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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Epstein%20%28journalist%29 | Brian Epstein is a New York filmmaker, senior producer and investigative reporter who has worked for WNET, ABC News and PBS programming since 2006. He worked out of Arlington, Virginia for PBS. As of 2017, he was working closely with James Gordon Meek, Megan Christie and Sean Langan on stories for 20/20.
Epstein graduated in business from Skidmore College in 2001, and he intended to become a Hollywood director of feature films. He was working in advertising and became obsessed with the film The Insider, which led him to explore journalism as a career. He received his 2005 Master's degree in broadcast journalism from New York University.
He traveled to Bosnia to produce an independent documentary, and as offered a job with Now on PBS. When the show was cancelled, he took a job as a producer on its replacement Need to Know program. He's since travelled through the Middle East and Asia. After 2015 he left PBS to work with Meek's team at ABC.
Epstein won a Scripps Howard award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Sigma Delta Chi Award and a 2019 excellence in broadcast journalism award from the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists.
Epstein was part of the team that won an Emmy Award for the documentary 3212 Un-redacted on the Tongo Tongo ambush. Epstein, along with Meek, appeared as a panelist at the 2021 Double Exposure Film Festival related to his work on the documentary 3212 Un-redacted on the Tongo Tongo ambush.
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External links
Living people
American journalists
ABC News
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64th%20Cyberspace%20Squadron | The 64th Cyberspace Squadron (64 CYS) is a United States Space Force unit responsible for conducting defensive cyberspace operations enabling operations in support of Space Delta 4's missile warning mission at Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado. It was formed by redesignating the 62nd Cyberspace Squadron to the 64 CYS on 6 January 2023.
Lineage
Constituted 460th Communications Squadron, unknown
Redesignated 460th Space Communications Squadron, 4 August 2004
Redesignated 460th Communication Squadron, before October 2018
Redesignated 460th Cyberspace Squadron, October 2018
Redesignated 62nd Cyberspace Squadron, around 2020
Redesignated 64th Cyberspace Squadron, 6 January 2023
List of commanders
Lt. Col. Kevin Nyberg, 2007-2009
Lt. Col. Delbert Jones, 2009-2011
Lt Col Kelly Kanapaux, 2011-2012
Lt. Col. Hew Wells, 2012-2014
Lt. Col. Christopher Kennedy, 2014-2016
Lt. Col. Erick Welcome, 2016-2018
Lt. Col. Travis Prater, 2018-2020
Lt Col Raymond Brushier, 2020–2022
Lt Col Scott Roberts, 3 June 2022 – present
See also
Space Delta 6
References
External links
Military education and training in the United States
Squadrons of the United States Space Force |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20S.%20Kaplan | Craig S. Kaplan is a Canadian computer scientist, mathematician, and mathematical artist. He is an editor of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts (formerly chief editor), and an organizer of the Bridges Conference on mathematics and art. He is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Kaplan's work primarily focuses on applications of geometry and computer science to visual art and design. He was part of the team that proved that the tile discovered by hobbyist David Smith is a solution to the einstein problem, a single shape which aperiodically tiles the plane but cannot do so periodically.
Education
Kaplan received BMath from the University of Waterloo in 1996. He further went on to receive MSc and PhD in computer science from University of Washington in 1998 and 2002, respectively.
Work
Kaplan's research work focuses on the application of computer graphics and mathematics in art and design. He is an expert on computational applications of tiling theory.
Exotic geometries in protein assembly
In 2019, Kaplan helped to apply the concepts of Archimedean solids to protein assembly, and together with an experimental team at RIKEN demonstrated that these exotic geometries lead to ultra-stable macromolecular cages. These new systems could have applications in targeted drug delivery systems or the design of new materials at the nanoscale.
Einstein problem
In 2023, Kaplan was part of the team that solved the einstein problem, a major open problem in tiling theory and Euclidean geometry. The problem is to find an "aperiodic monotile", a single geometric shape which can tesselate the plane aperiodically (without translational symmetry) but which cannot do so periodically. The discovery is under professional review and, upon confirmation, will be credited as solving a longstanding mathematical problem.
In 2022, hobbyist David Smith discovered a shape constructed by gluing together eight kites (each a sixth of a hexagon) which seemed from Smith's experiments to tile the plane but would no do so periodically. He contacted Kaplan for help analyzing the shape, which the two named the "hat". After Kaplan's computational tools also found the tiling to continue indefinitely, Kaplan and Smith recruited two other mathematicians, Joseph Samuel Myers and Chaim Goodman-Strauss to help prove they had found an aperiodic monotile. Smith also found a second tile, dubbed the "turtle", which seemed to have the same properties. In March 2023, the team of four announced their proof that the tiles discovered by David Smith, as well as an infinite family of other tiles interpolating the two, are aperiodic monotiles.
Both the hat and turtle tiles require some reflected copies to tile the plane. After the initial preprint, Smith noticed that a tile related to the hat tile could tile the plane either periodically or aperiodically, with the aperiodic tiling not requiring reflections. A suitable manipulation of the edge prevent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restore%20Point | Restore Point () is a 2023 cyberpunk science fiction thriller film directed by Czech director Robert Hloz. It is Hloz's film debut. The film was coproduction between Czechia, Slovakia, Poland and Serbia. The film premiered during 2023 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Premiere was attended by Czech President Petr Pavel.
Plot
Prague in the year 2041. People have a constitutional right to a one whole life. When someone dies an unnatural death, Restore Point's innovative technology will resuscitate them, provided the person has routinely backed up their brain data every 48 hours. The facility is operated by the Institute of Restoration. Young detective Emma Trochinowska, aka Em, an aspiring police luminary, is on the trail of a group called the "River of Life" who are rebelling against "unnatural" resurrection technology by disrupting civilian life through terrorist attacks.
When the scientist who developed recovery technology, David Kurlstat, and his wife are murdered, Em is puzzled that he of all people didn't have a valid recovery point with which to revive him.
Cast
Andrea Mohylová as Emma Trochinowska, aka Em
Matěj Hádek as David Kurlstat
Václav Neužil as Agent Mansfeld
Milan Ondrík as Viktor Toffer
Karel Dobrý as Rohan
Agáta Kryštůfková as Dr. Petra Legerová
Katarzyna Zawadzka as Kristina Kurlstatova
Jan Vlasák as Captain
Iveta Dušková as Dudková
Richard Stanke as Richard
Adam Vacula as Peter Trochinowski
Jan Jankovský as Jan Zima
Production
Directed by Robert Hloz. Restore Point is his feature film debut after the short films Mlýn, Numbers, Prechodne Vedomi and Liars. The screenplay was written by Tomislav Čečka and Zdeněk Jecelín.
Cast and shooting
Czech theater, film and television actor and Czech Lion Award winner Karel Dobrý, known for his role as the villain Matthias in the film Mission: Impossible, from the science fiction miniseries Frank Herbert's Children of Dune and the TV series Carnival Row, appears as Rohan the head of Restore Point Institute while Agáta Kryštůfková was cast as his assistant. Polish actor Tomasz Kot, theater and film actor known for films such as The Spur, Cold War - The Latitude of Love, A Perfect Enemy and Leave No Traces, has another leading role. Newcomer Andrea Mohylová took on the female lead, playing Emma Trochinowska, or "Em" for short. Matěj Hádek plays the research head of the institute, David Kurlstat, who was murdered together with his wife and whose case is Em investigating. Jan Vlasák plays Em's superior and Václav Neužil appears as a colleague from another department Other roles include Milan Ondrík as a fugitive terrorist and Lech Dyblik in a minor role.
Filming took place in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.
Release
Restore Point premiered on July 3, 2023, at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The following day, screenings began at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival.[10] It will be shown at the Fantasia International Film Festival in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20and%20Sustainable%20Development%20Network%20of%20Nigeria | Understanding the interconnectedness, impact, and opportunities given by climate and environmental trends in the region has become crucial to our survival as a species because several West and Central African nations consistently score near the top of the world fragility rankings.
Despite having plenty of natural resources and a burgeoning human population, the area has had trouble maximizing these chances.
The primary causes of this are the recurrence of natural, environmental, and climate change-related disasters, as well as man-made insecurity engendered by political instability and population migration both within and between nations.
As a result of this, the Climate and Sustainable Development Network of Nigeria was created in 2007 as a measure to evolve and spur up a national CSO-led integrated stakeholders' involvement in climate solution efforts and sustainable development for effective mitigation, adaptation and national response to the impacts/vulnerability of Nigeria.
Causes
Nigeria’s climate has been changing, which has become evident in increases in temperature; variable rainfall; rise in sea level and flooding; drought and desertification; land degradation; more frequent extreme weather events; affected fresh water resources and loss of biodiversity (see: Elisha et al., 2017; Ebele and Emodi, 2016; Olaniyi et al., 2013).
CsDevnet
With a membership of more than 300 entities spanning the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria, Climate & Sustainable Development Network of Nigeria (CSDevNet) unites associations, encompassing grassroots community practitioners, trusts, federations of slum residents and herders, home-based caregivers, young people, media, women and faith-based organizations, including those involved in child welfare, the elderly, disabled individuals, and those prioritizing livestock and animal well-being, to collectively endorse and champion poverty-alleviating, environmentally friendly, and fair-minded approaches to climate change and sustainable development. CSDevNet aims to bring together and organize separate civil society endeavors on climate change advocacy in Nigeria, with the goal of ensuring that response mechanisms that prioritize the needs of the people receive the necessary attention and relevance. This is particularly important as climate change becomes increasingly integrated into national and global strategies and actions for poverty reduction and sustainable development.
CSDevNet serves as the official national platform for the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and is recognized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the United Religions Initiative (URI), as well as collaborating closely with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the Federal Government of Nigeria.
References
Politics of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GovAssure | GovAssure is a new cybersecurity regime for the UK government, starting in 2023.
History
The process was announced in April 2023. Compared to previous cybersecurity for UK government bodies, the main change is the adoption of the NCSC's Cyber Assessment Framework. GovAssure is expected to help organisations guard against rising Russian attacks, as well as new types of threat actors.
The first two departments to be assessed under the new scheme are the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy and the Home Office, with C3IA assessing a selection of three systems at each.
Processes
Government departments and some other public-sector organisations, will have their cybersecurity reviewed under the GovAssure process;
The controls are expected to be stricter than before, using the NCSC's Cyber Assessment Framework and its 14 key principles;
The new process will be run by the Government Security Group, with advice from NCSC;
Independent review by third parties is required.
There is also increasing emphasis on post-incident recovery as part of the security strategy.
In parallel, a Government Information Cell has been established to counter the spread of disinformation.
Further reading
UK Authority, "Government launches GovAssure cyber security scheme"
Techinformed, "What can businesses learn from GovAssure?"
Digit News, "Unpacking GovAssure, the New Government Cybersecurity Measures"
Gov.uk blog: Developing An Inclusive and Skilled Cyber Security Profession
References
Cybercrime in the United Kingdom
Government of the United Kingdom
Computer security in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold%20of%20toxilogical%20concern | The threshold of toxilogical concern (or TTC) is a method for determining the level of exposure to chemicals above which would be considered toxic, in cases where data about such chemicals is scarce or non-existent.
References
Toxicology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrumporBiden2024 | TrumporBiden2024 is a Twitch channel that features artificial intelligence (AI) versions of former U.S. president Donald Trump and current president Joe Biden engaging in an endless, profane, comedic political debate. Since launching, the channel has gained the attention of news media. The channel is presented as satire.
Content
The AI versions of Trump and Biden speak in alternation with each other, insulting each other with profane language while weaving in real-life political talking points, insults, and topics associated with their respective political careers. Additionally the AI versions of both men respond to comments made by members of the Twitch-chat, frequently insulting them.
The vocabulary data set the AI for both Biden and Trump pulls from includes references to various pop culture items such as Pokémon or anime. The AI Trump has even made remarks about sports teams, such as the Toronto Maple Leafs. The AI Biden frequently refers to the fictional meme alter-ego Dark Brandon. The mannerisms of both AI versions are largely the same as the real versions of both men.
Creation
The channel was created by The Singularity Group, a company associated with Belgian online gaming personality Athene.
Technology
The character voices and video are generated in real-time, using large language models and deepfake technology.
While it remains unclear how the creators of the channel accomplish this feat, it is likely that a combination of technology is used including: AI models, including text generation, text-to-speech synthesis, and lip-sync technology. Additionally, real footage of the two candidates from the 2020 Presidential debates appears to be integrated into the stream to enhance the authenticity of the AI representations.
Reception
The TrumporBiden2024 channel has garnered international media commentary regarding for its continuous stream showcasing the AI replicas. The channel has been described as "unhinged" and "a good way to ready yourself for the likely circus that will accompany the next presidential election".
See also
Nothing, Forever
Twitch Plays Pokémon
References
Parodies of Donald Trump
Cultural depictions of Joe Biden
Twitch (service)
Artificial intelligence entertainment
Political Internet memes
Political satire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai%20sponge | ai_sponge was a Twitch and YouTube channel that used artificial intelligence (AI) to generate livestream content featuring characters from the animated SpongeBob SquarePants franchise. The livestream, which launched on March 5, 2023, used 3D models of SpongeBob characters within Unity and Uberduck AI-generated voices based on the show's voice actors. Viewers could prompt the character's conversation topics through the channel's Discord server, which often led to inappropriate results. On July 26, 2023, ai_sponge was officially discontinued as a result of multiple copyright strikes and the discontinuation of public Uberduck voices.
History
The channel was created in the wake of the success of Nothing, Forever, a Twitch channel that streams an AI-generated sitcom based on Seinfeld which never ends. The ai_sponge channel quickly gained popularity, garnering 48,000 followers within its 2 day run time before being banned permanently by Twitch. The channel then relocated to several YouTube channels throughout March to July of 2023. Despite the channels being banned repeatedly, clips from the livestreams have since gone viral on YouTube and Twitter.
On July 26, 2023, it was announced on the ai_sponge Discord server that the official livestreams would come to an end. UberDuck, which provided the voices that were used by ai_sponge, had ended public voice support, essentially making it impossible to continue the project. Additionally, the streams had begun to decline in popularity following the continuous moving of the streams due to copyright claims.
Reception
The ai_sponge channel has been praised for its comedic value and criticized for its explicit content. The viewer-prompted topics often involved the SpongeBob characters saying wildly inappropriate and out of character conversations, such as SpongeBob revealing to Patrick a diagnosis of testicular cancer, or the characters discussing their existence within the Matrix.
The channel has also inspired numerous other AI generated livestreams, including ai_Peter, which livestreams AI content based on Family Guy. ai_Sponge has also led to a trend on YouTube that consists of using AI-generated voices, primarily of SpongeBob characters, to sing popular songs.
The rise and popularity of artificially generated livestreams has raised several legal questions, including whether Nothing, Forever, ai_sponge, ai_Peter, and The Simulation qualify as copyright infringement.
See also
Nothing, Forever
TrumporBiden2024
Twitch Plays Pokémon
References
Works created using artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence entertainment
Artificial intelligence art
2023 web series debuts
2023 web series endings
SpongeBob SquarePants
Internet memes introduced in 2023
Articles with underscores in the title |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfinity | Airfinity Ltd is a UK-based data and analytics company. It specialises in monitoring and forecasting trends in the global disease and public health industries.
History
Airfinity was founded in 2015 by Rasmus Bech Hansen, and is one of the 515 companies in which the UK government's Future Fund retains equity.
In 2020, the company became one of the most quoted data companies in the media for its COVID-19 reports, having been described as doing "the best modelling of the pandemic data" by professor Sir John Bell.
In July 2022, Airfinity's analysis on COVID-19 vaccines estimated AstraZeneca's vaccine Vaxzevria saved 6.3m lives worldwide in its first year of usage and Pfizer/BioNTech's Comirnarty saved 5.9 million lives in the same time period.
On 25 December 2022, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced it would no longer be sharing data on COVID-19 infections. After this, Airfinity became the leading source of COVID-19 infection and death estimates in China.
Based on regional modelling, Airfinity estimated between 1.3 and 2.1 million people would die in the first wave of infections. The firm's epidemiological forecast predicted cases would peak at 4.8 million a day and deaths would peak at 9,000 a day.
In April 2023, The Rhodes Trust hosted a policy summit where experts discussed learnings from the pandemic. Speakers included Sir John Bell, Sir Tony Blair, George Fu Gao, Richard Hatchett, and Andrew Pollard. During the summit, Airfinity's CEO Rasmus Bech Hansen presented the company's forecast on the likelihood of another pandemic, which suggested that there was a 27.5% of a COVID-like pandemic occurring in the next decade.
References
Health care software
Software companies based in London
Medical technology companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20detection%20software | Artificial intelligence detection software aims to determine whether some content (text, image, video or audio) was generated using artificial intelligence (AI).
As of 2023, the main examples of this are software like GPTZero, which claims to detect if text has been created by artificial intelligence and is sometimes used in colleges and universities to prevent student plagiarism. However, the reliability of such software is a topic of debate, and there are concerns about the potential misapplication of AI detection software by educators.
Text detection
For text, this is usually done to prevent alleged plagiarism, often by detecting repetition of words as telltale signs that a text was AI-generated (including AI hallucinations). They are often used by teachers marking their students, usually on an ad hoc basis. Following the release of ChatGPT and similar AI text generative software, many educational establishments have issued policies against the use of AI by students. AI text detection software is also used by those assessing job applicants, as well as online search engines.
Current detectors may sometimes be unreliable and have incorrectly marked work by humans as originating from AI while failing to detect AI-generated work in other instances. MIT Technology Review said that the technology "struggled to pick up ChatGPT-generated text that had been slightly rearranged by humans and obfuscated by a paraphrasing tool". AI text detection software has also been shown to discriminate against non-native speakers of English.
Two students from the University of California, Davis, nearly faced expulsion after their professors scanned their essays with a text detection tool called Turnitin which flagged the essays as having been generated by AI. However, following media coverage, and a thorough investigation, the students were cleared of any wrongdoing.
In April 2023, Cambridge University and other members of the Russell Group of universities in the United Kingdom opted out of Turnitin's AI text detection tool, after expressing concerns it was unreliable. The University of Texas at Austin opted out of the system six months later.
In May 2023, a professor at Texas A&M University–Commerce used ChatGPT to detect whether his students' content was written by it, which ChatGPT said was the case. As such, he threatened to fail the class despite ChatGPT not being able to detect AI-generated writing. No students were prevented from graduating because of the issue, and all but one student (who admitted to using the software) were exonerated from accusations of having used ChatGPT in their content.
Anti text detection
There is software available designed to bypass AI text detection. In August 2023, a study was conducted by Taloni, et al. at Magna Græcia University, to test AI text detection. The study tested an AI detection tool called Originality.ai, and found it detected GPT-4 with a mean accuracy of 91.3%.
However, the tests noted that when GPT-4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20%28album%29 | Data is the first solo studio album, and second overall including the collaborative album Dynasty (2021), by Puerto Rican record producer and songwriter Tainy. It was released on June 29, 2023, through Tainy's record label Neon16.
