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Iddris Sandu. Iddris Sandu (born May 7, 1997) is an American entrepreneur, programmer, engineer, and digital architect. He is the CEO of Spatial Labs Inc., a hardware software infrastructure company.

Early life
Sandu was born in Accra, Ghana. Sandu grew up in Compton, California, before later moving to Harbor City, California. He moved to the United States with his family at the age of 3 and learned computer programming at the age of ten. At the age of 13, he was offered an internship at Google where he worked on Google+ and designs for other social connectivities. In high school, he created an app for his school that provided turn by turn navigation for students to navigate around the campus using augmented reality. Sandu also advocated for STEM in the high school curriculum.

Career
Sandu has worked as a technological design consultant and engineer with companies such as Boeing, Twitter, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Uber, Snapchat and Instagram. For Uber he created the software called Autonomous Collision Detection Interface, a software program that detects a driver's hand motion and position.

He has worked on digital content for Beyonce, Kanye West, Migos, Travis Scott, Rihanna, Jay Z, and Jaden Smith. In 2017, he partnered with Nipsey Hussle to open the Marathon clothing store in LA.

In 2021, Sandu founded Spatial Labs, a hardware software infrastructure company based in Los Angeles. In October 2021, Marcy Venture Partnership (MVP) founded by Jay-Z invested in Spatial Labs. In 2022, Spatial Labs launched Gen One Hardwear, a collection of garments embedded with LNQ’s proprietary LNQ One Chip, and LNQ Marketplace, a retail platform to trade physical goods on the blockchain.

Awards
In 2022, Sandu was featured in the Ebony Power 100 list. In 2019, he won the Young African Committed to Excellence (YACE) Rising Star award and the Technology Award at the Culture Creators Innovators & Leaders Awards. He has also received a Certificate of Commendation from Barack Obama.

External links
Gen Z: Plan A | Iddris Sandu | TEDxCrenshaw 
Iddris Sandu | Raw & Uncut Part 1
Iddris Sandu Talks His Career and More | BHL's Next

References

Living people
Technicians
American software engineers
Engineers from Los Angeles
People from Accra
Ghanaian businesspeople
1997 births
African-American engineers
21st-century African-American people
Semi-automation. Semi-automation is a process or procedure that is performed by the combined activities of man and machine with both human and machine steps typically orchestrated by a centralized computer controller.

Within manufacturing, production processes may be fully manual, semi-automated, or fully automated. In this case, semi-automation may vary in its degree of manual and automated steps.

Semi-automated manufacturing processes are typically orchestrated by a computer controller which sends messages to the worker at the time in which he/she should perform a step. The controller typically waits for feedback that the human performed step has been completed via either a human-machine interface or via electronic sensors distributed within the process. Controllers within semi-automated processes may either directly control machinery or send signals to machinery distributed within the process.  Centralized computer controllers within semi-automated processes orchestrate processes by instructing the worker, providing electronic communication and control to process equipment, tools, or machines, as well as perform data management to record and ensure that the process meets established process criteria.

Many manufacturers choose not to fully automate a process, and instead implement semi-automation due to the complexity of the task, or the number of products produced is too low to justify the investment in full automation. Other processes may not be fully automated because it may reduce the flexibility to easily adapt the processes to reflect production needs.

See also
 Automation
 Autonomation
 Manual labour
 Distributed control system
 Industrial control system
 Control system

References

 M. Langer and D. Söffker, "Human guidance and supervision of a manufacturing system for semi-automated production," 2011 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT), Amman, 2011, pp. 1-6. (LINK)
 R. Parasuraman, T. B. Sheridan and C. D. Wickens, "A model for types and levels of human interaction with automation," in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 286-297, May 2000. (LINK)
Piëch Automotive. Piëch Automotive is an electric car manufacturer based in Zug, Switzerland, founded in August 2017 by Anton "Toni" Piëch and Rea Stark Rajcic.

