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Aegis Sonix. Aegis Sonix is a music sequencer, software synthesizer and a score editor for the Amiga created by Aegis Development and published in 1987. The application offers a combination of a notation editor and an editor of digital sounds and is able to edit IFF music instruments and other digital sound files.

History
Commodore International developed but never officially released a sound application called Musicraft for its Amiga series of computers. Aegis Development bought rights to Musicraft from Commodore and contracted the original developers Mark Riley and Gary Koffler to continue its development. The application - now under the Aegis Sonix name - was released in 1987. in 1989, Aegis left the Amiga market and sold its software products to a Californian software producer Oxxi, Inc, which continued to use the Aegis brand.

Features
The software includes a score, keyboard, and an instrument editor. The program uses two file formats, the SMUS file format, which is an IFF based tracker module music format, and the INSTR file format which contains the instrument data. Sonix can also read music files created by Deluxe Music Construction Set and works as a MIDI sequencer. Sonix offers 8 music tracks: the first four are useable for 4 voices of the Amiga sound hardware and also for the MIDI instruments, the other four are available only for the MIDI instruments. All 8 tracks are independent of each other and can be used at the same time. The score editor allows to write notation for sheet music. The application serves primarily a music synthesis tool for creation of analog or digital sounds and is able to edit IFF music instruments and other digital sound files.

Reception
A review in the French magazine Tilt commended easy to use menus and good documentation and highlighted the combination of a notation editor and an editor of digital sounds as the main strong point of the application. The AmigaNews magazine evaluated the use of Sonix with MIDI and noted among several benefits few limitations: the program doesn't support recording of a key press on the MIDI keyboard. Sonix was also reviewed in the Keyboard magazine.

See also

 Deluxe Music Construction Set

References 

1987 software
Amiga software
Scorewriters
Music sequencers
EMG-01. The Arcflash Labs EMG-01 is a hand-held automatic 8-stage coilgun designed and manufactured by Arcflash Labs in Los Angeles, California. It was the first handheld coilgun commercialized and sold as a fully assembled system.

Operating mechanism 

The EMG-01 uses a six-cell 25.2 volt lithium-ion polymer battery to supply up to 2000 watts of power to ten electrolytic capacitors. Unlike many coilguns, the EMG-01 operates at low voltage and does not use an inverter or capacitor charging system, which allows the system to charge in under 1/10th of a second. The ten aforementioned capacitors are used to power eight electromagnetic coils in the configuration of a linear motor to accelerate a ferromagnetic or conducting projectile to 45 m/s. Rather than fully discharging each capacitor into a single respective coil, the system uses a series of IGBTs to discharge a small portion of the total bank's energy into each coil. This system design is in contrast to many hobbyist coilguns which require several seconds or even minutes to charge a single shot, and enables the EMG-01 to fire at rates of up to 480 rounds/min.

Alpha Model 
The EMG-01A (Alpha model) was offered for sale from July 2018 to October 2018. It was sold for $950 to pre-order customers and was only produced in a small batch production run of 10 units.

Beta Model 
The EMG-01B (Beta model) was developed as a more manufacturable iteration of the base EMG-01 design. It was offered for sale in 2020 and discontinued in 2023.

EMG-02 

In 2022, Arcflash Labs released a more powerful iteration with a larger bore (0.313") and 2 additional coils, with 4x the muzzle energy of the EMG-01B (up to 20J). It operates at a higher voltage than the EMG-01B; accepting 63V "flexvolt" drill batteries and featuring a single large capacitor at the rear. The EMG-02 is still being offered for sale as of 2024.

References 

Firearms of the United States
Products introduced in 2018
Indian locomotive class XD. The Indian locomotive class XD was a class of  "Mikado" type steam locomotives used on  broad gauge lines in India.

Variants
AWD: Similar design made by Baldwin Locomotive Works in the World War II period.

CWD: Similar design made by the Canadian Locomotive Company and the Montreal Loco Works. Along with AWD, the largest imported class, numerically.

See also

Indian Railways
Locomotives of India

References

Bibliography

Railway locomotives introduced in 1928
XD
Vulcan Foundry locomotives
Armstrong Whitworth locomotives
Škoda locomotives
NBL locomotives
2-8-2 locomotives
5 ft 6 in gauge locomotives
Li Shui-po. Li Shui-po (; born 1956) is a Taiwanese businessman and billionaire who founded the stainless steel product manufacturer Kinglai Hygienic Materials.

Personal life 
Li was born in 1956 and showed in interest in mechanical engineering from an early age. He graduated from the Taipei Institute of Technology (now the National Taipei University of Technology).

