omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Alfredo Zolezzi. Alfredo Zolezzi-Garretón (born December 12, 1958), is a Chilean industrial designer and inventor, dedicated to applied science and creator of the Integrated Objectives Model, which links social and technological innovation with new business models, to address social and environmental problems. This connection is what Zolezzi has called "Innovation with Purpose".

Zolezzi is Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of AIC Technologies LLC (AIC), a private initiative dedicated to the development of new technologies that provide solutions with technical and economic impact for multiple industries. He is also president of the Alfredo Zolezzi Foundation (AZF), a non-profit organization dedicated to promote and facilitate projects that connect science and technology with poverty, social unrest, climate change, corporate sustainability and others. Currently, the AIC laboratories and AZF offices are located in Concón, Chile.

History 

Zolezzi was born on December 12, 1958, in Santiago de Chile. His family settled in the city of Viña del Mar, where he attended his elementary and secondary school at Mackay School. Later, he enrolled at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile) where he graduated as an industrial designer.

In 2003, he led the Hydrocarbon Acoustic Stimulation (RMS) development, technology which increases the efficiency of oil extraction and recovery, through sound and ultrasound. The preliminary concepts were tested with the participation and support of the Department of Energy of the United States (US-DOE-CRADA).

Later, Zolezzi decided to follow his own path and, in 2010, founded the Advanced Innovation Center (today AIC Technologies) In addition, he conceives and creates his own innovation model – The Integrated Objectives Model – which seeks to enable the development of high impact technologies that address some of the greatest challenges facing humanity today.

In the year 2011, following the model, the AIC team, created the Plasma Water Sanitation System (PWSS), a technology that eliminates viruses and bacteria in contaminated water through non-thermal plasma.

Currently, AIC leads a team of experts in physics, chemistry, plasma, electromagnetism and industrial design, working on a range of projects based on advanced technology and new business models, which seek to solve the problems that today affect the sustainability of large corporations, addressing the needs of the most vulnerable people.

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1958 births
Living people
Chilean company founders
Industrial designers
Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso alumni
Céline Bœhm. Céline Bœhm  is a professor of Particle Physics at the University of Sydney. She works on astroparticle physics and dark matter.

Early life and education 
Bœhm studied fundamental physics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, graduating in 1997. She joined École Polytechnique, where she obtained a Master in Engineering in 1998. She earned the highest distinction for a postgraduate diploma in theoretical physics. She completed her PhD at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 2001, working with Pierre Fayet. She worked on supersymmetry, in the 4-body decay of the stop particle. She studied light scalar top quark and supersymmetric dark matter  She looked at collisional damping, which considers the impact of dark matter and standard model particles with the cosmic microwave background.

Career and research
In 2001 Bœhm joined Joseph Silk at the University of Oxford. Here she worked on light dark matter particles which couple to light Z′ bosons. She proposed new candidates for scalar dark matter, in the form of heavy fermions or light gauge bosons. When the SPI spectrometer onboard INTEGRAL identified a 511 keV line in the Galactic Center, Bœhm suggested that this could have been the signature of dark matter. She has continued to search for new signatures of dark matter, including examining the GeV excess in the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope data. In 2004 Bœhm joined the Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique, where she was promoted to senior lecturer in 2008. She was awarded the Centre national de la recherche scientifique Bronze Medal.

She looked at the analysis of the CoGeNT direct detection method, and found that it could have suffered from a large background. In 2015 Boehm was nominated as Fellow of the Institute of Physics. She is the Principal investigator of the Theia mission, a space observatory which will allow Bœhm and her team to test the dark matter predictions that arise due to the Lambda-CDM model.

