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Christophe de Dinechin. Christophe de Dinechin is a French computer scientist, with contributions in video games, programming languages and operating systems.

Programming languages 
Dinechin contributed to C++, notably a high-performance exception handling implementation that became a de-facto standard in the industry. de Dinechin was one of the proponents of a portable C++ ABI, initially developed for Itanium, but now widely used across platforms.

XL programming language 
Dinechin is the designer of the XL programming language and associated concept programming methodology. "XL" is named for "eXtensible Language".

XL features programmer-reconfigurable syntax and semantics. Compiler plug-ins can be used to add new features to the language. A base set of plug-ins implements a relatively standard imperative language. Programmers can write their own plug-ins to implement application-specific notations, such as symbolic differentiation, which can then be used as readily as built-in language features.

Similar works
There are projects that exploit similar ideas to create code with higher level of abstraction. Among them are:
 Intentional programming
 Language-oriented programming
 Literate programming
 Model-driven architecture

Video games 
As initial developer of Alpha Waves, a "groundbreaking" Atari ST game (listed in the Guinness World Records as the first 3D platform game), de Dinechin heavily influenced Frederick Raynal, the main developer of Alone in the Dark. de Dinechin also wrote a few viral games for HP-48 calculators, and was the first person to take advantage of hardware-scrolling on these machines.

Operating systems design 
In the early 2000s, he worked as a software architect for HP-UX, and was the initial designer of HP's virtualisation platform for Itanium servers, HP Integrity Virtual Machines. He was awarded 10 US patents for this work.

Since 2022, he also is the initiator and maintainer of DB48X, a new implementation of RPL.

Other work 
Christophe de Dinechin did the initial port of Emacs to the Aqua user interface. He wrote a variety of open-source drivers for the HP DE200C Digital Entertainment Center, turning it from a web-connected CD Player into a true digital video recorder.

Between 2010 and 2017, Christophe de Dinechin was the CEO of Taodyne, a company developing a 3D animation tool, using a derivative of his XL programming language called Tao3D to describe dynamic documents.

Bibliography 
Dinechin has published three books:

 A French science-fiction novel called Informagie

 A French book about physics called Réunifions la physique

 A physics book called A theory of incomplete measurements

References 

Living people
French computer scientists
French video game designers
Programming language researchers
Kernel programmers
Free software programmers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Multi Caliber Individual Weapon System. Multi Calibre Individual Weapon System (MCIWS) is an assault rifle developed in India by the Armament Research and Development Establishment, a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation. It was first seen at the DEFEXPO 2014 exhibition.

As of 2015, the rifle is also known as the Advanced Automatic Rifle (AAR) and also as the F-INSAS rifle.

History
The Indian Army chose an indigenous assault rifle to replace the INSAS rifle currently in service. The decision, which could save money in foreign exchange and boost local manufacture, was made by the former Chief of Army Staff, General Dalbir Singh Suhag. Several rifles are currently undergoing small arms trials with three prototype rifles made for testing as a future replacement to the INSAS rifle.

The MCIWS has also found interest with the Indian paramilitary forces including the Border Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the Sashastra Seema Bal.

According to a DRDO September 18, 2018 newsletter, the MCIWS is now ready for serial production.

In October 2017, the MCIWS procurement was superseded by an Army process to acquire around 7 lakh 7.62mm calibre rifles.

Design
The MCIWS is configured to fire in 5.56×45mm NATO, 7.62×39mm and in 6.8mm Remington SPC. Its design is influenced by both the AR-15 and the FN FNC. The barrel assembly appears to be based on the AK-47.

The design would allow soldiers to configure it according to the needs of the missions by changing rifle barrels. The MCIWS uses a gas-operated short stroke piston design, and uses 30-round plastic-type magazines. The rifle also has ambidextrous features, such as the charging lever and magazine release. The MCIWS includes an indigenous under barrel grenade launcher to fire airburst-type grenades which can take out targets up to 500 meters. Various sights can be mounted on the Picatinny rail on the upper receiver.

The rifle is of aluminium alloy and features a modular, rivet-less design.

References

7.62×39mm assault rifles
5.56×45mm NATO assault rifles
6.8mm firearms
Assault rifles of India
Weapons and ammunition introduced in 2014
Kalashnikov derivatives
ArmaLite AR-10 derivatives
Bradley & Craven Ltd. Bradley & Craven Ltd was a manufacturing company specializing in brickmaking machinery in Wakefield England. It was founded in 1843 by two young engineers, William Craven and Richard Bradley to manufacture what was then revolutionary machinery for automating clay brick production. Their 1853 patented ‘Stiff-Plastic Brickmaking Machine’ in combination with the Hoffman continuous kiln were responsible for changes in the industry which eventually saw a shift from hand craft to mechanized production. Their machines were manufactured at the Westgate Common Foundry in Wakefield and were sold throughout the United Kingdom as well as many oversees markets such as Australia, South Africa and Germany.

The company also made steam engines, colliery winding gear and exhibited in the 1862 London International Exhibition.

In 1972 Bradley & Craven, amalgamated with a rival Leeds company, Thomas C. Fawcett, forming Craven Fawcett Limited. However the name continued in use with a new private limited company of the same name incorporated on 1 October 1998 and dissolved on 30 July 2002.

External sources

 Falkirk Community Trust, Museum and Archive collection
 Model of brickmaking machine, Market Hall, Accrington
 Grace's Guide entry for Bradley and Craven

References

See also

Brunswick brickworks
Hoffman kiln
Brick
Brickwork
Brickyard
Masonry
Factories

Brick manufacturers
Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
1843 establishments in the United Kingdom
Building materials companies of the United Kingdom
Elitte Institute of Engineering and Management. The Elitte Institute of Engineering and Management is a coeducational, private diploma Engineering college located in Kolkata, West Bengal. It offers Diploma courses in Engineering and Technology. The college was set up by the Pinnaccle Educational Trust in 2009.

Accreditation and affiliation 
The Elitte Institute of Engineering and Management is approved by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) and is affiliated to West Bengal State Council of Technical Education (WBSCTE) (for all engineering and technological courses). It is recognized by the Government of West Bengal.

Admission
At the diploma level, students are primarily admitted on the basis of the ranks in the state-level engineering entrance examination for Polytechnic (JEXPO & VOCLET).

Courses

Diploma Courses
 Computer Science and Technology
 Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
 Civil Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Automobile Engineering

Diploma Management Courses
 Hotel Management

Location

College

P.O. Karnamadhavpur,
P.S.-Ghola, Near Mohispota
Kolkata-700113,
(Near Namaz-para, Kalyani Express Highway,)

Kolkata City Office

48B, Dr.Sundari Mohan Avenue
4th Floor
Kolkata - 700014

References

External links
 

Engineering colleges in Kolkata
Educational institutions established in 2009
2009 establishments in West Bengal
Ateşan Aybars. Ateşan Aybars (; born 4 September 1949) is a Turkish economist and TV celebrity, CTA and Biomedical Engineer. He graduated from the Istanbul Technical University in 1973. After working as a Commodity trading advisor at the Ontario Securities Commission between 1985 and 1989 for 5 years, he finished his master thesis about the "Conductivity Effects of Temperature". He worked for several newspapers as columnist and as a commentator economist for NTV, he is currently working for BloombergHT as commentator.

Selected publications

Books 

 Finansal Piyasalarda Zihin Kontrolü (2017)
 Meslek Olarak Opsiyon İşlemleri (2019)
 Karmaşıklık Ekonomisi (2021)

Bibliography 
 Richbars Technical Trader (1985)
 İMKB Uygulamalı Teknik Analiz (1992)

References

External links
 Website
 

1949 births
Turkish economists
Istanbul Technical University alumni
Living people
Steel industry in Italy. The steel industry in Italy originated in the 19th century.

History 
The beginnings of the steel industry in Italy were strongly influenced by the modest presence of underground iron ore and coal in particular, that occurred in 1880, an increasing import of pig iron from abroad.
With the widespread application of iron in the railways and in the mechanical industry in general witnessed the slow renewal of the old ironworks (with the adoption of Martin-Siemens furnaces and converters from scrap iron).
The regions of Italy that contributed most to the expansion of production were Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany.
In 1884 the Italian state, including the potential strategic role of the steel industry, built a large modern steel mill for that period at Terni.
At the beginning of the 20th century, to improve the use of iron ore national and limit dependence on foreign, were built some coke furnaces for the production of cast iron: in Portoferraio (with the company Elba) in 1902, in Piombino and finally in Bagnoli.
During this period, in 1905, the company ILVA was founded with the support of the Italian government, and acquired the management of the plants in Piombino, Savona, Elba, and later, of the largest plant of Bagnoli, to create a large group of steel production and construction of ships.

See also 
 Società Italiana Acciaierie Cornigliano
 Ilva
 Arvedi
 Marcegaglia

References

External links
ILVA

Industry in Italy
Steel industry of Italy
Robin Berjon. Robin Berjon is a French computer scientist and political writer. He is the editor of the W3C HTML5 specification. In 2012 he was elected to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) but he resigned early in 2013.

References

External links
 
 Profile - W3C

Living people
French computer scientists
French political writers
World Wide Web Consortium
Scientists from Paris
XML Guild
1977 births
French male non-fiction writers
Dezső Korda. Dezső Korda () (8 January 1864 – 1 April 1919) was a mechanical engineer born in Kisbér, Hungary.
Korda finished his education in 1885 at the Budapest, in  Royal Joseph Technical University (present-day Budapest University of Technology and Economics). After that he worked as electrical engineer in France and Switzerland. During the First World War Korda was a lecturer at ETH Zurich for wireless telegraphy and high frequency machines.

He invented the variable capacitor with air dielectric, and received in Germany a patent for invention on 13 December 1893.

He was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 1907 for his scientific achievements.

References

1864 births
1919 deaths
20th-century Hungarian inventors
Hungarian mechanical engineers
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
Engineers from Austria-Hungary
Expatriates in France
Expatriates in Switzerland
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Redfern Nieuport 17/24. The Redfern Nieuport 17/24 is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Walter Redfern and produced by the Walter Redfern Company of Post Falls, Idaho, based upon the First World War Nieuport 17 and Nieuport 24 fighter aircraft. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.

The plans allow a builder to complete the aircraft as either a Nieuport 17 or Nieuport 24.

Design and development
The Nieuport 17/24 features a biplane layout, a single-seat open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear with and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The replica is built from a combination of wood and metal tubing, all covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing, has a wing area of  and is supported by interplane struts, cabane struts and flying wires. The tail is also cable-braced. The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is the  Warner Scarab seven cylinder radial engine.

Changes over the original aircraft design include the addition of main wheel brakes and a tailwheel, whereas the original aircraft had no brakes and fitted a tailskid.

The Nieuport 17/24 has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for the pilot and baggage is .

The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a  engine is  and the landing roll is .

The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied plans as 2000 hours.

Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that 100 aircraft were completed and flying.

Specifications (Nieuport 17/24)

References

External links
Photo of a Redfern Nieuport 17/24 in flight

Nieuport 17 24
1990s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Replica aircraft
Mike Abbott. Mike Abbott was the Executive Vice President, Software for General Motors. He was formerly the vice president of Apple's Cloud Services team. He also previously worked as a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, vice president of engineering at Twitter, team lead for Azure at Microsoft and senior vice president of apps and services at Palm.

Early life and education
Raised in Saratoga, California, Abbott earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1994 from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and has completed coursework towards a PhD from the University of Washington.

Career
Abbott began his career in 1994 as a research associate at SRI International.  After spending a year and a half working towards his PhD at the University of Washington, Abbott returned to the workforce as a research scientist with GeneTrace Systems.  He then served as an architect/director at USWeb and VP of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer at Electron Economy.  In 2001, Abbott started Composite Software (acquired by Cisco), a data virtualization company, from his home office. He would then go on the co-found Passenger before serving as General Manager of Microsoft's .NET services and later leading the webOS software development team at Palm.

In May 2010, Abbott joined Twitter as Vice President of Engineering. At Twitter, Abbott is credited with rebuilding and solidifying Twitter's infrastructure, growing the engineering team from 80 to more than 350 engineers in less than a year and a half, and scaling Twitter's architecture to support hundreds of millions of daily tweets.

After a short stint at Benchmark Capital, Abbott joined Kleiner Perkins as a partner on its digital team in December 2011.

In 2017 Mike Abbott announced that he was leaving his role of general partner at Kleiner Perkins. Kleiner Perkins partner Ted Schlein said that Mike Abbott left the firm because he "wanted to go back and be an engineer".

In February 2018, Abbott joined Apple. He left Apple in March 2023.

In May 2023, Abbott joined General Motors. He resigned from that role in March 2024 due to health concerns.

References

California Polytechnic State University alumni
Twitter, Inc. people
American venture capitalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Saratoga, California
Kleiner Perkins people
Ted Livingston (Kik). Ted Livingston (born 1987) is founder of Kik Messenger that provides mobile messaging service.

Early life
Livingston was born in Toronto. As a child, Livingston had a passion for building Lego structures and automated machines in his basement.  He continues following this interest on the school robotics team.

From 1997 to 2005, Livingston attended the Crescent School, in Toronto.

2005–Present: UWaterloo and Kik
Livingston took a mechatronics bachelor's degree at the University of Waterloo from 2005 to 2009 in order to "pursue his dream of building robots." He participated in the Waterloo co-op program there, with placements at Honda and the City of Toronto government. Livingston eventually landed a co-op position as a system engineering project coordinator at Research in Motion.

In December 2007, eight months into his co-op, Livingston was promoted by Research in Motion to "Technical Product Management Coordinator". In 2008, he turned down a full-time job to return to school at the advice of his manager.

Back at Waterloo, Livingston decided to take part in the Velocity program, a startup-focused community where he founded Kik Messenger instead of completing his degree.

Kik now competes with  Facebook and WeChat. At its peak in 2015 it boasted over 275 million registered users, and it was used by approximately 40 percent of American teens. In 2015 Chinese Internet giant Tencent invested $50 million into Kik. 

In 2014, Forbes placed him on their "Top 30 under 30" in their technology list.
In November 2015, Torontolife ranked Livingston at #20 on their "Toronto's 50 Most Influential,".

References

Mobile computers
Living people
1987 births
Canadian chairpersons of corporations
Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System. The Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System (MALS) is a system that reduces the viscous resistance component of the hull of ship by creating a layer of air bubbles below the hull of the ship. This reduces frictional resistance between the hull and the seawater. The system has been designed for bulk carriers and passenger ships. The blower uses a motor to generate the bubbles, and is mainly designed for use on flat hulls. 

It is expected to yield a 10-15% reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, and also significant savings of fuel.

Similar systems are also made by Silverstream technologies and Pascal Technologies.

References

External links and references

 Video of how Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System works
 A link of how Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System works

Mitsubishi
Voxel Space. Voxel Space was a voxel raster graphics rendering engine invented by Novalogic developer and vice-president of technology, Kyle Freeman. The company was issued a patent for the technology in early 2000.

History 
The original Voxel Space engine was patented in 1996, and first released in software in the 1992 release Comanche: Maximum Overkill. The engine was then revamped into Voxel Space 2 (which supports the use of polygons as well as voxels, and was used in Comanche 3 and Armored Fist 2), and later Voxel Space 32 and used in Armored Fist 3 and Delta Force 2.

