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Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy. The Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy was established by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) in 1948 after a trust fund was created in 1936 by Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston, a former president of the NAA. It is awarded to a living American for "significant public service of enduring value to aviation in the United States." The presentation of the award is made annually at the Aero Club of Washington, as close as possible to December 17 each year, the day on which, in 1903, the Wright brothers made the first flight in an airplane. The inaugural recipient of the trophy was William F. Durand, "a pioneer in aeronautics, naval propulsion and engineering research methods". Until 2010, winners of the award received a trophy depicting the Wright brothers' Wright Flyer aircraft. From 2010 onwards, a redesigned trophy featuring a silver obelisk and bronze inscription has been awarded.

The trophy has been awarded to women on four occasions: Olive Ann Beech, founding partner and president of Beech Aircraft, received the award in 1980; Marion Blakey, former administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, was honored in 2013, Colleen Barrett, President Emeritus of Southwest Airlines, was the 2016 recipient, and retired NASA astronaut and USAF pilot Eileen Collins received the trophy in 2022.

List of winners

See also

 List of aviation awards
 Wright Brothers Medal

References

External links
 Aero Club of Washington
 The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) list of Wright Memorial Trophy winners

Aviation awards
Wright brothers
American awards
Awards established in 1948
AVIC Aircraft. AVIC Aircraft Corporation Ltd. (AVIC Aircraft) is a state-owned enterprise in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, which manufactures and markets structural parts and components for aircraft and automobiles. It was founded in 1997 by Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation. It was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange the same year.

In 2013 the company was restructured to become AVIC Aircraft.

References

External links

 

Aircraft manufacturers of China
Government-owned companies of China
Defence companies of the People's Republic of China
Manufacturing companies based in Xi'an
Companies established in 1997
Companies listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange
1997 in Xi'an
Education in Nashik. Nashik has been the educational hub of North Maharashtra. The city has two state run universities: Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) (located near Gangapur village on the outskirts of Nashik) and the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences.

Colleges 

 KRT Arts, B. H. Commerce and A.M.Science College (K.T.H.M)
 K.V.N Naik College
 BYK College
 Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management

Engineering colleges 
 K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education & Research
 NDMVP's College of Engineering
 Guru Gobind Singh College of Engineering and Research Center (GCOERC)
 Sandip Foundation
K.V.N Naik College of Engineering
 SNJB'S College of Engineering, Chandwad, Nashik 
 Gokhale Education Society's R. H. Sapat College of Engineering, Management Studies and Research
 G.N Sapkal Engineering College, Nashik
 Indian Railways Institute of Electrical Engineering, Nashik  ( IREEN )
 Karmaveer Adv.baburao Ganpatrao Thakare College of Engineering
 Nashik District Maratha Vidya Prasarak Samaj's K.B.T. College of Engineering
 Shatabdi Institute Of Engineering, Nashik
 SND College of Engineering & Research Centre, Yeola, Nashik
 Matoshri College of Engineering, Eklahare, Nashik

Diploma in Engineering colleges 
 K. K. Wagh Polytechnic
K.V.N. Naik S.P. Sanstha's Polytechnic
 NDMVPS Samajs Rajarshee Shahu Maharaj Polytechnic
 Guru Gobind Singh Polytechnic
Sandip polytechnic
SNJB'S polytechnic Nashik
Matoshri Aasarabai Polytechnic
Brahma Valley Polytechnic

Other
 Divyadaan: Salesian Institute of Philosophy

Schools

References

External links
Education in Nashik
Nasik Education website
General Electric Building (disambiguation). The General Electric Building is a building at 51st St. and Lexington Avenue, in New York City.

General Electric Building may also refer to:
30 Rockefeller Plaza, formerly the GE Building, also in New York City

See also
Electric Tower, sometimes General Electric Tower, Buffalo, New York
General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, New York
General Electric Switchgear Plant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
John Knott (metallurgist). John Frederick Knott (9 December 1938 – 5 October 2017) was an English metallurgist and materials scientist.

