Area golf: Duke alum wins amateur event again

Published: Saturday, July 6, 2013 at 00:26 AM.

HOT SPRINGS, Va. ? Former Duke golfer Brinson Paolini, 22, of Virginia Beach, Va., posted a 3 and 2 victory against collegian Ji Soo Park, 20, in last weekend?s scheduled 36-hole final at the 100th Virginia State Golf Association Amateur Championship at The Homestead?s Cascades Course.

Competing in his last VSGA Amateur for the foreseeable future before turning professional later this summer, Paolini became the second golfer to collect four titles in six years.

? CHAPEL HILL GOLFER SETS STANDARD: At Raleigh, Jonathan Jackson of Chapel Hill shot 8-under-par 64 to pace the 79-golfer field in Carolinas Amateur sectional qualifying Monday at Brier Creek Country Club.

Fourteen players advanced from the rain-delayed qualifier, needing 71 or better. The championship takes place next week at The Ocean Course in Kiawah Island, S.C.

Jacob Haithcock of Burlington tied for 21st with a 73.

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Matthew Henderson receives 2013 Google PhD Fellowship

Matthew's research is in the spoken language side of Artificial Intelligence, looking at the challenging problem for a computer of maintaining a natural conversation with a person. Using probability theory, statistics and modern machine learning, he hopes to improve the performance and extend the scope of dialog systems. This topic is relevant to Google as its voice search is becoming ever more popular, and it releases its new 'conversational search' interface. After completing a BA in Mathematics at Cambridge, Matthew obtained an MSc in Speech and Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh. Now he is working for a PhD in Cambridge under the supervision of Steve Young in the Department's Dialogue Systems Group. Google will provide generous funding for the rest of Matthew's PhD, pair him with a Mentor working at Google, and encourage him to do an internship with them, which he plans to do next summer. Google don't impose any restrictions on the research of the recipient.

As Google welcome the newest class of PhD Fellows, they take a look back at the programme?s roots and hear from two past recipients.

In 2009, Google launched its PhD Fellowship Programme, created to recognize and support outstanding graduate students pursuing work in computer science, related disciplines or promising research areas. In its inaugural year, 13 United States PhD students were awarded fellowships, drawn from an extremely competitive pool of applicants. The global programme now covers Europe, China, India and Australia and continues to draw some of the best young researchers, reflecting Google?s commitment to building strong relations with the academic community.

Among those first recipients of the fellowship award are 2009 PhD Fellow Roxana Geambasu, Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University, and 2010 European Doctoral Fellow Roland Angst, Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University and affiliated with the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication. As early recipients of the award, Roxana and Roland reflect on the impact that the Google Fellowship programme had on their careers.

For Roxana, the fellowship provided the tools and connections that helped lay the foundation for her academic career. She believes industrial fellowship programmes are very important, as they give students an opportunity to interact more closely with industry.

?Beyond the financial support, I think that the fellowship impacted my career in many important ways. First, the Google fellowships are regarded as highly competitive, so receiving the award was probably a big plus on my resume when I was interviewing for faculty positions.?

?Second, the award yielded a mentor within Google, Brad Chen, with whom I've kept in touch ever since, as well as opportunities to visit the campus, deliver talks and meet Google engineers. Brad and I continue to meet at conferences and discuss my work, his work and (of late) the work of my students; it?s through that relationship I?m exposed to new people from Google and gain valuable advice about faculty award opportunities.?

Roland Angst credits the award with the ability to lighten his teaching load and instead focus on his research, which ultimately prepared him for his future academic career. Like Roxanna, Roland states that the fellowship also gave him the opportunity to establish connections with people working in related topics in industry.

?In my view, programmes such as the Google Fellowship Awards represent an important and integral link between industry and universities. Firstly, such programmes increase the awareness in the academic world for relevant problems in industry. Secondly, these programmes allow the IT industry to express their gratitude to the educational services provided by the universities on which the IT industry heavily relies."

?Image: Matthew Henderson

Reproduced courtesy of University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering?

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Samsung buys Boxee, shuts down cloud DVR service

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July 5, 2013 at 2:38 PM ET

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The Boxee cloud DVR and box were to be tightly linked.

After six years, Internet streaming service and set-top box company Boxee will be closing up shop as a result of its purchase by Samsung, announced July 3. The Korean tech giant essentially bought Boxee's talent and ideas to help improve its smart TVs and will not keep the company itself in business.

On July 4, Boxee announced that it will close down its cloud DVR service, which allowed people to record TV programs online, giving them less than a week to binge-watch whatever they had saved.

But customers won't be left out in the cold, company spokesperson Andrew Kippen told us in an email. While the Boxee Cloud DVR set-top box and the older Boxee Box device will no longer connect to a Boxee service, it seems that the company will make sure it has access to other online video and music services that were included, such as Pandora, MLB.TV, and the obligatory Netflix. [See also: 5 Steps to Cut Cable and Enjoy TV for Half the Price]

"We're working behind the scenes to ensure there's minimal impact to people's devices. Apart from the Cloud DVR shutting down, we expect minimal changes," Kippen wrote to us.

Boxee planned to offer both a free and paid DVR service (for $10 per month). Both were to have unlimited recording, but the free service had restrictions on how long recordings would be available and how many hours people could watch per month. But the program was still in beta and had so far been offered for free, so no one lost any money on subscription services. "We've never charged for Cloud DVR," said Kippen. (TV-over-the-Internet service Aereo, in comparison, charges customers $8 per month to record 20 hours online and $12 for 60 hours.)