History 
Anton Piëch, son of Ferdinand Piëch, former CEO of the Volkswagen Group and great-grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, founded Piëch Automotive in 2017 with industrial designer Rea Stark Rajcic.

Piëch Automotive presented their first model, the GT Mark Zero (or Mk0), at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show.

The particularity of Piëch Automotive's engineering is its modular concept, which makes it possible to keep software and hardware components up to date, in order to keep up with developments and technical progress, so the powertrain is interchangeable, while maintaining the structure and bodywork of the vehicle. The entire vehicle concept is designed and engineered for lean manufacturing with external partners without vertically integrating any production in the company.

Mark Zero concept 

The Piëch Mark Zero GT, whose first sketches date back to 2017, was presented as a concept car at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2019.

Design 
The car is a two-seater sports coupé in the contemporary style. The first models should be delivered in 2022 equipped with electric motors and a battery positioned on the central tunnel as far as the rear axle, for a weight of 1,800 kg. The Mark Zero will be able to accommodate thermal, hybrid or fuel cell powertrains thanks to its modular platform, which is planned to be used for an SUV and a "Piëch sedan" in a second phase.

Motorization
The Mark Zero is equipped with three electric motors, a 150 kW asynchronous electric motor mounted on the front axle and two independent synchronous electric motors mounted on the rear axle of 150 kW each, providing a total power of 600 hp.

Piëch claims its innovative battery is 80% rechargeable in 4 min 40 s on a 380 kW fast terminal that has not yet been deployed in 2019, for a range of 500 km.

Reception
The design of the new car concept was mainly evaluated positively.
Klaus Schmidt for example, former sportscar developer of the BMW M GmbH, describes the design as unique.

Production
In September 2021 the company began testing the Piëch GT4 and the car is expected to go into production mid 2024. The production version is expected to do zero to 60 mph in under three seconds, and 0 to 124 mph clocks less than nine seconds. Piëch says its working with Chinese company TGOOD on a proprietary charger that can refill 80% of the battery in five minutes  In June 2024 the model was updated with a new look with production starting for 2028.

References

External links 

 Official Website of Piëch Automotive

Car manufacturers of Switzerland
Battery electric vehicle manufacturers
Luxury motor vehicle manufacturers
Sports car manufacturers
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2017
Swiss brands
Electric vehicle manufacturers of Switzerland
Swiss companies established in 2017
Merging Technologies. Merging Technologies is a Swiss manufacturer of professional audio hardware and software.

History
Merging Technologies was founded in 1990 in Puidoux, Vaud, by EPFL electrical engineering graduate Claude Cellier.

In 2022, Merging Technologies was acquired by Sennheiser.

Digital eXtreme Definition
DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition) is a digital audio format that originally was developed by Philips and Merging Technologies for editing high-resolution recordings recorded in DSD, the audio standard used on Super Audio CD (SACD).

Products

Hardware 
Hardware manufactured by Merging includes the following:
 Anubis (Networked AD/DA audio interface)
 Horus (Networked AD/DA audio interface)
 Hapi (Networked AD/DA audio interface)
 Hapi MkII (Networked AD/DA audio interface)
 MERGING+NADAC (Audiophile DAC, now discontinued)
 Mykerinos (DSP card, now discontinued)
 DUA & DUAII (AD/DA converters, now discontinued)
 Sphynx & Sphynx 2 (AD/DA converters, now discontinued)

Software 
Merging develops software products which include the following:

 Pyramix: a digital audio workstation (DAW)
 Ovation: a media server and sequencer
 ANEMAN: an Audio Network Manager.
 Merging Audio Device (also referred to as MAD): multi-ASIO AoIP driver for Windows OS.  
 Virtual Audio Device (also referred to as VAD):  Core Audio AoIP driver plugin for macOS. 
 VCube: a video player and recorder, now discontinued

See also
 DXD
 
 Direct Stream Digital#DSD technique

References

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Electronics companies established in 1990
Manufacturing companies established in 1990
Manufacturers of professional audio equipment
Audio equipment manufacturers of Switzerland
Tas Tsonis. Tas Tsonis is a computer scientist who continues to play a prominent role in using graphical algorithms, computer science, and computational geometry to automate the personalization of apparel and accessories.  He has been granted twelve US patents based on mathematical and graphical algorithms.

