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May Maple. May Maple''' CEng FIEE (8 August 1914 – 19 August 2012) was an electrical engineer and past president of the Women's Engineering Society. She was elected a fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1969.

Early life and education 
May was born on 8 August 1914 in Gateshead to Alfred Newby, a master mariner, and Florence May Newby ().

Maple was educated at Calder High School in Liverpool and studied for an Higher National Certificate in electrical engineering at Acton Technical College. She completed the course work at night school over a five year period, while working for Edmundsons as a purchasing officer.

Engineering career 
Maple moved to a role as a contracts officer with the British Electricity Authority when that body was formed under the Electricity Act of 1947, and was promoted to 3nd Assistant Engineer in 1953. By 1965, she was the only woman of four contracts officers in the Central Electricity Generating Board. In 1969, she was head of the electrical section.

Maple was elected vice president of the Women's Engineering Society in 1967, and served as president from 1970 until 1971. 

Maple gave a paper on issues to consider during transportation of heavy indivisible loads to the 3rd International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists, held in Turin in 1971.

Honors and awards 
In 1955 Maple was named an associate member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and she was named a fellow in 1969.

She was awarded the Isabel Hardwich medal in 1991.

In 2024, Maple's work was commemorated by a virtual blue plaque to celebrate the history of the Women's Engineering Society and the Electrical Association for Women.

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Cognilize. Cognilize is a German virtual reality software developer best known for creating sports training simulation systems. It gained recognition for developing applications to help train American football quarterbacks such as Jayden Daniels.

The company was founded in 2019 by Verena Krakau and Christian Hartmann originally for soccer training. They started work on American football applications in 2023 when they visited Louisiana State University (LSU), where the team worked in partnership with LSU Tigers athletic trainer Jack Marucci to help develop Jayden Daniels and other quarterbacks on their roster. Daniels would cite the software as being an assistance to him winning the Heisman Trophy that year.

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Fooocus. Fooocus is an open source generative artificial intelligence  program that allows users to generate images from a text prompt. It uses Stable Diffusion as the base model for its image capabilities as well as a collection of default settings and prompts to make the image generation process more streamlined.

History

Fooocus was created by Lvmin Zhang, a doctoral student at Stanford University who previously studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Soochow University. He is also the main author of ControlNet, which has been adopted by many other Stable Diffusion interfaces such as AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion Web UI and ComfyUI. As of 9 July 2024, the project had 38.1k stars on GitHub.

Features

Fooocus' main feature is that it is easy to set up and does not require users to manually configure model parameters to achieve desirable results. According to the project, it uses GPT-2 to automatically add more detail to the user's prompts. It includes common extensions such LCM low-rank adaptation by default which allows for faster generation speed. Fooocus prefers a photographic style by default, with a list of predefined styles to choose from. While Fooocus aims to provide good results out of the box, it also includes an "advanced" tab that allows for user customization. The user interface is based on Gradio.

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Lalita Udpa. Lalita Udpa is University Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. She was educated in India and the US, and focuses her research on nondestructive testing, including the inspection of aircraft and pipelines.

Education
Udpa studied physics at the University of Pune in India, earning a bachelor's degree in 1972 and a master's degree in 1974. She came to Colorado State University in the US for continued study in electrical engineering, earned a second master's degree in 1981, and completed her Ph.D. in 1986.

Recognition
Udpa was named as a Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing in 2007, and was the 2015 recipient of the society's Advancement of Women in NDT Recognition Award. She was named an IEEE Fellow in 2008, "for contributions to development of forward and inverse electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation methodologies".

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Non-destructive evaluation laboratory

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Minovate. Minovate (), officially known as Shenzhen Minovate Technology Co., Ltd., is a video game company based in China, established as Miniwan on June 10, 2015, in Shenzhen. The company's main product is .

History 
Minovate was established as Miniwan on June 10, 2015 in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. In the same year, they developed and released the first version of the sandbox game , which  officially lanuched on the mobile app stores in Mainland China in the next year. In 2017, Mini World announced that it had over 100 million users across multiple platforms in Mainland China. In 2018, Mini World announced that its monthly active users had exceeded 50 million, and the number of registered users had broken through 200 million. In 2019, Mini Coding was launched.

Controversies

Plagiarism controversy 
In 2017, the Chinese version of Minecraft, represented by NetEase, was launched, and subsequently, a crackdown was carried out on games in Mainland China "suspected of pirating/copying Minecraft" (including Mini World).

On August 15, 2017, NetEase issued a letter of rights protection to Minovate, accusing it of copying Minecraft, and demanded that the game be removed from the shelves. After the letter was sent, the gaming community TapTap temporarily removed the game from its platform, and it was re-listed shortly after. However, due to the claimed "copyright issues", the game was not available for download.

In 2018, NetEase sued the operator of Mini World for infringing the copyright of the artistic works of Minecraft and demanded the removal of the infringing works, as well as cessation of unfair competitive practices. In the first trial, Minovate and Huaduo Company raised jurisdictional objections, but the court rejected them; they appealed to the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court, and the jurisdictional objections were accepted by the court, transferring the case to the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court for trial. On October 13, 2018, NetEase withdrew the lawsuit against Minovate.

In December 2020, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court determined that 267 basic core elements in Mini World were substantially similar to the content in Minecraft, resulting in the game's visuals being substantially similar, and thus ruled that Mini World constituted an overall infringement. The court ordered Minovate to immediately cease the infringing actions, remove the 267 core elements involved in the case, and compensated NetEase with 21.132 million yuan ( USD).

Plants vs. Zombies agency incident 
In 2024, Minovate's subsidiary, Hainan Mengxing, announced the agency of Plants vs. Zombies 3, which caused dissatisfaction among some players of Minecraft and Plants vs. Zombies. Some Plants vs. Zombies players commented on the Bilibili game page.

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Jordan Peccia. Jordan L. Peccia is an American engineer and Professor of Environmental Engineering at Yale University. He was born in Cut Bank, MT. Since 2005, Peccia has been a member of the Chemical and Environmental Engineering faculty at Yale University, where he holds the Thomas E. Golden endowed professorship., and serves as the department's Chair. He is an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. In 2023, Peccia was named Head of Yale’s Benjamin Franklin College.

Academic career 
Peccia’s academic work integrates the problem-solving aspects of environmental engineering with microbial genetics and public health. Contributions include determining the infectious risks associated with the land application of sewage sludge, advancing exposure science on the beneficial health impacts of the indoor microbiome, and inventing DNA sequence-based tools for classifying the mold status of a building. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Peccia’s lab at Yale demonstrated how SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in domestic wastewater could be a leading indicator (over clinical case monitoring) of COVID-19 outbreaks. Peccia is a member of a group of international scientists that advocated for recognizing the airborne route of transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic.  He is the founding chair of the Gordon Research Conference of the Microbiology of the Built Environment

Family 
His brother is James D. Peccia III, Major General (retired), United States Air Force.

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 Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University
 Peccia environmental biotechnology lab website, Yale University

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Sheila Hemami. Sheila Susann Hemami is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur, the Senior Director for Growth Initiatives at Triple Ring Technologies, a tech incubator and co-development company. Formerly a professor at Cornell University and Northeastern University, her academic expertise is in signal processing.

Education and career
Hemami majored in electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1990. She then went to Stanford University for graduate study in electrical engineering, earned a master's degree in 1992, and completed her Ph.D. in 1994. Her doctoral dissertation, Reconstruction of Compressed Images and Video for Lossy Packet Networks, was supervised by Robert M. Gray.

After working as a researcher at Hewlett Packard Labs, she joined the Cornell University School of Electrical Engineering in 1995, and was Kodak Term Assistant Professor there from 1996 to 1999. Cornell promoted her to full professor in 2006, as the first woman in the university's School of Electrical Engineering to receive this level of promotion. She chaired the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee in 2006 and 2007, and was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia from 2008 to 2010. She moved to Northeastern University in Boston in 2013, as chair of its Department of Electrical Engineering.

In 2016, Hemami moved to non-profit technology developer Draper Laboratory as Director of Strategic Technical Opportunities, changing her focus to global challenges involving the environment and sustainability. She moved again to her present position at Triple Ring Technologies in 2021.

Recognition
In 2000, Hemami was the recipient of the Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award, an annual national award for electrical and computer engineering education.

She was named an IEEE Fellow in 2009, "for contributions to robust and perceptual image and video communications".

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Mary-Ann Mycek. Mary-Ann Mycek is an American physicist who is a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan. She develops optical approaches for diagnostics and monitoring that she translates out of the laboratory and into the clinic. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and SPIE.

Early life and education 
Myeck has loved puzzles and mathematics since she was a child. She was an undergraduate student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research studied the ultrafast dynamics of correlated excitons in GaAs quantum wells. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Research and career 
Myeck joined Dartmouth College as an assistant professor in 1998. She remained there for five years, before joining the University of Michigan as an associate professor. She was made Associate Department Chair as head of the Graduate Program and then head of Translational Research. In 2012 she was made professor, and eventually she was made Associate Dean for Graduate Education.

Myeck's research uses a "bench-to-bedside" approach to translate optical science to clinical contexts. In 2021, she was made Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She has driven strategy to support engineers from historically excluded groups find positions in academia. Myeck has developed a reporting and communication framework for Michigan Engineering, and launched a hub for engineering student wellness.

Awards and honors 
 2012 Selected as an SPIE Woman in Optics
 2014 Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
 2017 Fellow of SPIE

Selected publications

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Vincent Wilczynski. Vincent Wilczynski is an American engineer.

Education and career
Wilczynski completed a bachelor's of science at the United States Coast Guard Academy, then earned a master's of science in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by a doctorate in the same subject at the Catholic University of America. He served in the United States Coast Guard for 27 years, including dean of engineering at the USGCA, before retiring with the rank of captain in 2010 for a deputy deanship at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science and as James S. Tyler Director of Yale's Center for Engineering Innovation & Design. The USGCA granted Wilczynski emeritus status in 2016.

Honors and awards
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded Wilczynski the Edwin F. Church Medal in 2005.

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Bluefors. Bluefors is a Helsinki-based company specializing in cryogenic products used in several high-tech industries. Cryogenic solutions are integral to advancements in quantum computing and scientific research. The company offers cryogenic systems, including dilution refrigerators and cryocoolers, which are essential for applications requiring ultra-low temperatures. Cryocoolers are for instance a requirement for today’s superconducting qubits to function.

In response to increasing global demand, the company has expanded its operations. Notable acquisitions include Cryomech in the USA and Rockgate in Japan. Bluefors also have a laboratory in Delft, the Netherlands.

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Automatic1111. AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion Web UI (SD WebUI, A1111, or Automatic1111) is an open source generative artificial intelligence program that allows users to generate images from a text prompt. It uses Stable Diffusion as the base model for its image capabilities together with a large set of extensions and features to customize its output.

History

SD WebUI was released on GitHub on August 22, 2022, by AUTOMATIC1111, 1 month after the initial release of Stable Diffusion. At the time, Stable Diffusion could only be run via the command line. SD WebUI quickly rose in popularity and has been described as "the most popular tool for running diffusion models locally." A user study of six StableDiffusion users showed that all participants had used SD WebUI at least once. The study showed that users ascribe SD WebUI's popularity to its ease of installation and support for open source tools. SD WebUI is one of the most popular user interfaces for Stable Diffusion, together with ComfyUI. In February 2024, a book was published by ja:Gijutsu Hyoronsha on using Stable Diffusion with SD WebUI in Japanese. As of July 2024, the project had 136,000 stars on GitHub.

Features

SD WebUI uses Gradio for its user interface. Each parameter in the Stable Diffusion program is exposed via a UI interface within SD WebUI. SD WebUI contains additional parameters not included in Stable Diffusion itself, such as support for Low-rank adaptations, ControlNet and custom variational autoencoders. SD WebUI supports prompt weighting, image-to-image based generation, inpainting, outpainting and image scaling. It supports over 20 samplers including DDIM, Euler, Euler a, DPM++ 2M Karras, and UniPC. It is also used for its various optimizations over the base Stable Diffusion.

Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge

Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge (Forge) is a notable fork of SD WebUI started by Lvmin Zhang, who is also the creator of ControlNet and Fooocus. The initial goal of Forge was to improve the performance and features of SD WebUI with the intention to upstream changes back to SD WebUI. One of Forge's optimizations allowed users with low VRAM to generate images faster on some versions of Stable Diffusion. It improved generation speed for users with 8GB and 6GB VRAM by 30-45% and 60-75%, respectively. Forge also includes extra features such as support for more samplers than standard SD WebUI. Some of Forge's optimizations were borrowed from ComfyUI, and others were developed by the Forge team. In August 2024, Forge added support for the Flux diffusion model developed by Black Forest Labs, which is not yet supported by SD WebUI.

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Open-source artificial intelligence
Free and open-source software
Srinivas Garimella. Srinivas Garimella is an Indian mechanical engineer.

Education and career
Garimella earned a Bachelor of Science from IIT Kanpur in 1982, then moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies at Ohio State University, where he completed a Master's of Science and Ph.D. in 1984 and 1990, respectively. Garimella worked in industry for General Motors and Battelle Memorial Institute before turning to academia. He taught at Western Michigan University from 1994 then moved to Iowa State University in 1998. At Iowa State, Garimella became the first holder of the William and Virginia Binger Associate Professorship in Mechanical Engineering in 2000, and was awarded tenure in 2001. He joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in August 2003. Garimella holds the Hightower Chair in Engineering within the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

Awards and honors
Garimella was elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2005.

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William J. Wepfer. William J. Wepfer is an American mechanical engineer.

Education and career
Wepfer earned a bachelor's degree from Marquette University in 1974, followed by a master's degree at Stanford University in 1976. He then completed doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979, and joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an assistant professor in 1980. Within Georgia Tech's George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Wepfer held the Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. School Chair. In 2018, he retired from Georgia Tech and was granted emeritus status. During the 2020–2021 term, Wepfer served as president-elect of ABET.

Awards and honors
Wepfer was elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1998. He is the 2015 recipient of the ASME's Edwin F. Church Medal.

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Efstathios E. Michaelides. Efstathios E. Michaelides (born 13 February 1955) is a Greek-American mechanical engineer.

Michaelides earned a Bachelor of Arts in engineering science and economics from the University of Oxford in 1977. He then completed graduate study in engineering science at Brown University, obtaining a master's degree in 1979 and a doctorate in 1980. Michaelides began his teaching career at the University of Delaware upon graduating from Brown. In 1990, he joined the Tulane University faculty as head of the mechanical engineering department. After two years in the role, Michaelides became associate dean for graduate studies and research within Tulane's School of Engineering. Between 2002 and 2007, Michaelides served as director of the South-Central Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change. In 1998, he was appointed to Tulane's Leo S. Weil Professorship of Mechanical Engineering, which he held until 2007. In 2006, Michaelides founded the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at the University of North Texas, and held the department chairmanship until 2007. Upon leaving Tulane and UNT, Michaelides was named Robert F. McDermott Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio and concurrently held the founding directorship of the Center on Simulation, Visualization and Real Time Computing. At Texas Christian University, Michaelides is the W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Jr. Founding Chair of Engineering.

Honors and awards
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded Michaelides the Edwin F. Church Medal in 2021.

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