He is married and lives in Kunshan.

Career 
Li first worked at a steel mill in Dajia District, Taichung, and worked his way up to the position of factory director. In 1991 he and his wife decided to go into business for themselves, and established Kinglai. His wife's background in international trade helped them to land their first client, a US$40,000 order from a US customer. In 2000, at the suggestion of his father-in-law, they moved the company headquarters to Kunshan, Jiangsu, in mainland China. Their first order there was from the Yili Group, a dairy products producer. In 2011, the company went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Forbes lists his net worth as of April 2022 at $1.1 billion USD.

References 

Taiwanese billionaires
Taiwanese company founders
20th-century Taiwanese businesspeople
21st-century Taiwanese businesspeople
Living people
1956 births
Alfons Kemper. Alfons Kemper (born 1958) is a German computer scientist and a full professor for database systems at the Technical University of Munich.

Education and career 
Kemper studied computer science at the Technical University of Dortmund from 1977 to 1981 (Vordiplom) and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (Master of Science) and finished his PhD in 1984 under the supervision of Ellis Horowitz. From 1984 to 1991 he worked with Peter Lockemann at the University of Karlsruhe and habilitated there. In 1991 he became associate professor at the Chair of Computer Science III at RWTH Aachen, and two years later he joined  the University of Passau as a full professor. There, Kemper was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from October 2001 to October 2003. Since 2004, he is leading the database group at the TU Munich as successor of Rudolf Bayer. The group is involved in the Bavarian elite study program in software engineering. Kemper was dean of the Faculty of Informatics from winter term 2006 to summer term 2010 and will be Head of Computer Science of the newly founded School of Computation, Information and Technology from October 2022.
From November 2010 to March 2017, Kemper was spokesperson for the database systems division of the German Informatics Society (GI) and was appointed fellow of the GI in 2015.

Research 
For a time, Kemper's research was focusing on object-oriented databases. Meanwhile, main memory database systems are the focus of his research. Together with Thomas Neumann, he designed the main memory database system HyPer, which was sold to Tableau Software in 2016, and is working on its successor system Umbra.

Awards 
 2021 ICDE Ten-Year Influential Paper Award
 2022 ACM Fellow

Books 
 with Eickler: Datenbanksysteme - Eine Einführung. De Gruyter (tenth edition), 2015
 with Wimmer: Übungsbuch Datenbanksysteme. Oldenbourg (third edition), 2011

References

External links 
 Homepage of Alfons Kemper
 publications indexed in the Digital Bibliography & Library Project (DBLP)
 HyPer: Hybrid OLTP&OLAP High-Performance Database System
 Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance

1958 births
German computer scientists
Database researchers
Living people
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University
Academic staff of the University of Passau
University of Southern California alumni
Technical University of Dortmund alumni
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
2022 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Hermann Schmalzried. Hermann Schmalzried (born 21 January 1932 in Koblenz) is a German chemist known for his work in physical chemistry, especially on the thermodynamics and kinetics of solid state chemistry.

Education and career 

Schmalzried received his diploma (with a diploma thesis on the fluorescence of benzopyrene) from Theodor Förster at the University of Stuttgart and received his doctorate in 1958 at the Roentgen Institute of the University of Stuttgart with Richard Glocker (1890-1978) and was a postdoc with Carl Wagner at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, a pioneer in solid state chemistry. He habilitated in 1966 at the Leibniz University Hannover on the topic of disorder in ternary ionic crystals. In 1966, he became a full professor at the Technical University of Clausthal and in 1975 at the Leibniz University Hannover. He was Courtesy Professor at Cornell University and Schottky Professor at Stanford University.

He wrote two textbooks on chemical reactions in solids, which were internationally standard works. He also dealt with thermodynamics of solids and electrochemistry. His group worked closely with Alan Lidiard's group in England.

Honors and awards 

Schmalzried received the Wilhelm Jost Memorial Medal in 1994 and the Bunsen Medal in 2013. He is "External Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, the Leopoldina, corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and member of the Academia Europaea (1989). He was awarded an honorary doctor at the University of Stuttgart in 2003.

Bibliography

Reviews

Books

References

External links 

 Würdigung an der Universität Stuttgart anlässlich der Ehrendoktorwürde, 2004, pdf

1932 births
Corresponding Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Members of Academia Europaea
University of Stuttgart alumni
Academic staff of the Clausthal University of Technology
German physical chemists
20th-century German chemists
People from Koblenz
Academic staff of the University of Hanover
Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Solid state chemists
Living people
Phi Psi (professional). Phi Psi () is an American professional fraternity in the field of textiles and manufacturing engineering. It was estalblished at the Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science in 1903.

