omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Alan Garnett Davenport. Alan Garnett Davenport (September 19, 1932 – July 19, 2009) was a professor at the University of Western Ontario and founder of its Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory.   He analyzed the wind's effect on a significant portion of the world's tallest buildings including the building formerly known as the CN Tower, Sears Tower, Citicorp Center, and the World Trade Center.   He was a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor.

Early life
Davenport was born in Madras, India and grew up in South Africa, attending Michaelhouse.  He studied at Cambridge University for his B.A. and M.A. in mechanical science.  He went on to receive an M.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol.  His thesis of "The Treatment of Wind Loads on Tall Towers and Long Span Bridges in the Turbulent Wind" was the focus of his professional career.

He also served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Navy.

He married Sheila Smith, with whom he had four children.

Research
Davenport and his laboratory contributed to the engineering and design of many tall buildings and bridges, including the Willis Tower, the World Trade Center and the Tsing Ma Bridge.  They analyzed the wind flow and load over the structures using wind tunnels, detecting vulnerabilities which required compensating changes in the design.

He was a founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering and was the founding research director for the Institute of Catastrophic Loss Reduction, a 1999 partnership between the University of Western Ontario and the Insurance board of Canada.  Its goal is to improve construction practices and standards to better withstand extreme weather conditions.

Davenport authored more than 200 scientific papers during his career.

He was presented with the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering in 1994, and the Albert Caquot Award in 2001.  He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada on May 1, 2002 for a lifetime of achievement.

He was honored with the Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in 2005.

Retirement
He died in London, Ontario due to complications from Parkinson's disease

References

1932 births
2009 deaths
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Royal Canadian Navy officers
Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario
Members of the Order of Canada
Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada
20th-century Canadian engineers
University of Toronto alumni
Alumni of Michaelhouse
General Aircraft Corporation. The General Aircraft Company was an American aircraft design and manufacturing company that was formed in the late 1930s and ceased involvement with aircraft in 1976.

History
The company was established at Lowell, Massachusetts to build an aircraft designed by Doctor Otto C. Koppen, a professor of aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The aircraft was the G1-80 Skyfarer, a two-seat cabin high-wing braced monoplane. The company was applied for its first patent, an airplane wing, in 1939.

Before the company could produce the aircraft in any numbers the Second World War intervened, and the Skyfarer programme was abandoned after either 17 or 18 examples had been built. After establishing a factory in Astoria, New York, the company became a manufacturer of the Waco CG-4A troop glider and the interests in the Wayfarer were passed to Grand Rapids Industries.

The company announced plans to produce a new regional airliner called the GAC-100 at its plant in El Segundo, California in 1968.

In 1969, the company bought the Helio Aircraft Company which specialised in building STOL aircraft for use by government agencies in south east Asia. The company ceased to manufacture aircraft in October 1976 when it sold the production rights and assets of its Helio Aircraft division.

Aircraft

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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Handley Page Type A. 

The Handley Page Type A, sometimes called "Bluebird" and later designated HP.1, was the first powered aircraft designed and built by Frederick Handley Page.

Development
Following success in 1909 with an experimental glider Handley Page designed and built a single-seat monoplane. It was of wood construction with a tailskid landing gear, powered by a 20 hp (15 kW) Advance V-4 air-cooled engine . It used a wing with a shape patented by José Weiss which was claimed to provide automatic lateral stability, so there were no ailerons or wing warping mechanisms. Weiss was also responsible for the design of its tractor propeller. The wings, fuselage and tail surfaces were covered with a blue-grey rubberised fabric, hence the nickname Bluebird. After the aircraft had been displayed at the second  Olympia Aero Exhibition, Handley Page successfully made a few straight hops in the Bluebird on 26 May 1910, but crashed  at the first attempt to make a turn. Handley Page improved the design to include lateral control via wing warping and fitted a 25 hp (18.6 kW) Alvaston water-cooled flat-twin engine. The rebuilt aircraft was designated Handley Page Type C but it refused to fly. Although work was completed on modifying the aircraft to take a 50 hp (37 kW) Isaacson radial engine it was abandoned in late 1910.  It ended its life as an instructional airframe at the Northampton Polytechnic Institute in Clerkenwell, where Handley Page was a lecturer.

In 1924 the company retrospectively applied model numbers, the Type A became the HP.1 and the Type C the HP.3.

Variants
Type A (HP.1)
Experimental monoplane powered by an Advance 4-cylinder engine, one built.
Type C (HP.3)
Type A improved and fitted with an Alvaston flat-twin engine.

Specifications

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1910s British aircraft
A
Aircraft first flown in 1910
Pierce Arrow Factory Complex. Pierce Arrow Factory Complex is a national historic district consisting of the former Pierce-Arrow automobile factory located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York.

