omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
PALISADE (software). PALISADE is an open-source cross platform software library that provides implementations of lattice cryptography building blocks and homomorphic encryption schemes.

History 
PALISADE adopted the open modular design principles of the predecessor SIPHER software library from the DARPA PROCEED program.  SIPHER development began in 2010, with a focus on modular open design principles to support rapid application deployment over multiple FHE schemes and hardware accelerator back-ends, including on mobile, FPGA and CPU-based computing systems.  PALISADE began building from earlier SIPHER designs in 2014, with an open-source release in 2017 and substantial improvements every subsequent 6 months.

PALISADE development was funded originally by the DARPA PROCEED and SafeWare programs, with subsequent improvements funded by additional DARPA programs, IARPA, the NSA, NIH, ONR, the United States Navy, the Sloan Foundation and commercial entities such as Duality Technologies.  PALISADE has subsequently been used in commercial offerings, such as by Duality Technologies who raised funding in a Seed round and a later Series A round led by Intel Capital.

In 2022 OpenFHE was released as a fork that also implements CKKS bootstrapping.

Features 
PALISADE includes the following features:

 Post-quantum public-key encryption
 Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)
 Brakerski/Fan-Vercauteren (BFV) scheme for integer arithmetic with RNS optimizations
 Brakerski-Gentry-Vaikuntanathan (BGV) scheme for integer arithmetic with RNS optimizations
 Cheon-Kim-Kim-Song (CKKS) scheme for real-number arithmetic with RNS optimizations
 Ducas-Micciancio (FHEW) scheme for Boolean circuit evaluation with optimizations
 Chillotti-Gama-Georgieva-Izabachene (TFHE) scheme for Boolean circuit evaluation with extensions
 Multiparty extensions of FHE
 Threshold FHE for BGV, BFV, and CKKS schemes
 Proxy re-encryption for BGV, BFV, and CKKS schemes
 Digital signature
 Identity-based encryption
 Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption

Availability 
There are several known git repositories/ports for PALISADE:

C++ 
 PALISADE Stable Release (official stable release repository)
 PALISADE Preview Release (official development/preview release repository)
 PALISADE Digital Signature Extensions
 PALISADE Attribute-Based Encryption Extensions (includes identity-based encryption and ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption)

JavaScript / WebAssembly 
 PALISADE WebAssembly (official WebAssembly port)

Python 
 Python Demos (official Python demos)

FreeBSD 
 PALISADE (FreeBSD port)

References 

Homomorphic encryption
Cryptographic software
Free and open-source software
Software using the BSD license
Free software programmed in C++
Abdellatif Miraoui. Abdellatif Miraoui (born 13 January 1962) is a former Moroccan Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Innovation. He was appointed as minister on 7 October 2021 and served until 23 October 2024, when he was succeeded by Azzedine El Midaoui following a government reshuffle.

Education 
Miraoui holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences (1992) from the University of Franche-Comté.

He achieved his habilitation in 1999.

Career 
In 1986, Miraoui worked as an engineer for Alsthom and in 1988, he was a consulting engineer at Paduch in France. Between 1993 and 1995, he was a lecturer at Dijon University and from 1995 until 1999 at the University of Franche-Comté.

In September 2000, he was appointed professor at Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM). In addition, he served as the head of the Department of Energy and Information Technology at the UTBM.

Between 2008 and 2011, he was Vice-President of Research at the UTBM.

From 2011 until 2019, he served as the President of Cadi-Ayyad University in Marrakech. In addition, he was President of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie between 2013 and 2017.

In December 2020, he was appointed Director of the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rennes (INSA Rennes).

He resigned on 8 October 2021, after the 2021 Moroccan general elections.

From 7 October 2021 to 23 October 2024, Miraoui served as the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Innovation. He was succeeded by Azzedine El Midaoui following a government reshuffle.

Honors and awards 

 Evaluator of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education at the Romanian Ministry of Higher Education and Research in 2006
 Expert at AERES (Agence de l’Evaluation de la Recherche et l’Enseignement Supérieur)
 Honorary Professor from the Transilvania University of Brasov in 2004
 Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in 2005
 Honorary Professor by the Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2015
 Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Pitesti in 2016
 Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine in 2018
 Member of the Moroccan Special Commission on the Development Model in 2019

References 

1962 births
Living people
21st-century Moroccan politicians
University of Franche-Comté alumni
Academic staff of the University of Burgundy
Academic staff of the University of Franche-Comté
Higher education ministers of Morocco
Heads of universities in Morocco
Frédérique Battin-Leclerc. Frédérique Battin-Leclerc (born 1964) is a French chemist who studies combustion, particularly gas-phase combustion of hydrocarbons including biofuels, in order to develop cleaner-burning automotive fuels. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés in Nancy, France.