A 19-track album, each song features a different singer or musician. Myke Towers, Arcángel, Jhayco, Arca, Wisin & Yandel, Bad Bunny, E.Vax, Sech, Kany García, Young Miko, the Marías, Mora, Zion, Daddy Yankee, Feid, Skrillex, Four Tet, Rauw Alejandro, Julieta Venegas and Chencho Corleone, among others, appear as featured artists. Production was handled mainly by Tainy himself, with Tomoko Ida, Carlos Lopez, Albert Hype, Arca, Jota Rosa, E.Vax, Gibran Alcocer, Richie Lopez, Lil Baby Grand, Skrillex, Four Tet, Tuiste, Mvsis, Dela Cruz and Jon Leone, also having production credits.
The album spawned five singles: "Lo Siento BB:/", "Sci-Fi", "Obstáculo", "Fantasma | AVC" and "La Baby". The former single was highly successful, charting in various countries and being certified platinum multiple times in the United States. It also won Best Reggaeton Performance at the 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards.
Data debuted at number 11 on the Billboard 200 and number two on the Top Latin Albums chart, being his fourth entry on the latter chart. It also reached the top of the Latin Rhythm Albums chart, being his first appearance on the chart since Mas Flow: Los Benjamins in 2006. In Spain, the album debuted at the top of the chart.
Background
Tainy came to prominence at age 15 when he collaborated in Luny Tunes's album Mas Flow: Los Benjamins (2006), where he worked with various reggaeton artists such as Wisin & Yandel, Don Omar and Arcángel, among others. During the 2000s, he produced albums like Wisin vs. Yandel: Los Extraterrestres (2007), Daddy Yankee's El Cartel: The Big Boss (2007) and Arcángel's El Fenómeno (2008), furthering his career as a producer within the reggaeton industry.
In 2021, Tainy released his debut studio album Dynasty, a collaborative album with Puerto Rican singer Yandel. The same year, he released "Lo Siento BB:/", a collaboration with Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny and Mexican musician Julieta Venegas, the song would eventually become the first single for Data. According to Tainy, the album took around three years to make, with the first ideas for the album coming after a trip to Tulum, Mexico. Most of the recording for the album took place in Miami with additional recording in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Spain, New York, Los Angeles and Kioto. The album consists of several collaborations with reggaeton artists that Tainy had previously worked with such as Daddy Yankee, Bad Bunny and Wisin & Yandel, among others, as well as non-reggaeton artists like Julieta Venegas and the Marías, and emerging Latin acts like Young Miko, Álvaro Díaz and Kris Floyd. Tainy said that "Data is a representation of who I am as a person and as a music fan, being able to have my own album is very special, I'm putting my all into this, ev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20van%20Schewick | Barbara van Schewick (born 1972) is a German computer scientist and legal scholar who holds a professorship in Internet law at Stanford Law School.
Life
Van Schewick studied computer science at the Technical University of Berlin and law at the Free University of Berlin. After her first state law examination, she initially worked as a lawyer in Berlin, working, among other things, at a management consultancy and as a speechwriter for the then-Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen. After her second state law examination, she was the first residential fellow at Lawrence Lessig's newly founded Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford University for 15 months. Since October 2004, van Schewick has been a research associate at the Department of Telecommunications Networks at the Technical University of Berlin.
In van Schewick's dissertation for the degree of Dr.-Ing., she dealt with Internet architecture, with both the design principles underlying it (particularly the end-to-end principle), and the technical, economic and social progress that this makes possible. Van Schewick's scholarly interests focus particularly on issues of net neutrality. She emphasizes the economic disadvantages to be feared if net neutrality were abandoned and network operators were each able to set their own rules for Internet use. In this respect, she has also been repeatedly consulted as an expert by the Federal Communications Commission. She is of the opinion that the Internet as it was originally designed and has functioned to date, as well as the opportunities for innovation associated with it, are now "in danger." Van Schewick's work was supervised by Bernd Lutterbeck (TU Berlin) and Lawrence Lessig.
In 2007, van Schewick received an appointment at Stanford Law School. She has since also served as associate professor of Electrical Engineering (by courtesy). Since Lessig's move to Harvard Law School, van Schewick has directed the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford.
Van Schewick has received several awards for her work. She was a study and doctoral scholar of the Studienstiftung and a foreign scholar of the Daimler and Benz Foundation. In 2010, she received the Forschungspreis Technische Kommunikation of the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation for Communication Research. For her dissertation Internet Architecture and Innovation, she was awarded the Science Prize of the German Foundation for Law and Informatics (DSRI) in 2005 and the Dieter Meurer Promotion Prize for Legal Informatics of the Deutscher EDV-Gerichtstag in 2006.
Van Schewick is married and has two sons. She is the daughter of the former Federal Administrative Court judge Hans-Jürgen van Schewick.
Publications
References
External links
Barbara van Schewick at Stanford Law School
Barbara van Schewick at Center for Internet and Society (CIS) of Stanford Law School
Internet Architecture and Innovation
Diskussion im Verborgenen. Interview on net neutrality. In: Breitband. Deutschlandradio Kultur. B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarek%20Gryz | Jarek Gryz is a computer scientist, data analyst, author, and academic. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Cognitive Science Program in the Department of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Gryz's research spans the field of data analysis, query optimization, artificial intelligence, and privacy in IT systems. He authored the book Database Query Optimization with Soft Constraints and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, He is the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Internationalization Award and the IBM Faculty Award as well as a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Education and early career
Gryz earned his MA degree in Philosophy from Warsaw University in 1989 and another MA degree in philosophy from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1992. He then shifted his subject of study and started a graduate program in the Department of Computer Science in 1993 and received a master's degree in computer science from the same institution in 1995. Subsequently, in 1996, he completed a brief internship at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, followed by a Ph.D. in computer science in 1997 under the supervision of Jack Minker, from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Career
Following his Ph.D., Gryz started his academic career as an Assistant Professor and became a professor at York University in Toronto. He has also held teaching appointments at Warsaw University in Poland, Reykjavik University in Iceland, and College of William and Marry in the United States In addition, he served as the Faculty Fellow of the IBM Centre of Advanced Studies in Canada from 1998 to 2013. He holds an appointment as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and is a member of the Cognitive Science Program in the Department of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Research
Gryz's research has primarily focused on the field of database systems and has made contributions in various areas, including query optimization, data visualization, and data mining. Furthermore, he has explored the philosophical foundations of Artificial Intelligence.
Computer science
Gryz has worked primarily in the area of database query optimization. He proposed several techniques to improve query performance in relational databases using sampling, integrity constraints, views or a novel concept of soft constraints. Many of these algorithms have been implemented in the commercial version of DB2, IBM's relational database system. He further extended this work into other types of databases such as object-oriented, XML, and graph.
In the area of data mining, Gryz designed new algorithms for discovery of homogeneous regions in a binary matrix. He also worked on improving existing methods of frequent itemset mining. Furthermore, he branched into research on data visualization, which serves as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boca%20Research | Boca Research, Inc., later Inprimis, Inc., was an American computer company based in Boca Raton, Florida, and active between 1985 and 2002. The company manufactured a variety of expansion cards for the IBM PC and compatible systems, including memory cards, networking cards, sound cards, and graphics cards. Once a major player in the computer networking market, being the fourth-largest manufacturer of modems in 1996, Boca Research abandoned the PC hardware market entirely amid falling market share and manufactured set-top boxes in the last years of its existence.
History
Foundation (1985–1992)
Boca Research, Inc., was founded by Tim Farris in 1985 and incorporated in Boca Raton, Florida. Farris had previously co-founded Quadram Corporation, which was one of the first companies to manufacture expansion cards for the IBM PC, with Leland Strange in 1981. After selling off Quadram in 1984 and resigning from the company, Farris took a sabbatical and moved to Boca Raton in 1984. Shortly thereafter, he founded Boca Research, having closely watched the burgeoning personal computer industry intently and being exasperated at the cost of expansion cards at the time, which had not gone down significantly despite the PC architecture quickly commodifying. He incorporated Boca Research four blocks away from IBM's manufacturing complex in the city, where the IBM PC was developed. Boca Research benefited from their location due to the large number of engineers and developers in the city and from the cross-pollination of talent coming from IBM.
Boca's first products were low-cost memory expansion cards for the IBM PC. The company was initially slow to develop new products; between 1985 and 1989, for example, the company introduced only 10 products. Farris' philosophy was to wait until initial interest in new expansion technologies had waned so that they could bulk purchase parts necessary for their creation at a lower cost. In 1989, the company expanded its portfolio of products significantly, introducing its first graphics cards and its first Micro Channel memory cards. Employment at the company expanded in turn to 50 workers by the end of the year, the company also increased the square-footage of their headquarters by 50 percent. By the early 1990s, the company had expanded its manufacturing presence to the bordering city of Delray Beach, Florida, opening up a factory there. In 1991, the company entered the networking market, manufacturing modems for personal computers.
Expansion and IPO (1992–1996)
Boca Research filed its initial public offering on the stock market in February 1992. Price per share rose from $8 to $14 between February 1993 to March 1993 following good sales in the quarter. In 1993, the company posted gross sales of $44.5 million. Despite healthy sales, reports of shrinking profit margins in the company in 1994—stemming from increased competition in the fax modem networking market where Boca had specialized in the preceding years—caused the s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai%20Krishna%20Kothapalli | Sai Krishna Kothapalli is a cybersecurity researcher based in Hyderabad.
Professional career
Through an initiative named Bug Bounty, he assisted the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, in establishing a bounty for ethical hackers to improve its cybersecurity.
In several data breaches, according to Kothapalli, several employees of sensitive organisations including the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Indian Space Research Organisation, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre had their official email credentials stolen.
In 2016, he reported a severe cyber security vulnerability in the state-owned telecom Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) which contained vital details about every BSNL employee and was later resolved by BSNL
In 2020, Kothapalli was able to see, change, and erase the classified personal information of thousands of patients across India.
In 2021, he detected a vulnerability in the National Voters Service Portal (NVSP) through which hackers could get phone numbers associated with Election Commission of India-registered voter IDs.
Early life
Sai Krishna Kothapalli is a Computer Science and Engineering graduate from IIT Guwahati. He had worked with the Telangana government as well as other government organisations.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquim%20Jorge%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Joaquim Armando Pires Jorge holds the UNESCO Chair on Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality and is University Professor in Computer Science Department at Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa and senior researcher at INESC-ID.
He serves as an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society since 2023. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Victoria University Wellington (VUW) since 2022 and an Honorary Invited Professor at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2022). He is a Fellow of the Eurographics Association, a Distinguished Member and Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Distinguished Visitor, and Distinguished Contributor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Membre Libre of the Académie nationale de chirurgie (French National Academy of Surgery). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Computers and Graphics Journal (Elsevier).
Education
Joaquim Jorge received his Bachelor of Engineering from Lisbon's Instituto Superior Técnico in 1984. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He completed his Agregação (Habilitation) degree from Instituto Superior Técnico in 2002. His dissertation onParsing Adjacency grammars for Calligraphic Interfaces, was supervised by Ephraim Glinert.
Career and research
Shortly after receiving his Ph.D., Joaquim Jorge joined the newly formed Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico as an assistant professor. After completing his Habilitation in 2002, he was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2004, and full professor in 2008. Jorge was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt for the academic year 1999-2000, an Adjunct Professor of the University of Calgary's Computer Science Department from 2006-2018, and a visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna in the academic year 2013-2014. He was an Elected Executive Member of the ACM Europe Council from 2015-2019. He was the Journal Papers Chair for IEEEVR2020, held on March 22-26 2020 (virtually), and was conference co-chair of IEEEVR2021, held Mar 27-April 3, 2021 in Lisbon (Virtually), and IEEEVR2022. He was the Scientific Program Co-Chair of Eurographics 2016, held in Lisbon from 9-13 May 2016. A former member of the Editorial Board of Computer Graphics Forum, he serves on the Editorial Boards of the Springer Virtual Reality Journal and the Springer/Nature Human–Computer Interaction Series. He has co-authored over 300 papers, books, and peer-reviewed conference articles. As of 2023, Jorge has graduated 17 PhD students. He has been listed as a top Computer Science Researcher in Portugal in 2022 and 2023. and ranked among the world's top 2% Computer Scientists by a Stanford study in 2022. His works have been cited over 10000 times and he has over 53 articles with 53 or more citations according to Google Scholar. His wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquim%20Jorge | Joaquim Jorge may refer to:
Joaquim Jorge (footballer) (born 1939), Portuguese footballer
Joaquim Jorge (computer scientist) (born 1959), Portuguese computer scientist and professor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20%28cyber%20gang%29 | Royal is a cybercriminal ransomware organization known for its aggressive targeting, its high ransom demands, and its use of double extortion (where compromised data is not only encrypted, but also exfiltrated). Royal does not use affiliates.
Royal has targeted a wide range of industries, including healthcare, finance, and critical infrastructure. Ransom demands by the group range from $250,000 to over $2 million.
Description
The group behind Royal ransomware is an experienced and skilled group that employs a combination of old and new techniques. They use callback phishing to trick victims into downloading remote desktop malware, which enables the threat actors to easily infiltrate the victim's machine. Royal is reportedly a private group without any affiliates.
Royal ransomware employs a unique approach to encryption allowing the threat actor to selectively encrypt a specific percentage of data within a file. By doing so, the actor can lower the encryption percentage for larger files, making it harder to detect their malicious activities. In addition to encrypting files, Royal actors also employ a double extortion tactic : they threaten to publicly release the encrypted data unless the victim pays the ransom demanded. Additionally, they employ intermittent encryption to speed up the encryption process of victim's files while avoiding detection from systems that monitor heavy file IO operations.
In addition to making headlines, the Royal ransomware group has demonstrated an ability to adapt quickly to new tactics. They have developed Linux-based variants and expanded their targets to include ESXi servers, which can have a significant impact on victimized enterprise data centers and virtualized storage.
Targets
According to Trend Micro's data, the United States has been the primary target of Royal ransomware, Brazil follows. Most of the victim organizations affected by Royal ransomware were small to medium-sized businesses, with only a small portion being large enterprises.
According to a CISA, Royal ransomware attacks have targeted various critical infrastructure sectors, including chemicals, communications, critical manufacturing, dams, defense industrial bases, financial services, emergency services, healthcare, nuclear reactors, waste, and materials sectors.
ATT&CK TTPs
In 2023, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) jointly issued an advisory providing information on Royal ransomware's tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) to help organizations defend against such attacks.
To gain initial access to victim networks, Royal actors use various methods. One common method is through phishing emails, which account for about 66.7% of incidents. Victims unknowingly install malware that delivers Royal ransomware after clicking on links or opening malicious PDF documents in these phishing emails. Another method is compro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.debug%20info |
Introduction
The .debug_info section of an ELF contains information generated by compilers to describe the source code while debugging by keeping symbols and its type, scope, file, line number, etc. The .debug_info section is one of the main components of DWARF debug info files. This is generated by a compiler when -g switch or its variants are used.
Other debug ELF sections
References
Debugging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujibpedia | Mujibpedia is a data-based encyclopedia of the history of Bangladesh's related movements and the history of independence and the personal and political career of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. It was published in 2022. The two-volume encyclopedia was edited by Kamal Chowdhury, Farid Kabir and Abu Md. Delwar Hossain. History and Culture Circle Bangladesh Limited published the first edition of the encyclopedia on 7 December, 2022.
About encyclopedia
Mujibpedia is written by 97 authors, researchers, historians and journalists. It contains 591 entries and 750 historical photographs. Besides, the online version of the encyclopedia has about 100 newly created videos.
History of publication
Mujibpedia's Article, historical photographs have been researched for two years. On 19 October 2021, History and Culture Circle Bangladesh officially started to prepare the encyclopedia. The study included details of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's personal and political life, actions and ideals, Mujib's involvement in various political struggles, as well as the history of Bangladesh's independence. The City Bank funds its research and publications. It was planned for release on Victory Day 2021. Later on 7 December 2022 its first edition was published. As a single book, Mujibpedia gets a sales center under its own name at the Ekushey Book Fair 2023.
References
External links
Official website
Bangladeshi encyclopedias
Bengali encyclopedias
2022 books
21st-century encyclopedias
Works about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bangladeshi literature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjoy%20Paul | Sanjoy Paul (born January 22, 1962) is an Indian-American computer scientist who is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and The Institution of Engineering and Technology. He was also the recipient of the Thomas Alva Edison patent award from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey. In 1997, he received the IEEE William R. Bennett Jr. award for best original paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
He was one of the youngest IEEE fellows and is known for his research works in the areas of the Internet of things (IoT), Artificial intelligence/Machine learning (AI/ML), Computer network, 5G and Wireless network, Multimedia streaming, and Content distribution.
Early life and education
Paul completed his bachelor's in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering (ECE) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, in 1985.
He attended the Wharton Business School, the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 for a Master of Business Administration (MBA).
Career
Paul was one of the youngest IEEE Fellows and served as an editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, guest editor of IEEE Network Special Issue on Multicasting, steering committee member of IEEE COMSNETS (Communication Systems & Networks), general chair of International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) 2011, Internet Multimedia Services Architecture and Application (IMSAA) 2010, and COMSWARE (Conference on Communication System software and Middleware) 2007, Technical Program Chair of COMSWARE 2006, and as a Technical Program Committee Member of several IEEE and ACM International.
Selected publications
Books
1998 - Multicasting on the Internet and its Applications.
2010 - Digital Video Distribution in Broadband, Television, Mobile and Converged Networks: Trends, Challenges, and Solutions.
Articles
See also
List of fellows of IEEE Communications Society
References
Rice University staff
Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
1962 births
San Jose State University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice%20Santos | Eunice E. Santos is an American computer scientist, the dean of the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences. After early research on parallel algorithms, her more recent research has concerned computational aspects of social networks, complex adaptive systems, and modeling the behavior of humans interacting with these systems.
Early life and education
Santos is originally from Ohio. She is the daughter of two academics at Youngstown State University: her father, Eugene S. Santos, was a professor of mathematics and computer science, and her mother, Evelyn Santos, was a lecturer in mathematics and electrical engineering. Her brother, Eugene Santos Jr., became a professor of computer engineering at Dartmouth College.
She began her studies at Youngstown State University at age 13, majored in mathematics and computer science there, and graduated at age 17 in 1989. Next, she went to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate study in computer science, earning a master's degree and completing her Ph.D. in 1995 under the supervision of Richard M. Karp. Her dissertation Studies of Parallel Complexity within the LogP Model was based on her work with Karp and others introducing and analyzing the LogP machine, an abstract model of parallel computation.
Career
She became a faculty member at Virginia Tech and at Lehigh University, and a researcher at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy in the US Institute for National Strategic Studies, before moving to the University of Texas at El Paso as chair of the computer science department, director of the National Center for Border Security and Immigration, and director of the Center for Defense Systems Research. In 2014, she became founding co-editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
Next, in 2015, she moved to the Illinois Institute of Technology as professor of computer science and Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair, before taking her present position as dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2019.
Recognition
Santos was a 2010 recipient of the Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Computer Society, given "for pioneering contributions to Computational Social Network Systems".
In 2019, she became the inaugural recipient of the IEEE Big Data Security Woman of Achievement Award. She was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, "for leadership in computational social networks".