History 
It was designed by Albert Kahn in about 1906 and served as the headquarters and production facility for Pierce-Arrow automobiles until 1938. Since then, the complex has been subdivided over the years to provide affordable space for many small companies and organizations. At one time local department store chain AM&A's operated a furniture warehouse in part of the complex.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Construction and features 
Located over a  site, it consists of a three-story,  Administration Building and an assortment of automobile manufacturing and assembly related structures. The buildings are principally constructed of reinforced concrete, and the Administration Building is considered one of the two earliest fully-realized examples of the Daylight Factory industrial architecture style (the other being the Packard Automotive Plant in Detroit).

References

External links
Pierce Arrow Factory Complex - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com
Pierce Arrow Factory, Elmwood Avenue - Western New York Heritage Press website

Buildings and structures in Buffalo, New York
Motor vehicle assembly plants in New York (state)
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Historic districts in Buffalo, New York
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Buffalo, New York
Motor vehicle manufacturing plants on the National Register of Historic Places
Transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Factory Complex
Mill architecture
Semantic computing. Semantic computing is a field of computing that combines elements of semantic analysis, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge graphs, and related fields.

Semantic computing addresses three core problems:
 Understanding the (possibly naturally-expressed) intentions (semantics) of users and expressing them in a machine-processable format
 Understanding the meanings (semantics) of computational content (of various sorts, including, but is not limited to, text, video, audio, process, network, software and hardware) and expressing them in a machine-processable format
 Mapping the semantics of user with that of content for the purpose of content retrieval, management, creation, etc.

The IEEE has held an International Conference on Semantic Computing since 2007.  A conference on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing has been held since 2015.

See also
Computational semantics
Semantic audio
Semantic compression
Semantic technology
Semantic network

References

External links
 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
 IEEE International School on Semantic Computing
 International Journal of Semantic Computing
 Semantic Computing Research Group
 Semantic Link Network

Semantic Web
Prix Albert Caquot. The Prix Albert Caquot is an annual prestigious award presented by the French Association of Civil Engineering.  It is named after Albert Caquot, a famous and influential French civil engineer. The award is given for a lifetime of scientific and technical achievements, as well as high ethical standards and influence throughout the construction industry. It alternates between French and foreign nominees.

Award winners
1989 Fritz Leonhardt
1990 Pierre Xercavins
1991 Franco Levi
1992 Henri Mathieu
1993 Bruno Thürlimann
1994 Roger Lacroix, Jean-Claude Foucriat
1995 Tung-Yen Lin
1996 Jean M. Muller
1997 René Walther
1998 Jacques Bietry
1999 Jörg Schlaich
2000 Pierre Richard, Inventor of Béton de Poudre Réactive (BPR)
2001 Alan Garnett Davenport
2002 Jacques Mathivat
2003 John E. Breen 
2004 Jacques Brozzetti
2005 Jan Moksnes
2006 Michel Virlogeux
2007 José Câncio Martins
2008 Michel Lévy
2009 Jean-Marie Cremer
2010 Jean-Armand Calgaro
2011 Manfred A. Hirt
2012 Michel Placidi
2013 Jiří Stráský
2014 Jacques Combault,
2015 Armando Rito
2016 Alain Pecker

References

External links
Association Francaise de Genie Civil
Prix Caquot 2011, with list of all recipients up to 2011, Le Moniteur, April 4, 2012

Civil engineering awards
Albert Caquot
Museu Aeroespacial. Museu Aeroespacial is a national aviation museum located in the West Side of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the Administrative Region of Realengo. The place is known as "the Brazilian Aviation cradle".

Address
Av. Marechal Fontenelle, 2000 - Campo dos Afonsos (Realengo), Rio de Janeiro/RJ

History
The Museu Aeroespacial (Aerospace Museum) was inaugurated on 18 October 1976 at the installations of the old Escola de Aeronáutica (former Brazilian Air Force officer graduation school, replaced by the Academia da Força Aérea), at Afonsos Air Force Base—the "Cradle of Military Aviation", in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The idea of an "Aeronautical Museum" dates from 1943 when the Minister of Aeronautics, Dr. Salgado Filho, determined its organization, but the initial work and subsequent attempts were interrupted by lack of suitable space and installations.

Given the explanatory memorandum from Lieutenant Brigadier Joelmir Campos do Araripe Macedo, Minister of Aeronautics, President Emilio Garrastazu Medici established the nucleus of the Aerospace Museum on July 31, 1973, through Decree No. 72552. Building and hangar restoration started in January 1974, at the same time as the collection and restoration of aircraft, engines, weapons, documents, photographs, maps, paintings, memorabilia and other items of historical value.

