem, which is characterized by the interconnectivity of various appliances and devices through the Internet.
History
The concept of IoT security devices began to gain traction in the early 2010s with the advent of smart technology. The initial devices were primarily focused on remote surveillance that would allow monitoring of the properties remotely using webcams and similar devices. As technology advanced, these systems began to incorporate a wider range of features, such as intrusion detection and automatic alerts.
The rise of smart automation and the proliferation of IoT devices in the mid-2010s further accelerated the growth of IoT security devices. As of 2021, the market for IoT security devices is expected to continue its rapid expansion due to increasing consumer awareness about security and the continuing development of IoT technology.
Types of IoT Security Devices
Surveillance Cameras: These are one of the most common types of IoT security devices. They provide real-time video monitoring of the environment, allowing to view footage remotely from the interface.
Smart Locks: Smart locks can be controlled remotely and can provide access to authorized individuals. Some also have features such as biometric recognition and automatic locking and unlocking based on proximity.
Smart Alarms: These devices can detect potential threats such as break-ins, fire, and carbon monoxide and send automatic alerts to homeowners, security units and, in some cases, local authorities.
Door/Window Sensors: These sensors trigger an alert when doors or windows are opened or tampered with.
Smart Detectors: These devices detect environmental hazards such as smoke, gas leaks, and water leaks, alerting in real time.
Criticism and Concerns
Despite their benefits, IoT security devices have also raised several concerns. The most significant of these is the potential for privacy breaches. As these devices are connected to the internet, they are potentially vulnerable to hacking, which could result in unauthorized access to sensitive data.
There are also concerns about the reliance on internet connectivity. If an internet connection goes down, some devices may become non-functional, potentially leaving the environment unprotected. Similarly, if a device's software isn't regularly updated, it could become vulnerable to security flaws.
See also
Home automation
Industry 4.0
Internet of Things
Self-Defense
Physical security
Web of things
References
Home
Physical security
Internet of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorit%20Dor | Dorit Dor () is an Israeli executive, computer scientist, Chief technology officer of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and Israel Defense Prize winner.
Biography
Dorit Dor was born to Shaya Dolinsky, a statistics manager department at the Israel Port Authority, and to Lea Dolinsky, an architect who became an artist. She learned at the Ben-Zvi secondary school in Kiryat Ono on the physical-technological track. She earned her BSc in computer science and mathematics as a part of the Atuda and in 1987, the Israel Defense Forces enlisted her to Unit 8200. She reached the rank of a major as a section head. In 1993, when she was 25, Dor won the Israel National Defense Award.
She graduated Bachelor of Science with honors and M. Sc. in computer science from Tel Aviv University.
In 1996, she received her Ph.D. in computer science from Tel Aviv University. She wrote her dissertation about “Selection Algorithms” under the supervision of Uri Zwick.
She has been published in scientific journals for her research on median selection, d-dimensional space, geometric pattern matching, and graph decomposition.
Shlomo Kramer, her acquaintance from the Atuda and 8200, and one of the three company's founders recruited Dor to Check Point in 1995, two years after they established it.
She entered Check Point as the head of the development team of 15 people, today she is leading a team of 1400 people.
She worked for 27 years as the Chief product officer. In 2023 they appointed her to the role of Chief Technological Officer and as the chairperson of Check Point Rockets.
Over the years her role involves heading the company's product management, research and development and quality assurance initiatives, besides the technology partnerships and strategy.
Dor was a speaker at the World Economic Forum,
the RSA Conference
and the Goware conference.
She serves as director of “Cyber Threat Alliance”
and she sat on the board of “She Codes”, an organization dedicated to elevating the number of female programmers in Israel.
She is a member of the TOP 15 steering committee, a program from the Israeli Ministry of Education that strives to expand the circle of high school students of excellence.
In 2022 Redis appointed her as an independent director.
Dor was included in The Software Reports’ list of the top 25 women leaders in cybersecurity of 2019
and 2020.
She was included in the Solutions Review's list of the 10 key female cybersecurity leaders to know in 2020.
Dorit Dor is married to Tomer Dor and has two sons.
References
Living people
Israel Defense Prize recipients
People associated with computer security
Israeli women computer scientists
Tel Aviv University alumni
Israeli business executives
Israeli corporate directors
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20De%20Salvo | Barbara De Salvo is an electronics engineer whose work involves the development of advanced computer memory technology and neuromorphic computing architecture. Educated in Italy, France, and the US, she has worked in France and the US. She is Research Director and Silicon Technology Strategist for the Facebook Reality Labs.
Education and career
After earning an engineering degree in 1996 from the University of Parma, De Salvo studied microelectronics at the Grenoble Institute of Technology, completing a Ph.D. in 1999. Her dissertation, Étude du transport électrique et de la fiabilité dans les isolants des mémoires non volatiles a grille flottante, was jointly directed by Gérard Ghibaudo and Georges Pananakakis. She earned a habilitation through Joseph Fourier University in 2007, and has also studied at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
She worked in Grenoble, France, at CEA-Leti: Laboratoire d'électronique des technologies de l'information, beginning in 1999 and including two years from 2013 to 2015 in Albany, New York working as part of an international collaboration with IBM. She became chief scientist and deputy director of CEA-Leti, before moving in 2019 to Meta Platforms and its Reality Labs in Menlo Park, California as Research Director and Silicon Technology Strategist.
Book
De Salvo is the author of the book Silicon Non-Volatile Memories: Paths of Innovation (Wiley, 2009).
Recognition
De Salvo was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to device physics of nonvolatile embedded and stand-alone memories".
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Parma alumni
Electronics engineers
Women electrical engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontological%20Statistics | PAST (PAleontological STatistics) is a free software package for statistical data analysis with a focus on palaeontological data.
Development
PAST's predecessor was PALSTAT, developed by palaeontologists David Harper (University of Copenhagen) and Paul Ryan (National University of Ireland), first for BBC Microcomputer and later for MS-DOS.
The development of PAST started in 1999, the development team consisted of Harper, Ryan as well as Øyvind Hammer (University of Oslo), who is still the maintainer today.
Functions and Operation
PAST includes functions for data management, data visualisation through graphics, univariate and multivariate analysis procedures as well as linear and non-linear modelling. There are also functions for diversity calculation, time series analysis, geostatistical and stratigraphic analysis.
The operation is basically mouse-controlled. In addition, control via syntax scripts is provided, using a Pascal-like script language.
Usage
PAST was used for studies in paleontology, forensics, archaeology or microbiology.
The software was recommended because it is "... designed specifically for paleontologists" and "... incorporates a vast majority of analytical methods suitable for paleontological and current ecological work".
Further reading
References
Free statistical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Hannah | Marc Hannah (born October 13, 1956) is an American electrical engineer and computer graphics designer. He is one of the co-founders of Silicon Graphics Inc.
Early life and education
Hannah was born on October 13, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois. Hannah attended the Illinois Institute of Technology where he studied Electrical Engineering. Hannah received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1977. Later he attended Stanford University where he obtained his M.S. degree in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree.
Career
At SGI he was a member of technical staff and a cofounder of the company. He is mostly known for making 3-D chips and for the creation of computer programs like Personal IRIS, Indigo, Indigo2, and Indy graphics. 3D technology is commonly used in movies, videos, and computers. Some movies that 3D technology is used in are Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, The Hunt for Red October, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Lawnmower Man. Hannah was one of the 7 founders of Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI). SGI is known for its computer graphics. The company went public in 1986 after Hannah and 6 others raised $33 million in venture capital. Marc and his team were tasked with making a 3-D graphic chip which would be used in a video game console. This would become one of the first ever 3-D graphics chips to be used in a video game console. This console went on to become the Nintendo 64. SGI was also used in the process of creating Terminator 2 when George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic used Silicon Graphics’ technology to create Terminator 2. Hannah also developed the 3-D special effects systems for scientific research and aerospace biotech engineering labs. Hannah’s designs also helped build the Boeing 777 and modeling systems for biotechnology applications.
Awards
Some of Hannah’s awards and achievements are the Professional Achievement Award from Illinois Institute of Technology, the Professional Achievement Award from the National Technical Association, both of which he received in 1987, and in 1988 he received the Black Engineer of the Year Award.
References
Wikipedia Student Program
Living people
1956 births
American computer scientists
African-American computer scientists
Stanford University alumni
Illinois Institute of Technology alumni
American technology company founders
Computer graphics researchers
Computer graphics professionals
Silicon Graphics people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroflash | neuroflash is a German-based company that specializes in the development of AI-driven content creation software. The company was founded in 2021, by a team of experts in neuropsychology, data sciences, and artificial intelligence. By incorporating neuropsychological insights, neuroflash seeks to advance content creation in the marketing industry, assisting businesses in producing more engaging content.
History
neuroflash was founded in 2021 in Hamburg, Germany, by Jens Windel, Jonathan Mall, Henrik Roth, and Henrik Büning. The founders initially aimed to create a proprietary software application that could predict the effectiveness of words. However, they soon realized the potential of their expertise to help companies create high-quality content using AI technology. This led them to develop an innovative content creation software that quickly gained recognition in the industry. In March 2022, the company secured 800,000 euros in a financing round. In February 2023, neuroflash was awarded by OMR Reviews as the leading AI Text Generator.
Software
The company's primary product is an AI-powered content creation software developed to assist businesses in generating various types of content, such as company presentations, website content, and social media posts. The software offers a diverse range of text types and templates, which contribute to producing content with a credible and genuine writing style. Furthermore, neuroflash provides AI image generation, SEO analysis, and AI chat services. According to the founding team, one of the key purposes of neuroflash is to provide a German-language alternative to ChatGPT.
neuroflash emphasizes the role of neuropsychology and its impact on purchasing behavior. According to the company's founders, unconscious buying behavior can be influenced by segregated communication, and their software aids companies in creating content that directly addresses the target audience's subconscious mind. This method ensures that the AI-generated content is customized to optimize its effectiveness on the intended audience.
References
German companies established in 2020
Artificial intelligence associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra%20Russo | Alessandra Russo is a professor in Applied Computational Logic at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London.
Career
She obtained a Laurea in Computer Science from the University of Bari in 1990 achieving a grade of 110/110 (cum laudae) before completing her PhD at Imperial College London in 1996. From 1997 to 2001 she worked at Imperial as a Research Associate before being appointed a lecturer in 2001.
She leads the Structured and Probabilistic Intelligent Knowledge Engineering (SPIKE) research group which focuses on developing frameworks and algorithms for structured and probabilistic knowledge.
Awards
She has been awarded the prize for the best application paper at the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) in 2002 and the Imperial College Rector's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011. She is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Projects
ILASP (Learning from Answer Sets) is a system which enables learning interpretable knowledge from labelled data using Inductive Logic Programming.
References
External links
Official personal page
Google Scholar page
Artificial intelligence researchers
Italian computer scientists
Living people
Academics of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Bari alumni
Alumni of Imperial College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Zimmermann%20%28disambiguation%29 | Phil Zimmermann is an American computer scientist.
Philip Zimmermann or Philip Zimmerman may also refer to:
Philip Zimmerman, American icon painter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastions%20%28TV%20series%29 | Bastions () is a South Korean computer animated series airing on SBS TV. The series fuses superhero fiction and K-Pop.
Premise
A group of young idols live in a world where superpowers are an everyday thing. The group struggles to learn how to use their powers to become superheroes and save the planet from villains trying to pollute the environment.
Characters
Digger
Almon
JJ
Production
In April 2023, a new animated series produced for SBS TV was first announced, featuring a new single from boy group BTS. The series was produced by Thymos Media and Navel.
Music
BTS provided the music for "The Planet", which serves as the opening theme for the show. "The Planet" was recorded by the whole group before going on hiatus to complete military service and venture on solo careers. Additional contributors to the soundtrack include Le Sserafim, Heize, AleXa, and Brave Girls, who provide one of their first songs since leaving Brave Entertainment.
Release
Bastions first aired on SBS TV in South Korea on May 14, 2023, at 7:30 am. In other regions, the show was first available to stream on Crunchyroll starting May 13, 2023.
References
External links
2020s South Korean animated television series
2023 South Korean television series debuts
Environmental television
Computer-animated television series
K-pop television series
Korean-language television shows
Seoul Broadcasting System original programming
Superhero television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus%20ROG%20Ally | The Asus ROG Ally is a handheld gaming computer developed and manufactured by Asus under their Republic of Gamers brand. Released on June 13, 2023, the device competes with Valve's Steam Deck. The ROG Ally runs the Windows 11 operating system and uses an AMD Zen 4 processor. In addition to handheld use, the ROG Ally can be connected to a TV or monitor through a docking station and be used like a desktop computer or home video game console.
History
Asus began developing a handheld gaming computer in 2018 to compete with handheld computers such as the GPD Win 2. Development slowed down over the next few years but was accelerated after Valve's 2021 announcement of the Steam Deck, which quickly led to a renewed public interest in handheld gaming computers. The device was announced on April 1, 2023, leading many to believe it is an April Fools' Day prank, with Asus clarifying its legitimacy three days later. Asus revealed the ROG Ally's release date, technical specifications and price on June 11, 2023. Two models were announced, one retailing for and implementing a Ryzen Z1 Processor, and another retailing for and implementing a Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor. The latter was released on June 13, 2023, and the former will be released during the third quarter of 2023.
Hardware
The ROG Ally implements an AMD APU, based on AMD's Zen 4 and RDNA 3 architectures. Two different models of the ROG Ally were released, one with a Ryzen Z1 processor and another with a Ryzen Z1 Extreme. The Z1 CPU runs a six-core/twelve-thread unit and the Z1 GPU runs on four compute units with a total estimated performance of 2.56 TFLOPS. The Z1 Extreme CPU runs an eight-core/sixteen-thread unit while its GPU runs on twelve compute units at an estimate of 8.29 TFLOPS. Both processors use variable timing frequencies, with the Z1 running between 3.2 and 4.9 GHz and the Z1 Extreme running between 3.3 and 5.1 GHz
The main unit of the Ally is designed for handheld use. It features a 7-inch touchscreen LCD display with a 1080p resolution and variable refresh rate that goes up to 120 Hz. Controls resemble those of an Xbox Wireless Controller, including two thumbsticks, a directional pad, A/B/X/Y buttons, two shoulder buttons on each side, and two configurable buttons on the back of the unit.
Software
The ROG Ally ships with Windows 11 Home integrated with Armoury Crate SE, a software utility developed by Asus. Armoury Crate lets the user quickly configure thermal design power with several pre-adjusted presets, as well as change the refresh rate, screen resolution, limit frame rate and adjust clock rates. Armoury Crate also acts as a game launcher, automatically compiling the user's game library from third-party launchers like Steam and Epic Games Store. Although Windows 11 improved touchscreen support, some interactions can only be done using a mouse cursor. Due to this, Armoury Crate lets users emulate a mouse using the left joystick.
The ROG Ally also ships with a three-month sub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Signals%20Network | The Signals Network (TSN) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports whistleblowers who have shared public interest information with the public. It is one of a group of whistleblower organizations attached to the United States Congress. TSN has also helped coordinate international media investigations that speak out against corporate misconduct and human rights abuses.
The Signals Network is an associate partner of Whistleblowing International Network.
TSN’s Executive Director is Delphine Halgand-Mishra.
TSN’s Whistleblower Protection Program helps whistleblowers deal with the legal, physical, psychological and economic consequences of speaking out.
Activities (cases)
The Signals Network represents Twitter whistleblower Anika Collier Navaroli, who provided testimony to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, and provides her with support through its Whistleblower Protection Program.
Government Accountability Project joined The Signals Network as co-counsel for Anika Navaroli for testifying on February 8, 2023, to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability during a hearing titled "Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story."
Since July 2022, The Signals Network has represented Mark MacGann, the whistleblower behind the Uber files case.
In October 2022, MacGann testified before the European Parliament’s Employment Committee about the Uber Files and the impact of the gig economy on worker’s rights. Prior to the hearing, the Signals Network sent a letter to the Chair of the committee, objecting to the proposed setup for the hearing, which would have seen MacGann and a representative of Uber representatives sharing the same panel. The letter set out The Signals Network’s concerns about the failure of the Committee to follow the recently passed European Directive on Whistleblowing and to take into account the impact of the proposed format on MacGann. In response to the letter, the European Commission altered the format for MacGann’s testimony.
The Signals Network has provided whistleblower protection including legal and psychological services to Daniel Motaung, a former Facebook content moderator who came forward to TIME sharing his story of trauma, poverty wages and alleged union busting inside a Facebook content moderation center in Kenya. Time magazine reporter Billy Perrigo wrote the February 2022 front-cover story based on Motaung’s testimony titled “Inside Facebook’s African Sweatshop.”
The Signals Network coordinated the international media consortium that reported EdTech Exposed, an independent collaborative investigation that had early access to Human Rights Watch’s report, data, and technical evidence on alleged violations of children’s rights by governments that endorsed education technologies during the Covid-19 pandemic. The consortium provided weeks of inde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaros%C5%82aw%20Duda%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Jarosław Duda (Polish pronunciation: ), also known as Jarek Duda, is a Polish computer scientist and an assistant professor at the Institute of Computer Science and Computational Mathematics of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is known as the inventor of asymmetric numeral systems (ANS), a family of entropy encoding methods widely used in data compression.
Life and career
He was born in Dębica, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland. In 1999, he graduated from King Władysław Jagiełło High School No. 1 in Dębica. In 2004, he obtained an MSc degree in computer science, in 2005 in pure mathematics, in 2006 in physics, all from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 2010, he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in theoretical computer science, then in 2012 doctorate in theoretical physics from the same university. In 2013, he received a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the NSF Center for Science of Information of the Purdue University at the invitation from Wojciech Szpankowski. In 2015, he was appointed an assistant professor at the Institute of Computer Science and Computational Mathematics of the Jagiellonian University.
Invention of ANS
Between 2006 and 2014 he developed a family of entropy coding methods called asymmetric numeral systems, mainly used in data compression, which has become widely used in electronic devices due to improved performance compared to previous methods. ANS combines the compression ratio of arithmetic coding (which uses a nearly accurate probability distribution), with a processing cost similar to that of Huffman coding. In the tabled ANS (tANS) variant, this is achieved by constructing a finite-state machine to operate on a large alphabet without using multiplication. ANS is used in many products of leading technology companies such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Linux, for example to encode information in Facebook Zstandard, Apple LZFSE, CRAM or JPEG XL popular data compressors.
Duda's intention has been to keep ANS patent-free and available for public use. In 2018, his lobbying helped convince Google to abandon its ANS-related patent claim in the US and Europe. However, in 2022, Microsoft received a US patent covering modifications to a data-encoding technique called rANS, one of several variants in the Asymmetric Numeral System, introduced by Duda in 2013. In an interview with The Register, Duda raised his concerns about the potential diminished utility of ANS as software developers might try to avoid a potential infringement claim.
Awards
In 2021, he became the recipient of the annual City of Kraków Award for his exceptional achievements in computer science.
See also
List of Polish computer scientists
Timeline of Polish science and technology
List of Polish inventors and discoverers
References
Living people
Polish computer scientists
Polish inventors
People from Dębica
Jagiellonian University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson%20Ndou | Ratshivhanda Samson Ndou (born 28 December 1939) is a South African politician and former trade unionist. During apartheid, he was a prominent member of a network of Charterist union organisers in the Transvaal, as well as a founding member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and president of the General and Allied Workers' Union (GAWU).
After the end of apartheid, he represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly, in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature, and in the Vhembe District Council.
Early life and activism
Ndou was born on 28 December 1939. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) at an early stage of the anti-apartheid struggle and he remained active in its underground after it was banned by the government in 1960. He was part of an underground network of labour activists in the Transvaal – also including Rita Ndzanga, Sydney Mufamadi, and others – who were associated with the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), which was allied to the ANC but had itself been banned in 1962.
Communism trial
Ndou was arrested in May 1969 and detained without trial for several months before being charged with violations of the Suppression of Communism Act. In State v Samson Ndou and 21 Others, the state alleged that Ndou and various other ANC and SACTU supporters – among them Rita Ndzanga and Winnie Mandela – had in various ways sought to further the aims of the illegal ANC, including through conspiracy to commit sabotage in Johannesburg. All 22 defendants were acquitted and the trial was regarded as a political failure for the apartheid state, because it had revealed publicly that, despite the intense political repression of the decade, ANC supporters continued to mobilise underground.
Decades later, Ndou testified to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he had been severely tortured by the Security Branch during his detention in 1969, as well as during a later detention in the summer of 1981. He and the other 21 triallists were awarded the Order of Luthuli in Silver in 2017 for "their brave fight against apartheid".
United Democratic Front
Upon his release, Ndou resumed his underground work, at the time focused primarily on recruitment activities and political education, such as through proliferation of the illegal Freedom Charter. He and other SACTU loyalists became increasingly involved in the Black Allied Workers' Union (BAWU), and Samson himself remained in contact with SACTU's exiled leadership abroad. However, when Rita Ndzanga broke away from BAWU in 1980, Ndou joined her in the new General and Allied Workers' Union (GAWU). He was later president of GAWU.
In 1983, Ndou made a speech at the Cape Town launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF), a new popular front against apartheid. He was also elected to the executive committee of the Transvaal Indian Congress after the congress was relaunched in the same year (though he was not himself Indian). In the mid-1980s, he became increasingly i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidambar%20caudata | Liquidambar caudata is a species of sweetgum tree native to eastern China.