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Youngstown State University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Virginia Tech faculty
Lehigh University faculty
Illinois Institute of Technology faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reveal%20Computer%20Products | Reveal Computer Products, Inc., was a short-lived American computer peripheral manufacturer active from 1992 to 1996. It was established as a subsidiary of Packard Bell Electronics, an American computer company. The company was once a major player in the IBM PC peripheral market, with annual sales peaking above the US$200 million mark. It went bankrupt in 1996 after an aborted $65-million merger with Creative Technology.
History
The three founders of Packard Bell Electronics—Beny Alagem, Alex Sandel, and Jason Barzilay—established Reveal Computer Products as a subsidiary of the company in 1992. Reveal was headquartered in Woodland Hills, California; they launched their first products to retailers in late 1992. The company in its early years manufactured chiefly multimedia upgrade kits for IBM PCs and compatibles, including video cards and sound cards. In June 1994 the company revealed their Quantum upgrade kit, which included a sound card featuring an Ensoniq Soundscape wavetable synthesis chip, a Panasonic-manufactured CD-ROM drive, stereo speakers, a microphone headset, a joystick, and 35 pack-in video game titles. This kit sold well and was received warmly in the computer press, earning an Editors' Choice reward in PC Magazine.
In early 1995, Reveal began broadening their product lineup, offering in addition to their kits tape backup drives, modems, and standalone CD-ROM drives and joysticks. The company's standalone CDQ series of CD-ROM drives were sourced from LG Electronics; Reveal had ordered one million units from LG for US$150 million in March 1995. Reveal's higher-end modems, such as the Decathlon, combined functionality with their sound cards, adding wavetable synthesis for audio playback on top of network connectivity.
In October 1995, Creative Technology of Singapore announced their intent to acquire Reveal from the founding trio for US$65 million in a stock swap. Had the deal gone through, Reveal would have retained its brand identity as a subsidiary of Creative; analysts suspected that Alagem and company would have infused the earnings from the stock swap right back into Packard Bell, which despite its status as one of the best selling computer brands in the United States had been cash-poor around this time. However, in November 1995 Creative abruptly pulled out of the deal, citing negative responses from shareholders on the amount of debt involved in the transaction and potential strain on Creative's management team. Insiders also suspected that Reveal had not been forthright with their own debt and profit margins until late in the acquisition talks.
Following the botched acquisition, conditions at Reveal slowly deteriorated. The company halted sales of new products in June 1996; meanwhile, the company ceased answering technical support calls on their hotline and bulletin board system, leading to enraged customers leaving negative feedback on online forums and on Usenet. Employment at Reveal dropped to just 30 workers by Augus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Data%20Spaces%20Association | The International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) is a not-for-profit association of more than 140 organisations, incorporated under German law. It creates standards for sharing data in data spaces, that allow participants to have full control over their data.
IDSA was founded in 2017 to create data sharing standards for automated negotiation, exchange, and compliance enforcement. It also defines security standards, control and enforcement mechanisms for data usage, and rules for data traceability. IDSA specifies the legal, operational, functional, and technical agreements between organisations that share data within a data space. It is one of the main initiatives defining the technical specifications for data spaces in the European Union. IDSA releases and maintains a reference architecture model for data spaces. It also certifies the essential software components used in data spaces.
History
In 2014 the Fraunhofer Society started a project called the Industrial Data Space, which was renamed to International Data Spaces (IDS) in 2015. IDSA was formed in 2017 to develop the IDS reference architecture model and certification procedures based on industry requirements.
Reference architecture model
The IDSA reference architecture model, defines the roles and information model for data spaces. The roles include core participants, intermediaries, software and services, and governance. The reference architecture model also defines software connectors that form the interfaces between the data space and its participants. These connectors are used to maintain participants' data sovereignty.
Version 3.0 of IDSA's reference architecture model was released in 2019, and version 4.0 in 2023.
See also
Gaia-X
References
Data laws of Europe
Information technology companies of Germany
Organisations based in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Supremacy | Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything is a non-fiction book by the American futurist and physicist Michio Kaku. The book, Kaku's eleventh, was initially published on 2 May 2023 by Doubleday. The book concentrates on quantum computing and its uses for various tasks.
Reception
Scott Aaronson, professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, severely panned Kaku's book on his blog, Shtetl-Optimized. Aaronson wrote, "beating out a crowded field, this is the worst book about quantum computing, for some definition of the word 'about,' that I’ve ever encountered," describing the book as a "kindergarten of lies." After pointing out several substantial factual errors, Aaronson concluded that "the bulk of the book is actually about stuff with no direct relation to quantum computing at all—the origin of life, climate change, energy generation, cancer, curing aging, etc.—except with ungrounded speculations tacked onto the end of each chapter about how quantum computers will someday revolutionize all of this."
Reviews from non-specialists were mixed to positive. Kirkus Reviews wrote, "As always, Kaku’s enthusiasm is contagious, and this latest book is an important guide to a crucial part of the tech future. An informative and highly entertaining read about the computing revolution already underway." A reviewer of Publishers Weekly commented, "Despite Kaku’s best efforts, readers will likely be left scratching their heads at the descriptions of how different models of quantum computing work, with one that involves 'ion traps' in which atoms spin upward or downward and another that takes advantage of the polarization of light... Difficult to grasp and carrying a whiff of ungrounded techno-utopianism, this is a rare misfire for Kaku." Alan Boyle of GeekWire added, "One is a mind-blowing work of fiction, while the other is an emerging frontier in computer science — but both of them deal with rearrangements of particles in superposition that don’t match our usual view of reality. Fortunately, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku has provided a guidebook to the real-life frontier..."
References
External links
2023 non-fiction books
Books by Michio Kaku
Popular science books
Doubleday (publisher) books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virti | Virti is a technology company based in Bristol, England, specializing in the use of virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) combined with artificial intelligence (AI) for training purposes. The company was founded by Dr. Alex Young, an orthopedic surgeon, in 2018. Virti's technology has been used in various sectors, including healthcare and education.
History
Virti was founded by Dr. Alex Young in 2018 with the aim of improving communication, soft skills and performance in healthcare settings. The company has developed a platform that uses VR, AR, and AI to create immersive training experiences. These experiences are designed to provide a safe and scalable way for individuals to practice and improve their skills.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Virti's technology was used to train healthcare workers in the UK and US. The company's platform was used to train over 300 doctors at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles in skills such as assessing patient symptoms and performing CPR while wearing protective gear. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) also used Virti's technology to train staff on the correct use of personal protective equipment and how to interact with patients and their families.
Technology
Virti's platform uses VR and AR to create immersive training scenarios. These scenarios can be accessed via a VR headset or a tablet, allowing for flexible training options. The platform also uses AI to provide detailed feedback and metrics on the trainee's performance, helping to identify areas where further practice may be needed.
One of the key features of Virti's platform is the use of "virtual patients". These are AI-powered animations that interact with the trainee, testing their skills in areas such as empathy and communication. The virtual patients can respond to the trainee's actions in real-time, providing a realistic and responsive training environment.
Impact
Virti's technology has been used in various sectors, including healthcare and education. In healthcare, the platform has been used to train doctors and nurses in skills such as patient assessment and CPR. It has also been used to improve communication skills and bedside manner, with the aim of improving patient outcomes
In education, Virti's technology has been used to provide immersive learning experiences for students. For example, the platform has been used to simulate socially distanced science experiments for school students.
In sports, Virti's technology has been used by cricketers in Bristol to stay on top form during the off-season
References
External links
Virti
British companies established in 2018
Companies based in Bristol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Bangladesh%20Government%20website%20data%20breach | In June and July 2023, a major data breach occurred in a Bangladesh Government website, resulting in the unauthorized exposure and compromise of personal data belonging to more than 50 million Bangladeshi citizens.
Background
On July 7, 2023, it was discovered that a government website in Bangladesh had inadvertently exposed the personal data of citizens due to security vulnerabilities. The breach was not a result of a deliberate hack, but rather a consequence of weaknesses in the infrastructure and data protection practices of the websites. The exposed data included sensitive information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, and national identification numbers. From October 2023, the leaked NID data of Bangladeshi citizens are openly accessible on Telegram channels.
Breach incident
The breach was initially reported by American technology news website TechCrunch, on July 7, 2023. According to their reports, the exposed data was accessible via the government website, potentially allowing unauthorized individuals to access and misuse citizens' personal information. They initially did not reveal the website's name as breached data were still accessible, however they later revealed that the data breach occurred in the Office of the Registrar General, Birth & Death Registration website. The incident raised concerns about privacy and data security, causing alarm among affected individuals.
Zunaid Ahmed Palak, the state minister for Information and Communication Technology in Bangladesh, acknowledged the breach and clarified that it was not the result of hacking but rather a consequence of the security weaknesses presents in the websites. Palak further explained that the websites had vulnerabilities that were exploited, resulting in the exposure of citizens' personal data.
Government Response
In response to the data breach, the Bangladesh government took action to address the situation. On July 10, 2023, the government announced the takedown of the exposed citizens' data, ensuring that it was no longer accessible to unauthorized individuals. The affected government websites were temporarily shut down to address the security vulnerabilities and strengthen their data protection measures.
Additionally, the government launched an investigation into the incident to ascertain the extent of the data exposure and identify the parties responsible for the security weaknesses. The objective was to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future by implementing more robust security protocols and measures to safeguard citizens' personal information.
Impact and Controversy
According to experts, the data breach had significant implications for the affected citizens and raised concerns about data security in the country. The exposure of personal data could potentially lead to fraudulent activities, identity theft, or other malicious purposes. The breach underscored the need for stringent cybersecurity practices and triggered discussions about the se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Assessment%20Framework | The Cyber Assessment Framework is a mechanism designed by NCSC for assuring the security of organisations. The CAF is tailored towards the needs of Critical National Infrastructure, to meet the NIS regulations, but the objectives can be used by other organisations.
In addition to national public-sector and infrastructure bodies, the CAF is also being used by local government.
Principles
The CAF has fourteen objectives, grouped into four categories: These set high-level objectives which fit the needs of organisations handling high-impact data or performing essential functions. These have some similarities, but are not identical, to the categories of controls used by ISO 27001:2013.
Objective A: Managing security risk
A.1 Governance
A.2 Risk management
A.3 Asset management
A.4 Supply chain
Objective B: Protecting against cyber attack
B.1 Service protection policies and procedures
B.2 Identity and access control
B.3 Data security
B.4 System security
B.5 Resilient networks and systems
B.6 Staff awareness and training
Objective C: Detecting cyber security events
C.1 Security monitoring
C.2 Anomaly detection
Objective D: Minimising the impact of cyber security incidents
D.1 Response and recovery planning
D.2 Improvements
Each of these are linked to "outcomes" and "contributing outcomes". There are a total of 14 outcomes and 39 contributing outcomes. NCSC has published Indicators of Good Practice; IGP tables can be used to assess whether each objective has been "Achieved", "Not achieved", or "Partially achieved". Organisations are expected to self-assess, and to draw up an improvement roadmap. Competent Authorities review the assessment and the roadmap.
Further reading
Introduction to the Cyber Assessment Framework
See also
ISO 27001
GovAssure
Cyber Essentials
Security Policy Framework
References
Cybercrime in the United Kingdom
Government of the United Kingdom
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
National security of the United Kingdom
Computer security organizations
Information assurance standards
Information governance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20data%20capture | Smart data capture (SDC), also known as 'intelligent data capture' or 'automated data capture', describes the branch of technology concerned with using computer vision techniques like optical character recognition (OCR), barcode scanning, object recognition and other similar technologies to extract and process information from semi-structured and unstructured data sources. IDC characterize smart data capture as an integrated hardware, software, and connectivity strategy to help organizations enable the capture of data in an efficient, repeatable, scalable, and future-proof way. Data is captured visually from barcodes, text, IDs and other objects - often from many sources simultaneously - before being converted and prepared for digital use, typically by artificial intelligence-powered software. An important feature of SDC is that it focuses not just on capturing data more efficiently but serving up easy-to-access, actionable insights at the instant of data collection to both frontline and desk-based workers, aiding decision-making and making it a two-way process.
Smart data capture automates and accelerates capture, applying insights in real time and automating processes based on extracted input. Smart data capture is designed to be repeatable and scalable to reduce low-level manual tasks and eliminate human error. To achieve this goal, smart data capture solutions are often made available using specialist software installed on commodity hardware such as smartphones. However, some solutions may rely on specialized hardware such as dedicated scanning devices, wearables or shop floor robots.
Differences from OCR
Optical character recognition applications are typically concerned with the actual data capture process; they are intended to faithfully reproduce text, words, letters and symbols from a printed document. Smart data capture is multimodal, capable of extracting data from a wider range of semi-structured and unstructured sources, going beyond basic text recognition to offer a wider scope of applications. By extending functionality to provide actionable insights at the point of capture, SDC is also a two-way process (capture-display), while OCR is more commonly one-way (capture only), primarily used for data input.
Smart data capture solutions typically have two parts:
Data capture (which includes OCR, barcode scanning, object recognition)
Functionality that then uses this data to provide actionable insights at the point of capture.
Applications
Smart data capture can be applied to almost any industry and application that requires visual information capture and interpretation. This may include:
Retail
Warehouse inventory control
Logistics, handling and shipping
Manufacturing
Field service
Healthcare
Transport and travel
Fraud detection
Immersive, augmented reality-driven experiences
Notable Smart Data Capture Vendors
Anyline
Code Corporation
Docutain SDK
Dynamsoft
Honeywell
Scanbot
Scandit
Scanflow
Smartflow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armchair%20Cinema | Armchair Cinema is a British television drama anthology series of one-off plays that ran on the ITV network between 1974-1975. It was produced by Euston Films in conjunction with Thames Television. The series was a spin-off from the long running anthology series Armchair Theatre. A total of six episodes were produced over the course of one series.
Background
In 1971, Euston Films was established as a production company by three Thames executives Lloyd Shirley, George Taylor and Brian Tesler. It operated as a subsidiary of Thames Television until is dissolution in 1994. At the time, television drama was primarily a mix of studio based videotape and exteriors shot on 16mm film or outside broadcast videotape. They acknowledged that productions could be shot quicker and more economically by filming them entirely on 16mm film stock. The inspiration for Euston Films came from writer Trevor Preston, along with directors Jim Goddard and Tim Green whom were working at ABC Television, when in 1965 they detailed a proposal for a specialist production unit that would shoot dramas entirely on film. Following the establishment of Thames Television in 1968, this style of production was trialed with two one-off dramas "Suspect" (1969) and "Rumour" (1970) which were promoted under the ITV Playhouse strand, along with the children's series The Tyrant King. This subsequently led to the initiation of Euston Films as a production unit for Thames.
At the time Armchair Theatre, was increasingly being criticized as being an archaic reminder of television's theatrical roots. Following the success Thames had with their initial Euston Films project Special Branch which moved over to being shot entirely on film in 1973. Jeremy Issacs who was then Director of Programs at Thames, was favourable about Euston Films work on the series and decided to commission them to revive the then ailing Armchair Theatre. The new series was pressed into production later that year.
Influence
The series was notable for showcasing films by a number of writers including Ian Kennedy Martin, Guy Slater, John Kershaw and Ian Stuart Black. One of the films that was produced, "Regan" by Kennedy Martin, that starred John Thaw as DI Jack Regan and Dennis Waterman as DS George Carter, gained a favourable response with viewers with audiences of over seven million tuning into the episode, and was successful enough to be commissioned into a full series The Sweeney, that ran between 1975-1978 and additionally produced two spin-off feature films that were released in 1977 and 1978 respectively.
Episode List
Home Media
"Regan", the pilot episode for The Sweeney, was released as a stand alone DVD, on the 12th September 2005 by Network. The complete series of Armchair Cinema was subsequently released on DVD, on the 31st August 2009 by Network, along with the television films "The Sailor's Return" (1978) and "Charlie Muffin" (1979).
References
External links
Armchair Cinema at IMDb
Armchair Cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI%20%28company%29 | X.AI Corp., doing business as xAI, is an American startup company working in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). It was founded on March 9, 2023, in Nevada by Elon Musk. According to the company's website as of July 2023, "The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe."
Background
In 2015, Musk joined the inaugural board of directors at the non-profit AI research company OpenAI. He invested as much as $1 billion in OpenAI, but stepped down from the board in 2018 after an unsuccessful bid to take over its management, the result of a disagreement over AI safety.
Framework
In April 2023, the Financial Times reported that Musk was planning to launch an AI startup. He had secured thousands of Nvidia GPU processors for a potential new large language model.
Musk officially announced the formation of xAI on July 12, 2023. The date (7 + 12 + 23 = 42) was chosen as a reference to the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (in which a supercomputer calculates that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is 42) and to the company's mission "to understand the universe". The company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. According to the project's leaders, one of xAI's goals is to create an AI that is capable of advanced mathematical reasoning, something not found in current models.
On July 14, Musk said in a Twitter Space that xAI would create a chatbot called "TruthGPT", which would act as an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Musk also asserted that xAI's would be more trustworthy than OpenAI and Google.
Notes
References
External links
Elon Musk
AI companies
American companies established in 2023
Companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidetoshi%20Onodera | Hidetoshi Onodera is a professor at the Department of Communications and Computer Engineering at the Kyoto University. His research includes design technologies for Digital, Analog, and Radio-frequency integrated circuits. Onodera served as the Program Chair and General Chair of International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference. He is a member of Science Council of Japan.
Onodera was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2018, "For contributions to variation-aware design and analysis of integrated circuits".
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Japanese electrical engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Kyoto University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusLogic | BusLogic, Inc. (originally BusTek, Inc.), was an American computer company active from 1988 to 1996. It specialized in the production of Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) device controller chips and controller expansion cards, becoming a dominant player in that market, behind only Adaptec. In 1996, the company was acquired by Mylex Corporation.
History
Foundation (1988–1993)
BusLogic was founded as BusTek, Inc., in Santa Clara, California, in 1988 by Jesse Chen and Peter Harvey. The company's first product was a DMA controller for desktop computers, dubbed the 86C05. BusTek co-developed the chip with NCR Microelectronics, who also manufactured it. The 86C05 supported multiple desktop buses, including Micro Channel, NuBus, ISA, and EISA. In September 1990, BusTek delivered the first bus-mastering SCSI host adapter card for EISA machines, called the BT-742A, which incorporated BusTek's own 80C10 ASIC. A SCSI host adapter card with bus mastering was widely anticipated in the burgeoning EISA market, as it was one of the last steps in making EISA systems competitive in terms of both performance and flexibility against IBM's proprietary Micro Channel architecture, which had such SCSI cards since early 1989. BusTek followed up with the BT-747S/BT-747D and BT-542S/BT-542D in 1991, based on their second-generation 80C20 ASIC. All four cards were based on the SCSI-2 standard; the BT-747 series comprise Fast SCSI adapter cards for the PC/AT and compatibles, while the BT-542D series comprise Wide SCSI adapter cards for EISA systems. The S and D suffixes denote single-ended and differential SCSI interfaces, respectively.
