omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Karla Hoffman. Karla Leigh Hoffman is an American operations researcher, and the former president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. She is a professor of systems engineering and operations research in the Volgenau School of Engineering of George Mason University. Her research has focused on practical applications of operations research and optimization to problems including transportation scheduling, airport landing slot allocation, spectrum auctions, and telecommunications budgeting.

Education and career
Hoffman graduated from Rutgers University in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She then studied operations research at George Washington University, earning an MBA in 1971 and completing her doctorate (D.Sc.) in 1975. Her dissertation, A Successive Underestimation Function for Concave Minimization, was directed by James E. Falk.

She became a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1975 and remained at NIST as a mathematics researcher in the Operations Research Division until 1984, when she moved to George Mason University. She was promoted to full professor in 1989, and served as acting chair and chair of her department from 1996 to 2001, seeing it through a change of name from operations research and operations engineering to systems engineering and operations research.

She served as president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for the 1998 term.

Recognition
In 1984, Hoffman won both the Department of Commerce Silver Medal and the inaugural Applied Research Award of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences elected her as a Fellow in 2003, and gave her their George E. Kimball Medal for distinguished service to the institute and the profession in 2005. In 2009 she became the first recipient of the Harvey J. Greenberg Impact Award for Service to the INFORMS Computing Society.

In 2018, a team of researchers organized by Hoffman and working for the Federal Communications Commission on spectrum allocation won the INFORMS Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research, and Management Science.

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women engineers
American operations researchers
Women systems engineers
Rutgers University alumni
George Washington University alumni
National Institute of Standards and Technology people
George Mason University faculty
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Maip Muritaka Rural LLG. Maip Muritaka Rural LLG is a local-level government of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea.

In the news coverage of the 2024 Enga landslide affecting Yambali and Kaokalam villages, it was generally referred to as "Mulitaka".

Wards
01. Tumudane
02. Walya
03. Yeim
04. Yalum
05. Tombaip
06. Rumbapes
07. Yambali
08. Mulitaka
09. Torenam
10. Malaumanda
11. Lauk
12. Tokom (Winjak)
13. Lemong/Poreak
14. Kaundak
15. Pokolip
16. Yuyango
17. Puaipak
18. Paitengis
19. Ipalopa

See also
2024 Enga landslide

References

Local-level governments of Enga Province
Robodoc. Robodoc may refer to:

 Robot doctor (medical)
 ROBODoc (software), automated source code documentation tool
 RoboDoc (film), 2008 National Lampoon medical comedy
 Robo Doc (robot), a combat robot featured on the television show Robot Wars, see List of Robot Wars robots

See also

 Robo (disambiguation)
 Doc (disambiguation)
 Doc Robot (DC Comics), a comic book character, see List of Metal Men members
 Robot
 Robotics
 Roboticist, such as doctor of robotics
 Cyberneticist, such as doctor of cybernetics
 Doctor Cyber, comic book character
 Cyber Doctor, online health website
Eugene O'Brien (engineer). Eugene O'Brien is a professor of Civil Engineering at University College Dublin.

Prior to joining academia he worked for a number of Engineering companies including G Maunsell & Partners and Mott MacDonald during the course of which he designed a number of bridges. In his later career he established a software company, Tower Software, which concentrated on developing software for engineers.

References

Academics of University College Dublin
Irish civil engineers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Kirazuri. Kirazuri  is a method used in Japanese woodblock printmaking using mica powder, or  to add sparkle.

When used for the background in portraits, depending on the base color, it is called Shiro-kirazuri (white), Kuro-kirazuri (literally black, but dark gray practically), and Beni-kirazuri (red).

Types 
There are several different types of kirazuri:

Surikira  which is a printing method where mica is mixed into the printing ink. Mineral paints are diluted with water and gelatin as binding, and put on the printing woodblock for background coloring.
Makikira  where very fine mica peppers are applied on paper using a sprinkling tool. While adhesive brushed onto paper surface is still wet, mica is shaken over it and attaches to it. Unfixed mica is removed with brush strokes after the paper dries.
Okikira  the design is painted with a mixture of mica and glue on brush, and the glue functions as a thickening agent to give texture to brush strokes.

Gallery

Further reading

See also 
 Sharaku
 Utamaro

References 

Ukiyo-e techniques
ClassRanked. ClassRanked is an American educational technology company based in Salt Lake City, UT that offers higher education enterprise software for course evaluation, reporting, and survey management.

The company was founded at Duke University as a data-centric platform exclusively building internal software for college and university faculty and administrators.

Platform

ClassRanked offers higher education enterprise softwarefor course evaluation, reporting, and survey management. The platform utilizes AI, student and course attributes, trend analysis, and comparisons across colleges.

