omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Zowie Intertainment. Zowie Intertainment was a smart toy research company founded in 1998 by a group of engineers from Interval Research Corporation that focused on applying various computer and sensor technology research to smart toy development. In 2000, toy design and manufacturing firm Lego acquired ownership of Zowie Intertainment as part of their smart toy division.

Zowie Intertainment primarily relied on embedding proprietary RF sensors and recognition technologies in physical toys such as plastic figurines to create different game play and interaction experiences that could also be interfaced via a computer screen.

History
In 1998, Zowie Intertainment was initially spun-off from Interval Research Corporation by Philippe P. Piernot, Allan Alcorn, and Amy Francetic among others.

Zowie Intertainment’s portfolio of proprietary sensing and recognition technologies was called the Zowie Power. Zowie Intertainment released smart toy playsets such as Ellie’s Enchanted Garden and Redbeard's Pirate Quest, play-sets that merged playing with plastic figurines with interacting with a computer game.

The company’s acquisition by Lego was part of Lego’s plan to fuse digital aspects of play to physical toys, a hybrid interaction internally referred to as “fluid play.” With a concept to create a toy-computer play-set based on the then popular Lego Duplo Circus theme, Lego also brought on the technology development team of Zowie Intertainment to work on a smart toy technology platform called the KidPad. However, due to the dot-com bubble crash and the ensuing economic difficulties, the KidPad Circus and related programs at Lego were cancelled.

Zowie Intertainment was also one of the companies that organized discussions regarding psychological and developmental concerns of children interacting with smart toys and electronic playthings.

References

Electronic toys
Lego
Companies established in 1998
2022 Bangladesh blackout. The 2022 Bangladesh blackout was a power outage that occurred across Bangladesh on October 4, 2022. The blackout lasted for almost 7 hours.

Cause 
According to Bangladesh Power Development Board, the power grid of the country malfunctioned at around 2pm (08:00 GMT) on October 4, 2022.

Areas affected 
Due to the blackout, all power plants tripped and electricity was cut in the capital Dhaka and other big cities. Between 75 and 80 per cent electricity supply was suspended during the blackout.

Impact 
The blackout affected operations of the Bangladesh's lucrative export-oriented garment industry. According to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, they had to shut their offices because the generators were not able to run for long periods.

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Power outages in Bangladesh
2022 in Bangladesh
October 2022 events in Asia
Project Adam. Project Adam was a proposed plan by the United States Army for a manned, suborbital rocket flight. It was developed in 1958, in parallel with the United States Air Force's Project Manhigh, and was initially called Project Man Very High. The twin aims were to gather scientific data on high-altitude flight and to enhance national prestige in the wake of the successful launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1. A further goal was to investigate the possibility of troop transport by ballistic missile.

History 

The plan involved using off-the-shelf hardware to send a passenger on a steep ballistic flight from Cape Canaveral, with a splashdown in the North Atlantic. The launch vehicle would have been a modified Redstone Jupiter-C. The astronaut would have been housed in a capsule modelled on the USAF's Manhigh gondola, modified for a water landing, with no provision for manual control. At the apogee of flight the astronaut would have experienced six minutes of weightlessness. The first manned flight would have been preceded by a series of flights involving primates.

Project Adam was devised by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, and was proposed to the Advanced Research Projects Agency on 11 July 1958. However although Secretary to the Army Wilber M. Brucker backed the project, largely as a psychological demonstration, Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald A. Quarles believed that it had "about the same technical value as the circus stunt of shooting a young lady from a cannon". The plan was not formally approved, although after the formation of NASA on 29 July 1958 elements of the hardware were folded into Project Mercury.

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Phoniton. A phoniton is a theoretical quasiparticle that emerges from the hybridization of a localized, long-lived phonon (a quantum of sound) with a matter excitation. It serves as a sound-based analogue of cavity quantum electrodynamics, where the phonon plays a role similar to that of a photon in coupling with a matter excitation to form a polariton.

The concept of phonitons was introduced in research conducted by Soykal et al. In their study, they explore the possibility of realizing these hybrid objects based on sound and matter. By investigating strained silicon systems, the authors identify low-lying donor transitions that can be driven solely by acoustic phonons at wavelengths suitable for constructing high-Q phonon cavities. The strongly coupled regime of the phonon-matter resonance is achieved, surpassing the thresholds of spontaneous phonon emission, phonon leakage, anharmonicity, and scattering. The proposed micropillar distributed Bragg reflector Si/Ge cavity demonstrates the feasibility of achieving high-Q factors and small mode volumes.

Phonitons offer exciting prospects in manipulating quantized vibrations in nanoscale mechanical systems and gaining deeper insights into the nature of sound and heat at the quantum level. phonitons can serve as fundamental components in constructing new macroscopic artificial quantum systems.