In July 1992, BusTek acquired San Diego, California–based Chantal Systems—a developer of RAID management software—for an undisclosed sum. Following the acquisition, BusTek changed their name to BusLogic, reflecting a broader focus on both software and hardware. The eight remaining employees of Chantal were integrated into BusLogic; the former company had filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy dissolution two months prior. The first products developed jointly between BusLogic and Chantal debuted in February 1993. They were a trio of product bundles comprising bus-mastering Fast SCSI host adapters supporting either the ISA, Micro Channel, or EISA buses, each bundled with Chantal's Paragon RAID configuration software. BusLogic's Chantal software-based RAID products were widely used in hospitals, universities, and blue- and white-collar industries during the mid-1990s, handling loads of up to around 800 simultaneous users.
In November 1993, the company announced their first SCSI RAID controller, comprising the DA-2788, DA-2988, and DA-4988. The foremost RAID controller connected to an EISA bus, while the latter two were BusLogic's first products for the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus.
Growth and acquisition (1993–1996)
By the end of 1993, and with Chantal under their wing, the company employed 95 workers and generated $15 million |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20para%C3%ADso%20%282022%20film%29 | El paraíso () is a 2022 Argentine adult computer-animated thriller drama film directed by Fernando Sirianni and Federico Breser (in their directorial debut) which is based on the television series Tierra de rufianes created by Breser. It stars the voices of Norma Aleandro, Nicolás Furtado, Maite Lanata, Jorge Marrale and Alejandro Awada. It premiered on 8 September 2022, in Argentine theaters.
Synopsis
Set in 1926, it tells the story of Magdalena and Anna Scilko, two sisters who come to Rosario from Poland to look for a better future. However, when they disembark, they will realize that they were tricked into joining a human trafficking network that is managed by the Abramov brothers, some powerful criminals from the city.
Cast
The actors participating in this film are:
Norma Aleandro as Old Magdalena Scilko
Nicolás Furtado as Ian Abramov
Maite Lanata as Young Magdalena Scilko
Jorge Marrale as León Abramov
Alejandro Awada as Roco Falcao
César Bordón as Juan Scilko
Mariano Chiesa as Aaron Abramov
Claudio Da Passano as Vicente
Carlos Kaspar as Cónsul Ladislao
Favio Posca as Lebrum
Juana Viale as Madame Safó
Marcos Woinsky as Vladimir
Elena Roger as Singer
Ernesto Larrese as Journalist
Lourdes Isola as Anna Scilko
Marcelo Armand as Judge
Dante Martínez as Marquez
Ignacio Rodríguez de Anca as Kaspar
Reception
Critical reception
On Todas las críticas website, El paraíso has a 71% approval rating based on 17 reviews. Diego Batlle from Otros cines highlighted that "Paradise has a few successful climates and valuable visual ideas, although at times the animation looks a bit 'robotic', without reaching the fluidity and naturalness that surely could have been achieved if it had been told. with a bigger budget." Paula Vázquez Prieto from La Nación stated that the film "achieves a meticulous, clear and precise reconstruction" in its plot, but that it does not have a "carnal approach to those moral conflicts." Adrián Monserrat from Escribiendo cine wrote: "the film is an achievement, both from an aesthetic point of view and from the construction of the story", although he criticized that "3D animation is well conceived although it is not entirely efficient due to the unnatural movements of each character."
Ignacio Durand from El Destape Web wrote: "El paraíso is a film that goes along the expected lines, without surprises and appealing to some effective commonplaces, well used to enhance the drama in the strongest scenes." Manuel Villar Lifac from Clarín highlighted that in the film "the photographic realism of the settings in which this drama takes place has an impact" and "it is worth highlighting the power of the sound."
Accolades
References
External links
2022 films
2022 computer-animated films
2022 thriller films
2022 drama films
2022 directorial debut films
2020s Argentine films
Argentine animated films
Argentine thriller films
Argentine drama films
Adult animated films
2020s Spanish-language films
Films about human tra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridho%20Rahmadi | Ridho Rahmadi (born 13 April 1985) is an Indonesian politician, computer scientist and academic who is the current chairman of the Ummah Party, serving since the party's founding in 2021. He is the son-in-law of the party's founder Amien Rais.
Early life and education
Rahmadi was born on 13 April 1985 in Yogyakarta. He first received a bachelors in computer science from the Islamic University of Indonesia (UII) in 2007, before studying at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz (graduated 2012) and at the Czech Technical University for his masters. He then received his doctorate from Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands in 2019, having started his program in 2013. During his doctoral studies, he was also a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University for several months in 2017. His research focus was in artificial intelligence, with his doctoral thesis being titled Finding stable causal structures from clinical data.
Career
Rahmadi began teaching at his old alma mater UII starting in 2009. In 2018, he established a Center of Data Science at UII.
On 29 April 2021, he was named as the chairman of the Ummah Party upon its foundation, at the age of 36. Due to this appointment, he resigned from his academic post at UII. He was son-in-law of the party's founder Amien Rais. According to Rahmadi in a 2022 interview, he had helped setting up the party's technological backend during leaves from his overseas studies, developing polling and survey apps. Shortly prior to Ummah's formal declaration, with the party's chairman yet to be determined, Rahmadi stated that he was offered the post of chairman without prior negotiations, and he accepted the post. His first speech following his appointment as party
chairman called for national investment into information technology and artificial intelligence. He is the youngest of the leaders of political parties participating in the 2024 Indonesian general election.
Personal life
Rahmadi is married to Tasniem Fauzia Rais, daughter of Amien Rais. Rahmadi and Tasniem had attended the same middle school in Yogyakarta, with Rahmadi being Tasniem's senior. By 2016, the couple had two children.
References
1985 births
Living people
People from Yogyakarta
Indonesian computer scientists
Academic staff of the Islamic University of Indonesia
Islamic University of Indonesia alumni
Johannes Kepler University Linz alumni
Czech Technical University in Prague alumni
Radboud University Nijmegen alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalium%20Database | The Kalium Database is a manually curated biomedical database on K+ channel ligands found in the venom of scorpions, spiders, sea anemones, cone snails, snakes, centipedes, bees, and more. The first release of the Kalium Database was dedicated to scorpion toxins only, while its second release (Kalium 2.0) included toxins from other living organisms. The most recent update (Kalium 3.0) added information on their artificial derivatives. The Kalium Database is meant to assist structural biologists, toxinologists, pharmacologists, medicinal chemists, and other researchers in their pursuit to develop new drugs for cardiovascular and neurological diseases.
References
Toxicology
Chemical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.11bb | IEEE 802.11bb is a line-of-sight light-based wireless networking standard that is part of the 802.11 suite of standards, which defines an interoperable communications protocol for Li-Fi devices. Its proponents state that it will allow for very high speed communication that is faster than Wi-Fi.
The 802.11bb standard describes the use of light in the near-infrared 800 to 1000 nm waveband to implement data rates between 10 Mbit/s and 9.6 Gbit/s, with interoperability between devices with different capabilities.
Development of 802.11bb was carried out by the IEEE 802.11 Light Communications Task Group. Companies participating in the standardization effort included pureLiFi and Fraunhofer HHI.
See also
ITU-T G.9991, an ITU standard for line of sight optical networking approved in 2019
IrDA, an early low-speed infrared communication protocol
References
External links
802.11 Light Communications Task Group website
Networking standards
Wireless communication systems
IEEE 802.11
Optical communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%20TalkTalk%20data%20breach | In October 2015, British telecommunications provider TalkTalk experienced a cyber attack that resulted in a data breach. As a consequence, personal and banking details of around 160,000 customers were illegally accessed.
In the course of the attack, TalkTalk received a ransom demand from a group claiming to be responsible. Some customers complained that they were targeted by criminals before TalkTalk disclosed the cyber-attack, and the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee said "Suggestions that TalkTalk has covered up both the scale and duration of this attack ... must be thoroughly investigated."
Attack and perpetrators
The attack was carried out using SQL injection.
In September 2016, hacker Daniel Kelley was charged with blackmail, computer hacking, and fraud in connection with the TalkTalk data breach and various other attacks. He pleaded guilty to 11 of the offences later that year. He was sentenced to 4 years jail time in 2019.
In November 2018, two further suspects were found guilty of cybercrime charges in connection with the data breach.
Scope
It was initially thought that up to 4 million customers could be affected by the breach. On 24 October, TalkTalk issued a statement saying that a "materially lower" amount of customers’ financial information was stolen, and that the stolen data was not sufficient for money to be taken from bank accounts. On 6 November, TalkTalk stated that the impact of the breach was "much more limited than initially suspected", adding that 156,959 customer accounts were involved, from which 15,656 sort codes and bank account numbers had been taken. Partial data on 28,000 credit and debit cards was also stolen, but that data was insufficient for carrying out transactions on those cards. TalkTalk stated that the lost data had not been encrypted, and that they had not been legally required to encrypt it.
Aftermath
The direct and indirect costs of the attack for TalkTalk have been estimated at million. On 5 October 2016, TalkTalk was fined £400,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for its negligence on securing client data.
References
Cyberattacks
2015 crimes in the United Kingdom
Data breaches |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20milk%20production | The following article lists the world's largest producers of milk. Global milk production has increased rapidly over the past 50 years. According to Our World in Data, global milk production has nearly tripled since 1961, reaching around 918 million tonnes in 2021. The most popular milk is cow milk, followed by buffalo milk, goat milk, sheep milk and camel milk.
Production by country
The table shows the countries by milk production.
World production
See also
List of countries by milk consumption per capita
List of largest dairy companies
References
Lists of countries by production
milk
Milk
Dairy industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Media%20Corporation | New Media Corporation, also known as New Media Technology Corporation, was an American computer company active from 1992 to the early 2000s. The company focused on the design and manufacture of PC Cards, a type of expansion card bus for laptops that had their heyday from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. New Media was privately held and based out of Irvine, California.
History
New Media Corporation was founded by Carl Perkins, Rod Corder, and Eric McAfee, in Irvine, California, in March 1992. Perkins and Corder had previously worked together in the early 1980s at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (which later changed their name to Conexant) of Newport Beach, California, where both led a team of chip designers within the company. In 1989, they founded Togai InfraLogic with another business partner. Togai InfraLogic was founded to capitalize on their ideas on designs for math coprocessor chips that each had developed in their spare time. The company later sold a Japanese speech recognition ASIC to Canon. In 1990, Perkins and Corder left Togai InfraLogic over differences of expectations for the company's future with the third business partner. Perkins and Corder both ended up at ITT Inc., designing ASICs for use in expansion card products for personal computers. It was in this capacity that the two got the inspiration to found New Media Corporation. The duo had been observing the fledgling PC Card expansion bus standard for laptops in the early 1990s and believed they could design PC Card products that were both plug-and-play and intuitive to configure. In 1991, they discovered Eric McAfee, an investor of Silicon Beach technology companies, through a mutual friend and decided to hire him as chief financial officer (CFO).
New Media was the first company to manufacture PC Cards in the United States, according to the Orange County Business Journal. Within a year of its existence it gained large laptop manufacturers such as Toshiba and Compaq as clients, manufacturing cards on an OEM basis and becoming a major player in the PC Card field. With these clients, New Media designed and manufactured the cards for them to rebadge and provide as private-label optional peripherals for their respective users. The company earned $8.5 million in sales within its first year. Later in 1992, New Media began selling their own PC Cards to resellers and retailers. In December 1992, the company introduced the PalmModem, a modem intended for Hewlett-Packard's 95LX palmtop computer; although it supported other laptops and subnotebooks, it came with software and device drivers optimized for the HP 95LX's internal hardware. The PalmModem sold in high numbers and gave New Media further industry recognition. The company soon attracted customers such as AST Research, Gateway 2000, NEC, and Zeos, and between November 1993 and October 1994, New Media grew from 54 workers to over 100.
The company by late 1993 included in its catalog PC Card not only modems but sound cards, SCSI hos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch%20%28chess%20engine%29 | Torch is a chess engine created by Chess.com. Torch finished second in the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship 20: Bullet and 21: Blitz, only behind Stockfish in both cases. It initially participated in the tournament under the name "Mystery". It is freely available through Chess.com’s analysis page. It has also been tested by some chess engine rating lists.
The team behind Torch is composed of Andrew Grant (author of Ethereal), Finn Eggers & Kim Kåhre (authors of Koivisto), Jay Honnold (author of Berserk), and Michael Whiteley & Dietrich Kappe (current authors of Dragon). The former authors of Dragon, Mark Lefler and Larry Kaufman, are advisors on this project. The development of Torch is supported by many open-source tools, including pytorch-nnue, Cutechess, and OpenBench. Torch developers have stated that the entire source code of Torch is original, with no code being used from any other engine.
Competition results
Chess.com Computer Chess Championship
References
Primary sources
These sources are published by Chess.com, and are indicated in this article by a double dagger (‡):
Secondary sources
2023 software
Chess engines
Applied machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackCat%20%28cyber%20gang%29 | BlackCat, also known as ALPHV and Noberus is a ransomware family written in Rust, that made its first appearance in November 2021. By extension, it's also the name of the threat actors that exploits it.
BlackCat operates on a ransomware as a service (RaaS) model, with developers offering the malware for use by affiliates and taking a percentage of ransom payments. For initial access, the ransomware relies essentially on stolen credentials obtained through initial access brokers. The group operates a public data leak site to pressure victims to pay ransom demands.
The group has targeted hundreds of organizations worldwide, including Reddit in 2023. Since its first appearance, it is one of the most active ransomware.
Description
The group behind BlackCat utilizes mostly double extortion tactic but sometimes includes triple extortion which involves exposing exfiltrated data and threatening to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on victims’ infrastructure.
BlackCat-affiliated threat actors typically request ransom payments of several million dollars in Bitcoin and Monero and have accepted ransom payments below the initial ransom demand amount. According to the FBI, many of the developers and money launderers for BlackCat/ALPHV are linked to DarkSide/Blackmatter, indicating they have extensive networks and experience with ransomware operations.
The group is known for being the first ransomware to create a public data leaks website on the open internet. Previous cyber gangs typically published stolen data on the dark web. BlackCat's innovation was to post excerpts or samples of victims' data on a site accessible to anyone with a web browser. Security experts believe the tactic is intended to demonstrate more credibility to their claims of breaching victims' systems and increase pressure on organizations to pay ransoms to prevent full public exposure of their data. The group also mimics its victims' websites to post stolen data on typo squatted replicas on the web.
In its early campaigns, Royal ransomware used the encryptor tool called "BlackCat".
History
Beginning (2021-2022)
The malware was first observed by researchers from the MalwareHunterTeam in mid-November 2021.
By April 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released an advisory that several developers and money launderers for BlackCat had links to two defunct ransomware as a service (RaaS) groups – DarkSide and BlackMatter. According to some experts, the ransomware might be a rebranding of DarkSide, after their attack on the Colonial Pipeline. It might also be a successor to REvil cybercriminal group.
Throughout 2022, BlackCat compromised and extorted numerous high-profile organizations globally including universities, government agencies and companies in the energy, technology, manufacturing, and transportation sectors. Reported victims include Moncler, Swissport, North Carolina A&T, Florida International University, the Austrian state of Carinthia, Regin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbook%20%282011%20TV%20series%29 | Superbook (also known as Superbook Reimagined) is an American Christian computer-animated television series produced by CBN with Asia-Pacific region animation studios along with locally based partners like Tokyo MX and Word of Life Press Ministries in Japan. It is a reboot of the original series of the same name.
The Christian Broadcasting Network produced the computer animated reboot starting on September 1, 2011, which has had 5 seasons and 68 episodes so far. Together, they are considered to be among the most successful animated collaborative Japanese and American media franchises.
Synopsis
Set in the 23rd century, the kids (Chris and Joy) and the robot (Gizmo) uncover the secrets of Superbook through a mysterious portal to the past, traveling back in Biblical times from the Old Testament and New Testament eras.
Cast and characters
Christopher "Chris" J. Quantum (voiced by Samuel Vincent)
Joy Pepper (voiced by Shannon Chan-Kent)
Gizmo (voiced by Cathy Weseluck)
Superbook (voiced by Colin Murdock)
Professor Crispin Quantum (voiced by Jan Rabson)
Phoebe Quantum (voiced by Nicole Oliver)
Episodes
Season 1 (2011–2013)
Season 2 (2013–2014)
Season 3 (2015–2017)
Season 4 (2017–2019)
Season 5 (2019–2021)
Explorer (DVD release)
In 2016, Superbook began releasing DVDs which contained two previously released episodes per DVD. There are also special features on each DVD, such as how to draw a character in the Superbook artwork style, music videos, and/or informational videos explaining where the events of the stories may have taken place or how they relate to Jesus Christ.
Gizmo Go!
In 2020, Superbook began releasing DVDs about Miss Tina starting her internship at Quantum Labs and meeting four comical robots: Gizmo, Rig, Gears and Widget.
Superbook Specials
References
2011 American television series debuts
2010s American animated television series
2020s American animated television series
American computer-animated television series
Animated television series reboots
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated education television series
American children's animated science fiction television series
English-language television shows
2010s American science fiction television series
2020s American science fiction television series
American time travel television series
Christian children's television series
Christian animation
Television series based on the Bible
Animated television series about children |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NJ%20Transit%20rolling%20stock | NJ Transit Rail Operations , the rail division of NJ Transit, operates a fleet of 175 locomotives and over 1,200 passenger cars. This rolling stock is used to operate NJ Transit's network of 11 lines.
Locomotives
Active revenue
These locomotives carry NJTR reporting marks for revenue service. Not included are the EMU cars, which are technically locomotives, but are listed in the passenger cars roster below.
Retired revenue
Non-revenue
All non-revenue locomotives are diesel-powered and legally carry the same "NJTR" AAR reporting marks as all other equipment without exception. As these locomotives lack HEP, they do not haul trains in passenger service unless performing a rescue.
Passenger cars
NJ Transit has a fleet of over 1,000 passenger cars. Previous car fleets include the Comet I, Comet III, Comet IA, and Comet IB. The fleet and examples are described below.
References
Rail transportation in New Jersey
Commuter rail in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujata%20Banerjee | Sujata Banerjee is a computer scientist specializing in the performance and quality of service of computer networks and data centers. Born in the UK, and educated in India and the US, she works in the US as vice president for research at VMware.
Education and career
Banerjee was born in the UK but grew up in Mumbai, India; she has bachelor's and master's degrees from IIT Bombay. She entered the USC Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, intending to study in its Communications Sciences Institute, but soon switched to computer networks and completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1993. Her dissertation, Distributed database systems in high-speed networks, was supervised by Victor O. Li.
After earning tenure as a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, she moved to industry, first at HP Labs, and then in 2017 moving again to VMware as a senior staff researcher and director for external research.
Recognition
Banerjee was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for leadership in programmable and energy efficient networks".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Indian computer scientists
Indian women computer scientists
IIT Bombay alumni
University of Southern California alumni
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Roku%20Channel%20original%20programming | The Roku Channel is an American streaming service which launched in September 2017. In 2021, The Roku Channel began releasing original programming branded as "Roku Originals", including acquisitions from the defunct Quibi service.
Original programming
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Co-productions
These shows have been commissioned by The Roku Channel with a partner network.
Continuations
These shows have been picked up by The Roku Channel for additional seasons after having aired previous seasons on another network.
Non-English language
Drama
Unscripted
Reality
Specials
These shows are one-time original events or supplementary content related to original TV shows.