The Aerospace Museum is part of the University of the Air Force's campus (UNIFA), being administratively subordinate to the Historic-Cultural Institute of Aeronautics (INCA) since 1986.

Exhibits
The following aircraft are on permanent display at the museum, some of them in flyable condition:

See also
List of aerospace museums

Notes

References
Ogden, Bob (2008). Aviation Museums and Collections of The Rest of the World. UK: Air-Britain.

External links

Museu Aeroespacial website

Museums in Rio de Janeiro (city)
Aerospace museums in Brazil
Museums established in 1976
1,3-Dithietane. 1,3-Dithietane is a dithietane. It is a colorless, crystalline, unpleasant-smelling solid. It was first prepared in 1976 by the reaction of bis(chloromethyl) sulfoxide with sodium sulfide to give  1,3-dithietane 1-oxide, followed by THF-borane reduction.

Examples of compounds bearing this functional group include the antibiotic Cefotetan and the pesticide Fosthietan.

References

Dithietanes
AQUA@home. AQUA@home was a volunteer computing project operated by D-Wave Systems that ran on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform. It ceased functioning in August 2011. Its goal was to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of problems arising in fields ranging from materials science to machine learning. It designed and analyzed quantum computing algorithms, using Quantum Monte Carlo techniques.

AQUA@home was the first BOINC project to provide multi-threaded applications. It was also the first project to deploy an OpenCL test application under BOINC.

References

External links

Papers resulting from AQUA@home's computations

 Science in society
Volunteer computing projects
Quantum information science
GPUGRID.net. GPUGRID is a volunteer computing project hosted by Pompeu Fabra University and running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform. It performs full-atom molecular biology simulations that are designed to run on Nvidia's CUDA-compatible graphics processing units.

Former support for PS3s 

Support for the PS3's Cell microprocessor and the subsequent PS3GRID project was dropped in 2009 due to updated firmware preventing the installation of required third party software. This included Linux distributions that are required to run BOINC. The massive throughput of Nvidia GPUs has also made the PS3 client largely redundant. As of September 2009, a mid-range Nvidia GPU ran GPUGRID applications approximately five times faster than the Cell microprocessor.

See also 
 List of volunteer computing projects
 Molecular dynamics
 GPGPU

References

Further reading 

 Research topics in GPUGRID website's science sections
 GPUGRID's about us section

External links 
 
 Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)

 Science in society
Free science software
Volunteer computing projects
Docking@Home. Docking@Home was a volunteer computing project hosted by the University of Delaware and running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform.  It models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program. Volunteer computing allows an extensive search of protein-ligand docking conformations and selection of near-native ligand conformations are achieved by using ligand based hierarchical clustering. The ultimate aim was the development of new pharmaceutical drugs.

The project was retired on May 23, 2014.

See also 
List of volunteer computing projects

References

Further reading

External links 
 
 

 Science in society
Volunteer computing projects
Internet properties disestablished in 2014
University of Delaware
Free science software
Windows Identity Foundation. Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) is a Microsoft software framework for building identity-aware applications. It provides APIs for building ASP.NET or WCF based security token services as well as tools for building claims-aware and federation capable applications.

Windows Identity Foundation is supported on IIS 6/Windows Server 2003, IIS 7/Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. Version 1.0 shipped as a standalone product, but the product is now included as a part of Microsoft .NET Framework v4.5.

Major features
WIF has the following major features:
 It allows developers to build claims-aware applications by providing a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that help developers write code to make access decisions to applications based on claims.
 It provides templates to help developers get started building claims-aware applications.
 It provides utilities that facilitate creation of a trust relationship between a claims-aware application (sometimes referred to as a Relying on Party application, or RP), and a Security Token Service (STS).
 It provides a set of ASP.NET controls that help developers create web pages in claims-aware applications.
 It includes a utility that helps developers translate between claims and NT tokens, so that claims-aware applications can be used to access resources that require NT-Token based identity.
 It includes functionality that allows identities to be maintained across multiple service boundaries, and allows delegation of claims.
 It provides tools to help developers build custom security token services using ASP.NET or WCF.

See also
 Claims based identity
 Security Token Service

References

External links

 "Official Name for Geneva"
 "Windows Identity Foundation site"

.NET Framework terminology
Identity management systems
Ibb University. Ibb University () was established in Ibb, Yemen as an official university in 1996. It was founded by Nasser al-Awlaki.

