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AMC Institutions. AMC Group of Institutions are educational institutions in Bangalore, India. The group primarily operate higher education institutions like AMC College of Hotel Management, AMC Engineering College, Advanced Business Management College, AMC PU College, its spin-off branch: AMC College (Jayanagar) and City College of Engineering. The institutions are situated in a combined  campus' with head office and main branch in Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore. It is accredited as a group B- institute by NBA-AICTE in 2017 and is approved for operation by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi.

Colloquially, AMC College refers to the engineering college, which is the primary source of income. It has an annual intake of roughly 900 students usually enrolling in the bachelor's program. It was established in the year 1999 under the Paramahamsa Foundation Trust. The engineering campus is spread out in 52 acres of land with two main buildings, the mechanical engineering block and the main building, which is styled after the Vidhan Soudha. Almost all functioning buildings on campus that have been halted mid-construction, with supposed plans for adding new floors later on. The engineering college is affiliated to and operates as a deemed university under the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum. According to their website, AMC College offers the following degrees in Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Engineering, Master of Business Administration  and Master of Computer Application.

References

External links 
 AMC web site

Colleges in Bengaluru
Educational institutions established in 1999
1999 establishments in India
Grant, Ritchie and Company. Grant, Ritchie and Company was a Scottish engineering firm based in Kilmarnock, Scotland. The company's products included steam engines and steam locomotives.

History
In 1876, there was a disastrous fire at Andrew Barclay’s Caledonia works in Kilmarnock. At this point, two employees of Andrew Barclay, Thomas Grant and William Ritchie, set up Grant, Ritchie and Company at Townholme Engine Works, Kilmarnock to manufacture steam locomotives. They took over an existing business called Grant Brothers but it is not known whether there was a family connection to Thomas Grant.

Grant, Ritchie also built colliery winding engines and one of these is preserved at the National Mining Museum; a 2400 hp engine built for the Victoria Colliery in the 1890s. A Grant, Ritchie locomotive is preserved at the Ribble Steam Railway, currently on loan at York until April 2017.

References

External links

Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Engineering companies of Scotland
Kilmarnock
1876 establishments in Scotland
Manufacturing companies established in 1876
British companies established in 1876
Celerity Computing. Celerity Computing, Inc., was a publicly traded vendor of Unix-based minisupercomputers based in San Diego, California.  Celerity Computing was founded in May 1983 by Steve Vallender, Nick Aneshansley and Andrew McCroklin. All were former employees of NCR Corporation.

Celerity shipped its first product, the C1200 Personal Workstation in November 1984.  The C1200 was the first in a series of machines using the ACCEL RISC architecture, based on the NCR/32 32-bit processor.  The C1200 offered a color monitor with up to 1280 by 1024 resolution.  The C1200 was followed by the C1230 and C1260 models.  The C1260 offered a dual processor option.  The C1230 and C1260 were often used as multi-user systems. The C1200 series ran a version of BSD 4.2 Unix with System V Release 2 functionality merged in.

Celerity attempted to make the transition to being a minisupercomputer vendor with the development of the Celerity 6000, based on the ACCEL architecture implemented in ECL based on parts from Bipolar Integrated Technology.  The Celerity 6000 had a 33-MHz system clock and up to 8 processors (max 8 scalar processors or 4 scalar processors and 4 vector processors).  After running into financial difficulties during the development of the Celerity 6000, the assets and technologies of Celerity Computing were acquired by Floating Point Systems—itself financially ailing—in September 1988.  The Celerity 6000 was completed and released as the FPS Model 500 minisupercomputer.

Celerity's assets changed hands multiple times in the following years through acquisitions and selloffs: Floating Point Systems sold to Cray in 1991; Cray sold to Silicon Graphics in 1996; and Silicon Graphics sold their Cray Business Systems Division to Sun Microsystems later that year. Many of the software and hardware engineers who were employed at Celerity—including McCrocklin and Campbell—were kept on board all the way to Sun Microsystems and beyond. The business unit they worked in under Sun Microsystems was renamed to Enterprise Systems Products (ESP).

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1983 establishments in California
1988 disestablishments in California
1988 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1983
American companies disestablished in 1988
Computer companies established in 1983
Computer companies disestablished in 1988
Cray
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct computer systems companies
Defunct computer companies based in California
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Silicon Graphics
Sun Microsystems
Technology companies based in San Diego
Variator. A variator is a device that can change its parameters, or can change parameters of other devices.

