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Von Holzhausen. von Holzhausen is a textile material innovation company based in Los Angeles, California. The company uses plants, recycled fibers, and biodegradable materials to create sustainable materials at scale.

History 
von Holzhausen was founded in Malibu in 2015 by former automotive designer Vicki von Holzhausen, spouse of Tesla chief designer Franz von Holzhausen.

The company began by developing materials for handbags and other accessories.  it supplies plant-based textiles to a variety of industries including fashion, furniture, aerospace, and automotive.

Products 
The company's technologies range from plant-based leather alternatives to biodegradable topcoats. Notable developments include Liquidplant, a 100 percent plant-based performance topcoat that replaces petroleum versions, and a biodegradation technology that allows materials to break down in a landfill condition.

The company has five commercially available products including Technik, Banbū, Struktur, Liquidplant, and Replant. It also offers its own line of accessories.

Collaborations 
The company has partnered with corporations such as Apple and Dell to create product ranges sold worldwide. They have also worked with automakers such as Cupra to create custom sports car interiors, and French brand Lola James Harper to design a candle inspired by their materials.

In 2022, von Holzhausen announced a partnership with Nanollose, to develop a leather alternative made from microbial cellulose. The same year, the company created a custom Tesla Model S Plaid for The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.

In July 2024, von Holzhausen’s material Banbū became available on The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman by Herman Miller.

Awards 
von Holzhausen has been recognized for their innovations in the SEAL Business Sustainability Awards, Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas  and Innovation by Design Awards, INC's Female Founder Awards, Wall Paper's Smart Space Awards, Red Dot's Design Concept Awards, the Deezen Awards, SXSW Innovation Awards  and the Core77's Design Awards.

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Companies based in Los Angeles
Manufacturing companies established in 2015
Biotechnology companies
Biotechnology companies established in 2015
2015 establishments in California
Tokyo Street Circuit. The Tokyo Street Circuit is a  street circuit located around the Tokyo International Exhibition Centre in the Japanese capital. The Tokyo Street Circuit hosted the 2024 Tokyo ePrix and is set to host further Formula E events in the future.

History
The Tokyo Street Circuit was unveiled on October 25, 2023, representing the first time the electric category will compete in Japan. The event has been seen as a way to achieve the city's goal of ensuring that all new cars are gasoline-free by 2030, with city governor Yuriko Koike stating that "the championships will provide impetus to spread the zero-emission vehicles." The circuit takes places around the Tokyo Big Sight convention center.

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Tokyo Street Circuit
Motorsport venues in Japan
Formula E circuits
Sports venues in Tokyo
2024 establishments in Japan
Terminus (short story). "Terminus" is a science fiction short story  by Polish writer Stanisław Lem first published in 1961 in the collection . It is a story of a robot which was damaged in a spaceship accident and started performing eerie actions it was not aware of, as if it was somehow "possessed" by the spaceship crew that had perished in the same accident.

Plot
Pirx becomes a spaceship captain, and his first appointment is an old renovated ship which had been destroyed in a collision with a meteor swarm nineteen years ago, and its crew had perished, marooned without oxygen. On the ship Pirx runs into a robot named Terminus repairing leakages from ship's nuclear engine, and to his surprise Pirx recognizes Morse code in robot's tapping, which appears to carry communications with each other of the long dead crew, isolated in separate cabins. Terminus is unaware of what happens to it. It seems that the memories of the crew got imprinted in robot's circuits, otherwise primitive and lacking any mental abilities. Pirx tries to tap a message himself and gets a frantic response: it appears that these memories began a life of their own, not just a record. Unfazed with the macabre situation, Pirx, typical of his personality, looks for a rational explanation of why would a primitive "iron madman" seem to suffer from PTSD. Eventually realizing the pointlessness of this kind of "communication with the dead", Pirx decides to scrap Terminus.

