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Sovereign Tech Fund. The Sovereign Tech Fund is a funding program by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, aimed at providing financial support to open-source software. The initial funds were allocated by the Bundestag in May 2022.

Purpose of funding 
According to the Federal budget of Germany plan, the program aims to promote and secure open-source foundational technologies. It intends to make the open-source ecosystem more resilient against external attacks, thereby enhancing cybersecurity and resilience across the German economy. This initiative fulfills a demand from the coalition government.

The funding is described as time-limited and targeted at specific challenges or security vulnerabilities.

Scope and organization 
In 2022, the program had a budget of 13 million Euros, which increased to approximately 22 million euros in 2023 and is expected to reach up to 16 million euros in 2024. The program is initially attached to the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovations and is led by Adriana Groh and Fiona Krakenbürger.

Both founders had worked for similar organizations. Adriana Groh had experience from the Open Knowledge Foundation's Prototype Fund. Fiona Krakenbürger had previously worked at the Open Technology Fund.

Supported projects 
As of July 2023, the following projects received funding:
 cURL: 97,500 Euro
 Drupal: 250,000 Euro
 FFmpeg: 157,580 Euro
 Fortran Package Manager: 182,930 Euro
 FreeBSD: 686,400 Euro 
 GNOME 1 million Euro 
 GopenPGP/OpenPGP.js: 176,955.16 Euro
 OpenBGPd: 111,000 Euro
 OpenBLAS: 52,600 Euro
 Investment in JavaScript, via OpenJS: 874,940 Euro 
 OpenMLS: 190,000 Euro
 OpenSSH: 200,000 Euro
 Prossimo, part of Internet Security Research Group: 143,672.90 Euro
 PHP: 205,000 Euro 
 RubyGems: 195,000 Euro
 Samba: 688,800 Euro 
 Sequoia-PGP: 200,000 Euro
 WireGuard: 188,100 Euro
 Yocto Project: 759,000 Euro

See also 

 NLnet
 Next Generation Internet
 Horizon 2020
 Horizon Europe

References

External links 
 sovereigntechfund.de – Official Website
 Mastodon @sovtechfund
 LinkedIn

German economic policy
Free software culture and documents
2022 establishments in Germany
Open source
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly by the IEEE. Sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society, the journal covers advances in device, circuit or system issues in power electronics. Its editor-in-chief is Yaow-Ming Chen (National Taiwan University).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 6.6.

References

External links
 

Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
Academic journals established in 1986
English-language journals
Monthly journals
Power electronics
Foxconn Industrial Internet. Foxconn Industrial Internet Co., Ltd. (Fii; ) is a publicly listed company that engages in the manufacture and sale of electrical equipment that includes telecommunications equipment, cloud computing equipment, precision tools and industrial robots.

It is a subsidiary of Foxconn and is headquartered in Shenzhen.

Background 

Fii was founded in 2015 in Shenzhen. It was originally a wholly-owned subsidiary of Foxconn that was set up as a strategic investment platform uninvolved in actual business operations.

In 2017, Fii was restructured to become a joint stock limited company.

On 8 June 2018, Fii held its initial public offering (IPO) becoming a publicly listed company on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. It was the second company in China to be fast-tracked for its listing process.  At the time it was the largest IPO in China since 2015 and raised 27.1 billion yuan. On its trading debut, Fi shares rose 44% making it valuable tech company listed in mainland China at the time.

It was reported that Terry Gou wanted to expand Foxconn's business beyond contract manufacturing and  through Fii, increase its focus on automation and smart manufacturing technology. Fii's own prospectus revealed net margins that were over 50 percent higher than its parent's.

In December 2022, the Taiwan Government fined Foxconn NT$10 million for investing in Tsinghua Unigroup without seeking regulatory approval and was in violation of the Cross-Strait Act. The investment which was executed in July that year was done through Fii. As a result, Foxconn stated it would sell out its holdings in Tsinghua Unigroup,

In July 2023, it was reported that Fii would sign an agreement with the Government of Tamil Nadu to invest Rs 16 billion to build a campus in Kancheepuram that would create 6,000 jobs. However Fii later on stated it had not signed any agreement.

In August 2023, according to a report, Fii would exclusively supply Apple with Vietnam-made servers for training and testing artificial intelligence services. The report also stated it had supplied servers to Amazon Web Services, OpenAI and Nvidia.

In October 2023, Chinese authorities stated Foxconn and its subsidiaries would be under investigation to see if they were abiding with laws and regulations. Fii shares dropped 10% as a result. In November 2023, Chinese tax authorities fined Fii 20,000 yuan for overstating expenses.

