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Nii Quaynor. Nii Narku Quaynor (born 1945) is a Ghanaian scientist and engineer who has played an important role in the introduction and development of the Internet throughout Africa.

Biography
Quaynor graduated in engineering science from Dartmouth College in 1972, and received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Thayer School of Engineering in 1973. He then studied Computer Science, obtaining an M.S. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1974, and a Ph.D. from the same institution in 1977. He attended the Kinbu Secondary Technical School, Adisadel College and Achimota School in Ghana.

He is one of the founding members of the Computer Science Department at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, and continues to hold a professorship there. He is also a member of the Council of the University of Ghana.

In 2000, he became director of ICANN for the African region.

Work with telecommunications and the Internet
On Quaynor's return to Ghana from the United States in the early 1990s, he established some of Africa's first Internet connections and was involved in setting up some key organisations, including the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG). He introduced Value Added Networks in the region through the introduction of the SWIFT, Internet and Commerce networks, and was founding chairman of AfriNIC, the African numbers registry.

Quaynor is the Chairman of the Ghanaian company Network Computer Systems, and a member of the United Nations Secretary General Advisory Group on ICT, member of the ITU Telecom Board, chair and of the OAU Internet Task Force, President of the Internet Society of Ghana, and member of the Worldbank Infodev TAP.

Quaynor also serves as a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.

Awards and recognition

He was awarded the 2015 ICANN Multi-stakeholder Ethos Award together with Cheryl Langdon Orr Also on 26 June 2013, he was selected for induction into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society. In December 2007, Quaynor was awarded the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award from the IETF (The Internet Engineering Task Force).

References

External links
Profile of Quaynor on CNN International's African Voices, September 2, 2013

21st-century Ghanaian engineers
Ghanaian scientists
Living people
Thayer School of Engineering alumni
Stony Brook University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Internet in Africa
Place of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of Achimota School
Academic staff of the University of Cape Coast
Alumni of Adisadel College
Hatley–Pirbhai modeling. Hatley–Pirbhai modeling is a system modeling technique based on the input–process–output model (IPO model), which extends the IPO model by adding user interface processing and maintenance and self-testing processing.

Overview
The five components—inputs, outputs, user interface, maintenance, and processing—are added to a system model template to allow for modeling of the system which allows for proper assignment to the processing regions. This modeling technique allows for creation of a hierarchy of detail of which the top level of this hierarchy should consist of a context diagram. The context diagram serves the purpose of "establish[ing] the information boundary between the system being implemented and the environment in which the system is to operate." Further refinement of the context diagram requires analysis of the system designated by the shaded rectangle through the development of a system functional flow block diagram. The flows within the model represent material, energy, data, or information.

References

Systems engineering
Software analysis patterns
Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications. The Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK) is part of the Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). IAIK is concerned with aspects of computer security and information security. Current focal points are set on design of new cryptographic algorithms, implementation of cryptographic algorithms and protocols in hardware as well as in software, network security, e-Government, and trusted computing.

IAIK conducts applied research into these areas, fostering a holistic view of the aspects of computer and information security. Teaching activities closely follow the latest developments in IAIK’s research fields. The activities of IAIK are led by Stefan Mangard after Reinhard Posch abdicated in 2019.

IAIK is specialized on following specific aspects of computer and information security:

 VLSI design and security
 Implementation attacks
 RFID hardware and security
 Software security
 E-Government
 Trusted computing
 Design and analysis of hash and block cipher primitives
 Network security
 Formal methods in verification and design

References

External links
 IAIK
 IAIK at the Faculty of Computer Science of TU Graz

Research institutes in Austria
Graz University of Technology
MacChoro. MacChoro (pronounced MacKoro) was a computer program for choropleth mapping developed for early versions of the Apple Macintosh computer.  A choropleth map shades areas, such as states or counties, to represent values and is mainly used for the mapping of statistical data.  Released in 1986, MacChoro was the first computer mapping program to implement Macintosh's point-and-click user interface for the analysis and production of thematic maps. MacChoro II, released in 1988, was the first program to incorporate interaction in animated mapping.

Development

MacChoro began to be developed in the Fall of 1985 on an Apple Macintosh 512K (Fat Mac) computer with a single 400K floppy drive.  The programming language was Fortran, and the code was based on a choropleth mapping program that was developed on a Digital Equipment VAX computer. It had to be re-written to incorporate the mouse, pull-down menus, and dialogs.

Data Classification
The program stressed data classification, and implemented six methods including unclassed, equal interval, quantile, natural breaks, standard deviation and user-defined. The unclassed method was limited to 16 shadings. Each of the remaining methods could be made with between 2 and 16 categories.  Maps could be re-classified and displayed in a matter of seconds.  The program was especially useful for comparing different methods of data classification.