From 1962 to 1966, Knott was a Research Officer at the Central Electricity Research Laboratories in Leatherhead in Surrey, after which he became a lecturer in the Department of Materials, Science and Metallurgy at Cambridge University between 1967 and 1981. In 1990, he moved to the University of Birmingham, where he was Professor and Head of the School of Metallurgy and Materials until 1996, Dean of Engineering from 1995 to 1998 and the fifth Feeney Professor of Physical Metallurgy between 1994 and 2007.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990 and was awarded their Leverhulme Medal in 2005 "for his distinguished contributions to the quantitative scientific understanding of fracture processes in metals and alloys and its engineering applications". He was elected in 1988 as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

He died on 5 October 2017 at the age of 78.

References 

1938 births
2017 deaths
People from Bristol
British metallurgists
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Fellows of the Royal Society
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Tetrode (disambiguation). Tetrode can refer to:

 Tetrode, an electronic device with four active electrodes, such as a vacuum tube
 Beam tetrode
 Field-effect tetrode, a solid-state device
 Tetrode (biology), an electrode used in biology to sample neural signals
 Tetrode transistor, a transistor with four active terminals
 Sackur–Tetrode equation, an expression for the entropy of a monatomic classical ideal gas
 Hugo Tetrode, a Dutch physicist (1895–1931)
 Willem Danielsz van Tetrode, a Dutch sculptor (ca. 1530 – ca. 1587)
Scribe (log server). Scribe was a server for aggregating log data streamed in real-time from many servers. It was designed to be scalable, extensible without client-side modification, and robust to failure of the network or any specific machine.

Scribe was developed at Facebook and released in 2008 as open source.

Scribe servers are arranged in a directed graph, with each server knowing only about the next server in the graph. This network topology allows for adding extra layers of fan-in as a system grows, and batching messages before sending them between datacenters, without having any code that explicitly needs to understand datacenter topology, only a simple configuration.

Scribe was designed to consider reliability but to not require heavyweight protocols and expansive disk usage. Scribe spools data to disk on any node to handle intermittent connectivity node failure, but doesn't sync a log file for every message. This creates a possibility of a small amount of data loss in the event of a crash or catastrophic hardware failure. However, this degree of reliability is often suitable for most Facebook use cases.

See also

Apache Flume
Fluentd: Log Everything in JSON
Enabling Facebook’s Log Infrastructure with Fluentd

Notes and references

External links
Open Source - Facebook Developers 
The real value of Scribe for open source
Scribe project on GitHub

Facebook software
2008 software
Free software programmed in C
Free software programmed in PHP
Software using the Apache license
Richard O. Duda. Richard O. Duda  is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University renowned for his work on sound localization and pattern recognition. He lives in Menlo Park, California.

Education 
Duda received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958 and 1959, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962.

Career 

While at SRI International, Duda and Peter E. Hart were the authors of "Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis", originally published in 1973. This classic text is a widely cited reference, and the first edition was in print for over 25 years until being superseded by the second edition in 2000.

Duda is an IEEE Fellow and a AAAI Fellow.

See also 
 Expert systems
 Pattern recognition
 Hough transform

References

Living people
San Jose State University faculty
People from Menlo Park, California
SRI International people
Fellows of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
MIT School of Engineering alumni
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Benthic lander. A benthic lander is an autonomous observational platform that sits on the seabed or benthic zone to record physical, chemical or biological activity. 

Benthic landers have deployment durations from a few days (for biological studies) to several years (for physical oceanography studies). In these studies they conduct a variety of underwater measurements, and thus different lander configurations exist to meet differing needs for different measurements.

Purpose 
Samples that are brought up from the seabed undergo large changes in temperature and pressure, thus changing their physical and chemical composition and properties. This change in properties means that any measurements taken from samples brought to the surface do not provide accurate data. In order to avoid this, it is best that the measurements are taken directly at the seabed level, without moving the samples. Initially, to prevent altering samples, divers would go to the sea bed and carry out the experiments. However, divers have a very small range of depth and a short time under water and cause a large disturbance to the sea bed, thereby introducing more error into the measurements. These shortcomings are improved by using benthic landers as they have a much larger depth and time capacity than divers and can be designed to cause minimal disturbance to the sea floor. Some common uses for the collected seabed data include studying currents, tides, and microseismic and magnetic field activity and monitoring marine life.

