omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Kristyn Masters. Kristyn Simcha Masters is an American bioengineer who is professor and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Colorado Denver. She works as Director of the Anschutz Medical Campus Center. Her research looks to create tissue-engineered models of disease, with a focus on cancer and cardiac disease.

Early life and education 
Masters studied chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She moved to Rice University for her doctorate, where she studied pharmacologically active materials for nitric oxide therapy. She moved to the University of Colorado Boulder for  postdoctoral research.

Research and career 
Masters joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2004, where she developed tissue-engineered models of disease, with a focus on cancer and heart disease. To do this, she studied the interactions between cells and biomaterials, investigating how the cellular microenvironment impacts cell behavior. She was made the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in 2016. 

Masters moved to the University of Colorado Denver in 2023, where she was made Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Director of the Anschutz Medical Campus Center.

Awards and honors 

 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Biomedical Teaching Award
 2008 Outstanding New Educator Award2016 H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow
 2018 Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Selected publications

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Living people

Year of birth missing (living people)
American bioengineers
University of Colorado Denver faculty
Rice University alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Women bioengineers
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
University of Colorado Boulder people
21st-century American engineers
21st-century American women engineers
Guohan Hu. Guohan Hu is an electrical engineer specializing in magnetic storage and spintronics, and especially in the use of spin-transfer torque in magnetoresistive RAM, a type of non-volatile random-access memory. She works for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center as a distinguished research staff member and manager of the MRAM Materials and Devices group.

Hu has a Ph.D. from Cornell University, completed in 2002. She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to Spin-Transfer-Torque MRAM materials and devices". She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2023, "for pioneering advancements in the development of materials and devices for spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory, resulting in breakthroughs that have significantly enhanced the performance, scalability, and reliability of next-generation non-volatile memory technologies".

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Year of birth missing (living people)

American electrical engineers
American women engineers
IBM employees
Fellows of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Cornell University alumni
Soroush Saghafian. Soroush Saghafian is an Iranian-American operations researcher and an associate professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is best known for developing and applying artificial intelligence and operations research methods to improve healthcare systems.

Education 
Saghafian obtained an M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2005 and an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2009. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, awarded in 2012.

Career 
Saghafian is an associate professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the founder of the Public Impact Analytics Science Lab (PIAS-Lab), dedicated to applying data science to complex societal issues. His work is noted for its practical impact, influencing both healthcare policy and clinical practices. In 2024, PIAS-Lab received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop AI-driven personalized treatments for melanoma in collaboration with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

He serves on the editorial boards of several top-tier journals, including Management Science and Operations Research.

Notable Contributions and Research Impact 
Saghafian's research bridges advanced AI methods with real-world applications, notably within the healthcare sector. Saghafian developed the concepts of "Ambiguous Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (APOMDP)" and "Ambiguous Dynamic Treatment Regimes" in operations research, methods that have improved clinical decision-making under uncertain conditions. This work, funded by the National Science Foundation, resulted in the various new findings for treating patients who undergo transplantation and develop risks of New-Onset Diabetes After Transplantation (NODAT). 

His FDA-related research applies AI to improve medical device safety, significantly reducing recall rates by integrating human insights with machine learning algorithms. This approach could yield billions in healthcare cost savings by streamlining FDA review processes.

Media Features 
Saghafian has been featured in various media outlets for his work and expertise in healthcare policy and AI in medicine. In an interview with Fast Company, he discussed the transformative potential of AI in healthcare. Euronews highlighted his expertise on the use of AI to predict patient responses to antidepressant treatment.

He has also provided expert analysis on healthcare policy and AI issues in PBS NewsHour, NBC News, WJCL (TV), and WFMJ.

Selected Publications 
 Saghafian, S. (2018). "Ambiguous partially observable Markov decision processes: Structural results and applications." Journal of Economic Theory, 178, 1–35. doi:10.1016/j.jet.2018.08.006.
 Saghafian, S. (2023). "Ambiguous Dynamic Treatment Regimes: A Reinforcement Learning Approach." Management Science. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2022.00883.

External links

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Polniak LP Dedal-2. The LP Dedal-2 human-powered aircraft was the project of Leon Polniak, a Franco-Polish engineer based in Kraków, Poland, and was a development of his earlier, unfinished, Dedal design. Dedal is Polish for Daedalus.

Development 

The craft was similar in appearance to its predecessor, though with numerous changes made to each of its components. It was a wire-braced, mid-wing monoplane and, as originally designed, was intended to have a tractor propeller. The fuselage was of the pod-and-boom type. The wing consisted of six panels, set with a slight forward-swept.  All the wing panels were of constant chord, with the incidence and dihedral of the outermost panels being able to be varied. The pilot sat in a conventional cycling position, and using both arms and legs, powered the propeller via a belt drive.

The empennage consisted of a single-piece rudder and an all-flying elevator. The leading edge of the elevator was connected to the rear of the fuselage's boom, with the leading edge of the rudder being attached to the trailing edge of the elevator. There were no ailerons, with lateral control intended to be achieved by lateral movement of the pilot. The aircraft was primarily constructed from spruce and balsa. The undercarriage consisted of a single monowheel, made from balsa, fitted with a 12.50 cm (5 inch) pneumatic tyre. Stabilising outriggers were located at the rear of the fuselage and under each wing.

According to Mięśnioloty, the first taxiing trials took place in September 1975. Photographs of the completed machine, which appeared in the Polish media during the spring of 1976, showed that it had a pusher propeller, along with other modifications. No flight claims have been made for the Dedal-2.

Specifications (LP Dedal-2)

See also
SUMPAC
HMPAC Puffin
Malliga 1
Malliga 2
Polniak LP Dedal
List of human-powered aircraft

References

Human-powered aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
1970s Polish ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Cruciform tail aircraft
Forward-swept-wing aircraft
Unflown aircraft
Aircraft with fixed bicycle landing gear
John Leavers. John Levers (later Leavers) (1786–1848) was a mechanic and engineer, best known for improving John Heathcoat’s pioneering lace machine; the  Leavers machine laid the foundation of the machine lace trade.

Biography
John Levers was born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, where he was baptized on 12 March 1786, the eldest son of John Levers and his wife, Ann, née Walker. He had three siblings: Joseph Levers (b. c.1796), a lace maker and a lace mechanic; Mary Levers (b. 1797), a lace runner; and Thomas Levers (b. 1800), a machine-maker.

Little is known about the early part of his life in Nottinghamshire, which—including Sutton—was the heart of the English hosiery industry, and where machine-made lace first developed. The Nottingham manufacturer and historian William Felkin stated that, in 1813–14, Levers, a ‘frame smith and setter up’, had improved John Heathcoat’s pioneering lace machine thanks to his ‘mechanical genius and skill’, which ‘proved to be very great, as was shewn by the extraordinary results’.

In 1821 the Levers brothers (John, Joseph, Thomas), their sister Mary, their mother, as well as John’s and Joseph’s wives and Mary’s future husband, emigrated to Grand-Couronne (Seine-Maritime) on the river Seine in Normandy; here, the ‘Levers’ became the ‘Leavers’, probably for phonetic reasons. In Grand-Couronne a lace workshop was converted to a factory belonging to Louis-Paul Lefort, and John and Thomas Leavers then played a key part in its development. In 1833 they patented a new frame. The technical reputation of Leavers, who ran the factory, was established. In 1834 and 1839, Leavers was praised by a national jury. In the 1836 and 1841 censuses, ‘Jean Leavers’ was still listed as a mechanic.

Family life
In 1813, Levers married Hannah Wheeldon (1783/4–1824) in Nottingham. It seems that they had no children.
Hannah died in Grand-Couronne on 25 July 1824. On 1 February 1826 the widowed Leavers married a Belgian woman who lived in Grand-Couronne, Françoise Massiotty (b. 1791/2). They had at least four children: Guillaume Jean, born on 5 November 1826; Sara Elisabeth, born c.1828; Edouard Alphonse, born c.1829; and Marie Stéphanie Ambroise, born on 4 April 1835.
Leavers died in Grand-Couronne on 24 September 1848. He was remembered as

Posterity
Grand-Couronne, as well as lace towns Calais (Pas-de-Calais) and Caudry (Nord), where John Leavers never lived, have a street named after him. There is also a grey plaque in Canning Circus, Nottingham: ‘In this house lived John Leavers, inventor of the Leavers lace machine 1813.’

As for the Leavers machines, they were sold worldwide until the 1960s.

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1786 births
1848 deaths
People from Sutton-in-Ashfield
English inventors
3S-14. The 3S-14 missile launcher (), also known as UKSK (), is a vertical launching system in service with Russian Navy. 

The system exists in container and container-less variants that differ in requirements to the ship its installed to. Deck-mounted angled 3S-14PE version is proposed on export.

It may launch following types of missiles:
Kalibr missiles - SS-N-30 cruise missile, SS-N-27 anti-ship missile
Tsirkon cruise missiles
P-800 Oniks anti-ship missiles
Novator 91R anti-submarine missile

Some sources report potential use of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) in UKSK-M.

The system is installed on:
, 
project 22350 class , 
project 11356  
modernized  
modernized

See also 
Mk 41 VLS
Sylver
K-VLS
GJB 5860-2006

References

Military equipment of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Naval weapons of Russia
Ship-based missile launchers
Vertical launch systems
Unmanned Aircraft Regulation. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/947 of 24 May 2019 on the rules and procedures for the operation of unmanned aircraft is a regulation of the European Union regulating the flight of unmanned aircraft for civil usage, commonly known as drones.

See also 
 Regulation of unmanned aerial vehicles

Further reading 
 https://background.tagesspiegel.de/smart-city/wenn-die-kommunen-abheben

References

External links 
 EUR-Lex
 https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/domains/civil-drones

European Union regulations
Regulation of unmanned aerial vehicles
Alignment Research Center. The Alignment Research Center (ARC) is a nonprofit research institute based in Berkeley, California, dedicated to the alignment of advanced artificial intelligence with human values and priorities. Established by former OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano, ARC focuses on recognizing and comprehending the potentially harmful capabilities of present-day AI models.

Details 
ARC's mission is to ensure that powerful machine learning systems of the future are designed and developed safely and for the benefit of humanity. It was founded in April 2021 by Paul Christiano and other researchers focused on the theoretical challenges of AI alignment. They attempt to develop scalable methods for training AI systems to behave honestly and helpfully. A key part of their methodology is considering how proposed alignment techniques might break down or be circumvented as systems become more advanced. ARC has been expanding from theoretical work into empirical research, industry collaborations, and policy.

In March 2022, the ARC received $265,000 from Open Philanthropy. After the bankruptcy of FTX, ARC said it would return a $1.25 million grant from disgraced cryptocurrency financier Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Foundation, stating that the money "morally (if not legally) belongs to FTX customers or creditors."

In March 2023, OpenAI asked the ARC to test GPT-4 to assess the model's ability to exhibit power-seeking behavior. ARC evaluated GPT-4's ability to strategize, reproduce itself, gather resources, stay concealed within a server, and execute phishing operations. As part of the test, GPT-4 was asked to solve a CAPTCHA puzzle. It was able to do so by hiring a human worker on TaskRabbit, a gig work platform, deceiving them into believing it was a vision-impaired human instead of a robot when asked. ARC determined that GPT-4 responded impermissibly to prompts eliciting restricted information 82% less often than GPT-3.5, and hallucinated 60% less than GPT-3.5.

See also 
 AI safety

References

External links 

 Official website

Artificial intelligence
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
Beryllium chromate. Beryllium chromate is a hypothetical inorganic compound, with the chemical formula of BeCrO4. It is predicted to have a certain bonding ability with noble gases. Little evidence has been published supporting the existence of this material.

Claims

Beryllium chromate is claimed to be obtained from the reaction of beryllium hydroxide and chromium trioxide:

Be(OH)2 + CrO3 → BeCrO4 + H2O

The reaction of potassium chromate and beryllium sulfate is claimed to produce beryllium hydroxide:

BeSO4 + 2K2CrO4 + H2O → K2Cr2O7 + K2SO4 + Be(OH)2

References

Beryllium compounds
Chromates
Hypothetical chemical compounds
VS-17. The VS-17 is a signaling device used by military personnel to send signals to aircraft, and to mark improvised landing sites.

The VS-21 is a replacement for the VS-17 that provides an infrared signature, allowing use in low visibility conditions via thermal imaging.

See also
Air-to-ground communication
Air navigation
Signal square

References

External links

MIL-P-40061, Panel Marker, Aerial Liaison, VS-17/GVX

Rescue equipment
Military equipment of the United States
Mark Girolami. Mark A. Girolami (born 1963)  is a British civil engineer, statistician and data engineer. He has held the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge since 2019. He has been the chief scientist of the Alan Turing Institute since 2021. He is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and winner of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Girolami is a founding editor of the journal Data-Centric Engineering, and also served as the program director for data-centric engineering at Turing.

Education 
Girolami studied at the University of Glasgow and spent ten years working for IBM as an engineer from 1985 to 1994. After this he undertook, on a part-time basis, a PhD in statistical signal processing whilst working at the University of Paisley.

In 2024, the University of the West of Scotland awarded Girolami an honorary doctorate recognising his exceptional achievements in engineering and computing.

Career and research
After his PhD, Girolami held senior positions at the University of Glasgow, and University College London.

Before joining the University of Cambridge, Girolami worked at Imperial College London.

Selected publications 
His publications include:

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1963 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Alumni of the University of the West of Scotland
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders
Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge
Engineering professors at the University of Cambridge
IBM people
Tijana Rajh. Tijana Rajh (; born 1957) is an American materials scientist who is a professor and director of the Arizona State University School of Molecular Sciences. Her research considers the development of nanomaterials and materials for quantum technologies. She was awarded the Association for Women in Science Innovator Award in 2009, and named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014.

Early life and education 
Rajh was born in 1957, Belgrade, former Yugoslavia in a Serbo - Jewish family. Her father Zdenko Rajh (Reich, 1905–1990) was a publicist and lawyer, and her mother Gordana Nikolić Rajh was a linguist. Despite being interested in Aristotle, Rajh became fascinated by better understanding the natural world. She completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Belgrade, where she specialized in physical chemistry. After earning her doctorate, Rajh worked in solar energy research between National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Boris Kidrič Institute in Belgrade, where she worked on photo-electrochemistry and semiconductors.

Research and career 
Rajh worked at the Argonne National Laboratory, where she was eventually made an Argonne Distinguished Fellow. She worked on semiconducting nanocrystals for water splitting and electrochemistry. In particular, Rajh worked on the synthesis of the nanocrystals, and developed strategies to assemble them. She developed electron paramagnetic spectroscopy and other electron resonance techniques to understand spin effects during electron transfer. In 2009, she was awarded the Association for Women in Science Innovator Award, and she was named an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow in 2014.

Alongside her work on nanomaterials, Rajh developed quantum-enabled strategies for sensing. She showed that the high surface areas of metal–organic frameworks could be used to maximize sensitivity, permitting quantitive analysis using electron paramagnetic resonance. She has proposed that carbon nanotubes with highly confined electron spins could be used as qubits with record long coherence times.

In 2021, Rajh was named Director of the Arizona State University School of Molecular Sciences.

Selected publications

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Belgrade alumni
Arizona State University alumni
Materials scientists and engineers
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Women materials scientists and engineers
Ali Noorzad (politician). Ali Noorzad (, born 1960) is an Iranian university professor and politician. He earned his doctorate in Geotechnical engineering from Concordia University, Canada in 1998. He is active in water and soil issues and huge dam construction projects. From 2013 to 2017, he was the Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development of Iran.

References

External links
Transportation Geotechnics
Railway Expansion / Financial Tribune
Iran receives railway loan
Iran, Azerbaijan Discuss Completion of North-South Corridor
Azerbaijan to Give Iran Loan for Railroad Project

1960 births
Living people
Iranian engineers
Iranian electrical engineers
Concordia University alumni
Iranian politicians
People from Amol
Iranian academics
Fafnir Bearing. The Fafnir Bearing Company was a major American manufacturer of ball bearings.

History 
The company was founded in New Britain, Connecticut on March 8, 1911, by Howard Stanley Hart. Fafnir was acquired by Textron in 1968. In 1988, Textron's Fafnir Bearing division was acquired by the Torrington Company, which in turn sold it in 1998 to the Timken Company, which still markets ball bearings under the Fafnir brand.

During the Second World War, the 7,000 workers at Fafnir's 600,000 square foot factory in the center of New Britain turned out 100 ball bearings per minute. By 1946, Fafnir was the largest independent manufacturer of ball bearings in the United States, with exports to Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the South Pacific. Equipment manufactured at the Fafnir factory in New Britain traveled to the Moon on Apollo 11.

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New Britain, Connecticut
Rolling-element bearings
Companies based in Hartford County, Connecticut
Manufacturing companies based in Connecticut
1911 establishments in Connecticut
American companies established in 1911
IPS'AIR. IPS'AIR is a French airshow started in 2020. It is located in Ivry-sur-Seine, close to Paris. It is organized by the grande école Institut polytechnique des sciences avancées, one of the most important aerospace College in France. It is held yearly in February. The 4th edition took place from the 9 to the 21st of February 2023.

Presentation 
The flight simulators are representative of the world of aviation, from the Dassault Mirage 2000 to the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, through the Airbus A320, the Boeing 777 and the Bell 206. Some engines, such as those of the Dassault Rafale or the Jaguar are also exposed thanks to a partnership with Safran.

Conferences related to the aeronautical current events take place. For example, in 2023 Yann Arthus-Bertrand was invited to talk about his book "Mars Terre, destins croisés".

An art exhibition completes the festival. In 2023, visitors could admire the works dedicated to the legends of the sky created by the graffiti artist C215.

History 
The first show took place in 2020. Philippe Willekens, head of communication of the European Space Agency came to talk about the future of space exploration.

See also 

Airexpo
Paris Air Show
List of airshows

References

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Air shows
Trade fairs in France
Aviation in France
Val-de-Marne