Engineering and technology notes

Hans Moravec

Hans Peter Moravec (born November 30, 1948, KautzenAustria) is an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his work on roboticsartificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futuristwith many of his publications and predictions focusing on transhumanism. Moravec developed techniques in computer vision for determining the region of interest (ROI) in a scene

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Moravec

espouse

ɪ’spaʊz, ɛ-
■ verb
adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).
archaic marry. ▶(be espoused to) be engaged to.

espouser noun

ME: from OFr. espouser, from L. sponsare, from sponsus ‘betrothed’, past participle of spondere.

Concise Oxford Thesaurus
espouse
▶ verb ADOPT, embrace, take up, accept, welcome; support, back, champion, favour, prefer, encourage; promote, endorse, advocate.

reject.

EngMac
espoused
венчан

Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary
es·pouse
Pronunciation: is-‘pau̇z also -‘pau̇s
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form: es·poused ; es·pous·ing
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French espuser, from Late Latin sponsare to betroth, from Latin sponsus betrothed ― more at SPOUSE
Date: 15th century

1 : MARRY
2 : to take up and support as a cause : become attached to
synonyms see ADOPT
–es·pous·er noun

Wiki – Wikipedia

wiki is a website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser. In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor.[1]

A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine. A wiki engine is a type of content management system, but it differs from most other such systems, includingblog software, in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users. There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems. Some wiki engines are open source, whereas others are proprietary. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access); for example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may be imposed to organize content.

The online encyclopedia project Wikipedia is by far the most popular wiki-based website, and is one of the most widely viewed sites of any kind in the world, having been ranked in the top ten since 2007. Wikipedia is not a single wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis, one for each language. There are tens of thousands of other wikis in use, both public and private, including wikis functioning as knowledge management resources, notetaking tools, community websites and intranets. The English-language Wikipedia has the largest collection of articles; as of September 2016, it had over five million articles. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as “the simplest online database that could possibly work”.[4] “Wiki” (pronounced [ˈwiki][note 1]) is a Hawaiian word meaning “quick”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

José Pablo Moncayo – Wikipedia

José Pablo Moncayo García (June 29, 1912 – June 16, 1958) was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer andconductor. “As composer, José Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most important legacies of the Mexican nationalism in art music, after Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Chávez.” He produced some of the masterworks that best symbolize the essence of the national aspirations and contradictions of Mexico in the 20th century.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Pablo_Moncayo

Open CORD – CORD

CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter) combines NFV, SDN, and the elasticity of commodity clouds to bring datacenter economics and cloud agility to the Telco Central Office. CORD lets the operator manage their Central Offices using declarative modeling languages for agile, real-time configuration of new customer services. Major service providers like AT&T, SK Telecom, Verizon, China Unicom and NTT Communications are already supporting CORD.

Source: Open CORD – CORD

xRAN.org

xRAN.org was formed to develop, standardize and promote a software-based, extensible Radio Access Network (xRAN) and to standardizing critical elements of the xRAN architecture. The xRAN architecture transforms today’s static, highly proprietary RAN infrastructure into an extensible, software-based service delivery platform capable of rapidly responding to changing user, application and business needs.

Source: xRAN.org