Exclusive international distribution
These series are programs that have aired on other networks where The Roku Channel has bought exclusive distribution rights to stream them in alternate regions on its own platform, although The Roku Channel lists them as Roku Originals.
Original films
Feature films
Documentaries
Upcoming original programming
Drama
Animation
Kids & family
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Sports
Continuations
Non-English language
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Specials
These shows are one-time original events or supplementary content related to original TV shows.
Upcoming original films
Documentaries
See also
List of Quibi original programming
Notes
References
External links
Roku Channel
Roku Channel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection%20filters | Projection filters are a set of algorithms based on stochastic analysis and information geometry, or the differential geometric approach to statistics, used to find approximate solutions for filtering problems for nonlinear state-space systems.
The filtering problem consists of estimating the unobserved signal of a random dynamical system from partial noisy observations of the signal. The objective is computing the probability distribution of the signal conditional on the history of the noise-perturbed observations. This distribution allows for calculations of all statistics of the signal given the history of observations. If this distribution has a density, the density satisfies specific stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) called Kushner-Stratonovich equation, or Zakai equation.
It is known that the nonlinear filter density evolves in an infinite dimensional function space.
One can choose a finite dimensional family of probability densities, for example Gaussian densities, Gaussian mixtures, or exponential families, on which the infinite-dimensional filter density can be approximated. The basic idea of the projection filter is to use a geometric structure in the chosen spaces of densities to project the infinite dimensional SPDE of the optimal filter onto the chosen finite dimensional family, obtaining a finite dimensional stochastic differential equation (SDE) for the parameter of the density in the finite dimensional family that approximates the full filter evolution. To do this, the chosen finite dimensional family is equipped with a manifold structure as in information geometry.
The projection filter was tested against the optimal filter for the cubic sensor problem. The projection filter could track effectively bimodal densities of the optimal filter that would have been difficult to approximate with standard algorithms like the extended Kalman filter.
Projection filters are ideal for in-line estimation, as they are quick to implement and run efficiently in time, providing a finite dimensional SDE for the parameter that can be implemented efficiently.
Projection filters are also flexible, as they allow fine tuning the precision of the approximation by choosing richer approximating families, and some exponential families make the correction step in the projection filtering algorithm exact. Some formulations coincide with heuristic based assumed density filters or with Galerkin methods. Projection filters can also approximate the full infinite-dimensional filter in an optimal way, beyond the optimal approximation of the SPDE coefficients alone, according to precise criteria such as mean square minimization. Projection filters have been studied by the Swedish Defense Research Agency and have also been successfully applied to a variety of fields including navigation, ocean dynamics, quantum optics and quantum systems, estimation of fiber diameters, estimation of chaotic time series, change point detection and other areas.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian%20Legal%20Medicine%20Organization | The Iranian Legal Medicine Organization (ILMO) is a program under Iran's Judicial Branch. It is based in Tehran. In addition to publishing data about medical conditions and fatalities in the country, and releasing reports on injuries and fatalities due to natural disasters, it also offers services like coroners and virginity tests.
History
1922, the first Office of Legal Medicine, in the Ministry of Justice, was established. Until 1942 forensics were done in private doctors offices.
In 2022 ILMO released a statement in which they claimed that Mahsa Amini's death was due to medication she had been taking, rather than due to police violence.
Deputies
Management development and support
This deputy is in charge of planning and policy making for administrative affairs, budgeting, informatics, construction etc.
Divisions:
Comptroller and financial affairs
Human resources
Support
Office of Information Technology and administrative reform
Medical and Laboratory *Investigations
This deputy is in charge of planning for, direction of, and supervision over its divisions’ activities which include:
Specialized medical commissions
Clinical forensic examinations
Laboratories
Autopsy and crime scene investigation (CSI)
Medical documents
Education and research
This deputy is in charge of educational and research activities of LMO which include:
Developing various curriculums for training courses in forensic medical examination, autopsy and laboratory investigations, etc., for employees and experts in different divisions of the organization;
CME (continuous medical education) programs for physicians;
educational programs for residents of forensic medicine, occupational medicine, and psychiatry as well as medical students, students of obstetrics, nursing, law and police academy;
General directorate of the chief of LMO
This directorate has 5 subsidiary offices including:
Iranian Genetic Data Bank
Nationally receiving and gathering human samples for genetic profiling and matching and verification.
Crisis management office
(natural and man-made disasters)
Tissue Processing Unit
Publications
ILMO owns the Iranian Journal of Forensic Medicine.
References
Government ministries of Iran
Medical and health organisations based in Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20CW%20Sports | The CW Sports is the sports programming division of The CW that is responsible for sports broadcasts carried on the network.
The division was formed in 2023 with The CW's acquisition of broadcast rights to LIV Golf. The CW also airs 50 college football and basketball games from the Atlantic Coast Conference, the documentary series 100 Days to Indy and the Inside the NFL studio program.
History
Prior history of sports programming
Prior to the formation of CW Sports, in 2006, The CW began airing the scripted WWE SmackDown when UPN (the previous rightsholder) and The WB merged into the network; the only other sports coverage among those two networks outside local affiliate coverage of professional and college sports, was of the original XFL on UPN in 2001 for a package of Sunday night games. In October 2008, SmackDown moved to MyNetworkTV. In 2012–13, The CW aired WWE Saturday Morning Slam as part of its Vortexx kids programming block though block lessee Saban.
Division formation
In 2023, The CW agreed to a three-year broadcast deal with LIV Golf, the upstart professional golf tour financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, marking the first-ever national sports broadcasting contract for the network (not including its previous relationships with WWE for sports entertainment programming as discussed elsewhere in this article). Weekday rounds will be available on The CW's streaming apps, while weekend rounds will air on the broadcast network. The announcement led to the launch of The CW Sports division. The network and main owner Nexstar were criticized by the National Press Club for participating in what it considers an attempt by the Saudi government to rehabilitate its image following the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
On February 14, 2023, the network said its LIV Golf coverage would be carried in 100% of U.S. media markets. However, as existing contracts at the time only obligated CW affiliates to air prime time and Saturday morning E/I programming, some of them declined to carry LIV coverage. Among the refraining stations were the eight CW stations owned by CBS News and Stations, ostensibly due to CBS Sports' longstanding partnership with the competing PGA Tour. In many of the affected markets, LIV coverage would air on a Nexstar-owned station, a subchannel carrying a digital multicast network, or on another station not connected with The CW or Nexstar under a secondary affiliation agreement.
On February 17, 2023, The CW announced it had picked up the rights to 100 Days to Indy, a documentary series following the leadup to the 2023 Indianapolis 500 produced by Penske Entertainment and Vice Media.
Throughout the summer of 2023, The CW announced the acquisition of several sports properties. On June 7, 2023, The CW announced it had acquired the rights to the series Inside the NFL for its 47th season, which previously aired via streaming service Paramount+ and previous to that, was cable-exclusive to HBO, then Showtime, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sea%20Beast | The Sea Beast may refer to:
The Sea Beast (1926 film), an American silent drama film
The Sea Beast (2022 film), a computer-animated adventure film
See also
Sea Beast, a 2008 American television monster movie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suparna%20Bhattacharya | Suparna Bhattacharya is an Indian computer scientist known for her contributions to the Linux kernel, and also interested in applications of big data in artificial intelligence. She is an Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow at HP Labs.
Education and career
Bhattacharya is the daughter of C. G. Bhattacharya, a statistician at the Indian Statistical Institute. She earned an undergraduate degree in electronics and electrical communication at IIT Kharagpur, in 1993.
Next, she worked for IBM from 1993 until 2014. She was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 2005, and promoted to Senior Technical Staff Member in 2006, the first woman at that level in IBM India. She moved internally to IBM Research in 2012. While working for IBM, she completed a Ph.D. in computer science and automation at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), in 2013, winning the IISc Alumni gold medal for her dissertation on power-aware software.
After moving to Hewlett Packard as a distinguished technologist,
she was named as an HPE Fellow in 2023.
Recognition
Bhattacharya was named to the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2020. She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to Linux kernel for enterprise and advanced data processing systems".
In 2020, IEEE India recognized her as their Woman Technologist of the Year.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indian computer scientists
Indian women computer scientists
Linux kernel programmers
IIT Kharagpur alumni
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20B.%20Dinesh | T. B. Dinesh is an Indian computer scientist and media activist. He started his research with generating software based on algebraic specification and later focused on web 2.0, web accessibility, web annotation, hypermedia and mesh networking. In 1999, he co-founded the Pagelets project, and in 2002, he founded [Janastu.org Janastu] in Bangalore, a non-profit where he serves as technical director, and a company called Servelots, both serving non-profits with free and open-source software and developing ways for re-narration of the web with web accessibility for the print-impaired. He has studied and built community-based digital tools such as SWeeT Web, Alipi, Pantoto, CoLRN and Papad.
Life and career
Dinesh was born in Tumkur. He studied electronics and communication engineering. Dinesh studied mathematics and computer science at University of Iowa for his postgraduate program, and finished his Doctor of Philosophy in computer science in 1992, researching on generating software based on algebraic expression. He later continued his post-doctoral research at Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica where he had earlier worked for a doctoral project. He then worked at the Stanford Research Institute, where he co-founded the Pagelets project in 1999 along with Susan Uskudarli and Lambert Meertens. He moved to Bangalore in 2002 and built a participatory information resource creation and management system called Pantoto and founded Janastu in 2002.
References
Indian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Feldbaum | Alexander Aronovich Feldbaum (1913 — 1969) was a Soviet scientist in the field of automatic control and fundamental computer science. He is one of the founders of optimal control, and proposed dual control theory in the study of self-adjusting and self-learning systems.
Biography
He was born on August 16, 1913, in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipro, Ukraine).
In 1924, he entered directly into the fifth grade of middle school. In 1937, he graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, and in 1941, the correspondence department of the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.
Since 1936, A. A. Feldbaum has been an employee of the All-Russian Electrotechnical Institute (Всероссийский электротехнический институт). In 1939, he published his first scientific paper dedicated to the theory of automatic control. In 1943, he defended his PhD thesis on the theory of controlling devices.
Since 1945, A. A. Feldbaum taught at the Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces, a professor of the department of missile control systems of the faculty of reactive armament. He was engaged in the development of the theory of linear control systems, as well as the development and creation of the first analog computers in the USSR. From 1945 to 1964, he lectured there on electrical engineering, radio engineering, electrical measurements, automatics, theory of automatic regulation, theoretical foundations of communication and control.
In 1948, A. A. Feldbaum formulated the mathematical statement of the optimal control problem as a variational problem and provided its solution for a number of important applied tasks.
In 1949, A. A. Feldbaum constructed and theoretically investigated non-linear (quadratic in velocity) feedback, proving that it provides the maximum rate of action in the tracking motor controller system.
In 1953, A. A. Feldbaum defended his doctoral dissertation on the dynamics of automatic regulation systems. A. A. Feldbaum introduced the concept of the degree of oscillation of transitional processes, proved a number of theorems about the forms of transient processes and their relationship with the distribution of the roots of the characteristic equation, developed criteria for quadratic errors.
In 1953, A. A. Feldbaum proved a theorem about n-intervals. Sometime later, this result became a starting point in the development of the open maximum principle by L. S. Pontryagin.
In 1955, at several seminars at the RAS V. A. Steklov Mathematical Institute, A. A. Feldbaum extensively discussed his findings. He explained and posed the general problem of optimal control to a group of outstanding mathematicians led by Academician L. S. Pontryagin.
A. A. Feldbaum considered the general problem of synthesizing optimal systems, introducing the fundamental concept of a switching surface in phase space (1955). Sometime later, Sun Zhen, a graduate student of A. A. Feldbaum from China, simulated this switching surface on a computer. Subsequent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS%20500 | NS 500 may refer to:
Apple Network Server 500-series (Apple NS 500)
English Electric NS 500 Class locomotive
Honda NS500, a 500cc motorcycle grand prix race bike
NanoSight NS500 microscope
Yamaha NS-500 speakers; see List of Yamaha Corporation products
See also
NS 5000 (disambiguation)
NS50 (disambiguation)
500 (disambiguation)
NS (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiman%20Kanjo | Eiman Kanjo is a British computer scientist and engineer. She is professor of pervasive sensing at Nottingham Trent University. Her research considers the development of wireless sensing technologies. She was named as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering in 2022. She joins Imperial College London as Provost's Visiting Professor, October 2023.
Early life and education
Her doctorate considered vision-based interactive toys. After earning her doctorate, Kanjo moved to the University of Nottingham, where she developed mobile sensing technologies, which harnessed the power of smart phones to track health, social and environmental information. She continued to build smart sensing devices at the University of Cambridge.
Research and career
Eiman directs the Smart Sensing Lab at Nottingham Trent University. Here she builds systems and digital capabilities for social good. This includes developing wearable technologies and devices for assessing their environment. Her sensors can be attached to the smart phones of cyclists to monitor air pollution uncover the environmental contributors to asthma attacks and monitor how the hustle and bustle of cities impacts physical health. However, she warned against the damaging impacts of smartphones, explaining that notifications can cause a downturn in mood
Kanjo developed a platform, Tag With Me, that provided location-based guidance and an interactive treasure hunt to allow visitors to explore parks and cultural destinations. Tag With Me was used by the Sherwood Forest in their 5G Connectivity project.
She believes her smart sensor networks could be used to monitor mental health in real time, and argued that digital platforms could have helped people find support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2022, Kanjo was named as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering. She moved to Imperial College London as a visiting professor in 2023.
Awards and honours
2021 Vice-chancellor's Outstanding Researcher Team Award
2022 Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering
Select publications
References
1975 births
Living people
21st-century British scientists
21st-century British women scientists
Academics of Nottingham Trent University
Alumni of Abertay University
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
Syrian computer scientists
Syrian emigrants to the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunadarma%20University | Gunadarma University, or commonly called (UG, Gundar), is one of the private university in Indonesia. The main campus is in Depok City, West Java.
History
On August 7, 1981, the Computer Science Education Program (PPIK) was established in Jakarta which three years later changed to the Gunadarma School of Informatics and Computer Management (STMIK). Six years later, on January 13, 1990, to be precise, the Gunadarma College of Economics (STIE Gunadarma) was founded.
In 1993, STMIK and STIE opened a master's program with a concentration in information systems management for STMIK and a master's in management for STIE. Furthermore, through S.K. Director General of Higher Education No.92/Kep/Dikti/1996 dated 3 April 1996, STMIK and STIE Gunadarma merged to become Gunadarma University together with four new faculties, namely the faculty of industrial technology, faculty of civil engineering and planning, faculty of psychology, and faculty of letters. Opening the new millennium, Gunadarma University opened a doctoral program in economics based on the permission of the director general of Higher Education Ministry of Education of the Republic of Indonesia No. 55/DIKTI/2000 which was followed by the opening of the information technology doctoral program based on the permission of the director general of Higher Education Ministry of Education of the Republic of Indonesia No. 3716/P/T/2002. Gunarma University has been accredited A and is ranked number 17 in Indonesia's Webometrics version in 2022.
Faculties and study programs
The faculties and study programs at Gunadarma University are as follows;
Campus
Gunadarma University, has campuses spread across various regions:
Campus A (Kenari Campus) is on Jl. Kenari number 13, Central Jakarta.
Campus B (Salemba Bluntas Campus) is on Jl. Salemba Bluntas, Central Jakarta
Campus C (Salemba Campus) is on Jl. Salemba Raya number 53, Central Jakarta
Campus D (Depok Campus/Main Campus) is on Jl. Margonda Raya Pondok Cina, Depok
Campus E (Campus Dua) is located on Jl. Akses Kelapa Dua Kelapa Dua, Cimanggis
Campus G (Laboratory Campus Kelapa Dua) is on Jl. Akses Kelapa Dua Kelapa Dua, Cimanggis Phone
Campus H (Laboratory Campus Kelapa Dua) is on Jl. Akses Kelapa Dua Kelapa Dua, Cimanggis
Campus H2 (Simatupang Campus) is on Jl. Tahi Bonar Simatupang Plot. 38, South Jakarta
The J1 campus is on Jl. KH. Noer Ali, Kalimalang, Jakasampurna, West Bekasi
J3 Campus (Kalimas Campus) is on Jl. Raya Kalimalang, Bekasi
Campus J4 (Kemang Pratama Campus) is on Jl. Kemang Pratama Raya No. 13, East Jakarta
Campus J5 (Cakung Campus) is located on Jl. Sentra Primer Baru Timur, East Jakarta
Campus L (Cengkareng Campus) is on Jl. Raya Kamal Outring Number. 75, West Jakarta
Campus K (Kampus Karawaci) is on Jl. Kelapa Dua Raya No. 93, Tangerang
Notable alumni
Ayu Ting Ting
References
External links
Universities and colleges established in 1981
Universities in Indonesia
Universities in West Java
Depok |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idols%20South%20Africa%20%28season%2019%29 | The nineteenth and final season of South African Idols premiered on 8 July 2023 on the Mzansi Magic and Mzansi Wethu television networks, under the themes "iLast Number" and "The Farewell Season".
On 5 February 2023, it was announced that auditions for the final season would commence on 12 February 2023. The live shows began on 19 August 2023, with the ladies taking to stage first.
Finalists
Weekly Song Choice and Results
Top 12: Duets With Former Idols
Ladies (19 August)
Gents (26 August)
Top 10: New Kids on the Block (2 September)
Top 9: Ultimate South African Wedding Playlist (9 September)
Top 8: Lionel Richie Playbook (16 September)
Top 7: Showstopper (23 September)
Before the Top 7 performances, Sena had the opportunity to perform Rude Boy by Rihanna.
Top 6: How to Do It & Grammy-Nominated Songs (30 September)
Top 5: Duets With Gospel Stars & Songs by African Stars (7 October)
Top 4: PJ Morton's Playlist & Perfect Date Love Songs (14 October)
Top 3: DJ Collaboration, Song of the Season & Hits From Their Idols (21 October)
Top 2: Idols-Produced Single, Viewers' Choice & Mzansi Classics (28 October)
Before his elimination, Faith Nakana performed his single "Khulumela".
Elimination Chart
Colour key
References
Season 19
2023 South African television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie%20Break%20%28video%20game%29 | Tie Break is a 1990 tennis video game developed and published by Starbyte Software for the Amiga. Ports for other home computers were released later. The game is known as Adidas Championship Tie Break on the ZX Spectrum.
Gameplay
The game is depicted from an overhead view. The game is controlled entirely by the joystick, buttons are not used. The game supports simultaneous four-player multiplayer with four joysticks. There are two modes to choose from: practise and tournament. The selected tournament (Wimbledon, US Open, etc.) determines the court surface (grass, clay, etc.).
Reception
Amiga Format called the game "an impressive-looking and polished tennis simulation". Zero didn't like the overhead view because the player can see only three quarters of the court, the reviewer concluded: "This strange perspective combined with a really dodgy soundtrack means that despite some good features Tie Break doesn't quite make the grade." The Games Machine said: "The two- and four-player modes make up for the overly tough computer opponents and are where the fun's at" ST Format said: "The programmers have stuck to the essentials, ignored all frippery and created an excellent game with lasting appeal." Your Sinclair called it "a neatly put-together and enjoyable game."
References
External links
Tie Break at the Hall of Light
Tie Break at Atarimania
Tie Break at Lemon64
Tie Break at Spectrum Computing
1990 video games
Adidas video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore CDTV games
DOS games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Ocean Software games
Tennis video games
Top-down video games
Video games developed in Germany
ZX Spectrum games
Starbyte Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism%20in%20Spain | Sikhs in Spain are a minority religion group. The Sikh community in Spain is a small but fast growing group. According to the latest available data, there are estimated to be around 26,000 Sikhs living in the country. The Sikh population in Spain has grown over the years, with many Sikhs migrating to the country for agricultural work, construction work or to start their own businesses.
Sikhism in Spain dates back to the 1980s, where many Sikhs migrated as a result of relaxed immigration policies and labour shortages.
History
1990's to present
After Spain joined the European Union in 1986, it became attractive for a large number of Punjabi immigrants. The Sikh migration began in the early 1990s when Spain was undergoing a construction boom and was in a labour shortage.
Since the 1990s, Sikhs from Punjab, India began to work in the agricultural, tourism and manufacturing sector. Many Sikhs also have opened up Indian restaurants around Spain.
Most Sikhs can be found in Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid, Alicante and Bilbao.
In 2017, the Catalonia Sikh Community gave assistance during the 2017 Barcelona attacks.
Discrimination
In 2023, a Sikh boy was asked to remove his turban during a football match in Spain. According to a FIFA ruling, men football players can wear turbans during matches.
Gurdwara
There are 12 Gurdwaras in Spain.
Gurdwara Guru Darshan Sahib in Barcelona
Gurdwara Nanaksar in Barcelona
Gurdwara Shaheed Baba Deep Singh in Alicante
Gurdwara Bhai Mardana Ji in Olot
Gurdwara Sikh Sangat in Málaga
Gurdwara Sikh Sangat in Valencia
Gurdwara Guru Nanak Association in Valencia
Gurdwara Guru Laadho Re Santa Coloma in Santa Coloma de Gramenet
Gurdwara Valencia in Valencia
Gurdwara Sikh Kalgidhar Sahib De Salt
Gurdwara Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Lloret de Mar
Gurdwara Nanaksar in Madrid
See also
Religion in Spain
Sikhism by country
Sikhism in Portugal
Indians in Spain
Sikhism in Greece
Sikhism in Italy
Sikhism in France
References
Religion in Spain
Spain
Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiberCop | FiberCop S.p.A. is an Italian company 58% owned by TIM S.p.A., 37.50% by KKR & Co. Inc. and 4.50% by FASTWEB S.p.A., established in 2021 with the aim of creating or completing FTTH fiber-optic networks.
History
FiberCop has been operational since 1 April 2021, and is 58% owned by TIM, 37.5% by the KKR fund and 4.5% by FASTWEB. The secondary network of TIM and the fiber-optic network developed by Flash Fiber converged within it.
References
External links
TIM Group
Italian companies established in 2021
Telecommunications companies established in 2021
Companies based in Milan
Telecommunications companies of Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-T%20G.9991 | ITU-T G.9991 (provisionally known as G.vlc) is a standard developed by ITU-T for indoor line-of-sight optical networking.
G.9991 was approved in March 2019. It is used by Signify (formerly Philips Lighting) as the basis for their optical communication products.
References
See also
IEEE 802.11bb, an IEEE standard for line-of-sight optical networking approved in 2023
IrDA, an early low-speed infrared communication protocol
ITU-T G Series Recommendations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20mass%20balance%20buoy | An ice mass balance buoy (IMB) allows scientists studying sea ice to measure its temperature and the evolution of its interfaces remotely. The autonomous mass balance buoys usually consist of a data controller module and a temperature string. Some ice mass balance buoys also include acoustic sounders above and below ice measuring the positions of the snow-ice and ice-water interfaces.
Types
The main types of ice mass balance buoys include
The CRREL-Dartmouth Ice Mass Balance (IMB) Buoy
Snow and Ice Mass Balance Array (SIMBA) from SAMS
Seasonal Ice Mass Balance buoy (SIMB-1,2,3)
The CRREL-Dartmouth Ice Mass Balance Buoy (IMB) includes two ice-facing acoustic rangefinders, a vertical temperature string, and air temperature and pressure sensors. These sensors are connected to a non-floating satellite-connected transmission package. Seasonal Ice Mass Balance Buoy (SIMB-1). The SIMB-1,2,3 instruments have the same sensor package as the CRREL-Dartmouth IMB but are enclosed in a spar-type buoy hull to improve their performance during the melt season. The lower-budget Snow and Ice Mass Balance Array (SIMBA) from SAMS includes only a vertical temperature string and a non-floating satellite-connected transmission package.
Characteristics
The main part of IMBs is a vertical chain of thermistors. The vertical spacing of the thermistors at modern IMBs is usually around 2–4 cm. The accuracy of each sensor is generally within 0.1–0.5°C. Many modern IMBs measure in-situ temperatures and temperatures after a cycle of internal heating. In experimental fluid dynamics, such a mode is called a “hot-wire anemometer”. In IMBs, the heat is added by applying an excitation voltage to the resistor bonded to the temperature sensor. The temperature response of the sensor during heating depends on the thermal diffusivity of the surrounding medium (for solids like snow or ice) and the flow rate of the medium (for fluids like seawater or air). The heat transfer in fluids depends on the fluid velocity, and the response usually varies over time scales. The measurements of the temperature response to heating may be used to discriminate different layers within the air-snow-ice-ocean system.
The thermistor chain is usually installed in a standard hole produced by a 2-inch auger. A weight is attached to the bottom end to keep it straight. The data is returned after each sample using the Iridium SBD system. During the deployment, the manual measurements of snow thickness, ice draft and freeboard, and location of IMB sensors are usually made. The IMB deployment disturbs the system around sea ice. For example, snow may have poor contact with the thermistor chain. Additionally, the 2-inch hole may refreeze very slowly if the air temperatures are high or the snow is deep. In summer, the presence of the chain may lead to receiving additional solar energy absorption, which may influence the rates of snow and ice melt.
Usage in research
IMBs were used in several Arctic and Antarct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20largest%20slave%20sales%20in%20the%20United%20States | This is a list of largest slave sales in the United States, as measured by number of people listed for sale at one time, usually all derived from the same plantation or network of plantations due to death or debt of owner. Note: In compensation for advertising the sale, housing the "product" prior to the auction, and managing the transactions, traders typically took 2.5% of the sales.
See also
List of American slave traders
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
References
19th century in the United States
Slave trade in the United States
United States economic history-related lists
Human commodity auctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri%20Happy | Ri Happy Brinquedos styled like RI HAPPY is the largest network retailer of toys in Brazil.
History
founded in 1988 by pediatrician Ricardo Sayon, his wife Juanita Sayon and business administrator Roberto Saba. It has 196 stores, in all states of Brazil, as of May 2019.
In 2012 the private equity Carlyle Group fund acquired an 85% stake, assuming majority control of the company.
It is the retailer in the toy and game industry most admired by customers, according to the IBEVAR award.
Ri Happy Baby
Ri Happy Baby Styled RIHAPPY Baby its a Baby Store retailer in Brazil. The entry into the baby products sector took place in 2013 with the brand Ri Happy Baby, a specialized unit for the public between zero and three years old.
See also
Portal: Brazil
Toy store
References
External links
Toy retailers
Retail companies of Brazil
1988 establishments in Brazil
Retail companies established in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Shulaker | Max M. Shulaker is a Stanford-educated American electrical engineer and a professor at MIT credited with the development of the first carbon nanotube computer and the first modern microprocessor built from carbon nanotube transistors. His research was widely reported in US and British media.
References
Living people
American electrical engineers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Stanford University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain%20Chicken%20Farm | Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside is a 2020 non-fiction book by Xiaowei Wang, a Chinese-American artist, writer, and software engineer. The book explores the impact of technology on rural China, especially in relation to agriculture and food safety. It consists of several vignettes that illustrate how technology is used and adapted in rural China, both by individuals and by urban corporations, and how this impacts global society.
Over the course of the book, Wang travels across China to visit places such as a "blockchain chicken farm" where chickens are tracked by QR codes to certify their free range status, a pearl farming village that exports pearls to US-based multi-level marketing companies, and a Halloween costume factory run by the e-commerce giant Taobao based in a small town. Wang conducted their research over the late 2010s, motivated by the desire to address their own biases in favour of urban areas.
Blockchain Chicken Farm was published by FSG Originals x Logic, a collaboration between Farrar, Straus and Giroux and the technology magazine Logic. The book received widespread attention from critics following its release, being featured on several recommendations lists and awarded the National Book Foundation's 2023 Science + Literature prize. It was also commended for its nuance, detail, and unique perspective on technology and society. Though reception trended positive, some reviewers criticized the book for its lack of a clear thesis, its superficiality, or its misrepresentation of some concepts.
Background
China has rapidly industrialized since the mid to late twentieth century. One consequence is the emergence of substantial income inequality between China's urban and rural regions; inequality peaked in 2009, with a per capita income in urban areas thrice that of rural areas, and has since stabilized. A distinctive feature of Chinese internal migration is the hukou system, a form of household registration where people are assigned a "rural" or "urban" status based on the circumstances of their birth; the location of one's hukou determines eligibility for services such as schools, hospitals, pensions, housing, and employment in an area. Due to the difficulties in changing one's hukou, many migrants from rural to urban China lack access to such services in their place of residence. Though the hukou system has been reformed multiple times, it remains strict.
Food safety is a widespread concern in China, spurred by numerous high-profile controversies regarding contaminated or misrepresented food. To serve China's rapidly growing urban middle class, who increase the country's demand both for meat and for higher-quality food, farmers and companies have attempted technological solutions to guarantee their products' freshness and safety. This includes the eponymous "blockchain chicken farms", where chickens are tracked by QR code to certify their free range status and sold at a premium.
Xiaowei Wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphoides%20cordata | Nymphoides cordata, the little floatingheart, is a species of floating aquatic plant native to eastern North America.
Description
The floating leaves are 30–70 mm long and cordate (or heart-shaped), with smooth, purple lower surfaces. The flowers are white with five petals.
Range
Little floatingheart grows in eastern North America, from the eastern provinces of Canada down to Maryland, and then reoccurs from the Carolinas down to Louisiana.
Habitat
Freshwater ponds, lakes, and slow-moving rivers and streams.
References
cordata
Flora of Northern America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuEra%20Computing%20Inc. | QuEra Computing Inc. is a quantum computing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company develops quantum computers using neutral atoms based on research conducted at both Harvard University and MIT. QuEra also develops software for simulating systems of Rydberg atoms. and finding solutions to Combinatorial Optimization problems.
QuEra actively conducts research in Condensed Matter Physics and combinatorial optimization using neutral atoms as well.
History
QuEra Computing was founded by Mikhail Lukin, Vladan Vuletić , Markus Greiner, Dirk Englund, Nathan Gemelke, and John Pena in 2018.
Prior to QuEra’s founding, research into using and controlling neutral atoms had already started in 2015 at Harvard and MIT, culminating in a 51-qubit machine which later led to the development of a 256-qubit machine.
Technology
QuEra uses neutral atoms based on Rubidium which are controlled and trapped using lasers as its qubits.
On November 1, 2022, QuEra released its 256-qubit machine Aquila, to the general public through the Amazon cloud service Braket.
QuEra currently supports an analog computing mode that relies on the Rydberg blockade phenomena and the position of atoms to achieve superposition and entanglement. The analog mode could allow problems such as the Maximum Weight Independent set (graph theory) (MWIS) to be expressed and solved with research from the company to map other problems onto MWIS as well
QuEra plans to offer a hybrid analog-digital quantum computer soon followed by a fully digital gate-based system.
See also
Quantum computing
Cloud-based quantum computing
References
External links
Companies based in Boston
Companies established in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Coker | Harry Coker is an American lawyer and national security expert. In July 2023, he was nominated by President Joe Biden as National Cyber Director. Coker served as the executive director of the National Security Agency from 2017 to 2019.
Since 2019, Coker has worked as a senior fellow at the Auburn University McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security. A graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School, Coker was a naval officer for twenty years before joining the Central Intelligence Agency in 2000.
Education and Navy career
Coker graduated from the United States Naval Academy. He earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and attended the Naval Postgraduate School.
Coker served as a surface warfare officer for his first six years in the United States Navy and was an engineering duty officer until he retired as a Commander in 2000.
Professional career
After leaving the Navy, Coker joined the at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). For seventeen years, he worked in the CIA Directorate for Digital Innovation, the Directorate of Science and Technology, and the Director's area. Coker was the director of the open source enterprise and served as the deputy director of the CIA office of public affairs. Coker served on the executives diversity and inclusion council (EDIC).
From 2017 to 2019, Coker was the executive director at the National Security Agency. In 2019, Coker became a senior fellow at the Auburn University McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security. In 2020, Coker was a member national security staff during the presidential transition of Joe Biden.
On July 17, 2023, it was reported that Coker was being considered as a potential nominee for National Cyber Director. He was formally nominated to the position on July 25, 2023. If confirmed, he would succeed Kemba Walden, the acting National Cyber Director. The Senate Homeland Security Committee is scheduled to hold a nomination hearing for Coker on October 24, 2023.
References
External links
20th-century American naval officers
21st-century American lawyers
African-American United States Navy personnel
Georgetown University Law Center alumni
Living people
National Security Agency people
Naval Postgraduate School alumni
People of the Central Intelligence Agency
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Naval Academy alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack-for-hire%20operation | Hack-for-hire operations are services that provide clients with illicit access to information by infiltrating digital systems or networks, typically for a fee. This form of hacking on demand has seen a surge in popularity over recent years, with the trend being attributed to advancements in technology, growing digital connectivity, and increasing demand for corporate espionage and personal data breaches.
History
The concept of hack-for-hire services can be traced back to the early years of the internet, when hackers were contracted for a variety of reasons, such as to perform penetration tests which was considered "ethical hacking"
. Over time, however, the scope of these operations expanded to include illegal activities, like industrial espionage, personal data breaches, and illicit political interference.
Operation
Hack-for-hire operations typically involve a client who pays a hacker or a group of hackers to infiltrate a specified digital system or network to gather information. The services offered by these hackers can range from simple password cracking to sophisticated techniques such as phishing, ransomware attacks, or advanced persistent threats (APTs).
Hack-for-hire operations often utilize the dark web, an encrypted part of the internet that is not indexed by traditional search engines, to advertise their services and connect with potential clients. Transactions are typically made using cryptocurrencies to maintain anonymity.
Legality
Hack-for-hire services are typically considered illegal, as they involve unauthorized access to private digital systems and computer networks. They are generally punishable under the computer crime laws of many countries, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in the United States and the Computer Misuse Act in the United Kingdom.
Recent developments
In 2023, an extensive Reuters investigation revealed a massive scheme of hack-for-hire operations, uncovering several groups operating globally. The investigative report showed the complex and sophisticated nature of such operations, which often involved multiple layers of hackers subcontracting work to maintain anonymity and evade legal repercussions.
The London-based National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said in a report published on June 22 2023 that it was increasingly seeing "hackers-for-hire" brought in "to gain the upper hand in business dealings or legal disputes."
Notable cases
Several high-profile hack-for-hire operations have made headlines in recent years:
Operation Aurora (2009): A cyber-attack which began in mid-2009 targeted several high-profile organizations, including Google and Adobe. Later investigations linked the attacks to the Chinese government, suggesting state-sponsored hack-for-hire activity.
Hacking Team (2015): An Italian cybersecurity firm known for providing hacking services to governments worldwide, Hacking Team itself was hacked in 2015. The breach exposed the company's internal documents and revealed its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Martin%20%28disambiguation%29 | Trevor Martin (1929-2017) was a British actor.
Trevor Martin may also refer to:
Trevor Martin (umpire), (1925-2017), New Zealand test cricket umpire
Trevor Martin (computer scientist), inventor of computer language Fril |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adage%20%28disambiguation%29 | Adage may refer to:
Proverb, a short expression of popular wisdom
Adage, Inc., a defunct American computer company
Adage Capital Management, an American investment management firm
See also
Ad Age
Saw (saying)
Saying |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridge%20Computers | Ridge Computers, Inc., was an American computer manufacturer active from 1980 to 1990. The company began as a builder of deskside workstations and workgroup servers and progressed to superminicomputers. They claimed to have produced the first commercially available Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) systems.
Company history
Ridge Computers was established in May 1980 in Santa Clara, California by six original founders, five of whom had come from Hewlett Packard (HP), and one from Zilog.
The company was named for the Montebello Ridge, where two of the founders used to go cycling.
Ridge's first prototype was running by autumn 1981, and entered beta testing one and a half years later in early 1983. The system was presented at the Comdex show in autumn 1983. The earliest CPUs were bit slice processors built from "Fast" ("F" infix) type 7400-series integrated circuits and Programmable Array Logic (PAL) devices.
The Ridge CPU's qualification as a RISC design has been challenged due to its use of variable length instructions, multiple-cycle instruction decode, microcoded control store, and relatively rich instruction set, with over 100 instructions. Other sources reaffirm the Ridge's RISC bona fides.
Ridge faced competition not only from Digital Equipment Corporation's popular VAX-11, but also from other early RISC adopters Celerity Computing and Pyramid Technology, the latter of which began shipping systems in March 1984.
Although considered closer in configuration and capability to contemporary workstations, Ridge described their early systems as "personal mainframes". Their original target market was designers and engineers running scientific and technical applications, including computer-aided design, computer imaging and animation, and scientific research. A significant customer was Pacific Data Images, who switched from DEC VAXen to Ridge 32s, reporting a doubling of performance.
In the early 1980s, the French government was negotiating cooperative technology agreements between French and foreign companies. Also around this time, Jacques Stern, newly installed Director and CEO of Groupe Bull, became interested in adding RISC-based products to his company's offerings. Bull finalized an agreement to share technologies with both Convergent Technologies and Ridge Computers.
Around September 1985, Ridge named Robert J. Kunze, of Hambrecht & Quist Group and Hambrecht & Quist Venture Partners, to their Board of Directors.
In the mid-1980s Ridge began to experience financial difficulties. In early 1986 the company was refinanced, receiving US$1,000,000 out of a planned US$10,000,000 from Hambrecht & Quist, and Groupe Bull. Bob O. Evans, a general partner in Hambrecht & Quist, was appointed chief executive officer.
In mid-1986, Ridge launched an Academic discount program in the UK similar to a program they had already established in the US.
In 1987 Ridge and Apollo Computer entered into a joint marketing agreement that promoted a hybrid co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misskey | Misskey is a free and open-source software used for running self-hosted social networking services. It was originally developed by "syuilo", a Japanese software engineer. The main service was first developed as a bulletin board, but then the open-source community started to add short "Notes" and a timeline function to the service growing it into a microblogging site. Those key features allowed the program and community to grow to its current size.
Overview
A user's post is called a Note. As with other open-source social networks, users can join or create servers. Each server is managed by different administrators, in different locations.
The origin of the Misskey name is from the lyrics of , a song released by the Japanese singer .