History
Phi Psi was established as a professional textiles fraternity on  at the Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its five Founders were:
 Harold H. Hart
 Charles A. Kalenbach
 Henry W. Eddy
 Robert M. Baeny
 Paul Benninghoffen

Established at the turn of the 20th Century, Phi Psi had three aims:
 to promote fellowship among men of textile colleges and universities with textile departments;
 to encourage high standards in textile work; and,
 to assist, by every honorable means, the advancement of its members.

The fraternity expanded to several Massachusetts textile schools, then the center of textile manufacturing in the United States. Beta chapter was formed at Southeastern Massachusetts Dartmouth, followed by and Gamma chapter at Lowell Tech in 1904. Chapter naming traditions may have diverged: the Gamma chapter at Lowell Tech may have inserted the Gamma from its name into its national name, calling itself the Phi Gamma Psi fraternity.

The fraternity's first alumni chapter was established in  in Boston, Massachusetts. When the nation's textile industry center shifted to the southern states, chapters were established in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Alabama.  A total of ten collegiate chapters were formed, along with twelve alumni chapters.

Members from Alpha chapter began a search for a national social fraternity to join. In what appears to be a friendly schism, a majority or all of its members formed a separate organization from Phi Psi on  when they were accepted as the Pennsylvania Omicron chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon. Yet the Alpha chapter of Phi Psi continued independently on the campus, remaining active today.

In 1991, the fraternity had 6,000 members. The fraternity is now coed. It held its 111th convention in Atlanta, Georgia in 2018.

Traditions and insignia
Phi Psi's colors are black and gold. The fraternity's flower is the Yellow Tea Rose.  Its badge is described as a diamond-shaped emblem with a gold border and four perpendicular gold bars on a black face. The Greek letters  and  are in the center, rendered in gold. 

Its quarterly publication is The Phi Psi Quarterly.

Chapters
Following is a lists of Phi Psi chapters. Active chapters noted in bold. Inactive chapters and institutions are noted in italics.

See also
 Delta Kappa Phi, professional, textiles
 Professional fraternities and sororities
 Sigma Tau Sigma, honor society, textile engineering

References

Student organizations established in 1903
1903 establishments in Massachusetts
Textile arts
Textiles
Textile organizations
Kurt Huffman. Kurt Huffman is an American businessman, engineer, and politician who briefly served as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives for the 43rd district. He was appointed on June 17, 2022, succeeding Kevin Van Winkle. Following his defeat in the 2022 general election, his term ended on January 9, 2023.

Education 
Huffman earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science in engineering management from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Colorado Denver.

Career 
Huffman worked as an engineer at Lockheed Martin. He was also a member of the Douglas County Planning Commission. Huffman served as a legislative volunteer in the Colorado General Assembly for four sessions. After Kevin Van Winkle was appointed to a seat in the Colorado Senate and left his House seat vacant, Huffman was selected to replace him. He later won the Republican primary for a full term in the House.

In the 2022 Colorado House elections, Huffman lost to Democrat Bob Marshall.

References 

Living people
Republican Party members of the Colorado House of Representatives
Michigan Technological University alumni
University of Michigan alumni
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
University of Colorado Denver alumni
People from Highlands Ranch, Colorado
People from Douglas County, Colorado
American engineers
Engineers from Colorado
Lockheed Martin people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century members of the Colorado General Assembly
Thorfin R. Hogness. Thorfin Rusten Hogness (December 9, 1894, Minneapolis – February 14, 1976, San Jose, California) was a physical chemist, director of plutonium research for the Manhattan Project, and, after WW II, an advocate of "international control of nuclear energy".

Biography
Hogness graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. in 1918 in chemistry and a Ch.E. degree in 1919 in chemical engineering. He received in 1921 a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). His Ph.D. thesis is entitled The surface tensions and densities of liquid mercury, cadmium, zinc, lead, tin and bismuth. From 1921 to 1930 he was a faculty member at UC Berkeley, except for a leave of absence from 1926 to 1927 when he had a research fellowship at the University of Göttingen. In the chemistry department of the University of Chicago he became in 1930 an associate professor and in 1938 a full professor.

At the University of Chicago after WW II, he continued his professorship, worked on defense research (including the development of ICBMs), and served as director of applied sciences until 1962, when he retired as professor emeritus. He directed from 1948 to 1951 the University of Chicago's Institute of Radiobiology and Biophysics and in 1951 established the University of Chicago's Chicago Midway Laboratories (CML), where his involvement continued until 1961.

In 1946 he was one of eight members of the board of trustees of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, chaired by Albert Einstein. In 1948 Hogness was one of a group of eight American nuclear energy experts who publicly protested the tactics of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. In 1949 following the September detection of the first Soviet atomic bomb test, he joined Harold C. Urey and other scientists in "stressing that atomic disarmament held the only hope for an international agreement."

Hogness did research on "ionization of gases by electron impact; photochemistry; chemistry kinetics; spectroscopy and physical chemistry applied to biological systems and respiratory enzymes."

He was elected in 1928 a fellow of the American Physical Society and in 1941 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

His wife was Phoebe Swenson Hogness (1895–1972). They married in 1920 and had two sons: John R. Hogness (1922–2007), president (1974–1979) of the University of Washington in Seattle, and David S. Hogness (1925–2019), professor of biochemistry at Stanford University.

Selected publications

Articles

Books
  (5th edition, 1966)
 
  (3rd edition, 1954)

References

External links
 
 

1894 births
1976 deaths
Manhattan Project people
20th-century American physicists
American physical chemists
University of Minnesota alumni
UC Berkeley College of Chemistry alumni
UC Berkeley College of Chemistry faculty
University of Chicago faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Scientists from Minneapolis
20th-century American chemists
Alexander Wong (scientist). Alexander Wong is a professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering and a Co-Director of the Vision and Image Processing Research Group at the University of Waterloo. He is the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging, a Founding Member of the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute and a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow in the International Society for Design and Development in Education, a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Education 
Wong was educated at the University of Waterloo, where he holds a BSc in computer engineering, a MSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a PhD in systems design engineering. He held an NSERC postdoctoral research fellowship at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Ontario Canada.

Career 
Wong has authored and co-authored over 600 scientific articles and holds over 30 patents and patent applications in various fields ranging from computational imaging to artificial intelligence, and computer vision to multimedia systems. Wong is particularly noted for his significant research contributions in quantitative explainable AI (XAI), trust quantification, automatic machine learning (AutoML), and computational imaging methods such as correlated diffusion imaging

Selected publications

See also
 List of University of Waterloo people
 YOLO Object Detection Guide

References

External links
 Website
 

Canadian scientists
Canadian people of Chinese descent
University of Waterloo alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Claudia Cenedese. Claudia Cenedese (born 1971) is an Italian physical oceanographer and applied mathematician whose research focuses on the circulation and flow of water in the ocean, and on the theoretical fluid dynamics needed to model these flows, including phenomena such as mesoscale vortices, buoyancy-driven flow, coastal currents, dense overflows, and the melting patterns of icebergs. She is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Education and career
Cenedese's father, Antonio Cenedese, is also a fluid dynamics researcher at Sapienza University of Rome, and as a child, she became fascinated by the motion of water in his experimental tanks. She earned a laurea in environmental engineering from Sapienza University in 1995, and completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge in 1998, under the supervision of Paul Linden.

She came to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1998 as a postdoctoral scholar working with John A. Whitehead. She remained there for the rest of her career, becoming an assistant scientist in 2000 and obtaining a permanent research staff position in 2004. She was promoted to senior scientist in 2015. At Woods Hole, she established an exchange program for Italian students to visit, and has been active in mentoring women in oceanography.

Since 2015, she has also held an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Recognition
In 2018, Cenedese was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for fundamental contributions to the understanding of fluid-dynamical processes in the world's oceans, particularly turbulent entrainment into overflows and the melting of glaciers and icebergs, obtained through elegant and physically insightful laboratory experiments".

References

External links
Home page

1971 births
Living people
Physical oceanographers
Women oceanographers
Italian mathematicians
Italian women mathematicians
Applied mathematicians
Fluid dynamicists
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Italian oceanographers
Fokker/Republic D-24 Alliance. The Fokker/Republic D.24 was a supersonic variable-sweep wing concept aircraft designed from 1962 to 1968 by the Fokker-Republic Alliance, a coalition between Fokker and Republic Aviation. The project was based out of Schiphol, Netherlands, and led by Alexander Wadkowski of Republic Aviation.

Design
The D.24 was designed to be capable of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) and was designed in accordance with NATO Basic Military Requirement 3 and competed in NATO's BMR-3 military project bidding. Only a scale model was built and is now located at the Luchtvaartmuseum Aviodrome in Lelystad, Netherlands.

Specifications

See also
List of VTOL aircraft

References

Fokker aircraft
VTOL aircraft
Republic aircraft
Experimental aircraft
1960s experimental aircraft
United States experimental aircraft