Animation
An interactive animation feature was added in 1988. A second version of the program, MacChoro II, placed a series of maps into memory showing different methods of data classification, different number of classes, or different variables. Once finished, the animated series of maps could be displayed at up to 60 frames per second. A dialog controlled the speed of display and provided access to the individual frames.

References
Peterson, Michael P. (1995) Interactive and Animated Cartography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Peterson, Michael P. (1994) Spatial Visualization through Cartographic Animation: Theory and Practice. Proceedings of Geographic Information Systems / Land Information Systems GIS/LIS 1994, pp. 250-258.
Peterson, Michael P. (1993) Interactive Cartographic Animation. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, 1993, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1993, pp. 40-44.
Tobler, W. (1973) "Choropleth Maps Without Class Intervals?." Geographical Analysis 3: 262-265.

External links
 MacChoro Step-by-Step Part 1
 MacChoro Step-by-Step Part 2

Cartography
Visualization (graphics)
Jo Cornu. Jozef Cornu (born 1944) is a Belgian engineer and business executive, and former CEO of the National Railway Company of Belgium.

Biography 
Cornu graduated as Master of Science in electrical engineering and mechanics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and he obtained a PhD in electronics at the Carlton University in Ottawa, Canada. From 1981 to 1983 he attended the Postgraduate Program Business-executive at the Antwerp Management School.

From 1982 up to 1984 Cornu was CEO of Mietec in Oudenaarde and afterwards General Manager of Bell Telephone until 1987. From 1988 up to 1995 he was a member of the Executive Board committee of Alcatel plc and from 1995 up to 1999 COO of Alcatel Telecom. Afterwards he became President of the Board of Directors of Alcatel.

Since 2005 Jo Cornu is President of ISTAG-group (Information Society Technologies Advisory Group) of the European Commission. In 2005, he was a member of the group which wrote the Aho report. From 1 December 2007 to 27 April 2010 he was CEO of Agfa-Gevaert.

Selected publications
 Jo Cornu, Struisvogels vliegen niet, Lannoo, 1996

References

External links 
  Jo Cornu wordt nieuwe CEO NMBS na terugtrekking Frank Van Massenhove

1944 births
Living people
Belgian businesspeople
KU Leuven alumni
Carleton University alumni
GLIM (software). GLIM (an acronym for Generalized Linear Interactive Modelling) is a statistical software program for fitting generalized linear models (GLMs). 
It was developed by the  Royal Statistical Society's 
Working Party on Statistical Computing
(later renamed the GLIM Working Party),
chaired initially by John Nelder.
It was first released in 1974
with the last major release, GLIM4, in 1993.
GLIM was distributed by the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG).

GLIM was notable for being the first package capable of fitting a wide range of generalized linear models in a unified framework, and for encouraging an interactive, iterative approach to statistical modelling.
GLIM used a command-line interface and allowed users to define their own macros. Many articles in academic journals were written about the use of GLIM. Two GLIM conferences were held in London (1982) and Lancaster (1985) and the Statistical Modelling Society, with its annual workshops, grew out of them. GLIM was reviewed in The American Statistician in 1994, along with other software for fitting generalized linear models.

The GLIMPSE system was later developed to provide a knowledge based front-end for GLIM.

GLIM is no longer actively developed or distributed.

Books

References

Regression and curve fitting software
Royal Statistical Society
Russellite (mineral). Russellite is a bismuth tungstate mineral with the chemical formula Bi2WO6. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic crystal system. Russellite is yellow or yellow-green in color, with a Mohs hardness of .

Russellite is named for the mineralogist Sir Arthur Russell, and the type locality is the Castle-an-Dinas Mine, near St Columb Major in Cornwall, where it was found in 1938 in wolframite.
It occurs as a secondary alteration of other bismuth bearing minerals in tin−tungsten 
hydrothermal ore deposits, pegmatites and greisens. It typically occurs associated with native bismuth, bismuthinite, bismite, wolframite, ferberite, scheelite, ferritungstite, anthoinite, mpororoite, koechlinite, cassiterite, topaz, muscovite, tourmaline and quartz.

References

Tungstate minerals
Bismuth minerals
Orthorhombic minerals
Minerals in space group 29
REEM. REEM is the latest prototype humanoid robot built by PAL Robotics in Spain. It is a 1.70 m high humanoid robot with 22 degrees of freedom, with a mobile base with wheels, allowing it to move at 4 km/hour. The upper part of the robot consists of a torso with a touch screen, two motorized arms, which give it a high degree of expression, and a head, which is also motorized.

REEM-A and REEM-B are the first and second prototypes of humanoid robots created by PAL Robotics. REEM-B can recognize, grasp and lift objects and walk by itself, avoiding obstacles through simultaneous localization and mapping. The robot accepts voice commands and can recognize faces.