But with Boxee's $99 set-top box so integrated with a now-defunct online service, customers aren't exactly getting what they paid for. " We will honor our 90 day return policy for people who bought off our website," said Kippen. The devices were also sold in retail and would presumably be subject to those stores' return policies.

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Early childhood education advocate Dr. Ramona Paul dies | Say ...

EARLY EDUCATION ADVOCATE DIES: Dr. Ramona Paul ? pictured here with schoolchildren from Edmond, OK in 2009 ? was one of the nation?s best known advocates of early childhood education. She passed away this week. Photo by John Jernigan, Oklahoma Today

By Patrick B. McGuigan | CapitolBeatOK

OKLAHOMA CITY ? Ramona Paul, former assistant superintendent of public instruction and the leading advocate for expansion of early childhood education in the Sooner State, died last weekend.

According to a press release from the state Department of Education, Dr. Paul suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Idaho. News of her passing moved quickly around education circles and among state policy leaders this week.

With a couple of brief stops elsewhere, Paul worked at the state Department of Education from 1988 until her retirement in 2011. Her advocacy of expanded early childhood education made her a national figure; the state was applauded for its policy developments over the decades of her public service. Rutgers University analysts and others touted as models the programs she pioneered during her work at the agency.

She served as a faculty member at Oklahoma State University, Texas Women?s University in Denton, the University of Alabama, and Purdue University. Dr. Paul earned her Ph.D. from Purdue and was also a graduate assistant during her time at Iowa State University.

In 2009, she was named Oklahoman of the Year by Oklahoma Today magazine. She was the first educator and first state government employee to earn that designation. In an interview with CapitolBeatOK, former Superintendent Sandy Garrett said Dr. Paul ?was like a sister to me, and an invaluable member of our team at the Department of Education for many years.?

Randy Krehbiel of The Tulsa World wrote a lengthy feature profile story in the January/February 2010 edition of Oklahoma Today.

Then-editor?Louisa McCune-Elmore commented, ?To say that she has created a better future for Oklahoma is an understatement, and we believe telling her story is a step toward creating the best schools in our nation.?

Dr. Paul was closely allied with former Superintendent Garrett, and often credited Gov. Brad Henry and his wife Kim for their support of her work. Tulsa businessman and philanthropist George Kaiser provided private support for expansion of the early childhood education models she supported.

State Rep. Joe Dorman, D-Rush Springs, commented on her death in a statement sent to CapitolBeatOK: ?Dr. Ramona Paul was widely recognized as the leader in early childhood reforms for Oklahoma and is one of the key reasons our state has one of the top ranks in the United States for early childhood education. Her efforts and compassion for students were key components to the many successes we have seen in recent years with these programs.

?Ramona was a good friend to many educators and policymakers and will be greatly missed. I send my condolences to her husband and other family members.?

Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi, in a statement from her office, commented, ?I was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Dr. Paul. She is the pioneer who made early childhood education possible for the state of Oklahoma. We want to recognize all of her tremendous contributions to the profession and to students and families throughout our state.?

The mother of three sons (Steven, Stuart and Jerry), Dr. Ramona Paul also had four stepchildren with her husband of many years, Homer.

Dr. Paul?s services will be held next Tuesday (July 9) at Oklahoma City?s Westminster Presbyterian Church.

You may contact Patrick B. McGuigan at?Patrick@capitolbeatok.com?and follow us on Twitter: @capitolbeatok.

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Cops: 'High-risk' arrest nets suspect with stolen weapons, Molotov cocktails, body armor

A Nevada man was arrested in Seattle, where local police found him in a stolen truck filled with weapons, body armor and what appeared to be bombs.

By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News

The FBI and Seattle authorities were investigating a Nevada man who was arrested after he was spotted on the University of Washington campus in a stolen truck carrying multiple explosive devices, stolen firearms and body armor, police said Thursday.

The man was arrested a few blocks away after a police pursuit near Seattle Children's Hospital late Wednesday, said John Vinson, chief of the University of Washington police. He gave no further details of the pursuit, but he described the arrest as "high-risk."

Justin Miles Jasper was arrested early Thursday and was being held without bail in the King County jail on suspicion of possessing an incendiary device.?Jail?records gave no age or hometown for Jasper, but Vinson said the suspect was 21 years old and from Nevada.

Vinson said investigators "have no idea what his intentions are."

Campus police first encountered the man Tuesday when they found him sleeping in the truck, Vinson said. A records check turned up empty, so the man was sent on his way.

Wednesday morning, the truck showed up as having been stolen in Montana, police said, and when it was spotted on campus about 10:30 p.m. (1:30 a.m. Thursday ET ), officers gave pursuit.

The man was arrested at an address that is a few hundred yards from Seattle Children's Hospital, police said. Inside the truck, investigators found a stolen rifle with a scope attachment, a stolen shotgun, body armor and multiple incendiary devices, which police described as "very well made" Molotov cocktails.

Asked how many devices were in the truck, Vinson said, "Multiple ... (but) less than 10."

Authorities said they believed there was no longer any threat to the university community, but they said the FBI had joined what they called a "very active criminal investigation."

This story was originally published on Thu Jul 4, 2013 8:49 PM EDT

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Douglas Engelbart, Inventor of the Computer Mouse, Has Died

Douglas C. Engelbart had a simple idea which would change the world of computing forever: he invented the humble?but now pervasive?computer mouse. Sadly, Engelbart passed away on July 2nd.

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The Epic 'Lone Ranger' Train Sequence: How'd They Do That?

Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer and Gore Verbinski take MTV News inside the 'massive puzzle' of the 'Lone Ranger' climax.
By Josh Wigler

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1709993/lone-ranger-johnny-depp-armie-hammer-train-sequence.jhtml

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