omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Jeffrey Snover. 

Jeffrey Snover is a Distinguished Engineer at Google. Previously a Microsoft Technical Fellow, PowerShell Chief Architect, and the Chief Architect for Windows Server and the Azure Infrastructure and Management group which includes Azure Stack, System Center and Operations Management Suite. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell and was the chief architect for Windows Server.

Biography 
After studying, but not receiving a degree in, physics at the University of New Hampshire (1978–1982), Snover worked as architect and development manager for Tivoli NetView at Tivoli Software (IBM), and as a consulting engineer and development manager at DEC, where he led various network and systems management projects. He also worked at Storage Technology Corporation, and various start-up companies. Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction for Microsoft's management technologies and products.

Snover is known primarily as the "father" and chief architect of Microsoft's object-oriented command line interpreter Windows PowerShell, whose development began under the codename "Monad" (msh) at the beginning of 2003. He had the idea of an object-pipeline and implemented the first prototype  in the C# programming language. After the completion of version 1.0 in November 2006, Windows PowerShell was downloaded nearly one million times within half a year. In 2015, Microsoft promoted Snover to Technical Fellow. In 2019 he was the AI architect for M365 substrate and became the CTO for Modern Workforce Transformation.

Snover was also the Chief Architect of the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). 

In 2022 he left Microsoft and became an SRE Google Distinguished Engineer. 

Snover held eight patents prior to joining Microsoft, and has registered over 30 patents since. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics.

Snover had also starred in a video series known as "Getting Started With Powershell", available on Microsoft Virtual Academy.

References

Bibliography 
 Snover, Jeffrey: Monad Manifesto – the Origin of Windows PowerShell, 2007

Further reading

External links 
Profile at Microsoft

Blog
Monad Manifesto, Jeffrey P. Snover, version 1.2, 2002
On Channel 9
On Stack Overflow
On Stack Exchange
On GitHub
On Powershell Gallery
Windows Server, the Story of 3 DEC Engineers

Microsoft employees
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Year of birth missing (living people)
John Lyons (trade unionist). John Lyons   (19 May 1926 – 22 May 2016) was a British trade union leader.

Born in Hendon, Lyons was educated at St Paul's School, London.  He served in the Royal Navy from 1944 until 1946, then attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he studied economics.  Following a year doing market research for the Vacuum Oil Company, he briefly worked in the research department of the British Army.

In 1952, Lyons worked for the Post Office Engineering Union, then in 1957 was appointed as assistant general secretary of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants.  In 1973, he moved to the Electrical Power Engineers' Association (EPEA), where he was appointed as general secretary.  Lyons was involved in arranging a series of mergers which formed the Engineers' and Managers' Association, serving as its general secretary, while remaining secretary of its EPEA section.

Lyons joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in 1948, but he left following the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956.  He subsequently became identified with the right-wing of the trade union movement.  In particular, he was vocally opposed to the UK miners' strike, and was supportive of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers split.

Lyons also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.  He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1986, and retired from his trade union posts in 1991.  From 1996 until 1998, he served as president of the Single Market Observatory.

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1926 births
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Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Royal Navy personnel of World War II
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress
People educated at St Paul's School, London
People from Hendon
Jafar Abdollahi-Sharif. Jafar Abdollahi-Sharif (born 1963, in Urmia, West Azerbaijan) is the President of Urmia University of Technology since June, 2015. also Abdollahi-Sharif is a faculty member of the college engineering in Urmia University.

References

See also
 Jafar Abdollahi-Sharif at Urmia University of Technology

1963 births
Living people
Academic staff of Urmia University
University of Tehran alumni
People from Urmia
Moscow State University alumni
Mining engineers
Apache NiFi. Apache NiFi is a software project from the Apache Software Foundation designed to automate the flow of data between software systems. Leveraging the concept of extract, transform, load (ETL), it is based on the "NiagaraFiles" software previously developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA), which is also the source of a part of its present name – NiFi. It was open-sourced as a part of NSA's technology transfer program in 2014.

The software design is based on the flow-based programming model and offers features which prominently include the ability to operate within clusters, security using TLS encryption, extensibility (users can write their own software to extend its abilities) and improved usability features like a portal which can be used to view and modify behaviour visually.

Components 

NiFi is a Java program that runs within a Java virtual machine running on a server. The prominent components of Nifi are:

 Web Server - the HTTP-based component used to visually control the software and monitor the events happening within
 Flow Controller - serves as the brains of NiFi's behaviour. Controls the running of Nifi extensions and schedules allocation of resources for this to happen.
 Extensions - various plugins that allow Nifi to interact with various kinds of systems
 FlowFile repository - used by NiFi to maintain and track status of the currently active FlowFile Or the information that NiFi is helping move between systems.
 Content repository - the data in transit is maintained here
 Provenance repository -  data relating to the provenance of the data flowing through the system is maintained here.

See also
 List of Apache Software Foundation projects
 Flow-based programming
 Node-RED

References

External links 
 

National Security Agency
Apache Software Foundation projects
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Software using the Apache license
Unicity (philosophy). The principle of unicity explains that each event, each living being, each object, each person or each circumstance has the characteristic of its uniqueness, of its particularity. Other similar events, living beings, objects, persons or circumstances may exist, but never the same entity.

The theory of quantum mechanics (QM) suggests that the principle of unicity is invalid. In other words, no physical system, physical process, or object has a unique and complete description. Instead, QM, the most successfully tested and proven theoretical framework, stipulates that all physical reality can be described in multiple
alternative, incompatible ways, using independent descriptions that cannot be contrasted, compared, or combined.

The principle of unicity implies that every conceivable property of a particular physical system will be either true or false, as observable experiments can either confirm or reject the property, as implied by the unique and exhaustive property description assumption. In effect, unicity implies the existence of a universal truth functional, which is incompatible with a quantum Hilbert space of dimension greater than two, in particular Minkowski spacetime is four dimensional space. Therefore, unicity is not part of quantum reality. For each physical object, the intrinsic incompatibility of its (stochastic) quantum descriptions prevents them from being combined into a more precise (deterministic) descriptions, which makes it impossible to create a unique and exhaustive description.

References

Uniqueness
Bluetech Award. The Bluetech International Clean Air Technology Award (also called Bluetech Award), is an annual award presented by the Clean Air Alliance of China (CAAC) to recognize outstanding technologies that prevent and control different forms and sources of air pollution. The award examines each technology for breakthrough potential in terms of technological performance, environmental impact, and financial feasibility with CAAC's standardized technology assessment methodology. The award selection committee consists of technical professionals, industrial experts and testing specialists that are chosen every year to fit each year's award categories. Technologies from around the world are eligible to apply.

The award ceremony, called the Bluetech International Clean Air Forum, features research leaders, industries, investors and policymakers in China and abroad to address global industry and policy trends in the air quality sector. Private follow-up events, held in Beijing and other pilot regions, are organised for Alliance members and selected technology companies.
The first Bluetech Award Ceremony was held on December 12, 2015, in Beijing, China. The second Bluetech Award Ceremony is planned for December 2016.

Winners

References

Further reading
 http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/garlock-receives-prestigious-award-for-advances-in-emissions-control-technology-2089493.htm
 
 http://announce.ft.com/Detail/?DocKey=1323-12627860-1H6SQN9RL5P0D7O1CBKIGI8OR8)
 http://www.cameraitacina.com/en/news/2nd-bluetech-international-air-technology-award

External links
 Official website
 CAAC website

Environmentalism
Pollution in China
Chiu Jeng-jiann. Chiu Jeng-jiann () is a Taiwanese engineer. He has been the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology since 20 May 2016.

Education
Chiu obtained his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Chung Yuan Christian University in 1986 and earned his Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from National Cheng Kung University in 1992.

References

Living people
Ministers of science and technology of Taiwan
Year of birth missing (living people)
Chung Yuan Christian University alumni
M. A. Rashid. M. A. Rashid (January 16, 1919 – November 6, 1981) was a Bangladeshi educator. He served as the 1st Vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology during 1962–1970. He was awarded Independence Day Award in 1982 by the Government of Bangladesh.

Early life and education
Rashid was born in Bogadubi, Chunarughat. He passed matriculation exam from Habiganj Govt. High School and intermediate exam from Sylhet Murari Chand College in 1936 and 1938 respectively. In 1942, he completed his bachelor's in civil engineering from Bengal Engineering College (later Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur) at Shibpur in West Bengal. He served as an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department of the Assam government during 1942–1945. With an Indian government scholarship, he earned his master's degree and DSc degrees in civil engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (later Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

First doctorate degree in East Bengal 
He was the first in East Bengal to have a doctorate degree in engineering.

Career
After returning from the United States in 1948 Rashid joined the Ahsanullah Engineering College (later Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) in Dhaka as an assistant professor  He became a professor in 1952 and the first Bengali principal of the college in 1954.

In 1958, he became a member of the Education Commission of Pakistan. After the independence of Bangladesh, he became a member of the National Pay Commission, Industrial Workers Wages Commission and President's Council of Advisors and was put in charge of the Ministry of Works in 1975.

Personal life
Rashid married Mossamat Tajunnessa Khatun in 1941.

Death and legacy
On October 28, 1981, Rashid was severely injured in a car accident on his way from Pabna to Bogra. He was admitted to P.G. Hospital (Institute of Postgraduate Medicine and Research). He died on the afternoon of November 6, 1981.

A students' residential hall of BUET is built after his name, "Dr M A Rashid Hall".

Awards
 Slater Memorial Gold Medal (1941)
 Tate Memorial Medal (1941)
 Trevor Memorial Prize and Gold Medal (1942)
 Sitara-I-Pakistan (1966)
 Independence Day Award (1982)

References

1919 births
1981 deaths
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Academic staff of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Vice-chancellors of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Recipients of Sitara-i-Imtiaz
Recipients of the Independence Day Award
Road incident deaths in Bangladesh
People from Chunarughat Upazila
Alexander Puzrin. Alexander M. Puzrin (born 24 July 1965) is professor of geotechnical engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, working in the field of geomechanics.

Biography
Alexander Puzrin completed his undergraduate studies in Structural Engineering in 1987 at the Department of Civil Engineering, Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering, USSR, and received his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering in 1997 from the Department of Civil Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. From 1997 to 2001 he was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and then tenured associate professor at the same institution, and from 2002 to 2004 a tenured associate professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, United States. Since 2004 he is Full Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Research
The focus of Puzrin's research is on constitutive modeling of geomaterials and on the analysis of progressive and catastrophic failure in soils, with applications to creeping terrestrial and tsunamigenic submarine landslides. His interests include applications of novel sensor technologies to geotechnical monitoring and the development of innovative chemical and biological soil-improvement techniques. He has been involved as an expert and consultant in large-scale geotechnical projects in the UK, the US, Russia, Mexico, Azerbaijan, Israel and Switzerland. He is a co-founder of the ETH Zurich spin-off company Marmota Engineering AG.

Awards
Alexander Puzrin's papers were awarded by the British Institution of Civil Engineers with Geotechnical Research Medals in 2004 and 2013, the 2013 George Stephenson Medal, the 2018 David Hislop Award, the Overseas Prize (Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya Award) in 2022, and the 2023 Environmental Geotechnics Award. In 2019, he received the Geomaterials Research Medal of the Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Education, Research and Technology (ALERT). In addition, he served as the Editor of the international journal Géotechnique from 2012 to 2015. Since 2014, he is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.  He was a recipient of the ETH Zurich Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009 and 2013.

References

External links
Group homepage

Geotechnical engineers
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Fellows of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Swiss engineers
Living people
1965 births
Denis Jordan. Denis Oswald Jordan (23 September 1914, London – 12 February 1982, St Georges, South Australia) was an Anglo-Australian chemist with a distinguished career as a researcher and lecturer in Chemistry at both University College Nottingham (1940–53) and the University of Adelaide, where he was Angas Professor of Chemistry from 1958 to 1982. Jordan also served as president of Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering from 1958 to 1962, and Royal Australian Chemical Institute from 1978 to 1979.

Whilst at Nottingham 'Doj' Jordan was a key member of the team whose research made important contributions to the eventual decoding of DNA in 1953. Jordan worked with John Masson Gulland, Michael Creeth and others on a series of experiments in 1947 which firstly created high quality DNA, then measured its viscocity, and finally demonstrated the hydrogen bonds within the molecule. Their discoveries were ultimately acknowledged by James Watson as critical contributions even if he did at first dismiss them incorrectly: "...a rereading of J. M. Gulland's and D. O. Jordan's papers...made me finally realize the strength of their conclusion that a large fraction, if not all, of the bases formed hydrogen bonds to other bases." Gulland and Jordan's work was also acknowledged in the first papers concerning the decoding of DNA by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. It has however been argued that the work of the Nottingham team was subsequently overlooked until commemorations were held in 2010 and 2017.

Jordan continued to work at Nottingham University on deoxyribonucleic acid after the untimely death of Gulland in the Goswick rail crash in October 1947, but in 1953 he was appointed to a professorship in Adelaide where he arrived in 1954.

In 1981, the University of Adelaide, named its physical and inorganic Chemistry building after Jordan.

In November 2017 a plaque was unveiled in the Trent Building at University of Nottingham commemorating the 70th anniversary of the "Discovery of Hydrogen Bonds in DNA by JM Creeth, DO Jordan and JM Gulland".

Publications
The Chemistry of Nucleic Acids (1960)

Awards
Jordan was awarded a number of honours, including:
1954 - Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI)
1963 - Liversidge Research Lecture, Royal Society of New South Wales 
1970 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
1974 - Medal, Polymer Division, RACI (Now named Batteard-Jordan Australian Polymer Medal)
1980 - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)  
1981 - Leighton Memorial Medal

References

1914 births
1982 deaths
Australian chemists
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
History of genetics
Officers of the Order of Australia
Academic staff of the University of Adelaide
English emigrants to Australia
English chemists
Academics of the University of Nottingham
Hartmut Bossel. Hartmut Bossel (born 3 March 1935) is a German environmental scientist and systems scientist.  Bossel was a professor of environmental systems analysis and director of the Scientific Center for Environmental Systems Research and Environmental Systems Analysis Group at the University of Kassel, Germany, until his retirement in 1997.

Bossel collaboratively developed a number of computer simulation models and decision support systems in the following areas: energy supply policy, global dynamics, orientation of behavior, agricultural policy, forest dynamics and management, sustainable development, and indicator systems.  Bossel also wrote a number of textbooks on the modeling and simulation of dynamic systems, social change, future paths, and sustainable development.

Bossel and co-author Florentin Krause are credited with coining the term Energiewende, used to describe the change in German energy policy from 2010 onwards, in 1980.

Life 

Bossel graduated from the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 1961 with a diploma in mechanical engineering (aeronautical sciences).  He worked at the Northrop Corporation in Los Angeles until 1963.  He was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was awarded a PhD in engineering (aeronautical sciences) in 1967.  From 1967 to 1972, he was a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

After returning to Germany in 1972, Bossel worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe and from 1978 at the Institute of Systems Analysis and Forecasting (ISP Eduard Pestel) in Hannover.  In 1979, he was appointed a professor at the University of Kassel where he held the chair of Environmental Systems Analysis and was the director of the Scientific Center for Environmental Systems Research and Environmental Systems Analysis Group.  He was a member of the Balaton Group from its inception.  Bossel completed several research sabbaticals abroad, including in the US, France, the former Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and New Zealand.

Bossel married in 1961 and has three children.

Selected bibliography

See also 

 Computer simulation
 Environmental systems analysis
 Integrated assessment modelling
 Sustainable development
 Systems science
 Systems theory

References

External links 

 Website of Hartmut Bossel (in English)

1935 births
Living people
Scientists from Braunschweig
Sustainability advocates
German systems scientists
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Academic staff of the University of Kassel
German expatriates in the United States
Almitra Patel. Almitra Patel (born 1935) is an Indian environmental policy advocate and anti-pollution activist.

Education
Almitra's father was a businessman and her mother a civic activist, involved with an education society she had founded. Almitra’s was surrounded by science from an early age, and along with her cousin was the first girl to study science at Barnes High School.

Her father wanted her to study engineering, so he sent his daughter to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to pursue higher studies in ceramics. She finished her BSc in General Engineering and MS in Ceramics in three years, and in 1959 she became the first Indian woman engineer to graduate from MIT. Over the next three decades, she worked in the fields of abrasives, foundry-refractories and cement tile industries.

Advocacy and activism
From the 1970s Almitra was also involved in civic and environmental issues, including saving the Asiatic Lions, being a tree warden, saving Ulsoor Lake, solid waste management, and building low cost homes. Almitra went on to become active in environmental policy advocacy. She is currently engaged in solid waste management issues in various think tanks and government panels.

In 1991, Almitra set out to find a solution for hygienic municipal solid waste management, and found that most of the 80 Indian cities she visited in 1994-1995 had nowhere to dump their waste except in the outskirts of the city or approach roads.

Almitra Patel's landmark 1996 Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court against the open dumping of municipal solid waste was instrumental in the drafting of the Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules.

She conducted a study on the Ghazipur landfill.

References

Further reading 

 
 
 Almitra H. Patel and another vs. Union of India. AIR 2000 SCW 924

Indian women environmentalists
1936 births
Living people
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Indian environmentalists
20th-century Indian women
20th-century Indian people
Parsi women
Parsi activists