omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
A. M. M. Safiullah. A. M. M. Safiullah (17 August 1947 – 24 April 2021) was a Bangladeshi academic. He served as the 3rd vice-chancellor of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology and the 10th vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Education
Safiullah studied in East Pakistan Cadet College (later renamed to Faujderhat Cadet College). He earned his bachelor's and master's in civil engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1969 and 1977 respectively. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Strathclyde in 1981 with a Commonwealth Scholarship.

Career
Safiullah joined BUET as a lecturer in civil engineering in 1973 and eventually became a professor in 1984. He held the position of the 10th vice-chancellor of BUET from August 2006 until August 2010. He was among the panel of experts appointed by the Government of Bangladesh for construction of Bangabandhu Bridge, and the panel of experts for construction of the Padma bridge (the largest structure to be built in Bangladesh).

Personal life and death
Safiullah died on 24 April 2021 from COVID-19 complications.

References

1947 births
2021 deaths
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology alumni
Alumni of the University of Strathclyde
Academic staff of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Vice-chancellors of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
People from Mymensingh District
Academic staff of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology
N-Butyl glycidyl ether. n-Butyl glycidyl ether is an industrial chemical used in adhesives, sealants, and as a paint or coating additive. It is principally used to reduce the viscosity of epoxy resin systems.

Synthesis
n-Butyl alcohol and epichlorohydrin react to form a halohydrin. This is followed by a caustic dehydrochlorination, to form n-butyl glycidyl ether.

Metabolism
n-Butyl glycidyl ether is metabolized renally to butoxyacetic acid, 3-butoxy-2-hydroxypropionic acid and 3-butoxy-2-acetylaminopropionic acid.

Safety
Exposure to n-butyl glycidyl ether through inhalation, eye contact, or skin exposure can cause a cough, sore throat, eye and skin redness, and pain. It is flammable and reacts with strong oxidants, strong bases, strong acids, and amines.

Uses
As an Epoxy modifier it is classed as an epoxy reactive diluent. It is also used to synthesize other molecules. The use of the diluent does effect mechanical properties and microstructure of epoxy resins. It has been used to simultaneously increase cryogenic strength, ductility and impact resistance of epoxy resins.

References

Further reading 
 
 
 

Glycidyl ethers
Reactive diluents
Petra Engineering Industries Company. Petra Engineering Industries Company is an industrial manufacturing company based in Jordan, that specializes in ventilating, heating and air-conditioning systems.

The company which was established in 1987, now exports to around 40 companies worldwide. The company managed to export its products to several locations in the United States, including NASA.

References

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning companies
Companies based in Amman
Manufacturing companies established in 1987
Manufacturing companies of Jordan
Jordanian brands

External links

Petra Engineering Industries Company - Jordan
Berne Infinitesimal Bubble Chamber. The Berne Infinitesimal Bubble Chamber, BIBC, was almost pocket size, 6.5 centimetres across and with a visible volume containing about a wine glass of heavy liquid. 

Bubble chambers are similar to cloud chambers, both in application and in basic principle. A chamber is normally made by filling a large cylinder with a liquid heated to just below its boiling point.  As particles enter the chamber, a piston suddenly decreases its pressure, and the liquid enters into a superheated, metastable phase.  Charged particles create an ionization track, around which the liquid vaporizes, forming microscopic bubbles. Bubble density around a track is proportional to a particle's energy loss. Bubbles grow in size as the chamber expands, until they are large enough to be seen or photographed. Several cameras are mounted around it, allowing a three-dimensional image of an event to be captured.

The BIBC chamber body was machined from a block of aluminium. It was filled with propane or freon. The chamber was designed to look for charmed particles, which are so un-stable that they usually decay too quickly to give big bubble chambers a good chance of catching them. In fact the track of a charmed particle could be lost amongst  the 'large' (half a millimetre) bubbles of large chambers. The bubbles in the minichamber were about ten times smaller, and stood a better chance of picking up short  tracks.
BIBC was used at the CERN SPS in the experiment NA18 as vertex detector together with a downstream 2 m streamer chamber  of the MPI-Munich which allowed for momentum analysis of the charged particles.