Education and career
Battin-Leclerc was born in 1964. She earned an engineering degree from the École nationale supérieure des industries chimiques in Nancy in 1987, completed a Ph.D. at the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine in Nancy in 1991, and earned a habilitation at the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine in 1997.

She has been a researcher for the CNRS since 1991.

Recognition
Battin-Leclerc won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2010, and was named as a knight in the Ordre national du Mérite in 2012.

She was elected to the inaugural 2018 class of Fellows of The Combustion Institute, "for innovative research on the formulation of detailed chemical mechanisms for complex practical fuels".

She was the 2022 recipient of the Polanyi Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

References

External links
Home page

1964 births
Living people
French chemists
French women chemists
Fellows of the Combustion Institute
Melges 15. The Melges 15 is an American sailboat that was designed by Reichel/Pugh as a two-crew, one-design racer and sail trainer. First built in 2020, it is Reichel/Pugh's design #289.

In December 2021 the design was named Sailing World magazine's 2022 Boat of the Year.

Production
The design has been built by Melges Performance Sailboats in the United States since 2020 and remains in production. Beginning in March 2022, the boat is also being built for the European market by Nelo in Vila do Conde, Portugal.

A total of 150 boats had been delivered by October 2021 and 600 by January 2023.

Design
The boat's main design goals were stability and performance over a variety of conditions. The hull design employs a narrow beam and a flat cross-section shape to provide stability and improve righting moment, while making it easy to plane. It also has fore-aft hull rocker built in to allow sailing in larger waves. The design  incorporates a deep cockpit, high boom and other measures to improve crew ergonomics.

The Melges 15 is a racing sailing dinghy, with the hull built predominantly of polyester fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig with a retractable bowsprit and a Gnav boom vang system. The spars are aluminum. The hull has a plumb stem; a vertical transom; a transom-hung, kick-up aluminum rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a retractable, aluminum daggerboard. It displaces .

The boat has a draft of  with the daggerboard extended. Removing the daggerboard allows operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker of , with a single line launch and retrieval system.

Operational history
Sailing World magazine's 2022 Boat of the Year judges noted, "'of all the boats we sailed, it was the one I really didn't want to get off of,' Stewart says. 'For me, selecting it as our Boat of the Year comes down to execution of the build and its performance. It's exceptional in all ways. Everything is so well-integrated and clean. It starts with a good designer, and then it's good product development and craftsmanship—there's nothing on this boat that you don't need.' Powlison seconds Stewart's praise for the boat, especially the part about how it serves such a wide variety of crew combinations. 'It's not just a race boat, but a boat to go sail and have fun with anyone, anytime.'"

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Dinghies
2020s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
One-design sailing classes
Sailboat type designs by Reichel/Pugh
Sailboat types built by Melges Performance Sailboats
Sailboat types built by Nelo
Konstantin Borisov. Konstantin Sergeyevich Borisov (Russian: Константин Сергеевич Борисов; born 14 August 1984 in Smolensk) is a Russian cosmonaut. He flew on the SpaceX Crew-7 mission that launched on August 26, 2023, serving as flight engineer on Expedition 69/70 to the International Space Station.

Biography
He has received a Bachelor of Economics from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics on June 27, 2007. From September 27, 2006 to December 3, 2007, he studied at University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, where he received his Master of Science in "Operations Research and Systems Analysis". In June 2018, he completed his studies at the Moscow Aviation Institute on the Master Program Life Support Systems for Aircraft (2016-2018), with the qualification "Master" in the direction of Aircraft Building.

Borisov was selected as a cosmonaut in 2018, along with seven others, he passed the state exam in December 2020 to be qualified for spaceflight assignments.

Spaceflight
Borisov was assigned to the SpaceX Crew-7 mission, which launched on August 26, 2023. He served as a flight engineer on Expedition 69/70. On March 12, 2024, the mission landed off the coast of Florida after spending 199 days in space and orbiting the Earth 3,184 times.

References

External links
 Astronaut.ru biography 
 Roscosmos biography 
 Spacefacts biography

1984 births
Crew members of the International Space Station
Living people
Russian cosmonauts
21st-century Russian people
SpaceX astronauts
Christopher Jermaine. Christopher M. Jermaine is an American computer scientist who is the J.S. Abercrombie Professor of Engineering and chair of the Department of Computer Science at Rice University.

