omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Marius Lindauer. Marius Lindauer (born December 25, 1985, in Berlin, Germany) is a German computer scientist and professor of machine learning at the institute of artificial intelligence of the Leibniz University Hannover. He is known for his research on Automated Machine Learning and other meta-algorithmic approaches.

Life 

Marius Lindauer studied computer science at the University of Potsdam from 2005 to 2010. Under the supervision of Torsten Schaub and Holger Hoos, he received his Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Potsdam in 2015. In 2014, he joined the Machine Learning research lab led by Frank Hutter as the first postdoctoral researcher and helped to build up the group. He then joined the Leibniz University Hannover as a professor in 2019 to lead the Machine learning research lab. He founded the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at the Leibniz University Hannover in 2022. Additionally, he is the co-head of the automl.org research group., co-founder of the COSEAL research network, where he currently serves as an advisory board member. He is also a supporting member of CLAIRE, and a member of ELLIS. His research is published in renowned journals and conferences.

Achievements 

During his Ph.D., Marius won several international competitions in the fields of solving hard combinatorial optimization problems, including 1st place in the NP-track of the answer set programming competition 2011 with claspfolio, the  Hard Combinatorial SAT+UNSAT of the SAT challenge 2012 with clasp-crafted and two tracks of the configurable SAT solver challenge 2013 with clasp-cssc. During his PostDoc and later on, he was involved in winning tracks of the first and second AutoML challenge with auto-sklearn and the black-box optimization challenge for machine learning at NeurIPS'20.

Research Directions 
Marius has delved into many research topics, all of which are unified under the umbrella of automating parts of the Machine Learning pipeline. His research touches many different aspects:

 Hyperparameter Optimization
 Multi-Fidelity Optimization
 Automated Reinforcement Learning
 Interactive AutoML
 Green AutoML 
 Explainable AutoML

References

External links 
His website at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence -- Leibniz University Hannover

1985 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Machine learning researchers
Ravi Poovaiah. Ravi Poovaiah, is a Professor and  Emeritus Fellow at the IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay and a co-designer of the Indian electronic voting machine

Career 
Poovaiah has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras, a degree in Product Design and Graphic Arts from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, USA and an M.Tech. degree from IIT Bombay.  At IIT Bombay, Poovaiah holds the D L Shah Chair for Innovation. He is the Coordinator of the 'e-Kalpa' project, that is sponsored by the MHRD, co-director of ‘The Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities (COSMIC)’, a collaborative initiative between IIT Bombay, the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore  and the principal investigator of the D'Source project. Poovaiah has been instrumental in pushing for open sourcing of design and design education in schools.

Notable students 
 Pranav Mistry

Selected publications 
 Design for Tomorrow―Volume 1: Proceedings of ICoRD 2021: 221 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies) 
 Design for Tomorrow-Volume 2: Proceedings of ICoRD 2021
 Design for Tomorrow―Volume 3: Proceedings of ICoRD 2021: 223 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies)

References

External links 
 Google scholar profile
 
 Prof. Ravi Poovaiah | IIT Bombay
 Typography Day 2021

Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of IIT Bombay
Rhode Island School of Design alumni
IIT Bombay alumni
IIT Madras alumni
Living people
Michael F. McAllister. Michael F. McAllister (born December 1, 1964) is a retired United States Coast Guard vice admiral who last served as commander of the Coast Guard Pacific Area and Defense Force West from June 30, 2021 to July 8, 2022. He most recently served as Deputy Commandant for Mission Support and, prior to that, as commander of the Coast Guard Seventeenth District.

McAllister graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. He later earned a Master of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1991. McAllister is a registered professional engineer in the state of Washington. He also received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004.

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1964 births
Living people
People from Somerville, Massachusetts
United States Coast Guard Academy alumni
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
American civil engineers
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
Recipients of the Meritorious Service Medal (United States)
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Coast Guard admirals
Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
Recipients of the Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal
Military personnel from Massachusetts
Herbert Henry Austin. Brigadier General Herbert Henry Austin,  (1 June 1868 – 27 April 1937) was a British Army officer, colonial engineering surveyor and author.