References

External links
 

2015 establishments in China
2018 initial public offerings
Chinese brands
Companies based in Shenzhen
Companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange
Electronics companies established in 2015
2015 in Shenzhen
Qing Chang. Qing (Cindy) Chang is a Chinese–American production engineer whose research combines control theory and machine learning in smart manufacturing. She is a professor of engineering at the University of Virginia, jointly appointed in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering. She co-chairs the Technical Committee for Sustainable Production Automation of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society.

Education and career
Chang has a 1991 bachelor's degree from Beijing University of Technology. She came to the US for graduate study in engineering, and earned a master's degree in 1996 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She completed her doctorate (D.Eng.) in manufacturing in 2006 at the University of Michigan.

After working in industry for ten years as a research engineer for General Motors, Chang returned to academia as an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Stony Brook University. She moved to her present position at the University of Virginia in 2019.

Recognition
At General Motors, Chang was part of teams that won the GM Boss Kettering Award three times and the GM R&D Charles L. McCuen Special Achievement Award three times.

Chang was elected as an ASME Fellow in the 2019 class of fellows. In 2020 the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) named her as one of "20 most influential professors in smart manufacturing". She is also a Fellow of SME.

References

External links
Intelligent systems lab, Chang's research group at the University of Virginia

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American industrial engineers
American women engineers
Chinese industrial engineers
Chinese women engineers
Women industrial engineers
Beijing University of Technology alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Stony Brook University faculty
University of Virginia faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Holmium bismuthide. Holmium bismuthide is a binary inorganic compound of holmium and bismuth with the chemical formula HoBi.

Physical properties
The compound is rock-salt structured, crystallizing in the cubic cF8 space group.

Related
The bismuthide oxide compound Ho2BiO2 has a tetragonal structure.

References

Bismuthides
Holmium compounds
Rock salt crystal structure
Delmarva Power & Light Building. The Delmarva Power & Light Building, also known as the DCAD Building, is a historic office building in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. The former headquarters of Delmarva Power & Light (DP&L) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History 
DP&L decided to build the headquarters in 1931 which was completed the subsequent year. While the original building was four stories, it was engineered with a fifth floor in mind which was eventually added in 1954.  In 1972, the company moved their headquarters to 8th & King and the building sat vacant for a decade before Chase Manhattan Bank leased the space.

In 1997, the newly created Delaware College of Art and Design (DCAD) took over the building from the bank to use as their main academic building with classrooms, studio space, and offices. In 2021, DCAD sold their adjacent resident hall and used some of the proceeds to refurbish the interior. 

In 2024, the school announced that they would permanently close down. The Buccini Pollin Group, a major Wilmington developer, later purchased the building for $3.5 million.

Architecture 

The Art Deco building faces Market Street with an Indiana limestone facade consisting of six bays. Granite piers frame the main entrance which is below a transom containing a lightning bolt motif.

The first floor sits on a black granite base. The second through fourth floors have four triangular fluted limestone pilasters with floral capitals. The fourth-floor has a parapet featuring stylized cresting in limestone. The fifth floor is a plain brick penthouse. The 6th Street side of the building is less ornate, consisting largely of painted brick.

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Wilmington, Delaware

References 

Office buildings completed in 1932
1932 establishments in Delaware
Art Deco architecture in Delaware
Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places in Wilmington, Delaware
University and college buildings in Delaware
Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Delaware
Anne-Sophie Duwez. Anne-Sophie Duwez is a Belgian scientist and professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Liege. She is well known for her work in advanced atomic force microscopy (AFM) and single-molecule force spectroscopy, leading to her receipt of the 2021 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology in the Experimental Category.

Education 
Duwez pursued her doctoral studies at the University of Namur, ultimately graduating with a Ph.D in chemistry in 1997.

Career 
Following the completion of her education at the University of Namur, Duwez worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) at the University of Louvain. She continued her nanotechnology research until her tenure at Louvain ended in 2002. In 2002, she briefly transitioned to be a visiting scientist role at the Max Planck Institute in Mainz, Germany until leaving in 2003.

In 2006, Duwez returned to the University of Louvain as a professor in the department of chemistry. During this time, she received an Incentive Grant for Scientific Research from the National Fund for Scientific Research. Duwez utilized this grant to create a laboratory dedicated to research in advanced atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques, which later became known as the NanoChem group; she is the head of the group.

Achievements and Awards 
In 2017, she received the 2017 Triennial Prize Agathon-De Potter for her chemistry research, given by the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts of Belgium. Later, she received the 2021 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology in the experimental category for her research utilizing atomic force microscopy (AFM) technologies to investigate the operation and function of synthetic molecules and interface single molecules.