History
Development
Misskey publishes its source code to GitHub. The code can be modified as long as it is published under the AGPLv3. Since Misskey also publishes , you can create a personal application through the code. The translation uses .
Timeline
Misskey’s development was started in 2014.
On April 8, 2018, it began using the ActivityPub protocol to communicate between different servers, and had the codename "nighthike".
On April 14, 2019, version 11 was released. PostgreSQL was adopted as the database software, and the release renamed its codename "daybreak".
On February 6, 2020, version 12 was released with the codename "indigo".
On January 16, 2023, version 13 was released. It’s codename is "nasubi". It added different functions and changed the design drastically.
Technology
The code is written with TypeScript and Node.js. is used as a database software while is used as the Web client since February, 2018. Misskey users can interact with users on any other server that supports .
Differences from Mastodon
Misskey and Mastodon are both distributed social networks based on ActivityPub.
But their programming languages and library are different and their APIs are not compatible.
When it began, Misskey was not designed as a distributed social network, so its main philosophy isn't based on an decentralized approach.
Forks
Dolphin is an official fork (sister project) of Misskey. It has fewer features than regular Misskey, but uses fewer resources to build. There is currently no active development.
Foundkey, developed by Johann155. No longer under active development.
Firefish (formerly Calckey), developed by ThatOneCalculator.
Iceshrimp, developed by April. Forked from Calckey for UK Copyright reasons.
Related pages
ActivityPub
Fediverse
Mastodon
References
2014 software
Free and open-source software
Free software programmed in Ruby
Free software websites
Microblogging software
Social media
Social networking services
Web applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Bekaert | Philippe Bekaert (1967 - 2022) was a professor in visual computing at the Expertise center for Digital Media EDM of Hasselt University, Belgium. His research areas include omnidirectional (360°) and free viewpoint video, immersive environments and Virtual Reality, multicamera systems, management of large data transfer, and general-purpose GPU computing.
With his EDM research group of Visual Computing he participated in European and national research and development projects on the intersection of arts, cinema, TV broadcasting, and visual computing.
Philippe Bekaert was convinced of the need to work together with creatives in the arts and entertainment: “We want to stretch the boundaries of the use of technology, not by creating faster systems and problem-solving devices, but by asking what we can do with this technology to enhance human perception and experience“. He worked closely together with theatre and live performance company CREW in about 13 VR and MR based performance.
He was initiator and cofounder of spin-of companies like AZilPix, Camargus and Panokkel, commercializing broadcast video production systems following novel approaches.
Early life and education
Philippe Bekaert was born in 1967 during a Sabena flight Kinshasa-Geneva-Brussels. Philippe finished his engineering education from KU Leuven with a Master in Physics (1985-1991) and a Master in Informatics (1991-1993). He was married to oncologist Annelies Maes and has three daughters.
Expertise Centre for Digital Media
Philippe joined EDM on the 1st of August 2002 as a full-time professor of informatics and headed the research group of Visual Computing. He participated in numerous European and national research and development programs, and has 208 publications.
CREW
Philippe Bekaert and artist Eric Joris of CREW (performance company) started cooperating in 2003 at EDM of University Hasselt. Philippe started developing for CREW and in 2006 joined the Board of Directors. EDM and CREW teamed up in EU research FP7 programs 2020 3D media 2009-2013 and Dreamspace 2013-2016, in the EU Culture Programme New Media, performing arts and spectatorship 2009-2011, in Belgian national and regional [ej4] research programs like IBBT Art&D Programme VR/Real Virtuality 2008-2009, XPlo eXplorative Television Project 2011-2013 and in the EU Transregional program Transdigital 2010-2012.
For ‘Crash’ 2004 Philippe custom built omnidirectional cameras, wrote live, stitching and editing software, as well as he composed the technical configuration. The immersants in this production wore HMD’s and were manipulated at a kind of tilting beds, to produce certain illusions and to overcome simulator or motion sickness. With "U_Raging Standstill" (2005) and "Eux" (2009) the whole configuration became mobile with the immersant walking around. For "O_Rex" Philippe developed an outside-in tracking system based upon the work of Ramesh Raskar. The system had to steer laptops on a driving platform in a 3D p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20darknet%20market%20conflict | The Russian darknet market conflict is a cyber conflict in the Russian darknet drug market, which began after the closure of the largest marketplace Hydra in April 2022. The struggle manifests itself in mutual cyber attacks of sites and an aggressive advertising campaign.
History
In April 2022, the servers of Hydra, the largest Russian darknet drug market, were closed in Germany. After this event, Russian darknet markets began to fight for the place of the market leader, arranging cyber attacks on each other and using aggressive advertising on the streets of Moscow.
In July 2022, Kraken and Solaris warned subscribers of their telegram channels to withdraw any cryptocurrency they had on the forum of the competing platform RuTor. A few days later, RuTor was subjected to cyber attacks and was temporarily closed. RuTor soon reopened and launched a cyberattack on the WayAway site, posting screenshots of the hack, claiming WayAway's security was too weak to be trusted.
In the fall of 2022, an advertisement for the Kraken site appeared on one of the advertising cubes in Moscow City, which caused a huge scandal in society. In October, the Solaris darknet marketplace attacked Kraken, RuTor, Mega, BlackSprut and other competitors using the services of the Russian hacker group Killnet, which later financed the Russian army in the Russian invasion of Ukraine with money stolen from drug shops. In December of the same year, a bus plastered with logos and a QR code from the darknet site Kraken blocked traffic on the Arbat in Moscow for several hours. In the same month, the Moldovan streamer and tiktoker Necoglai held a stream in a T-shirt with the logo of the Mega marketplace, suggesting people to use the legal file sharing service of the same name, he denies any involvement in advertising.
In January 2023, the Moriarty channel appears on Youtube. On it, an unknown man in a black suit and mask introduces himself as the creator of the Mega darknet market, talks about drug cartels and advertises his platform. And in the Moscow metro, ads of the Mega site began to appear with a QR code to go to the site. That same month, the WayAway forum hacking team hacked into the Solaris platform and attached it to Kraken. Powering on the Solaris Darknet Marketplace site now automatically opens the Kraken site. In mid-January, personal android applications of the darknet markets began to appear on Google Play, after their removal, sites began to place APK files for downloading the application in their telegram channels and sites.
In February 2023, advertisements for the BlackSprut site began to appear on Moscow's electronic billboards. Huge signs featured a woman wearing a futuristic mask and the text: “Come to me in search of the best.”
References
Darknet markets
Illegal drug trade
Organized crime conflicts
Organized crime events in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source%20artificial%20intelligence | Open-source artificial intelligence is the application of open source practices to the development of artificial intelligence resources.
Many open-source artificial intelligence products are variations of other existing tools and technology which major companies have shared as open-source software.
Companies often developed closed products in an attempt to keep a competitive advantage in the marketplace. A journalist for Wired explored the idea that open-source AI tools have a development advantage over closed products, and could overtake them in the marketplace.
Popular open-source artificial intelligence project categories include large language models, machine translation tools, and chatbots.
For software developers to produce open-source artificial intelligence resources, they must trust the various other open-source software components they use in its development.
Large Language Models
LLaMA
LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) is a family of large language models (LLMs), released by Meta AI starting in February 2023.
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Block%20%28season%2019%29 | The nineteenth season of Australian reality television series The Block premiered on 6 August 2023 on the Nine Network. Hosts Scott Cam and Shelley Craft, site foremen Keith Schleiger and Dan Reilly, and judges Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer, all returning from the previous season, with Marty Fox stepping in as partial guest judge for Neale Whitaker. Season 18 contestant Tom Calleja joins this season as the main Hipages plumber who will also judge each rooms for Best on Block.
Production
Applications for the nineteenth season of the series opened in September 2022. In September 2022, it was reported Nine had bought five classic brick homes in Charming Street, Hampton East, Victoria, for an estimated amount of $14.3 million. Construction began on the houses in mid-March 2023, and a series promo with a 1950s theme was filmed on the street with the unconfirmed contestants in the same month. Filming is expected to be a 10- to 12-week shoot period from early March 2023. Filming of the series was completed in mid June 2023.
The Block auctions (or Block-tions) for the houses will be held on Saturday, 4 November 2023, with the final episode of 2023 airing the next day on Channel Nine and 9Now at 7:00pm (AEDT) on Sunday, 5 November 2023.
Series changes
For the first time in any season, the contestants were given the entire renovation schedule for the duration of the build on day 1.
Contestants
This is the tenth season of The Block to have five couples.
Score history
Weekly Room Expenditures
Weekly Room Prize
Results
Judges' Scores
Colour key:
Highest Score
Lowest Score
Challenge scores
Auction
Ratings
Notes
References
2023 Australian television seasons
19 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus%20%28TV%20series%29 | is an upcoming Japanese anime television series that is set to premiere in the United States on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block.
Plot
In the utopian year 2052, Dr. Skinner discovered a miracle drug. In 2055, Skinner announces that the drug has a three year half-life and soon everyone who took it will die. A task force of five agents is assembled to locate Skinner and find a vaccine.
Characters
Dr. Skinner
A neuroscientist-turned-mad scientist who has deceived humanity with his seemingly cure-all wonder drug, Hapuna, which is later revealed to be poison.
Production and release
The anime series was announced by Adult Swim on July 20, 2023, and will be directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, most notable for directing the Cowboy Bebop anime television series. Chad Stahelski, who is notable for directing the John Wick film franchise, is designing the action sequences. For music composition, the series will feature a score by jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, and producers, DJs, and musicians Floating Points and Bonobo. Animation for the series will be done by MAPPA while Sola Entertainment handles general production. A teaser trailer for the series was shown at Adult Swim's "Toonami on the Green" panel at San Diego Comic-Con two days later on July 22. During presentation, the production staff stated that the project is planned to be completed by 2024, but did not promise that the series would release in that year.
References
External links
Adult Swim original programming
Anime with original screenplays
Toonami
Television series set in the 2050s
Upcoming anime television series
MAPPA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20group | Milton group is the name given to an organized crime network of scamming operations, operating globally, and run largely from call centres in Tbilisi, Georgia and Kyiv, Ukraine.
BBC Eye Investigations uncovered 152 brands used by the Milton group, including Solo Capitals, an ostensible cryptocurrency trading firm in Georgia, CoinEvo and EverFX.
EverFX were a leading sponsor of the Spanish football club Sevilla FC, and defrauded at least 170,000 people, many in Spain, until EverFX was banned by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
References
Fraud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang%20Hailong | Jesse Shang Hailong (; born 1982) is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for Election Committee constituency. He is the general manager of SenseTime Hong Kong, an artificial intelligence company.
Biography
Shang was born in Shaanxi and grew up with his father in Qinghai. He worked in China Mobile after graduation. He traveled to Hong Kong for the first time in 2006 and settled in Hong Kong through the Admission Scheme for Mainland Talents and Professionals in 2011. He was graduated from Tsinghua University with a Master of Public Administration in 2021.
He was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong through Election Committee constituency in the 18 December 2022 by-election with 812 votes.
References
External links
Members database
1982 births
Living people
Tsinghua University alumni
HK LegCo Members 2022–2025
Hong Kong pro-Beijing politicians
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2021–2026
Hong Kong businesspeople
People from Shaanxi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAPNET | DAPNET (Decentralised Amateur Paging Network) is a free global paging network created and maintained by amateur radio enthusiasts. Messages can be received on commercially available pagers that support the POCSAG protocol and tuned to the appropriate frequency.
History
The project was originally called FunkrufMaster and was created in Germany by the initiative of the staff of the RWTH Aachen University. In 2016, the name was changed to Funkrufmaster 2.0 and then to DAPNET. As of March 2018, over 90 transmitters were already in permanent operation, and the coverage area included parts of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Technical specifications
The recommended frequency for DAPNET is 439.9875 MHz, which is 12.5 kHz below the upper limit of the 70-cm amateur radio band. The transmitters are networked, some via HAMNET, some via the Internet. The standard paging protocol POCSAG is used for message transmission. For a low-power transmitter you can use Raspberry Pi with unipager and MMDVM-modem installed, and to make the coverage area several miles, you need to add a radioamplifier to its output. The coverage area of the transmitter can be up to 12 miles (20 km), depending on the terrain and the height of the antenna.
Skyper and Alphapoc pagers are particularly popular for receiving messages. They can be easily tuned to the desired reception frequency and also offer many other possibilities, such as receiving bulletins - messages sent to all recipients. However, other brands of pagers can be customized accordingly or Flipper Zero can be used.
Messages can be sent via a multilingual website as well as Android and iOS apps.
References
External links
hampager.de
Radio paging
Digital amateur radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception%20handling%20%28programming%29 | In computer programming, several language mechanisms exist for exception handling. The term exception is typically used to denote a data structure storing information about an exceptional condition. One mechanism to transfer control, or raise an exception, is known as a throw; the exception is said to be thrown. Execution is transferred to a catch.
Programming languages differ substantially in their notion of what an exception is. Contemporary languages can roughly be divided into two groups:
Languages where exceptions are designed to be used as flow control structures: Ada, Modula-3, ML, OCaml, PL/I, Python, and Ruby fall in this category. For example, Python's iterators throw StopIteration exceptions to signal that there are no further items produced by the iterator.
Languages where exceptions are only used to handle abnormal, unpredictable, erroneous situations: C++, Java, C#, Common Lisp, Eiffel, and Modula-2.
History
Software exception handling developed in the 1960s and 1970s. LISP 1.5 (1958-1961) allowed exceptions to be raised by the ERROR pseudo-function, similarly to errors raised by the interpreter or compiler. Exceptions were caught by the ERRORSET keyword, which returned NIL in case of an error, instead of terminating the program or entering the debugger.
PL/I introduced its own form of exception handling circa 1964, allowing interrupts to be handled with ON units.
MacLisp observed that ERRSET and ERR were used not only for error raising, but for non-local control flow, and thus added two new keywords, CATCH and THROW (June 1972). The cleanup behavior now generally called "finally" was introduced in NIL (New Implementation of LISP) in the mid- to late-1970s as UNWIND-PROTECT. This was then adopted by Common Lisp. Contemporary with this was dynamic-wind in Scheme, which handled exceptions in closures. The first papers on structured exception handling were and . Exception handling was subsequently widely adopted by many programming languages from the 1980s onward.
Syntax
Many computer languages have built-in syntactic support for exceptions and exception handling. This includes ActionScript, Ada, BlitzMax, C++, C#, Clojure, COBOL, D, ECMAScript, Eiffel, Java, ML, Object Pascal (e.g. Delphi, Free Pascal, and the like), PowerBuilder, Objective-C, OCaml, PHP (as of version 5), PL/I, PL/SQL, Prolog, Python, REALbasic, Ruby, Scala, Seed7, Smalltalk, Tcl, Visual Prolog and most .NET languages.
Excluding minor syntactic differences, there are only a couple of exception handling styles in use. In the most popular style, an exception is initiated by a special statement (throw or raise) with an exception object (e.g. with Java or Object Pascal) or a value of a special extendable enumerated type (e.g. with Ada or SML). The scope for exception handlers starts with a marker clause (try or the language's block starter such as begin) and ends in the start of the first handler clause (catch, except, rescue). Several handler clauses can follo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharad%20Malik | Sharad Malik is an Indian-American computer scientist working in formal methods, electronic design automation, and computer architecture. He is currently the George Van Ness Lothrop Professor of Engineering in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Princeton University.
Early life and education
Malik received his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1985, and M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 1987 and 1990. His doctoral advisor was Robert K. Brayton.
Contributions
Malik is best known for his contributions to fast solvers for boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving. The Chaff solver built by he and his students ushered in a new era for conflict-driven clause learning-based boolean satisfiability solvers. He also pioneered the Instruction Level Abstraction (ILA) effort for hardware verification.
Awards
ACM Fellow, 2014
IEEE Fellow, 2002
CAV Award, Computer Aided Verification conference, "for fundamental contributions to the development of high-performance Boolean satisfiability solvers", 2009.
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award, 2011
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference 50th Anniversary Most Cited Paper Award, 2013
Princeton University President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2009
IEEE CEDA A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation, 2017
Service
Malik has served on the editorial boards of journals such as IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Formal Methods in System Design, and Journal of VLSI Signal Processing. He also served as the department chair of Princeton University's ECE department from 2012 to 2021.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope%20Bradshaw | Penelope Bradshaw (?–1754?) was a British compiler of a cookery book which was known under a variety of titles including The Valuable Family Jewel and Bradshaw's Valuable Family Companion.
Life
Hardly anything is known about Penelope Bradshaw apart from her cookery book which went under various titles including "The Family Jewel" and "Bradshaw's Valuable Family Companion". There are a few facts about her included in her work but much of the information is created to market the book. It is claimed that she had a long career looking after aristocratic families which may be true.
There are many editions of her book which vary in title, length and the negligent claims of being the such and such edition. However, there is one book which appeared first (as the "10th edition") in 1748 and it was re-titled, re-packaged and re-created until the final version in 1754 when the author is thought to have already been dead. The 1748 publication notes that the book was "Begun by Mrs Eliza Johnson, and now finished by Mrs Penelope Bradshaw and Mr Lambart". This acknowledgment reveals that the book uses recipes taken from other sources. These sources include a local confectioner named Edward Lambert and from other books by Eliza Johnson and Hannah Glasse. Glasse's cook book was published only the year before in 1747 as "The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy" and Johnson makes only minor adjustments to conceal the fact that she borrowed from the book. Bradshaw would take one of Glasse's recipes from her (more successful) book and then she would double all the ingredients or halve them. The first edition contained few original recipes but more were added in later versions.
References
1754 deaths
British women writers
British food writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGTN%20%28disambiguation%29 | China Global Television Network is the state-owned broadcaster of the People's Republic of China, CGTN may also refer to:
CGTN (TV channel), Chinese English-language news channel.
CGTN Documentary, Chinese English-language pay television channel.
CGTN Spanish, Chinese Spanish-language news channel.
CGTN Arabic, Chinese Arabic-language news channel.
CGTN French, Chinese French-language news channel.
CGTN Russian, Chinese Russian-language news channel.
See also
CCTV (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Simpson%20%28technical%20author%29 | Alan Simpson (born 1953) is a software developer, technical writer and consultant. He has published over 100 titles, mostly focusing on database management and web technology. Many of his early titles are books about dBASE, such as Understanding dBASE III Plus (1986) and dBASE III Plus Programmer's Reference Guide (1988). His most recent title is Python All-in-One For Dummies (2021), co-authored with John C. Shovic.
References
American technology writers
1953 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull%20Gamma%203 | The Gamma 3 was an early electronic vacuum-tube computer. It was designed by Compagnie des Machines Bull in Paris, France and released in 1952.
Originally designed as an electronic accelerator for electromechanical tabulating machines, similar to the IBM 604, it was gradually enhanced with new features and evolved into a first-generation stored program computer (Gamma AET, 1955, then ET, 1957). In its stored-program configurations, the Gamma 3 mostly competed with the IBM 650.
Over the course of its ten-year availability, this machine facilitated the transition from electromechanical unit records equipment to computers. The Gamma 3 was a commercial success, eventually selling more than 1200 units and prompting IBM to release the 1401 as a competitor.
The Gamma 3 was succeeded by the lower-end Gamma 10, the mid-range Gamma 30, and the large, high-end Gamma 60 mainframe.
History
Until the 1950s, Compagnie des Machines Bull, like its rival IBM, primarily marketed punched card tabulators for inventory management, payroll, and accounting.
These tabulators performed arithmetic operations through a series of digit wheels driven by an electro-mechanical device. Only incrementation, and thus addition, was supported, making subtractions and multiplications particularly slow.
In order to increase the calculation speed and avoid delaying the reading of punched cards during more complex operations, an accelerator capable of overcoming electro-mechanical limitations became a necessity.
Starting in 1949, the Bull Company became interested in vacuum tubes for their switching speed compared to adding wheels and electromechanical relays. The computer was designed using logical circuits comprising around 400 vacuum tubes, 8000 germanium diodes and 48-bit registers made of electric delay lines to further reduce the dependency on vacuum tubes.
The machine has a clock speed of 281 kHz, higher than the 50 kHz of the IBM 604, and more importantly, several orders of magnitude faster than electromechanical devices. The execution time for adding two numbers was 680 µs, while multiplications took 5.7ms. The duration of instructions execution varied from 0.6 ms to 10 ms, with a mean time 2 ms. The Gamma 3 was connected to the tabulator through a cable plugged in place of its connection panel (where the program instructions were coded); thus, the program would now reside and run on the Gamma 3 computer rather than the tabulator.
Nevertheless, while the Gamma 3 was programmable through a removable connection panel similar to those of tabulators, it remained a peripheral device of the tabulator rather than the other way around. Furthermore, despite being electronic, binary, and having a Turing-complete instructions set, the Gamma 3 still lacked the ability to store programs in memory.
A first step towards a stored program configuration occurred with the Card Program (Programme Par Carte, PPC), introducing the capability to execute a program loaded from punched cards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreti%20Tiumalu | Koreti Tiumalu was a Samoan climate activist. She was the coordinator of 350.org in the Pacific Region, and a coordinator of the Pacific Climate Warriors, a network of grassroots climate activist groups from Pacific Island nations and communities.
Tiumalu, a mother, worked as a civil servant before leaving the service to become climate activist. Some of her notable climate awareness campaign include blockade of the Newcastle coal port in Australia and a three-day prayer vigil climate justice campaign at the Vatican, Rome in 2015. She died on 2 July 2017.
References
Samoan activists
2017 deaths
Samoan environmentalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2ODP | REDIRECT Water (data page) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psych%20%28film%20series%29 | Psych is a series of comedy-drama mystery films, based on and serving as a continuation of the USA Network television series of the same name. Beginning with the 2017 film Psych: The Movie, the series has seen mixed to favorable critical reception with the Peacock streaming service ordering all films succeeding the first.
The first sequel, Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, was released in 2020, with the third film, Psych 3: This Is Gus, following in 2021. Three further films are in development.
Origin
Once production on the dramedy television series Psych wrapped, series creator Steve Franks immediately had the idea to bring the Psych universe back in film form later on. On May 8, 2017, USA Network confirmed that a film continuation would be produced for the network, directed by Franks and co-written with series star James Roday, with all the series' main cast returning. All subsequent films would be ordered by and released to the streaming service Peacock.
Films
Psych: The Movie (2017)
On May 8, 2017, USA Network announced Psych: The Movie, a two-hour film continuation of Psych to air December 7, 2017. All the original main cast would return for the film, which was directed by series creator Steve Franks and written by Franks and series star, James Roday Rodriguez. Zachary Levi was later announced for the film as the main villain, "Thin White Duke", while Jazmyn Simon – Dulé Hill's real-life fiancée – played Selene, a romantic interest for Gus. On July 5, 2017, Charlotte Flair announced that she would be in Psych: The Movie as Heather Rockrear.
On June 28, 2017, former guest star Ralph Macchio joined the cast reprising his role as Nick Conforth, the police academy officer who trained Shawn and Gus in season 5. Principal photography took place from May 25 to June 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was later announced that Timothy Omundson would have a reduced role due to a stroke, but would still appear. In addition, Kurt Fuller, John Cena and Jimmi Simpson were confirmed to be reprising their respective roles of Woody Strode, Ewan O'Hara and Mary Lightly.
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (2019)
On February 14, 2019, it was announced Psych: The Movie 2 was greenlit and all the main cast would return, set to premiere in 2019. On April 18, 2019, it was announced Joel McHale would be joining the film, as well as Jimmi Simpson, reprising his recurring role as Mary Lightly. On September 17, 2019, it was announced that the sequel had been renamed Psych 2: Lassie Come Home and would instead be airing on NBCUniversal's new streaming service, Peacock. Consequently, the film will only debut after the streaming service is launched. In a November 2019 interview with Larry King, Timothy Omundson revealed that the film would revolve around the characters rallying together in support of Lassie's recovery following a stroke, mirroring Omundson's real-life stroke which led to his reduced presence in Psych: The Movie.
Psych 3: This Is Gus (2021)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chucky%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of the American horror series Chucky, created by Don Mancini, premiered on Syfy and USA Network on October 4, 2023. The season will consist of 8 episodes. Based on the Child‘s Play film franchise, the series serves as a sequel to Cult of Chucky, and stars Brad Dourif reprising his role as the titular character, alongside Zackary Arthur, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Björgvin Arnarson, and Devon Sawa in the ensemble cast.
Cast and characters
Main
Zackary Arthur as Jake Wheeler
Björgvin Arnarson as Devon Evans
Alyvia Alyn Lind as Lexy Cross
Devon Sawa as James Collins
Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky / Charles Lee Ray
Recurring
Jennifer Tilly as Tiffany Valentine
Fiona Dourif as Nica Pierce
Carina London Battrick as Caroline Cross
Annie M. Briggs as Rachel Fairchild
Lara Jean Chorostecki as Charlotte Collins
Callum Vinson as Henry Collins
Jackson Kelly as Grant Collins
Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves as Melanie Spiegel
Gil Bellows as Warren Pryce
Michael Therriault as Spence
Notable guest stars
Alex Vincent as Andy Barclay
Kenan Thompson as a Cab Driver
Sarah Sherman as Annie Gilpin
Noah Dalton Danby as Teddy Brooks
Nia Vardalos as Evelyn Elliot
Episodes
Production
On January 15, 2023, the series was renewed for a third season. Despite the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, filming began in Toronto on April 27 of that year. It was expected to continue through August, however in mid-July production was interrupted due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. The season will be split into two parts, with the first half airing in October 2023 and the other half airing in 2024.
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the third season holds an approval rating of 100% based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 8.2/10.
References
External links
2023 American television seasons
Child's Play (franchise)
Split television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadem | Vadem Inc., later Vadem Limited, was an original design manufacturer, chipset designer, and computer design firm active from 1983 to 2013. The company chiefly focused on the design of mobile computers such as laptops, rendering their services to companies such as Zenith Data Systems, Osborne Computer Corporation, and Sharp Corporation, among others. In the late 1990s, the company released their own branded product, the Vadem Clio, a PDA.
History
Vadem Inc. was founded by Henry Fung and Chikok Shing in San Jose, California, in 1983. Fung had previously worked for Intel as an engineer, while Shing had worked for the Osborne Computer Corporation, which had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy around the time of Vadem's incorporation. In its founding year, Vadem delivered the design for what would become the Morrow Pivot, one of the first battery-powered MS-DOS compatible portable computers, manufactured and sold by Morrow Designs. Morrow provided Vadem with under $3 million in seed money in exchange for the design.
As Morrow had signed a non-exclusive agreement with Vadem to use the computer's design, Vadem later sold the rights to the design to the recently reorganized Osborne Computer Corporation, who marketed it as the Osborne III computer in 1984. Later, in 1985, Vadem's Shing designed the lunchbox-sized Morrow Pivot II for Morrow, this time under an exclusivity agreement. Morrow themselves sold the rights for the Pivot II design to Zenith Data Systems, who released it as the Zenith Z-171. The Z-171 sold immensely well for Zenith Data Systems, the latter shocking industry observers in early 1986 when it was awarded a contract to sell 20,000 Z-171s worth $27 million to the IRS, beating out IBM and their PC Convertible. In 1985, Sharp Corporation hired Vadem for the design of the PC-7000, their first fully IBM PC compatible portable computer, in 1985. In 1987, the recommissioned Vadem for a successor laptop, the PC-4500. Zenith themselves later hired Vadem for the design of their all-in-one Eazy PC, in 1987.
The company posted profits in the fiscal years 1986 and 1987. By 1988, Vadem occupied a 6,000-square-foot research and development facility San Jose, employed 18 full-time employees and had several freelance consultants on their roster. In the late 1980s, the company began pivoting to designing integrated circuits for application in personal computers and embedded systems, such as solid state disks and LCD controller chips. During this pivot, Vadem found their greatest successes in the PC-compatible chipset market, signing two contracts with Intel in 1988 for the rights to Vadem's designs for a chipset compatible with the IBM PC XT and PS/2 Model 30, in exchange for investment capital and referrals to Vadem from Intel's sales department. In 1989, Vadem designed for Intel the 82347, a power-management support chip designed for Intel's laptop-oriented i386 variant, the i386SL. In 1990, they released a low-cost, low-power CMOS chipset for the Inte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20assets%20owned%20by%20Media%20Prima | This is a list of assets owned by Media Prima Berhad, a Malaysian media and entertainment conglomerate based in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Assets and subsidiaries
Media Prima Television Networks
Media Prima owns and operates five free-to-air television channels, each of them functioning under their own branding and subsidiaries. TV3 and NTV7 were established long before Media Prima exist, while others, 8TV and TV9 were formed through the group's acquisition of defunct television companies.
WOWSHOP is the group's teleshopping network. It was established on 22 February 2016 as CJ Wow Shop, a joint venture with Korean conglomerate CJ Group's subsidiary, CJ E&M. The teleshopping network became a fully owned subsidiary after the group bought CJ's remaining 49% stake. Apart from TV3, NTV7, 8TV, TV9 and Malaysia's No.1 edutainment channel, DidikTV KPM, Wow Shop is also available in two purpose-built channels on my Freeview. Tonton (formerly gua.com.my and later Catch Up TV) is the group's Over-the-top media service (OTT) which covers viewers across multiple devices such as computers, tablets, smartphones.
Media Prima Audio
Media Prima Audio (formerly known as Media Prima Radio Networks and later Ripple Media or simply Ripple) is a radio broadcasting subsidiary of Media Prima. It includes five radio broadcast brands – Eight FM (formerly One FM and later 8FM), Kool 101 (formerly Kool FM and Buletin FM), Fly FM, Hot FM, Molek FM and a podcast platform – Audio+ (formerly Ais Kacang). As of November 2021, based on the October 2021 Gfk Radio Survey, Media Prima Audio is the most popular radio network in Malaysia with over 5 million listeners and 57 million digital listeners since its rival, Astro Radio. However, Media Prima does not have Tamil-language radio stations, unlike Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) and Astro.
Media Prima International
New Straits Times Press
Media Prima owns more than 98% equity interest in the New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad (NSTP), which owns three of Malaysia's most recognised print and online news brands – namely its namesake New Straits Times, Berita Harian and Harian Metro, and their respective weekend editions as well as an online newspaper archive, KLiK. Apart from news brands, NSTP also owns printing subsidiary Print Towers Sdn Bhd, tertiary education reference website Mind Campus and learning portal FullAMark.
Out-of-home advertising
Big Tree
Kurnia Outdoor
UPD
The Right Channel
Gotcha
Big Tree Seni Jaya
Production and distribution
Primeworks Studios
Primeworks Distribution
Alternate Records & Talents
Primeworks Studios Sdn Bhd is a content company and commercial subsidiary of Media Prima. It is one of Malaysia's production houses with content output in diverse categories covering television, cinema, and digital platforms. While it starts producing television series as early as 1984, Primeworks only began to identify themselves by introducing their own logo in July 2008 to distinguish from Grand Brilli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interim%20Measures%20for%20the%20Management%20of%20Generative%20AI%20Services | The Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services () are a set of measures introduced by China to regulate public-facing generative artificial intelligence within the country. They are set to take effect on 15 August 2023. The finalized text was issued to the public on 10 July 2023.
The measures were issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China, along with six other national regulators: the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Public Security, and National Radio and Television Administration.
Articles
Section 1: General provisions
Article 1 outlines the intention of the measures: promoting the healthy development and regulated usage of generative AI, while safeguarding national security, societal public interests, and the legal rights of citizens and organizations.
Article 2 defines the scope of the measures as applying to public-facing generative AI services within the People's Republic of China. It exempts internal services by companies, research institutions, and other organizations that do not provide services to the domestic public.
Article 3 sets out key principles that will guide the regulatory approach: equal emphasis on development and security, promoting innovation along with rule of law, and adopting inclusive prudence with classified supervision of generative AI services.
Article 4 requires generative AI services to adhere to relevant laws and respect social morality. Adhering to the Core Socialist Values, they must not generate content that promotes overthrowing the socialist system, harms national security, or undermines social stability. They must not promote discrimination, terrorism, extremism, violence, obscenity, or false and harmful information prohibited by law. Models should be designed and trained to avoid discrimination or algorithmic bias. Services should respect intellectual property rights and business ethics. They must respect others' rights and avoid endangering the physical and mental health of others. Effective measures should be taken to improve the transparency and accuracy of generative AI services.
Section 2: Technology development and governance
Article 5 encourages innovative application of generative AI across industries to create positive, healthy and high-quality content. It supports collaboration on AI innovation, data and application development.
Article 6 promotes independent innovation in core AI technologies, infrastructure development, and data resource platforms. It encourages international cooperation, collaborative sharing of compute, expanding high-quality public training data sources, and the adoption of secure chips and resources.
Article 7 mandates that providers employ effective measures to ensure that training data is high-quality, accurate, diverse, and legitimately sourced in a way that does not infringe upon intellectual property |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabelle%20McIver | Annabelle K. McIver is a computer scientist whose research involves the use of formal methods and information flow in computer security and the verification of probabilistic systems. Educated in mathematics in the UK, she works in Australia as professor in the School of Computing at Macquarie University, and as one of the founding leaders of Macquarie's Future Communications Research Centre.
Education
McIver read mathematics at the University of Cambridge, where she was awarded a double first in 1985. She completed a doctorate (D.Phil.) at the University of Oxford in 1990. Her dissertation, Non-Hopf modules for infinite soluble groups, concerned abstract algebra, and was jointly supervised by Peter M. Neumann and Martin B. Powell.
Books
McIver is a co-author of The Science of Quantitative Information Flow (Springer, 2020, with M. S. Alvim, C. Palamidessi, K. Chatzikokolakis, C. Morgan, and G. Smith), and of Abstraction, Refinement and Proof for Probabilistic Systems (Springer, 2005, with C. Morgan).
References
External links
Topete research group
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Australian computer scientists
Australian women computer scientists
Academic staff of Macquarie University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte%20%28journal%29 | GigaByte is a peer-reviewed open-science journal published by GigaScience Press since 2020. It focuses on short, focused, data-driven articles describing and sharing open research data sets and software. Using an exclusively XML-based publishing system that automates the production process to make it simple to change views, languages and embed interactive content, in 2022 it won the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing.
In order to host the large data-sets the journal covers, like its sister journal GigaScience it uses its own in-house disciplinary repository: GigaDB.
The journal is abstracted and indexed by PubMed/PMC/DOAJ and CNKI.
References
Academic_journals_established_in_2020
Creative_Commons_Attribution-licensed_journals
English-language_journals
Genetics journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%20Publishing%20Platform | Quark Publishing Platform (QPP) is an enterprise level, SaaS-based content lifecycle management software solution for modular, metadata-driven, and compliance-controlled omnichannel publishing. Quark Publishing Platform was developed by Quark Software, Inc. in 2012, replacing its previous iteration Quark Publishing System.
System overview
Quark Publishing Platform provides an integrated, single vendor solution for managing the entire content lifecycle, from content strategy and creation, through collaboration and publishing, to consumption and analysis. It offers low-code / no-code XML structured authoring in Microsoft Word or a Web browser, component content storage and assembly via CCMS (Component Content Management System), and content intelligence based on AI and production, consumption and workflow analytics. It enables easy content reuse and is ideal for content automation in translation and localization workflows with its flexible content models and design templates.
Quark Publishing Platform was developed by Quark Software, Inc. in 2012, replacing its previous iteration Quark Publishing System.
Features and use cases
QPP is widely used by large global enterprises in industries where regulation and compliance is critically important, for both content operations and content publishing. This includes financial services, government & public sector, aerospace & defense, discrete manufacturing, and in life sciences such as the pharmaceutical and medtech sectors.
It has integration with Microsoft Office 365 and has a specific plugin for Microsoft Word called Quark XML Author which enables technical writers and subject-matter experts to write content components without having to learn XML, DITA or any other schema architecture.
In addition to supporting DITA, DocBook, S1000D and others, Quark has its own open XML schema called Quark Smart Content which allows for content automation and content reuse in wider use cases across the organization outside of traditional technical writing, where more visual content can be utilized. So it can be effective for content types such as research reports, data sheets and fund marketing documents, as well as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and product labels.
In April 2022, Quark Publishing Platform (QPP) NextGen v2.0 was released. Features include:
Self-serviceability on enterprise content processes
Structured authoring
Component content management
Omnichannel publishing
Content intelligence
Flexible cloud deployment options
In 2023, Quark Software announced a deeper innovation investment in OpenAI technologies across the Quark Publishing Platform (QPP) NextGen.
On February 28, 2023, QPP NextGen v3.0 was released with simplified role-based dashboards and advanced analytics capabilities.
In 2023, Quark Publishing Platform won the People's Choice Stevie Award for Favorite New Products — Content Management Solution.
Release history
External links
Quark Publishing Platform product page ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic%20Boreham | Dominic Boreham (1944-2022) was a British-born artist who created many plotter drawings from 1977 onwards. He was also the editor of the Computer Arts Society's PAGE magazine from 1979 to 1982.
Biography
Dominic Boreham was born in Woodford, Essex in 1944. From 1979 to 1982 he was the editor of PAGE magazine, published by the Computer Arts Society. He moved to Burgundy, France in 1991. He died in December 2022, aged 77.
Education
As a boy, Boreham attended the William Morris Technical School in London. After six years working as an assistant at the Fitzwilliam Museum, he took a foundation course at Cambridge School of Art. He then studied at Wimbledon College of Art from 1974 to 1977, going on to attend the Slade School of Art. Boreham completed a doctorate at the Royal College of Art in 1983.
Artworks
From 1977 until 1983, Boreham solely made drawings using a computer to drive a flat-bed plotter. His plotter drawings were featured in the Computer Arts Society's PAGE magazine in July 1979.
Public collections
His work is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Cholet, the National & University Library, Zagreb, and other public collections.
Exhibitions
Boreham's artworks have featured in many exhibitions, including
2014 Automatic Art, GV Art London, 3 July- 10 September 2014.
2018-2020 Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers, organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum and touring to Chester Visual Arts and Firstsite, Colchester.
References
External links
GV Art webpage for Dominic Boreham
List of works held by the Victoria and Albert Museum
British digital artists
British expatriates in France
1944 births
2022 deaths
People from Woodford, London |
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