Military career
Austin was the second son of Colonel Edmund Austin of the British Indian Army. He was educated at Clifton College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, before commissioning into the Royal Engineers in 1887. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1890. In 1891 he was one of four officers of the Royal Engineers appointed to survey the route of the Uganda Railway under Sir James Macdonald, who he had met while serving on the North-West Frontier. While in Africa he was made a Commander of the Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar and led an expedition to the Omo River. He subsequently served in the Waziristan Expedition of 1894–1895, in operations in Uganda between 1897 and 1898 (for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order), and in the Persian Gulf from 1909 to 1910. Austin was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1901 Birthday Honours for survey expeditions into Abyssinia.

Austin was appointed a General Staff Officer in HQ India in 1914 and was Commandant of Cadet College Quetta the following year. In 1915 Austin was made a brigadier general and served on the General Staff during the First World War. He was awarded the Serbian Order of the White Eagle (3rd class, with swords) in 1916.

Publications
Among Swamps and Giants in Equatorial Africa (1902)
With MacDonald in Uganda (1903)
Korea: Its History, Its People, and Its Commerce (with Angus Hamilton and Masatake Terauchi; 1910)
Some Rambles of a Sapper (1928)
Gun-running in the Gulf and other adventures (1926)

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1868 births
1937 deaths
British Army generals of World War I
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
People educated at Clifton College
Royal Engineers officers
Uganda Protectorate people
In Other Waters. In Other Waters is a 2020 adventure game for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Nintendo Switch. Players take on the role of an AI that assists a xenobiologist in exploring an alien world.

Gameplay 
Ellery Vas, a xenobiologist employed by an interplanetary mining corporation, arrives on alien planet Gliese 667 Cc. Players control an artificial intelligence Ellery depends on to monitor her life support, collect and analyze samples, and manage the goals she sets for the mission.  Players cannot directly interact with the world itself but receive feedback from Ellery based on her observations.

Development 
Jump Over the Age is a one-person studio based in London. Gareth Damian Martin did most of the game development themself.  Although they had experience in the industry, they are self-taught in developing games in Unity. Martin said they wanted to create a world using text and the game's user interface rather than direct experience. The initial idea came when Martin combined three interests: diving, climate change and video games.

Reception 

On Metacritic, the PC version received mixed reviews, and the Switch version received positive reviews.  Alice Bell of Rock Paper Shotgun called it a "very meditative" game that is "possibly exactly what you need right now".  Bell wrote that, even when uncovering dark secrets about the planet, it "remains calming and lovely".  Also describing it as "meditative", Eurogamers reviewer, Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, recommended the game for its "hypnotic art, otherworldly audio and captivating writing".  Rachel Watts of PC Gamer called it "a gentle and engrossing underwater sci-fi game that will have you thinking about more than what lies beneath the waves".  Writing for Game Informer, Matthew Kato said that it "succeeds more as an exercise in world building than as an exciting adventure game" because of the lack of puzzles and repetitive gameplay.

See also 
 List of underwater science fiction works
 Citizen Sleeper – the developer's next game

References

Further reading

External links 
 

2020 video games
Walking simulators
Kickstarter-funded video games
MacOS games
Nintendo Switch games
Single-player video games
Video games about artificial intelligence
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games set on fictional planets
Video games set underwater
Fellow Traveller Games games
Windows games
Momie cloth. Momie cloth is a pebble-surfaced crêpe structure made of any natural or synthetic yarns. Momie crepe is a light weight material made of cotton.

Weave 
Momie cloth is made by using cotton, rayon, or silk in warp and wool in weft. It is woven with granite weave, also called Momie weave, that forms a crepe texture. The weave is tight and interlaced and warp and weft, both visible on the face in the shape of small and irregular pebbles.

Use 
The cloth is used for dresses, curtains, and upholstery. In the 1880s black colored Momie cloth made of cotton, silk, and wool blend was used for mourning.

See also 

 Crêpe (textile)

 Epingline

References 

Woven fabrics
Tetravinyltin. Tetravinyltin (also known as tetravinylstannane) is an organotin compound with a chemical formula of C8H12Sn.

Uses
Upon heating, a mixture of tetravinyltin and tin tetrachloride undergo disproportionation to form divinyltin dichloride, vinyltin trichloride, and trivinyltin chloride in high yields. A study about this can be found in the Journal of American Chemical Society.

Tetravinyltin cannot be used for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes and must only be used for research. It can also be used for thin film deposition.

Hazards
According to the European Chemicals Agency, tetravinyltin is flammable in liquid and gas form. It is also toxic when in contact with skin, inhaled, and swallowed. Therefore, personal protective equipment must be used in handling and proper caution applied during use.

References

External links
 TETRAVINYLTIN - ChemicalBook
 Tetravinylstannane at Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
 Stannane, tetraethenyl at NIST WebBook

Organotin compounds
Tin(IV) compounds
Vinyl compounds
Chinese destroyer Hefei (132). Hefei (132) is a Type 051 destroyer of the People's Liberation Army Navy.

Development and design 
The PLAN began designing a warship armed with guided missiles in 1960 based on the Soviet Neustrashimy, with features from the , but the Sino-Soviet split stopped work. Work resumed in 1965 with nine ships being ordered. Construction started in 1968, with trials beginning in 1971. The ships nominally entered service in the early 1970s, but few were fully operational before 1985; workmanship was poor due to the Cultural Revolution.

Construction of the second batch began in 1977, with the last commissioning in 1991. The second batch may have been ordered due to the Cultural Revolution disrupting development of a successor class. These ships may be designated  Type 051D. The PLAN initiated an abortive modernization program for the first batch in 1982. The ships would be reconstructed with British weapons and sensors acquired from British Aerospace. The Falklands War made the prospective upgrades less impressive and cost effective, and the project was cancelled in 1984. A 1986 upgrade project using American power plants, weapons, sensors, and computers was cancelled because of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

Construction and career 
Hefei was launched in November 1978 at the Huangpu Shipyard in Shanghai. Commissioned on 18 March 1980.

She was decommissioned on 25 September 2013 and towed to Yellow Sea Pearl Scenic Spot, Shandong to serve as a museum ship.

References 

1978 ships
Ships built in China
Museum ships in China
Type 051 destroyers
Cold War destroyers of the People's Republic of China
CJ-100. The CJ-100 (; NATO reporting name: CH-SSC-13 Splinter), also known as the DF-100 is a Chinese land-attack cruise missile.

History
According to the US Air Force's China Aerospace Studies Institute in 2020, at least one operational People's Liberation Army Rocket Force began receiving CJ-100s in 2019;, and full operational capability (FOC) was anticipated by 2022.

Design
The CJ-100 is supersonic in nearly all flight phases. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in 2022, the missile has a range of . In 2020, Ta Kung Pao reported the missile's accuracy as "meter-level".

According to Chinese reports, the missile may also be carried by the Xi'an H-6K bomber.

Operators

People's Liberation Army Rocket Force

See also
CJ-10
YJ-12

References

Citations

Sources 

 

Supersonic cruise missiles
Cruise missiles of the People's Republic of China
Nuclear cruise missiles of the People's Republic of China
Bob Balaram. J. "Bob" Balaram (born 28 June 1959) is an Indian-American scientist and engineer currently working for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He is the chief engineer and designer of Ingenuity (project name: Mars 2020 helicopter), the first extraterrestrial aircraft, that was attached underside of car-sized Perseverance rover that successfully landed on the Mars in February 2021.

Early life and education 
After schooling at Rishi Valley School, Balaram completed his Bachelor of Technology course from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1980, and further went to receive his MS and Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York.