Description
Liquidambar caudata is similar to Altingia gracilipes, but its leaves are not strongly 3-nerved at the base.
Distribution and habitat
Liquidambar caudata is native to the coastal Chinese provinces of Fujian and S-Zhejiang and lives primarily in subtropical habitats.
References
caudata
Trees of China
Flora of Fujian
Flora of Zhejiang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Hall%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Mary Wolcott Hall is an American computer scientist specializing in compilers and automatic parallelization. She is director of the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah.
Education and career
Hall's mother, a mathematics teacher, passed on her interest in computers to her daughter. Hall became an undergraduate at Rice University, originally majoring in computer science and managerial studies but switching to Rice's program in computer science and mathematical sciences, from which she graduated magna cum laude in 1985. She continued at Rice for graduate study in computer science, earning a master's degree in 1989 and completing her Ph.D. in 1991. Her dissertation, Managing Interprocedural Optimization, was supervised by Ken Kennedy. She writes of this time "I only wanted to write a masters thesis and do some research, and I tried to quit twice, but each time Ken Kennedy talked me out of it."
After postdoctoral research at Stanford University, a visiting assistant professorship at the California Institute of Technology, and a research faculty position at the University of Southern California, she obtained a regular-rank associate professorship at the University of Utah in 2008, and was promoted to full professor in 2012.
She was named director of the Kahlert School of Computing in 2020.
Recognition
Hall was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to compiler optimization and performance tuning".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Rice University alumni
University of Utah faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CII%20Iris%2080 | The CII Iris 80 computer is the most powerful computer made by the French company CII as part of Plan Calcul. It was released in 1970 and had roughly the same capabilities and performance than its main rivals in Europe: the IBM 360/75 and 360/85.
The Iris 80 is the backward-compatible successor to the CII 10070, a licensed SDS Sigma-7, and to the Iris 50, an in-house development from the Sigma-9 architecture. It essentially upgraded the Iris 50 with modern integrated circuits, as well as multiprocessor capabilities. Its operating system, Siris 8, was also upgraded from Siris 7 to leverage the new capabilities of the Iris 80.
Because of a policy of national preference that the Plan Calcul imposed on the public sector, this computer was installed at four of the approximately twenty French university computing centers in the mid-1970s, as well as INRIA and other research organizations.
About a hundred Iris 80s were delivered, including 27 dual processors.
The CS 40, used for telephone switching, was derived from it.
The original successors to the Iris 80 was supposed to be the CII / Unidata X4 and X5 set to be released in 1976. However, after the eventual merger of CII with Honeywell-Bull, the Iris 80 was instead succeeded by the DPS-7, which included an Iris 80 and Siris 8 emulation mode to ensure compatibility.
Hardware
CPU
The CPU is a modification of the CII 10070 (32-bit words, largely identical instruction set), with addressing revised for multi-processor operation. Paging uses associative memory. Main memory can be expanded to 4 megabytes. Calculation precision is 64 bits, ensuring the convergence of calculations that may diverge on other machines.
Peripherals
Magnetic disk capacity increased from the MD 25 (25 megabytes) to MD 200 (200 megabytes) by 1974. Mitra 15 minicomputers are used as controllers.
Software
Operating systems
The Iris 80's operating system is a multitasking operating system known as Siris 8, a rewrite of Siris 7, intended to take advantage of new addressing modes. This rewrite was carried out by Jean Ichbiah, and notably made it possible to operate an Iris 80 triple-processor system in Évry.
Siris 8 handles a varied workload, including batch processing (local and remote processing) and time sharing. It was the first system to include routing software for the transport of data to other computers, , and a networking and data sharing system, adapted to the customers at universities, research centers, and administrations of Iris 80. The CYCLADES network was notably demonstrated at SICOB 1975 with applications simultaneously running at the INRIA headquarters at Rocquencourt and various regional sites.
Languages
Symbol assembler,
Metasymbol, a meta-assembler
LP70, a language similar to PL360
COBOL
Fortran IV extended
BASIC
Algol 60
PL/I
Pascal
Simula 67
SNOBOL
Lisp—Several implementations of Lisp, from the universities of Toulouse, Grenoble, etc., were used by the university community
LIS, a systems imp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally%20Road%20Racers | Rally Road Racers, formerly known as Silk Road Rally, is a 2023 computer-animated sports comedy film directed and written by Ross Venokur. The film stars Jimmy O. Yang, J.K. Simmons, Chloe Bennet, Lisa Lu, Sharon Horgan, Catherine Tate and John Cleese. It follows novice racer Zhi as he tries to save his rural village from villainous real-estate developer Archie Vainglorious.
The film is a international co-production between United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States, and is produced by REP Productions 6 Ltd., Kintop Pictures, Riverstone Pictures, Vanguard Animation, Virtuso Productions and Lipsync Post. The film was theatrically released in the United States by Viva Kids on May 12, 2023. Despite having a limited release in theaters, the film received favorable reviews from critics.
Plot
Zhi is slow loris living with his grandmother in a rural Chinese village in a world of anthropomorphic animals. As a child, his idol is racer Archie Vainglorious, but as a young adult he discovers Vainglorious Industries' plans to demolish Zhi's village and put in cane toad housing. Initially hopeful that he can reach an understanding with Vainglorious, Zhi instead finds him boastful and dismissive. Vainglorious does, however, agree to challenge Zhi in an upcoming rally race for the fate of the village.
Gnash, a retired racer, reluctantly agrees to help Zhi train, out of a sense of duty to Zhi's deceased mother. Gnash also provides Zhi with a car and rides with him in it. The race has no rules, and Zhi discovers the deep-pocketed Vainglorious is willing to cheat and play dirty at every opportunity. Zhi also struggles with performance anxiety when he's in the lead, something Gnash struggles to talk him out of.
During downtime between race segments, Zhi meets and then falls in love with Shelby, a fellow slow loris. Unbeknownst to him, she's working for Vainglorious and feeding the latter the information Zhi tells her. Discovering that she shares Zhi's romantic feelings, Shelby feels increasingly torn over her duplicity, and finally breaks with Vainglorious.
With help from the other racers, who are sympathetic to him, Zhi is able to defeat Vainglorious and save his village. Vainglorious throws a fit and then has to face the wrath of his family, who had a financial stake in him winning the race.
Voice cast
Jimmy O. Yang as Zhi, a young Chinese slow loris who aspires to be a racer, the main protagonist
J. K. Simmons as Gnash, a Russian goat and retired racer who is Zhi's mentor
Chloe Bennet as Shelby, a slow loris who is Zhi's love interest
Lisa Lu as Granny Bai, a elderly slow loris who is Zhi's grandmother
Sharon Horgan as Abby Jacks, a Australian-accented red kangaroo who narrates the Silk Road Rally
Catherine Tate as Juni, a Swedish reindeer who narrates the Silk Road Rally alongside Abby Jacks
John Cleese as Archie Vainglorious, the main antagonist, a Cockney-accented cane toad who has plans to take down the Slow Loris village
Production |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Mattingly | Phil Mattingly (born December 16, 1985) is an American journalist who is the current co-anchor of CNN's flagship morning program CNN This Morning with Poppy Harlow. He is the network's former Chief White House correspondent, who received the 2023 White House Correspondents' Association Award for Excellence in Presidential Coverage Under Deadline Pressure – Broadcast. Prior to that, he was the network's senior White House correspondent and congressional correspondent. Previously, Mattingly worked at Bloomberg Television in Washington, where he served as the network's White House correspondent and a national political correspondent.
Career
After graduating from Ohio State University (where he was on the baseball team) and then Boston University, Mattingly found work with Congressional Quarterly in 2007, as an economic and financial affairs reporter covering the banking committees and the financial crisis.
In 2010, Mattingly joined Bloomberg News where he served as a Finance and Economics Reporter and helped lead Bloomberg's coverage of the federal response to the financial crisis. In 2012, Mattingly was named as a Justice Department correspondent. In 2013, he was named as a White House correspondent covering the Obama administration. After a stint at the White House, Mattingly was named as Bloomberg's national political correspondent, covering the politics and policies behind the 2016 presidential campaigns.
In December 2015, Mattingly was hired by CNN as a New York-based correspondent. He spent 2016 on the campaign trail covering Republican presidential candidates Chris Christie, John Kasich and Donald Trump. His work included a series of investigative pieces into Trump's business history, finances and taxes.
References
External links
CNN Profile
Phil Mattingly at Twitter
Phil Mattingly at Instagram
1985 births
Living people
American television news anchors
Bloomberg L.P. people
CNN people
Boston University College of Communication alumni
Ohio State Buckeyes baseball players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarynAI | CarynAI is an artificial intelligence chatbot launched by Snapchat influencer Caryn Marjorie and powered by BanterAI.
References
Artificial intelligence
Chatbots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20Hu | Rose Qingyang Hu () is an electrical engineer whose research involves wireless networks and their applications in edge computing and the internet of things. Educated in China and the US, she has worked in both academia and industry, and is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate dean for research at Utah State University.
Education and career
Hu studied electrical engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China, graduating in 1992. After a 1995 master's degree from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering), she completed a Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of Kansas. Her dissertation, Development and analysis of ABR congestion control techniques for wide area ATM networks, was supervised by David Petr.
After working for Nortel and Yotta Networks, she became an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Mississippi State University in 2002, but returned to industry in 2004, working for Nortel again from 2004 to 2009, for Research In Motion from 2009 to 2010, and for Intel in 2010.
She took her present position at Utah State University, as an untenured associate professor, in 2011, and was granted tenure in 2014. She was promoted to full professor in 2017 and named associate dean for research in 2018.
Books
Hu is the coauthor of books including:
Heterogeneous Cellular Networks (with Yi Qian, Wiley, 2013)
Resource Management for Heterogeneous Networks in LTE Systems (with Yi Qian, Springer, 2014)
Smart Grid Communication Infrastructures: Big Data, Cloud Computing, And Security (with Feng Ye and Yi Qian, Wiley, 2018)
Cybersecurity in Intelligent Networking Systems (with Shengjie Xu and Yi Qian, Wiley, 2022)
Recognition
Hu was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society from 2015 to 2018, and of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society from 2020 to 2022. She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to design and analysis of mobile wireless communications systems".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Science and Technology of China alumni
New York University Tandon School of Engineering alumni
University of Kansas alumni
Mississippi State University faculty
Utah State University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwangsarbeitslager%20f%C3%BCr%20Juden | Zwangsarbeitslager für Juden (), translated as "forced labor camps for Jews," were a network of camps established and operated by Nazi Germany for the exploitation of Jewish forced labor. These camps were more numerous than ghettos in many parts of German-occupied Poland. After 1943, many of the camps were integrated into the larger network of Nazi concentration camps.