References 

21st-century Belgian scientists

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Jet erosion test. The jet erosion test (JET), or jet index test, is a method used in geotechnical engineering to quantify the resistance of a soil to erosion. The test can be applied in-situ after preparing a field site, or it can be applied in a laboratory on either an intact or a remolded soil sample. A quantitative measure of erodibility allows for the prediction of erosion, assisting with the design of structures such as vegetated channels, road embankments, dams, levees, and spillways.

Procedure 
The test consists of mounting a jet tube inside of an enclosed cylinder and releasing a turbulent downpour of water onto a soil specimen at a constant hydraulic head. If the shear stress applied by the jet stream exceeds the critical shear stress for erosion of the soil, the jet will erode soil particles, causing a scour hole to form. The depth of the scour hole is then measured at specified time intervals.

Fitting the measured erosion rate (Er) to the following equation allows the estimation of the erodibility of the soil (kd) and the critical shear stress (τc), provided that the applied shear stress (τ) is estimated precisely:

As of 2017, there is no universally accepted methodology to determine the erodibility of a soil. While the jet erosion test provides one estimate for the erodibility, the underlying assumptions of the test have been criticized for various reasons. Other erosion testing methods may produce values for erodibility and critical shear stress inconsistent with this method. Additionally, depending on the method used to fit the results to the above equation, the predicted values of kd for a given τc can be up to 100 times smaller or larger due to predictive uncertainty.

The jet erosion index 
One of the results of the test is the jet erosion index (Ji), which can be correlated with the soil erodibility. Typically, the jet erosion index ranges from 0 to 0.03.

Related tests 

 Hole erosion test (HET)
 Contact erosion test (CET)

References 

Soil erosion
In situ geotechnical investigations
Tests in geotechnical laboratories
Linda Malone. Linda Joy Catron Malone (born 1944) is a retired American statistician and industrial engineer, the coauthor of the textbook Statistics in Research: Basic Concepts and Techniques for Research Workers. Topics in her research have included the statistical analysis of simulations, the economics of construction management, and human factors in information security. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management of the University of Central Florida.

Education and career
Malone majored in mathematics as an undergraduate at Emory and Henry College in Virginia. After a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Tennessee, she went to Virginia Tech for doctoral study in statistics. Her 1975 doctoral dissertation, A New Estimation Procedure for Response Surface Models, was supervised by Raymond H. Myers.

She joined the University of Central Florida as an assistant professor of statistics in 1979, directed the Institute of Statistics there, and became chair of the department of statistics in 1985. By 1997, when she won the university's Excellence in Graduate Teaching award, she was listed as part of the Department of Industrial Engineering.

Recognition
Malone was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2002.

Selected publications

References

1944 births
Living people
American statisticians
American industrial engineers
American women statisticians
American women  engineers
Women industrial engineers
Emory and Henry University alumni
University of Tennessee alumni
Virginia Tech alumni
University of Central Florida faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Dysprosium arsenide. Dysprosium arsenide is a binary inorganic compound of dysprosium and arsenide with the chemical formula DyAs.

Physical properties
The compound is rock-salt structured, crystallizing in the cubic Fmm space group.

Uses
DyAs could be used as a semiconductor and in photo optic applications.

Related
DyRuAsO is an arsenide oxide that also include ruthenium.

References

Arsenides
Dysprosium compounds
Rock salt crystal structure
Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published bimonthly by IEEE. It covers advances in MEMS and related microtechnologies. Published under the joint sponsorship of IEEE Electron Devices Society, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, its editor-in-chief is Gianluca Piazza (Carnegie Mellon University).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.7.

References

External links
 

IEEE academic journals
Electrical and electronic engineering journals
Academic journals established in 1992
Semiconductor journals
English-language journals
Bimonthly journals
Mechanical engineering journals
Microelectronic and microelectromechanical systems
LucaNet. Lucanet is a financial performance management software company founded in 1999 by Rolf-Jürgen Moll and Oliver Schmitz in Berlin, Germany. Its software is compatible with ERP systems and databases from providers like American Microsoft and German SAP.

History 
Lucanet was founded in 1999 in Berlin, Germany, by Rolf-Jürgen Moll and Oliver Schmitz. The company developed the first software for consolidation and planning in one data mode. 

In 2006, the company opened its first location outside of Germany, in the Netherlands.

Lucanet received the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award in 2013, and the "BEST OF" prize in the Business Intelligence category by Initiative Mittelstand from 2013 to 2017. Additionally, Lucanet has been recognized as the best software by BARC Score FPM DACH six times in a row (2018–2023), Software Advice, G2, and Capterra.

In 2022, the company partnered with the British equity firm Hg Capital, a global software and services investor. The same year, it also partnered with PAS Financial Advisory and acquired Belgian distributor SEEFO. In 2023, Lucanet expanded to Ireland, Portugal, and Italy.

In 2023, they expanded by acquiring AMANA, which provides accounting and tax software, and ementexx, a digital banking and cash management company.