Discussion

Wojciech Orliński describes the story as a superb example of the transfer of the macabre atmosphere characteristic of Stefan Grabiński, a "Polish Poe", to science fiction.  Lem himself in an interview admits the influence of Grabiński's horror stories on his early works, including Terminus. As Dominika Oramus puts it: the tale of Terminus "is told in a mis-en-scene of horror with supernatural innuendoes. A gigantic, empty ship, rusty machinery, a murky past and dusty pilot seats set the mood at the very beginning."

Jerzy Jarzębski and Dominika Oramus cite Terminus among the examples of Lem's robots who got destroyed by an infusion of humanness into them (see "Stanisław Lem and robots" for more on this issue).

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Works by Stanisław Lem
1961 short stories
Science fiction short stories
Fictional robots
Pirx
Nikolai Bryukhanov (engineer). Nikolai Albertovich Bryukhanov (Russian: Николай Альбертович Брюханов, IPA: [nʲikʌɭˈɑj aɭbʲˈertʌvʲit͡ʃʲ brʲu"xˈɑnʌf]; 13 December 1957, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian spacecraft engineer.

Bryukhanov was deputy chief designer at Energia Corporation in charge of piloted vehicle programmes, notably the Kliper and Orel projects, chief designer of the orbital cosmodrome project at S7 Space, and chief designer of the shuttle programme for RTSS (Reusable Transport Space Systems LLC).

Life and career 
In 1980 Bryukhanov graduated from the Bauman State Technical University in Moscow with a degree in Aerospace engineering and joined the Energia Corporation, where he worked his way up from a junior engineer to deputy chief designer responsible for advanced piloted vehicle programmes. Most notably, he spearheaded the Kliper shuttle craft project as well as Parom, or "ferry boat" space tug intended to complement it.

Bryukhanov went on to supervise the Advanced Crew Transportation System which developed into the Orel partially reusable crewed spacecraft, while at the same time overseeing the upgrade of the Soviet space classic, the Soyuz vehicle.

In 2018 Bryukhanov left Energia to lead the pioneering orbital cosmodrome venture of S7 Space as well as its own cargo spacecraft involved in the Sea Launch complex.

In 2020 Bryukhanov took over the role of chief designer for Argo, the shuttle programme of RTSS (Reusable Transport Space Systems LLC).

Bryukhanov is the holder of several patents, most importantly to de-orbiting spacecraft:

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Awards 
 Order of Friendship
 Medal of the Order of Services to the Fatherland

References 

Living people
21st-century Russian engineers
Soviet space program personnel
Aeronautical engineers
Bauman Moscow State Technical University alumni
1957 births
Advacam. Advacam is a technology company based in the Czech Republic, producing radiation imaging pixel detectors and  tracking cameras for various industries, including space dosimetry, material analysis, electron microscopy, and non-distractive testing. It is a spin-off of the Institute of Technical and Experimental Physics of Czech Technical University in Prague and the Medipix Collaboration based at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The company was founded by Jan Sohar and Jan Jakůbek in 2013.

Technology 
Advacam grew from research conducted within the framework of scientific collaboration for high-energy physics initiated in the 1990s in the CERN. The technologies of Medipix and Timepix, which are single-photon counting chips, were initially developed for the ATLAS experiment within the Large Hadron Collider. Every pixel in these devices counts each photon that reaches the detector's surface, simultaneously measuring the energy of the detected radiation. This technology enables high-contrast spectral X-ray imaging capable of differentiating between materials.

Applications 
Photon counting technology can be used in many fields, including commercial manufacturing and science. Advacam detectors are applied in:

 Material analysis – Advacam detectors can test the quality of electrons, polymers, alloys, or minerals.
 Non-destructive testing – The cameras can discover microscopic defects in welds and various materials, including lightweight materials such as composites.
 Radiation detection – When combined with drones or moving robots, the technology can locate a source of radiation.
 Space weather monitoring and forecasting – Advacam detectors are used on the ISS to detect incoming particles and map and monitor radiation on several space missions, including the NASA Artemis program.
 Biomedicine – Particle detection is used in cancer research and biomechanics.
 Research and education.

