omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Jerome P. Keuper. Jerome "Jerry" P. Keuper (1921-2002) was a physicist and the founder and first president of Brevard Engineering College (later the Florida Institute of Technology), and served in the position from 1958 to 1986.

Early life
Keuper was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky in 1921. He joined the United States Army and served mostly in China and Burma during World War II as an intelligence officer in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).  Keuper earned a bachelor's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master's from Stanford University and a doctorate from the University of Virginia.

He was an MG car enthusiast and is credited with bringing the MG Car Club Florida to Brevard County.

Career
He joined the Systems Analysis Group of RCA in the early days of the Space Race, and moved to Brevard County, Florida.

Keuper started the Brevard Engineering college in 1958 utilizing junior high school classrooms rented from the Brevard County School District.  He did this as there was a need in the area to supply engineers to Kennedy Space Center for the growing U.S. space program.

When the school board found out that a black student had been admitted in 1959, they ended their arrangement with Keuper.  He then relocated his school to a local church until he had obtained enough private funding to build his own campus.

Throughout his life he also served as chairman of the Council of Presidents of the State Board of Independent Colleges and Universities; director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Jacksonville Branch; president of the International Palm Society, and advisory board member for both the National Energy Foundation and the Institute of International Education.

Keuper had several of his books published and included topics such as idiomatic expressions in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

Awards
In 1995, Keuper was inducted into the Brevard County Business Hall of Fame

Death
He died on March 25, 2002, in Brevard County, Florida of congestive heart failure at age 81. His statue stands on the FIT campus in the original academic quad.

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Flight Simulator II (Sublogic). Flight Simulator II is a video game developed by Bruce Artwick and published by Sublogic as the sequel to FS1 Flight Simulator. It was released in December 1983 for the Apple II, in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64, in 1986 for the Amiga and Atari ST, the Atari XEGS as a pack-in title in 1987, and in August 1988 for the Tandy Color Computer 3.

Development

After the release of Flight Simulator for the IBM PC, Sublogic backported its improvements to other computers as Flight Simulator II. This version, like the Microsoft release, does away with wireframe graphics for solid colors, and uses real-world scenery (although limited to a few areas in the United States). It includes the ability to load additional scenery from floppy disks.

Reception
InfoWorld in 1984 praised Flight Simulator II for the Apple as "a complicated but exhilarating game ... Bruce Artwick has really done it all", and stated that it was superior to Microsoft's version. InfoWorld's Essential Guide to Atari Computers recommended the game as the best flight simulator for the Atari 8-bit, stating that "If you become a pro", players are "well on your way to understanding how powered flight actually feels".

Roy Wagner reviewed and compared Solo Flight and Flight Simulator II for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "This program is outstanding and certainly one of the best examples of excellent programming, documentation, and a full use of the capabilities of a microcomputer."

II Computing listed it ninth on the magazine's list of top Apple II games as of late 1985, based on sales and market-share data, and it was Sublogic's best-selling Commodore game as of late 1987.

In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Flight Simulator II the 79th-best computer game ever released.

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Single-player video games
Sublogic games
TRS-80 Color Computer games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in the United States
Donald Portway. Donald Portway (28 June 1887 – 19 March 1979) was a British academic, soldier and author.

Portway was educated at Felsted School and Downing College, Cambridge. He was an assistant master at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth from 1912 to 1914 when he joined the Royal Engineers. In 1918 he became a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1919 he became a lecturer in Engineering at the university. He was subsequently Tutor, Senior Tutor and President of St Catharine's before becoming its Master in 1946,  a post he held until 1957. He was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Khartoum from 1957 until his retirement in 1961.

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Wallace Thorneycroft. Wallace Thorneycroft  (1864–1954) was a 19th/20th century British mining engineer, businessman, coal-mine owner and geologist. He was President of the Institute of Mining Engineers. As a geologist and archaeologist he was an expert on vitrified forts and one of the first to undertake practical experiments to establish their mode of construction.

Life

He was born in Dorchester on 24 February 1864, the son of Thomas Thorneycroft, and his wife, Jane Whitelaw. The family moved to the Mansion House in Tettenhall in his youth. He was educated privately at Charterhouse School. He studied Mining Engineering at Owen's College in Manchester then was apprenticed to Simpson and Rankine in Glasgow.