See also
 Bubble chamber

References

Bubble chambers operated at CERN
Maurice Cameron. Sir Maurice Alexander Cameron  (1855–1936) was a naval engineer and expert in submarine mining who spent nine years in the Straits Settlements and Malaya.

He took up the position of Deputy Colonial Engineer and Surveyor-General in Penang in December 1883 and oversaw the construction of roads and other public works in Penang and Province Wellesley. In 1888, he was appointed Colonial Engineer in Singapore and involved in the construction of forts for defence purposes. He served as the chairman of a commission to investigate Chinese and Indian indentured labour in Malaya from 1890.

Cameron returned to England in 1894 and worked at the Designs Branch of the War Office briefly before taking up the post of Third Crown Agent for the Colonies. He retired in 1920 as First Crown Agent.

In retirement, Cameron was involved in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, joining its Committee of Management in 1921 and being elected vice-president in 1933.

Cameron was awarded the Order of St Michael and St George in 1900, and was promoted to KCMG in 1914.

Personal life
Cameron married Ethel Ancrum in 1894. They had three children together: Ewen Arthur, Alexander Maurice and John Ancrum. Ethel Ancrum died in 1903 and in 1920 Cameron married Francis Perkins.

References

1855 births
1936 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
People from British Malaya
William Pugh. William Pugh may refer to:

William Pugh (computer scientist) (born 1960), American computer scientist
William Pugh (game designer)
William Pugh (geologist) (1892–1974)
William T. Pugh (1845–1928), American politician
Gwilym Puw (c. 1618–c. 1689), sometimes anglicised as William Pugh, Welsh author
Context Labs. Context Labs (CXL) is a company that provides blockchain enabled platform solutions such as secure distributed ledgers, network graph analytics, and data interoperability and visualization for publishing, financial, trading and supply chain industries. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company was founded in 2013.

History
Context Labs, BV was founded in 2013 by Daniel Harple, a technology entrepreneur and internet pioneer in web streaming and VoIP. With offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company was formed with the objective of extending research and development begun at MIT Sloan and the MIT Media Lab focusing on "innovation dynamics".

Partnering with architectural design firm Rogers Partners in 2014, the company applied innovation dynamics methods to collaborate on the design for the Connect Kendall Square project.

In March 2016, R. R. Donnelley & Sons announced it would partner with the company to integrate Context Labs blockchain enabled platform technology within RR Donnelley’s print-to-digital supply chain solutions.

In June 2016, Context Labs announced that as a co-founding member, the company would provide operational, strategic, and technical guidance for the Open Music Initiative, a digital rights framework for the music industry.

Products
InnovationScope
Chainplate Foundation
Snapshackle Interoperability
VUEGraph Analytics

See also
Business Intelligence Tools

References

Software companies of the Netherlands
Companies based in Amsterdam
Enterprise architecture
Software companies based in Massachusetts
Dutch companies established in 2013
Software companies of the United States
Alfred Noble (engineer). Alfred Noble (August 7, 1844 – April 19, 1914) was an American civil engineer who was best known for his work on canals, particularly the Soo Locks between the Great Lakes of Huron and Superior, and the Panama Canal. Born in Livonia, Michigan to farmers Charles Noble and Lovina Douw, Noble was locally educated. He served in the Union Army from 1862 to 1865, after which time he entered the University of Michigan as a sophomore.   Noble graduated with his University of Michigan class in June 1870, receiving his degree in civil engineering at age 26. After graduation, Noble went to work full-time on harbor surveys and improvements along the shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.

He was chief engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad's New York City East River projects, which built tunnels carrying four lanes of track between Manhattan and Queens. Amtrak, the Long Island Railroad, and New Jersey Transit continue to run trains through these tunnels well into their second century of use.

