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Pramod Varshney. Pramod Kumar Varshney is a computer scientist and an electrical engineer at Syracuse University's College of Engineering and Computer Science. He is known for research on distributed detection theory.

Varshney was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1997 for contributions to the theory and applications of distributed detection and data fusion.
He was honored with the 2021 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) Pioneer Award.
Varshney was awarded the IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award in 2012.
He was given the Yaakov Bar-Shalom Award for a Lifetime of Excellence by the International Society of Information Fusion in 2018.

Varshney earned a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in computer science in 1976 under Abraham H. Haddad.

Books written
 Distributed Detection and Data Fusion, 1997, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.

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Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba. Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba is an aerospace engineer, entrepreneur, and Project PoSSUM Scientist-Astronaut Candidate Program graduate. She is the co-founder, CEO, and chairwoman of Vicillion, a global infrastructure development firm.

Education 
While pursuing her bachelor's in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Kanjumba enrolled at the Project Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesosphere (PoSSUM) Academy, where she became the first Kenyan-born to graduate from the program.

Career 
During her master's studies, Kanjumba started Vicillion with two other people, which at the time was a technology research & development lab but later developed into a global infrastructure development firm where their flagship project currently is developing and operating what is marketed as the world's first equatorial commercially operated spaceport, equipped for geosynchronous and geostationary launches.

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Alejandro Frangi. Professor Alejandro (Alex) Frangi  is an Argentinian engineer and scientist and a pioneered in computational medicine. He specialises in the engineering of machine learning for medical image analysis and modelling. He has published over 850 peer-reviewed articles in his field.

Education
He moved to Barcelona in 1991, where he obtained his undergraduate degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia in 1996. Frangi obtained grants from both Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and CIRIT to pursue his PhD.

Career
Early in his career, Frangi was a visiting researcher at Imperial College, London. He also worked at Philips Medical Systems BV, The Netherlands. He currently serves as Bicentennial Turing Chair in Computational Medicine at the University of Manchester. Frangi also serves as chair in Emerging Technologies for The Royal Academy of Engineering. He also has visiting positions at KU Leuven, Shenzhen University and Beijing Institute of Technology.

Research
Frangi's most notable research and development was in the field of silico clinical trials. These clinical trials can be completed digitally and can also model and predict outcomes in the form of a computerised simulation. In April 2023, Frangi's research project INSILICO received a grant from the European Research Council. The research involves simulating clinical trials using "digital twins." It is hoped that technology breakthroughs in this field could reduce both the time and cost of some trials.

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Shen Qiang (engineer). Professor Qiang Shen is an academic and engineer. He is an expert in the research and
development of data modelling and analysis and currently serves as Pro Vice-Chancellor at
Aberystwyth University. As of 2023, he has published 450 peer-reviewed papers in electronic
engineering and computing journals. His expertise is often applied to critical intelligent decision support systems, with a focus on an increased level of automation, efficiency and reliability.

Career & research
In 2004, Shen published a paper with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers where he and co-authors studied methodologies and approaches of Semantics-preserving dimensionality reduction techniques. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Paper Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his work on Fuzzy systems. In 2012, as part of the London 2012 Olympics celebration, the olympic torch passed through the Welsh town of Aberystwyth. Shen was selected by Aberystwyth University to be one of the two torchbearers of the olympic torch as it passed through the town. During the same year, Shen was elected as a council member of the Learned Society of Wales.

In 2017, Shen published research in the journal Remote Sensing which showed that using spectral–spatial information can considerably improve the performance of hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. Shen was part of informal hearings and meetings for the analysis of data in 2018 for Review of Government Funded Research and Innovation in Wales carried out by the Welsh Government. In 2021, he was part of the sub-panel for Computer Science and Informatics on the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. He became a Royal Academy of Engineering fellow in 2022.

The real life application of Shen's work include fields such as space exploration, counterterrorism, process monitoring, transportation management and consumer profiling. Qiang currently serves as Pro Vice-Chancellor the for Faculty of Business and Physical Sciences at Aberystwyth University.