Tsonis co-founded Pulse Microsystems in 1982, with Brian Goldberg.  Pulse is credited with "the first set of pattern archiving software, network management software and data acquisition software for embroidery industry."  They patented methods to take artwork, stored using scalable vector graphics, and translate those into instruction for knitting and embroidery machines, enabling artwork to be incorporated into fabrics at the best resolution possible for the fabric under construction.

In 2004 Tsonis and Goldberg co-founded Viigo, a firm that developed app software.

Tsonis is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, and, in 2016, was honoured by the University with its annual J.W. Graham Medal.  Each year the award recognizes one of the University's graduates who has played a significant role in the use of computers.

References

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1953 births
Living people
University of Waterloo alumni
David Ginger. David S. Ginger is an American physical chemist. He is the B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington. He is also a Washington Research Foundation distinguished scholar, and chief scientist of the University of Washington Clean Energy Institute. In 2018, he was elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for his work on the microscopic investigation of materials for thin-film semiconductors. He was elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012, and was a 2016 National Finalist of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

Education 
Ginger attended Indiana University Bloomington, earning B.S. degrees in chemistry and physics in 1997. During his undergraduate degree, he performed research with Prof. Victor E. Viola. Ginger pursued graduate school as a British Marshall Scholar and an NSF Graduate Fellow in Physics at the University of Cambridge, where his Ph.D. thesis advisor was Prof. Neil Greenham. Ginger earned his Ph.D. in 2001 with a thesis entitled Optoelectronic properties of CdSe nanocrystals. After a joint NIH and DuPont Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University with Prof. Chad Mirkin, he joined the faculty of the University of Washington.

Research 

Ginger specializes in the physical chemistry of materials with applications in energy, electronics, and sensing.  His team has used combinations of optical and scanning probe microscopy to examine the properties of nanomaterials, particularly thin film semiconductors. The lab has studied mixed ionic/electronic transport materials such as those used in bioelectronics batteries, and most notably in photovoltaic materials such as halide perovskites and organic photovoltaics.

References

External links 

 University of Washington Department of Chemistry
 The Ginger Lab
 University of Washington Clean Energy Institute

Living people
1974 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Date of birth missing (living people)
People from Centerville, Ohio
Indiana University Bloomington alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Marshall Scholars
University of Washington faculty
American physical chemists
21st-century American chemists
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
CHIRP (algorithm). CHIRP (Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors) is a Bayesian algorithm used to perform a deconvolution on images created in radio astronomy. The acronym was coined by lead author Katherine L. Bouman in 2016.

The development of CHIRP involved a large team of researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Center for Astrophysics  Harvard & Smithsonian and the MIT Haystack Observatory, including Bill Freeman and Sheperd Doeleman. It was first presented publicly by Bouman at the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in June 2016.

Development 
The CHIRP algorithm was developed to process data collected by the very-long-baseline Event Horizon Telescope, the international collaboration that in 2019 captured the black hole image of M87* for the first time. CHIRP was not used to produce the image, but was an algebraic solution for the extraction of information from radio signals producing data by an array of radio telescopes scattered around the globe. Stable sources (that don't change over short periods of time) can also gain signal by integrating the change at each location with the rotation of the earth. Because the radio telescopes used in the project produce vast amounts of data, which contain gaps, the CHIRP algorithm is one of the ways to fill the gaps in the collected data.

Evaluation
For reconstruction of such images which have sparse frequency measurements the CHIRP algorithm tends to outperform CLEAN, BSMEM (BiSpectrum Maximum Entropy Method), and SQUEEZE, especially for datasets with lower signal-to-noise ratios and for reconstructing images of extended sources. While the BSMEM and SQUEEZE algorithms may perform better with hand-tuned parameters, tests show CHIRP can do better with less user expertise.

See also

References 

Radio astronomy
Trevor Darrell. Trevor Jackson Darrell is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his research on computer vision and machine learning and is one of the leading experts on topics such as deep learning and explainable AI.

Darrell's group at UC Berkeley developed the Caffe deep-learning library.

Education 

 1996, Ph.D., Media Arts & Sciences, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under Alex Pentland
 1991, S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 1988, B.S.E., Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
 1984, Phillips Academy

Career 
When Darrell finished his PhD in 1996, he joined the Interval Research Corporation. In 1999, he left the corporation for the MIT EECS department. In 2008, he left MIT for the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now a Professor in the CS Division. Darrell co-founded the BAIR laboratory at UC Berkeley.

His former students include Kristen Grauman, Louis-Philippe Morency, Kate Saenko, Yangqing Jia, Tete Xiao, and Raquel Urtasun (postdoc).

Family 
Darrell was born in New York City in 1996. Darrell's parents were Richard and Constance Darrell.  Darrell is a grandson of American attorney Norris Darrell.
Darrell is married to Lisa Hagstrom, whose father was the Swedish and Stanford academic Stig Hagstrom.

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University of Pennsylvania alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
American computer scientists
Daimler Paraffin Railway. The Daimler Paraffin Railway was a railway on which the first internal combustion locomotive ran. Three original vehicles for passenger and goods transport are exhibited in the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.

History

Motor-Draisine 
In 1887, the pioneer of the German automotive industry, Gottlieb Daimler, developed a motor-driven draisine, which used paraffin (kerosene) as fuel. It was the first piece of rolling stock with an internal combustion engine. It was successfully tested in summer 1887 between Esslingen and Kirchheim/Teck.

Motor-Waggonet
In 1887 Gottlieb Daimler demonstrated a paraffin driven narrow gauge train on the Cannstatter Volksfest. It was well received as a convenient means of passenger transport between Wilhelmsplatz and Kursaal. Starting in 1890, he sold an improved variant under the Waggonet trademark. The high-speed two piston V engine delivered  and could propel the nearly  vehicle at speeds of up to . On each side, there was a bench with six seats. The driver sat on a saddle behind the upright motor, which was installed in a box.

The Farming and Foresting Exhibition was held in Vienna from 14 May to 30 October 1890. The organisers wanted to provide easy access for the attendees. The entrepreneur Josef Bierenz installed and operated a narrow gauge passenger tramway using Daimler Waggonets from the Praterstern the western entrance of the fair centre at Rotunderplatz. It was used all summer and transported thousands of passengers. Each train consisted of a Waggonet and a trailer and offered space for 24 passengers. One vehicle is preserved in the archive of the Vienna Technical Museum but currently not being exhibited.

Motor Locomotive 
The narrow gauge Daimler Motor Locomotive was a more powerful  variant. The original displayed at the Mercedes Museum was used up to 1918 as an industrial locomotive.

See also 
 Petrol-paraffin engine

References 

Rolling stock of Germany
Internal combustion engine technology
Paraffin Railway
Christopher J. Hernandez. Christopher J. Hernandez is an American engineer and scientist who currently serves as professor at the University of California, San Francisco in the departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences.

Education 
Hernandez received his BS in Engineering Sciences at Harvard University in 1996. He went on to graduate from Stanford University with a MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1997 and 2001 respectively.

Career 
Hernandez worked at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and at UC Berkeley prior to joining the faculty at Case Western Reserve University. He served as a faculty member in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University from 2010 to 2022.

He currently leads the Hernandez Research Group. Hernandez's "research in biomechanics examines the musculoskeletal system and microscopic organisms." In 2021, the National Institutes of Health awarded his team a five-year, $3.6 million grant to study how the gut microbiome affects bone quality.

Honors and awards 
Some of Hernandez's honors have included:

 BRITE Fellow (National Science Foundation, 2022)
 Educator of the Year - Higher Education (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, 2021)
 Fellow (Biomedical Engineering Society, 2021)
Fellow (American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2019)
 Fellow (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017)
Fellow (American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 2019)
 Fuller Albright Award (American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 2018)
 Zellman Warhaft Faculty Commitment to Diversity Award (Cornell University, 2017)

Hernandez is a member of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and  the Orthopaedic Research Society.

Personal life 
Hernandez was born in Fresno, California and is Mexican American.

References 

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Year of birth missing (living people)
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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
21st-century American engineers
Case Western Reserve University faculty
People from Fresno, California
Engineers from California
UPECA Aerotech. UPECA Aerotech Sdn. Bhd.  informally known as UPECA, is a part of Senior plc. It is the one of Malaysia's largest aerostructure suppliers to Spirit Aerosystems Europe and UTC Aerospace System. UPECA Aerotech's headquarters and manufacturing plant is in Shah Alam, Selangor. UPECA Aerotech supply aircraft components on Airbus A320, Airbus A330, Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 platforms. A manufacturing plant will be opened near Subang Airport in order to serve UPECA’s manufacturing, storage and distribution of aerospace parts.

History
UPECA Technologies, the parent company, was incorporated in 1990. UPECA Aerotech was established in 2005 in order to support the Malaysian government's aspirations to develop the nation's aerospace manufacturing industry. Senior plc, a United Kingdom maker of parts for the aircraft and the vehicle industries, bought UPECA Technologies in order to expand its business in the growing Asian market.

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Aerospace companies of Malaysia
Aircraft engineering companies
Manufacturing companies established in 2005
Privately held companies of Malaysia
2005 establishments in Malaysia
Unterfrankenshuttle. Unterfranken Shuttle ("Lower Franconia Shuttle") is the marketing name under which the Erfurter Bahn (EB) regional railway operates the lines from Schweinfurt to Meiningen and Schweinfurt to Gemünden (Main) in Lower Franconia and South Thuringia in Germany. Operations began in December 2004.

Formation 
In summer 2002, the Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft railway company intended to re-tender for  the regional railway services in northern Lower Franconia with a connection to the neighbouring town of Meiningen in southern Thuringia. Instead of an open competition, it carried out price enquiries with five different railway companies. Erfurter Bahn's bid proved to be the most economical, ahead of those of DB Regio and the other three bidders who had already been eliminated. The contract covered the regional railway services on the following routes:
 KBS 803 (Fränkische Saaletalbahn) Schweinfurt–Bad Kissingen–Hammelburg–Gemünden (Main)
 KBS 815 (Main-Rhön-Bahn) Schweinfurt–Bad Neustadt (Saale)–Mellrichstadt–Meiningen, a section of the Main Franconian-Thuringian link from  Erfurt to Würzburg 
Compared to the previous transport services provided by DB Regio, the operating volume was increased by around 60,000 train kilometres to 1.2 million train kilometres per year, which made it possible to extend the trains beyond the decentralised Schweinfurt Hauptbahnhof to the city railway station. The transport contract became effective with the start of operations for the timetable change on 12 December 2004 and had a term of ten years. After winning the tender again in 2013, the Lower Franconian shuttle will run until at least 2026 under the direction of Erfurt Railway.

References

External links 
 Unterfranken-Shuttle EB 40 Meiningen–Schweinfurt – Fahrplan (PDF; 242 kB)
 Unterfranken-Shuttle EB 50 Schweinfurt–Gemünden (Main) – Fahrplan (PDF; 140 kB)
 http://www.erfurter-bahn.de – Offizielle Seite der Erfurter Bahn

Rail transport in Bavaria
Rail transport in Thuringia
Schweinfurt
Meiningen
Bad Kissingen