He was president of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1903, and in 1929, the society established the Alfred Noble Prize in his honor (not to be confused with the Nobel Prize).

References 

American civil engineers
Panama Canal
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
1844 births
1914 deaths
Alfred Noble. Alfred Noble may refer to:

 Alfred Noble (engineer) (1844–1914), American civil engineer
 Alfred H. Noble (1894–1983), American Marine Corps general
 Alfred Noble (footballer) (1924–1999), English footballer

See also
 Monty Noble (Montague Alfred Noble, 1873–1940), Australian cricketer
 Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist and inventor, creator of the Nobel Prize
Loop perforation. Loop perforation is an approximate computing technique that allows to regularly skip some iterations of a loop.

It relies on one parameter: the perforation rate. The perforation rate can be interpreted as the number of iteration to skip each time or the number of iterations to perform before skipping one.

Variants of loop perforation include those that skip iterations deterministically at regular intervals, those that skip iterations at the beginning or the end of the loop, and those that skip a random sample of iterations. The compiler may select the perforation variant at the compile-time, or include instrumentation that allows the runtime system to adaptively adjust the perforation strategy and perforation rate to satisfy the end-to-end accuracy goal. 

Loop perforation techniques were first developed by MIT senior researchers Martin C. Rinard and Stelios Sidiroglou.

Code examples
The examples that follows provide the result of loop perforation applied on this C-like source code

for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
    // do things
}

Skip n iterations each time
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
    // do things
    i = i + skip_factor;
}

Skip one iteration after n
int count = 0;

for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
    if (count == skip_factor) {
        count = 0;
    } else {
        // do things
        count++;
    }
}

See also
 Approximate computing
 Task skipping
 Memoization

Software optimization
Nehru Institute of Information Technology and Management. Nehru Institute of Information Technology and Management (NIITM) is one of the self-financing engineering colleges Affiliated to Anna University Tamil Nadu and approved by AICTE.

History

It is located in Thirumalayampalayam, Coimbatore. The college is certified ISO 9001:2000 by the International Certification Services.

Courses offered

List of Courses offered 

 M.B.A. Master of Business Administration 
 M.C.A. Master of Computer Applications

Facilities

 Laboratory Facilities
 Hostel Facilities

References

External links
 Website

Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu
Business schools in Tamil Nadu
Colleges affiliated to Anna University
Education in Coimbatore district
Educational institutions established in 2006
2006 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Task skipping. Task skipping is an approximate computing technique that allows to skip code blocks according to a specific boolean condition to be checked at run-time.

This technique is usually applied on the most computational-intensive section of the code.

It relies on the fact that a tuple of values sequentially computed are going to be useful only if the whole tuple meet certain conditions. Knowing that a value of the tuple invalides or probably will invalidate the whole tuple, it is possible to avoid the computation of the rest of the tuple.

Code example
The example that follows provides the result of task skipping applied on this C-like source code

for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
    value_1 = compute_1(i);
    value_2 = compute_2(i);
}

Skipping a task
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
    value_1 = compute_1(i);
    if (value_1 >= fixed_threshold) {
        value_2 = compute_2(i);
    }
}

See also
 Loop perforation
 Memoization

Software optimization
Orbicular. Orbicular is an adjective meaning "circular"

Orbicular may also refer to:

 Orbicular leaf, a plant leaf shape
 Orbicularis oculi muscle, a muscle around the eye
 Orbicularis oris muscle, a muscle around the mouth
 Orbicular batfish, a species of fish
 Caracanthus, the orbicular velvet fishes
 Orbicular granite, a rock type
 Orbicular jasper, a variety of jasper
 Orbicular stigma, a spot on wings of certain moths
Ernesto Damiani. Ernesto Damiani is a professor of computer science at the University of Milan, where he leads the Architectures Research (SESAR) Lab. He is the Senior Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Institute at Khalifa University, in the UAE. He holds visiting positions at Tokyo Denki University, Université de Bourgogne. Damiani received an honorary doctorate from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France (2017). His research spans security, Big Data and knowledge processing, where he has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles and books. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Scientist of ACM. Since 2018, he is the President of the Italian Inter-University Consortium for Informatics.