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John Lazar (engineer). Sir John Wilfred Lazar  (born March 1959) is a British investor, engineer and businessman  who is the current president of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He spent much of his career at Metaswitch, where he served as chairman and CEO, after starting at the company as a software engineer.

Lazar currently serves as the chairman for the Raspberry Pi Foundation and co-founder & General Partner at Enza Capital.

Education and career
Lazar graduated in Computer science from the University of the Witwatersrand and then completed an MSc in that subject and a DPhil in History at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

He began his career in 1987 at Metaswitch, rising through the company and becoming its CEO in 2009, and then chairman in 2015. Metaswitch was an innovator in the Voice over IP and softswitches industries. While serving as its CEO, Metaswitch opened a new technology facility at Cambridge University. Metaswitch built a strong relationship with AT&T as a leader of network virtualization, and also launched the Project Calico, an open source project.

Since leaving his roles at Metaswitch, Lazar has focused heavily on investing in both UK technology companies and also African-based startups through Enza Capital. He also works closely with a number of institutions to support competitions for African startups and engineering innovations. Lazar has also spoken at various summits about the future of engineering. In 2020 he became the chair of the board for the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Recognition
In 2016, Lazar was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to the engineering industry. He was knighted by King Charles III in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to engineering and technology.

In 2010, Lazar was elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2011 and in February 2024 the Academy announced his nomination as its Presidential candidate for election by Fellows at the September 2024 AGM. His appointment was confirmed and he began his five year term on 17 September 2024.

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Rosemary Francis. Rosemary Francis  is a British engineer and technologist. She is best known for her work in the field of supercomputers and is Chief Scientist at software company, Altair Engineering. Francis obtained her PhD in computer architecture, while studying at the University of Cambridge. Following her education, Francis co-founded Ellexus to build tools for managing complex tools chains required during the design of semiconductors. In 2020, the startup she founded was acquired by US-based Altair Engineering for an undisclosed sum. Following the acquisition, Francis became Chief Scientist at the tech engineering firm.

She is a member of Raspberry Pi Foundation, and became a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow in 2023.

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Gwen Parry-Jones. Gwen Parry-Jones  is a British engineer and the current CEO of Great British Nuclear. She has previously held a number of key managerial positions at energy companies, including Magnox Ltd and EDF Energy.

Parry-Jones has also held a number of industry & government roles in the UK, including a being a member of Civil Nuclear Police Authority Board between 2014 and 2018.

Education
She is a chartered physicist.

Career
Parry-Jones began he career working for Magnox as a reactor physicist at Wylfa nuclear power station in 1989. She moved into management positions during the 1990s at EDF Energy and British Energy. These positions were located in both the UK and Canada. Throughout her career she has spent her working life delivering large engineering projects in the nuclear industry. This ranged from optimisation of reactor fleet through to providing decommissioning solutions.

Her work in the nuclear industry led her to receive an OBE for services to science and technology, after she became the first woman to hold the position of station director at a UK nuclear power station at Heysham.

She served as the CEO for Magnox Ltd from September 2019 until she became Great British Nuclear's first CEO in March 2023. In late 2023, she became a fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Government roles
 Non-Executive Director and DSRL Board Member (2021 to 2023)
 Civil Nuclear Police Authority Board Industry member (2014 to 2018)

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Jian Tang. Jian Tang is a professor of computer science at Syracuse University. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2019 for his contributions to optimization in wireless networks and mobile crowdsourcing systems. 

Tang earned his PhD in Computer Science in 2006 from the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering of Arizona State University.

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Automation in Construction. Automation in Construction is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering research on all aspects of advanced automation methods and computing methods for construction and management of the built environment. Mirosław J. Skibniewski (University of Maryland) has been the editor-in-chief from 1994 to 2024. Since June 2024, Daniel Castro-Lacouture (Purdue University) has been the new editor-in-chief. The journal was established in 1992 with H. Wagter, G. Smeltzer (Netherlands) and T.M. Knasel (USA) as founding editors-in-chief.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 9.6.

