omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Susan J. Eggers. Susan J. Eggers is an American computer scientist noted for her research on computer architecture 
and compilers.

"Eggers is best known for her foundational work in developing and helping to commercialize simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors, one of the most important advancements in computer architecture in the past 30 years. In the mid-1990s, Moore's Law was in full swing and, while computer engineers were finding ways to fit up to 1 billion transistors on a computer chip, the increase in logic and memory alone did not result in significant performance gains. Eggers was among those who argued that increasing parallelism, or a computer's ability to perform many calculations or processes concurrently, was the best way to realize performance gains."(IEEE Computer Society Eckert-Mauchly Award Announcement)

In 2006, Eggers was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the design and evaluation of advanced processor architectures.

Biography
Eggers received a B.A.  from Connecticut College in 1965. She received a 
Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.

She then joined the Department of Computer Science at University of Washington in 1989 and is now an Emeritus Professor there.

Awards
Eggers has several notable awards including:
 Computer architecture community's most prestigious award, the Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2018 for outstanding contribution to simultaneous multi thread processor architectures and multiprocessor sharing and coherency. Eggers is the first woman to win this award. 
 ACM Fellow in 2002 "for contributions to the design and analysis of multithreaded and shared memory multiprocessors and compiler technology."
 IEEE Fellow in 2003 
 ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award in 2009 
 AAAS Fellow in 2006 
 She was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006
 She won 2011 and 2010 ISCA Influential Paper Awards for her 1996 and 1995 co-authored papers presented at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture.

References

External links
 University of Washington: Susan J. Eggers, Department of Computer Science

American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
University of Washington faculty
2002 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the IEEE
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Year of birth missing (living people)
University of California, Berkeley alumni
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American women academics
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Émile-Louis Letord. Émile Louis Letord, sometimes spelled Letort, (1880–1971) was a French industrialist and pioneer aeroplane manufacturer who founded the Société d'Aviation Letord from the  Letord and Niepce workshops at Meudon, near Paris.

In 1909 Letord and Niepce built their first aircraft, a monoplane, at their workshops on rue de Paira at Meudon. In 1910 they were commissioned to build a Farman type biplane by Colonel Dorand, director of the Service technique de l'aéronautique (STAé) at Chalais-Meudon. Letord went on to build the Dorand AR.1 and 2 and the three-seater armed reconnaissance Letord 1. Letord also undertook sub-contract work for major aircraft manufacturers such as Nieuport. Some 1,500 aircraft were ordered by the Aéronautique Militaire between all the variants, with something like 300 actually produced before the end of the war.

On 17 February 1930 a fire destroyed the workshops and aircraft at Meudon, these included a twin tri-motor engined Couzinet 20 and a Couzinet 27 Arc-en-ciel  II.

Letord is associated with around 40 patent applications for improvements to aircraft design between 1919 and 1953, and some patents on other topics. Some of the applications are shared with Marcel Letort, Camille Letort and Louis Béchereau.

References

Bibliography
 La Conquete de L'Air. Un Pionier Inconnu : Emile -Louis Letord, l'Avionneur de Meudon, By Albert Henri, 1982. (The Conquest of the Air. An unknown pioneer : Emile-Louis Letord, the Aviator of Meudon.)

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1880 births
1971 deaths
Businesspeople from Paris
French aviation pioneers
Aviators from Paris
French aerospace engineers
Aviation history of France
Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy. Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy is a Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.  He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2013 in the physical sciences category.

Biography

Vijay B. Shenoy obtained his B.Tech. (Mechanical) from IIT, Madras in 1992 and his M.S. from Georgia Tech. in 1994. He received his Doctorate degree from Brown University in 1998. For a short period he took Adjunct Assistant Professorship in Brown University in 1999. Later he joined the faculty of IIT, Kanpur from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, he joined Indian Institute of Science. Currently he works on theoretical condensed matter physics with focus on strongly interacting/correlated fermionic systems.

Research
His work on the Rashbon is said to have opened a new range of possibilities and new directions for physics.

External links

Interview with Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy : When future can be a reality

References

Indian condensed matter physicists
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
Scientists from Bengaluru
Brown University alumni
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Science
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
KAI-14. The KAI-14 was a Standard Class sailplane designed and built in the USSR in the 1960s. Two participated in the World Gliding Championships of 1965.