History
Origins and growth
ClassRanked was founded at Duke University by Hayden Hall, Max Labaton, and Dilan Trivedi in their junior year. While registering for classes, they spent hours searching to fulfill academic requirements. Hall proposed building a site to streamline and automate this process, coding and developing a platform that combined course evaluations, grade distribution data, and user reviews.

ClassRanked was initially launched at Duke University. By the end of its first week, ClassRanked had over 1,200 user reviews and within a month was being actively used by over 80% of Duke’s student body.

By the end of August 2019, ClassRanked announced its expansion to University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Emory University. As of April 2021, the company had expanded over 400 colleges and universities with data from courses taught by more than 300,000 faculty members.

SaaS product expansion
The company announced in 2022 that it was shifting resources and focus to building higher education enterprise software for course evaluation, reporting, and survey management. The new software platform was rolled out nationwide to universities the following year.

References 

American review websites
Educational personnel assessment and evaluation
Educational technology companies of the United States
Education companies of the United States
American educational websites
Companies based in Raleigh, North Carolina
Software companies of the United States
Mario Rocca. Mario Agostino Rocca (born in Genoa, Italy, on 27 June 1956) is an Italian experimental physicist. His main contributions are on the experimental measurement of surface phonon spectra, conventional and acoustic surface plasmon dispersion, and gas surface interaction.

Career

Mario Rocca graduated in physics in 1981 at the University of Genoa. For his PhD studies, he moved to the Forschungzentrum Jülich and became Doctor Rerum Naturae at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH) in 1985 under the supervision of Harald Ibach with a thesis on surface phonon anomalies induced by adsorption of gases. He was a research staff member at the University of Genoa from 1984 to 1992, when he became associate professor. Since 2001, Rocca has been holding the position of full professor of Condensed matter physics. Between 2002 and 2005 he was Deputy Director of the Department of Physics of the University of Genoa. He is vice-chair of the Surface Science Division of the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique, and Application (IUVSTA) and member of the scientific board of the Italian Union of Scientists for Disarmament. He was editor of Surface Science Reports until 2018, currently he is editor of Applied Surface Science and of Springer Series in Surface Science. He directs the International Summer School on Science Management for Scientists and Engineers. According to a PLOS Biology, Mario Rocca is among the 100.000 top-scientists of the world.

Selected publications

 Mario Rocca Low-energy EELS investigation of surface electronic excitation on metals, Surface Science Reports, 22 (1995), pp. 1-71.
 Diaconescu B. et al. Low energy acoustic plasmons at metal surfaces, Nature, 448 (2007), pp. 57-59.
 Vattuone L.et al. Bridging the structure gap: Chemistry of nanostructured surfaces at well-defined defects, Surface Science Reports, 63 (2008), pp. 101-168.

References 

1956 births
Living people
20th-century  Italian  physicists
21st-century  Italian  physicists
Experimental physicists
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20th-century Italian male writers
Scientists from Genoa
Italian academic journal editors
Herbert E. Grier. Herbert Earl Grier (July 3, 1911 — March 17, 1999) was an American electrical engineer. While starting his engineering career with MIT during the 1930s to 1940s, Grier co-invented a 
miniature stroboscope and handheld flash with Harold Edgerton and Kenneth Germeshausen. During World War II, Grier built a firing mechanism during the Manhattan Project that was used in the Fat Man bomb. 

After he, Edgerton and Germeshausen created EG&G in 1947, Grier was involved in several nuclear tests including Operation Sandstone and Operation Ranger. With EG&G, Grier was president until 1976 and served as a consultant from 1983 to 1994. Apart from electrical engineering, he took part in NASA safety boards that assessed Skylab and the preparation of the first Space Shuttle. Grier was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1985 and the National Medal of Science in 1989.

Early life and education 
Grier was born on July 3, 1911, in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of eleven, Grier and his family left Chicago to live in New York City. For his post-secondary education, Grier graduated with a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1930s.

Career 
Grier started his career as an electrical engineer for MIT from 1934 to 1947. During this time period, Grier co-invented a miniature stroboscope alongside Harold Edgerton and Kenneth Germeshausen in 1934. Years later, Grier and his colleagues created a Kodak handheld flash for newspaper photographers in 1940. While working on aerial photography for Edgerton during World War II, Grier joined the Manhattan Project and built the firing mechanism used in the Fat Man bomb.