Work at NASA 
Bob joined NASA's JPL in 1985 after finishing his doctorate. He has been working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the past 20 years in Mobility & Robotic Systems Department. During his time here, Bob has been actively engaged in the area of telerobotics technology development for several Mars rovers, planetary balloons, descent and landing technology, and surface mobility technology. He is recipient of two NASA awards.

In 2012 MiMi Aung was leading then JPL director Charles Elachi on a tour of the Autonomous Systems Division. Looking at the drones demonstrating onboard navigation algorithms in one of the labs, Elachi asked, “ Hey, why don't we do that on Mars?” Engineer Bob Balaram briefed Elachi about feasibility, and a week later Elachi told him, “ Okay, I’ve got some study money for you”. By January 2015 NASA agreed to fund the development of a full-size model, which came to be known as the “risk reduction” vehicle.

Scientific publications

Video

See also 
 Swati Mohan
 MiMi Aung

Status reports of Bob Balaram in the Ingenuity mission

References

Sources

External links

 Bob Balaram's profile at NASA
 

NASA people
Mars 2020
IIT Madras alumni
American people of Indian descent
20th-century Indian engineers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Living people
1961 births
21st-century Indian engineers
Saginaw Metal Casting Operations. Saginaw Metal Casting Operations  is an automobile engine foundry plant in Saginaw, Michigan. Opened under GM management in 1919, the factory produces engine blocks and cylinder heads for General Motors vehicles. The factory currently occupies 1.9 million square feet on 490 acres.  Historically in September 1927 it was known as the Chevrolet Grey Iron Foundry. In the past when it was called GM-Saginaw Product Company (SPC) a cloverleaf casting symbol mark was cast onto the iron component.

The location has been the primary source of engine block and cylinder heads for all of GM's engines, to include Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick and GMC for most of the 20th century. The address is 1629 N Washington Ave. Saginaw, MI 48601, and is located on the Saginaw River. Camshafts, connecting rods and other internal engine components are manufactured at Bay City Powertrain. Casting operations were also provided by Massena Castings Plant and Defiance Foundry.

Products
Currently the location provides Aluminum engine blocks and cylinder heads which then are assembled at Tonawanda Engine, Romulus Engine, Flint Engine South, St. Catharines Engine Plant and other engine assembly factories for the items listed below:

 3.6L HFV6 blocks and heads
It also makes front 4WD axle assembly castings for Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500.

Previously:

2.2L/2.4L L850 engine I4 blocks 
5.3L/6.0L Gen IV V-8 blocks and heads
5.3L/6.2L Gen IV V-8 block pre-machine

See also
 List of GM factories
 List of GM engines

V8
 Chevrolet big-block engine
 Chevrolet Small-Block engine
 Buick V8 engine
 Cadillac V8 engine
 GMC V8 engine
 Oldsmobile V8 engine
 Pontiac V8 engine

V6
 Buick V6 engine

Straight Eight
 Buick Straight-8 engine
 Oldsmobile Straight-8 engine
 Pontiac straight-8 engine

Straight Six
 Chevrolet Stovebolt engine
 Chevrolet Turbo-Thrift engine
 Buick Straight-6 engine
 Oldsmobile straight-6 engine
 Pontiac straight-6 engine

References

External links
 Saginaw Metal Castings

General Motors factories
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Michigan
Buildings and structures in Saginaw County, Michigan
Stacey Dixon. Stacey Angela Dixon (born January 9, 1971) is an American mechanical engineer and intelligence official and Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence in the Biden Administration since August 4, 2021. According to Politico, she was selected to serve as acting Director of National Intelligence succeeding Avril Haines, after President Trump was sworn in during his second inauguration on January 20, 2025.

Education 
Dixon earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1993, followed by a Master of Science in 1995 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2000 in the same from Georgia Tech. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Biomechanical analysis of coronary arteries using a complementary energy model and designed experiments. She completed a chemical engineering postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering.

