omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Elwro. Elwro was a Polish company that manufactured mainframe and microcomputers from 1959 until 1989.  Its plant was in Wroclaw. Computer models included Odra mainframe systems, and the Elwro 800 Junior microcomputer for education.

Overview

The Wroclaw Electronic Works (Wrocławskie Zakłady Elektroniczne) were established  6 February 1959; the name Elwro was derived from the company's telegraphic address.  The first model designed at this plant was the vacuum-tube based Odra 1001, released in December 1960; this was a research computer not put into serial production. The next model was the Odra 1002 which was constructed from transistors made in Poland, in 1962.  The Elwro factory was responsible for mass production of the tube-based UMC-1 designed at Warsaw University of Technology; twenty-five units were built from 1962 through 1965. Concurrently, design work was proceeding on the Odra 1003 transistor computer, which was faster than the UMC-1, and used much less power. The first 1003 was built in 1963 and work was continued on improvements, resulting in the 1013 which was faster, and had a 256 word core memory as well as a drum with 8000 words.

In 1966, the Odra 1204 was built, with 16 k words of magnetic core  memory and a 130 k word drum. This machine was aimed at data processing.  However, software production was a bottleneck and the company was directed to produce a computer compatible with the ICL 1900; this "compatible" machine was the Odra 1304. It went into serial production in 1970. The Odra 1305 used integrated circuits and began production in 1970; it had one million bytes of main memory and disk drives to store 100 million bytes. The 1325 became popular because it supported common programming languages of the time such as ALGOL, COBOL and FORTRAN.

By 1966 the factory had built 100 computers.

From 1985 to 1990 Elwro produced the Elwro 800 Junior microcomputer for education.

Peak employment at the plant was up to 6000 people.  The factory was privatized in 1993 and purchased by Siemens, but wound down production. In 2000, the remains of the company were purchased by an American company, Telect, with plans to manufacture telecommunications equipment.

In 2015 the Wrocław city council named the former location of the factory, ELWRO Square, to commemorate the company's contributions to information technology.

See also

History of computing in Poland
Jan Węglarz

References

Defunct manufacturing companies of Poland
1959 establishments in Poland
Computer companies established in 1959
Companies based in Wrocław
Electronics companies of Poland
Computer companies disestablished in 1989
Garth Carnaby. Garth Alan Carnaby  (born 1950) is a New Zealand fibre physicist and science and public administrator.

Biography
Carnaby completed a PhD at the Department of Textile Industries at University of Leeds in 1976. The title of his doctoral thesis was The structure and mechanical properties of wool carpet yarns. He then returned to New Zealand, where he rose to become managing director of the Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand.

In 1989 Carnaby received a DSc by thesis (Publications and papers on wool and the wool industry) from the University of New South Wales, followed by an honorary DSc from Lincoln University in 2010.

Carnaby served as president of the Royal Society of New Zealand from 2009 to 2012, preceded by Neville Jordan and followed by David Skegg.

Carnaby has also served as chair of the board of the Canterbury Development Corporation and chair for Marsden Fund Council (2005–2009). He has served as 'Entrepreneur in Residence' and chair of the Research and Commercialisation Committee at Lincoln University.

Honours
In 1992, Carnaby was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

In the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, Carnaby was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the wool industry. He was promoted to Companion of the same order in the 2018 New Year Honours, for services to science and governance.

Selected works 
 Carnaby, Garth A., and Ning Pan. "Theory of the compression hysteresis of fibrous assemblies." Textile Research Journal 59.5 (1989): 275–284.
 Postle, Ron, Garth Alan Carnaby, and Stuart De Jong. "The mechanics of wool structures." (1988).
 Lee, Dae Hoon, and Garth A. Carnaby. "Compressional Energy of the Random Fiber Assembly: Part I: Theory." Textile research journal 62.4 (1992): 185–191.
 Pan, N., and Garth A. Carnaby. "Theory of the shear deformation of fibrous assemblies." Textile Research Journal 59.5 (1989): 285–292.

References

External links
 

Living people
Presidents of the Royal Society of New Zealand
1950 births
University of New South Wales alumni
Lincoln University (New Zealand) alumni
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
20th-century New Zealand physicists
21st-century New Zealand physicists
William Bryson (civil engineer). William Edward Bryson (1823 – 24 June 1903) was a British civil engineer, surveyor and architect who was involved in major railway projects in Ireland, Scotland, the United States, and Australia. He was born in Edinburgh on 1823, educated at the Academy of Design in Dublin, and worked initially in Ireland in the construction of the Dublin and Mullingar Railway, and then in Scotland, on the Dumfries and Glasgow Railway.