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Valery Ataev. Valery Yuldashevich Ataev (; 18 March 1948 – 2 February 2024) was an Uzbek engineer and politician. He served as  from 1994 to 2000.

Ataev died in Moscow on 2 February 2024, at the age of 75.

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Lanthanum nitride. Lanthanum nitride is a binary inorganic compound of lanthanum and nitride with the chemical formula .

Preparation 
Lanthanum nitride can be prepared from the reaction of nitrogen and lanthanum trihydride:

It can also be prepared from the reaction of ammonia and lanthanum trihydride:

The reaction of nitrogen and lanthanum amalgam can also work:

Physical properties
Lanthanum nitride forms black powder that is insoluble in water. Their crystals are of the cubic system with the Fm3m space group.

It is paramagnetic.

Chemical properties
Lanthanum nitride reacts with water and moisture from the air:

It reacts with acids:

Uses
Gerbicidum.
LaN is used as a LED material, magnetic material, semiconductor, refractory material, dyes, catalyst.

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Barrett and Hilp. Barrett and Hilp was a construction company and general contractor founded in San Francisco by Harold Hilp Sr. and brothers J. Frank and Larry Barrett in 1912. The company played a large part in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.

History
Barrett and Hilp constructed the anchorage, piers, and lower span of the Golden Gate Bridge. As part of the lower span, Barrett and Hilp designed a trolley system that traversed the bridge, and was the earliest form of public transit across the bridge.

The firm also played a pivotal role in the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, constructing the Southern Pacific Transportation Company Hospital #2, for $450,000 plus an undisclosed fee. In 1931, the firm constructed the San Francisco Baseball Club's Seals Stadium.

The firm was also awarded a $200,000 contract for its role in the construction of the Metropolitan Aqueduct, also, as the construction of many of Los Angeles' suburban homes. Additionally, during World War II, the company constructed 20 concrete barges for the U.S. Navy. One such barge, B7-D1, saw life after the war shipping limestone from Alaska to L.A. as part of the city's booming concrete industry.

The right's to the barge's scrap was contentious as two employees of the shipping company claimed compensation due to personal injuries, meanwhile the Alaska Aggregate Corporation, who had purchased the barge from Foss Launch & Tug Co., sought to scrap the ship, resulting in a decade long court case, John A. Scudero v. Todd Shipyards Corporation which eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court which found that the company which was sued, Todd Shipyards, was not liable to be sued since the employees where subcontractors for Barrett and Hilp.

In September 1953 the principles of the firm, the Barrets and Hilp, had a falling out, resulting in the firm splitting into the Barrett Construction Company and the Hilp and Rhodes Company. At the time of the firm's split, it had over 13 locations and was making over $20,000,000 a year.

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Md. Jahangir Alam. Md. Jahangir Alam is a Bangladeshi academic, earthquake expert, and vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology.

Alam is the former vice-chancellor of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology. Alam is the former vice-chancellor of University of Science and Technology Chittagong.

Early life
Alam was born on 30 November 1960 in Chittagong District, East Pakistan. He graduated from Gasbaria NG High School and Chittagong College in 1976 and 1978 respectively. He did his bachelor's degree in engineering at Chittagong Engineering College. In 1991, he completed his master's degree in engineering in Structural Engineering. He completed his PhD in 1994. He completed a diploma degree at the Asian Institute of Technology on Finite Element.

Career
From 2012 to 2014, Alam was the vice chancellor of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology.

Alam was the vice chancellor of University of Science and Technology Chittagong from 2019 to 2023. On 20 August 2023, Alam was appointed the vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology. He replaced Md. Rafiqul Islam Sheikh one year after his term ended.

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Protactinium nitride. Protactinium nitride is a binary inorganic compound of protactinium and nitrogen with the chemical formula .

