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Temple San Ignacio de Loyola. Temple San Ignacio de Loyola is a Catholic church building that is in El Paso, Texas.  The current church was designed and executed from 1913 to 1922 by Gustavus A. Trost, of the Trost & Trost architectural and engineering company.  The building is still in use, as of late 2023, and is part of the Diocese of El Paso.

History
The project was headed by Gustavus A. Trost, under the mentorship of Henry C. Trost, both employed at the award-winning Trost & Trost firm.  It was one of Gustavus' first endeavors for the firm as a practicing architect.  The original church had been constructed in 1905.  It underwent a remodel with final design planning approved in 1912, and with an initial annual budget of $22,000 starting in 1913.  Over the ensuing decade—beginning in 1913—Trost & Trost built additions to the church, and remodeled the existing facade and towers, completing the project in 1922.  The new design featured external brick walls, the installation of a heating system; expanded wooden towers with metal-clad cupolas, and tin roofing.  The remodeled church was dedicated on April 2, 1922.

The central portion of the facade contains a general resemblance to the foundling hospital in Florence, Italy. Gustavus Trost had traveled extensively to Italy and had made detailed sketches of the hospital's interior for later study and use.

Parish details
Today, the parish offers weekend bilingual and Spanish services held in the church. It is part of the Roman Catholic St. Ignatius de Loyola parish of El Paso.

See also
 List of Trost & Trost works
 St. Ignatius de Loyola

Notes

References

Further reading
 Information gathered by Lloyd C. & June F. Engelbrecht under a grant from the National Endowment for the humanities for the El Paso Public Library; El Paso (1990).

External links
 Official webpage
 Snapshots of the Churches of El Paso; El Paso Herald; January 28, 1922; p. 19. Photograph of the new porch and towers; part of a montage of El Paso church buildings.
 San Ignacio de Loyola Catholic Church; on Facebook
 St. Ignacious of Loyola Parish; El Paso Chamber of Commerce

Catholic church buildings
Galactic 03. Galactic 03 (G03) was a crewed sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity, launched on 8 September 2023. It was the third commercial spaceflight and eighth overall spaceflight for American aerospace company Virgin Galactic.

Crew
The crew of Galactic 03 included three private passengers and three Virgin Galactic employees.

References

See also
 List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2023

SpaceShipTwo
Aviation history of the United States
Suborbital human spaceflights
Space tourism
2023 in spaceflight
2023 in New Mexico
2023 in aviation
Karen Johnson (scientist). Karen L. Johnson is a British geologist who is a professor in environmental engineering at Durham University. She was awarded the 2023 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award.

Early life and education 
Johnson studied hydrogeology at University College London. After earning her master's degree in 1995, she joined the water industry. She eventually returned to academia and completed a doctoral degree at Newcastle University with Paul Younger. She stayed at Newcastle as a postdoctoral researcher.

Research and career 
In 2005, Johnson joined Durham University, where she was made Professor of Environmental Engineering. Her work considers waste water, and the identification of strategies to treat waste water. Alongside treating waste water in the United Kingdom, Johnson has worked on various international ecology projects, including investigating the interplay between land insecurity and poverty.

Awards and honours 
 2011 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Engineering
 2023 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award

Selected publications

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of University College London
Alumni of Newcastle University
Academics of Durham University
20th-century British women scientists
Geologists
Test driver (software). In software testing a test driver is a software component or application that initiates and controls the execution of a program under test, especially when such components are part of a larger system and cannot run in isolation. Drivers control applications across various stages of software testing, from unit and integration testing right through to system integration testing and acceptance testing
, especially when the target module is a component of a larger system that is not yet fully implemented or otherwise unavailable.

Definition 

A test driver is a software component or tool developed to initiate and oversee the execution of a component under test, particularly when the component is part of a larger system and the system is yet to be fully implemented. Essentially, the test driver mimics the components of a system that interact with the component under test, feeding it the necessary input and controlling its execution. The primary goal of using a test driver is to verify the functionality of the isolated component in the absence of its intended complete environment.

Purpose 

Test drivers are tailored to meet the unique requirements of different testing environments. With manual test drivers, testers can directly initiate actions, offering them direct control throughout the testing phase. In comparison, automated test drivers—typically in the form of tools or scripts—can carry out tests on their own. These are especially useful in situations that demand repetitive or extensive testing.

Comparison with test stubs 

Test drivers and test stubs are both instrumental in software testing, but they serve distinct roles within a test harness.

Test drivers are typically an active component and control or call the system under test without further inputs after they are initialised, stubs on the other hand are usually passive components that only receive data and respond to calls from the tested system when needed.

References 

Software testing
Lin-Shan Lee. Lin-Shan Lee (; born 23 September 1952) is a Taiwanese computer scientist.

Education and career 
Lee earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1974, and pursued a doctorate in the same subject at Stanford University, graduating in 1977. He subsequently returned to Taiwan and joined the NTU faculty in 1982.

Lee is a 1993 fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, recognized "[f]or contributions to computer voice input/output techniques for Mandarin Chinese and to engineering education." The International Speech Communication Association elevated him to fellow status in 2010 "[f]or his contributions to Chinese spoken language processing and speech information retrieval, and his service to the speech language community." In 2016, Lee was elected a member of Academia Sinica.

References

1952 births
Living people
Taiwanese computer scientists
Members of Academia Sinica
Fellows of the IEEE
Fellows of the International Speech Communication Association
Academic staff of the National Taiwan University
National Taiwan University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Taiwanese expatriates in the United States
20th-century Taiwanese scientists
21st-century Taiwanese scientists
Natural language processing researchers
Avatr 12. The Avatr 12 (; pronounced "one two" or "yao er", not "twelve") is an electric executive car produced by Avatr Technology, a joint venture between Changan Automobile, lithium-ion battery provider CATL, and Huawei. It is the second vehicle under the Avatr brand.

Overview

In July 2023, Avatr Technology presented the second model in its range as part of the expansion of the range that so far consisted of only the 11. The 12 took the form of a flagship executive car combining the features of a sedan and a fastback in its proportions. Like the 11, the styling design was created by former BMW designer Nader Faghihzadeh.

The characteristic visual features of the 11 with massive proportions were transferred to a more slender silhouette, which retained round edges, double lighting with a "C" motif and narrow strips of rear lamps. The door handles were hidden, and the small rear window was integrated with the smoothly sloping glass of the low roof. The edge of the trunk lid is topped with an optionally hinged spoiler, which opens together with the window, as in liftbacks. The car is also equipped with an optional camera system replacing traditional side mirrors. The wheels come in two sizes: 20 or 21 inches.

The interior features a steering wheel with an oval shape, and the central 15.6-inch touchscreen of the multimedia system dominates the central console. One large horizontal screen across the entire width of the cockpit.

The 12 was created for the domestic Chinese market, where its official debut took place in August 2023, and in early September, during IAA Mobility 2023 in Munich, the car was also presented to the European public. The beginning of deliveries of the first units to buyers was scheduled for December of the same year, positioning the model as a premium product. One of the 12's main rivals is Zeekr 001.

Specifications
The 12 is a fully electric car powered by two units. The basic one consists of one engine transmitting  to the rear axle, while the top one consists of two engines driving both axles with a total power of . The batteries are provided by the co-creator and co-shareholder of Avatr, the Chinese company CATL, offering two packages with a capacity of 90.4 or 116.8 kWh. The engines are provided by another shareholder of the project, Huawei.

References

Avatr 12
Cars introduced in 2023
Executive cars
Sedans
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
All-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars of China
Omar Andrés Camacho. Omar Andrés Camacho Morales (born 21 May 1981) is a Colombian electrical engineer and political activist. Since 4 August 2023, he serves as  Minister of Mines and Energy.

References

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1981 births
Living people
People from Bogotá
Petro administration cabinet members
Government ministers of Colombia
21st-century Colombian politicians
Ministers of mines and energy of Colombia
Will Biederman. Will Biederman is an American engineer and entrepreneur. He was a founding Verily team member and led the development of the Dexcom G7 in the company's partnership with Dexcom.  The G7 launched worldwide in 2022 and the partnership generated more than $500M of revenue for Verily, the most of any Verily program reported to date.

He is currently co-founder and CTO of Forest Neurotech, a non-profit Focused Research Organization developing the next generation of brain-computer interfaces using ultrasound.

Education
Biederman received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, and his PhD in electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley under the advisement of Dr. Jan Rabaey. His work as a graduate student on miniaturized chips for brain-computer interfaces was subsequently licensed by Neuralink.

References

Living people
American electrical engineers
Human–computer interaction researchers
21st-century American businesspeople
University of Washington College of Engineering alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Elvie L. Smith. Elvie Lawrence Smith (January 8, 1926, in Eatonia, Saskatchewan — August 4, 1999 in St. Lambert, Quebec) was a Canadian aviation engineer known for his work with gas turbines, and for his time at Pratt & Whitney Canada.

Education
Smith attended the University of Saskatchewan, where he received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1947, and subsequently earned a master's in that field from Purdue University.

Career
Smith began his career at the National Research Council, where he spent either five or seven years. In 1957, he joined Pratt and Whitney Canada as an Analytical Engineer. In 1958 or 1959,  he was a Chief Project Engineer; in 1962 he was promoted to Engineering Manager; in 1966 he was vice-president of Engineering; and in 1970 or 1973 he was vice-president of Operations.

In 1978, he became Executive Vice President, and in March 1980, was appointed President and CEO, being further selected as Chairman of the Board in 1984. In 1987, he retired, but retained his seat on the board until 1994.

Personal life
In addition to being an aviation engineer, Smith was himself a pilot (having earned his license while at Purdue), with a flight time of over 5300 hours in both powered and unpowered aircraft; as well, three of his four children became commercial airline pilots.

Recognition
In 1985, the Royal Society of Canada awarded Smith the Thomas W. Eadie Medal. In 1992, he was inducted into the Order of Canada, and in 1993, he was inducted into the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame. In 1997, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded him the R. Tom Sawyer Award.

References

Canadian engineers
University of Saskatchewan alumni
Purdue University alumni
People from Saskatchewan
1926 births
1999 deaths
Members of the Order of Canada
Bjorn Stevens. Bjorn Stevens (born 19 April 1966) is an American climate scientist who is managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. He is known for his research on climate sensitivity, aerosols and especially clouds.

Career
Bjorn Stevens was born in Augsburg, Germany, to American and German parents. He lived in several Anglophone countries during his childhood and eventually moved to the United States. He earned an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State University in 1990 and a PhD in atmospheric science from Colorado State University in 1996. He was a post-doctoral fellow with the Advanced Study Program of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder from 1996 to 1998, a Humboldt Fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology from 1998 to 1999 and joined UCLA's Department of Atmospheric Sciences as an assistant professor in 1999, being promoted to associate professor in 2003 and tenured professor in 2007. He was an affiliate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research from 2000 and joined Max Planck Institute for Meteorology as a director and scientific member in 2008, eventually becoming managing director. He is also joint lead co-ordinator of the World Climate Research Programme's Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity. He was a co-author of the chapter on clouds and aerosols in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. His research has contributed to the understanding of cloud formation, the reaction of clouds to a warming atmosphere, and the response of radiative forcing to aerosol disturbances. According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited over 43,000 times, and he has an h-index of 95.

References 

1966 births
Living people
American climatologists
Max Planck Institute directors
FGC 257 Series. The 257 Series is a meter gauge freight electro-diesel locomotive based on Stadler Rail's Euro Dual series. It is operated by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) in the Llobregat-Anoia line.

Background 

The locomotive was commissioned to replace and expand the freight service operated by the aging 254 series. Five locomotives were built in Stadler Valencia's production plant in Albuixech, Valencia. They were delivered in 2022 and entered service in 2023. While originally delivered in a red livery, the locomotives were repainted green to match FGC's corporate identity. The locomotive is based on the Stadler SALi (South American Light Loco), a version of the Euro Dual for a meter gauge railway operated by Ferroviaria Andina in Bolivia.

The locomotives are used to transport two main cargo types; potash and salt trains from the Súria mines and cars from the SEAT factory in Martorell, along the Llobregat–Anoia Line to the port of Barcelona.

The dual power technology of the 257 series allows trains to draw power from the 1500V catenary used by commuter trains (FGC 213 Series) in the mainline tracks between Sant Boi and Manresa while operating as a diesel train in the non-electrified industrial branches.

References

Electro-diesel locomotives of Spain
Metre gauge diesel locomotives
Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya locomotives
Llobregat–Anoia Line
Stadler locomotives
FGC 213 Series. The 213 series is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) commuter and suburban train type operated by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya, providing all passenger service on the Llobregat-Anoia line since 2009. First introduced in 1999, the trains operate as single units or coupled as 6 car double units.

Background 
At the time of introduction in 1999, the 213 series initially replaced the more obsolete units that were still operating in the Llobregat-Anoia line (3000, 5000 and 8000 series). The new units provided passenger service next to the older 211 series.

The trains were acquired in the context of modernization of the Llobregat-Anoia line and electrification of the Igualada branch. The first order of trains consisted of 20 units. The units were built by Alstom, CAF and Bombardier. They share many design elements with their standard-gauge counterpart in the Barcelona-Vallès line, the 112 series.

Design 

The EMUs are 3 car units with 2 motor cars (one on each end) and a trailer car (the middle car). There are 2 doors per side on motor cars and 3 doors per side in the middle car. The central door on the middle car is lower than the rest, to provide at-grade PRM access. The rest of the doors include a folding step to allow access on the low platforms of the Llobregat-Anoia line. Every 213 unit includes a WC in car 2, next to the driver cab.

Operations 

While most service is provided by single units, 213 units are commonly coupled to cope with demand in peak times.
In 2015, the whole 42 units underwent a renovation project, which included upgrades of the interior lighting, seating, the WC and an update to the exterior livery. The front livery was changed from orange to black.

Fleet details 
Currently, there are 42 units in service, providing all passenger service in the Llobregat-Anoia line.

Named units 
Several units have been given names, either after towns served by the line or notable Catalan writers.

 213.01 - Igualada
 213.02 - Manresa
 213.03 - Capellades
 213.04 - Piera
 213.05 - Sant Andreu de la Barca
 213.06 - Castellbell i el Vilar
 213.07 - Vilanova del Camí
 213.08 - Sant Vicenç dels Horts
 213.09 - Sant Vicenç de Castellet
 213.10 - Vallbona d'Anoia
 213.11 - Martorell
 213.12 - Pallejà
 213.13 - Sant Esteve Sesrovires
 213.14 - Sant Boi de Llobregat
 213.15 - Santa Coloma de Cervelló
 213.16 - Masquefa
 213.17 - Olesa de Montserrat
 213.18 - Abrera
 213.19 - La Pobla de Claramunt
 213.20 - Monistrol de Montserrat
 213.22 - Josep Carner
 213.23 - Joan Perucho
 213.25 - Joanot Martorell
 213.26 - Enric Prat de la Riba
 213.28 - Dolors Monserdà
 213.31 - Joan Cererols
 213.33 - Joan Brossa
 213.35 - Rosa Sensat

References 

Electric multiple units of Spain
Train-related introductions in 1999
1500 V DC multiple units
No. 132 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF. No. 132 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF, was a training unit of the Royal Air Force, within No. 17 Group RAF, part of RAF Coastal Command. The unit was established during November 1942 and disbanded during May 1946.

History 

No. 132 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit formed on 24 November 1942 at RAF East Fortune by redesignating No. 60 Operational Training Unit RAF. It was initially equipped with Bristol Blenheim, a British light bomber, and Bristol Beaufighter, a British multi-role aircraft. The unit was tasked with pilot training for long range fighter and strike aircraft. From July 1943 it added torpedo dropping and dive bombing training. The unit was later equipped with de Havilland Mosquito, a British twin-engined,  multirole combat aircraft, and provided training with these from Spring 1944. Between February and June in 1945 the unit's de Havilland Mosquito aircraft were used by No. 8 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF. No. 132 (C) OTU remained operational for almost a further year before disbanding on 15 May 1946 at RAF East Fortune.

Aircraft operated 

No. 132 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF was equipped with numerous types and variants of aircraft:
Bristol Blenheim I, IV & V light bomber
Bristol Beaufort I, II & IIA torpedo bomber
Bristol Beaufighter I, II, VI, X & XI multi role aircraft 
Westland Lysander II army co-operation and liaison aircraft
de Havilland Tiger Moth II biplane trainer aircraft 
Miles Magister basic trainer aircraft 
Supermarine Spitfire VB fighter aircraft 
Miles Martinet I target tug aircraft 
Airspeed Oxford II trainer aircraft 
de Havilland Mosquito II & III multirole combat aircraft
Bristol Buckmaster I advanced training aircraft

See also 
List of Royal Air Force Operational Training Units

References

Citations

Bibliography 

 

Operational training units of the Royal Air Force
Military units and formations established in 1942
Military units and formations disestablished in 1946
IBM Watsonx. Watsonx is IBM's commercial generative AI and scientific data platform based on cloud. It offers a studio, data store, and governance toolkit. It supports multiple large language models (LLMs) along with IBM's own Granite.

The platform is described as an AI tool tailored to companies and which can be customized for customers' needs and trained on their confidential data, as client data is said to be not collected by IBM for further training of their models. It is also capable of fine-tuning, an approach which makes training pre-trained models on the newly introduced data possible.

History
Watsonx was revealed on May 9, 2023, at the annual Think conference of IBM as a platform that includes multiple services. Just like Watson AI computer with the similar name, Watsonx was named after Thomas J. Watson, IBM's founder and first CEO.

On February 13, 2024, Anaconda partnered with IBM to embed its open-source Python packages into Watsonx.

Watsonx is currently used at ESPN's Fantasy Football App for managing players' performance. It is also used by Italian telecommunications company Wind Tre. Watsonx was used to generate editorial content around nominees during the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.

Services

watsonx.ai
Watsonx.ai is a platform that allows AI developers to leverage a wide range of LLMs under IBM's own Granite series and others such as Facebook's LLaMA-2, free and open-source model Mistral and many others present in Hugging Face community for a diverse set of AI development tasks. These models come pre-trained and are designed to excel in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, encompassing question answering, content generation, summarization, text classification, and data extraction. The platform allows fine-tuning with its Tuning Studio, allowing those models to learn the data provided by customers.

watsonx.data
Watsonx.data is a platform designed to assist clients in addressing issues related to data volume, complexity, cost, and governance as they scale their AI workloads. This platform facilitates seamless data access, whether the data is stored in the cloud or on-premises, through a single entry point, offering simple use for users who may not possess technical expertise. This approach prioritizes data security and compliance.

watsonx.governance
Watsonx.governance is a platform that utilizes IBM's AI governance capabilities to support organizations in implementing comprehensive AI lifecycle governance. This helps them manage risks and maintain compliance with evolving AI and industry regulations. The platform allows organizations to reduce AI bias by overseeing their AI initiatives, leveraging software automation to enhance risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, and ethical considerations.

See also
 IBM Watson
 Generative AI
 Large language model
 ChatGPT

References

External links
Official webpage
Official introductory video for watsonx AI Prompt Lab

IBM products
IBM cloud services
Data mining and machine learning software
Chatbots
Large language models
Generative pre-trained transformers
Interactive narrative
Virtual assistants
2023 software