He trained as a mining engineer and based himself in central Scotland. His first position was as manager of Merrytown Colliery in Hamilton from 1889, then moving eastwards, and living at 25 Snowdon Place in Stirling from 1896.

In 1894 he rented the Plean estate to open a colliery, from 1897 living himself on-site at Plean House, near Stirling in central Scotland, the former mansion of the late William Simpson of the East India Company. The estate had been historically part of the lands owned by Robert Haldane of Airthrey Castle. Plean House was built by Francis Simpson in 1819. The Simpson family held title to the estate until 1922 when it was bought in its entirety by Thorneycroft.

In 1902 he also became Director of Lochgelly Coal and Iron Co. in central Fife.

In 1907 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers  were fellow geologists John Horne, Ben Peach, Sir John Smith Flett and L. W. Hinxman.

His East Plean mine suffered a major underground explosion in 1922 with many dead and injured. Of the 520 total mining workforce 12 were killed at 59 injured.

In 1937 he came to relative fame in Europe by experimenting on recreating conditions to create a vitrified fort, this being in liaison with archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe. These experiments took place at one of his own mines: Plean Colliery.

He retired to Strete Ralegh, a mansion in Whimple, Dorset but retained Directorship of his Plean and Lochgelly companies.

He died in Weymouth on 26 April 1954 aged 90.

His colliery at Plean was closed in 1963 and is now just marked by a memorial.

Plean House was vacated by the Thorneycroft family in 1972 and is now ruinous. The estate and former colliery and slag-heaps were acquired by Stirling District Council in 1988 and the colliery area relandscaped. The combined areas now form Plean Country Park.

Family
He married Margaret Campbell and they had at least six children.

Publications
 Childe, V. G. & Thorneycroft, W. (1938), The Experimental Production of the Phenomena Distinctive of Vitrified Forts. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 72, 44–55. / ADS

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1864 births
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British geologists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Roger Gaspard. Roger Gaspard (April 27, 1902 – August 14, 1982) was a French engineer and member of the French Resistance.

Biography 
The son of a colonial artillery officer, Roger Gaspard was a student at the École Polytechnique, the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and the École supérieure d'électricité. He was an engineer and then Chief engineer of the Department of Roads and Bridges of Seine from 1927 to 1942. Gaspard was also Chief of Staff of Paul Ramadier, Secretary of State for Public Works between June 1936 and January 1938, and then Director of Electricity at the Ministry of Industrial Production. Gaspard represented the government at the Committee for the Organization of Electric Power between 1942 and 1946.

A member of the French Resistance, Gaspard was arrested and imprisoned for hiding copper from the German authorities.
 
After the liberation of France and the nationalization of the electricity sector, Gaspard began a career at Électricité de France (EDF) and became a deputy director general in 1946, director general from 1947 to 1962, and then chairman from 1962 to 1964. At the same time, he was vice-chair of the Compagnie nationale du Rhône from 1946 to 1962 and Chair of Schneider Electric from 1966 to 1969.

Gaspard was Chair of the Ligue nationale contre le cancer – National League Against Cancer from 1971 to 1981.

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British Aerospace P.1233-1 Saba. The British Aerospace P.1233-1 Saba (Small Agile Battlefield Aircraft) was a project of a British anti-helicopter and close air support attack aircraft, designed by British Aerospace.

Specifications

See also

 PZL-230 Skorpion
 Scaled Composites ARES

References

External links
 
 
 
 

P.1233
Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United Kingdom
Propfan-powered aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Canard aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Bob Pratt (inventor). Bob Pratt is an inventor of cannabis consumption devices and a former aerospace engineer. His background in thermal testing for space applications helped him create a fast-heating vaporizer using a compact halogen light as a heat source. Pratt is a co-founder of Herbalizer, a company that develops vaporizers for cannabis use.

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Hetherington Prize. The Hetherington Prize has been awarded once a year since 1991 at Oxford University for the best doctoral thesis presentation in the Department of Materials. The first ever prize (1991) was awarded to Prof. Kwang-Leong Choy (D.Phil., DSc, FIMMM, FRSC, CSci), who went on to become the Director of the Institute for Materials Discovery at University College London and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

The award is almost exclusively awarded to only one doctoral candidate per year, but in two years it was shared (in 2011 to Nike Dattani and Lewys Jones, and in 2015 to Nina Klein, Aaron Lau, and Joe O'Gorman).