After forming EG&G with Edgerton and Germeshausen in 1947, Grier was involved in nuclear testings between the late 1940s and early 1950s. These included Operation Sandstone, Operation Ranger and Operation Ivy.
With EG&G, Grier was the company's president until 1976 and was a consultant from 1983 to 1994. Other executive roles Grier had were president of CER Geonuclear Company from 1965 to 1983 and chairman of Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Company from 1969 to 1971. Outside of electrical engineering, Grier was selected for a 1973 NASA advisory board on safety that reviewed Skylab. He also led a 1980 safety committee that assessed the preparation of the first NASA Space Shuttle.

Awards and honors 
Grier was a recipient of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1985 and the National Medal of Science in 1989.

Personal life 
Grier died on March 17, 1999, in La Jolla, California. He was married and had three children.

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NASA people
Kodak people
National Medal of Science laureates
Recipients of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Fan Chunhai. Fan Chunhai (; born March 1974) is a Chinese chemist and Chair Professor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Early life and education
Fan was born in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province in March 1974.
He received his a bachelor's degree and doctor's degree from Nanjing University in 1996 and 2000, respectively. He was a postdoc at the University of California, Santa Barbara under Alan J. Heeger.

Career
He returned to China in July 2000 and that same year became director of the Laboratory of Physical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

In April 2018 he joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University as a Chair Professor.

In December 2017 he became a member of the 14th Central Committee of Jiusan Society.

Honours and awards
 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
 Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)
 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
 November 18, 2019 Youth Innovation Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
 November 22, 2019 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
 2019 ACS Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship winners

References

External links
 Dr. Chunhai Fan, Professor  on the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

1974 births
People from Zhangjiagang
Living people
Nanjing University alumni
Chemists from Jiangsu
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Members of the Jiusan Society
Scientists from Suzhou
Priya Balasubramaniam. Priya Balasubramaniam is an engineer with a background in mechanical engineering, supply chain management. She is currently the vice president of Core Technologies Operations and iPhone Operations at Apple Inc.

Career 

Priya joined Apple Inc. in 2001. In June 2006 she became Director for Core Technologies Procurement which included touch panels, LCD and batteries. In July 2010 she became a Senior Director in the company. Since October 2014, she has worked as Vice President of Core Technologies & iPhone Operations.

While working at Apple she has been instrumental in negotiating a new deal to have Apple products manufactured in India, one of the world’s fastest-growing smartphone markets, and diversifying its supply chain beyond China. In September 2019, Apple confirmed its plans to expand to India following an easing of the country’s rules regarding foreign companies.

Honors and awards 

In December 2017, Balasubramaniam was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Engineering by Michigan State University.

In February 2017, she was named the fifth most powerful female engineer in an article published by Business Insider titled "The 43 most powerful female engineers of 2017".

In June 2018, she was named the fourth most powerful female engineer in the Business Insider article "The 39 most powerful female engineers of 2018".

References

1972 births
Living people
Indian mechanical engineers
Bangalore University alumni
Michigan State University alumni
Apple Inc. employees
Adrian Lewis (mathematician). Adrian Stephen Lewis (born 1962 in England) is a British-Canadian mathematician, specializing in variational analysis and nonsmooth optimization.

Education and career
At the University of Cambridge he graduated with B.A. in mathematics in 1983, M.A. in 1987, and Ph.D. in engineering in 1987. His doctoral dissertation is titled Extreme point methods for infinite linear programming. Lewis was a postdoc at Dalhousie University. In Canada he was a faculty member at the University of Waterloo from 1989 to 2001 and at Simon Fraser University from 2001 to 2004. Since 2004 he has been a full professor at Cornell University and since 2018 has been the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering. From 2010 to 2013, he served as the School's director.

Lewis has held visiting appointments at academic institutions in France, Italy, New Zealand, the United States, and Spain.
He is a co-editor for Mathematical Programming, Series A and an associate editor for Set-Valued and Variational Analysis and for Mathematika. He has been a member of the editorial boards of Mathematics of Operations Research, the SIAM Journal on Optimization, the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and the MPS/SIAM Series on Optimization.

Much of his research deals with "semi-algebraic optimization and variational properties of eigenvalues." With Jonathan Borwein he co-authored the book Convex Analysis and Nonlinear Optimization (2000, 2nd edition 2006).

Lewis holds British and Canadian citizenship and permanent residency in the USA.