References
Further reading
Forced labourers under German rule during World War II |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CII%20Iris%2050 | The Iris 50 computer is one of the computers marketed by the French company CII as part of plan Calcul at the end of the 1960s. Designed for the civilian market, it was produced from 1968 to 1975 and was the successor to the CII 10070 (SDS Sigma 7). Its main competitor in Europe was the IBM 360/50, which, like the Iris 50, was a universal 32 bits mainframe suitable for both business and scientific applications.
At the same time that the CII was building the Iris 50, it had to study military variants for the army called P0M, P2M, and P2MS. The Iris 35 M version, used in particular to process the information needed to fire the Pluton missile, had a magnetic core memory made up of elements of 16 kilobytes each; tolerant of severe environmental conditions. Its main peripherals were a printer, a monitor, and modems.
CII concluded that it was impossible to create another CPU compatible with Iris 50. It then decided to adopt the Sigma 9 architecture, inspired by the Sigma 7 and marketed by (SETI), one of the three companies that had merged in 1966 to create CII.
The operating system for the Iris 50 was Siris 7, designed and developed by CII.
Its successor, the Iris 80, was considerably transformed and improved, both in terms of the components, which moved from DTL to TTL, and the operating system (Siris 7/8) on which the IRIA researchers worked to increase its speed.
A slower-speed version, the Iris 45, was introduced in 1972.
References
Mainframe computers
History of computing in France
Computers designed in France
External links
Technical specifications and illustrations of the Iris 50 (Fédération des Equipes Bull) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitra%2015 | The Mitra 15 is a minicomputer made by the French company CII under Plan Calcul, along with the Iris 50 and Iris 80 mainframe computers. It was marketed from 1971 to 1985 and could function in conjunction with large systems. CII manufactured a thousand Mitra 15 machines until 1975 in its Toulouse factory, then in Crolles in the suburbs of Grenoble. A total of 7,929 units were built, most of them for the French market, with a small amount sold in Australia, Indonesia, and in other European countries.
History
The Mitra 15 is the successor to the CII 10010, also called Iris 10, a 16-bit minicomputer released in July 1967. At the time, CII also produced another 16-bit minicomputer, the CII 10020 (actually a licensed Sigma 3 from SDS) and wanted to replace them both with a new, more powerful design compatible with the latest offering of the company. The Mitra 15 was designed from the outset to complement and network with the most powerful French computer of the time, the CII Iris 80, with which it was compatible. Its name is an acronym of , meaning “Mini-machine for Real-Time and Automatic Computing”. The first versions featured a main memory of lithium ferrite cores organized in 16-bit words. It was designed and developed by a team led by Alice Recoque.
The first Mitra 15 was delivered on May 10, 1971, and produced in Crolles then Échirolles.
Intended for command and control of industrial processes such as scientific computing, the Mitra 15 is designed to be adaptable to very diverse fields of application, thanks to an innovative microprogramming system and a good price/performance ratio. Variants of this computer have also been produced according to the needs of CII's customers. The Mitra 15 was also developed into a militarized version, the Mitra 15M. Microprograms use firmware stored in a ROM, the execution of which causes a simple computer (the micromachine) to always execute the same algorithm, for the instructions of another computer: the macromachine, or simply the machine, which is what is visible to the programmer.
Only the first version is incompatible with the CII Iris computers of the time, the Iris 50. The Mitra 15 was widely used as the front-end for the CII Iris 80 (MCR-2) computer. Initially, it was produced as a simple stand-alone module with external cabinetry. It was succeeded by the Mitra 15–20, Mitra 15–30, and Mitra 15–35, produced from 1972. The Mitra 15-30 and Mitra 15-35 which have an external chassis cabinet with extended configuration and modular drawers are intended in particular for customers in the telecommunications industry; they were priced from the dollars. Later, the low-end Mitra 15M/05 was produced in 1975.
Competition and innovation
The first commercially-successful minicomputer, the 12-bit DEC PDP-8 was introduced in 1965, and sold for . In 1969, Data General, founded by ex-DEC engineers introduced the 16-bit Nova, which sould for . The Hewlett-Packard HP2000 series appeared in the late 1960s and early 197 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Baddies%20episodes | Baddies is an American reality television series which premiered on the Zeus Network on May 16, 2021. It was developed as an unofficial spin-off to the reality series Bad Girls Club.
The first season, Baddies ATL, focuses on the original Bad Girls of reality television; Seven Craft, Judi Jackson, Natalie Nunn, Sarah Oliver, Christina Salgado, Janelle Shanks,Tanisha Thomas and Newbie Sidney Starr. Mehgan James is also featured in a recurring capacity. The season consisted of 12 episodes, including a two-part reunion special hosted by Tamar Braxton and Jason Lee.
The second season, Baddies South, focuses on new faces amongst the Baddies group as they take The Dirty South by storm, featuring Natalie Nunn, Elliadria "Persuasian" Griffin, Jelaminah Lanier, Chrisean "Rock" Malone, Gia "Rollie" Mayham, Sashanna "Slim" McLaurin, Anne Moore, Scotlynd Ryan and Briana Walker. Sidney Starr from the previous season appears in a recurring capacity throughout the series, whilst Oliver, Salgado and Shanks appeared as guests.
The series third season, titled Baddies West, chronicles eleven Bad Girls from different parts of The United States— Natalie Nunn, Chrisean "Rock" Malone, Gia "Rollie" Mayham, Scotlynd Ryan, Damerlin "Biggie" Baez, Stunna Girl, Tommie Lee, Lo London, Cleo "DJ Sky High Baby" Rahman, Monique "Razor" Samuels and Catya Washington —as they journey through the Western states of the US in a "decked-out" tour bus, hosting and performing at prominent city clubs, all whilst navigating their personal and business relationships within the group.
The fourth season, Baddies East, focuses on new and old Baddies amongst the group as they travel along the East Coast, the seasons features returning cast Natalie Nunn, Chrisean "Rock" Malone, Gia "Rollie" Mayham, and Scotlynd Ryan and features new faces such as
Former cast members featured over the previous seasons include; Seven Craft, Judith Jackson, Sarah Oliver, Christina Salgado, Janelle Shanks, Sidney Starr, Tanisha Thomas, Elliadria "Persuasian" Griffin, Jelaminah Lanier, Sashanna "Slim" McLaurin, Anne Moore, Briana Walker, Suzanne “Stunna Girl” Brown, Atasha “Tommie Lee” Jefferson, Monique “Razor” Samuels, and Catya Washington.
As of October 23, 2023, a total of 51 original episodes and 10 specials (reunions and auditions) of Baddies have aired.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1: Baddies ATL (2021)
Seven Craft, Judith Jackson, Natalie Nunn, Sarah Oliver, Christina Salgado, Janelle Shanks, Sidney Starr and Tanisha Thomas are introduced as series regulars. Mehgan James served in a recurring capacity.
Season 2: Baddies South (2022)
Craft, Jackson, Oliver, Salgado, Shanks and Thomas departed as series regulars, whilst Starr served in a recurring capacity. Elliadria "Persuasian" Griffin, Jelaminah Lanier, Chrisean "Rock" Malone, Gia "Rollie" Mayham, Sashanna "Slim" McLaurin, Anne Moore, Scotlynd Ryan and Briana Walker joined the cast.
Season 3: Baddies West (2023)
Griffin, Lanier, McLaurin, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeUno | EdgeUno is a technology company established in 2018. It provides services related to cloud computing, edge computing, and connectivity. The company was founded by Mehmet Akcin, who has previously held positions at Microsoft, Yahoo, and ICANN. EdgeUno's services are primarily targeted towards the Latin American market.
Services
EdgeUno provides a range of services including managed hosting, managed cloud, content delivery network (CDN), and Internet exchange point (IXP).
Expansion
As of 2023, EdgeUno operates 47 data centers in Latin America and has plans to increase this number by the end of the year. The company is also considering expansion into four additional Latin American countries.
Network
EdgeUno's network has a capacity of 300 Tbps and includes over 47 data centers. The company has direct peering arrangements with more than 3000 networks across Latin America.
Sports sponsorship
EdgeUno sponsors the Fortaleza football club, a professional football team based in Bogotá, Colombia.
References
External links
Internet service providers of the United States
Telecommunications companies of South America
Internet service providers
Cloud computing providers
Internet technology companies
Data centers
Web hosting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation%20of%20the%20European%20Commission%20in%20Belgium | The European Commission Representation in Belgium is part of the Commission's network of representative offices throughout the Member States of the European Union. It is located in Brussels, in the Charlemagne building. The Commission has Representations in the capitals of all EU Member States, as well as Regional Offices in Barcelona, Bonn, Marseille, Milan, Munich and Wroclaw. They work closely with the European Parliament Liaison Offices (EPLO) in Member States.
Function
The Representation serves as a link between the Belgian Government, and the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. It informs the public and the media about the policies of the Commission and promotes permanent political dialogue with the national, regional and local authorities, parliaments, social partners, stakeholders, academia and civil society. At the same time, it keeps the European Commission headquarters informed of various political, social and economic developments in Belgium.
Head of Representation
Stefaan De Rynck is the Head of the Representation in Belgium as of 16 March 2021. Prior to this engagement, he was Senior Advisor to the EU's Chief Brexit Negotiator.
Regional information and advise services
The work of the Representations is complemented by a set of relays spread throughout the country. These include:
EUROPE DIRECT
In Belgium there are 9 EUROPE DIRECT centres. EUROPE DIRECT centres help bring the European Union closer to people on the ground and help facilitate their participation in debates on the future of the EU. The centres answer questions about EU policies, programmes and priorities. Staff in the centres are ready to proactively engage with citizens and stakeholders so that they feel more involved in the European project.
European Documentation Centre
The 5 European Documentation Centres in Belgium promote teaching and research of questions about the European integration. They provide a selection of documents on European affairs and encourage the academic community to engage in the debate on the future of the EU.
Enterprise Europe Network
The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) helps businesses innovate and grow on an international scale. It is the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions. The Network is active worldwide. It brings together experts from member organisations that are renowned for their excellence in business support. The Enterprise Europe Network in Belgium has 13 contact points.
References
European Commission
Belgium and the European Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bun%20%28software%29 | Bun is a JavaScript runtime, package manager, test runner bundler built from scratch using the Zig programming language. It was designed by Jarred Sumner as a drop-in replacement for Node.js. Bun uses JavaScriptCore as the JavaScript engine, unlike Node.js and Deno, which both use V8.
It supports bundling, minifying, server-side rendering (SvelteKit, Nuxt.js, Vite).
The runtime supports foreign function interface (FFI), SQLite3, TLS 1.3, and DNS resolution. It also comes bundled in with common tools like file editing, HTTP servers, Websocket, and hashing.