Boehm was made an Emmy Noether Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2016, where she continued to work on dark matter. That year, she was promoted to Professor in the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology at  Durham University. She gave a TED talk, The Invisible is All What Matters, at Durham in 2017. Alongside her work in astroparticle physics, she works on non-crystallographic Coxeter groups. She led the dark matter working package of the Euclid Consortium. In 2017 Bœhm spent two months as a visiting professor at Columbia University, as well as working at the Paris Observatory. She proposed using circular polarisation to study dark matter and neutrinos. She joined the University of Sydney as Head of School for physics in 2018. Bœhm has written for The Conversation. She has taken part in Pint of Science.

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Academics of the University of Oxford
Academics of Durham University
Academic staff of the University of Sydney
Particle physicists
Dark matter
École Polytechnique alumni
Fellows of the Institute of Physics
Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Living people
1974 births
Silicalite. Silicalite is an inorganic compound with the formula SiO2.  It is one of several forms (polymorphs) of silicon dioxide.  It is a white solid. It consists of tetrahedral silicon centers and two-coordinate oxides.  It is prepared by hydrothermal reaction using tetrapropylammonium hydroxide followed by calcining to remove residual ammonium salts.  The compound is notable in being ca. 33% porous.  It is useful because the material contains (SiO)10 rings that allow sorption of hydrophobic molecules of diameter 0.6 nm.

A commercially important modification of silicalite is titanium silicalite.  With the formula Si1−xTixO2, it consists of silicalite with Ti doped into some Si sites.  Unlike conventional polymorphs of titanium dioxide, the Ti centers in titanium silicalite have tetrahedral coordination geometry.  The material is a useful catalyst for the reaction of hydrogen peroxide with propylene to give propylene oxide.

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Polymorphism (materials science)
Substation No. 15. Substation No. 15 is a heritage-listed electrical substation at 182 Johnston Street, Annandale, Inner West Council, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1910. The property is owned by Ausgrid. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

History 
Substation No. 15 is a purpose designed and built structure dating from 1910. It is the second-oldest substation in the Ausgrid network, was the first substation in Annandale, and though once common, is the last of its design still in operation.

The building underwent restoration in 2013.

Description 
Substation No. 15 is an impressively detailed face brick and sandstone double height building designed in the Federation Freestyle. Decorative and stylistic features include a rusticated and moulded sandstone arch surrounding the central doorway, an unusual moulded sandstone gable parapet, contrasting banded brickwork, a patterned brick infill panel, and sandstone intels above doorways, windows and vents.

The substation is constructed in contrasting banded brickwork with sandstone banding, gable-parapet and lintels. A rusticated sandstone arch surrounds the main roller-shutter steel doorway.

The words "Sydney ELECTRIC LIGHTING" and "SMC 1910" appear on the facade mounted as single letters.

It was reported to be in good condition as at 8 November 2000.

Heritage listing 

Substation No. 15 is an unusual, rare and representative example of a purpose designed structure. Built in the early 20th century, it has an elaborate, well detailed Federation Freestyle facade. The building is of State Significance. The building is located within the Annandale Urban conservation area as listed by the National Trust.

Substation No. 15 was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

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Attribution 

New South Wales State Heritage Register
Annandale, New South Wales
Electric power infrastructure in New South Wales
Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register
1910 establishments in Australia
Energy infrastructure completed in 1910
Philip Trenary. Philip Hartley Trenary (August 1, 1954 – September 27, 2018) was an American businessman and civic leader who was the CEO and president of the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce and a former CEO of Pinnacle Airlines.

Early life
Philip Hartley Trenary was born on August 1, 1954, in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, the son of May Ruth and Buck Trenary.

He grew up nearby in Shidler, Oklahoma. He learned to fly a plane before he learned to drive a car.

Trenary earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering technology from Oklahoma State University in 1979.

Career
In 1984, Trenary founded Exec Express Airlines (EEA) in Stillwater, Oklahoma. After EEA was moved to Texas in 1987, it was renamed Lone Star Airlines. In 1997, Trenary moved to Memphis to run a local airline that would become Pinnacle Airlines, a $1 billion turnover, regional airline employing 7,700 people.

Personal life and death
Trenary was married to Bridget, they had three children, and later divorced.