Products 
 MiniPIX
 AdvaPIX
 WidePIX

Customers or users are for example NASA, ESA, Boeing, Blue Origin, OneWeb or Anton Paar

Spin-off companies 
 Radalytica offers robots for non-destructive testing.
 AdvaScope specializes in systems for electron microscopes.
 InsightArt brings solutions for art testing.

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Czech companies established in 2013
Technology companies
Jennifer Ogilvie. Jennifer Pauline Ogilvie is a Canadian physicist and Professor of Physics, Biophysics, and Macromolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. She develops multidimensional spectroscopic and microscopy-based methods to exploit the interactions between ultrafast (~10−15 s) pulses and matter. She is interested in the ultrafast energy transport and conversion processes in light-harvesting systems.

Early life and education 
Ogilvie is from Canada. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo, and moved to Simon Fraser University for her graduate research. Her doctoral research at the University of Toronto involved spectroscopic investigations into hemoprotein. She developed ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy to understand the dynamics of photodissociation. She demonstrated that when the carbon monoxide ligand breaks from myoglobin it establishes coherent oscillations that initiate motions along the protein function pathway. She developed phase-grating spectroscopy to study ligand escape from the myoglobin.

Research and career 
Ogilive develops ultrafast spectroscopic and microscopic methods to better understand biological processes across a range of length scales. The processes that take place during photosynthesis occur on ultrafast timescales with high quantum efficiencies. Ogilive believes that by elucidating the design rules of systems involved in photosynthesis it will be possible to create more efficient artificial light harvesting systems.  She has explored organic synthesis as a strategy to design new molecular systems for quantum information science.

Select publications

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Living people
University of Waterloo alumni
Simon Fraser University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Canadian women physicists
University of Michigan faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Serena Ivaldi. Serena Ivaldi is a robotics researcher specializing in human-robot interaction and co-inventor of an exoskeleton that was used during the COVID-19 pandemic to turn over hospital patients in their intensive care beds and give caregivers relief from the heavy lifting.

Life and work 
Born in Italy, Ivaldi's interest in robots began when she read the science fiction books of Isaac Asimov. She earned her Master's degree in Automatic Control and Robotics at the University of Genoa, before completing her PhD at the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Science Lab of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia also in Genoa. In 2011, she left Italy for Paris to start her first post-doc at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics at the Pierre and Marie-Curie University, which became the Sorbonne University in 2017.

In May 2014, Ivaldi joined the IAS group at Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany for a second post-doc in the CoDyCo project. In November 2014, she became a research fellow at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation in Nancy, France. She then joined the LARSEN project in 2014 at 34 years of age, as a specialist in human-robot interaction. She took part in the European HEAP and H2020 "AnDy" projects. The ANDY project's goal was to improve the ability of collaborative robots (called CoBots) to work easily with people in environments both industrial and domestic to reduce the risk of injury to humans.

At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in France, at the end of March 2020, she co-created with Nicla Settembre (Centre Hospitalier Régional et Universitaire de Nancy, INSERM and Université de Lorraine) the Exo Turn project, designed to validate the use of an exoskeleton to turn over patients in their intensive care beds and give caregivers relief with this physical task that causes significant strain on the lumbar region of those who do the heavy lifting. During the pandemic, patients were turned over up to eight times a day to help with breathing. Leaevo exoskeletons were tested by 60 caregivers and then used with patients; other experiments were completed for other hospital applications. This was the first known use of exoskeletons in a hospital intensive care unit.

Honors and awards 
Ivaldi received the Suzanne Zivi Award in 2020 for research excellence. 

Since 2021, she has been editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Social Robotics. She is a former associate editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2017–2021).

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Italian roboticists
Women roboticists
Robotic exoskeletons
Robotic manipulation
University of Genoa alumni
COVID-19
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Harcourt Butler Sr. Sec. School. Harcourt Butler Senior Secondary School, is a Delhi Govt aided boys school at Mandir Marg (earlier known as Reading Road) in Delhi, India.  The school is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education. It provides education from Class 1 to Class 12 having Science (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology), Commerce and Arts stream in  English and Hindi medium. This school is the only Government school having an Engineering drawing subject for class 11th and 12th.

History

The year of foundation of this school is 1889. The school was earlier known as Bengali Boys School, it was set up by a Bengali society.

In 1917, the British government took over its control and started funding its operations for the wards of British India Government employees. The existing structure of Harcourt Butler School was set up by Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler in 1917. Sir Spencer was the first member of education in the Viceroy’s Executive Council in India.

In winter School ran 6 months in Delhi and in summers 6 months in Shimla. This practice was discontinued in 1939 due to the Second World War.

Notable alumni
 Satish Kaushik
 Surinder Amarnath
 Mohinder Amarnath
 Nirmal Verma
 Hari Krishna Shastri
 Nasir Aslam Zahid
 Rajesh Puri
 V.R. Mehta
 Satya Prakash Punj

References

External Links
 Official website of Harcourt Butler School 

Schools in Delhi
1917 establishments in India
High schools and secondary schools in Delhi
Technical drawing
ISTSat-1. The ISTSat-1 is a Portuguese nanosatellite developed by students and researchers of the Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), that was launched into orbit on 9 July 2024, aboard the Ariane 6 maiden flight. The project is part of the European Space Agency's "Fly Your Satellite!" programme. It is the third Portuguese satellite in space, after the PoSAT-1 and the AEROS MH-1, and the first to have been entirely designed and built in Portugal. 

The ISTSat-1 is a CubeSat developed to optimise and complement aircraft surveillance systems by demonstrating the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) aircraft detection technology in orbit. Its mission lifetime is expected to be 12 months.

See also 
 Instituto Superior Técnico
 European Space Agency

References 

Space program of Portugal
Portuguese inventions
Jorge Pinto. Eduardo Jorge Costa Pinto (born 20 April 1987) is a Portuguese environmental engineer, politician and member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A member of the LIVRE party, he has represented Porto since March 2024.

Early life
Pinto was born on 20 April 1987 in Amarante. He received a master's degree in environmental engineering the University of Porto in 2010 after producing a thesis titled Rainwater Harvesting Systems Implementation Inside Karunya University Campus for the Karunya University. He received a doctorate in social and political philosophy from the University of Minho in 2020 after producing a thesis titled Green republicanism: non-domination for an ecologically sustainable planet.

Career
Pinto is an environmental engineer by profession. He has worked abroad since 2008, in Lithuania, India, France, Italy and most recently in Brussels since 2012. He was a research associate at the University of Minho's Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society.

Pinto has written a number of books and comic books. The comic book Amadeo, a vida e obra entre Amarante e Paris (2018), about the life of painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, was written by Pinto and illustrated by Eduardo Viana. Rendimento Básico Incondicional - Uma defesa da liberdade (2019), which he co-authored, won the 2019 Philosophy Essay Prize from the Portuguese Philosophy Society. Tamem digo - uma história de migrações (2022), written by Pinto and illustrated by Julia da Costa, tells the story of Pinto's grandmother Maria do Carmo and other women who stayed behind during the wave migration to France under fascist rule in Portugal. He also wrote the plays Uma História Trágico-Marítima, which received an honourable mention in the 2017 INATEL/Teatro da Trindade awards, and Seis meses.

Between the ages of 18 and 25, Pinto was a member of the Socialist Party but became disillusioned with the party's lack of commitment to progressivism, environmentalism and the European left ideals. He was one of the founders of the LIVRE party and was part of the Contact Group, the party's executive body, from 2014 to 2020. At the 2015 legislative election Pinto was placed first on LIVRE's list of candidates in Europe but the party failed to win any seats in the constituency. He was a candidate for LIVRE at the 2019 and 2022 legislative elections in Porto but on each occasion the party failed to win any seats in the constituency. He was elected to the Assembly of the Republic at the 2024 legislative election.

Electoral history

Works

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1987 births
Environmental engineers
Living people
LIVRE politicians
Members of the 16th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
Portuguese engineers
Portuguese expatriates in Belgium
University of Minho alumni
University of Porto alumni
Iona Allen. Iona Tolliver Allen (May 17, 1937 – July 15, 2003) was an American seamstress who helped develop and create space suits for multiple NASA space missions as part of the ILC Dover seamstresses team. She constructed the boots that Neil Armstrong wore when he first walked on the Moon, and also worked on later Extravehicular Mobility Unit suits for astronauts in the Space Shuttle program.

Career 
Allen worked at International Latex Corporation (ILC) as part of the ILC Dover seamstresses team. ILC had contracts with NASA to construct space suits for the Apollo program and the Space Shuttle program. Allen worked on both of these initiatives. The ILC Dover seamstress team, including Allen, had ongoing input into the design on the astronauts' suits.

Allen personally constructed the boots that Neil Armstrong wore when he first walked on the Moon. Construction of Armstrong's boots took weeks. They consisted of thirteen layers, each of which had to be sewn perfectly and pass inspection. The boots, as well as the Apollo A7L and A7LB spacesuits created by Allen's team, suffered no major mishaps the entire time they were in use. An ILC space suit designer at the time said of Allen: "She was the only one to ever make a perfect pair of boots."

Allen was one of the several Black women who worked on this integrated team. She worked for ILC for twenty-nine years. She retired in 1998, though she later went to work for Draperies Etc.

Personal life 
Allen was born in Virginia in 1937 with the birth (maiden) name of Iona Tolliver. She had three sisters and two brothers. She married Sam Allen and had one child. She joined the NAACP and was a Jehovah's Witness. She died at the age of 66, on July 15, 2003.

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1937 births
2003 deaths
Apollo program
American tailors
20th-century tailors
Spacesuits
20th-century African-American women
Mantosh Sondhi. Mantosh Sondhi was an IOFS officer. He served as the first General Manager of the Heavy Vehicles Factory, one of the 41 Indian Ordnance Factories. He was the founding Chairman & Managing Director of Bokaro Steel Plant. He was the first IOFS officer and first non-IAS officer to hold the posts of Secretary of Ministry of Heavy Industries, Ministry of Steel, Ministry of Mines and Ministry of Coal. He studied engineering at the University of London.
He was awarded Padma Shri in 1968 by the President of India. In 1995, he was decorated as Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland by the President of Finland. The headquarters of Confederation of Indian Industry is named in his honour. He was a member of the Atomic Energy Commission of India. He also served as the Chairman of several MNCs such as Ashok Leyland, ABB, Wärtsilä. His son is Vipin Sondhi, former CEO and MD of JCB India and Ashok Leyland.

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Indian Ordnance Factories Service officers
Hankyu 5000 series. The  is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated in Japan by the private railway operator Hankyu Railway since 1967. It is mainly operated on the Imazu Line. In the past, it was also operated on the Kobe Main Line.

History
The 5000 series were introduced in 1967 for direct operation onto the Sanyo Electric Railway via the newly-opened Kobe Rapid Railway Tozai Line. Sets were manufactured by Naniwa Koki, which would later become Alna Koki.

Trains were converted from 8-car sets to 6-car sets through 2020.

Formations 
Sets are formed as follows:

References

External links 

 Official vehicle profile (in Japanese)

5000 series
DBRX. DBRX is an open-sourced large language model (LLM) developed by Mosaic ML team at Databricks, released on March 27, 2024. It is a mixture-of-experts transformer model, with 132 billion parameters in total. 36 billion parameters (4 out of 16 experts) are active for each token. The released model comes in either a base foundation model version or an instruction-tuned variant.

At the time of its release, DRBX outperformed other prominent open-source models such as Meta's LLaMA 2, Mistral AI's Mixtral, and xAI's Grok, in several benchmarks ranging from language understanding, programming ability and mathematics.

It was trained for 2.5 months on 3,072 Nvidia H100s connected by 3.2 terabytes per second bandwidth (InfiniBand), for a training cost of $10m USD.

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Large language models