See also
Vite
References
External links
An Introduction to the Bun JavaScript Runtime - Sitepoint, May 11, 2023
2022 software
JavaScript software
Software using the MIT license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst%20D.%20Simon | Horst D. Simon (born August 8, 1953) is a computer scientist known for his contributions to high-performance computing (HPC) and computational science.
Early life and education
Horst D. Simon was born on August 8, 1953, in Stadtsteinach, Germany. From 1963 to 1972, he attended a high school in Germany, Markgraf-Georg-Friedrich Gymnasium Kulmbach. He completed his undergraduate studies at Technical University of Berlin from 1973 to 1976. Horst D. Simon joined University of California, Berkeley in 1976 from where he studied Masters of Mathematics from 1976 to 1977 and graduated with PhD in Mathematics in 1982.
Career
Horst Simon is an expert in the development of parallel computational methods for the solution of scientific problems. His research interests include development of sparse matrix algorithms, algorithms for large-scale eigenvalue problems, and domain decomposition algorithms.
Early in his career he has served as a senior manager for Silicon Graphics from 1994 to 1996.
From 1989 to 1994, he has worked at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA while serving as head of Applied Research Department for Computer Sciences Corporation. He has also worked at Boeing Computer Services from 1983 to 1989. Horst Simon has been an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at the State University of New York from 1982 to 1983.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Simon joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1996 as director of the newly formed NERSC Division. In 2004, Simon was appointed Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for Computing Sciences at Berkeley Lab. In 2007, Simon was appointed Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at UC Berkeley.
In 2010, Simon was appointed Deputy Laboratory Director and Chief Research Officer (CRO) of LBNL. In collaboration with the senior laboratory scientific leadership, he develops, funds, and monitors the progress of the multidisciplinary laboratory research initiatives. In 2018 these include water-energy research, machine learning for science, microbiome research for environmental application, quantum information science, advanced microelectronics beyond Moore’s law, and biogenic materials and chemistry.
From 2012 to 2014 Simon had assumed the leadership role in the development of the “second campus” at LBNL, a project to create a new site for the expanding programs at LBNL in biosciences and the environment. From 2014 onnward, Simon focused his activities on developing the strategic thrust of “Energy Innovation” at Berkeley Lab. Since 2016 Simon is leading the Diversity and Inclusion in Science working group at LBNL, exploring new structures to recruit and retain a more diverse workforce.
ADIA
Simon was appointed in 2022 as the founding director of ADIA Lab.
Selected publications
Articles
Books
Awards and nominations
1998 — Gordon Bell Prize (jointly with group from Cray and Boeing) in recognition of his efforts in parallel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%20Women%20Don%27t%20Code | "Why Women Don't Code" is an essay by University of Washington computer science lecturer Stuart Reges, published in Quillette in June, 2018. The essay, addressing gender disparity in computing, became "one of the most read" items posted in Quillette in 2018 after a link to it was tweeted by Jordan Peterson.
Reactions and analysis
A response by professor Barbara Oakley was printed in The Wall Street Journal. A response by professor Mark Guzdial was published on the Communications of the ACM blog. A response to the essay written by professor Anna Karlin was posted in Medium and reprinted by the Computing Research Association. The essay was listed by Politico among other "'dangerous' ideas" that made Quillette "the voice of the intellectual dark web".
In 2021, an Associated Students of the University of Washington senator cited the existence of the essay in putting forward a demand that students be able to convene a jury to remove university teaching staff if the jury finds material they publish discriminatory. The senator said Reges violated conduct codes by citing "research on universal sex differences" in the essay, and expressing the conclusion "that systematic oppression is not the cause of the tech field's boy's club mentality".
The essay was assigned reading in a 2023 University of Notre Dame course "Ethical and Professional Issues", and recommended reading for a 2022 UC Davis course "Ethics in an Age of Technology".
Notes
References
Sources
(originally published in Medium Aug 15, 2018)
Further reading
External links
archive copy
2018 essays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorena%20Cabnal | Lorena Cabnal (Guatemala, 1973) is co-founder of the community-territorial feminist movement in Guatemala and of the Red de Sanadoras Ancestrales del Feminismo Comunitario (Network of Ancestral Healers of Community Feminism).
Biography
Lorena grew up on the outskirts of the Guatemalan capital during the Guatemalan Civil War. Her family had to flee their Q'eqchí Maya territory in Alta Verapaz after being expelled by landowners, as did thousands of indigenous people who were forcibly displaced during the military government of Efráin Ríos Montt.
She grew up in a context of violence that she considered part of everyday life. After talking to a friend about her father's sexual abuse against her, Lorena stopped naturalizing violence and ran away from home at the age of 15.
The activist wanted to study medicine, but her economic situation did not allow it. However, thanks to her mother, who was a herbalist and who also worked as a cook in private homes, giving her the opportunity to have contacts and allowing her daughter to study transfusion medicine. There he met important women for his path: the doctor Gladys Murga, who was his mentor in the medical field and the philosopher María Rosa Padilla, who marked his life because with her he began to listen to other academic interpretations from a social and anthropological perspective of the indigenous villages.
And at the age of 25, she decided to move away from her community and arrived in the mountains in Santa María Xalapán, Guatemala, where she began to work against sexual violence and where she also met Victoria Serrano, who would be one of her spiritual grandmothers until her death.My intention was to talk to the girls and boys, because I wanted to contribute so that there was no more sexual violence against them based on my story.
Activism
Lorena, in addition to being a feminist, is a healer and daughter of Xinca Mayan cosmology, and together with her mountain companions, she began her activism defending the territory, fighting against transgenics, free trade agreements, against the dispossessions of landowners in the ancestral territory and then against mining, and it was the sexist actions of her daily life, such as that the government of her community was made up of 357 men and no women and that there were only male spiritual guides, which prompted her to question life within her community and together with a group of women who shared the same concerns gave way to territorial community feminism.
As soon as she became a feminist, she began to suffer violence from her fellow men in the community, who accused her of having been contaminated by foreign white feminists, stigmatized her and forced her to leave the community despite her active role in the defense of Xinka territory against numerous mining projects. They even demanded that she get pregnant again.Children are life and the guarantee of existentia of our peoples. And a daughter is nothing. If you want to work with women again, you |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetaic | Synthetaic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Delafield, Wisconsin.
History
Synthetaic was founded in 2019 by Corey Jasksolski, a National Geographic explorer and fellow. After creating a 3D digitization of a living Sumatran Rhino using a custom imaging system he built, Jaskolski wondered whether synthetic data could be used to train AI. While Synthetaic doesn't sell synthetic data, its software uses generative capabilities associated with synthetic data.
In 2021, Synthetaic developed Rapid Automatic Image Categorization, or RAIC, a computer vision software which performs classification and detection on photography, video, and satellite imagery without data labeling.
RAIC is notable for its use of human collaboration with an unsupervised AI model, which allows for iteration upon the algorithm in real-time. RAIC has been described as "ChatGPT for satellite imagery," since it uses transformers to understand imagery in a way somewhat similar to how ChatGPT understands human language.
In May 2023, satellite imaging company Planet Labs announced an official partnership with Synthetaic, through which they would sell RAIC insights for defined areas of interest within Planet data.
Synthetaic announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft in August 2023. Elements of the partnership included selection for Microsoft's Pegasus Program and access to one million hours of GPU cloud computing via Microsoft Azure.
2023 Chinese balloon
On 11 February 2023, Synthetaic used its RAIC product to detect a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in archival Planet Labs data. RAIC's demonstrated ability to quickly analyze Earth observation imagery at scale was deemed novel and a potential "game-changer" by experts including Arthur Holland Michel and Hamed Alemohammad.
Synthetaic's work tracking the balloon formed the basis for a New York Times visual investigation, which credited RAIC for providing the precise coordinates of the balloon at twelve different points during its journey.
Balloons over East Asia
Later that year, BBC news magazine program Panorama reported additional Chinese surveillance balloons detected over Japan and Taiwan. Security correspondent Gordon Corera cited Synthetaic's RAIC as a tool in their investigation and interviewed Jaskolski.
References
Companies of the United States
American companies established in 2019
AI companies
Computer vision software
Software companies based in Wisconsin
Software companies established in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Rajsbaum | Sergio Rajsbaum (born March 3, 1962, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican computer scientist, working in the field of Theoretical Computer Science, specifically concurrent and distributed computing.
He is a Professor of the Instituto de Matemáticas of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1991.
He was a visiting researcher of Institut de recherche en informatique fondamentale (IRIF) on a Sabbatical academic year 2022 to 2023..
Education and career
Rajsbaum was educated at the Facultad de Ingeniería of UNAM, earning a B.S. in computer engineering in 1985.
Rajsbaum obtained his PhD from the Technion, Israel in 1991, with thesis
Synchronization in Distributed Networks written under the direction of Shimon Even. His thesis introduced the unison problem .
He did postdoctoral studies from 1993 to 1995 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Nancy Lynch. The research resulted in contributions to three topics.
A method to computing the achievable clock synchronization precision based on the communication and individual clock drift bounds of a given network. A simulation for direct translations of algorithms and impossibility results from a model with some resiliency to a model with a different resiliency. The study of the deep connection between distributed computing and algebraic topology,
an example of the interplay between mathematics and computation
The collaboration that started in 1994 with Maurice Herlihy
was the beginning of a research project that has lasted over 30 years, and
overviewed in the book "Distributed Computing Through Combinatorial Topology", which they wrote together with mathematician Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov. The topological perspective has gone beyond distributed computing leading to work in combinatorial topology and directed topology, and connections with logic, runtime verification, and social choice theory.
Selected research papers
Awards and honors
With his co-workers, Rajsbaum received Best Paper Awards at the following scientific conferences. DISC (2011) for his paper "Locality and Checkability in Wait-Free computing" and SSS (2019) for his paper "Synchronous t-Resilient Consensus in Arbitrary Graphs".
His work "New combinatorial topology bounds for renaming: the upper bound" with his PhD student Armando Castañeda was recognized in the ACM Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2012 and received the Best Student Paper Award at PODC (2008).
His book "Distributed Computing Through Combinatorial Topology" was selected as a Notable Book on the Best of Computing 2013 list by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Rajsbaum received the Premio Nacional de Computación 2022 by the Academia Mexicana de Computación.
His Erdös number is 2 because Rajsbaum is coauthor of Shlomo Moran, who is coauthor of Paul Erdös.
Books
References
External links
1962 births
Living people
Mexican scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne%20Internet%20Consortium | The Airborne Internet Consortium (AIC) was a working group of small companies that formed a non-profit corporation in 2004 to foster research and development and advocacy of IP networked enabled communications for aviation. The AIC's purpose was to define, develop and promote common systems elements necessary to deploy comprehensive aviation based digital datalink capabilities throughout the United States using evolving internet capabilities. The adoption of commercially available, common internet based systems is discussed as an enabling concept within the US Department of Transportation's Next Generation (NextGen) Aviation Operations Concept of Operations. Expansion of internet based providers is called for in the US Department of Transportation's 2022 update of the National Airspace System (NAS)".