The university consists of 11 faculties:

 Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
 Faculty of Dentistry
 Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
 Faculty of Science
 Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine
 Faculty of Administrative Sciences
 Faculty of Education
 Faculty of Education – Al-Nadirah
 Faculty of Arts
 Faculty of Law
 Faculty of Specific - Al-Saddah

Centres:
 Centre for Development and Quality Assurance
 Centre for Computer and Information Technology
 Centre for Languages and Translation
 Centre for Psychological and Educational Counselling
 Engineering Consultancy Centre
 Centre for Educational Training
 Centre for Environment and Chemical Security
 Centre for Research and Studies

See also
 List of universities in Yemen

References

External links
 Ibb University

Universities in Yemen
Universities and colleges established in 1996
1996 establishments in Yemen
Objet Geometries. Objet Geometries is one of the brands of Stratasys, a 3D printer developing company. The brand began with Objet Geometries Ltd, a corporation engaged in the design, development, and manufacture of photopolymer 3D printing systems. The company, incorporated in 1998, was based in Rehovot, Israel. In 2011 the company merged with Stratasys. It held patents on a number of associated printing materials that are used in PolyJet and PolyJet Matrix polymer jetting technologies. It distributed 3D printers worldwide through wholly owned subsidiaries in the United States (Objet Geometries Inc), Europe (Objet Geometries GmbH), and Hong Kong. Objet Geometries owned more than 50 patents and patent-pending inventions.

History
Objet was founded in 1998 by Rami Bonen, Gershon Miller and Hanan Gothait. In September 2000 it announced the completion of a second private placement, securing it $15 million at a post-money company valuation of $36 million. Participants in this round were the Templeton Foreign Fund, private investors from Europe and the United States and Scitex Corporation, which acquired an initial 18.7% stake in the company, which was subsequently increased. In June 2005, Scitex sold all its interest, then standing at 22.9%, to the other shareholders of Objet for $3.0 million in cash.

Merger with Stratasys

On April 16, 2012, Objet announced that it agreed to merge with Stratasys, a leading manufacturer of 3D printers; in an all-stock transaction. Stratasys shareholders were expected to own 55 percent and Objet shareholders were expected to own 45 percent of the combined company. The merger was completed on December 3, 2012. The market capitalization of the new company was approximately $3.0 billion.

Technology 

The Polyjet Matrix 3D printing technology uses simultaneous jetting of multiple types of modeling materials to create a single piece 3D model. PolyJet is used by automotive, electronics, consumer goods, medical development, and clothing manufacturers, as well as for creating 3D models for use in movies such as Coraline.

The Eden line of 3D Printing Systems and the Alaris30 3D desktop printer are based on the PolyJet technology. The Connex family of 3D printers are based on PolyJet Matrix technology, which jets multiple model materials simultaneously and creates composite Digital Materials on the fly. All Objet systems use FullCure polymers.

Partnerships 

Objet Geometries has partnered with SolidWorks to interface their computer-aided design software with Objet’s Connex500 system. The co-developed software add-in allows significantly more control over end to end modelling preferences.

See also 
 3D printing
 Rapid prototyping
 Stereolithography

Notes

References

External links 

 
 Independent review of the Polyjet Matrix Technology
 List of Patent by Objet at Google Patents

3D printer companies
Computer-aided design software
Electronics companies of Israel
1998 establishments in Israel
Companies established in 1998
1963 in spaceflight (January–March). This is a list of spaceflights launched between January and June 1963. For an overview of the whole year, see 1963 in spaceflight.

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Materials Research Corporation. Materials Research Corporation (MRC) was a global manufacturer and supplier of highly specialized semiconductor materials and equipment.

Timeline

1957: Materials Research Corporation founded by Dr. Sheldon Weinig and Dr. Josef Intrater at 47 Buena Vista Ave., Yonkers, NY
for the purification and characterization of materials to be used in controlled research
1970: IPO, listed on the American Stock Exchange. Businesses included sputtering systems, high purity materials for sputtering and evaporation thin film metal processes, ultra high purity fine grande alumina substrates for telecommunication devices.
1975: Introduced 902/903 Batch
1980: Introduced 603 Batch
1981: Moved company from Yonkers, New York to Route 303, Orangeburg, NY  10962
1988: Introduced the Eclipse 
1989: MRC acquires CVD division in Phoenix, AZ
1989: Acquired by Sony Corporation of America (for $58 million) 
1992: Garrett Pierce becomes President and CEO
1993: Tom Marmen becomes President and CEO
1996: Dr. Robert Foster becomes CEO
1997: Moved operations from NY to Gilbert, AZ, as part of a company reorganization
Outsourced manufacturing of the Eclipse Mark II, Eclipse Star, and Solaces PVD to Derlan, Inc.
Veeco Instruments Inc., Plainview, N.Y. acquired MRC Media & Magnetics Applications (MMA) division  in Orangeburg, N.Y
1998: Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) acquired the equipment divisions of MRC
KDF acquired the MRC batch and etch product lines from Tokyo Electron
1999: Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. acquired the business of Materials Research Corporation (MRC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

References

Equipment semiconductor companies