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VTI Instruments. VTI Instruments Corporation sells precision instrumentation for electronic signal distribution, data acquisition and monitoring. The company's products are used to automate the functional testing of complex electronic systems as well as to monitor and record data that characterizes the physical integrity of aircraft, engines, and other large structures.

Formerly known as VXI Technology, it changed its name in 2009. 
VTI serves the following markets: aerospace, defense, and energy and power generation. VTI's headquarters is located in Irvine, California.

History
Founded in 1990, VTI initially developed prototyping tools and offered custom design services. By 1997, VTI had introduced two new VXI-based instrumentation and signal switching platforms for functional test/ATE – the VMIP and SMIP series. In 2003, VTI purchased Agilent's mechanical test business unit, which expanded the company's product offering to address precision data acquisition and signal conditioning applications.

In 2005, VTI cofounded the LXI standard, an Ethernet-based instrumentation platform for both rack and distributed applications. VTI's first LXI Class A products were on the market by 2006
. In 2009, VTI introduced the EX1266 as the industry's first LXI Class A modular switching and measurement system.

On February 10, 2014 VTI Instruments was acquired by Ametek, Inc., Berwyn, PA, for a reported price of $74 million. VTI Instruments annual sales at the time were approximately $38 million.

References

External links
 VTI Instruments website
 Agilent Technologies and VXI Technology Announce Next-Generation LAN-Based Modular Platform Standard for Automated Test Systems
 VXI Technology Completes Acquisition of Agilent Technologies’ Mechanical Data Acquisition Product Segment
 Industry’s First LXI Class A Scalable Switch and Measurement Subsystem

Electronic test equipment manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Companies based in Irvine, California
Electronics companies established in 1990
Technology companies established in 1990
1990 establishments in California
SS Empire Kestrel. SS Empire Kestrel was a ,  cargo ship built by Great Lakes Engineering Works of Ecorse, Michigan. Completed in 1919 as SS Lake Ellithorpe for the United States Shipping Board (USSB), she was sold to the New England, New York & Texas Steamship Corporation of New York in 1927, then to the Newtex Steamship Corporation of New York City in 1928. In 1932, she was renamed Texas Trader. In 1940 she was sold to the Ministry of War Transport. Reflagged as a British ship and renamed Empire Kestrel, she was managed by William Reardon Smith & Sons Co.

She was attacked on 16 August 1943 by an Italian Savoia-Marchetti S.79 aircraft, piloted by Lt. Vezio Terzi, and sunk by an aerial torpedo off the coast Algeria, near Bgayet, in position  while part of Convoy UGS-13.

References 

Design 1074 ships
Great Lakes freighters
Ships built in Ecorse, Michigan
1919 ships
Empire ships
World War II merchant ships of the United Kingdom
Ships sunk by Italian aircraft
World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea
Maritime incidents in August 1943
Merchant ships sunk by aircraft
LogLogic. LogLogic is a technology company that specializes in Security Management, Compliance Reporting, and IT Operations products.  LogLogic developed the first appliance-based log management platform.  LogLogic's Log Management platform collects and correlates user activity and event data.  LogLogic's products are used by many of the world's largest enterprises to rapidly identify and alert on compliance violations, policy breaches, cyber attacks, and insider threats.

History 
LogLogic was founded in 2002 by Jason DeStefano, Thomas Grabowski, and Peter Jordan in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company was established to help IT system administrators automate the management of log data and diagnose system problems.

In 2009, LogLogic released database security and compliance management products and acquired Exaprotect, a security information and event management (SIEM) company.

In 2012, the company was acquired by TIBCO, a software solutions company.

Products 
LogLogic makes a computer appliance that IT system administrators, compliance managers, CIOs and CiSOs can use to collect logs and events from network devices, servers, databases, operating systems and applications. The appliances also translate various log formats, search through logs, generate alerts and create graphs with logging trends.

LogLogic products help in several industry compliance mandates and standards, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX).

