omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Vuk (computer). Vuk () is a computer prototype designed by a group of students from Leskovac in SFRY (now Serbia). It was supposed to be a multipurpose educational computer. The development started in 1984 and in 1988 about ten prototypes were produced. Although the design received awards, the Yugoslav industry was not interested, so the computer never reached the production phase.

Specifications 
 CPU: MC68000 running at 8 MHz
 ROM: 128 KB (text editor, command interpreter, Pascal compiler, and assembler)
 Primary memory:  1 Mb (expandable up to 14 Mb)
 Secondary storage: floppy drive 800kb (5.25’’ or 3.5’’), hard disk
 Display: 40 column mode (320x256, 16 colors) and 80 column mode (640x256, 4 colors)
 Sound: beeper
 I/O ports: keyboard connector, composite and RF video, RS-232, Centronics, Game port and expansion bus connector

References

External links 
 http://www.symmetry.rs/Kostic__2012__Razvoj_personalnog_racunara_Vuk_.pdf
 Nekad davno, u svetu kompjutera…
 Retro: Stari domaći YU računari - "VUK" - Nauka i tehnologija

Educational hardware
68k-based computers
Personal computers
Computer-related introductions in 1984
Grow Up (video game). Grow Up is an adventure platform video game developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft. The game, which is the sequel to 2015's Grow Home, was released on 16 August 2016 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Gameplay

Grow Up builds upon the gameplay of its predecessor, Grow Home, by once again putting players in control of a robot named B.U.D, who is able to climb on landscapes. While the game still features B.U.D's ability to direct the stalks of Starplants into energy sources to help them grow, the main goal of the game now is to recover parts of B.U.D's ship, M.O.M, which are spread across the planet after she crashed into the moon. New to the game is the ability to scan various plants, known as floraforms, which each have unique properties such as allowing B.U.D to jump high or launch into the air. Once a floraform has been scanned, B.U.D can plant a seed of it at any time to grow anywhere else. By finding ability capsules, B.U.D can obtain new abilities, such as a jetpack, gliding, and rolling into a ball, which can each be upgraded by collecting crystals hidden across the world. By completing challenges, which require B.U.D to go through multiple checkpoints within a time limit, the player can unlock optional B.U.D Suits, which each give B.U.D unique properties, such as a bee suit that attracts bugs or an aviator suit that increases gliding speed.

Reception

Grow Up received above-average reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

Notes

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2016 video games
3D platformers
Adventure games
Open-world video games
PlayStation 4 games
Single-player video games
Ubisoft games
Video game sequels
Video games about plants
Video games about robots
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set on fictional islands
Video games set on fictional planets
Windows games
Xbox One games
Wenco International Mining Systems. Wenco International Mining Systems, Ltd. (Wenco) is a Canadian technology company that develops, manufactures, and distributes computer systems to manage and control surface mining equipment. It is a provider of fleet management, machine guidance, asset health, and industrial safety technology to the mining sector.  The company's computer systems include software and hardware that record data related to mining equipment activity, location, time, production, and maintenance. This information also displays to machine operators and other mining personnel. Its systems run at open-pit sites operated by large mining conglomerates De Beers Group of Companies, Syncrude, KCGM, the United States Steel Corporation, Canadian Natural Resources Limited, and others.

Founded in 1983, Wenco maintains its head office in the Metro Vancouver city of Richmond, British Columbia. It also operates satellite sales and support offices in the United States, Australia, Chile, South Africa, Russia, India, UAE, and Indonesia. Since 2009, the company has operated as a subsidiary of Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., a division of Hitachi Group of Companies.

Products

Wenco's systems rely on a combination of GNSS technology, wireless infrastructure, and computer hardware and software to track mining equipment activity, location, time, and production information. These systems connect mobile computers on field equipment such as excavators, bulldozers, and haul trucks with office computers and an SQL-compliant database. Mines use these systems for a range of purposes, including pit reporting, ore blend control, material tracking, production efficiency, and overall pit management. Wenco also shares its system data with common third-party mining technology systems through its public API.

In May 2021, Wenco acquired Australian company SmartCap Technologies, developers of an EEG-based wearable fatigue management system.

Ongoing development

Since 2013, Wenco has pursued development and testing of an autonomous haulage system in conjunction with Hitachi Construction Machinery. Wenco is also working with Hitachi Construction Machinery and third-party organizations to establish open standards for autonomous fleet control technologies.

References

Mining companies of Canada
John A. Wilson (topographical engineer). John A Wilson (March 9, 1789 – February 27, 1833) was a prominent American surveyor and civil engineer in the 19th century. His son, W. Hasell Wilson (1811–1902), was a civil engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Early life and works
Wilson was born on March 9, 1789, in Stirling, Scotland to Eliza Gibbes and James Wilson (d. 1798), a Lieutenant in the 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot of the British Army. Throughout the American Revolutionary War, the elder Wilson (James) served as an engineer in the British forces, under Major Moncrief of the Royal Engineers. James Wilson was severely wounded at the siege of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1780. Wilson remained in Charleston until the close of the war, and married there a daughter of Dr. Robert Wilson, a local physician of prominence. 
The elder Wilson returned to Stirling where his son, John was born in 1789. John Wilson attended the University of Edinburgh and at the end of his studies traveled to the United States to rejoin his family in South Carolina circa 1807. He found work as an engineer and surveyor, preparing a map of South Carolina.

War of 1812
In the early part of the War of 1812, John Wilson, who had become a naturalized citizen of the United States, volunteered his services to the city of Charleston, as an engineer for the construction of works of defense.

Wilson died on February 27, 1833, on board ship in the harbor of Matanzas, Cuba.

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1789 births
1833 deaths
American militiamen in the War of 1812
American civil engineers
American surveyors
Scottish emigrants to the United States
Pillared graphene. Pillared graphene is a hybrid carbon, structure consisting of an oriented array of carbon nanotubes connected at each end to a sheet of graphene. It was first described theoretically by George Froudakis and colleagues of the University of Crete in Greece in 2008. Pillared graphene has not yet been synthesised in the laboratory, but it has been suggested that it may have useful electronic properties, or as a hydrogen storage material.

References

External links
 http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=7593.php Novel, conceptual nanotechnology carbon material meets DOE's target for hydrogen storage

Allotropes of carbon
Metrostav. Metrostav a.s. is a Czech based universal construction company. It is the largest construction company in the Czech Republic and second largest in Central and South-Eastern Europe.

History 
Formed in 1990 from a state company of the same name after the fall of the communist regime in the country. Originally Metrostav was created in 1971 with a sole purpose to build Prague metro. After 1990 it was transformed into a universal construction company active in all fields of construction business. Metrostav is also a leading member of Metrostav Group Concern.

Organizational structure 
Metrostav is divided into 8 construction divisions based on their focus.

Metrostav is also a leading member of Metrostav Group Concern, that includes among others:  Subterra a.s., BeMo Tunelling GmbH, Pragis a.s., Metrostav Development a.s., Metrostav Slovakia a.s., SQZ, s.r.o., BES s.r.o., PK Doprastav, a.s., Doprastav Asfalt a.s., Metrostav Deutschland GmbH and Metrostav Nemovitostní, closed investment fund, a.s.

Markets 
The main market of the company is the Czech Republic, but it is increasing its presence in the neighboring countries Slovakia, Poland and in Nordic countries.

List of all countries where Metrostav is present: Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Turkey, Belarus, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Croatia, Turkey

Important projects 
 Prague Metro, Line A, Line B and Line C, most recently Metro V.A, 6.1 km long new section excavated ba TBM method, including 4 stations, commissioned in April 2015
 Blanka Tunnel complex in Prague, 5.5 km, the longest city tunnel in Europe
 Troja Bridge, Prague, 2014
 Nordfjordur tunnel, Iceland
 Czech National Museum renovation, 2016

References

Construction and civil engineering companies of the Czech Republic
1991 establishments in Czechoslovakia
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1991
National Steel Workers' Associated Engineering and Labour League. The National Steel Workers' Associated Engineering and Labour League was a trade union representing steel workers in England.

The union was founded in Middlesbrough in 1888, following an unsuccessful strike regarding wages at the Britannia Works.  The leaders of the strike were victimised and, led by George Beadle, they formed a union.  By 1891, it had a solid base in the north east of England, and decided to also begin recruiting steel workers in Sheffield.  One of its first members there was Moses Humberstone, who later became president of the union.

By 1895, the union had 1,000 members, and this rose to 2,000 by 1913, and more than 3,000 by 1917.  It was an early affiliate of the Labour Representation Committee, which later became the Labour Party.

The union affiliated to the loose Iron and Steel Trades Federation in 1913, and in 1917, it merged into the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation.

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Trade unions established in 1888
1888 establishments in England
Iron and Steel Trades Confederation amalgamations
Steel industry trade unions of the United Kingdom
Trade unions disestablished in 1917
Trade unions based in County Durham
Techsource. Techsource involves the automation, or conversion of a task or job from a manual task performed by a person, to a job performed entirely by machines. The concept of "techsourcing" has occurred across many industries for many years, however the phrase was coined by George Tosh, Principal Software Engineer for Salesforce in 2016.  Techsourcing might include the use of robotics, or dedicated purpose-built machines to complete a task, but not always.

A popular example of techsourcing is the ATM or “Automated Teller Machine”. The ATM performs many of the tasks that human bank tellers performed. It has allowed banks and other financial institutions to increase customer satisfaction through decreased wait times, but often at the cost of job opportunities for humans. Techsourcing usually occurs for jobs and roles that cannot be outsourced due to the specific nature of the job.

In 2015, and continuing into 2016, the push for a $15/hour minimum wage among many minimum wage earners has increased fears among economists that increasing the minimum wage will only lead to jobs being “techsourced”, automated, or eliminated entirely. Minimum wage jobs are not the only jobs at risk for being techsourced. In Belgium two hospitals have employed robots as receptionists to offer directions and assist patients, jobs that previously would have been filled by humans.

References

Production economics
Outsourcing
Ethyleneamine. Ethyleneamines are a class of amine compounds containing ethylene (-CH2CH2-) linkages between amine groups. These compounds are generally colorless, low-viscosity liquids with a fishy amine odor. They are primarily used as building block chemicals and in epoxy resin curing agent chemistry.

Production
There are two main routes for the production of ethyleneamines, the reaction between ethylene dichloride and ammonia, and the reductive amination of monethanolamine. World capacity of ethyleneamines for the year 2001 was estimated to be 385,000 tonnes/year, with the majority comprising the ethylene dichloride route. 

In the ethylene dichloride route, the initial product of this reaction is ethylenediamine.  In the presence of excess ethylene dichloride, the initial ethyleneamine is extended by one ethylene unit. The terminal alkyl chloride reacts with ammonia to give the amine, and the polyamine chain can be extended further in this fashion. Addition of a polyamine to the initial reaction mixture can increase the concentration of higher-order polyamines. In all these examples, stoichiometric base is needed to convert the amine hydrochloride to free amines.

In the monoethanolamine route, monoethanolamine reacts with ammonia, catalyzed by transition metal catalysts. This process is reported to generate more cyclic compounds than the ethylene dichloride route.

As a practical matter, a mixture of products is obtained in both routes. This mixture is influenced by the composition of the feedstock, and various products are obtained by continuous distillation. By returning lower-order polyamines or polyamine derivatives into the process, more higher-order polyamines can be obtained.

Side products
In addition to the ethyleneamine homologs (also spelled as homologue), side products exist. Aziridine occurs by the cyclization of chloroethylamine; piperazines are formed by cyclization of a two-ethylene unit compound to give the six-membered ring.

Examples

References

Further reading

External links

Polyamines
Iqbal Mahmud. Iqbal Mahmud (born 8 March 1940) is a Bangladeshi educator. He served as the 7th vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). And he is a former vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2005 by the Government of Bangladesh for his contribution to education.

Early life and education
Mahmud was born in Ramna, Dhaka on 8 March 1940. He passed matriculation examination from Sylhet Government High School in 1954 and intermediate examination in from Murarichand College in Sylhet in 1956. He earned his bachelor's in chemical engineering from Ahsanullah Engineering College (later Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) in 1960. He got his master's and Ph.D. degrees from University of Manchester in 1962 and 1964 respectively.

Career
Mahmud joined as an assistant professor in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in October 1964. He served as vice-chancellor from November 27, 1996, to October 14, 1998. He retired as a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering in September 2000.

Mahmud served as the Minister of State for Agriculture and Forests for the Government of Bangladesh during 1979 to 1981. He served as the chairman of Grameen Bank during 1980–1989. He was a member of Bangladesh University Grants commission during 1996–1997.

Mahmud is serving as a member of Academic Council of BRAC University.

He is the co-author, with Nooruddin Ahmed, of the textbook Corrosion Engineering: An Introductory Text, for undergraduate chemical engineers.

References

1940 births
Living people
Bangladeshi engineers
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology alumni
Academic staff of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Recipients of the Ekushey Padak
Vice-chancellors of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Honorary Fellows of Bangla Academy
State ministers of agriculture of Bangladesh
State ministers of environment and forests of Bangladesh
SignalFx. SignalFx is a SaaS-based monitoring and analytics platform based in San Mateo, California. It allows customers to analyze, visualize, automate, and alert on metrics data from infrastructure, applications, micro-services, containers, and functions. The platform uses a streaming architecture to separate metric data points into two streams: one for metadata, and one for time-series values. These data streams are routed through a pub-sub bus to SignalFlow, an analytics language accessible via the 'SignalFx' GUI and programmable APIs. The platform can handle millions of data points per second at a 1-second resolution, achieving less than 2 seconds of latency from ingestion to alert.

History
SignalFx was co-founded by Karthik Rau and Phillip Liu in February 2013. SignalFx received $8.5 million in a Series A investment from Andreessen Horowitz, adding Ben Horowitz to its board. In 2015, SignalFx received $20 million in Series B funding led by Charles River Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, adding Devdutt Yellurkar to its board. In May 2018, SignalFx announced its Series D funding of $45million led by General Catalyst, with participation from the existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Charles River Ventures. In June 2019, the company raised $75million in its Series E round led by Tiger Global Management, bringing the company's total funding to $179million since its founding.

SignalFx currently serves over a hundred customers, including Athenahealth, Chairish, Ellie Mae, Carbonblack, Kayak, Shutterfly, Sunrun, and Yelp.

On August 21, 2019, SignalFx was acquired by Splunk for $1 billion.

Acquisition
SignalFx was acquired by Splunk in 2019 to help improve Splunk's capabilities in cloud-native observability and APM, making it a part of Splunk’s Observability Suite.

Splunk announced plans to acquire SignalFx on August 21, 2019. Splunk agreed to pay $1.05 billion in two parts, 60% or $630,000,000 in cash, and 40% in Splunk common stock (SPLK). Splunk expected to close the deal in the second half of the 2020 fiscal year. The deal closed on the second day of the 2020 fiscal year, October 2, 2019.

References

External links
 

2013 establishments in California
2019 mergers and acquisitions
Software companies based in California
Defunct software companies of the United States
Splunk
MSC Maya. MSC Maya is one of the world's largest container ships, built in 2015. The cargo ship has the capacity for 19,224 TEU.

Design 
MSC Maya was built in 2015 in Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering by yard number 4280. The container ship has an overall length of , moulded beam of , board depth of  and maximum draft of . The deadweight of container ship MSC Maya is , the gross tonnage is  and the net tonnage is . With such dimensions, the vessel has the capacity to carry 19,224 TEU.

Engine equipment 
The main engine on board MSC Maya is 2-stroke 11-cylinder diesel engine MAN B&W 11S90ME-C10, which has a total output power of 67,100 kW / 83,780 hp. The vessel is driven by one fixed-pitch five-blade propeller with a diameter of 10.5 m (34.5 ft). Additionally, for easier maneuvering while at port, the ultra large container carrier is equipped with two bow thrusters. All these propulsion systems allow the cargo ship to operate with a service speed of .

MSC Maya News and Information 
MSC Maya was christened in the Port of Antwerp on September 26, 2016.

MSC Maya made her maiden call at Southampton on December 15, 2016.

MSC Maya is operating under the flag of Panama with IMO number 9708679 and call sign 3EZI. The vessel is operating on the Far East-Europe service of MSC in the framework of the 2M Alliance.
MSC Maya is known, as the largest container ship, which ever visited Poland

Sister Ships 
 MSC Zoe
 MSC Oliver
 MSC Oscar
 Largest container shipping companies
 Largest container ships ever built

References

External links
MSC Maya
MSC Maya principle particulars

Container ships
Merchant ships of Panama
2015 ships
Ships built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
Lars Mathias Blank. Lars Mathias Blank, (born 27 November 1969 in Hilden, Germany) is a German engineer, biologist and professor at the RWTH Aachen University, and head of its Institute of Applied Microbiology.

Career
Blank studied Chemical Engineering from 1990 to 1997 at the University of Dortmund and Biology from 1992 to 1997 at the Ruhr University of Bochum (Germany). For  his master's, he worked in the field of Metabolic Engineering in the group of E. T. Papoutsakis at Northwestern University, IL, USA and in yeast cell biology in the group of Prof. W.-H. Kunau at the Ruhr University of Bochum. He worked for his Ph.D. under  L. K. Nielsen at the University of Queensland, Australia (1998 to 2002), where he developed a continuous process for hyaluronic acid production using lactic acid bacteria. During his Ph.D. he worked as a visiting scientist at the Technical University of Denmark (DtU), Lyngby, Denmark) from September until December 1999. From November 2004 until June 2011.   Blank lead the group Systems Biotechnology at the Laboratory of Chemical Biotechnology at the TU Dortmund and was a senior research fellow at the Leibniz-Institute ISAS in Dortmund. In January 2010 he finalized his Habilitation.

Research
Blank focuses in his research on fundamental and applied aspects of microbial metabolism. Of specific interest is the interaction between the metabolic network and the introduced genetic and environmental perturbations. The research on in silico/in vivo metabolic network operation is aimed at a deeper understanding of cell function, with the ultimate goal of rational cell engineering.
He is associate editor of Engineering in Life Sciences, Microbial Biotechnology, Fungal Biology and Biotechnology, and Metabolic Engineering Communication.

Publications
A list of his publications is available online.

References

Northwestern University alumni
21st-century German engineers
21st-century German biologists
1969 births
Living people
People from Hilden
Engineers from North Rhine-Westphalia