Variations 
Benthic landers come in a variety of shapes and sizes depending upon the instrumentation they carry, and are typically capable of working at any ocean depth. One type of instrumentation that is often used on benthic landers is an eddy correlation instrument that measures oxygen flux. Different types of landers are used depending on the length and nature of the mission. Longer duration mission landers are typically equipped with ultrasonic sensors, LiDAR, and cameras in order to intelligently navigate the seabed. Additionally, depending on what measurements the mission is intended to take, the lander can be configured to disrupt the environment in different ways enabling for higher precision of certain data sets at the tradeoff of others. New technologies are constantly being developed to improve lander data collection, one example being holography, which is meant to be utilized to take measurements of the seabed far from the lander.

See also

 Marine snow
 Mooring (oceanography)
Bottom crawler

References 

Oceanographic instrumentation
Physical oceanography
Alphonse Louis Poitevin. Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes.

He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print.

References

19th-century French photographers
Pioneers of photography
19th-century French chemists
1819 births
1882 deaths
MARCbot. The Multi-function Agile Remote-Controlled Robot (MARCbot) is a military robot created by Exponent Inc. for the United States Army Rapid Equipping Force.

Design 
The MARCbot was designed as a low cost robotic platform used in Iraq for the inspection of suspicious objects. Until its creation when US Army patrols encountered a potential improvised explosive device, they had to either wait for a specialist explosive ordnance disposal team with its specialist / expensive robots, or investigate the suspicious package themselves. Exponent worked with the Rapid Equipping Force to create a low-cost robot for patrol units. Over 1000 MARCbots were eventually created for the US Army for the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan. The MARCbot reputedly costs $19,000 - however this is less than other contemporary military robots.

The MARCbot is one of smallest and most commonly used robots in Iraq and looks like a small toy truck with an elevated mast on which a camera is mounted. This camera is used to look, for example, behind doors or through windows without placing human soldiers in danger. It is capable of running for 6 hours on a set of fully charged batteries and was developed with the input of soldiers in Iraq to meet their needs.

Use as an offensive weapon 
The MARCbot was the first ground robot to draw blood in Iraq. One unit jury-rigged a Claymore antipersonnel mine on their units. If they suspected an ambush they would send the robot ahead. If an insurgent was seen the Claymore would be detonated.

See also 
 Military robot
 Goliath tracked mine

References 

Military robots
Unmanned ground vehicles
Unmanned ground combat vehicles
Military vehicles introduced in the 2000s
George Humphreys (civil engineer). Sir George William Humphreys KBE (1863–1945) was a British civil engineer.

Humphreys was born in London in 1863. He became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) on 7 March 1908. He became a member of the council of that institution in November 1917 and served as vice-president from November 1927. Humphreys was elected president of the ICE for the November 1930 to November 1931 session. After his term he returned to the council as a past-president and remained in that position until October 1937. In 1927 he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Humphreys held a commission as an officer in the Territorial Army's Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid unit which provides technical expertise to the British Army. On 18 June 1932 he was promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel. He received the Efficiency Decoration on 18 March 1937 for his volunteer army service. Humphreys was appointed a land tax commissioner for the City of Westminster and its liberties on 22 April 1938, at which time he was living in Queen Anne's Gate in Westminster. On 25 June 1938 he resigned his commission in the army, receiving permission to retain his rank and continue to wear his uniform. Humphreys died in 1945.

References

Bibliography 

1863 births
1945 deaths
British civil engineers
Engineers from London
Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Engineer and Railway Staff Corps officers
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (Helmholtz Centre for Materials and Energy, HZB) is part of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. The institute studies the structure and dynamics of materials and investigates solar cell technology. It also runs the third-generation BESSY II synchrotron in Adlershof. Until the end of 2019 it ran the 10 megawatt BER II nuclear research reactor at the Lise Meitner  campus in Wannsee.

History
Following the renaming of Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH to Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH on 5 June 2008, the legal merger of Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung (BESSY) with HZB became visible on 1 January 2009.

The Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin für Kernforschung (HMI), named after Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, was named 14 March 1959 in Berlin-Wannsee to operate the BER I research reactor that began operation with 50 kW on 24 July 1958, then named Institut für Kernforschung (IKB). The IKB was founded by the senate of Berlin (West) in winter 1956/57 as a dependent authority. Research originally focused on radiochemistry. In 1971, the federal government took over 90% of the shares in the HMI by converting it into a GmbH (limited liability company).

The Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung GmbH (BESSY) was founded in 1979. The first synchrotron BESSY I in Berlin-Wilmersdorf began operations in 1982.

In May 2022, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was in South Africa on the final leg of a trip to Africa, publicly announced that HZB and Sasol had agreed to conduct research into substances to help produce sustainable aviation fuel on a commercial scale.

References

External links
 Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin: Official English language website
 Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin: Official German language website

Nuclear technology
Nuclear research institutes
Neutron facilities
Research institutes in Berlin
 Synchrotron radiation facilities
Plug computer. A plug computer is a small-form-factor computer whose chassis contains the AC power plug, and thus plugs directly into the wall. Alternatively, the computer may resemble an AC adapter or a similarly small device. Plug computers are often configured for use in the home or office as compact computer.

Description 
Plug computers consist of a high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip processor, with several I/O hardware ports (USB ports, Ethernet connectors, etc.). Most versions do not have provisions for connecting a display and are best suited to running media servers, back-up services, or file sharing and remote access functions; thus acting as a bridge between in-home protocols (such as Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) and Server Message Block (SMB)) and cloud-based services. There are, however, plug computer offerings that have analog VGA monitor and/or HDMI connectors, which, along with multiple USB ports, permit the use of a display, keyboard, and mouse, thus making them full-fledged, low-power alternatives to desktop and laptop computers. They typically run any of a number of Linux distributions.

Plug computers typically consume little power and are inexpensive.

History 
A number of other devices of this type began to appear at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show.

 On January 6, 2009 CTERA Networks launched a device called CloudPlug that provides online backup at local disk speeds and overlays a file sharing service. The device also transforms any external USB hard drive into a network-attached storage device.
 On January 7, 2009,  Cloud Engines unveiled the Pogoplug network access server.
 On January 8, 2009, Axentra announced availability of their HipServ platform.
 On February 23, 2009, Marvell Technology Group announced its plans to build a mini-industry around plug computers.
 On August 19, 2009, CodeLathe announced availability of their TonidoPlug network access server.
 On November 13, 2009 QuadAxis launched its plug computing device product line and development platform, featuring the QuadPlug and QuadPC and running QuadMix, a modified Linux.
 On January 5, 2010, Iomega announced their iConnect network access server.
 On January 7, 2010 Pbxnsip launched its plug computing device the sipJack running pbxnsip: an IP Communications platform.

See also 
 Classes of computers
 Computer appliance
 CuBox, a plug computer
 GuruPlug, a plug computer
 DreamPlug, a plug computer
 FreedomBox, an operating system
 Personal web server
 Print server
 Raspberry Pi, a single-board computer
 SheevaPlug, a plug computer
 Stick PC, a computer attached to and powered by a USB or HDMI plug

References

External links
 

Cloud computing
Classes of computers
Cloud clients
Home servers
Server appliance
Weiss WM-10 Ölyv. 

The Weiss WM-10 Ölyv (English: "Buzzard") was a 1930s Hungarian biplane trainer designed and built by the Manfred Weiss company.

Development
First flown in September 1931 the WM-10 was a single-bay two-seat primary training biplane powered by the companies own   MW Sport I engine. The prototype was later modified to take the more powerful   MW Sport II engine and an improved landing gear and eight were built as the WM-10a and delivered in 1933. The last aircraft was re-engined with a   MW Sport III engine and larger fuel tanks and re-designated the WM-13 .

Five more aircraft were built with Siemens-Halske Sh 12 engines as aerobatic trainers for use by combat units as the EM-10. In 1938 all surviving aircraft we re-engined with the Siemens engine and all were known as the WM-10. Three aircraft survived with the military to 1941 when they were retired to be used as glider tugs.

Variants
WM-10
Prototype with a   MW Sport I engine, one built.
WM-10a
Production aircraft with a   MW Sport II engine, eight built. One converted to WM-13 and survivors later re-engined with a Siemens-Halske Sh 12 engines. 
WM-13
One WM-10a re-engined with a   MW Sport III engine.
EM-10
powered by a  Siemens-Halske Sh 12 engined aerobatic trainer, five built.

Operators

Hungarian Air Force

Specifications (WM-10a)

See also

Notes

References

 

Hungarian military trainer aircraft
Weiss Manfred aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1931
Biplanes
Single-engined piston aircraft