See also 
 Loggly
 Sumo Logic
 Splunk
 Graylog

Investors 
Focus Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Telesoft Partners, Worldview Technology Partners, INVESCO Private Capital, SAP Ventures, CM-CIC Private Equity, Crédit Agricole Private Equity and ELAIA Partners

References

External links 
 
 LogLogic Corporate Blog

Data security
Computer security companies
System administration
Security companies of the United States
Technology companies established in 2002
2002 establishments in Minnesota
Wouter Biesiot. Wouter Biesiot (3 January 1951 – 27 April 1998) was an associate professor and the head of the Energy and Materials Group at the Interfacultaire Vakgroep Energie en Milieukunde at the University of Groningen.

Biesiot studied technical physics at Delft University of Technology from 1968 to 1975, and a PhD at the University of Groningen in nuclear physics in 1980. He may be best known for his work on response time and respite time. ECCO models were first developed by Malcolm Slesser et al. in Edinburgh in the late 1990s along with Jay Baguant, Anupam Saraph, Wouter Biesiot, Klaas Jan Noorman and Jane King.

He wrote two books on sustainability and was a prominent member of the Balaton Group. Biesiot died of colon cancer in April 1998.

Bibliography
 Wouter. Biesiot, H. C. Moll, Reduction of CO2 emissions by lifestyle changes : final report to the NRP global air pollution and climate change, Rjksuniversiteit Groningen, 1995, 
 Henk A.J. Mulder and Wouter Biesiot, Transition to a sustainable society : a backcasting approach to modelling energy and ecology, Cheltenham, UK, 1998,

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1951 births
1998 deaths
20th-century Dutch physicists
Delft University of Technology alumni
University of Groningen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Groningen
People from Goes
Daikyo. is a Japanese real estate company and one of the largest builders of condominiums in the country.

References

External links 
 Daikyo Incorporated company English website 

Real estate companies established in 1964
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1964
Construction and civil engineering companies based in Tokyo
Real estate companies based in Tokyo
Midori-kai
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Japanese companies established in 1964
Aurelio Robotti. Aurelio Robotti (1913–1994) was an Air Engineers Corps CO and later professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin, is another of the handful of space pioneers in Italy, particularly in the field of liquid propellants that he started investigating at the end of the 1940s.

Career 

While serving in the AE Corps, he began research into rockets and missiles. After leaving ITAF in 1949 he started his own company Te.Co., experimenting with combustion chambers, until he developed a missile program, where missiles bear his own initials, AR. In 1951 he drew plans for a remotely controlled anti-aircraft missile, the AR-1, fuelled by liquid oxygen and ethylic alcohol. He kept studying the performance of nitric acid and aniline as propellants, building a dozen missile models.

On May 9, 1952, his AR-3 was fired from the Pian della Mussa, becoming the first successfully tested Italian-built liquid-fuel missile. AR-3 "flew straight up for hundreds of yards before disappearing behind a hill", as he himself noted somewhat proudly. In 1955 the Italian Air Force Ministry contracted Whitehead-Motofides (FIAT Group) for a supply of AR-15 missiles developed by Robotti. In his many publications he wrote of thermoelectric propulsion, airborne vectors, solar power and underlined the great importance of a Moon Base for the future of astronautics.

Legacy 

The asteroid 9796 Robotti was named in his honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 31 March 2018 ().

Bibliography 
 Franca Giusti, "Aurelio Robotti, omaggio ad un torinese", 2011
 Aurelio Robotti, 1941–1961, venti anni di storia missilistica in Italia, "Missili" Edizioni Italiane, 1962
 Giovanni Caprara, L'Italia nello spazio, Valerio Levi Editore, 1992
 AA.VV., Le attività spaziali italiane dal dopoguerra all'istituzione dell'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Agenzia Spaziale Europea

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Engineers from Turin
1994 deaths
1913 births
20th-century Italian engineers
Academic staff of the Polytechnic University of Turin
Z+F UK. Z+F (Zoller & Fröhlich) are suppliers of high-speed phase-based laser measurement and scanning systems. The company supplies  laser scanning hardware, software and scanning services capturing high resolution data. They develop hardware and software, and offer sales and product training.