List of notable winners of the Hetherington Prize

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Ting Tsung Chao. Ting Tsung "T.T." Chao (1921 – March 7, 2008) was a Taiwanese-American engineer. He was a pioneer in international petrochemical and plastics industries in Asia and North America.

History
Chao was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. Chao graduated from Shanghai University with a degree in Industrial Management and began a career in the railroad industry. After the Second World War Chao relocated to Taiwan and created the first polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant. The plant began production in 1957 and assisted in Taiwan's economic development.

In 1964, Chao formed The Chao Group, a privately held petrochemical and plastics manufacturing conglomerate which worked with various multinational corporations including Gulf Oil Corporation, Mobil Oil Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation and others. Chao's joint venture with Mattel in 1966 produced the first Barbie dolls. Chao later formed Westlake Chemical Corporation in 1986 in Texas, Titans Chemical Corporation in 1988,  which was the first and largest petrochemical company in Malaysia, and Suzhou Huasu Plastics Co. Ltd in 1992. His son, James Y. Chao, is currently chairman of Westlake Chemical. His second son, Albert Chao, is president and CEO.

In 2005, Chao received the Petrochemical Heritage Award. Chao was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame in 2011.

Family
As of 2015, his family was ranked 39th in America's richest families with an estimated net worth of $7.2 billion. The family was ranked 4th richest family in Texas.

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Yuqing Gao. Yuqing Gao is a Computer Scientist noted for her research on
middleware and speech-to-speech translation.

Biography

Gao received a 
Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from 
Southeast University in
Jiangsu, China in 1989.

She worked at Apple Computer from 1993-1995. She had a long career at IBM
as a manager and researcher from 1995-2014, and was an IBM Distinguished
Engineer in 2013.  Between 2015 and 2020, she was with Microsoft. As of 2020, she is with Amazon.

Awards

Her notable awards include:
 IEEE Fellow (2009) 
 2009 ABIE Award Winner

References

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21st-century Chinese scientists
21st-century Chinese women scientists
Apple Inc. people
Fox-1Cliff. Fox-1Cliff, AO-95 or AMSAT OSCAR 95 is an American amateur radio satellite.  Fox-1Cliff is a 1U CubeSat built by AMSAT-NA that carries a single-channel transponder for mode U/V in FM.

The satellite carries several student experiments:

 Vanderbilt University Low Energy Proton (LEP) radiation experiment (flight spare from Fox-1A)
 Penn State University Erie gyroscope experiment

It also carries a VGA camera provided by Virginia Tech.

Mission 

Fox-1Cliff was launched on 3 December, 2018 via Falcon 9 Block 5 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, United States.

Receiver failure 
Shortly after deployment, AO-95's receiver suffered a failure due to unknown reasons.

Name 
The satellite is the third of five Fox-1 satellites, and was originally named Fox-1C.  In 2016, it was renamed Fox-1Cliff in honor of Cliff Buttschardt, a long time member of AMSAT and a contributor to the project, who died earlier that year.  After its launch, Fox-1Cliff was renamed AO-95.

See also 

 Fox-1A
 Fox-1B
 Fox-1D

References 

Satellites orbiting Earth
Amateur radio satellites
Spacecraft launched in 2018
Anuradha Annaswamy. Anuradha M. Annaswamy is a computer scientist noted for her research on adaptive control theory and smart grids. Since 1996, she has worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently, Annaswamy is a senior research scientist at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Director of the Active Adaptive Control Laboratory (a flight controls group).

Career
Annaswamy received a B.E. degree from Indian Institute of Science in 1979. Following this, she completed a Ph.D in Computer science from Yale University in 1985.

In 2014, Annaswamy was awarded a grant, valued at £1,783,855, from the National Science Foundation to lead the project "Towards resilient computational models of electricity-gas ICI", in partnership with colleagues Christopher Knittel and Ignacio Perez-Arriaga.

Annaswamy has published over 500 academic publications, receiving over 18,000 citations. She has an h-index and i10-index of 56 and 210 respectively. Annaswamy's most cited publication (with over 5,000 citations), Stable adaptive systems, offers an understanding of the global stability properties essential to designing adaptive systems.

Awards
IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member (2016)
IEEE Fellow (2002) for "contributions to adaptive control theory, neural networks and active-adaptive control of combustion systems."