Railway work
Bryson worked on the Midland and Great Western railway lines in Ireland under G. W. Hemans, who was engineer-in-chief. These lines included substantial bridges on the River Shannon, River Suck and an arm of the sea, where Bryson may have gained experience in large bridge designs. He served as resident engineer in 28 miles of the line, which was completed in 1850. With the decline of railway work in Britain, Bryson emigrated to the USA in 1847, where he was involved in the construction of the Hudson River Railway and the LaSalle Street Tunnel in Chicago.

Bryson then journeyed to Australia and commenced work with the newly-formed Victorian Railways Department on the Melbourne to Bendigo railway line. He was responsible for designing most of the large structures on the line including bridges and viaducts under the supervision of George Christian Darbyshire.  Captain Andrew Clarke, R. E., Surveyor-General of Victoria was the overall design engineer for the line. Bryson stated to the Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly on Railway Contracts that he had designed most of the large bridges on the line. Clarke clearly influenced the design of the railway in setting the standards for the line. However, this was also a very costly undertaking, which stretched the colonial finances and this approach was later abandoned for more economic light lines in later Australian Railways.

Bryson was described as a Civil and Mechanical Engineer in 1857 when he became a member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria. He was also a member of the Royal Society of Victoria 1859–60 and employed at the "Government Railway Office". He published "Resources of Victoria & their development" in 1860 in the Royal Society’s Transactions.

Work after the railways
Bryson was surveyor and engineer for the shires of Boroondara, Goulburn, Nunawading and Oakleigh, and took an interest in defence matters, writing to the papers advising of possible protection measures and holding the position of Acting Lieutenant of the Collingwood Company of Volunteer Rifles. In his retirement, he lived in Toorak Road Camberwell and spent some if his time inventing. He obtained a patent (No 5,436 1859) for "Socketted insulator supports" on 3 November 1894.

Bryson died on 24 June 1903 at 27 Melville-street, Hawthorn, aged 80 years.

Major works
 Sunbury Viaduct
 Malmsbury Viaduct
 Taradale Viaduct
 LaSalle Street Tunnel
 Saltwater River Rail Bridge over the Maribyrnong River (stone abutments)

References

1823 births
1903 deaths
British civil engineers
Australian civil engineers
Engineers from Melbourne
Infer Static Analyzer. Infer, sometimes referred to as "Facebook Infer",  is a static code analysis  tool developed by an engineering team at Facebook along with open-source contributors. It provides support for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C, and 
is deployed at Facebook in the analysis of its Android and iOS apps (including those for WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and the main Facebook app).

History
Infer has its roots in academic research on separation logic, a theory for the formal verification of software. Work on automatic program verification based on separation logic led to a succession of academic tools, including Smallfoot and SpaceInvader. Building on the academic work, Cristiano Calcagno, Dino Distefano and Peter O'Hearn, three researchers at University College London and Queen Mary University of London, co-founded the verification startup Monoidics in 2009, and Monoidics developed the first version of Infer. Monoidics was acquired by Facebook in 2013, and in 2015 the code of Infer was open-sourced.

As of 2013 when Infer was open-sourced it was claimed that hundreds of bugs per month identified by Infer were fixed by Facebook's developers before reaching production. By 2015 this had increased to over 1000 bugs per month.

Spotify, Uber, Mozilla, Sky, and Marks and Spencer are among the reported users of Infer.

Technology
Infer performs checks for null pointer exceptions, resource leaks, annotation reachability, missing lock guards, and concurrency race conditions in Android and Java code. It checks for null pointer problems, memory leaks, coding conventions and unavailable API's in C, C++ and Objective C.

Infer uses a technique called bi-abduction to perform a compositional program analysis that interprets program procedures independently of their callers. It is claimed that this enables Infer to scale to large codebases and to run quickly on code-changes in an incremental fashion, while still performing an inter-procedural analysis that reasons across procedure boundaries.

Infer is wired up to the code review system at Facebook. Its deployment model is to comment automatically on code modifications as they are submitted for review, where it reports potential regressions. It does this by incrementally analyzing code changes via a job on Facebook's continuous integration system which runs in its data centers.

Infer also has a domain specific language for abstract syntax tree linting, based on ideas from model checking for computation tree logic.

Infer is mostly written in the OCaml programming language.

Awards
 received the Royal Academy of Engineering silver medal in 2014 in recognition of the acquisition of Monoidics.

