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Wang Fosong. Wang Fosong (; 23 May 1933 – 31 December 2022) was a Chinese polymer chemist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Wang was a member of the 7th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was a member of the Standing Committees of the 8th and 9th National People's Congress.

Biography
Wang was born into a family of farming background in Xingning County, Guangdong, on 23 May 1933. In 1951, he was admitted to Wuhan University, where he majored in the Department of Chemistry. After graduating in 1955, he was sent to study at the Soviet Academy of Sciences on government scholarships, obtaining a vice-doctorate degree in 1960. 

Wang returned to China in 1960 and that same year became a member of the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He moved up the ranks to become assistant director in 1984 and director in 1985. He rose to become vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988, a post he kept until 1994. 

On 31 December 2022, Wang died in Beijing, at the age of 89.

Honours and awards
 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)
 1985 State Natural Science Award (Special)
 1988 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)
 1991 State Natural Science Award (Third Class)
 1991 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
 2000 Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
 2002 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation

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Chinese expatriates in the Soviet Union
Fan Weitang. Fan Weitang (; 18 July 1935 – 1 January 2023) was a Chinese engineer and politician who served as vice minister of coal industry from 1993 to 1995, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Fan was a member of the 8th and 9th National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Biography
Fan was born in Beijing, on 18 July 1935, while his ancestral home is in Ezhou, Hubei. His father Fan Zhilun () was a water conservancy educator, and his younger brother  is also a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. After graduating from the Mining Department of Beijing Iron and Steel University (now University of Science and Technology Beijing) in 1956, he went to study at Beijing University of Foreign Languages and Beijing Institute of Mining (now China University of Mining and Technology). In 1959, he did his postgraduate work at Moscow Institute of Mining in the Soviet Union.

Fan returned to China in 1963 and became a member of the China Coal Research Institute. He was chief engineer of the  in 1986 and subsequently vice minister in 1993.

On 1 January 2023, Fan died from COVID-19 in Beijing, at the age of 87.

Honours and awards
 1994 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 2002 Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA)

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Devi Parikh. Devi Parikh is an American computer scientist.

Career 
Parikh earned her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She has served as a professor at Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech, and as of 2022 she is a research director at Meta.

Research 
Parikh's research focuses on computer vision and natural language processing.

In 2015, Parikh and her students at Virginia Tech worked on AI for Visual Question Answering (VQA). This technology allows users to ask questions about pictures, e.g. "Is this a vegetarian pizza?" Parikh's VQA dataset has been used to evaluate over 30 AI models.

In 2017, Parikh published a conversational agent called ParlAI. In 2020, she developed an AI system that generates dance moves in sync with songs. In 2022, Parikh and a team at Meta developed Make-a-Video, a text-to-video AI model that is based on the diffusion algorithm.

Awards
2017 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
2011 ICCV Best-Paper Award ("Marr Prize")

References 

American computer scientists
Living people
American artificial intelligence researchers
Machine learning researchers
Computer vision researchers
Georgia Tech faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ameca (robot). Ameca is a female robotic humanoid created in 2021 by Engineered Arts.

History
The first generation of Ameca was developed at Engineered Arts headquarters in Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The project started in February 2021, with the first video revealed publicly on 1 December 2021. Ameca gained widespread attention on Twitter and TikTok ahead of her first public demonstration at the Consumer Electronics Show 2022, where she was covered by CNET and other news outlets.

In 2022, Ameca presented an Alternative Christmas message by British TV Channel 4 for Christmas Day. Ameca was associated with the Museum of the Future's robotic family, where she could interact with visitors. In 2024, Ameca was moved to Edinburgh in the UK to reside at the National Robotarium.

Features 
It is designed as a platform for further developing robotics technologies involving human-robot interaction. utilizes embedded microphones, binocular eye mounted cameras, a chest camera and facial recognition software to interact with the public. Interactions can be governed by either OpenAI's GPT-3 or human telepresence. She also features articulated motorized arms, fingers, neck and facial features. 

Ameca's appearance features grey rubber skin on the face and hands, and is specifically designed to appear genderless.