 2017 Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control
 2017 Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Control Systems Society
 2010 Best Paper Award, IEEE Control Systems Magazine
 2008 Donald Julius Groen Prize, Institute of Mechanical Engineers
 2008 Hans Fischer Fellow, Technische Universitat Munchen-Institute for Advanced Studies
 1988 George Axelby best paper award, IEEE Trans. Autom. Control

Personal life
Annaswamy is married to Mandayam Srinivasan.

Bibliography
 Stable adaptive systems. Kumpati S Narendra, and Anuradha M Annaswamy. 2012. Courier Corporation.
 A new adaptive law for robust adaptation without persistent excitation. Kumpatis Narendra and Anuradham Annaswamy. 1987. IEEE Transactions on Automatic control. 32(2):134-145.
 Response of a laminar premixed flame to flow oscillations: A kinematic model and thermoacoustic instability results. M Fleifil, Anuradha M Annaswamy, ZA Ghoneim, Ahmed F Ghoniem. 1996. Combustion and flame. 106(4):487-510.
 Adaptive control of quadrotor UAVs: A design trade study with flight evaluations. Zachary T Dydek, Anuradha M Annaswamy, Eugene Lavretsky. 2012.  IEEE Transactions on control systems technology. 21(4): 1400-1406.
Cyber-Physical-Human Systems: Fundamentals and Applications.  Sarah K., Anuradha Annaswamy, Pramod P., Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue. 2022

References

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Living people
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The Edge (Amsterdam). The Edge is a building in Amsterdam. Deloitte has a headquarters there.

It was considered the greenest and smartest building in the world. It has 28 thousand sensors, connected to a network that not only coordinates the logistics of the building and people, how it collects and analyzes data on community behaviour. The British rating agency BREEAM awarded the building a record sustainability score of 98.4 percent, the highest ever given. 

Features include the orientation of the building, solar panels, underground water aquifer thermal storage pumps and sensors on lights.

References

Further reading
PLP Architecture's promotion page - 
BREEAM's promotion page -

External links

Developer page

Deloitte
Buildings and structures in Amsterdam
Office buildings completed in 2015
Semiclassical transition state theory. Semiclassical Transition State Theory (SCTST) is an efficient chemical rate theory, which aims to calculate accurate rate constants of chemical reactions, including nuclear quantum effects such as tunnelling, from ab initio quantum chemistry. The method makes use of the semiclassical WKB wavefunction, Bohr-sommerfeld theory and vibrational perturbation theory to derive an analytical relation for the probability of a particle transmitting through a potential barrier at some energy, E. It was first developed by Bill Miller and coworkers in the 1970's, and has been further developed to allow for application to larger systems and using more accurate potentials.

References 

Chemical reactions
Ag-Sb2S3. {{DISPLAYTITLE:Ag-Sb2S3}}
Ag-Sb2S3, also known as black silver, is a nanoporous plasmonic absorber and nanomaterial. The material was first discovered by a team at the National University of Singapore and is composed of silver, antimony, and sulfur. It is an inexpensive nanomaterial with a wide range of applications. Applications include biomolecule detectors and solar energy conversion. This is caused by the material having a strong absorption of light along with a  structure that be engineered to optically detect traces of biomolecules.

References 

Nanomaterials
William E. Spicer. William Edward Spicer (September 7, 1929 – June 6, 2004) was an American engineering academic.

Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on September 7, 1929, Spicer enrolled at the College of William and Mary, earning his first bachelor's degree in physics in 1949, followed by an equivalent degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951. He then attended University of Missouri, completing master's and doctoral degrees in the same subject in 1953 and 1955, respectively. Spicer then worked for the Radio Corporation of America until 1962, when he joined the Stanford University faculty. Spicer received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1978, the same year he was appointed Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering. Spicer was granted emeritus status in 1992, and continued research work until his death of heart failure in London on June 6, 2004. Over the course of his career Spicer was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE, as well as member of the  American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a co-recipient of the APS Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 1980, won the Medard W. Welch Award of the American Vacuum Society in 1984, followed by the Lifetime Mentor Award bestowed by AAAS in 2000.

After his death the Best Student Paper Award of the U.S. Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Materials was named for Spicer. Upon Thomas Noel Castleman's death in 2010, the award became known as the William E. Spicer - Thomas N. Casselman Award for Best Student Paper.

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People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the IEEE
RCA people
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners