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Dan DiMicco. Daniel Ralph DiMicco (born 1950) is an American businessman who is the former CEO and chairman of Nucor steel company. He served as a trade advisor to Donald Trump during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Early life
DiMicco was born in 1950, and grew up in Mount Kisco, New York, the eldest of five children of a father who worked in a beer distribution and soda manufacturing business that he started with his brothers.

He graduated from Brown University in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials Science. In 1975, he received a master's degree in Metallurgy and Materials Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Career
DiMicco joined Nucor in 1982 as plant metallurgist and manager of quality control for Nucor Steel in Plymouth, Utah.

In September 2000, DiMicco, formerly the general manager of the company's highly profitable Nucor-Yamato Steel joint venture, was appointed CEO. In the years that followed, the company made several acquisitions. DiMicco was CEO until December 2012, and chairman from May 2006 until December 2012.

In April 2016, Donald Trump appointed DiMicco as his trade advisor.

DiMicco is chairman of the Coalition For A Prosperous America.

Charlotte Independence
In 2018, DiMicco bought a majority stake in the soccer club Charlotte Independence, that plays in the USL Championship, the second tier of the American soccer pyramid.  Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, DiMicco sent out a series of tweets blaming the subsequent protests on antifa, George Soros and China.  DiMicco went on to spread a series of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and false claims of election fraud. Some supporters of the club responded strongly to these statements, condemning DiMicco, and calling for him to sell his interest in the team. The Independent Supporters Council urged the league to "take action" against him.

On March 29, 2021, the club announced that several owners, including DiMicco, were in the process of selling their ownership stakes.

Publications
American Made: Why Making Things Will Return Us to Greatness (2015)

Personal life
DiMicco lives in Waxhaw, North Carolina. He collects vintage Corvette cars from the 1960s.

In 2012, DiMicco and his wife purchased 75 acres on Lake Wylie, and plan to donate the land to the Catawba Lands Conservancy.

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1950 births
American car collectors
American chief executives
Brown University alumni
Living people
People from Mount Kisco, New York
People from Waxhaw, North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Gc (engineering). {{DISPLAYTITLE:gc (engineering)}}

In engineering and physics, gc is a unit conversion factor used to convert mass to force or vice versa. It is defined as

In unit systems where force is a derived unit, like in SI units, gc is equal to 1. In unit systems where force is a primary unit, like in imperial and US customary measurement systems, gc may or may not equal 1 depending on the units used, and value other than 1 may be required to obtain correct results. For example, in the kinetic energy (KE) formula, if gc = 1 is used, then KE is expressed in foot-poundals; but if gc = 32.174 is used, then KE is expressed in foot-pounds.

Motivations
According to Newton's second law, the force F is proportional to the product of mass m and acceleration a:

or

If F = 1 lbf, m = 1 lb, and a = , then

Leading to

gc is defined as the reciprocal of the constant K

or equivalently, as

Specific systems of units

References

Equations
Malcolm D. Shuster. Malcolm D. Shuster (31 July 1943 – 23 February 2012) was an American physicist and aerospace engineer, whose work contributed significantly to spacecraft attitude determination. In 1977 he joined the Attitude Systems Operation of the Computer Sciences Corporation in Silver Spring, Maryland, during which time he developed the QUaternion ESTimator (QUEST) algorithm for static attitude determination. He later, with F. Landis Markley, helped to develop the standard implementation of the Kalman filter used in spacecraft attitude estimation. During his career, he authored roughly fifty technical papers on subjects in physics and spacecraft engineering, many of which have become seminal within the field of attitude estimation, and held teaching assignments at Johns Hopkins University, Howard University, Carnegie-Mellon University and Tel-Aviv University. In 2000 the American Astronautical Society awarded him the Dirk Brouwer Award. In June 2005 the American Astronautical Society held a special three-day Astronautics symposium in his honor

References

External links
Malcolm D. Shuster's Website

1943 births
2012 deaths
American physicists
American aerospace engineers
IBM SystemT. IBM SystemT is a declarative information extraction system. It was first built in 2005, as a research project at IBM's IBM Almaden Research Center. Its name is partially inspired by System R, a seminal project from the same research center.

SystemT comprises the following three main components: (1) AQL, a declarative rule language with a similar syntax to SQL; (2) Optimizer, which accepts AQL statements as input and generates high-performance algebraic execution plans; and (3) Executing engine, which executes the plan generated by the Optimizer and performs information extraction over input documents.

SystemT is available as part of IBM BigInsights, and has also been taught in multiple universities around the globe. A version of SystemT was available (starting in September 2016) as a companion to a sequence of online courses in Text Analytics.

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External links
 

IBM software
Tadeusz Bartczak. Tadeusz Bartczak (28 July 1935 – 13 August 2022) was a Polish chemist and professor at the Lodz University of Technology.

In 1957, he obtained a master's degree in chemical engineering at the Faculty of Chemistry, Technical University of Lodz. In 1955, he started working at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the Technical University, in co-operation with professor, Edward Józefowicz. In 1965, he was awarded a doctoral degree. In the academic year 1969/1970, he worked at the Oxford University with professor, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin—a Nobel Prize laureate. In the same year, he was nominated as a member of the Oxford University and a member of the Linacre College. He was a student of professor, Zdzisław Gałdecki. From 1982 to 1984, he worked at the University of Notre Dame and the Northwestern University in the United States. In 1986 he obtained his PhD; in 1997, he was awarded the title of professor, and full professor in 2001.

A specialist in crystal chemistry and X-ray structural analysis, his achievements included 80 publications. He also promoted four doctors.

From 1990 to 1993, he was the vice dean, and from 1993 to 1999 the head of doctoral studies of the Faculty of Chemistry at Technical University of Lodz. From 1997 to 2000, he was the president of Crystal Chemistry Division of the Chemical Society.

Bartczak died on 13 August 2022, at the age of 87.

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Further reading
 

1935 births
2022 deaths
Crystallographers
Academic staff of Łódź University of Technology
Polish chemists
Łódź University of Technology alumni
Scientists from Warsaw
World Airways Flight 802. On September 8, 1973, a Douglas DC-8 operated by World Airways as World Airways Flight 802 crashed on high ground while on approach to Cold Bay Airport, Alaska, killing all six people on board.

The official accident investigation  concluded that the probable cause was the captain's non-adherence to published instrument approach procedures for the destination airport.

History of the flight 
Flight 802 was a contract cargo flight for the US Military Airlift Command from Travis AFB, California, to Clark AFB, Philippines; Cold Bay was the first planned stopover. The flight crew consisted of Captain John A. Weininger (52), First Officer Gregg W. Evans (27), and Flight Engineer Robert W. Brocklesby (46), while on board were also three non-revenue passengers, including two company employees.

The aircraft operating flight 802 was a four-engine Douglas DC-8-63CF jetliner, registration  which had entered service two years earlier, in 1971. Maintenance records for the aircraft did not highlight any significant problem.

Final descent and crash 

After an uneventful flight from Travis, the aircraft descended in cloud towards Cold Bay Airport, straying significantly off-course and into an area of poor radio navigation reception, until at 05:42 AKDT it struck Mount Dutton at an altitude of .

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Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States in 1973
World Airways accidents and incidents
1973 in Alaska
Accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-8
Airliner accidents and incidents involving controlled flight into terrain
September 1973 in the United States
Richard S. Potember. Richard S. Potember is an American scientist and inventor. He is currently a principal systems engineer at MITRE. Prior to this he was a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He has been an instructor at the Whiting School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University since 1987. He was a member of the principal professional staff at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, from 1981 to 2015. He was an adjunct professor at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies  from 1995 to 1998.

Education 
Potember was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He completed his B.S. in chemistry from Merrimack College in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in chemistry in 1979, where his adviser was Dwaine O. Cowan. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in 1980. He received an M.S. in technical management from the Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University in 1986.

Research
Potember was first known for his groundbreaking work in molecular electronics. He invented the first two-terminal molecular non-volatile memory or memristor as well as an optical disc technology that can store multiple bits of information at one location.  He also co-invented a sol-gel processed switchable vanadium(IV) oxide thin film coating for energy conservation applications.

Potember's recent achievements have focused on biotechnology  and biomedical engineering. He performed pioneering work that demonstrated individual living nerve cells can be grown into controlled geometric patterns on substrates and these neurons can form true synaptic connections. that can be used to destroy viruses, bacteria and spores real-time in ventilated air, and in heating or air conditioning systems.

Potember has also conducted research and development in the areas of time-of-flight mass spectrometry and solid propellants.

Personal life
Potember has two sons and lives with his wife in Maryland.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Scientists from Boston
Whiting School of Engineering alumni
Molecular electronics
20th-century American inventors
21st-century American businesspeople
Mitre Corporation people
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Merrimack College alumni
Biotechnologists
American biomedical engineers
Harrison Mutikanga. Harrison E. Mutikanga is a civil engineer, business executive, and academic in Uganda. He is the managing director and the chief executive officer of the Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited.

Background and education
Mutikanga was born in 1968 to Late George William Rwimo and Joselyne Mary Rwimo of Nyakabingo in Kisoro district, in Kilembe, Kasese District, where Late George Rwimo was employed at the time. He was the second-born, in a family of five boys and one girl.

His first attended Bulembeya Primary School in Kilembe, but while in grade 2, his father developed medical problems and the family relocated to Kisoro District. In Kisoro, he moved around in several elementary schools. He finished his primary schooling from grade 4 to grade 7 at Kabindi primary school.

He attended Mutolere Secondary School in Mutolere, Kisoro, for his O-Level studies. He then transferred to Makerere College School for his A-Level education, where he studied physics, chemistry, and mathematics. He was admitted to Makerere University to study civil engineering, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering. He later earned, from a university in the Netherlands, both a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy in civil engineering.

Career
When he left Makerere, he went to work for the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) and was posted to Jinja as area manager. He worked for NWSC for 20 years, when an advertisement for UEGCL's chief executive officer appeared in a newspaper. He applied and was selected as the best out of 23 applicants.

At UEGCL, he overseas generation of electricity at the two government-owned power stations of Nalubaale and Kiira. He is also responsible for overseeing the construction of the 183 megawatt Isimba Hydroelectric Power Station and the 600 megawatt Karuma Hydroelectric Power Station.

Other responsibilities
Mutikanga is a married father of four children. He formerly worked as a part-time lecturer at Uganda Christian University in Mukono. He is a member of the Engineers Registration Board of Uganda. He is a board member of Malaria Free Uganda, a Public Private Initiative by Government of Uganda under Ministry of Health charged with creating an enabling environment for private sector participation and stakeholder engagement in Malaria elimination in Uganda by 2030.

See also
 Stephen Isabalija
 Proscovia Margaret Njuki

References

External links
Website of Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited

Living people
1968 births
Makerere University alumni
People from Kisoro District
People educated at Makerere College School
Academic staff of Uganda Christian University
Milton Smith. Milton Smith is an American computer security application developer, researcher, and writer.  Smith is best known for his role leading Java platform security at Oracle during a period of high-profile security incidents in the fall of 2012.  Due to the climate around Java security, in 2013 Smith was invited to present  by Black Hat leadership in a closed session under Non-Disclosure Agreement to top industry leaders.  In the same year Smith established the first ever full security track at a software developers conference, JavaOne, Oracle's premier conference for Java software developers in San Francisco, California(USA).

Organizations

Oracle 
Smith continues as a principal security analyst at Oracle working strategically across company business units.  Smith is an active collaborator in industry developing open source security tools for researchers as well as participating in security conference events and organizing them.  During this period Smith was Chief Technical Editor on an application security book project with colleges.

Yahoo 
Prior to Oracle around June 2011, Smith was leading security for the User Data Analytics(UDA) business unit at Yahoo and developed innovative security controls to secure Yahoo's click stream revenues.  Smith also lead Yahoo's Enterprise Security Triage Program for monitoring enterprise vulnerabilities and tracking remediation activities.

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) 
OWASP is one of the largest non-profit organizations of security practitioners in the world.  On March 12, 2015 Smith developed DeepViolet a TLS/SSL scanning API researchers use to extend TLS/SSL scanning to their own projects.  Today DeepViolet is an OWASP Incubator project.  Smith is also a leader on the OWASP Security Logging API Project, an open source project extending important security features to applications that use popular logging platforms like log4j and logback.

Citations, publications, and articles

External links 
 Security Blog, securitycurmudgeon.com

Living people
American technology writers
People in information technology
Computer security specialists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Sky Paragliders. Sky Paragliders A.S. is a Czech aircraft manufacturer based in Frýdlant nad Ostravicí. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. The company also produces paragliding harnesses, reserve parachutes and paragliding accessories.

The company is organized as an Akciová společnost, a Czech joint-stock company.

Reviewer Noel Bertrand described the company in a 2003 review as having "a reputation for quality machines...[that] are very pleasant to fly, high performance and well built". He rated their harnesses as "excellent".

History
Sky Paragliders grew out of a merger of the Slovenian company Sky Servis with its Czech production facility. Sky Servis had been formed in 1988. The company headquarters, design and production facilities are located in Frýdlant nad Ostravicí at the Beskydy Protected Landscape Area.

The company consistently outgrew its facilities, which were expanded several times in the 1990s. A new plant was built in 2002 and opened late in that year. The company is ISO 9001 certified.

The company has stated its commitment to retaining production in Europe and not out-sourcing to Asia, saying, "The company is proud to remain in Europe, as we still think there is no more East if we move eastwards and therefore we rather invest into hyper modern technologies and know how and - last but not least - the production team that is essential for the success of the company."

By 2003 the company was offering a full line of paragliders, including the beginner Fides, the beginner to intermediate Atis, the intermediate Lift, the intermediate and cross country Brontes, the advanced performance Flirt, the competition Flare and the two-place Golem for flight training.

Aircraft 
Summary of aircraft built by Sky Paragliders:
Sky Argos
Sky Anakis
Sky Apollo
Sky Atis
Sky Aya
Sky Brontes
Sky Eole
Sky Fides
Sky Flare
Sky Flirt
Sky Gaia
Sky Golem
Sky Kea
Sky Metis
Sky Lift
Sky Zorro

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Aircraft manufacturers of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia
Paragliders
Manufacturing companies established in 1988
1988 establishments in Czechoslovakia
Lionel Kimerling. Lionel Cooper Kimerling (born 2 December 1943) is an American materials scientist, known for his work in the field of semiconductor materials and their processing. As of 2016, he is the Thomas Lord Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He headed the Materials Physics Research Department of AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1981 to 1990.

He gained a first degree in Metallurgy in 1965 and a Ph.D in 1968, both from MIT.

Research under his direction has included silicon microphotonics, and the development of the earliest 1MB DRAM as well as long-lasting telecommunications lasers. His group has also developed semiconductor diagnostic methods including deep-level transient spectroscopy, SEM-electron beam-induced current and RF-PCD. Silicon processing is a focus of his research, encompassing integrated circuit fabrication, microphotonic materials and devices, solar energy conversion and environmentally benign integrated circuit manufacturing. The aim of his group's microphotonics research is to integrate optical interconnection with integrated microelectronic circuit chips.

He was elected in 1987 a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for fundamental contributions to the measurement and understanding of the electrical properties of defects in semiconductors and the role of charge state and electronic stimulation in their structure and reactivity" 

As Thomas Lord Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, Kimerling was involved in the launch of the first global roadmap for integrated photonics: Integrated Photonics Systems Roadmap - International (IPSR-I). The MIT Microphotonics Center in the United States and PhotonDelta in Europe founded the roadmap that is an amalgation of their two previously independent roadmaps IPSR and WTWF.

See also
Anu Agarwal

References

External links 
EMAT profile
Bloomberg profile

1943 births
Living people
American materials scientists
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Scientists at Bell Labs
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
Joseph Thomas (architect). Joseph Thomas (1838-1901) was a Cornish architect, civil engineer and entrepreneur who lived the majority of his life in Looe. He made a number of significant contributions to the development of the town in the late 19th century, including the design of the Banjo Pier and the creation of the Hannafore estate.

Life and work
Thomas was born in Roche, near St Austell, on 10 March 1838. As a boy, he helped his father work on the construction of the bridge over the Looe River and the new roads to Polperro and St Martins. Later, he worked on a number of civil engineering projects in England and abroad, including the construction of naval forts in Plymouth, the Royal Albert Dock in London, the Arizona Canal, and the New York City docks.

He became an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1886 and a full member in 1889.

In 1893, Thomas purchased land at Hannafore for development. The scheme included widening of West Looe quay, building a ramp up to the West Looe side of the bridge, and construction of the present-day high-level access road to Hannafore along the western side of the Looe Estuary.

In 1896, Thomas looked at the problem of silting up of the entrance to the harbour at Looe. His solution was to shorten the existing pier at the mouth of the river and instead build a larger round structure at the end, giving it the overall shape of a banjo. There was considerable scepticism about the scheme, so Thomas offered to pay for the work himself if it did not solve the problem. However, it proved successful, so the Looe Harbour Commissioners paid up. The Banjo Pier, as it thus became known, was the prototype for other similar structures built elsewhere.

Thomas also engineered the railway link between Coombe Junction and Liskeard station, linking the Looe Valley Line (formerly the Liskeard and Looe Railway) to the Cornish Main Line.

Thomas lived at The Old Vicarage in East Looe.

Death and legacy

Thomas died at East Looe on 14 August 1901. His legacy to the town of Looe is considerable. He has been described "the man who helped prepare a town for the 20th Century". Another accolade is the following:

The contribution of Joseph Thomas to the current character and appearance of Looe cannot be overemphasised. Not only was he responsible for creating the Hannafore estate, but also the scenic Hannafore Road, the present line and extent of the quayside in West Looe (as far south as St Nicholas' church), the present form of the Banjo Pier and other prominent aspects of the character of the town are directly attributable to him.

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1838 births
1901 deaths
People from Looe
Engineers from Cornwall