Career 
As an undergraduate, Dixon was an intern at Nokia Bell Labs. From 2003 to 2007, she worked at the Central Intelligence Agency, where she was detailed to the advanced systems and technology directorate of the National Reconnaissance Office. From 2007 to 2010, Dixon was a staffer on the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. She then joined the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and, between 2010 and 2016, served sequentially as chief of congressional and intergovernmental affairs, deputy director of corporate communications, and deputy director of NGA's research directorate. Dixon then served as the deputy director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity from 2016 to 2018 and director from 2018 to July 2019, when she became the eighth deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Dixon is also a presidentially-appointed member of the Coast Guard Academy Board of Visitors, an appointed NGA Liaison to the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Board of Directors and Spelman College Center of Excellence for Minority Women in STEM  Leadership Advisory Board.

President Joe Biden announced plans to nominate then-NGA Deputy Director Dixon for the position of principal deputy director of national intelligence on April 21, 2021. She was confirmed by voice vote on August 3 and received praise from Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. She was sworn in on August 4, 2021 and is the highest-ranking Black woman in the intelligence community. Dixon was replaced by President Trump as Acting Director of National Intelligence with Lora Shiao, the former chief operating officer of the agency.

References 

1971 births
21st-century African-American scientists
21st-century American engineers
21st-century American women engineers
African-American engineers
African-American women engineers
American mechanical engineers
Biden administration personnel
Engineers from Washington, D.C.
First Trump administration personnel
Georgia Tech alumni
Living people
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency people
Obama administration personnel
Second Trump administration cabinet members
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
United States deputy directors of national intelligence
Santa Bárbara Sistemas 155/52. The Santa Bárbara Sistemas 155/52 is a modern field howitzer designed and manufactured by the Spanish armament manufacturer Santa Bárbara Sistemas (SBS) a division of General Dynamics and was produced from 2002 to 2009 at the La Vega and Trubia factories in Asturias.

Design 
The Santa Bárbara Sistemas 155/52 has a split trail carriage, hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism, interrupted screw breech, rifled autofretted barrel, articulated suspension with four pneumatic tires, and a muzzle brake.  The barrel is produced by the German company Rheinmetall, while the gun carriage is produced by SBS.  

For transport, the split trail carriage can be closed and the barrel and rotated 180° while being towed by an IVECO Pegaso 6x6 artillery tractor.  There is also a  diesel auxiliary power unit (APU) at the front of the carriage with a driver's station that can move the gun at  over short distances.  The APU also powers the hydraulic automatic gun-laying system (AGLS) that controls elevation, traverse, spreading, and retraction.  Two retractable wheels on the tail of the gun carriage can be lowered when the gun is being moved by the APU.

The howitzer fires a variety of separate loading NATO standard projectiles, including extended-range base bleed and rocket-assisted projectiles up to .  The howitzer has a hydraulic ammunition loader that can be loaded at any angle and provides a high rate of fire.

Models 
 Santa Bárbara Sistemas 155/52 APU-SIAC – is a model for the Spanish Army. 70 units were ordered and 66 were produced. Each of the howitzers is equipped with Thales PR4G radios and the same Digital Navigation Aiming and Pointing System (DINAPS) used by the L118 and M109A5E.  The DINAPS is a modular hybrid system that combines inertial navigation, global positioning system, and a muzzle velocity radar (MVR) that connects to the Spanish Army command and control system (C2).  The order cost approximately 181 million Euros.
 Santa Bárbara Sistemas 155/52 APU (V07) – is an upgraded coastal artillery model.  There are 16 in service with the Mobile Artillery Group (GACTA) of the Spanish Army.  The system software is specialized for tracking and firing at mobile naval targets instead of static land targets.
 The Santa Bárbara Sistemas 155/52 APU-SBT – is a model for the Colombian Army.  25 units were ordered and 15 were produced, with 9 delivered in 2006 followed by 7 delivered in 2007.  The order cost approximately 13.5 million Euros.

Gallery

References

155 mm artillery
Artillery of Spain
Field artillery
Howitzers
General Dynamics
Weapons of Spain