Often a variator is a mechanical power transmission device that can change its gear ratio continuously (rather than in steps).

Examples
 Beier variable-ratio gear
 Continuously variable transmission
 Evans friction cone
 NuVinci continuously variable transmission
 Variator (variable valve timing)
 Variomatic
 VANOS

See also
 Epicyclic gearing

References 

 
Mechanical power control
List of Engineering Entrance Exams in India. There are several engineering entrance examinations in India. The list includes the UG level and PG level engineering entrance examinations.

According to the latest updates, admission to Goa engineering colleges will be made through JEE Main exam.

 Joint Entrance Examination - Main (JEE-Main or, AIEEE)
 Joint Entrance Examination - Advanced (JEE Advanced or, IIT-JEE)
 Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)
 Common University Entrance Test (CUET)
 Birla Institute of Technology and Science Admission Test (BITSAT)
 West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE)
 Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE)
 Maharashtra Health and Technical Common Entrance Test (MHT-CET)
 Rajasthan Pre-Engineering Test (RPET) / Rajasthan Engineering Admission Process (REAP)
 Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission
 Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka(COMED-K)
 Gujarat Common Entrance Test (GUJCET)
 Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET)
 Engineering Agricultural and Medical Common Entrance Test
 Kerala Engineering Agricultural Medical 
 Goa Common Entrance Test (GCET)
Deemed Universities conduct their own entrances like VITEEE, VITMEE by Vellore Institute of Technology, AEEE by Amrita Schools of Engineering, MET by Manipal,etc.

Besides these exams, there is also a proposal for Common engineering entrance examination.

References

Engineering Entrance Exams
Engineering Entrance Exams
CrimeAnalyst. CrimeAnalyst is an extension for ArcGIS Desktop, a suite of geographic information system (GIS) software products. It provides added functionality for crime analysis and crime mapping. CrimeAnalyst is produced by ESRI (UK).

Features 

CrimeAnalyst functionality includes:
 Crime hotspot / density maps
 Temporal crime analysis / aoristic data clocks
 Spatial distribution and analysis
 Identifications of repeat victims of crime
 Identifying connections between related locations in a crime
 Calculating spatial statistics

Development

See also 
ArcGIS Desktop
ProductivitySuite

References 

 Sunday Times Online Police Deploy Software to Beat Criminals to Scene of Crime Published 29 March 2009

External links 
 
  - ESRI

ArcGIS Extension
Crime mapping
Swallow New Swallow. The Swallow New Swallow, also known as the Swallow Commercial Three-Seater is an American-built general purpose biplane of the mid- to late 1920s. The New Swallow name was to distinguish it from the aircraft from which it was derived, the Laird Swallow.

Development

The Swallow Airplane Manufacturing Co was formed in 1923 to take over the business of the E.M. Laird Aviation Co. of Wichita, Kansas and set up its factory there. In 1924, the New Swallow three-seat biplane was introduced, which differed from the earlier Laird-Swallow in having a cowled engine, split axle undercarriage and single-bay wings. About 50 examples were produced until the design was enhanced in 1926. The initial price was $3,500 reducing to $2,485 in late 1926.

After 1926, production shifted to the redesigned, steel-framed Super Swallow.

Operational history

The three-seat Swallow found ready use in the hands of small commercial firms and with the newly founded regional airlines.

 
When the Air Mail Act of 1925 came into force, Walter Varney tendered for route CAM 5, which connected Pasco, Washington with Elko, Nevada via Boise, Idaho, crossing the Cascade Mountains. He won the tender unopposed, and ordered six New Swallows to service the route. These aircraft, sometimes known as the Swallow Mailplane differed from the current production version by being equipped with a 160-hp (119-kW) Curtiss C-6 water-cooled, inline engine. Their wingspan was extended by four feet (1.2 metres) and the passenger cockpit was enclosed to create a hold for mail. The first flight took off from Pasco on April 6, 1926. Pilot Leon Cuddeback transported 9,285 pieces of mail, weighing 207 pounds (93.9 kg), plus bottles of grape juice intended for President Calvin Coolidge. Cuddeback also completed the return trip successfully, but the following week, on the second flight out of Pasco, was forced down in the desert. The Curtiss engines proved unsuitable for the hot-and-high conditions, and Varney ordered replacement air-cooled 208-hp (155-kW) Wright J-4s instead. After 60 days grounded, the re-engined Swallows returned to service.

Three Swallows participated in the 1925 Ford Air Tour, piloted by Earl Roland, John Stauffer, and Jacob Moellendick.

Variants
Source : Aerofiles
New Swallow  90 h.p. Curtiss OX-5, about 50 built 1924-1926
Swallow Mailplane  also known as the J4 Swallow; six New Swallows ordered for Varney Air Lines with Curtiss C-6 engines, re-engined with Wright J-4s

Specifications (New Swallow)

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era 
(partial listing, only covers most numerous types)

Alexander Eaglerock
American Eagle A-101
Brunner-Winkle Bird
Buhl-Verville CA-3 Airster
Command-Aire 3C3
Parks P-1
Pitcairn Mailwing
Spartan C3
Stearman C2 and C3
Travel Air 2000 and 4000
Waco 10

Related lists 

 List of aircraft
 List of civil aircraft

Notes

References

Bibliography
Aerofiles: Specifications and images of Swallows
 
 
 
 
 

1920s United States civil utility aircraft
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1924
Aircraft with conventional landing gear
Bernard Smith (sailboat designer). Bernard Smith (May 15, 1910 – February 12, 2010) was a US rocket scientist and speed sailboat designer, father of the "aerohydrofoil" sailboat concept.

Life and background
Smith was born in 1910 in New York City, to Jewish Russian immigrants. One of a pair of fraternal twins, he moved to California in 1935, where he worked as a welder for the Fruehauf Trailer company. Smith came from a background of blacksmiths and he later was a founder of American rocket science becoming a director of the naval weapons laboratory in Virginia. He is best known today for his writing in “The 40-Knot Sailboat”. 
After World War II, with an honorary degree in physics from Reed College in Oregon, he started working as a civilian scientist in the US Navy, serving at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and later at the Naval Weapons Laboratory at Dahlgren
, where he served as the technical director from 1964 until his retirement in 1973. In recognition of his ingenuity and determination, the U.S. Navy established the Bernard Smith Award, given annually for scientific and technical achievements accomplished “by exceptional persistence and competence in the face of unusual odds or significant opposition.” He died on 12 February 2010 from liver cancer at age 99.

Bernard Smith’s 40-knot sailboat design
In 1963, Smith published The 40-knot Sailboat, in which he set out an innovative sailboat design inspired by the traditional proa sailed by the peoples of the Pacific Ocean. Smith's designs revolved around the concept of the "aerohydrofoil," where the boat's keel and sail are separated from each other by an outrigger system. The idea proved highly influential for subsequent designers. Almost 50 years after its publication, the Vestas Sailrocket, which was largely based on Smith's ideas, broke the world speed sailing record.

Publications

References

1910 births
Reed College alumni
2010 deaths
American yacht designers
Johannsen. Johannsen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Anton Johannsen (1872–1929), German-American labor militant
 Franz Johannsen (1921–2006), German sprint canoeist
 Gunnar Johannsen (born 1940), German cyberneticist, and Professor of Systems Engineering and Human-Machine Systems
 Hans Johannsen (1913–1961), German chief engineer on a U-boat in World War II
 Helmuth Johannsen (1920–1998), German football coach
 Jake Johannsen (born 1960), American comedian
 Kristoffer Johannsen (born 1977), Danish former professional football player
 Kurt Johannsen (bush mechanic) (1915–2002), Australian mechanic
 Kyle Johannsen, Canadian philosopher
 Nicholas Johannsen, German-American amateur economist
 Oskar Augustus Johannsen (1870–1961), American entomologist, specialist of Diptera
 Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927), Danish botanist, plant physiologist and geneticist

See also
Herman Smith-Johannsen (1875–1987), Norwegian-Canadian supercentenarian, cross-country skiing advocate
Johansen
Johansson
Johanson

Patronymic surnames
Surnames from given names
National Maglev Initiative. The National Maglev Initiative (NMI) was a research program undertaken in the early 1990s by the United States Department of Transportation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Energy, and other agencies which studied magnetically levitated, or "maglev", train technology, operating at speeds around .  The effort was created in April 1990 and released a report in 1993.  The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) authorized $725 million in funds for maglev research, pending the results of the NMI study, but an appropriation of funds was also required, and it's not clear if that ever occurred.