Historical background

Z+F is a privately owned company, founded in 1963 by Hans Zoller and Hans Fröhlich. Since the death of Hans Zoller in 1975, the company has remained under the ownership of the Fröhlich family. The current Managing Director is Dr. Christoph Fröhlich, who is the son of Hans Fröhlich.

Z+F have several businesses existing within the Group umbrella. These include ferrules and ferrule machines, wiring systems and laser scanning. The company has specialised in supplying high speed laser scanning systems to customers since the early 1990s following the completion of a doctorate in this subject by Christoph Fröhlich.

3D Laser scanning Products

The IMAGER 5006 was the first true "stand alone" laser scanner, worldwide. The integrated hard disk and power supply and operating methods enable a completely wireless operation.

Software

LFM (Light Form Modeller) software has been designed to work with the high resolution data captured by the IMAGER 5006i 3D laser scanner. LFM is used to take the data from the field, through registration and viewing, to delivery to the designers or operators desktop.

On 3 October 2011, AVEVA announced the acquisition of LFM (Light Form Modeller) software division of Z+F UK Limited.

References

Further reading

External links
 Zoller & Fröhlich Official website
 Z+F Laser Official website
 Z+F UK Ltd Official website
 Z+F USA Inc  Official website

Companies based in Baden-Württemberg
Electronics companies of Germany
Nano City. Nano City was a project proposed by the Haryana government and Sabeer Bhatia (co-founder of Hotmail) to build a city similar to Silicon Valley in northern India. The city was intended to cover 11,000 acres of land near Panchkula.

History
The proposal to construct Nano City was formally approved by the state government of Haryana in September 2006, having first been proposed by Sabeer Bhatia. It envisaged a joint venture between the state-owned Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation and a private venture owned by Bhatia. The city was to be constructed in two phases, the first covering 5,000 acres of land and the second a further 6,000. The proposal was  Real estate firm Parsvnath Developers joined the project in July 2008.

The city was intended to include an airport, a golf course and a rapid transit system. However, by May 2010 no progress had been made. It was reported that Bhatia had failed to submit detailed plans for its construction. In July 2010 the project was cancelled by the HSIIDC.

See also 
Information technology in India

References

External links 
 

Buildings and structures in Haryana
Information technology projects
Information technology in India
Urban planning in India
Haryana
Willy Pöge. (Friedrich Elias Willibald) Willy Pöge 
(2 December 1869 - 12 May 1914) was a German engineer and racing car driver.

He was born in Chemnitz, son of Hermann Pöge who encouraged him to study electrical engineering at the Chemnitz University of Technology in 1890. After the father’s death in 1894, Willy worked with Heinrich Goetz in the establishment of a workshop making dynamos and transformers.
He also established activities in other cities such as Berlin, Dortmund, Dresden, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Frankfurt/Main, as well as exports to France, Greece, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia and overseas. The company was after his death sold to AEG in 1930.

His fame however, is due to car racing. Racing for Chemnitzer Radsportveranstaltungen since 1889, he was Sachsenmeister in 1889 and achieved third in the German championship. Since 1903 he raced for Mercedes-Benz, winning with Christian Lautenschlager and Otto Salzer in the 1908 French Grand Prix. His last race was Tsar Nichols's Russian Touring Trial that same year, in which he triumphed. He next started flying until he died of a heart attack in 1914.

External links

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1869 births
1914 deaths
German electrical engineers
German racing drivers
Racing drivers from Saxony
Engineers from Chemnitz
Sportspeople from Chemnitz
Fuad Issa al-Jouni. Fuad Issa al-Jouni (also Fouad; ; born 1950) is a former Minister of Industry for Syria. He was previously a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Aleppo. He holds a Ph.D. in metallurgy from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

References

1950 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Sheffield
Ministers of industry of Syria
Academic staff of the University of Aleppo
ASSL. ASSL, assl, or variant, may refer to:

Companies and divisions
 Ananda Shipyard and Shipways Limited (ASSL)
 Antonin Scalia School of Law

Computing
 Agglomerated SSL (assl), a fork of Open SSL, see OpenSSL#assl
 Autonomic System Specification Language, see Autonomic computing

Other
 Annual Status of Student Learning, a study in India carried out by Educational Initiatives
Force Trainer. The Force Trainer is a Star Wars-themed toy which creates the illusion of performing Force-powered telekinesis.