Selected publications

Awards and honours
 1995–1996 – Aisenstadt Prize of the Canadian Centre de recherches mathématiques
 2003 – Lagrange Prize for Continuous Optimization from SIAM and the Mathematical Programming Society
 2009 – Fellow of SIAM
 2014 – Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians at Seoul
 2018 – INFORMS Computing Society Prize (with James V. Burke, Frank E. Curtis, and Michael L. Overton)
 2020 – John von Neumann Theory Prize from INFORMS

References

External links

1962 births
Living people
20th-century British mathematicians
21st-century British mathematicians
20th-century Canadian mathematicians
21st-century Canadian mathematicians
Variational analysts
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Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
Cornell University College of Engineering faculty
Canadian people of English descent
Peter Pagé. Peter Pagé (8 July 1939 – 14 November 2020) was a German software pioneer. He joined Software AG in Darmstadt in 1971 as one of 6 employees and in 1975 became Vice President of Software AG. Page developed NATURAL as the first fourth-generation programming language, which was instrumental in Software AG's success.

Life 
Pagé was born in Arolsen/Waldeck. After graduating from a gymnasium in Wiesbaden and studying electrical engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, he worked from 1966 to 1970 as a hardware developer for process computers at AEG in Seligenstadt, where, as project manager, he was responsible for the development and introduction of process computer systems, including the AEG 60-10 system.

In 1971, Pagé joined the Institute for Applied Information Processing (AIV), from which Software AG later emerged. From 1975, together with Margit Neumann, he developed the innovative software development environment Natural as the first fourth-generation programming language. NATURAL revolutionized the creation of applications on mainframe computers with a completely interactive way of working. This has resulted in significant increases in productivity and shorter implementation times for application solutions.

From 1977 Pagé as a member of the Vorstand, executive board, was responsible for marketing and sales as well as product development, where he largely built up the current product portfolio and adapted it to new market requirements in several cycles over many years. In 1990, he designed and implemented Entire Function Server Architecture (ENTIRE), the first service-oriented architecture (SOA). Pagé left the company in 1992 after differences with Peter Schnell over Software AG's future strategy when the company had about 4.500 employees worldwide.

In the following year, he received his doctorate from TU Berlin. The title of his PhD thesis was "Object-Oriented Software in Commercial Applications".

In 1994, Pagé joined Siemens Nixdorf AG as a member of the executive board and chief technology officer responsible for systems strategy and application software. In this function, he gave the company  the "User Centered Computing"-architecture, which was in principle a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and reorganized their highly fragmented software offering.

References 

1939 births
2020 deaths
Siemens people
German computer scientists
Businesspeople in information technology
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Orliński RO-7 Orlik. The Orliński RO-7 Orlik (Eaglet) was a prize-winning Polish home-built aircraft, first flown in 1987. It was restored to flight, with improvements, in 2003.

Design and development

Roman Orliński began to design the Orlik in the spring of 1984. Its first flight was made on 22 February 1987.

It has a two part, low, rectangular plan, wooden wing set with 5° of dihedral and built around a single main spar. Plywood skin ahead of the spar around the leading edge forms a torsion-resistant D-box; behind the spar the wing is fabric covered. Its ailerons, mounted on an auxiliary spar, fill a little under half the span.

The forward fuselage has a welded steel-tube structure but the rear is a wooden monocoque; throughout, the section is essentially rectangular with rounded decking. Behind the metal-covered, conventionally mounted engine, a Walter Mikron III salvaged from an earlier project, the forward fuselage is ply covered. The cockpit is over the wing, normally enclosed by a two-part canopy though it can be flown open with only its windscreen in place.

The Orlik's tail is conventional and angular, its tall, trapezoidal profile fin carrying a similarly shaped, balanced and tabbed rudder. Its rectangular plan tailplane is mounted on the top of the extreme rear fuselage, placing its straight-edged, tapered, one-piece, tabbed elevator behind the rudder. The rudder is entirely fabric-covered and the elevator largely so.

The landing gear is conventional and fixed, with steel tube, V-strut main legs hinged from the lower fuselage longerons. Each leg is cross-linked to the top of the other with a steel rod and has an elastic shock absorber within the fuselage. Originally the rather small wheels were exposed. The castoring tailwheel was on a long, trailing spring.

The Orlik proved to be easy and pleasant to fly. Criticisms were confined to its landing limitations; the absence of flaps meant a shallow approach, the absence of brakes could be a problem at short strips and its small wheels did not suit rough surfaces.

After a period of disuse the Orlik was quickly restored to flight in mid-2003. Photographs from that year show the wheels enclosed in spats and flaps which occupy all the trailing edge inboard of the aileron. It underwent a series of quantitative tests with results good enough to encourage Orliński's son to start a second airframe in 2004. It is not known if this was completed.

Operational history

Five months after its first flight in 1987 the Orlik appeared in public for the first time at the 6th Amateur Constructors' Rally. It made a good impression and took one of the two first prizes. After restoration and tests in 2003, it flew in public at an Air Force open day in September 2010.

Specifications

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Homebuilt aircraft
1980s Polish sport aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1987