Lucanet specialises in financial software for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), including tools for close and consolidation, financial planning and budgeting, financial reporting, ESG, and tax management.

Operations 
Former CRO Dominik Duchon was CEO from 2022 to 2023, and Elias Apel has been CEO since 1 October 2023. Lucanet has two offices in Germany (Berlin and Munich) and additional offices in Europe, Asia and the USA. The company employs over 800 people. As of 2024, the company serves over 5,000 organizations.

References 

German companies established in 1999
Companies based in Berlin
Multinational companies headquartered in Germany
Taylorcraft 15. The Taylorcraft 15, which entered production as the 15A Tourist was an American-built general-purpose high-wing monoplane of the 1950s. It was a four-seat development of the two-seat Taylorcraft BC, fitted with a more powerful engine.

Design and development
The Model 15 is a high-wing, strut-braced monoplane of conventional configuration with an enclosed cabin and fixed tailwheel undercarriage. Seating is 2+2 style, and the cabin is equipped with dual controls. Power was originally supplied by a 125-hp (93.3-kW) Lycoming O-290 engine, mounted tractor-fashion and driving a two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuselage and tail are built from welded steel tube, covered in fabric. The wing is of mixed wood and metal construction, also covered in fabric. Long V-struts brace the wings to the lower longeron of the fuselage. The wing is equipped with manually-operated flaps and fixed, leading-edge slots.

The Model 15 was designed in 1943–44, perhaps with the input of Taylorcraft founder C. G. Taylor. The prototype, registered NX36320, first flew on November 1, 1944. During testing, the Lycoming engine proved insufficiently powerful, and it was replaced with a Franklin 6A4-150-B3 of 150 hp (120 kW).

Plans to put the aircraft into production were stopped by a 1946 fire at the Taylorcraft factory at Alliance, Ohio that destroyed jigs, dies, and fixtures that were prepared for its manufacture. Shortly thereafter, the company was forced into bankruptcy. The prototype Model 15 was purchased along with the rest of the company assets by Ben Mauro, who by 1949 was able to relocate it to a new factory at Conway, Pennsylvania. He re-commenced production of the Model B family, and put the Model 15 into production. However, sales of general aviation aircraft in the 1950s were slow, and fewer than 30 examples were built before Taylorcraft had to cease operations again.

Variants
Model 15
Prototype, NX36320, 1 built 1944
Model 15A
Production version, 24 built
Model 16
Experimental development, NX40070, 1 built, 1946

Specifications

References

Bibliography
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1940s United States civil utility aircraft
Monoplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1944
15
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
EchoStar XXIV. EchoStar XXIV, also known as Jupiter 3, is a communications satellite operated by Hughes Network Systems (an EchoStar company). It provides satellite internet service to customers across North and South America at download speeds of up to 100 Mbps.

The satellite was built by Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto, California. When launched, the satellite held the title of the largest commercial communications satellite ever built. It weighs approximately nine tons and is nearly as large as a school bus, when its 14 solar panels are fully deployed, they could span a 10-story building. The satellite has 500 Gbit/s of throughput.

It was launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Florida's Kennedy Space Center on 29 July 2023 at 10:07 UTC (11:07 pm EDT on 28 July, local time at the launch site).

References 

Spacecraft launched in 2023
Spacecraft launched by Falcon rockets
High throughput satellites
EchoStar satellites
Hands-On Data Visualization. Hands-On Data Visualization: Interactive Storytelling from Spreadsheets to Code is a book on data visualization and digital storytelling by Jack Dougherty and Ilya Ilyankou. It was first published in 2021 by O’Reilly Media.
 Hands-On Data Visualization has been included in the syllabuses of various higher education courses in data visualization, including at Carnegie Mellon University, San Jose State University and Arizona State University.

Overview 
 Hands-On Data Visualization details design methods for interactive charts and customized maps, starting with drag-and-drop tools including Google Sheets, Datawrapper, and Tableau Public. It progresses to detail methods for editing source code templates built with Chart.js, Highcharts, and Leaflet on GitHub.

Translations
 Hands-On Data Visualization has been translated into  Traditional Chinese and  Korean.

References 

O'Reilly Media books
2021 non-fiction books
Technology books
ICES (disambiguation). ICES may refer to:

 Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
 Integrated Civil Engineering System
 Inflight Crew Escape System, in the Space Shuttle
 Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin
 International Conference on Environmental Systems, an annual technical conference for human spaceflight technology
 The International Consumer Electronics Show
 Le Institut catholique d'études supérieures, in Vendée, France
 Intercity Express (ICE),  a high-speed rail system in Germany
 ICE S, a German high-speed train

See also
ICE (disambiguation)
Ices (disambiguation)