Public appearances
 Computer History Museum, California
 Copernicus Science Center, Warsaw, Poland
 Museum of the Future, Dubai
 Consumer Electronics Show 2022
 Deutsches Museum Nuremberg
 OMR Festival 2022 Hosted by Vodafone
 GITEX 2022
 International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2023
 International Telecommunication Union AI for Good Global Summit 2023
 Sphere

References

2021 robots
Artificial intelligence
Humanoid robots
Robotics
Social robots
Environment Series. The Environment Series Heads developed from the Environment Triptych portrait sculptures by Jon Edgar in 2006. His ongoing series of terracotta clay portraits celebrates those contributing to a sustainable future on Earth. The sculptor observes the sitter on a rotating chair, working over seven or eight hours building up the head on a wooden peg using small pieces of clay. One sitter accounted "It is the most intense and prolonged physical scrutiny I have ever had from a friend. For hours on end."

Sitters
 Ronald Blythe 
 Sue Clifford
 Ted Green
 Angela King
 James Lovelock
 Caroline Lucas
 Richard Mabey
 Mary Midgley
 Gordon Murray
 Peter Randall-Page
 Chris Rapley
 Fiona Reynolds
 Philippa Scott
 Guy Singh-Watson
 Tim Smit

References

English sculpture
Environmental art
Portraits of people
Terracotta sculptures
Margaret M. Wu. Margaret May-som Shaw Wu (born June 28, 1950) is a Taiwanese–American industrial chemist and inventor. As a research chemist at ExxonMobil, Wu developed new lubricants for car engines. She was elected Fellow of the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2020.

Early life and education 
Wu was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Her father was a meteorologist. She earned her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the National Taipei University of Technology. She moved to the United States for her doctoral research, and joined the department of chemistry at the University of Rochester. She has said that New York City represents the best parts of America. Her friends helped her to overcome language barriers. After earning her doctorate, Wu joined American Cyanamid where she spent a year as a research chemist.

Research and career 
In 1977 Wu joined Mobil, where she worked on polymer synthesis, catalysis and zeolite chemistry. She developed new strategies to produce ethylene from methanol at high yields. A few years later, she switched her focus to synthetic oils. These fluids were used in automotive engine oil, reducing wear and helping fuel economy. She started working on polyalpha-olefin (PAOs), which were used in synthetic lubricants. The PAOs had no undesirable side chains, and had more desirable properties as a lubricant. Her efforts were recognized by the American Chemical Society, who named her their 2007 Industrial Chemist of the Year. She was the first woman to be made a Senior Scientific Advisor at ExxonMobil.

Wu retired in 2009 and remained as a consultant until 2016. She was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2019, and the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2020.

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SİPER. SİPER (Trench) is a high to medium air defense surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. Designed to defend against any type of airborne threat, it can fight aircraft, cruise missiles, air-to-ground missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It was jointly developed in Turkey by the companies Roketsan, Aselsan and the research institute TÜBİTAK SAGE.

The SİPER system project was launched by the Presidency of Defence Industries in 2018. The missile is developed by Roketsan, and most sensors and electronics by Aselsan.

Siper Block 1
During the first firing test, which took place at the test range in Sinop, northern Turkey in December 2022, the SİPER Block 1 missile  successfully demonstrated the ability to detect, track and hit a high-speed target aircraft at a range exceeding . It was announced that SİPER will be put into service within 2024. SİPER successfully passed its final test on 13 May 2023, hitting a long-distance target. In October 2024 Siper Block-1 entered the inventory.

Siper Block 2
The first firing test of Siper Block 2, which has a range of 150 km, was successfully completed in August 2023.

Siper Block 3
Siper Block 3, which will have a range of 180 km+, is under development.

Specifications 

 Air defence planning and coordination
 Management and distribution of information within the scope of command and control
 Combined aerial image production
 Multiple engagement and sequential firing
 Manual/semi-automatic/automatic engagement
 Friend-Foe Recognition (IFF)
 Threat assessment and weapons allocation
 Automated diagnostics management
 Multi-target multi-radar fusion, Bidirectional communication with missiles
 Wired/wireless communication
 Upright/oblique shot
 Ability to work in harsh conditions
 Interface with HvBS, Radnet connection
 Link to higher command via tactical data links (Link-16, JREAP-C)
 Embedded simulation
 Ability to operate with 8 FFS, each of which can fire 6 missiles

See also
 Hisar
 Patriot
 SAMP/T
 HQ-9
 HQ-22
 Khordad 15 (air defense system)
 S-300 missile system
 S-350 missile system
 S-400 missile system
 S-500 missile system
 Barak 8
 Bavar-373
 L-SAM
 Project Kusha

References 

Surface-to-air missiles of Turkey
21st-century surface-to-air missiles
Weapons and ammunition introduced in 2022
Military equipment introduced in the 2020s
Roketsan products
Aselsan products
Frank T. Smith. Frank Thomas Smith  (born 1948) is Emeritus Goldsmid Professor in the department of mathematics in the University College London, a specialist in fluid mechanics.

Education
Smith was educated at Bournemouth Grammar School and the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree as an undergraduate student of Jesus College, Oxford followed by a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1972 for research supervised by David Spence, John Ockendon and Keith Stewartson.

Career and research
Smith made significant contributions to triple-deck theory applied to boundary layer flows, separated flows, biofluid mechanics, and skimming-stone problem. Smith served as director of Lighthill Institute of Mathematical Sciences (LIMS).

Smith supervised ten successful PhD students including Hannah Fry and Jitesh Gajjar.

Awards and honours
Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1984.

References

Fellows of the Royal Society
British fluid dynamicists
1948 births
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Alumni of the University of Oxford
Living people
Tarbert Power Station. Tarbert Power Station is an oil fired power station situated on the Shannon Estuary in Tarbert, County Kerry, Ireland. Construction commenced in October 1966 and the first block was commissioned in 1969. The station comprises two  (Unit I and II) and two  oil fired steam turbines. It was the largest station of ESB during the 1980s. The plant was sold to Endesa in 2009, and subsequently to SSE in 2012. Until early 2022 it was scheduled for closure by the end of 2023. However, due to the 2021–2024 global energy crisis, Tarbert station will maintain operation for an indefinite amount of time, until enough low-carbon generating capacity will be available as a replacement.

In 2003 Tarbert was the site of an explosion that killed two workers and seriously injured another. In September 2022 one boiler was damaged by a fire, which led to loss of half of block 3's generating capacity, . The generator is expected to return to full capacity in February 2023.

In 2023 plans emerged to replace the fuel-oil fired units by a new  Open cycle gas turbine Next Generation Power Station with one Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO)-fired unit. With planned construction begin in 2024, the new unit is scheduled for operation in 2026.

Units:

References

External links

 SSE Thermal: Tarbert Power Plant

Oil-fired power stations in the Republic of Ireland
International 50. The International 50 is a French sailboat that was designed by Bruce Farr as a cruiser for Moorings Yacht Charter for use as a crewed yacht charter boat. It was first built in 1994. The boats are no longer in service with Moorings and many are now in private use instead.

The boat is derived from the Farr-designed 1989 Sun Odyssey 51, with a new keel and re-designed interior to accommodate six passengers and two crew members.

Production
The design was built by Jeanneau in France, starting in 1994, but it is now out of production.

Design
The International 50 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed wing keel. It displaces .

The boat has a draft of  with the standard wing keel.

The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines diesel engine of  for docking and maneuvering.

The design has sleeping accommodation for eight people, in four cabins. There are two bow cabins and two aft cabins, each with a double berth. The main salon has a U-shaped settee around a recgtangular table. The galley is located on the starboard side, amidships. The galley is U-shaped and is equipped with a three-burner stove, an ice box and a sink. A navigation station is forward of the galley, on the starboard side. There are four heads, one in each cabin.

The design has a hull speed of .

The boat was specifically designed to be able to be converted for private ownership use when sold off from its charter role. These built in provisions include a nonstructural bulkhead between the two bow cabins that can be easily removed to allow it to be converted into a single, larger owner's cabin and the ability to convert the crew's aft cabin into a workshop or office.

Operational history
In a 1995  Cruising World review, Quentin Warren wrote, "a thoroughly enjoyable outing in 25 to 30 knots of squally Gulf Stream weather last March off the coast of Florida convinced us of the 50's very capable behavior under sail, both structurally and in the performance realm. A subsequent seven-day passage from Fort Lauderdale to Tortola by a Moorings delivery crew points to its positive blue-water agility. In short, the International 50 is a nicely thought-out sailboat put together by a solid builder and capable of providing a lot of versatility to the right kind of buyer."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links
Photo of an International 50

Keelboats
1990s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Bruce Farr
Sailboat types built by Jeanneau
Jiulong Bridge. The Jiulong Bridge () is a historic stone arch bridge over the Qinhuai River in Qinhuai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

History
Originally built in the early Ming dynasty (1368–1644), the bridge also known as "Tongji Bridge" () because of its proximity to Tongji Gate. The present version was completed in 1884 during the ruling of Guangxu Emperor of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).