References

External links
 Homepage at University of Milan 
 ACM author page

Italian computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Milan
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Francesco Comelli. Francesco Comelli (1744 in Parigi – 1816 in Bologna) was an Italian scientific instrument maker with considerable expertise in foundry and metalworking.

Comelli was a skilled craftsman who made machines, instruments, and clocks, and an innovator in the design of metal presses. In 1780 he was appointed "regulator" of the public clock in Bologna. A device designed by Comelli was used by Gianbattista Guglielmini in experiments to measure the rotation of the earth in 1791.

References 

Italian scientific instrument makers
People from the Province of Parma
1744 births
1816 deaths
Nervana Systems. Nervana Systems was an artificial intelligence software company based in San Diego, California, and Palo Alto, California. The company provided a full-stack software-as-a-service platform called Nervana Cloud that enabled businesses to develop custom deep learning software. On August 9, 2016, it was acquired by Intel, for an estimated $408 million.

Deep learning framework 
The company's (now discontinued) open-source deep learning framework is called neon. Neon which the company said would outperform rival frameworks such as Caffe, Theano, Torch, and TensorFlow – would achieve its performance advantage through assembler-level optimization, multi-GPU support, and use of an algorithm called Winograd for computing convolutions, which are common mathematical operations in the deep learning process.

Nervana Cloud 
Nervana Cloud, announced in February 2016, is based on Neon, and ran on Nvidia Titan X GPUs, but Nervana was also developing a custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) called the Nervana Engine that was optimized for deep learning and that Nervana said would perform 10x better than Nvidia Maxwell architecture GPUs. The Nervana Engine was expected to achieve greater compute density by implementing only those design elements necessary to support deep learning algorithms and ignoring legacy elements specific to graphics processing.

History 
Nervana was founded in 2014 by CEO Naveen Rao, CTO Amir Khosrowshahi (Dara Khosrowshahi's cousin), and VP Algorithms Arjun Bansal. Nervana has raised $28 million in funding. In June 2015, Nervana raised $20.5 million in series A funding led by Data Collective with participation from Allen & Company, AME Cloud Ventures, Playground Global, the CME Group, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Fuel Capital, Lux Capital, and Omidyar Network. It was estimated to have only 48 employees when it was acquired by Intel in 2016. In January 2020, Intel shut down the development of Nervana in favor of its acquisition of Habana Labs.

References 

Companies based in San Diego
Companies based in Palo Alto, California
American companies established in 2014
Software companies based in California
2016 mergers and acquisitions
Intel acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States
N.300 Naviplane. The N.300 Naviplane was a French 30-ton multipurpose Air-cushion vehicle built by SEDAM (Société d'Etude et de Développement des Aéroglisseurs Marins) for the Naviplane series of Aéroglisseur (Hovercraft).

This was a series of multi-skirt hovercraft built by SEDAM using and developing the skirt designs by French engineer Jean Bertin. The series included the Naviplane N102, the Naviplane N300 and the N500 Naviplane, the N300 Naviplane was the first full-scale Naviplane designed for commercial use.

Production

Two N.300 were built by SEDAM:

 Baie des Anges
 La Croisette

Operators

 Société Naviplane (1969): both N300 used from Nice Airport with connections to Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco and San-Remo.
 Gironde local government (1972): Baie des Anges used for ferry service between the Pauillac, Blaye and Lamarque with modifications to carry 38 passengers and 4 cars
 French Navy (1972): La Croisette was loaned to the Navy for evaluation in Toulon

Fate

After 1973 both craft were stored by SEDAM in Pauillac until the firm ceased operations. Baie des Anges was sold to restaurateur in Maubuisson as floating restaurant, but plan never materialized. Returned to SEDAM, Baie des Anges and La Croisette were scrapped after 1983.