Design and development
The Standard Class (single seat,  span) KAI-14 was an all-metal aircraft designed and built at the Kazan Aviation Institute by a team led by M.P. Simonov in the USSR in the early 1960s.  It was a shoulder wing, cantilever monoplane.  The leading edge had a forward sweep of 2° and its trailing edge was compound tapered.  The wing terminated with small streamlined bodies known as salmons and was rigged with 4° of dihedral. Its inset hinged ailerons were each divided into two sections and small area airbrakes were mounted inboard.  A braking parachute was deployed when landing.

The metal semi-monocoque fuselage had a forward section which contained the cockpit ahead of the wing leading edge but became markedly slimmer aft, in pod and boom style. The KAI-14 had a 90° butterfly tail with straight tapered surfaces, squared tips and externally mass-balanced elevators.  It landed on a fixed monowheel, faired into the fuselage underside, which had a brake operated via the airbrake lever. The rear fuselage was protected by a tail bumper.

The KAI-14's cockpit could be configured in two ways, either with the pilot reclining under a long, fuselage contour following, one piece canopy or sitting upright under a shorter, raised canopy.  The first arrangement gave lower drag, the second better vision; the latter is sometimes referred to as the "trainer canopy".

Operational history
The first flight was made about 1962. It was first seen in the West when two examples were entered as Standard Class competitors at the World Gliding Championships of 1965, held at South Cerney in England. Both were damaged in landing accidents and failed to fly the complete programme.  Though one, no.79 piloted by Suslov, was repaired by the RAF and did return to the contest fitted with the trainer canopy in place of its earlier long canopy, they finished together at the bottom of the points table.

A third KAI-14 was used in the USSR for spinning tests and to gather performance data. Though sources suggest that serial production was intended, they do not record that happening.

Specifications

References

1960s Soviet sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1962
Javelin V6 STOL. The Javelin V6 STOL is an American STOL homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by Javelin Aircraft of Wichita, Kansas. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.

Design and development
The V6 STOL consists of plans to power an existing certified Piper PA-20 Pacer airframe with a Ford Motor Company V6 engine and moving it from the Certified Category to the Experimental Amateur-built category.

The aircraft features a strut-braced high wing, a four-seat enclosed cabin accessed via doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

Since it uses a standard Piper Pacer airframe, the aircraft is made from welded steel tubing, covered in  doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing employs a USA 35B airfoil, mounts flaps and has a wing area of . The standard conversion installs a  Ford V6 powerplant, driving a fixed pitch propeller, although engines of up to  can be employed. The  engine gives the aircraft a sea level, standard day takeoff distance of  and a landing distance of .

The V6 STOL has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for pilot, passengers and baggage is .

The manufacturer estimates the time to complete the conversion from the supplied plans as 400 hours.

Operational history
In January 2014, 14 examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, but a total of 25 had been registered at one time.

Specifications (V6 STOL)

References

External links
Photo of a Javelin V6 STOL

V6 STOL
1990s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
OpenFlight. OpenFlight (or .flt) is a 3d geometry model file format originally developed by Software Systems Inc. for its MultiGen real-time 3d modeling package in 1988. Originally called Flight, the format was designed as a nonproprietary 3d model format for use by real-time 3d visual simulation image generators. The format was later renamed to OpenFlight to denote its nonproprietary image generation (IG) usage.  The MultiGen modeling package (known now as Creator) and the OpenFlight format were rapidly adopted by the early commercial flight simulation industry in the later 1980s and early 1990s. NASA Ames was the first customer for the MultiGen modeling package.

The early advantage OpenFlight held over many 3d geometry model file formats (.obj, .dxf, .3ds) was its specific real-time 3d graphics industry design.  This means that the format is polygon based (rather than NURB surfaces), and provides a real-time tree structure essential for real-time IG systems.  Most early graphics file formats, such as Wavefront Technologies, or Alias Systems Corporation, tried to focus more on visual aesthetics for non-real-time based rendering graphics packages.

The OpenFlight file format is still widely used today in the high end real-time visual simulation industry as the standard interchange format between different IG systems, and is currently administrated by Presagis.

File format

Associated File Formats 
OpenFlight models can have several associated files in different formats, that define elements such as material characteristics or shaders.

Versions and History

API

Modeling Tools 
There are several modeling tools currently on the market that both read and write the OpenFlight file format.  The standard bearer of the file format Presagis Creator offers the widest compatibility with the file format. Another modeling tool using OpenFlight as its native format in Remo 3D from Remograph. Blender previously had integrated support for importing models in OpenFlight format. However, it appears as though this functionality has been abandoned in newer versions and there is currently no support for exporting to this format. Autodesk 3DS Max still supports exporting to OpenFlight format as of the 2024 version of their software. Carbon Graphics' Geo STUDIO is also very active in developing its OpenFlight version and feature support (currently standing at 16.3).

Vendor specific alterations 
Because the OpenFlight file format allows for vendor specific data field additions, some modeling and simulation tools might not fully support vendor specific additions to the file format.

References

External links 
OpenFlight Specification

3D computer graphics
Graphics file formats
Graphics standards
Virtual reality
IRIX software
Acid anhydride. An acid anhydride is a type of chemical compound derived by the removal of water molecules from an acid.

In organic chemistry, organic acid anhydrides contain the functional group . Organic acid anhydrides often form when one equivalent of water is removed from two equivalents of an organic acid in a dehydration reaction.

In inorganic chemistry, an acid anhydride refers to an acidic oxide, an oxide that reacts with water to form an oxyacid (an inorganic acid that contains oxygen or carbonic acid), or with a base to form a salt.

See also
 Base anhydride, an oxide that reacts with water to form a hydroxide salt

References
Bill Aswad. William N. Aswad (January 15, 1922 – August 13, 2015) was an American politician who was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives. He was an engineer by profession and manager of manufacturing engineering.

Aswad was born in Binghamton, New York, in 1922. He attended Clarkson University and Union College, graduating the former with a major in chemical engineering in 1946. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army Corps of Engineers, attaining the rank of major. A former city councillor in his hometown of Burlington, was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1995, at the age of 72, and served until his defeat by Joanna E. Cole, a fellow Democrat, in 2012. During his time in the House, he served on the House Transportation Committee. In 2012, he was honored in the House with a resolution on his 90th birthday.

Aswad was a member of United Way and served on the Chittenden County Regional Planning Association, the Vermont Association for Development and Planning, Vermont Health Foundation, and as a president of the New England Association of Regional Councils. He died in Shelburne, Vermont, on August 13, 2015, after a brief illness.

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1922 births
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Politicians from Burlington, Vermont
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Vermont city council members
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United States Army Corps of Engineers personnel
United States Army personnel of World War II
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21st-century members of the Vermont General Assembly
Rail-Veyor. Railveyor is a remote controlled, electrically powered light-rail haulage solution for surface and underground applications in the mining and aggregate industries. Railveyor Technologies Global Inc. is a private  Sudbury, Canada-based industrial bulk material handling and material haulage company that manufactures and installs Railveyor systems.

History
Railveyor's light-rail system was first demonstrated by its inventor, Mike Dibble, in conjunction with the Florida Institute of Phosphate Research from 1999-2001. Since then it has been installed commercially by Harmony Gold at its Phakisa Gold Mine in Free State, South Africa. Canadian entrepreneur Risto Laamanen incorporated the business, secured the global distribution rights, and set up a second demonstration and test site with Vale S.A. at their Frood Stobie mine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada in 2008. Following successful testing of the system at the Frood Stobie test site, a Railveyor system was installed at Vale's Copper Cliff Mine 114 Ore Body Mine and became operational in 2012, with the intention of using the Railveyor system as an enabling technology for rapid mine development and high speed production.

Risto Laamanen died on July 7, 2009, but the Laamanen family continue to be large investors in the private company, Railveyor Technologies Global Inc., along with investors from Canada and the United States of America.

About
The Railveyor system incorporates a remotely operated electrically powered series of two wheeled railcars driven by power stations located along on a light-rail track. Because the cars are remotely operated and compact in size, they can be used as an enabling technology for rapid development and high speed production at the working face.  The Railveyor system can reduce capital costs and infrastructure, travelling below shafts and in spaces as small as 10 by 12 feet or 3.05 m by 3.66 m. Using multiple train systems in tandem optimizes continuous material haulage. The railcars can travel at variable speeds up to 18 mph, or 8 metres/second, and climb grades of 20%. The company claims that the system combines the best features of conveyors, rail, and truck haulage, including travelling on 20% inclines, increased capacity and availability, reduced installation time, a small profile, and a short turning radius of 95 feet or 30 m. The system is used for underground and surface applications in the mining and aggregate industries.

Awards
 2013 Bell Canada Business Excellence Award for Innovation
2020 Mining Cleantech Challenge winner

References

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Manufacturing companies established in 1999
Industrial equipment
Material-handling equipment
Companies based in Greater Sudbury
1999 establishments in Ontario
Skyview. Skyview or SkyView may refer to:
 Skyview Lounge, a type of streamlined railway passenger car
 Skyview School (disambiguation)

Aviation
 Skyview Airways, based in Bangkok, Thailand
 Skyview UAV, a range of Chinese unmanned aerial vehicles

Buildings
 Skyview (house), a Marshall Erdman Prefab House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
 SkyView Drive-In and SkyView Theater, both in Litchfield, Illinois, US

Lifts and rides
 Skyview (Ericsson Globe), an exterior inclined elevator in Stockholm, Sweden
 SkyView (US Thrill Rides), a proposed concept for an unbuilt design of Ferris wheel
 SkyView Atlanta, a transportable Ferris wheel installation in Georgia, US

Populated places
 Skyview (Ottawa), in Ontario, Canada
 Skyview Drive, in Missoula, Montana, US
 Skyview Estates, a community on Blackstrap Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
 Skyview Ranch, Calgary, a residential neighbourhood in Alberta, Canada
 Calgary Skyview, a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, which includes Calgary's Skyview Ranch neighbourhood

Entertainment
 Skyview (album), 2021 album by American musician AJ Mitchell
Spirit DSP. Spirit DSP is an international company that develops embedded software for real-time voice and video communication over IP networks – voice and video engines. Its voice and video software platform is used by carriers, mobile messaging apps, and social networks, serving more than 1 billion users in 100 countries.

History 
Spirit DSP was founded in 1992. Since 1996 the company is focused on embedded software products for IP communications. Most important competitor was Global IP Solutions, until their acquisition by Google, Inc. and the subsequent release of their most important software products as Free Software.

Products 
Spirit's voice and video engines are targeted at various applications – PC and mobile communication applications (softphones, IMS-, Unified Communications and Enterprise Mobility clients), terminal user equipment with IP-connectivity (media phones, IP phones, IP set top boxes, Mobile Internet Devices) and infrastructure equipment (IP gateways, ATAs, media servers, etc.).

Spirit's VoIP software products are media processing libraries. They include standard (like G.723, G.729, H.264, MPEG-4) and proprietary Spirit IPMR voice and video codecs for speech and video compression / decompression, RTP packetizers, echo and noise cancellation, packet loss concealment and error correction, adaptive jitter buffer, audio and video synchronization, CPU load and playback rate control, etc. These components are integrated into a module within application framework.

Awards and recognition 
In 2005 and 2007 company was included in "Pulver 100" listing of privately held growth companies deemed to represent the future of the IP-voice and video communications ecosystem. In 2007 Spirit DSP was awarded a Seal of E-Excellence Award at CeBIT for innovative VVoIP technologies in the global market.

VideoSpace was awarded 2009 "Product of the Year", 2011 "Internet Telephony Product of the Year", and 2012 "Unified Communications Product of the Year" awards by TMCnet.  Spirit DSP also received the 2013 Excellence Award of the Small Business Institute for Excellence in Commerce (SBIEC).

References 

VoIP companies
Privately held companies of Russia
Companies based in Moscow
Russian brands
IRNSS-1B. IRNSS-1B is the second out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) series of satellites after IRNSS-1A. The IRNSS constellation of satellites is slated to be launched to provide navigational services to the region. It was placed in geosynchronous orbit on 4 April 2014.

Satellite 
The satellite will help augmenting the satellite based navigation system of India which is currently under development. The navigational system so developed will be a regional one targeted towards South Asia. The satellite will provide navigation, tracking and mapping services.

IRNSS-1B satellite has two payloads: a navigation payload and CDMA ranging payload in addition with a laser retro-reflector. The payload generates navigation signals at L5 and S-band. The design of the payload makes the IRNSS system interoperable and compatible with Global Positioning System (GPS) and Galileo. The satellite is powered by two solar arrays, which generate power up to 1,660 watts, and has a life-time of ten years.

Launch 
The 1,432 kg satellite  was launched on 4 April 2014 at 11:44 UTC (17:14 IST) aboard the PSLV-C24 rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

See also 

 Communication-Centric Intelligence Satellite (CCI-Sat)
 GPS-aided geo-augmented navigation (GAGAN)
 Satellite navigation
 2014 in spaceflight

References

External links 
 ISRO Future Programmes
 Updates

2014 in India
Spacecraft launched in 2014
IRNSS satellites
Spacecraft launched by PSLV rockets