Trenary was shot dead in Memphis on September 27, 2018. He was 64.

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1954 births
2018 deaths
People from Pawhuska, Oklahoma
American company founders
American chief executives
Deaths by firearm in Tennessee
People murdered in Tennessee
Oklahoma State University alumni
Businesspeople from Memphis, Tennessee
Businesspeople from Oklahoma
20th-century American businesspeople
Raimon Tolosana-Delgado. Raimon Tolosana-Delgado is currently working at , Germany.  Tolosana-Delgado received the Felix Chayes Prize in 2013, and the Andrei Borisovich Vistelius Research Award in 2007, from the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. He is an elected Executive Vice President of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences

Education
MS in Engineering Geology, in 2001, Technical University of Catalonia and University of Barcelona
PhD in Mathematical Petrology, in 2005 University of Girona

Selected Book

Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Juan José Egozcue, Raimon Tolosana-Delgado, 2015. Modeling and Analysis of Compositional Data. Wiley, 256 p.

K. Gerald van den Boogaart, 2013. Analyzing Compositional Data with R. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 258 p.

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Living people
University of Girona alumni
Polytechnic University of Catalonia alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
1976 births
Spanish geologists
Spanish expatriates in Germany
Petrologists
Winged Express (Altered). Winged Express is a supercharged A Fuel Altered (AA/FA). On 28 September 1967, it was the first Altered to exceed .

History 
Winged Express was built in 1960 by driver William "Wild Willie" Borsch and partner Al Marcellus, assisted by Howard Johansen (Howard's Cams), Don Reynolds, Phil Johnson, Dale Young, and Jerry Hyatt. The car's 392 hemi was built by Jim Harrell (of Jim's Auto Parts).

The body, donated by Curt Hamilton, was the first Cal Automotive fiberglass 1923 Model T used on an Altered. When completed, the car had a simple hoop rollbar and narrow slicks, with the engine tilted upward to aid traction, and was missing the rollbar-mounted wing that later became its trademark.

The car was first entered in NHRA's A/Roadster class, at Riverside in 1960, where it set an A/R class record of 10.28 at .

Borsch raced Winged Express for ten years, winning AA/FA at the NHRA Winternationals in 1967 and 1968.

Since AA/FA was not recognized as a class by NHRA until 1967, Winged Express never earned a national title.

On 28 September 1967 at Irwindale, Winged Express made the first  pass by an Altered, at 7.91 seconds and .

Winged Express qualified for the 1968 NHRA Winternationals, a 32-car field in Top Fuel, at an AA/FA record elapsed time of 7.29 seconds, only to have the rest of the field refuse to race Borsch, for fear of the ill-handling Altered. It turned out they were right: in Round One of Super Eliminator, Borsch went from guardrail to centerline, in a wild ride, captured, and made famous, by photographer Bob McClurg; it "became one of the most famous drag racing photos of all time".

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Cars introduced in 1960
Drag racing cars
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Weymann. Weymann may refer to:

People
Charles Terres Weymann (1889–1976), Haitian-born early aeroplane racing pilot and businessman
Ray Weymann, retired astronomer and astrophysicist, associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington

Aircraft
Weymann Fabric Bodies, patented design system for fuselages for aircraft and superlight coachwork for motor vehicles
Weymann W-1, French single seat biplane fighter aircraft, built during World War I
Weymann 66, French multipurpose biplane built for colonial work in the 1930s
Weymann W-100, French three seat observation aircraft with a position for the observer within its partially glazed fuselage
Weymann-Lepère WEL-80, French two seat reconnaissance aircraft built to compete for a 1928 government contract

Other
Metro Cammell Weymann, once a major contributor in transportation manufacturing in the UK and Europe
Weymann guitars, one of Americas oldest musical instrument manufacturers

See also
Weyman
Wyman (disambiguation)
Wang Mengshu. Wang Mengshu (; 24 December 1938 – 20 September 2018) was a Chinese tunnel and railway engineer. He was a key engineer behind China's first subway tunnel and the development of China's high-speed railways. Wang was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was a deputy to the 11th National People's Congress.

Biography
Wang was born in Wen County, Henan on December 24, 1938. From September 1952 to August 1955 he studied architecture at Tianjin Railway Engineering Institute. After graduation, he was accepted to Tangshan Railway Institute (now Southwest Jiaotong University), studying tunnel and underground engineering under Gao Quqing (). After college, he was assigned to Beijing Metro Corporation, he began working on China's first underground subway line, Line 1 in Beijing.

In 1966, Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, Wang forced to work in the fields instead of working in the company. In 1978, Wang was transferred to the Scientific Research Institute of Chengdu Railway Administration as an engineer, where he worked there for more than 40 years. In 1981, Wang took part in designing and building the Dayaoshan tunnel between Pingshi and Lechang townships in south China's Guangdong province. The tunnel was completed in 1989. In 1995 he was elected a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In his later years, he devoted his energy to building and expanding China's high-speed railway systems.

In September 2017, Wang was hospitalized with a cerebral hemorrhage. On September 20, 2018, Wang died in Beijing, aged 79.

Awards
 1992  Special prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Awards

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1938 births
2018 deaths
People from Jiaozuo
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Southwest Jiaotong University alumni
Engineers from Henan
Academic staff of Beijing Jiaotong University
Ira Waddell Clokey. Ira Waddell Clokey (1878-1950) was an American mining engineer and botanist active in the western United States. He first studied at the University of Illinois, then moved to Harvard University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in mining engineering in 1903. From 1904 to 1915, Clokey worked as a mining engineer in Mexico. In his spare time he collected plant specimens for his personal herbarium, which, however, was almost completely destroyed during a fire in 1912. In 1921, Clokey completed a Master of Science in plant pathology from Iowa State University. 

Clokey began intensive studies of the flora of the Charleston Mountains in southern Nevada in 1935. At the same time he started to edit and distribute the exsiccata-like specimen series Charleston Mountain Flora, Clark County, Nevada. His book, Flora of the Charleston Mountains, Clark County, Nevada was accepted for publication just prior to his death in 1950.

The International Plant Names Index lists 44 plant names published by Ira Waddell Clokey.

List of plants named after him
A number of plants have been named in his honor:
Allium howellii var. clokeyi Ownbey & Aase, 1972
Astragalus oophorus var. clokeyanus Barneby, 1954
Castilleja clokeyi Pennell, 1938 (=Castilleja applegatei subsp. martinii (Abrams) T.I.Chuang & Heckard, 1992
Cirsium clokeyi S.F.Blake, 1938 (=Cirsium eatonii var. clokeyi (S.F.Blake) D.J.Keil, 2004)
Cryptantha clokeyi I.M.Johnst., 1939 (=Cryptantha muricata var. clokeyi (I.M.Johnst.) Jeps., 1943)
Ephedra clokeyi H.C.Cutler, 1939 (=Ephedra fasciculata var. clokeyi A.Nelson 1945)
Erigeron clokeyi Cronquist, 1947
Eriogonum heermannii var. clokeyi Reveal, 1976
Forsellesia clokeyi Ensign, 1942 (=Glossopetalon clokeyi (Ensign) H.St.John, 1942)
Gilia clokeyi H.Mason, 1942
Lupinus breweri var. clokeyanus C.P.Sm., 1940
Lupinus clokeyanus C.P.Sm., 1944 (=Lupinus argenteus var. palmeri (S.Watson) Barneby, 1986
Mertensia clokeyi Osterh., 1919 (=Mertensia lanceolata var. secundorum (Cockerell) Cockerell 1918)
Salvia dorrii var. clokeyi Strachan, 1982
Silene clokeyi C.L.Hitchc. & Maguire, 1947
Solanum clokeyi Munz, 1932

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1878 births
1950 deaths
Botanists active in North America
20th-century American botanists
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Iowa State University alumni
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
Trinity Fire Fighting Robot Competition. Trinity College (Connecticut) has an annual firefighting robot contest, which is contested by high schools and colleges from around the world. The competition is relevant for its antiquity, being established in 1994. It is one of the oldest in the world still maintained. The competition is open to entrants of any age, ability, or experience from anywhere in the world.

In 2007 a new category was introduced, the baby-finding contest. Participants have to find both a flame and the simulated baby, extinguish the flame, and announce when it finds the latter in the expert division. In the concept division, simply finding the baby and notifying the people is sufficient.

References

Student robotics competitions
The Truth About Killer Robots. The Truth About Killer Robots is a 2018 documentary made by Third Party Films. It describes the hitherto ignored issues related to robots that have been involved in human fatalities.

Plot
The documentary investigates the 2015 killing by a robot of an assembly line manager in a Volkswagen factory in Germany, a driverless Tesla car that hit a white truck ahead of it, and the use of drones by the police in the USA (especially in Dallas) to drop bombs on snipers and suspects. It also follows the use of artificial intelligence in facial tracking, use of robots in Japan including hotels staffed by them, Geminoids in Japan, and the use of facial recognition for targeted marketing.

The film uses Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics", first proposed by him in his 1942 short story Runaround, and describes how human beings have in recent years ignored them. The film follows these with interviews with experts in the field, footage of real robots being used for bomb disposal, and "smart guns" that are able to shoot people automatically based on facial recognition. The film questions the morality of these uses and highlights the inadequacy of the current legal structure to address these issues.

Reception 
The Truth About Killer Robots premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2018. The Hollywood Reporter found the film interesting, but was critical of the fact that it does not address the widespread use of drones in war torn areas to kill civilians and suspects. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a score of  based on reviews from  critics, with an average rating of .

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2018 films
American documentary films
Robots
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
English-language documentary films
Simon Stringer. Simon Stringer is a departmental lecturer, Director of the Oxford Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, and Editor-in-Chief of Network: Computation in Neural Systems published by Taylor & Francis.

Research
Stringer and his research group develop biological computer simulations  of the neuronal mechanisms underpinning various areas of brain function, including visual object recognition, spatial processing and navigation, motor function, language and consciousness.

In particular, the study published in Psychological Review and Interface Focus 2018, the Royal Society's cross-disciplinary journal, proposes a novel approach to solve the Binding problem. Spiking neural network simulations  of the primate ventral visual system have shown the gradual emergence of a subpopulation of neurons, called polychronous neuronal groups (PNGs), that exhibits regularly repeating spatiotemporal patterns of spikes. The underlying phenomenon of these characteristic patterns of neural activity is known as polychronization.

The main point is that within these PNGs exist neurons, called binding neurons.  Binding neurons learn to represent the hierarchical binding relationships between lower and higher level visual features in the hierarchy of visual primitives, at every spatial scale and across the entire visual field. This observation is consistent with the hierarchical nature of primate vision proposed by the two neuroscientists John Duncan and Glyn W. Humphreys almost thirty years ago.

Furthermore, this proposed mechanism for solving the binding problem suggests that information about visual features at every spatial scale, including the binding relations between these features, would be projected upwards to the higher layers of the network, where spatial information would be available for readout by later brain systems to guide behavior. This mechanism has been called the holographic principle.

These feature binding representations are at the core of the capacity of the visual brain to perceive and make sense of its visuospatial world and of the consciousness itself. This finding represents an advancement towards the future development of artificial general intelligence and machine consciousness. According to Stringer:Today’s machines are unable to perceive and comprehend their working environment in the same rich semantic way as the human brain. By incorporating these biological details into our models[...] will allow computers to begin to make sense of their visuospatial world in the same way as the [human] brain.

References

External links
Oxford Foundation for Theoretical Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, University of Oxford

Living people
British neuroscientists
Academics of the University of Oxford
Year of birth missing (living people)