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Mitja Borkert. Mitja Borkert (born 17 March 1974) is a German automobile designer and chief engineer. He has served as director of Lamborghini Centro Stile since 2016. He was also a designer at Porsche from 1999 to 2016.

Biography
Borkert was born in 1974 in Herzberg (Elster) in what was then East Germany, and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he began attending the design department of Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences and graduated with a degree in transportation design.

Career

In 1999, Borkert was hired by Porsche at its style center in Weissach, where he had held various positions, the main of which have been that of General Manager of Advanced Design and in 2014, Director of Exterior Design. Here, he designed the Panamera Sport Turismo and the Porsche Boxster 987, collaborating in the creation of the second generation Cayenne, the Macan and the Mission E. After 17 years in Porsche, he left the German company in April 2016 to take on the role of Center Director Style of Lamborghini, replacing Filippo Perini who moved to direct Italdesign.

At Lamborghini, Borkert deals with the construction of the Aventador S and some special versions of the Huracán such as the Perfomante. In 2017, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, he designed the Terzo Millennio concept car.

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1974 births
Living people
German automobile designers
Lamborghini people
Porsche people
Volkswagen Group designers
Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences alumni
Alu Menziken. Alu Menziken Extrusion AG (primarily referred to as Alu Menziken Group) is a Swiss steel manufacturing concern headquartered in Menziken, Switzerland which is specialized in producing semi-finished products and components made from aluminium.

Founded 1897 by Alfred Gautschi, it was entirely owned and controlled by the Gautschi family until 2007. Then, for seventeen years, it was a subsidiary of the Swiss industrial group Montana Tech Components.

In November 2024, it was announced that the Chinese Mengtai group had acquired Alu Menziken.

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1897 establishments in Switzerland
Steel companies of Switzerland
Companies based in Aargau
2024 mergers and acquisitions
Ivett Leyva. Ivett A. Leyva is a Mexican-born American aerospace engineer whose research involves the aerodynamics of hypersonic flight and the use of injectors to modify the airflow around hypersonic aircraft. She is College of Engineering Excellence Professor and head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Education and career
Leyva is originally from Mexico, where she was raised by a single parent and educated in specialized technical schools. She describes her inspiration for going into aerospace engineering as stemming from "wanting to go really fast". She became a student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where she earned a bachelor's degree in engineering and applied science in 1994, a master's degree in aeronautics in 1995, and a Ph.D. in aeronautics in 1999, under the supervision of Hans G. Hornung.

She worked for General Electric on microturbines and pulse detonation engines. After stints as a thermal engineer at Exponent and as a rocket scientist at Microcosm, a Southern California defense contractor, she moved to the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), where she "transformed a boutique hypersonics basic research program into one of the largest basic research programs for hypersonic aerodynamics in the U.S." Next, she worked in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering, and returned to academia in 2021 as chair of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University.

Recognition
Leyva was named as a Fellow of AFRL in 2019, and as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2021. She was a 2019 and 2020 recipient of the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Torreón
Mexican emigrants to the United States
American aerospace engineers
American women engineers
Women aerospace engineers
California Institute of Technology alumni
Texas A&M University faculty
Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Computational propaganda. Computational propaganda is the use of computational tools (algorithms and automation) to distribute misleading information using social media networks. The advances in digital technologies and social media resulted in enhancement in methods of propaganda. Autonomous agents (internet bots) can analyze big data collected from social media and Internet of things in order to ensure manipulating public opinion in a targeted way, and what is more, to mimic real people in the social media. Digital technology enhance well-established traditional methods of manipulation with public opinion: appeals to people's emotions and biases circumvent rational thinking and promote specific ideas.

A pioneering work in identifying and analyzing of the concept has been done by the team of Philip N. Howard at the Oxford Internet Institute who since 2012 have been investigating computational propaganda, following earlier Howard's research of the effects of social media on general public published, e.g., in his 2005 book New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen and earlier articles.

References

Further reading
2018: Samuel C. Woolley and Philip N. Howard (eds.) Computational Propaganda. Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media
2020: Howard, Philip N.,  Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives

Propaganda techniques using information
Internet manipulation and propaganda
Kyiv Institute. Kyiv Institute or Kiev Institute may refer to:
 Kyiv Institute for Noble Maidens (1838–1917) former school 
 Kyiv Institute of Art, now National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture
 Kyiv Institute of Business and Technology
 Kyiv Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers, now National Aviation University
 Kyiv Institute of National Economy, now Kyiv National Economic University
 Kyiv Institute of Trade and Economics, now Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics
Kristi Morgansen. Kristi A. Morgansen Hill is an American control theorist specializing in nonlinear control and its applications in biologically inspired sensing and motion, including the motion of robot fish. She is Boeing-Egtvedt Endowed Professor and chair of the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington.

Education and career
Morgansen studied mechanical engineering at Boston University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1994 and a master's degree in 1995. Next, she moved to Harvard University, where she earned a second master's degree in applied mathematics in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences in 1999. Her doctoral dissertation, Temporal Patterns in Learning and Control, was supervised by Roger W. Brockett.

After postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology, she joined the University of Washington faculty in 2002. She was named as the Boeing-Egtvedt Endowed Professor in 2022.

Recognition
Morgansen was named as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2021.

References

External links
Nonlinear dynamics and control lab

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
American control theorists
Boston University alumni
Harvard University alumni
University of Washington faculty
Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Beneteau Evasion 22. The Beneteau Evasion 22 is a French sailboat that was designed by André Bénéteau as a motorsailer and first built in 1980.

Production
The design was built by Beneteau in France, from 1980 to 1984, with 278 boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Evasion 22 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. The hull is solid fibreglass and the deck is balsa-cored. It has a masthead sloop rig, with a deck-stepped mast, one set of unswept spreaders and aluminium spars with continuous stainless steel wire standing rigging. The hull has a raked stem, an angled transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a wheel internally in the pilot house and tiller in the cockpit. It has a fixed fin keel or optional dual bilge keels. The boat displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The design has a draft of  with the standard fin keel and  with the optional twin keels.

The boat is fitted with an inboard diesel engine of .

The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin and a drop down dinette table that forms a double berth in the pilot house. The galley is located on the port side just forward of the companionway ladder, aft of the steering station. The galley is of straight configuration and is equipped with a two-burner stove, an ice box and a sink. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the port side. Cabin headroom is . The fresh water tank has a capacity of .

The design has a hull speed of .

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

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Keelboats
1980s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Motorsailers
Sailboat type designs by André Bénéteau
Sailboat types built by Beneteau
Type 707 tanker. The Type 707 tankers are a series of replenishment oilers under construction for the German Navy to provide underway replenishment for its ships at sea. Procurement of two vessels was announced in July 2019, with delivery intended in 2025 to replace the s which are scheduled to be retired that same year.

Units

The project's general contractor is NVL Group, which is cooperating with Meyer Werft. The hulls are built by Neptun Werft in Warnemünde, which is part of the Meyer Group, the superstructure at Meyer Werft, Papenburg.

Construction of the first ship started on 29 June 2023 at Meyer Werft, Papenburg. The keel was laid on 8 August 2023 at Neptun Werft. Construction of the second ship started on 29 February 2024 at Meyer Werft. The keel was laid on 25 April 2024. Some sections are also being built at Stahlbau Nord, Bremerhaven. The Hull is 24 meters high.

See also
 List of German Navy ships
 List of active German Navy ships

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Auxiliary replenishment ship classes
Auxiliary ships of the German Navy
Oil tankers
Tankers of Germany
Granite Mountain Quarries Railroad. The Granite Mountain Quarries Railroad  is a private rail service of Granite Mountain Quarries in Arkansas operated by McGeorge Construction.  Using a fleet of four locomotives and 110 rail cars, the operation assembles unit trains of the crushed rock produced from quarrying, and passes the cars off to the Union Pacific (UP) for long-distance distribution.  The quarry operation gained direct access to the UP in 1969, and bought its own railcars in 2010.  

GMQX locomotives are yellow/gold in color, with a green top or stripe.

In 1990, a Granite Mountain Quarries train hit and overturned a truck moving across its track.  The train was pulling 2,600 tons of rock at the time.

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Arkansas railroads
Mining railways in the United States
Beneteau Evasion 25. The Beneteau Evasion 25 is a French sailboat that was designed by André Bénéteau as a motorsailer and first built in 1977 as a 1978 model year. It was sold in the United States as the Beneteau M/S 25.

Production
The design was built by Beneteau in France, from 1977 to 1982, starting as a 1978 model year. About 300 boats were completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Evasion 25 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. The hull is solid fibreglass and the deck is balsa-cored. It has a masthead sloop rig with a bowsprit, a deck-stepped mast, one set of unswept spreaders and aluminium spars with continuous stainless steel wire standing rigging. The hull has a raked stem, an angled transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a tiller and a fixed long keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard long keel.

The boat is fitted with an inboard diesel engine of  for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .

The design has sleeping accommodation for five people, with a double "V"-berth berth in the bow cabin, a drop down dinette table that forms a double berth in the main salon and an aft quarter berth on the port side. The galley is located on the port side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is of straight configuration and is equipped with a two-burner stove, an ice box and a sink. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin. Cabin headroom is .

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of .

The design has a hull speed of .

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Keelboats
1970s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Motorsailers
Sailboat type designs by André Bénéteau
Sailboat types built by Beneteau
Edward B. Eichelberger. Edward B. Eichelberger (born February 8, 1934, in Norfolk, VA) is an American engineer and wrestler. He holds the distinctions of IBM Fellow and IEEE Fellow (1986) for contributions to VLSI chip design, integrated circuit design, and electronic design automation. Eichelberger shared with Thomas W. Williams (engineer) the 1989 IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award “for developing the level-sensitive scan technique of testing solid-state logic circuits and for leading, defining, and promoting design for testability concepts.” In 2000, Eichelberger received the IEEE Test Technology Technical Council's Lifetime Contribution Medal.

In 2009, Eichelberger was inducted in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Education and college wrestling 

As a wrestler, Eichelberger won three state championships for Granby High School. While at Lehigh University, he achieved a career record of 55-3-1 in college wrestling and was Lehigh's first three-time All-America champion. Eichelberger obtained a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University in 1956. He then worked at IBM on solid state circuit design for three years. Eichelberger received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1963.

Career 
Eichelberger worked at IBM on chip design, circuit design, electronic design automation and circuit test automation from 1956 until 1994. He received 25 patents. Among his remarkable contributions was a 1965 paper on hazard detection in combinational and sequential circuits. In 1973, he was honored by the IBM Outstanding Contribution Award for the level-sensitive scan design (LSSD) technique. His development of Weighted Random Patterns was recognized with the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award.

Computer History Museum recorded Eichelberger's oral history.

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1934 births
Sportspeople from Norfolk, Virginia
20th-century American inventors
American electrical engineers
Electronic design automation people
Fellows of the IEEE
IBM Fellows
American wrestlers
Living people
David Taupiac. David Taupiac (; born 13 May 1975) is a French politician. He was elected deputy for the second constituency of Gers in 2022 and regional councillor for Occitanie in 2021.

Biography

Early life and education 
David Taupiac studied aeronautical design engineering at Toulouse-III-Paul-Sabatier University, from 1995 to 1998.

An aeronautical engineer by profession, he obtained permission from the ethics officer of the French National Assembly to continue working as a consultant in the sector after his election, on condition that he did not work for companies eligible for state aid or contracts.

Political career 
David Taupiac was mayor of Saint-Clar from 2008 to 2022 and regional councillor for the Occitanie region from 2021.

In the 2022 legislative elections, he distanced himself from the NUPES agreement, underlining fundamental disagreements with LFI. He was elected deputy for the second Gers constituency on June 19, 2022, as a dissident Socialist Party candidate, with 62.98% of the vote against his rival Maëva Bourcier from La République en marche. In September 2022, he joined the LIOT group.

He intervened in particular to oppose the proposed law banning private jet flights, highlighting the minimal impact of private jet flights on overall greenhouse gas emissions. According to Le Monde, this opposition to the ban on private jet flights could constitute a conflict of interest, as David Taupiac will be working until 2019 for a company specializing in private jet flights.

References

External links 
 Assemblée nationale
 Aute autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique

Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Members of Parliament for Gers
Living people
Socialist Party (France) politicians
1975 births
Trixy Eye. The Trixy Eye is an Austrian tandem-seat autogyro designed and built by Trixy Aviation Products intended for police and military operators for the observation and reconnaissance roles.

Design
The Eye was developed from the Trixy G 4-2 R. It features a single main rotor, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants, a tail caster, 2 LED landing lights and 2 LED navigation and strobe lights on the cabin sides, a  Trixy 912 Ti or Rotax 912ULS engine in pusher configuration, and a pedal actuated main rotor pre-rotator to reduce the takeoff roll. An optionally heated cabin with removable canopy glass, UV-protected canopy and windshield and a defroster fan built into the instruments panel provide climate control.

The aircraft's fuel and electrical system are redundant and alternative battery and mechanical instruments are provided. Fuel is stored in two M.E.Rin anti-explosion tanks. The rear seat can be fitted with simplified controls to emergency use and Kevlar armour is optional.

An auxiliary fuel tank or a parachute drop box may be optionally installed under the cabin.

The Trixy Eye can carry up to  in sensors and cameras, as the mount is close to the center of gravity.

Operators

Border security

Ankara and Istanbul police

Specifications

See also
Celier CA-22
Kamov A-7 - Soviet military autogyro used in the Winter War
Lie Ying Falcon - Chinese autogyro used by PLA

References

External links

Eye
Single-engined pusher autogyros
Mahjong and artificial intelligence. Mahjong is a relatively complex four-player game with multiple variants played all around the world. When developing a mahjong-related artificial intelligence (AI), there are several factors researchers must consider; an AI must take into account its own hand as well as what it infers about the other players' hands utilizing the information available. Researchers have developed several mahjong-related AI models with various applications.

Shanten and kabe 
Researchers noticed that the current AI models that existed purely to calculate the shanten of a hand did not account for the discarded tiles. These researchers developed the Block Deficiency Model, an AI that would calculate the shanten of the hand taking Kabe, tiles that are all used or discarded, into account.

Scoring

Scoring rules 
Japanese mahjong has complex scoring rules; in general, the number of points a hand is worth will be calculated from the fu and han of the hand. Han is gained from dora and yaku. Honba must also be considered; each honba adds 300 points to the next winning hand. AI is being developed to do these calculations.

Recognizing the score with AI 
Researchers took note of the complexity involved in mahjong's scoring system and attempted to make an AI that could recognize the components of a winning hand and calculate the score with the goal of helping people restrained by their old age. Because this AI model attempted to recognize tiles in real life instead of on a computer, some tiles were misidentified.

Playing mahjong

Single-player mahjong 
Researchers decided to make an AI model that played a "simplified", single-player variant of mahjong; this model was intended to provide a framework for other models to use. They considered their model "greedy" because it only focused on winning itself. The researchers later added a second player, but ended the game after one hand; to maximize its expected score, the AI would have to consider the speed and value of the hand it would like to achieve.

Suphx 
Researchers developed Suphx with the intention to make an AI model that could play Japanese mahjong competitively . Suphx was able to achieve the second highest rank on Tenhou.net, but was not permitted to play in the highest ranking room.

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Game artificial intelligence
John Ackroyd (engineer). John Gilbert Ackroyd (31 January 1937 – 25 January 2021) was a British engineer.

Early and personal life
Ackroyd born in Muttra, India, on 31 January 1937, and grew up in England from the age of seven. 

He was educated in Ryde, Folkestone and Ardingly College.

Ackroyd married Birgit Häggman in 1963. The couple divorced in the early 1980s. They had two daughters Anna and Lisa.

Career
Ackroyd started his engineering career with an apprenticeship at Saunders-Roe in East Cowes on the Isle of Wight. His final job as an apprentice was in the design department working on the SR53 prototype fighter aircraft with a mixed jet and rocket propulsion system.

Ackroyd then took a lead role in designing and engineering at Cushioncraft for Britten-Norman. The CC7 launched in 1969 but when the company was sold Ackroyd was again out of a job.

After two years in Germany with the aircraft manufacturer Dornier, he became the project designer of the world's first production electric car for the Isle of Wight-based Enfield Automotive, which commenced sales in 1973 as the Enfield 8000.

In 1978 he joined the Thrust 2 land speed record project, which went on the achieve the record in 1983.

In 1981 he was involved with the Vanishing Point rocket sled which achieved the World Ice Speed Record at  in 1981, and in 1999, the Gillette Mach 3 Challenger which set the motorcycle speed record of .

In 1987 he teamed up with the Swedish aeronautical engineer Per Lindstrand and Richard Branson for a project to cross the Atlantic in a balloon. Ackroyd designed the pressurised capsule for the Virgin Atlantic Flyer, and the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 1987.

Death
Ackroyd died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on 25 January 2021, aged 83.

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1937 births
2021 deaths
British engineers
People educated at Ardingly College
Rolls-Royce Architecture of Luxury platform. The Rolls-Royce Architecture of Luxury (A.O.L) platform is a car platform developed by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

It is a modular platform that utilises an aluminium spaceframe chassis. It is available with rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive setups and debuted in the Phantom VIII in 2017. This platform would also be used by the Cullinan, second-generation Ghost, Boat Tail, and Spectre.

Vehicles 
 Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII (2017–present)
 Rolls-Royce Cullinan (2018–present)
 Rolls-Royce Ghost (2021–present)
 Rolls-Royce Boat Tail (2021–2022)
 Rolls-Royce Spectre (2023–present)

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Car platforms
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars