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Mynaric. Mynaric AG is a manufacturer of laser communication equipment for airborne and spaceborne communication networks, so called constellations.

History
In 2009, Mynaric was founded by former employees of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and some of the key technologies have been licensed from DLR.

In November 2013, Mynaric demonstrated for the first time successful laser communication from a jet platform Tornado. A data rate of 1 Gbit/s over a distance of 60 km was achieved at a flight speed of 800 km/h. In October 2017, Mynaric performed an IPO at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange raising 27.3M € of growth capital.

In February 2018, Mynaric's laser communication products were inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame of the Space Foundation, and in April 2018, Mynaric announced a partnership with CEA-Leti regarding highly sensitive avalanche photodiodes that may enable longer link distances and reduced system complexity. In June 2018, Facebook's Connectivity Lab (related to Facebook Aquila) was reported to have achieved a bidirectional 10 Gbit/s air-to-ground connection with Mynaric's products.

In March 2019, Mynaric announced that former SpaceX Starlink vice president Bulent Altan joins its management board and that it has raised additional $12.5 million funding from the lead investor of an undisclosed satellite constellation.

In November 2021, Mynaric listed on Nasdaq and raised $75.9 million growth capital drawing Peter Thiel and ARK Invest as new investors. The company was also selected by Northrop Grumman as strategic supplier for laser communications and, subsequently, in June 2022, completed a ground demonstration of laser terminals that will be used to send and receive data in space as part of the U.S. National Defense Space Architecture. In July 2022, Mynaric received a strategic investment of $11.4 million from L3Harris. By June 2023, the company established itself as a dominant supplier of optical communications terminals for the Space Development Agency's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a large global satellite constellation.

Products
Mynaric offers various laser communication products for wireless data transmission between aircraft, UAVs, high-altitude platforms (HAPS), satellites and the ground offering Gbps-class wireless data transmission across long distances up to several thousand kilometers. The company focuses on serial production and cost reduction of its laser communication products and targets laser communication enabled airborne and spaceborne communication networks. Mynaric produces laser communication terminals with a data transfer rate of 10 Gbit/s as of early 2019.

See also
 Laser communication in space
 NewSpace
 Satellite constellation

References

External links
 Official Website
 Company report by Edison Investment Research

Computer companies of Germany
Computer hardware companies
Satellite Internet access
Private spaceflight companies
Telecommunications equipment vendors
Networking hardware companies
Companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
Alan Rath. Alan Rath (1959–2020) was an American electronic, kinetic, and robotic sculptor.  He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982, with a BS electrical engineering.  He worked for a Boston engineering firm after graduation, and in 1982, moved to Oakland, California to pursue his artistic interests.

Arecibo, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is an example of how the artist combines electronics with an undeniable artistic talent to create witty statements about technology gone berserk.  The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Gallery (Minneapolis), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) are among the public collections holding work by Rath.

Fellowships and awards
1994 Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY
1993 Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1988 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
1988 SECA Video Invitational Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Footnotes

American digital artists
American sculptors
American new media artists
Robotic art
MIT School of Engineering alumni
1959 births
Living people
Aderemi Atayero. Aderemi Aaron-Anthony Atayero (born 26 October 1969, in Ikeja) is a Nigerian engineer who served as the 4th substantive vice chancellor of Covenant University, Nigeria. He previously served as the first academic deputy vice-chancellor, Coordinator School of Engineering, and twice as head of department of Electrical and Information Engineering of Covenant University.

Atayero is a senior research fellow of the International Association of Research Scholars and Administrators, and a fellow of the Science Association of Nigeria (FSAN).

Education and career 
Atayero got his first degree a Bachelor of Science in radio engineering, graduating summa cum laude in 1992 from Moscow Institute of Technology (MIT).

In 1994, he proceeded for his masters in satellite communication systems. He studied in Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation (MSTUCA) where he earned his PhD during the year 2000. Atayero is the team lead of the Covenant University Smart City (SmartCU) Project, as well as the head of Covenant University IoT-Enabled Smart & Connected Communities Research Cluster.

Atayero received his first "appreciation Russian Government stipend" as a student from 1988 to 1994. He then was given a scholarship by the Federal Government of Nigeria Scholarship, Bureau for External Aide from 1988 to 1994. In 2005, he was awarded a Grant for FPGA and VHDL Workshop by the International Center for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy), Kumasi Ghana.

Early life and family 
Atayero was born on 26 October 1969, in Ikeja, Lagos State in Ijeshaland, Osun State, Nigeria. He is from Ilesa West Local Government Area. Born to a mobile public servant father who served as a Peace Officer and a medical practitioner mother, Atayero was always on the move from one part of Nigeria to the other. He had his primary education at the St. Agnes Primary School, Ikeja, Lagos. Due to his father's traveling, he went to three different schools for his secondary education.

Atayero is married to a Russian wife, Olga, with whom he has three sons: Remi, Femi and Fela Atayero.

References

External links 
 Atayero's PhD thesis 

Living people
Nigerian engineers
Nigerian academic administrators
Academic staff of Covenant University
1969 births
Elijah Ayolabi. Ayolabi Elijah Ayolabi is a Nigerian geophysicist.

Biography 
Ayolabi is Vice Chancellor of Mountain Top University. He is a specialist in environmental geophysics, as well as engineering and exploration geophysics. He has executed several environmental and exploration studies for reputable organisations such as Schlumberger and Celtel. He is a member of Nigerian Mining and Geoscience Society (NMGS), Nigerian Association of Petroleum Exploration (NAPE) and Science Association of Nigeria. Ayolabi has successively trained over 100 postgraduate students with over 90 articles in journals and referred conference proceedings locally and internationally.

References             

Living people
Nigerian geophysicists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Nigerian academic administrators
Ion implantation-induced nanoparticle formation. Ion implantation-induced nanoparticle formation is a technique for creating nanometer-sized particles for use in electronics.

Ion implantation 
Ion Implantation is a technique extensively used in the field of materials science for material modification. The effect it has on nanomaterials allows manipulation of mechanical, electronic, morphological, and optical properties. 

One-dimensional nano-materials are an important contributor to the creation of nano-devices such as field effect transistors, nanogenerators and solar cells. The offer the potential of high integration density, lower power consumption, higher speed and super high frequency.  
 
The effects of ion implantation varies according to multiple variables. Collision cascade may occur during implantation and this causes of interstitials and vacancies in target materials (although these defects may be mitigated through dynamic annealing). Collision modes are nuclear collision, electron collision and charge exchange. Another process is the sputtering effect, which significantly affects the morphology and shape of nano-materials.

References 

Materials science
Nanotechnology
Semiconductor fabrication materials
Eno James Ibanga. Eno James Ibanga  is a Nigerian academic. He is a professor of solid state physics/materials science. He serves as the Vice Chancellor for Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU). On 3 August 2020, His Excellency Governor Udom Gabriel Emmanuel appointed Professor Eno James Ibanga as commissioner in the state ministry works & Fire service.  He is married and blessed with children.

Education

James Ibanga earned his PhD in Solid State Physics in 2000 from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Career 
Ibanga began his career as a university lecturer at University of Calabar in 1982. He was appointed Professor of Physics in University of Uyo in 2008 and Head of Physics Department and Dean of Student Affairs. Ibanga is a Physics lecturer. He was Associate Professor in Nassarawa State University, Keffi, in 2004 and a Senior Lecturer, University of Agriculture, Makurdi in 2002. He was a lecturer in the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta in 1986.

Ibanga was a Visiting Lecturer to various institutions including Akwa Ibom State University from 2009 - 2013, Benue State University, Makurdi, 2006-2011 and University of Agriculture, Makurdi, 2007-2010. His is an external examiner for University of Abuja; Ladoke Akintola University of Science and Technology, Ogbomosho; University of Ilorin and Obafemi Awolowo University. He has been a member of Faculty Senates, Boards and Committees in these Universities. He served NUC as member and also chairman of accreditation panels of degree programmes in physical sciences.

References

 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of Akwa Ibom State University
Nigerian physicists
Academic staff of the University of Calabar
Academic staff of the University of Uyo
Vice-chancellors of Nigerian universities
Kastus. Kastus Technologies is an Irish multinational nanotechnology company that specialises in patented, visible-light-activated, photocatalytic, antimicrobial coatings. These coatings prevent the growth of bacteria on surfaces such as ceramics, glass, and touchscreens, with no negative side effects for the end user. Founded in Dublin in 2014, Kastus’ antimicrobial coatings were in development for over 10 years as part of a collaboration with Dublin Institute of Technology and the Advanced Materials and Bio Engineering Research (AMBER) Centres.

History
John Browne, Kastus CEO, founded the company in 2014 in Dublin following 10 years of collaborative research with Dublin Institute of Technology. It was developed out of an increasing demand for a reduction in the spread of  antibiotic-resistant infections commonly found on indoor surfaces. In October 2017, the Department of Health published “Ireland’s National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2017-2020”, which highlighted the threat antimicrobial resistance poses and the urgent need for new technology to combat this.

In April 2016, the Sligo Institute of Technology, which is funded by Kastus, announced the creation of a non-toxic antimicrobial nanotechnology, which Kastus plans to market globally. This research is supported by a €1.5 million funding investment from Atlantic Bridge.

In 2018, Kastus partnered with Oman-based ceramic tile producer Al Maha Ceramics, which exports to 15 countries in Asia and Africa. The deal saw Kastus use its antimicrobial technology to produce a range of new tiles called iProtect.

In 2019, Kastus partnered with Faytech to enhance their development of touch display manufacturing capabilities. 

In 2020, Kastus developed antimicrobial and antiviral technology used on touch screens to prevent the spread of diseases such as COVID-19. The screen technology has been shown to kill up to 99% of harmful bacteria, fungi, and antibiotic-resistant superbugs, including human coronavirus. Kastus was awarded EU funding to further develop and expand these technologies and their applications, and has partnered with companies such as Lenovo, Zagg, and Lavazza for a range of commercial applications for their products. 

In 2021, Kastus raised €5.65 million in a Series A round to build out its global commercial team to meet growing demand for its antiviral surface protection technology.

Awards
Spin-out Company Impact Award (2017)
Irish Times Innovation of the Year award (2017)
Irish Times Life Sciences and Healthcare award (2017)
KTI Impact Award Winners 2017
Med Tech Award Finalists  2020 
EY Entrepreneur of The Year Finalists

References 

Nanotechnology companies
Companies based in Dublin (city)
Li Tian. Li Tian (; 2 October 1938 – 11 April 2018) was a Chinese physicist and aircraft designer. An expert in aerodynamics for aeronautics, he served as chief scientist of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. He was also an adjunct professor at Beihang University.

Biography
Li was born in October 1938 in Jilin City, Jilin province. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1963 with a degree in fluid mechanics. He was assigned to the then 601 Institute as a technician afterwards, and was banished to western Liaoning during the Cultural Revolution.

Li was responsible for the aerodynamic projects when developing Shenyang J-8 and Shenyang J-11, he is known as one of the founders of Chinese stealth technology for aircraft. He improved Chinese fighter configurations and stealthy designs by combining electromagnetic scattering characteristics with aerodynamic theory.

Li was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. 

Li's father, Li Pengshu, taught Chinese literature at a high school. Li was the third of five children. After his mother died in 1948, his father remarried in 1950 and had two more children. Li died on 11 April 2018 in Shenyang, aged 79.

References

1938 births
2018 deaths
Academic staff of Beihang University
Chinese aircraft designers
Engineers from Jilin
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
People from Jilin City
Physicists from Jilin
Scientists from Jilin
Tsinghua University alumni
Knudsen absolute manometer. A Knudsen absolute manometer is an instrument to measure absolute pressures. Named after Martin Knudsen.

Working principle 

Pressure is determined by the interaction of particles with a surface, its kinetic energy, and is temperature dependent. When a particle hits a hotter surface, heat transfer will take place and the particle will gain energy. When a particle hits a colder surface, the opposite occurs. Particles that interact with a hotter or colder surface will exert a force on that surface. A Knudsen manometer uses this temperature-effect to make a plate with dual temperatures rotate. It consists of a rotating plate, of which the centre of rotation is in the centre of the plate. Image the plate rotating, the parts that push the 'air' are the plate parts that are 'normal' temperature, the other sides are heated. At the heated sides the particles that interact will gain kinetic energy and push to plate to rotation. By reading the speed of this rotation the pressure can be determined. (This is an interpretation from the information about Knudsen manometer from the Dutch book Vacuum Technologie)

References 

Pressure gauges
Laboratory equipment
Artificial Evolution Conference. The biennial Artificial Evolution (AE) conference is held in France every two years (odd years), in early fall. The Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) conference is held at the same period (early fall), but even years. EA is dedicated to techniques that simulate natural evolution. Proceedings of AE are published by Springer-Verlag in their LNCS serie.

Artificial Evolution was originally initiated as a forum for the French-speaking evolutionary computation community, and the first conference, organized by Jean-Marc Alliot, Evelyne Lutton, Edmund Ronald and Marc Schoenauer, was held in Toulouse in 1994 under the name Evolution Artificielle. It is the only conference held an even year, and the only one with proceedings not edited by Springer (they were edited by Cepadues). 

It became an international conference the following year (1995) in Brest, under the name Artificial Evolution. It is still referred sometimes as Evolution Artificielle (French for Artificial Evolution) however.

List of AE conferences
 EA-1994 took place in Toulouse
 AE-1995 took place in Brest, LNCS 1063
 AE-1997 took place in Nimes, LNCS 1363
 AE-1999 took place in Dunkerque, LNCS 1829
 AE-2001 took place in Le Creusot, LNCS 2310
 AE-2003 took place in Marseilles, LNCS 2936
 AE-2005 took place in Lille, LNCS 3871
 AE-2007 took place in Tours, LNCS 4926
 AE-2009 took place in Strasbourg, LNCS 5975
 AE-2011 took place in Angers, LNCS 7401
 AE-2013 took place in Bordeaux, LNCS 8752
 AE-2015 took place in Lyon, LNCS 9554
 AE-2017 took place in Paris, LNCS 10764

Notes

External links
web page for AE 2017

Artificial intelligence conferences
Kabul bus rapid transit. Kabul bus rapid transit is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Kabul, Afghanistan, currently under construction.

History
A bus rapid transit system in the city of Kabul was envisaged since 2009 to relieve pressure on motor traffic in the fast-urbanizing city. Kabul Municipality, the Ministry of Transport, and the Japan Cooperation Agency in Afghanistan (JICA) held a joint international conference in New York City in 2016 to research and discuss a potential system. The BRT system was officially unveiled by Kabul Municipality in June 2017, which has also been referred to as Metrobus. Officials said that construction would start soon and that the system's first phase would be opened in 2018. It was reported in July 2018 that the project had been hampered by delays, and as of January 2019 it is still not yet completed.

The project will cost $15 million to be built, paid for by the municipality. It is also part of the wider Asian Development Bank's 20-year urban investment program in Afghanistan.

Infrastructure
The BRT's bus lanes would have a width of . There will also be specialized pedestrian crosswalks and overpasses at BRT stops.

Route
Construction of the BRT system is split into four phases, all serving the city's main downtown district:
Phase I: Deh Afghanan – Salang Watt Road (Baraki Square) – Sara-e Shamali
Phase II: Baraki Square – Karte Parwan – Silo Road – Kote Sangi – Sevom Aqrab Road (Deh Mazang) – Deh Afghanan
Phase III: Deh Afghanan – Maidan Square – Sara-e Shamali
Phase IV: Deh Afghanan – Jadayi Maiwand – Karte Naw – Arzan Qimat

With additional extensions it is expected to be 111 km long by 2020 including serving Dashte Barchi and Darulaman.

See also
Millie Bus
Trolleybuses in Kabul

References

Bus rapid transit
Transport in Kabul
Libre Computer Project. The Libre Computer Project is an effort initiated by Shenzhen Libre Technology Co., Ltd., with the goal of producing standards-compliant single-board computers (SBC) and upstream software stack to power them.

Hardware 

Libre Computer Project uses crowd-funding on Indiegogo and Kickstarter to market their SBC designs. The delivery and after-sales support was poor resulting in lots of complaints and dissatisfied funders.   

Active Libre Computer SBC designs include:

ROC-RK3328-CC (Renegade) 

The ROC-RK3328-CC "Renegade" board was funded on Indiegogo and features the following specifications:

 Rockchip RK3328 SoC
 4 ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.4GHz
 Cryptography Extensions
 2G + 2P ARM Mali-450 @ 500MHz
 OpenGL ES 1.1 / 2.0
 OpenVG 1.1
 Multi-Media Processor
 Decoders
 VP9 P2 4K60
 H.265 M10P @ L5.1 4K60
 H.264 H10P @ L5.1 4K60
 JPEG
 Encoders
 H.265 1080P30 or 2x H.264 720P30
 H.264 1080P30 or 2x H.264 720P30
 Up to 4GB DDR4-2133 SDRAM
 2 USB 2.0 Type A
 1 USB 3.0 Type A
 Gigabit Ethernet
 3.5mm TRRS AV Jack
 HDMI 2.0
 MicroUSB Power In
 MicroSD card Slot with UHS support
 eMMC Interface with 5.x support
 IR Receiver
 U-Boot Button
 40 Pin Low Speed Header (PWM, I2C, SPI, GPIO)
 ADC Header
 Power Enable/On Header

AML-S905X-CC (Le Potato) 

The AML-S905X-CC "Le Potato" board was funded on Kickstarter on 24 July 2017 and features the following specifications:

 Amlogic S905X SoC
 4 ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.512GHz
 Cryptography Extension
 2G + 3P ARM Mali-450 @ 750MHz
 OpenGL ES 1.1 / 2.0
 OpenVG 1.1
 Amlogic Video Engine 10
 Decoders
 VP9 P2 4K60
 H.265 MP10@L5.1 4K60
 H.264 HP@L5.1 4K30
 JPEG / MJPEG
 Encoders
 H.264 1080P60
 JPEG
 Up to 2GB DDR3 SDRAM
 4 USB 2.0 Type A
 100 Mb Fast Ethernet
 3.5mm TRRS AV Jack
 HDMI 2.0
 MicroUSB Power In
 MicroSD card Slot
 eMMC Interface
 IR Receiver
 U-Boot Button
 40 Pin Low Speed Header (PWM, I2C, SPI, GPIO)
 Audio Headers (I2S, ADC, SPDIF)
 UART Header

NOTE: GPIO Header Pin 11 or HDMI CEC is selectable by onboard jumper. They can not be used at the same time since they share the same pad.

ALL-H3-CC (Tritium) 

The "Tritium" board was funded on Kickstarter on 13 January 2018 with the following specifications:

Software

Operating systems

Open Source

Software 
Libre Computer is focused on upstream support in open-source software using standardized API interfaces. This includes Linux, u-boot, LibreELEC RetroArch, and more. A variety of open-source operating systems may be used on Libre Computer boards, including Linux and Android.  Few to no binary blobs are used to boot and operate the boards.

Hardware 
Schematics and 2D silkscreen are available for all hardware. Design files are based on non-disclosure materials from SoC vendors. CAD files are not available.

See also 

 Comparison of single-board computers
 List of open-source hardware projects
 OLinuXino
 BeagleBoard
 Raspberry Pi

References 

Computer companies of China
Computer hardware companies
Open-source hardware
Microcomputers
Motherboard companies
Single-board computers