Specifications (N.300)
Overall length: 
Overall Beam: 
Overall Height: 
Skirt height: 
Cushion area: 
Deck area: 
Gross weight: 30 metric tonnes
Payload: 11.5 metric tonnes
Seating capacity: up to 110
Fuel capacity: 2 tons
Maximum speed (calm water): 65 knots (120 km/h)
Cruising speed (calm water): 50 knots (92 km/h)

Multi-skirt (Jean Bertin)

Naviplane N300 MKII
The Naviplane N300 MKII was a proposed improved model of the N300. It was intended as a 120-seat, high-speed amphibious hoverferry for commercial use and a wide range of military roles.

References

Hovercraft
Musio. Musio is a social robot designed by AKA Intelligence, powered by MUSE, an AI engine developed for communication, specifically to help people who wish to improve their English conversational skills. Using learning algorithms, Musio converses with people, and recognizes objects and understands people's facial expressions. Musio also has an emotional engine, which lets it express facial expressions and related sounds. In May 2015, Musio was crowdfunded on Indiegogo, where 201% of the needed funding was raised, resulting in a total of just over $100k.

Purpose 
Musio is designed for educational purposes, specifically to help people who wish to improve their English speaking abilities. Apart from simple questions and answers, a natural conversation can be carried out. In addition, an assistant OID partner device, named Sophy, provides learning opportunities from a wide range of educational material. Musio includes "Pronunciation Checkup" and "Grammar Correction," among other features, to help with pronunciation and grammar.

Sophy 
Sophy is Musio's companion robot that allows Musio to interact with various study materials. Using an optical LED Sensor (OID) and low-energy Bluetooth connection, Sophy can "read" information and send it to Musio. When Sophy needs to communicate to the user, a tactile feedback motor is used. This can be felt in a series of Morse-code taps to convey the message. A Morse-code manual is provided with Sophy.

MUSE 
MUSE is the deep learning-based AI engine for communication that powers Musio. It attempts to understand the user via textual language, oral language, gestures and facial expressions. AKA Intelligence built the machine learning system on the neuroscience to interplay between structure (i.e. rule-based) and antistructure methods (i.e. statistical).

Specification

See also 
 Artificial intelligence
 JIBO
 Manav (robot)
 Nao (robot)
 Pepper (robot)
 Sanbot (robot)
 j3l (robot)

References

External links 
 

Social robots
Durban Metropolitan Open Space System. The Durban Metropolitan Open Space System (D'MOSS) is a system of green corridors in the city of Durban, South Africa.   Implemented in 1982, the system links a number of significant conservation sites and nature reserves, allowing a path for the free movement of fauna and flora.  

D'MOSS is managed by the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, the metropolitan body that oversees the greater Durban area. As of 2015, the system represents one-third of the eThekwini Municipal Area, at 74 500 hectares. The objective of the project is the conservation of natural areas,  while providing recreation facilities for the public.

D'MOSS manages a number of nature reserves and parks in the Ethekwini Metropolitan boundaries:
 Burman Bush Nature Reserve
 Danville Park
 Pigeon Valley Park
 Seaton Park
 Silverglen Nature Reserve
 Virginia Bush Nature Reserve

References 

Durban
Nature conservation in South Africa
Guddu Engineer. Guddu Engineer is a 2016 Indian Short romantic drama film directed and co-produced by Nikkhil Advani and written by Aseem Arora. It starred Prabuddh Dyma and Pranali Ghogare.

Plot
The story revolves around Guddu, an engineering student, who is having a near perfect life. To impress his girlfriend, Sonia, Guddu makes a wish list and manages to achieve all of it. However, a simple choice between love and hate changes it all.

Cast
 Prabuddh Dyma as Guddu
 Pranali Ghogare as Sonia
 Ananya Banerjee as Sonia's friend

Awards

References

External links
 

Indian drama short films
Films directed by Nikkhil Advani
2010s Hindi-language films
2010s Indian films
2016 action thriller films
2016 drama films
2016 short films
2016 films
Films scored by Arjuna Harjai