Synthesis
The compound can be obtained from the reaction of protactinium metal and nitrogen:

Also by heating protactinium tetrachloride or pentachloride in ammonia gas.

Physical properties
PaN crystals are of cubic system with Fm3m space group.

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BlueOS. Vivo BlueOS, or BlueOS also named Blue River OS, is a open-source distributed operating system developed by Vivo. The OS is designed to support large models and multi-modal functions in variety of inputs it supports.

BlueOS also supports the BlueXlink connection protocol, which adopts a distributed design concept, similar to HarmonyOS and compatible with industry-standard protocols. This allows data to be securely transferred and accessed between multiple devices. On the security architecture, Rust language is supported on the operating system for security advancements.

BlueOS aims to run on various devices, including devices that has low as 32 MB of RAM that targets a wide range of devices, from smart home appliances and wearables.

Vivo has not announced plans to install BlueOS on its smartphones in the early stage of the new operating system development. This meant that custom Funtouch OS and OriginOS operating systems based on AOSP remains to be the default operating systems for Vivo smartphones.

On November 13, 2023, Vivo Watch 3, becomes the first device from the company that ships with the new operating system.

It reportedly supports different hardware architectures, with multiple POSIX standards which supports Linux kernel alongside its own RTOS kernel in its multikernel architecture and similar to OpenHarmony and HarmonyOS in distributed operating systems in terms of the Kernel Abstraction Layer. It also supports application technology standards and Vivo provides developers with software development kits, BlueOS (Blue River) SDK and BlueOS Studio (Blue River Studio) IDE based on VS Code for rich applications. The operating system also contains AI service engines and multi-mode input subsystems based on large AI model capabilities, providing multi-modal input and output, among other benefits.

History
It has reportedly been in development since 2018, the operating system core is written with the Rust programming language, which is open source, released on November 1, 2023, via 2023 Vivo Developer Conference. It is independent of the Android operating system used on Vivo smartphones. The operating system is intended for lightweight IoT devices and Wearables.
It's also reported that Vivo expects that its Copilot tool with its large language model that is able to provide code, image and text generation, in addition to other capabilities for the operating system.

See also 
 OpenHarmony
 HarmonyOS

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M. Rostom Ali. Rostom Ali is a Bangladeshi academic and former vice-chancellor of Pabna University of Science & Technology. He is a former professor of the Department of applied chemistry and engineering at the University of Rajshahi.

Early life
Ali was born on 16 March 1960 in Pabna District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. He studied at Natia Bari Govt. Primary School. He graduated from Rajshahi Collegiate School and Ishwardi Government College in 1973 and 1976 respectively. He completed his bachelor's degree and masters in chemistry at the University of Rajshahi in 1982 and 1983 respectively. He did his PhD at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Career
Ali joined the Bangladesh Institute of Technology, Chittagong as a lecturer of chemistry. He joined the University of Rajshahi in 1989. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1992.

In April 2010, Ali was elected to the Rajshahi University Teachers' Association from the pro-Awami League yellow panel.

In March 2018, Ali was appointed the vice-chancellor of Pabna University of Science & Technology replacing Professor Dr. Al-Nakib Chowdhury.

In October 2019, students at Pabna University of Science & Technology demanded Ali resign following allegations of taking bribes from candidates for faculty positions at the university. Students of the university wanted the vice-chancellor removed from the university.

In January 2022, chairman of the mathematics department, Harunur Rashid, was assaulted when he tried to enter a recruitment meeting of his department. Rashid blamed Ali for the incident. In February 2022, he was confined in his office by students for four hours over allegations of irregularities in recruitment of 101 people. He was freed by Bangladesh Police. He was accused of mismanagement in the recruitment by faculty staff of the university. In March 2022, he was summoned to a Pabna District Court in a defamation case filed by Awal Kabir Joy, proctor of Pabna University of Science & Technology.

Personal life 
Ali is married Sharmeen Ali.

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