Education 
Jermaine earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, a Master of Science in computer science from Ohio State University, and a PhD in computer science from Georgia Tech. Jermaine's graduate advisor was Renée Miller.

Career 
From 2002 to 2010, Jermaine was on the computer science faculty of the University of Florida. He joined Rice University in 2009. Jermaine is also the editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Database Systems. His research focuses on data analytics, data management, and database theory.

References 

Living people
American computer scientists
University of California, San Diego alumni
Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
University of Florida faculty
Rice University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Agargaon metro station. Agargaon (, romanised: Agargao) is an elevated metro station of the Dhaka Metro's MRT Line 6. It is located in Agargaon, and was opened on 29 December 2022.

History

The Agargaon Metro Station was constructed under "Package CP-03". The notification of application for construction of raised bridges for stations and railways was published on 30 June 2015 and the last date for submission of applications was 9 September 2015. Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited gets work contract for "Package CP-03". The agreement document was sent to the ministry on 29 March 2016 for NBR investigation and law and parliamentary investigation. The signing ceremony for the agreement package was held on 3 May 2017 at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka. Construction work started on 2 August 2017. It was inaugurated on 29 December 2022 and opened on the next day.

Station

Station layout

Connectivity
Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation provides shuttle bus service from the station to Motijheel via Farmgate and Shahbag.

References

External links

Dhaka Metro stations
Railway stations in Bangladesh opened in 2022
MRT Line 6
Abdulla bin Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Subaie. Abdulla bin Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Subaie is the Qatari Minister of Environment and Climate Change. He was appointed as minister on 8 January 2024. Previously he had served as Minister of Municipality.

Education 
Al Subaie holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (1996), a Master of Business Administration (2006) and a PhD of Administration from the Qatar University.

Career 
Between 1996 and 2008, Al Subaie worked for the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Smeet, a subsidiary of Qatari Diar, from 2008 until 2011.

From April 2011 to May 2014, he worked as the group Chief Executive Officer for Barwa, a real estate development and investment holding group.

In March 2011, Al Subaie was appointed the Managing Director of Qatar Rail. Since January 2017, he is the Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Rail.

Between 19 October 2021 and 7 January 2024, he was the Minister of Municipality.

Since 8 January 2024, Al Subaie has served as Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

References 

Living people
21st-century Qatari politicians
Environment and Climate Change ministers of Qatar
Municipal Affairs ministers of Qatar
Year of birth missing (living people)
Qatar University alumni
RustDesk. RustDesk is a remote access and remote control software, primarily written in Rust, that enables remote maintenance of computers and other devices. The RustDesk client runs on operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS, Apple iOS, Android and common Linux distributions. RustDesk has the aspiration to be an open-source alternative to remote desktop software such as TeamViewer or AnyDesk. As a result, RustDesk can function without relying on additional tools such as VPNs or port forwarding, even behind firewalls or NATs.

History 

Since version 1.2.0 in 2023, RustDesk is based on Flutter, replacing the proprietary Sciter UI runtime library that preceded it. Also in 2023 fraudsters targeted victims of technical scams, tricking users into installing RustDesk to access sensitive data. As of August 2024, RustDesk states that their default rendezvous server is hosted in the EU. In 2022 the RustDesk fork HopToDesk was launched by Begonia Holdings LLC. and published on Flathub in 2024.

Features (extract)
 Remote access for multiple operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android)
 End-to-end encryption
 Optional self hosted server
 File transfer
 Chat features
 TCP tunneling

See also
 Comparison of remote desktop software
 Remote desktop software

External links
 
 RustDesk
 RustDesk
 Download RustDesk
 Source Code repository at GitHub
 RustDesk in the Chocolatey repository for Windows
 RustDesk in the F-Droid (Android) app store
 RustDesk in the Google Play (Android) app store (provisional taken offline in September 2023)
 RustDesk in the Apple App Store (iOS)
 HopToDesk fork on Flathub

References

Linux remote administration software
MacOS remote administration software
Portable software
Cross-platform software
Remote desktop
Windows remote administration software
Boeing 8C. The Boeing 8C was a gas turbine that was tested in a Ford Thunderbird. The turbine was capable at 175hp and required exhaust pipes to be installed at the front out the side. It was developed around August 1955 to March 1956 after the Ford Thunderbird was released to the public. However, the project remained a secret until 2022.

See also
List of aircraft engines

References

 Airplane powered car
 

1950s turboshaft engines
Aircraft auxiliary power units
Gas turbines
Centrifugal-flow turbojet engines
Bénédicte Cuenot. Bénédicte Cuenot is a French engineer specializing in the numerical simulation of combustion and related phenomena, including turbulent flow, the flow of plasma, and heat transfer. Her software has been used to investigate the emission of pollutants and other products of combustion, non-carbon-based fuels including hydrogen, ammonia, and metal powders, the start and end of combustion, and the ability of combustion chambers to stand up under use. She heads the combustion research group at the European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation (CERFACS) in Toulouse, and holds a professorship in mechanical engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Education and career
Cuenot studied engineering at the École Centrale Paris, earning an engineering degree and master's degree in 1990. She completed a doctorate in 1995, with the thesis Étude asymptotique et numérique de la structure des flammes de diffusion laminaires et turbulentes [Asymptotic and numerical study of the structure of laminar and turbulent diffusion flames] supervised by Thierry Poinsot at the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse. She earned a habilitation in 2000.

After becoming head of combustion research at CERFACS, in 2021 she added a part-time affiliation as professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, where she is affiliated with the group of Jeroen A. van Oijen in the department of mechanical engineering.

Recognition
Cuenot was elected to the inaugural 2018 class of Fellows of The Combustion Institute, "for excellent advances in the modelling and simulation of turbulent flames in complex, multi-physics environments".

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French engineers
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Fellows of the Combustion Institute
20th-century French women engineers
21st-century French women engineers
20th-century French engineers
21st-century French engineers
Melges 14. The Melges 14 is an American planing sailboat that was designed by Reichel/Pugh as a one-design racer and first built in 2016.

The design was named Sailing World magazine's "Best Dinghy" of 2016.

Production
The design has been built by Melges Performance Sailboats in the United States since 2016 and remains in production.

Design
The Melges 14 is a racing sailing dinghy, built predominantly of PVC-cored fiberglass. It is raced with one sailor but can carry two adults. It has a catboat rig with a carbon fiber, two-piece mast and single-piece boom. The sail is made from Mylar. The hull has a plumb stem and a plumb, open transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a retractable daggerboard. It displaces .

The boat has a draft of  with the daggerboard extended. Removing the daggerboard allows operation in shallow water, beaching, or ground transportation on a trailer or automobile roof.

There are three different sized sails for different crew weights or wind conditions. The gold rig has an area of , the blue  and the red . The smaller sail sizes use shorter mast top sections.

Operational history
In a 2019 review in Sailing World Dave Reed wrote, "the Melges 14, the judges agreed, is a righteous challenger to the Laser's kingdom. It was recognized as the best dinghy in 2016, and it's a boat that will make you want to drop everything, rig up and go sailing when the breeze is on."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Dinghies
2010s sailboat type designs
One-design sailing classes
Catboats
Sailboat type designs by Reichel/Pugh
Sailboat types built by Melges Performance Sailboats
Melges 30. The Melges 30 is an American sailboat that was designed by Reichel/Pugh as a racer and first built in 1996.

The design was replaced in the product line by the Melges 32 in 2004.

Production
The design was built by Melges Performance Sailboats in the United States, from 1996 until 1999, but only 18 boats were completed before production ended.

Design
The boat was intended to form a one-design class and also be used for PHRF handicap racing.

The Melges 30 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass and carbon fiber. It has a fractional sloop rig, a plumb stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a lifting keel with a weighted bulb. It displaces  and carries  of lead ballast in the keel bulb. The cockpit is  long.

The design made extensive use of carbon fiber components, including the mast, rudder, the keel fin and bowsprit.

The boat has a draft of  with the keel extended and  with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or ground transportation on a trailer.

The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar 260 diesel engine of  powering a saildrive for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds .

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker of , which is flown from the articulating carbon fiber bowsprit.

The design has a hull speed of .

Operational history
In a 2000 review naval architect Robert Perry wrote, "the Melges group and the Reichel/Pugh team have come out with a 30-foot version of the 24. For local fleets this boat may be even harder to deal with than the 24. You could always excuse the 24 as it blew by you with, "It's just a big dinghy." But this 30-footer, with its engine and the addition of lifelines and pulpits, almost looks like a normal boat and will give PHRF raters a fit. Actually, it's in a class of its own. I can think of no other boat that is designed with this particular balance of parameters. In a nutshell, this design appears aimed at providing the fastest monohull ride around without the fear of capsizing."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links
Official website archives on Archive.org

Keelboats
1990s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
One-design sailing classes
Sailboat type designs by Reichel/Pugh
Sailboat types built by Melges Performance Sailboats