History
The idea of an Airborne Internet began as a supporting technology for NASA's Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS). Program planners identified the need to establish robust communications between aircraft, operations centers and ground facilities. Based on this recognized need, Ralph Yost proposed the idea of networking aircraft, in the same way we network computers - and thus the Airborne Internet was born. <ref>U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), [https://www.tc.faa.gov/act4/insidethefence/2006/0102_03_airborne.htm Inside the Fence, ''The Future is Now: The World of the 'Airborne Internet"], by Pete Castellano, Open-file report, January 2, 2006, (FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey)</ref>
A working team within the NASA SATS program was formed to compile the initial definitions and concepts for an Airborne Internet. The team was funded by NASA and the FAA to undertake preliminary steps. The working team continued as an information exchange group called the Airborne Internet Collaboration Group (AICG). The private sector members of the team formed the Airborne Internet Consortium (AIC) to further develop the concepts of operations and operational implementation guidelines as a basis for commercial adoption.
Charter
The members of the Airborne Internet Collaboration Group held a series of meetings in late 2003 and early 2004 to establish a charter. The AIC adopted the same charter for their Mission statement:
facilitate collaborative research and development in the field of aviation communications
develop open systems architecture and standards for aviation digital communications
foster and promote general purpose, multi-application, scalable data channel protocols in aviation
develop intellectual content to guide public and private investment in aviation digital communications
promote international adoption of open systems architecture, standards, and protocols for aviation digital communications
foster use of advanced aviation digital communications technology for public security
Outputs and services
The Consortium intended to generate reports and ongoing services includ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Human%20Settlement%20Layer | The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) is a project from the European Commission that creates global geographical data about the evolution of human habitation on Earth. This in the form of population density maps, built-up maps, and settlement maps. This information is produced using new geographic data mining tools and knowledge and analytics based on empirical data.
The GHSL processing framework uses a range of data, including census data, archives of fine-scale global satellite imagery, and voluntarily provided geographic information. Data is processed automatically to produce analytics and knowledge that methodically and objectively describe the existence of people and developed infrastructure. The GHSL maps human presence on Earth, sourcing information from 1975 and up to 2030.
Background
In 2010–2011, the JRC Directorate E "Space, Security & Migration" developed the initial version of the GHSL concept, which was used to create the Atlases of the Human Planet. The JRC is currently supporting GHSL activities through its scientific working plans and is collaborating with the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) and the Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG DEFIS) to develop a routine and operational monitoring system.
References
External links
Official Website
World Population Density Interactive Map of urban settlements stretching from Washington to Boston
GHSL at developers.google.com
Satellite imagery
Global Human Settlement Layer
Global Human Settlement Layer
European Commission projects
Population ecology
Demography
Data mapping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Optus%20data%20breach | In September 2022, Optus, Australia's third largest telecommunications company, suffered a data breach, affecting up to 9.7 million current and former customers, over a third of Australia's population. Information illegally obtained included names, birthdates, home addresses, phone numbers, email contacts, and passport and driving licence numbers. Conflicting claims have been made about how the breach happened; Optus presented it as a complicated attack on their systems, while an Optus insider and the Australian government have claimed that a human error causing a vulnerability in the company's API occurred. A ransom notice was made, asking for A$$1,500,000 to stop the data being sold online. After a few hours, they deleted the ransom notice and apologised for their actions.
Optus has received criticism from government figures, including Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister Clare O'Neil and Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten, for their role in the attack and for being uncooperative with government agencies and the general public. The government has announced legislation, including allowing information to be shared with financial services and Government agencies, and reforms to Australia's security of critical infrastructure laws, to help the government act for future breaches.
In response to the breach, Optus has agreed to pay for the replacements of passports that have been compromised, commissioned an external review, and given highly affected customers a subscription to a credit monitoring service. Optus has also apologised for the breach. Optus has faced criticism from customers for not being responsive and providing inadequate responses to customers affected. Multiple investigations into the breach and a class action lawsuit from affected customers are ongoing as of June 2023.
Breach
On 20 September, Optus's technical team noticed and investigated suspicious activity on its network. The next day, it was identified that Optus's systems had sustained a data breach, and regulators were informed. On 22 September, the company went public with the data breach, informing news agencies. Optus recommended that people increase attention to potential fraudulent activity, but stated that they did not know if the breach had caused any harm to customers. At this point, Optus was unable to state how many customers were affected, nor if the data taken had caused harm.
On 23 September, Optus denied claims made by an insider that a mistake had occurred where Optus's API had accidentally been left exposed to a test network that had internet access. They instead claimed a complicated breach had occurred, and that the company had a strong cybersecurity system. Optus stated that they believe the hacker had scraped the company's consumer database, with only a third of the total data in the database copied and extracted.
On 24 September, Optus and the Australian Federal Police (AFP), now having opened a criminal investigation, received reports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Yesterdays | Modern Yesterdays is a 2020 studio album by American rock guitarist Kaki King, release on Cantaloupe Music.
Recording and release
King built the album around a live performance piece Data Not Found that would be toured as a stage show, but these plans were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recording the album in March 2020, everyone in the studio got the disease, leaving the guitarist struggling to recover her dexterity as a musician almost a year later. Preparation for the recording and stage show included King making custom-designed guitars with a luthier and using obscure technology such as the Vo96, which changes string vibrations on her guitar to achieve unique sounds. To finalize the recordings, King put guitar and percussion parts to tape, leaving the rest of the songs to be created by sound designer Chloe Alexandra with King coming in at the final mix to approve the recordings.
Reception
Editors at AllMusic Guide scored this release 4.5 out of five stars, declaring it among the Best of 2020, with critic Thom Jurek spotlighting several tracks where King's experimentation shines, with descriptions such as "her deft, muscular fingerpicking rings across the middle- and lower-register strings amid a labyrinth of refracted sounds -- bubbles, wordless synthed vocal choruses, percussive reverb, etc. -- as she moves through intricate, driving, polytonal melodies articulated in several musical languages simultaneously".
Track listing
All songs written by Kaki King
"Default Shell" – 3:32
"Can't Touch This or That or You or My Face" – 4:08
"Teek" – 4:31
"Godchild" – 4:54
"Rhythmic Tiny Sand Ball Patterns" – 4:21
"Puzzle Me-You" – 4:25
"Final State" – 4:32
"Lorlir" – 2:49
"Sanitized, Alone" – 4:19
"Sei sei" – 3:53
"Forms of Light and Death" – 4:42
Personnel
Kaki King – guitar, production
Chloe Alexandra – sound design, co-production
John Brown – art direction, graphic design
Ralph Farris – viola on "Teek"
Michael Gordon – executive production
Úlfur Hansson – arrangement on "Forms of Light and Death"
Jessica Templin King – artwork
David Lang – executive production
Arjan Miranda – engineering, co-production
Sarah Register – mastering
Kenny Savelson – executive production
Julia Wolfe – executive production
Ebru Yildiz – photography
See also
List of 2020 albums
References
External links
Page from Cantaloupe Music
Review from 5 Finger Review
2020 albums
Cantaloupe Music albums
Kaki King albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Resilience%20Act | The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a cyber-security regulation for the EU proposed on 15 September 2022 by the European Commission for improving cybersecurity and cyber resilience in the EU through common cybersecurity standards for products with digital elements in the EU. The draft legislation is available.
Multiple open source organizations have criticized CRA for creating a "chilling effect on open source software development". Products with digital elements mainly refer to hardware and software, including products whose "intended and foreseeable use includes direct or indirect data connection to a device or network".
Purposes and motivations
The background, purposes and motivations for the proposed policy include:
Consumers increasingly become victims to security flaws of digital products (e.g. vulnerabilities), including of Internet of Things devices or smart devices.
Ensuring that digital products in the supply chain are secure is important for businesses, and cybersecurity often is a "full company risk issue".
Potential impacts of hacking include "severe disruption of economic and social activities across the internal market, undermining security or even becoming life-threatening".
Cybersecurity-by-design and by-default principles would impose a duty of care for the lifecycle of products, instead of e.g. relying on consumers and volunteers to establish a basic level of security. The new rules would "rebalance responsibility towards manufacturers".
Cyberattacks have led "to an estimated global annual cost of cybercrime of €5.5 trillion by 2021".
The rapid spread of digital technologies means rogue states or non-state groups could more easily disrupt critical infrastructures such as public administration and hospitals.
The CRA could make the EU a leader on cybersecurity and "change the rules of the game globally".
Implementation and mechanisms
Once the law has passed, manufacturers would "have a grace period of two years to adapt to the new requirements" and one year for "vulnerability and incident reporting". Failure to comply "could result in fines of up to $15 million (€15 million) or 2.5 percent of the offender's total worldwide annual turnover for the preceding financial year". The policy requires that products' default settings should be that security updates are rolled out automatically by-default, while allowing users to opt out. Companies need to conduct cyber risk assessments before a product is put on the market and throughout its lifecycle effectively manage its vulnerabilities, regularly test it, and so on. Products assessed as 'critical' will need to undergo external audits. Companies would have to notify EU cybersecurity agency ENISA of any incidents within 24 hours of becoming aware of them, and take measures to resolve them. Products are categorized via two classes of risks. Products carrying the CE certifications would meet a minimum level of cybersecurity checks.
Euractiv has reported on novel drafts or draf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20August | David August may refer to:
David August (computer scientist)
David August (musician) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Coordinate%20System | A Network Coordinate System (NC system) is a system for predicting characteristics such as the latency or bandwidth of connections between nodes in a network by assigning coordinates to nodes. More formally, It assigns a coordinate embedding to each node in a network using an optimization algorithm such that a predefined operation estimates some directional characteristic of the connection between node and .
Uses
In general, Network Coordinate Systems can be used for peer discovery, optimal-server selection, and characteristic-aware routing.
Latency Optimization
When optimizing for latency as a connection characteristic i.e. for low-latency connections, NC systems can potentially help improve the quality of experience for many different applications such as:
Online Games
Forming game groups such that all the players are close to each other and thus have a smoother overall experience.
Choosing servers as close to as many players in a given multiplayer game as possible.
Automatically routing game packets through different servers so as to minimize the total latency between players who are actively interacting with each other in the game map.
Content delivery networks
Directing a user to the closest server that can handle a request to minimize latency.
Voice over IP
Automatically switch relay servers based on who is talking in a few-to-many or many-to-many voice chat to minimize latency between active participants.
Peer-to-peer networks
Can use the latency-predicting properties of NC systems to do a wide variety of routing optimizations in peer-to-peer networks.
Onion routing networks
Choose relays such as to minimize the total round trip delay to allow for a more flexible tradeoff between performance and anonymity.
Physical positioning
Latency correlates with the physical distances between computers in the real world. Thus, NC systems that model latency may be able to aid in locating the approximate physical area a computer resides in.
Bandwidth Optimization
NC systems can also optimize for bandwidth (although not all designs can accomplish this well). Optimizing for high-bandwidth connections can improve the performance of large data transfers.
Sybil Attack Detection
Sybil attacks are of much concern when designing peer-to-peer protocols. NC systems, with their ability to assign a location to the source of traffic can aid in building systems that are Sybil-resistant.
Design Space
Landmark-Based vs Decentralized
Almost any NC system variant can be implemented in either a landmark-based or fully decentralized configuration. Landmark-based systems are generally secure so long as none of the landmarks are compromised, but they aren't very scalable. Fully decentralized configurations are generally less secure, but they can scale indefinitely.
Euclidean Embedding
This design assigns a point in -dimensional euclidean space to each node in the network and estimates characteristics via the euclidean distance function wher |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Cleland-Huang | Jane Cleland-Huang is a software engineer whose research involves requirements engineering, requirements traceability, the safety engineering of cyber-physical systems, and agile software development, including work on air traffic control for unmanned aerial vehicles. Originally from England, she works in the US as Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science, Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and director of the Software and Requirements Engineering Research Lab.
Education and career
Cleland-Huang grew up in Southern England, and briefly studied speech–language pathology in university before leaving England to work as an English teacher in Vietnamese refugee camps in Thailand, formed as part of the Indochina refugee crisis of the late 1970s. She continued her work in Kolkata, India, and married a coworker, an American of Chinese descent. Returning with him to the US, she began working as a self-taught computer programmer for a private university in Hawaii before moving to Chicago, raising a family, and going back to school to study computer science. She eventually earned a bachelor's degree from Governors State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Chicago.
After taking a faculty position at DePaul University, she moved to Notre Dame in 2016. She was named as the Freimann Professor in 2022.
Books
Cleland-Huang is the coauthor of Software by Numbers: Low-Risk, High-Return Development (with Mark Denne, Prentice-Hall, 2004). She is the co-editor of Software and Systems Traceability (with Orlena Gotel and Andrea Zisman, Springer, 2012).
References
External links
Software and Requirements Engineering Center
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
Software engineering researchers
Governors State University alumni
University of Illinois Chicago alumni
DePaul University faculty
University of Notre Dame faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Croucher | Charles Croucher is an Australian journalist.
He is currently the Nine Network's chief political editor, a position he was appointed to in October 2022.
Early life and career
He grew up in Branxton, New South Wales. He attended Hunter Valley Grammar School, graduating in 2005.
He studied a Bachelor of Sport Studies/Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) double degree at Charles Sturt University, where he graduated in 2009.
While he was at university, he found employment with Bathurst radio stations 2BS and B-Rock where he worked as a news presenter, before becoming the host of a weekend breakfast show and then the presenter of the weekday morning program.
In 2009, Croucher was a finalist in the "Best News Presenter (Country)" category at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards but lost to Lois Chislett from 3YB in Warrnambool, Victoria.
Television career
In 2010, Croucher began his long association with the Nine Network in Darwin when he was appointed as a sports reporter for Nine News Darwin where he also became a weekend news presenter.
In 2012, he moved to Melbourne to work as a reporter for A Current Affair before relocating to Canberra in 2013 upon being appointed as a politics reporter based at Parliament House.
From 2018 to 2020, Croucher was Nine's Los Angeles-based US correspondent before returning to Australia to become a co-host of Weekend Today in 2020.
In October 2022, it was announced he would succeed Chris Uhlmann as the Nine Network's political editor.
As Nine's political editor, Croucher regularly provides commentary in a regular segment on RN Breakfast, where he discusses political news with Patricia Karvelas on ABC Radio National.
National Press Club incident
Following a National Press Club address in October 2022, Croucher asked Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers whether the Australian Labor Party's promise to cut electricity bills by $275 had been included in the Federal Budget, Chalmers mistakenly claimed: "Yep, it's in the Budget". However, Chalmers later claimed to have misheard the question, phoning Croucher to confess his mistake, and correcting the record in the House of Representatives.
When pressed on the issue during Question Time by Angus Taylor, he stated: "I was temporarily blinded by the vast influence of Charles Croucher who has inherited this remarkable position of power from Laurie Oakes and Chris Uhlmann and I say, as I said to Charles who I rang straight after the press club, I rang Charles and I rang Laura Tingle and I said I thought you were asking me a different question, I misheard it and I answered a different question and so I say again to Charles, who is in the gallery through you, Mr Speaker, I misheard his question and I am generally grateful for once to the member for Hume for the opportunity to talk about this.
The incident was widely reported and commentated on in the media. Chalmers was criticised for his explanation by 2GB host Ben Fordham who doubted that he had misheard Croucher's que |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviour%20support%20systems%20review | A behaviour support systems review is the process of gathering data, examining and reporting on the capability and capacity of a service system or a service organisation to deliver positive behaviour support to people with an intellectual disability,
general learning disability, or generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significantly impaired adaptive functioning.
Key reasons for undertaking periodic reviews is to ensure the service system continues to meet the functional and therapeutic needs of clients in their care, support continuous improvement efforts and importantly, respond to the fact that even when positive behaviour support plans are well designed and technically sound, they may be poorly implemented, not adhered to over time or suffer from misaligned or inadequate service factors. This is particularly important given a great deal of effort is usually expended in developing and maintaining behaviour support programs to modify any individual's maladaptive behaviours.
There is a growing body of literature regarding the proficient implementation of and adherence to behaviour support plans which stress the importance of service factors such as staff training, staff attitudes, resource availability, quality of communications, staff matching, supervision, access to specialist clinicians, etc. Understanding the impact of these factors is an important step in the overall quality improvement and maintenance strategy of any service system.
A number of tools assist the review process including: Dr. Gary LaVigna’s, The Periodic Service Review: A Total Quality Assurance System for Human Services and Education and Dr. Jack Dikian’s, The clinical audit of behaviour support systems manual: for agencies that support people with intellectual disability
Context
The term behaviour support system is used to describe the policies, processes, tools, people and other factors as well as the interactions between these as they relate to the provision of behaviour support. The scope of this kind of review is usually limited to those elements that have, or may have, an impact on the manner behaviour supports are provided rather than a documented evaluation of whether or not an organisation is financially and materially viable.
A behaviour support systems review is similar to an audit in that it is a professional and independent examination of a service system's activities in the narrow domain of behaviour support services. Like an audit, these reviews examine activities in the light of available policies, procedures and generally accepted good clinical practice. Audit processes, however, rely heavily on well-established conventions and generally accepted operating principles and quantitative standards quantitative analysis to provide the basis for assessment.
Approach
Whilst the general approach to undertaking these reviews seem (see Figure 1) to follow a sequential methodology, in reality some of these steps can and often do overlap. F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuntex%20Electronic | Chuntex Electronic Co., Ltd., also known as CTX International, is a Taiwanese computer display manufacturer.
History
Chuntex Electronic Co Ltd. was founded in 1981. Initially only a domestic manufacturer of cathode-ray-tube computer monitors within Taiwan, Chuntex expanded globally in 1986, establishing CTX International—their United States and primary international export subsidiary—that year, placing its headquarters in the City of Industry, California. In the United Kingdom, meanwhile, Chuntex established European offices in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (Watford), employing 75 between them in 2004. Between the late 1980s to the late 1990s, the company acquired several overseas companies in the field of computer monitors and hardware, helping CTX grow to become one of the largest brands and OEM suppliers of monitors. In the early 1990s, they established their Opto subsidiary, which manufactured LCD monitors and projectors.
Chuntex's largest export market in 1995 was the United States (62 percent), compared with Asia (19 percent) and Europe (15 percent). Between fall 1992 and fall 1993, sales in CTX's wares grew from US$15.5 million to $27.2 million. The company earned US$11.5 million in profit on sales of roughly $250 million in 1998. By 1999, the company had 5,000 employees globally.
In August 1994, Chuntex purchased a 51-percent stake in Veridata Electronics, a computer company in Taiwanese, with Chuntex seeking the latter's laptop-manufacturing factory lines and workforce. After acquiring an even larger stake in Veridata, Chuntex then began selling computers branded under their own CTX name, as well as for other computer vendors, such as CompUSA in 1996, on an OEM basis. Though CTX was a relatively small name in the personal computer market at the time, the company initially earned a respectable profit from these systems, which included the sub-brands EzNote for their laptops and Nutopia for their desktop computers. However, in April 1999, the company reported losses equal to roughly half of their market capitalization, which the company attributed in large part to their laptop business. These losses put CTX in the red; in the process, they were the first major Taiwanese company to go bankrupt in 1999. Chuntex shortly after filed for reorganization protection in Taiwan. A few months later, the company announced that they would abandon manufacturing complete computer systems, in favor of focusing solely on monitor production while still selling some systems, albeit built by other companies and rebadged as CTX machines.
CTX remains active in Taiwan .
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1981 establishments in Taiwan
1986 establishments in California
Companies based in Taipei
Computer companies established in 1981
Taiwanese brands
Computer monitors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Am%20%28film%20series%29 | I Am is a series of documentary films about various prominent celebrity and political figures produced by Canadian company Network Entertainment, most of which were originally commissioned by United States cable network Paramount Network (formerly Spike TV).
The series has regularly aired on Crave in Canada, and was picked up for rebroadcast by The CW in the U.S. beginning in fall 2023.
Installments in the series have included:
I Am Bruce Lee (2012)
I Am Chris Farley (2015)
I Am Heath Ledger (2017)
References
Biographical documentary films
Canadian documentary films
Documentary film series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked%20On%20Podcast%20Network | The Locked On Podcast Network is a circle of more than 150 commercial sports podcasts produced in the United States providing daily news and commentary at the team and league level about American football, baseball, basketball, and ice hockey. The network also provides coverage of collegiate athletics for approximately 30 American institutions of higher learning.
Initially launched in 2016 by David Locke, radio play-by-play announcer for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association, Locked On Sports was purchased in 2021 by Tegna, an offshoot of the Gannett newspaper group.
History
Origins
The Locked On Podcast Network — also commonly known as Locked On Sports — was established in June 2016 by David Locke, the radio voice of the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association. The network began as a single audio podcast, Locked On Jazz, the name of the show (and eventually the network) being an obvious play on the surname of the founder and host.
In a 2019 interview, Locke observed that after having been named play-by-play announcer of the Utah Jazz, he came to realize that "the job had changed" and that he could no longer simply call 82 games without fan interaction. He indicates that Locked On Jazz emerged as a vehicle to "create a relationship with the fan base, year-round, so that you’re talking to them on game day but also communicating with them on Twitter or Facebook."
The company established headquarters in Park City, Utah.