The initiative identified several corridors, each extending hundreds of miles, across the country that might benefit from high-speed maglev trains.  They correspond significantly with the high-speed rail corridors identified in October 1992 following the ISTEA legislation, but were generally more extensive and had other differences.

Maglev technology has largely stagnated in the U.S., with no real revenue deployments.  Meanwhile, the longest maglev line in the world used for revenue service is the Shanghai Maglev Train in Shanghai, China, which is less than  in length.

Related efforts
Some related legislation and government efforts in the United States include:
High Speed Ground Transportation Act and the Office of High Speed Ground Transportation (1965–1972)
Passenger Railroad Rebuilding Act of 1980 (allowed funding of corridor studies in 1984)
Rail Safety Improvement Act of 1988 (changed the legal definition of "railroad" to include maglevs)
Maglev Technology Advisory Committee (1989)
High-Speed Rail Transportation Act (1991)
Swift Rail Development Act (1994)
Maglev Study Advisory Committee (1997)
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21, 1998)
National Magnetic Levitation Transportation Technology Deployment Program Deployment Program (1999)

See also
High-speed rail in the United States

References

External links
Final Report on the National Maglev Initiative
The International Maglevboard

High-speed rail in the United States
Maglev
Best-Lock. Best-Lock Construction Toys is a brand of plastic building bricks that are compatible with Lego. Best-Lock Group Limited, which manufacture the bricks, is based in Colne, Lancashire, England.

History
Best-Lock was founded in 1997 by Torsten Geller after he looked into the legalities of Lego and other clones, which led him to look into Lego's past to find that Lego had copied their bricks from a British psychologist and inventor Hilary Page in the 1940s.

Best-Lock has been involved with multiple legal cases involving Lego. The company moved in 1998 against Lego's exclusivity claims to toy-block design. Best-Lock won the case in court thus allowing them to sell sets in Germany. They defeated a patent challenge from Lego in 2004. In a further case in 2009, Lego was denied trademark protection for the shape of its bricks.

Best-Lock and Cobi, a Polish building block manufacturer with a strong presence in Eastern Europe and Asia, announced a merger on 2 February 2006, in which Best-Lock purchased a part of Cobi. Plans called for Best-Lock to shift manufacturing to Cobi while Cobi expanded its manufacturing facilities. The merger has since yielded co-branded building block toys. Toys are still sold under the separate labels Best-Lock and Cobi, but many Cobi sets appear in North American retailers such as Toys R' Us and Amazon.com under the Best-Lock brand.

In 2000, Lego filed a three-dimensional trademark for its mini-figures, which Best Lock had duplicated since 1998. Thus in 2012, Best-Lock sued to get the trademark revoked. On 16 June 2015, European Court of Justice upheld Lego's figure trademark.

Products
Best-Lock offers different sized blocks including standard blocks, Junior Blocks (young children 2–5), and Baby Blocks (For kids 0–2). Themes for standard blocks include town sets (police, fire and construction), military, pirates, farming, and Kimmy (Best-Lock sets made for females). Licensed sets include The Terminator and Stargate SG-1 themes.

See also
Lego clone

References

External links

Companies based in Lancashire
Construction toys
Lego clones
1997 establishments in England
Sarada K. Sarma. Sarada Kanta Sarma is a geotechnical engineer, emeritus reader of engineering seismology and senior research investigator at Imperial College London. He has developed a method of seismic slope stability analysis which is named after him, the Sarma method.

Curriculum 
Sarma was initially educated in India, studying civil engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur and then geotechnical engineering at Imperial College specialising in earthquake engineering and engineering seismology. He worked under the supervision of professor Nicholas Ambraseys and obtained his PhD degree in 1968; being the first PhD degree awarded by the Imperial College Engineering Seismology Section (followed by Dimitri Papastamatiou in 1971). His thesis title was "Response characteristics and stability of earth dams during strong earthquakes". He joined the staff in 1967 as a lecturer in Engineering Seismology.

Scientific work 
His major research focused on engineering seismology and geotechnical engineering. He specialised in seismic analysis and performance of soil slopes, earth dams and the earthquake resistant design of foundations and design code development and evaluation.