Specifications

See also
 ASIMO
 Atlas
 HUBO
 Humanoid robot
 iCub
 Nao
 QRIO
 Robonaut

References

External links
 
 Official Blog
 Official REEM-C microsite

Bipedal humanoid robots
2005 robots
Robots of Spain
2008 robots
Comte AC-8. 

The Comte AC-8 was a 1930s Swiss six-seat light transport aircraft produced by Flugzeugbau A. Comte.

Design and development
Similar in configuration to the company's earlier Comte AC-4, the Comte AC-8 was designed as a light transport for five passengers. It incorporated a braced high-wing monoplane wing, with a conventional tail unit and fixed tailwheel landing gear. The enclosed cabin had accommodation for a pilot and five passengers. The aircraft was powered by either a Wright J-6 or Lorraine radial engine.

Only three aircraft were built.

Specifications

References

See also

1930s Swiss civil utility aircraft
AC-8
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Deterministic memory. In computing, deterministic memory is computer memory which contains values that can be depended on from access to access. The term is also used in conjunction with  achieving real-time functionality, especially in conjunction with embedded processor applications.

See also 
 Embedded system
 Memory management
 Real-time computing

External links 
 Design Patterns for Real-Time Computer Music Systems
 Exploring memory architectures: pillars of processing performance
 Harnessing parallelism from video-processing DSPs
 Memory Management
 Persistency Made Easy 

Computer memory
Poona Dam. The Poona Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam with a toe drain with an un-gated spillway across a tributary of the South Maroochy River in Kureelpa, Sunshine Coast Region,  Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for storage of potable water for the Sunshine Coast region. The impounded reservoir is also called Poona Dam.

Location and features
The dam is located  north-west of .

The earthen dam structure is  long and holds back the  reservoir when at full capacity. From a catchment area of , the reservoir has a surface area of  and a maximum width of . Initially managed by the Maroochy Shire Council, management of the dam was transferred to SEQ Water in July 2008 as part of a water security project in the South East Queensland region, known as the South East Queensland Water Grid.

Recreation
Recreation is not permitted on the dam and in its surrounds.

History
In 2008, the body of a deceased man was found on the eastern spillway of the dam wall.

See also

List of dams in Queensland

References

External links

Reservoirs in Queensland
Buildings and structures on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Dams completed in 1959
Dams in Queensland
1959 establishments in Australia
Embankment dams
Earth-filled dams
International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation. International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV) is an annual IAOE conference.

REV is an annual conference covering topics on online & remote engineering, virtual instrumentation and applications. Like other conferences, REV offers various tracks and simultaneous sessions, tutorials and workshops.

The first REV was held in Villach, Austria in 2004. It operates under the auspices of the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE).

REV’s venue changes every year, and the categories of its program vary. Historically REV has combined the presentation of academic papers with comparatively practical experience reports, panels, workshops and tutorials.

Locations and organizers

External links
Official website

Computer science conferences
International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning. International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL) is an annual International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) conference.

ICL is a conference covering topics on interactive computer aided learning. ICL is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing elements of interactive computer aided learning. This conference is annually organized by the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Villach Austria in cooperation with a number of organizations and groups.

ICL was started in 1998 by Michael E. Auer. It operates under the auspices of the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE).

External links
Official website

References 

Computer science conferences
Koombooloomba Dam. The Koombooloomba Dam is a concrete gravity dam with a controlled spillway across the Tully River, located west of  and south, southeast of  in Far North Queensland, Australia. Built for the purpose of hydroelectric power generation, the dam creates the reservoir, Lake Koombooloomba.

Location and features
The dam was constructed by the Queensland Government Co-ordinator-General's Department in 1960. The  earth rock embankment dam wall is  in length and  high. The reservoir has a catchment area of  with a controlled concrete spillway that releases up to . The reservoir has a surface area of  with an average depth of , and has a maximum operating level of  of water.

The dam and power generation facilities are owned and operated by CleanCo Queensland.

Hydroelectric power facilities
Built in 1957 and most recently upgraded in 2008, the underground Kareeya Hydro Power Station was the first hydroelectric power station constructed on the Tully River.  An intake tower is located in the Tully Falls Weira regulating pond for the power stationwhich directs water down a tunnel to the turbines below Tully Falls. Kareeya has a capacity of  and generates up to  annually.

The Koombooloomba Hydro Power Station is a dam release point situated on Koombooloomba Dam. The power station was commissioned in 1999 and has one turbo generator with a capacity of  that generates up to . Its location on Koombooloomba Dam in the UNESCO World Heritagelisted Wet Tropics area finally put into use infrastructure established when the dam was constructed in 1960.