In 1937, a section of the bridge was bombed by Japanese fighters during the Second Sino-Japanese War. After the founding of the Communist State in 1949, it was restored, and cement bridge fences were added and pavement was paved. In June 2006, it has been designated as a municipal cultural heritage conservation unit by the Government of Nanjing.

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Bridges in Jiangsu
Arch bridges in China
Bridges completed in 1884
Qing dynasty architecture
Buildings and structures completed in 1884
1884 establishments in China
Ying'en Bridge. The Ying'en Bridge (), also known as Caishi Bridge (), is a historic stone arch bridge over the Grand Canal in Yuecheng District, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China.

History
The bridge was built in an unknown age and rebuilt in 1626 during the Tianqi era of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). The bridge measures  long,  wide, and approximately  high. There are 12 stone posts supporting the railings, at the top of the railing posts stand carved 12 stone lions in different moods and postures.

In May 2013, it was listed among the seventh batch of "Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Zhejiang" by the State Council of China.

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Transport infrastructure completed in the 1620s
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Wu Sheng (academic). Wu Sheng (; 23 September 1934 – 4 January 2023) was a Chinese nuclear material and process specialist and academic, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Wu was born into a family of farming background in Acheng County, Binjiang Province (now Acheng District of Harbin, Heilongjiang), on 23 September 1934. In 1948 he attended Songjiang Provincial Xingzhi Normal School (). In 1950, he joined the China New Democratic Youth League and took part in the Korean War. He returned to Acheng No. 1 High School in June 1952, and was admitted to the Preparation Department of Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages (now Beijing Foreign Study University) in September 1954. He became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in August 1953. In September 1955, he arrived in the Soviet Union to begin his education at Podrovski Iron and Steel Institute in Dnieper, and a year later transferred to the State University of Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold.

Wu returned to China in October 1960 and worked as an atomic bomb researcher in Beijing No. 9 Research Institute. In March 1964, he went to northwest China's Qinghai province and continued to develop the core components of the atomic bomb. In October, he transferred to the research work of thermonuclear component forming technology. Under the leadership of , the technical director, Wu, as the leader of the technical team, undertook the research task of lithium hydrogen (deuteride) component forming technology, which is very important in hydrogen bombs. In January 1972, he became a workshop director in the 2nd Institute of the 9th Research Institute of the 2nd Mechanical Industry Ministry, serving in the post for exactly ten years. In March 1982, he was deputy factory director and then chief engineer of the 903 Factory, and served until December 1988. In January 1989, he was appointed chief engineer of the 7th Institute of China Academy of Engineering Physics, and held that office until August 1998.

On 4 January 2023, Wu died at the age of 88.

Honours and awards
 1987 State Technological Invention Award (Third Class) for the XX LiD parts hot pressing process
 1989 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Special) for the major breakthrough in nuclear weapons
 1999 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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2023 deaths
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21st-century Chinese engineers
Xu Mi. Xu Mi (; 7 April 1937 – 4 January 2023) was a Chinese nuclear technologist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Name
Xu was born in 1937 before the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out. When Xu was just three months old, his father Xu Kan () named him "Mi" (), hoping that he would have both money and rice.

Biography
Xu was born into an intellectual family in Jiangdu County (now Yangzhou), Jiangsu, on 7 April 1937. 

After graduating from the Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University in 1961, he became a technician in Beijing Atomic Energy Institute and Beijing No. 194 Institute. In 1970, he participated in the startup experiment of Dongfeng VI, which was the first zero power fast reactor device in China. In 1971, he relocated to Jiajiang County, where he worked in the No. 3 Institute of the 1st Institute of Nuclear Industry Ministry. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in July 1980. In August 1987, he became deputy director, researcher and technical director of Fast Reactor of China Institute of Atomic Energy, and served until 1996. In December 1995, with the approval of the State Council, the China Experimental Fast Reactor Project was officially established, and Xu served as the chief engineer.

On 4 January 2023, Xu died in Beijing, at the age of 85.

Honours and awards
 December 2011 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References

1937 births
2023 deaths
People from Yangzhou
Engineers from Jiangsu
Tsinghua University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
20th-century Chinese engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
Jin River Bridge. The Jin River Bridge () is a cable-stayed bridge over the Jin River in Quanzhou/ Jinjiang, Fujian, China. The bridge measures  long,  wide, and approximately  high.

History
The project of Jin River Bridge was officially started on 8 May 2005, completed and put into trial operation on 24 October 2008, with a total investment of about 880 million yuan.

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Bridges in Fujian
Concrete bridges in China
Bridges completed in 2008
2008 establishments in China