Based on Kyle Freeman's experience with voxels in medical-imaging technologies used in CT scan and MRI scanners, similar technology was used in games such as Outcast. With the advance of computation power in modern computers there do exist browser-based versions of similar technology based on the Voxel Space terrain rendering used in Comanche.

The version of the engine used in the Comanche series utilized ray-tracing every pixel of the volumetric terrain data.

Versions 
 Voxel Space 3D:
 Voxel Space 2:
 Voxel Space 32: 32-bit rendering, 16 million color support, 360 degrees of transformation.

List of games 
The technology was used in a number of commercial game titles:

 Werewolf
 Comanche series 
 Delta Force series

References 

2000 software
Video game engines
Space Monster. Space Monster (known as Alien Invaders - Plus! in North America) is a fixed shooter video game for the Philips Magnavox Odyssey², a console released in 1978. Similar to Space Invaders, the object of the game is to destroy all invading aliens while also avoiding fire.

Gameplay 
The player controls a robot inside of the mobile laser cannon which is used to attack the enemy robots. The Merciless Monstroth (an eye shaped enemy that constantly moves back and forth across the top of the screen) leads the invasion force of 8 robots. Each robot has a cannon and is protected by an indestructible green shield. The shields constantly move back and forth giving both the player and the enemy the opportunity to fire. If the player's laser cannon is struck, they will be defenseless unless they retreat to under one of the three large black shields. Once the player fires, the shield will disappear and the laser cannon will reappear. If all three shields are lost, the Merciless Monstroth will engage the player until either all enemies are destroyed or the player is destroyed. First to win ten games wins the match.

Reception
Space Monster was reviewed by Video in its "Arcade Alley" column where it was described as "a surprisingly innovative switcheroo on good old Space Invaders". Despite noting that the game has only eight attackers, the reviewers argued that the game "is no pushover", and suggested that it is a "unique and interesting S-F videogame" and that it "makes a nice change of pace from the usual run of space-invasion games because it is less derivative by far than most of them".

See also 
List of Videopac games

References

1980 video games
Fictional monsters
Fixed shooters
Magnavox Odyssey 2 games
Magnavox Odyssey 2-only games
Single-player video games
Space Invaders clones
Video games about extraterrestrial life
Video games developed in the United States
DESMO-J. DESMO-J is a discrete event simulation library developed in Java.

Overview

DESMO-J is an acronym for Discrete-Event Simulation Modelling in Java. DESMO-J allows for rapidly and flexibly building discrete event simulation models in Java, supporting both the event-oriented and process-oriented world view. DESMO-J provides a comprehensive set of readily usable Java classes for stochastic distributions, static model components (like queues or resource synchronization), time representation and scheduling, experiment conduction and reporting. Supported by this simulation infrastructure, the user is free to concentrate on specifying the model's behaviour in terms of events or processes.

Development

  
  
  

DESMO-J has been developed at University of Hamburg's research group of Modelling and Simulation . First released in 1999, the environment continues to be maintained and kept up to date, now in terms of a SourceForge Project. DESMO-J's predecessor was DESMO, a Modula-2-based simulation library, which in turn was inspired by DEMOS, a system for discrete event modelling on Simula.
A companion book has appeared 2005.

Features 

Besides providing a hybrid discrete event simulation environment able to process event as well as process model descriptions, key features of DESMO-J include:

 A GUI for experiment conduction
 2D animation, based on icons and symbols
 3D visualization, based on Java3d

Furthermore, an online tutorial is available on the project web page.

Most real-world DESMO-J applications focus on manufacturing and logistics. DESMO-J is integrated into business process modelling tools like Borland Together or Intellivate IYOPRO, augmenting these tools with simulation functionality.

See also
Discrete event simulation
List of discrete event simulation software

References

External links

Free simulation software
Scientific simulation software
Java (programming language) libraries
Software using the Apache license