Four Infer team members, Josh Berdine, Cristiano Calcagno, Dino Distafano and Peter O'Hearn, received the 2016 Computer Aided Verification Award, an award they shared with John C. Reynolds, Samin Ishtiaq and Hongseok Yang.

Peter O'Hearn was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2016, for his work on separation logic and Infer.

References

External links
 

Facebook software
Static program analysis
Software review
Quality assurance
2nd Forestry Engineering Division (People's Republic of China). 2nd Forestry Engineering Division() was activated in August 1952. The division was composed of:
Division HQ: former headquarters of 156th Division;
4th Regiment: former 522nd Regiment, 174th Division, 58th Corps;
5th Regiment: organized from former Liangguang Column;
6th Regiment: personnel from the former 159th Division.

The division is a production unit, after its formation the unit moved to Hainan for rubber plantation.

Soon after its arrival in Hainan, the division was demobilized. The division's further fate is unknown.

References
中国人民解放军林业工程部队第二师简介, http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_670e43e40101ed6r.html

Engineer divisions of the People's Liberation Army
Military units and formations established in 1952
Military units and formations disestablished in 1952
201st Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division. 201st Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division() was activated in January 1972 from Unit 406, 3rd Bureau of Second Ministry of Machine Building. The division was composed of 601st, 602nd, 603rd and 604th Engineer Regiments.

The division was under the command of Shenyang Military Region. Headquartered in Shenyang, the division acted as a nuclear program-related geologic survey unit in Northeastern China.

In July 1975 the division was transferred to Infrastructure Construction Engineer Office, Ministry of Second Machine Industry's control.

In August 1978, the division was renamed as 26th Detachment of Infrastructure Construction Engineer(). All its regiments were renamed as follow:
601st Regiment was renamed as 251st Group;
602nd Regiment was renamed as 252nd Group;
603rd Regiment was renamed as 253rd Group;
604th Regiment was renamed as 254th Group.

In October 1978 the detachment was transferred to Second Machine Industrial Command, Infrastructure Construction Engineer's control.

On January 1, 1984, the detachment was demobilized and reorganized as Northeastern Geologic Survey Bureau of the Ministry of Nuclear Industry.

References
基本建设工程兵, http://www.360doc.com/content/13/0926/07/5043925_317134826.shtml

Engineer divisions of the People's Liberation Army
Uranium mining in China
Military units and formations established in 1972
Military units and formations disestablished in 1984
203rd Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division. 203rd Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division() was activated in February 1972 from 209th Geologic Survey Unit and all other units in Guangdong under the command of the Second Ministry of Machine Building. The division was composed of 9 regiments:
617th Regiment - Uranium prospecting unit;
618th Regiment - Uranium prospecting unit;
619th Regiment - Uranium prospecting unit;
620th Regiment - Uranium prospecting unit;
621st Regiment - Uranium prospecting unit;
622nd Regiment - Uranium prospecting unit;
623rd Regiment - Uranium mine;
624th Regiment - Uranium mine;
625th Regiment - Uranium mine;

The division was under the command of Guangzhou Military Region. Headquartered in Shaoguan, the division acted as a Uranium-related geologic survey unit in Southern China.

In July 1975 the division was transferred to Infrastructure Construction Engineer Office, Ministry of Second Machine Industry's control.

In May 1978, the division was renamed as 27th Detachment of Infrastructure Construction Engineer(). All its regiments were renamed as follow:
617th Regiment was renamed as 261st Group;
618th Regiment was renamed as 262nd Group;
619th Regiment was renamed as 263rd Group;
620th Regiment was renamed as 264th Group;
621st Regiment was renamed as 265th Group;
622nd Regiment was renamed as 266th Group.
Uranium mine regiments were detached from the division (detachment) and reorganized into 25th Detachment of Infrastructure Construction Engineer.

In October 1978 the detachment was transferred to Second Machine Industrial Command, Infrastructure Construction Engineer's control.

On January 1, 1984, the detachment was demobilized and reorganized as Southern Geologic Survey Bureau of the Ministry of Nuclear Industry.

References
基本建设工程兵, http://www.360doc.com/content/13/0926/07/5043925_317134826.shtml

Engineer divisions of the People's Liberation Army
Uranium mining in China
Military units and formations established in 1972
Military units and formations disestablished in 1984
205th Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division. 205th Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division() was activated in November 1971, from all uranium prospecting units in Guangdong under the command of Ministry of Second Machine Industry. The division was composed of 3 regiments:
640th Regiment, in Xichang, Sichuan;
641st Regiment, in Deyang, Sichuan;
642nd Regiment, in Da County, Sichuan.

The division was under the command of Chengdu Military Region. Headquartered in Guanghan, the division acted as a Uranium-related geologic survey unit in Southwestern China.

In July 1975, the division was transferred to Infrastructure Construction Engineer Office, Ministry of Second Machine Industry's control.

In May 1978, the division was renamed as 28th Detachment of Infrastructure Construction Engineer(). All its regiments were renamed as follow:
640th Regiment was renamed as 271st Group;
641st Regiment was renamed as 272nd Group;
642nd Regiment was renamed as 273rd Group.

In October 1978, the detachment was transferred to Second Machine Industrial Command, Infrastructure Construction Engineer's control.

On January 1, 1984, the detachment was demobilized and reorganized as Southwestern Geologic Survey Bureau of the Ministry of Nuclear Industry.

References
基本建设工程兵, http://www.360doc.com/content/13/0926/07/5043925_317134826.shtml

Engineer divisions of the People's Liberation Army
Military units and formations established in 1971
Military units and formations disestablished in 1984
Abhai Sinha. Abhai Sinha   is an Indian Engineering Service (IES) officer, the former Director General of the Central Public Works Department, India (CPWD) and Principal Technical Advisor to the Government of India. He is responsible to the Ministry of Urban Development for the efficient administration and overall professional control of Public Works within the jurisdiction of CPWD. Under the leadership of Abhai Sinha, CPWD recorded a workload of Rs.12,200 cr during 2016–17.

Early life
Sinha was born on 30 June 1958. He received a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the IIT Roorkee in 1978. He joined CPWD as an engineer in 1980.

References

1958 births
Living people
Indian civil engineers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Neville Jordan. Sir Neville Jordan  (born 15 May 1943) is a New Zealand electrical engineer and businessman.

Biography
Born in Petone on 15 May 1943, Jordan was the third child of Hercules Jordan, a welder, and only child of Lydia Marie Jordan (née Ashman), a laundry worker. After completing the engineering intermediate year at Victoria University of Wellington, Jordan studied electrical engineering at the University of Canterbury from 1964 to 1966, graduation with a Bachelor of Engineering in 1967. He was a New Zealand universities judo representative. After graduating, he worked for companies including IBM and Philips.

In 1975, Jordan founded MAS Technology, a microwave technology company whose IPO was on the NASDAQ main board.

In 1995, he founded the Jordan Foundation, which provides scholarships for higher learning and support for the arts. In 1998, he founded venture capital business Endeavour Capital, which has invested in more than 35 New Zealand start-ups.

Jordan was president of the Royal Society of New Zealand between 2006 and 2009; preceded by Jim Watson and followed by Garth Carnaby.

From 2015 to 2018, Jordan was chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington, having been a member of the university council since 2013.

Honours and awards
In the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours, Jordan was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to telecommunications and export. He was conferred an honorary DEng degree by the University of Canterbury. In 2012, he was recognised as Wellingtonian of the year. In the 2015 New Year Honours, he was promoted to Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to business, science and the community. He is a Companion of Royal Society Te Apārangi.

In 2006, Jordan was inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame.

Jordan is retired officer of the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve and an honorary Captain of the Royal New Zealand Navy.

References

External links
 Endeavour Capital profile

1943 births
Living people
People from Petone
Victoria University of Wellington alumni
University of Canterbury alumni
Chancellors of Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand electrical engineers
New Zealand businesspeople
Presidents of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Knights Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
Companions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
3D nowcasting. 3D nowcasting refers to an experimental technology of nowcasting in meteorology that uses a rapid phased-array radar to predict precipitation several minutes in advance. The phased-array radar takes a scan of the sky in anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds, viewing 100 vertical levels in a range of 60 km. thus providing inputs every 30 seconds. It divides the sky into several "layers" and uses a new algorithm for forecasting very quickly. The models use the K computer, requiring a large amount of observational data, and a large amount of computational power. The radar produces 100 times more data than the conventional parabolic antenna radar.

Current research
Current research is being led by the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo Metropolitan University, and Osaka University. The technology is in experimental form as of July 4, 2017.

Past research
Since 2003, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been experimenting with phased-array weather radar as a replacement for conventional parabolic antenna to provide more time resolution in atmospheric sounding. This could be significant with severe thunderstorms, as their evolution can be better evaluated with more timely data.

Availability 
3D nowcasting is being tested in Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe, all in Japan.

Alternatives
Parabolic-antenna radar, which scans every 5 minutes for 15 scan levels.

References

Weather prediction
Radar meteorology