The brain–computer interface toy, released was Uncle Milton Industries' Star Wars Science line in 2009, comes with a headset that claims to sense the brain's electric fields (similar to an EEG) and relays the signals to a tube that uses a fan to blow a ball into the air. The harder the user concentrates, the harder the fan blows, and the higher the ball is suspended. The voice of Yoda instructs the user on developing their skills.

In a 2010 episode of the College Humor series Bleep Bloop, the hosts Jeff Rubin and Pat Cassels tested out the toy, even having a co-worker, Brian Murphy, play Brain Age, a video game advertised as making you use your brain more, while he had the Force Trainer headset on.

One user of the toy argues that the brainwave effect of the Force Trainer II is fake; if the electrodes are connected directly to each other instead of being worn by the player, the game will proceed to play itself and pass all of the training exercises without any user input.

See also

 Comparison of consumer brain–computer interface devices

References

External links
 
 Mysterious "Force Trainer" Toy Explained, via Archive.org, June 10, 2015
 Toy trains 'Star Wars' fans to use The Force, USA Today, January 7, 2009

Brain–computer interface
Star Wars merchandise
2000s toys
Wriggler (video game). Wriggler is a Spectrum and Amstrad maze game published in 1985 by Romantic Robot. The original release contained an instrumental track on the B-side titled "Moons of Jupiter," composed by Alexander Goldscheider.

Gameplay
Wriggler is based around maggot racing other maggots. The player controls a maggot and has to escape a maze consisting of 256 screens. The maze is divided into sections: "Garden", "Underground", "Hell", "Planet surface", and "The dungeon".

Development

The graphics, animation and cassette inlay artwork were created by Allin Kempthorne while still at school. He went on to become a writer and cartoonist for The Sun newspaper. He later became an actor and comedian, most noted for writing and starring in the comedy feature film The Vampires of Bloody Island. The Spectrum version was programmed by his twin brother Matthew Kempthorne, and the Amstrad version was programmed by Matthew Kempthorne and David Vivian. 

A version of Wriggler was developed for the Enterprise (ported directly from the Amstrad version), but not released.

An article on The Making of Wriggler appeared in issue 114 of Retro Gamer Magazine. Written by Graeme Mason, it contains interviews with both Matthew and Allin Kempthorne.

Reception

Wriggler became the Star Game in Personal Computer News  and the Game of the Month in CRASH magazine.

References

External links
 
 
 

1985 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Maze games
Single-player video games
Video games about insects
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
AN/WLD-1 Remote Minehunting System. The Lockheed Martin AN/WLD-1 RMS (Remote Minehunting System) is a remotely controlled minesweeping system to be operated by surface warships. It consists of an unmanned semisubmersible vehicle, which tows a sonar array, and control infrastructure aboard the parent ship. The unmanned semisubmersible vehicle used is the US Navy Snorkeler-Class Unmanned Surface Vehicle.

History
In 2013, the system completed developmental testing, and was found to meet "reliability, suitability and effectiveness requirements".

The system has been installed on the Littoral Combat Ship and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Pinckney, USS Momsen, and USS Bainbridge.

See also

List of military electronics of the United States

References

External links 
 GlobalSecurity.org - AN/WLD-1 RMS Remote Minehunting System
 AN/WLD-1 Remote Minehunting System (United States), AUTONOMOUS SEMI-SUBMERSIBLES
 Navy's Newest Mine Warfare Technology Being Tested at Ingleside
 AN/WLD-1

Minehunters
Lockheed Martin
Robotic submarines
Military electronics of the United States
Gas combustion retort process. The gas combustion retort process (also referred as gas-combustion retorting process) was an above-ground retorting technology for shale oil extraction. It was a predecessor of the Paraho and Petrosix processes, and modern directly heated oil shale retorting technologies in general.

History
The gas combustion retort process was developed by the United States Bureau of Mines at the end of the 1940s. The first gas combustion retort, designed by Cameron Engineers, went into operation in 1949 and it was located in the United States Bureau of Mines' Oil Shale Experiment Station at Anvil Point in Rifle, Colorado.  The Bureau of Mines tested this process in three retorts with capacity of 6, 10, and 25 ton of oil shale per day accordingly.  The consortium of Mobil, Humble Oil, Continental Oil, Pan American Oil, Phillips Petroleum Company, and Sinclair Oil evaluated and improved this technology between 1964 and 1968.

Technology
The gas combustion retort process is classified as an internal combustion technology. For the oil shale pyrolysis it uses a vertical vessel retort.

Crushed raw oil shale is fed into the top of the retort, and it moves downward by gravity. When moving downward, oil shale is heated by the rising recycled gases, which cause decomposition of the rock. Recycled gases enter the retort from the bottom. Gases are heated on the lower part of retort by descended spent shale. On their way up, gases move through the combustion zone, where air and dilution gases are injected causing combustion of gases and carbonaceous residue of spent shale (char). The heat from combustion brings the temperature in the retorting zone above of the burning zone to the necessary level for retorting.  The incoming raw oil shale cool oil vapors and gases, which then leave the top of the retort as a mist.

The main advantage of this process was that it does not require cooling water, which made it suitable for using  in the semi-arid regions.

See also
 Nevada–Texas–Utah Retort
 Alberta Taciuk Process
 Petrosix
 Galoter process
 TOSCO II process
 Fushun process
 Superior multimineral process

References

Oil shale technology
Richard La Nicca. Richard La Nicca (16 August 1794 in Safien-Neukirch – 27 August 1883 in Chur) was a Swiss engineer known as the pioneering planner and implementer of the Jura water correction project in the Swiss Jura.

Originating from Sarn and Chur, La Nicca was the son of Christian La Nicca, a pastor of Safien, Neukirch and Tenna, and Anna Gredig.

Career 
In 1809 La Nicca was at Canton School Chur. as a lieutenant in the Swiss regiment of Victor Emanuel I. in Piedmont.

1816–18 Student of technical sciences at the University of Tübingen.

In 1818-21 he was Assistant to Giulio L. Pocobellis in the construction of the “Kommerzialstrasse” on the San Bernardino and in this function and others involved in the construction of the important "Ponte Vittorio Emanuele", south of the pass. Under his leadership, a new road was constructed at the Viamala with a tunnel and gallery which avoided the ascent over the Rongeller Höhe. The three existing bridges were incorporated in the road, with a new route cut through the rock in between.

In 1822–23, after a year of study at the University of Munich, he became in 1823 the first Canton of Graubünden chief engineer, a position he held until 1853. During those years he supervised the construction of important pass roads in Graubünden  (Julier, Maloja, Bernina), and the rebuilding of settlements totally destroyed by natural catastrophes (Neu-Felsberg), as from 1843) or village fires (Thusis-Neudorf), as from 1845).

In 1826 he worked on the project of the Rhine correction in Domleschg valley (finalized in 1832). As from 1831 he signed as the director of the building of St. Luzisteig fortifications, responsible for statics and strengthening.

In 1837 he was a co-founder of the  Swiss Engineers and Architects Association.

In 1839 he designed the first project for a railway line on the Splügenpass;

In 1845 he involved himself in Alpine rail planning for the lower Lukmanier.

From 1840–63 he served as engineer on the Linth Commission,

From 1840–42, he projected the 1st Jura water correction (finalised 1868–91).

In 1847 he participated in the Sonderbund war as a military chief engineer in Canton Ticino, and then as Federal Colonel in the Génie troops.

In 1853 he was technical director of the Südostbahn Rorschach-Chur.

From 1858–71 he unsuccessfully urged a merger of railroad companies to form a railway line from Fluelen to Disentis and from Chur to Disentis through the Lukmanier, as an alternative to the Gotthard line.

References
Richard L., 2006
D. Speich, «Richard L. (1794-1883)», in "Schweizer Pioniere der Wirtschaft und Technik 82, 2006, 59–66"

Swiss engineers
1794 births
1883 deaths
People from Chur