See also

List of dams in Queensland

References

Koombooloomba, Lake
Buildings and structures in Far North Queensland
Dams completed in 1960
Dams in Queensland
Gravity dams
1960 establishments in Australia
Online engineering. Online engineering (OE; Sometimes also referred to as remote engineering) is a current trend in engineering and science, aiming to allow and organize a shared use of equipment and resources, but also specialized software (such as for example simulators).

Reasons for the growing importance of sharing engineering resources are:
 the growing complexity of engineering tasks,
 more and more specialized and expensive equipment as well as software tools and simulators,
 the necessary use of expensive equipment and software tools/simulators in short-time projects,
 the application of high-tech equipment also in SMEs,
 the need of high qualified staff to control recent equipment,
 the demands of globalization and division of labor,

The International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) is an international non-profit organization with the objective of encouraging the wider development, distribution and application of online engineering. The main forum of online engineering community is the annual International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV).

See also
 Electronics
 Virtual instrumentation
 Virtual education
 Virtual learning environment

References

External links

 International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)
 International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)
 Engineering OnLine Continuous Learning

Engineering concepts
E-Science
Cyborg 2087. Cyborg 2087 is a 1966 science fiction film directed by Franklin Adreon and written by Arthur C. Pierce. The film stars Michael Rennie, Karen Steele, Wendell Corey, and Warren Stevens.

Plot

In 2087, free thought is illegal and the population is controlled by governments. A small band of free thinkers sends Garth A7, a cyborg, back in time to 1966 to prevent Professor Sigmund Marx from revealing his new discovery. The discovery will eventually make mind control possible and create a tyranny in Garth's time. He is pursued by two "Tracers" (also cyborgs) sent by the government to stop him.

Garth enlists the help of Dr. Sharon Mason, Marx's assistant. He gets her to summon her friend, medical doctor Zeller, to operate on him to remove a homing device used by the Tracers to track him. The local sheriff also becomes involved.

Garth defeats the Tracers and convinces Professor Marx to keep his discovery secret. Then, with his future wiped out as a result, Garth ceases to exist; the people who helped him do not even remember him.

Cast
 Michael Rennie as Garth
 Karen Steele as Dr. Sharon Mason
 Wendell Corey as the sheriff
 Warren Stevens as Dr. Zeller
 Eduard Franz as Professor Sigmund Marx
 Harry Carey, Jr. as Jay C
 Dale Van Sickel as Tracer #1
 Troy Melton as Tracer #2
 John Beck as Skinny

Reception

TV Guide rated it 1/5 stars and wrote that it is "an honest attempt make a statement, but it is poorly executed". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction noted the similarities between this film and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It said that while the movie had a better grasp of time travel paradoxes than other movies of the era, that the performances were weak. DVD Talk found that while the movie was cheap, it was better than its reputation.

Production

It was part of a series of nine low-budget films produced by United Pictures Corporation. The films were intended for TV distribution, but they had theatrical releases. The writer and director's next film, Dimension 5, also featured time travel. The budget was $100,000 in 1966.

Home media

It was remastered and released on Blu-Ray in 2017.  It was released in the United Kingdom with minor cuts, reducing the run time by two minutes.

See also
Demon with a Glass Hand
Soldier (The Outer Limits)
List of American films of 1966

References

Sources

External links
 
 

1966 films
1960s science fiction films
American science fiction films
1960s English-language films
Films about cyborgs
Films set in 1966
Films set in 2087
Films about telepathy
1950s and 1960s films about time travel
United Pictures Corporation
Films scored by Paul Dunlap
Films directed by Franklin Adreon
1960s American films
English-language science fiction films
Microthermal analysis. Microthermal analysis is a materials characterization technique which combines the thermal analysis principles of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) with the high spatial resolution of scanning probe microscopy. The instrument consists of a thermal probe, a fine platinum/rhodium alloy wire (5 micro meter in diameter) coated by a sheath of silver (Wollaston wire). The wire is bent  into a V-shape, and the silver sheath is etched away to form a fine-pointed tip. The probe acts as both the heater as well as a temperature sensor. The probe is attached to a conventional scanning probe microscope and can be scanned over the sample surface to resolve the thermal behavior of the sample spatially.

This technique has been widely used for localized thermal analysis, where the probe is heated rapidly to avoid thermal diffusion through the sample and the response of the substance in immediate proximity to the tip is measured as a function of temperature. Micro-thermal analysis was launched
commercially in March 1998.

Microthermal analysis has been extended to higher spatial resolution to nanothermal analysis, which uses microfabricated self-heating silicon cantilevers to probe thermomechanical properties of materials with sub-100 nm spatial resolution.

References

External links
 Application notes from TA Instruments

Materials science