He developed a new method of analysing the stability of slopes and dams in seismic conditions and calculating the permanent displacements due to strong shaking. This method, published in the 1970s (several publications of this method are found in 1973, 1975 and 1979) is named after him (Sarma method) and it is a special case of a Limit Equilibrium method of geotechnical analysis. It has been extensively used in seismic analysis software for many years, although nowadays modern finite element analysis software are more widely used for special case studies.

The Sarma method is called an advanced and rigorous method of static and seismic slope stability analysis. It is called advanced, because it can take account of non-circular failure surfaces. Also, the multi-wedge approach allows for non-vertical slices and irregular slope geometry. It is called a rigorous method, because it can satisfy all the three conditions of equilibrium, horizontal and vertical forces and moments. The Sarma method is nowadays used as a verification to finite element programs (also FE limit analysis) and it is the standard method used for seismic analysis.

In recognition of his contribution to earthquake engineering, he has been awarded a number of awards and has been invited to give lectures, serve the academic advisory board of several conferences and provide consulting work and advice for various dam projects. Sarma retired from Imperial College in 2004.

See also
 Slope stability
 Imperial College Civil & Environmental Engineering

References

External links 
 Sarada K Sarma

Academics of Imperial College London
Alumni of Imperial College London
Living people
Earthquake engineering
Indian seismologists
Geotechnical engineers
IIT Kharagpur alumni
Indian civil engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Conrad Schlumberger Award. The Conrad Schlumberger Award is an award given to one of the members of European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers. The award is given each year to one that has made an outstanding contribution over a period of time to the scientific and technical advancement of the geosciences, particularly geophysics. The award is made annually by the EAGE Board.

History
The Conrad Schlumberger Award was created in 1955, as a recognition of Conrad Schlumberger's outstanding contribution to exploration geophysics, by the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (then named The European Association of Exploration Geophysicists.)

List of recipients
Source:
 2020 André Revil
 2019 Andrey Bakulin
 2018 Johan Robertsson and Phil Christie
 2017 José Carcione
 2016 Stewart Greenhalgh
 2015 Alain Tabbagh
 2014 Valentina Socco
 2013 Kees Wapenaar
 2012 Martin Landrø
 2011 Sergey Fomel
 2010 Lasse Amundsen
 2009 Gerhard Pratt
 2008 Clive McCann
 2007 Colin Macbeth
 2006 Petar Stavrev
 2005 Horst Rüter
 2004 Eric de Bazelaire
 2003 Tariq Alkhalifah
 2002 M. Tygel
 2001 R. Marschall
 From June 2001, award dates refer to the year in which the award was presented and not to the year in which the winning poster/paper was presented.
 1999 Peter Weidelt
 1998 Vlastislav Cerveny
 1997 Jacob T. Fokkema
 1996 Michael Schoenberg
 1995 Patrick Lailly
 1994 P. Newman
 1993 Bjørn Ursin
 1992 L. Dresen
 1991 Oz Yilmaz
 1990 Fabio Rocca
 1989 Albert Tarantola
 1988 Ken Larner
 1987 Les Hatton
 1986 S. Crampin
 1985 S.M. Deregowski
 1984 K. Helbig
 1983 Johann Sattlegger
 1982 Anton Ziolkowski
 1981 W.E. Lerwill
 1980 A.J. "Guus" Berkhout
 1979 Theodore Krey
 1978 No award
 1977 Peter Hubral
 1976 J.G. (Mendel) Hagedoorn
 1975 Milo M. Backus and R.L. Chen
 1974 N. de Voogd
 1973 Roy E. White
 1972 P. Bois
 1971 P.N.S. O'Brien
 1970 H. Naudy
 1969 Sven Treitel and Enders A. Robinson
 1968 Helmut Linsser
 1967 Robert Garotta and Dominique Michon
 1966 Jacques D'Hoeraene
 1965 O. Koefoed
 1964 Nigel Anstey
 1963 G. Grau
 1962 No award
 1961 G. Kunetz
 1960 Reinhard Bortfeld
 1959 L. Alfano
 1958 Umberto Colombo
 1957 O. Kappelmeyer
 1956 No award
 1955 H. Flathe

See also
 List of geophysicists
 List of geophysics awards
 Prizes named after people

References

External links
 The Conrad Schlumberger Award homepage at EAGE
 All awards by EAGE
 EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers) homepage

Science and technology awards
Awards established in 1955
1955 establishments in Europe