Development
Locked On Sports was largely a self-financed enterprise by founder David Locke, with only a single infusion of $750,000 of venture capital announced in 2019. Investors in the fledgling network included Bruce Gordon, formerly the chief financial officer of Disney Interactive Media Group, focused podcast investor Podfund, and Summit Capital, a Utah-based private equity firm.
The Locked On network grew to encompass podcasts targeted to fans of every individual team in the National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Hockey League (NHL), and Major League Baseball (MLB) as well as to the sports programs of more than 30 American universities.
Sale to Tegna
In January 2021 the Locked On Podcast Network was sold to communications giant Tegna, a digital and broadcasting spin-off of the Gannett newspaper group. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed at the time of sale.
Under terms of the sale, Locked On's CEO David Locke, COO Carl Weinstein, and four other full-time staff members were hired by Tegna. Locke remained president of the Locked on Podcast Network as of early 2022.
Move to YouTube
In May 2021 Locked On Sports expanded from audio to video podcasting when it launched its first YouTube channel. The move spurred growth of the network, with Tegna reporting a 48 percent gain in audience during 2021, for a total of 115 million podcast listens and views. During that year Locked On Sports produced about 700 podcast episodes per week.
Footnotes
External l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Engelhardt | Mike Thomas Engelhardt is an American computer programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is renowned for developing the SPICE-based analog electronic circuit simulator computer software known as LTspice and QSPICE. LTspice is the most widely distributed and used SPICE software in the industry.
Personal life
Mike grew up in rural Michigan. His college degrees are: Bachelors in Physics (1981) from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States); Masters in Physics (1983) from University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California, United States).
He was Director of Simulation Development at Linear Technology, employed from March 1998 to December 2019.
He is currently a managing member of Marcus Aurelius Software, which was started in January 2020.
Software
Mike has written simulators since 1975. The following is a list of software which Mike was either the sole or primary developer:
1992 – First known port of SPICE (3E2) to Linux.
1998 – SwitcherCAD released internally at Linear Technology.
1999 – SwitcherCAD III released to public. It ran on Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT4.0, 2K, XP.
2008 – LTspice IV released. It ran on Windows 2K, XP, Vista, 7. A native macOS 10.7+ application was introduced in 2013.
2016 – LTspice XVII released. It ran on 32 or 64-bit Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10; and macOS 10.9+.
2023 – QSPICE beta released. Initially, it is designed to run on Windows 10 and 11.
Bibliography
The following is a list of articles and patents that Engelhardt authored or coauthored.
Articles
Design and Characteristics of a Lens Spectrometer with Electrostatic Extraction for Electron Beam Probing; Microelectronic Engineering (Elsevier); 6 pages; March 1992.
Design and Characteristics of a Magnetic Collimating Lens Spectrometer for Electron Beam Probing; Microelectronic Engineering (Elsevier); 6 pages; February 1996.
SPICE Differentiation; LT Journal of Analog Innovation (Linear Technology); 7 pages; January 2015.
Articles (coauthor)
Soft X-Ray Photoemission with the SSX-100 Spectrometer; Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research (Elsevier); 4 pages; May 1986.
Patents
US Patent 7502723, filed in 2005, "Asymmetric minor hysteresis loop model and circuit simulator including the same".
US Patent 8686702, filed in 2012, "Negative slope compensation for current mode switching power supply".
US Patent 10637254, filed in 2015, "Spread spectrum for switch mode power supplies".
US Patent 9866245, filed in 2016, "Active differential resistors with reduced noise".
US Patent 10218394, filed in 2017, "Active differential resistors with reduced noise".
Patents (coauthor)
US Patent 8274266, filed in 2009, "Switch mode power supply with dynamic topology".
US Patent 9966832, filed in 2017, "Predictive ripple-cancelling signal into error amplifier of switch mode power supply".
US Patent 10270330, filed in 2018, "Predictive ripple-cancelling signal into error amplifier of switch mode power supply".
References
Exter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%20%28technology%20company%29 | Mara is a pan-African financial technology, cryptocurrency, blockchain, and cryptoeconomy company.
History
Mara was founded in 2021 by Chi Nnadi, Lucas Llinás Múnera, and Dearg OBartuin. The Mara executive team is led by Chi Nnadi (Co-Founder and CEO), Dearg OBartuin, and Yana Afanasieva, and joined by board advisors Kojo Annan and Tatiana Koffman. Mara announced its entry into Nigeria and Kenya in May 2022.
In May 2022, Mara also announced $23 million in funding from Coinbase Ventures, Distributed Global, TQ Ventures, DIGITAL, Nexo, Huobi Ventures, Day One Ventures, Infinite Capital, DAO Jones, and nearly 100 other crypto investors.
In May 2022, Mara was also named crypto partner of the Central African Republic and adviser to her president on crypto strategy and planning.
In October 2022, Mara announced the launch of their flagship product, Mara Wallet, which enables users to buy, sell, hold, and transfer crypto-assets.
Partnership
In September 2022, Mara Foundation partnered with Circle to organize a roadshow and hackathon aimed at increasing awareness of the potential of stablecoins and blockchain adoption as well as at educating developers and non-developers across Africa.
In October 2022, the Ghana Football Association announced Mara as an official sponsor of the Black Stars of Ghana ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
References
External links
Official Website
Cryptocurrencies
Digital currencies
Projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starmania%20%28album%29 | Starmania is the cast album performed by the original cast members from the 1978 cyberpunk rock opera Starmania, with music by Michel Berger and lyrics by Luc Plamondon. Originally, it was released on vinyl and cassette in 1978. In 1991, Starmania was issued on a CD with "SOS d'un terrien en détresse" performed by Daniel Balavoine replacing "Starmania (l'air de l'extraterrestre)". The album peaked at number four in France and was certified Diamond.
Track listing
All tracks written and produced by Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon.
Notes
replaced on later editions by "SOS d'un terrien en détresse" performed by Daniel Balavoine
Charts
Certifications and sales
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Tycoon
In 1992, an English version of the show was created with lyrics by Tim Rice, and an album titled Tycoon was released on 6 July 1992. All tracks were produced by Michel Berger, except "The World Is Stone" and "You Have to Learn to Live Alone" produced by Cyndi Lauper. Tycoon debuted on the chart in France in early September 1992 and peaked at number one in March 1993, spending three weeks at the top. As a result, it also reached number 19 on the European Top 100 Albums chart. Tycoon was certified Platinum in France in 1993.
Singles
The first single, "The World Is Stone" by Cyndi Lauper entered the chart in France in August 1992 and reached number two. The second single, "Only the Very Best" by Peter Kingsbery debuted on the chart in January 1993, peaking also at the second position. The last single, "Ziggy" by Celine Dion debuted on the French chart in July 1993 and reached number two as well. Lauper's and Dion's singles were both certified Gold in France.
Track listing
Charts
Certifications and sales
References
External links
1978 soundtrack albums
1992 soundtrack albums
Cast recordings
Tim Rice albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20Computer | Delta Computer Corporation was a short-lived American computer systems company active from 1986 to 1990 and originally based in Canton, Massachusetts. The company marketed a variety of IBM PC compatible systems featuring Intel's 8088, 80286, and i386 processors under the Deltagold name. Delta also marketed a variety of peripherals, namely modems. The company was well-known for the styling of their products, bucking from the ubiquitous beige color of the vast majority of computer cases available on the market at the time by offering their computers in two-tone charcoal black, with gold trim. After a widely publicized failed move of their headquarters to Akron, Ohio, Delta filed for bankruptcy in 1990 and soon after disappeared from the market.
History
Foundation (1986–1987)
Delta Computer was founded by Eugene "Gene" F. Taylor in Canton, Massachusetts, in October 1986. Before founding Delta, Taylor was previously the vice president of sales for the Korean company Samsung Electronics' American subsidiary from 1984 to September 1986 and was responsible for the latter's marketing in the United States. Taylor recruited a number of key employees from Leading Edge Products, their nearest rival also based in Canton, during Delta's foundation. The company planned to market computers manufactured by Samsung, mirroring Leading Edge's strategy with their relationship with the Korean conglomerate Daewoo forged in the mid-1980s. The company was made a business unit of Inspectorate International Group, an investment firm based in Birmingham, England. Taylor's poaching of Leading Edge employees prompted a lawsuit against Delta by the latter in February 1987, Leading Edge accusing Delta of stealing trade secrets, among other damages.
Delta's first products were announced in May 1987 and comprised a duo of IBM PC compatibles manufactured by Samsung. The computers were christened the Model TX and the Model A, respectively running Intel's 8088-2 and Intel 80286 processors and based on IBM's original Personal Computer and the later Personal Computer AT. Delta priced the computers at around US$1,000 and $2,000, respectively. Not long after these computers were introduced, Delta launched a lawsuit against Samsung over a breach of an exclusivity contract, after Samsung began selling their own PC clones directly in the United States. Delta's computers were then pulled off the market, and in July, Delta won a restraining order in a United States court temporarily barring Samsung from selling their PCs directly in the country until October 1987.
Deltagold series and expansion (1987–1989)
By the summer of 1987, Delta commissioned a Taiwanese manufacturer to manufacture their computers, and in September 1987, Delta finally made their market debut with a family of personal computers under the Deltagold name. This family of computers comprised the Elite, running an up-to-10-MHz 8088 and featuring either dual 5.25-inch floppy disk drives or one floppy and one 20-MB hard dis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%20Geffner | Hector Geffner is an Argentinian computer scientist and a Alexander von Humboldt Professor of artificial intelligence at RWTH Aachen University and Wallenberg Guest Professor in AI at Linköping University. His research interests are focused on artificial intelligence, especially automated planning and the integration of model-based AI and data-based AI. He is best known for his work on domain-independent heuristic planning and received several ICAPS influential paper awards. Previously he held a research professorship at ICREA and the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Group at University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona since 2001. He was a staff researcher at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1990 to 1992 and a professor at Simón Bolívar University in Caracas, Venezuela from 1992 to 2001. Geffner was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant in 2020 to explore the connection between machine learning and model-based AI, and is a former board member and current fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI).
Geffner received his PhD in computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989 under the supervision of Judea Pearl on the topic Default Reasoning: Casual and Conditional Theories, for which he received an ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
References
External links
Hector Geffner's homepage
Hector Geffner's research group at the RWTH Aachen University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
Argentine computer scientists
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University
Academic staff of Linköping University
Academic staff of Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlox%20cuspidata | Phlox cuspidata, the pointed phlox, is a species of flowering plant in the family Polemoniaceae, native to the US states of Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana. An annual reaching , its hybridization dynamics with and partial reproductive isolation from Phlox drummondii are the subject of scientific inquiry.
References
cuspidata
Endemic flora of the United States
Flora of Oklahoma
Flora of Texas
Flora of Louisiana
Plants described in 1850 |
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