See also

Quasiparticle
Cavity quantum electrodynamics
Quantum mechanics

References

Quantum mechanics
Quasiparticles
Configuron. A configuron is an elementary configurational excitation in an amorphous material which involves breaking of a chemical bond. Coined by scientists C.A. Angell and K.J. Rao, this concept often involves the breaking and reforming of a chemical bond.

These configurational excitations, or configurons, serve as a crucial aspect of understanding the dynamic behaviors of amorphous materials. Essentially, these are the fundamental building blocks that dictate the arrangements of atoms or molecules within these substances.

Understanding configurons can open avenues in various fields, such as materials science and electronics, by allowing more precise manipulation of amorphous materials' properties.

See also

Quasiparticle
Amorphous solid
Condensed matter physics
Configuration interaction

References

Condensed matter physics
Materials science
Quasiparticles
Amorphous solids
Karon MacLean. Karon E. MacLean is a computer scientist and mechanical engineer whose research involves haptic technology and affective haptics in human–computer interaction and human–robot interaction. Educated in the US, she works in Canada as a professor of computer science and Canada Research Chair in Interactive Human Systems Design at the University of British Columbia.

Education and career
MacLean was an undergraduate at Stanford University, where she graduated in 1986 with a double major in biological sciences and mechanical engineering. She earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering at to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1988.  After two years working as an engineer at the University of Utah, she returned to MIT for a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, completed in 1996.

She was a researcher for Interval Research Corporation from 1996 to 2000. In 2000, she became an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC); she has been a full professor there since 2010.  At UBC, she is the co-founder and director of the Designing for People (DFP) Research Cluster, director of the Sensory Perception and Interaction Research Group, and associate director of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems.

Recognition
MacLean was given a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Interactive Human Systems Design by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in 2021. She was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, "for contributions to the design of haptic communication", and is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Technical Committee for Haptics.

References

External links
Home page

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American computer scientists
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Melinda Piket-May. Melinda Jane Piket-May is an American engineer who is a professor of engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research investigates numerical modeling of electromagnetic phenomena and new strategies for more inclusive engineering education.

Early life and education 
Piket-May became interested in mathematics and science at high school. She earned her undergraduate degree in biomedical and electrical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She moved to Northwestern University for graduate studies, where she specialized in electrical engineering and developed computational models for electromagnetic phenomena. She spent her summers as an intern at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where she developed simulations to control superconducting super-collider magnets.

Research and career 
After earning her doctorate, Piket-Mary remained at Northwestern as a postdoctoral research assistant. In 2000, Piket-May joined the faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. She was made an associate professor in 2000 and Chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly in 2015. Her research considers the development of numerical methods for finite-difference time-domain method solutions of Maxwell's equations. The methods she developed are based on sampling electromagnetic fields over a given period of time.

Alongside her scientific research, Piket-Mary is interested in K–12, undergraduate and graduate teaching. She was named a Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador in 2019.

Awards and honors 
 1999 Frontiers in Education Helen Plants Award
 2018 Excellence Award
 2019 Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador

Selected publications 
 Averaged transition conditions for electromagnetic fields at a metafilm
 FD-TD modeling of digital signal propagation in 3-D circuits with passive and active loads
 Photonic bandgap structures used as filters in microstrip circuits

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Year of birth missing (living people)
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
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21st-century American engineers
20th-century American women engineers
21st-century American women engineers
Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski. Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski (Polish: ; born 12 April 1984 in Łódź) is a Polish engineer working at the European Space Agency (ESA) as a project astronaut since 2023, and was formerly employed at CERN.

Early life and education 

Uznański was born in Łódź, Polish People's Republic on April 12, 1984. He was raised in the same city, attending the 8th Adam Asnyk High School. In 2008, he graduated with honours with master's degree from the Technical University of Łódź and from the University of Nantes; in the same year also received Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the Polytech Nantes. In 2011, he received a doctor's degree with distinction from the University of the Mediterranean Aix-Marseille II for thesis on radiation-tolerant designs for space applications.

Career 

During his doctorate, he worked at STMicroelectronics manufacturing facility in Crolles, France.

In 2011, he joined the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2013, he was appointed as a project lead and senior reliability engineer at CERN. From 2018 to 2020, he was an Engineer in Charge of the Large Hadron Collider.

In 2019, he was a technical expert and reviewer for Horizon 2020 programme; investigating European autonomy and technological competitiveness in the space industry for European Research Executive Agency (REA).

In November 2022, he was announced as a reserve astronaut by the European Astronaut Corps for the 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group.

In August 2023, Polish Development and Technology Minister, Waldemar Buda, announced that a Polish astronaut would fly to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024, adding that if the mission goes ahead Poland will submit the candidature of Uznański which will have to be approved by ESA and American company Axiom Space. If Uznański is accepted, he will become the second Pole to go into space after Mirosław Hermaszewski in 1978.

He joined ESA to undergo his training for the mission Axiom Mission 4 on 1 September 2023.

His mission is named Ignis.

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Living people
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Polish astronauts
Adrienne Lavine. Adrienne S. Lavine (born 1958) is an American mechanical engineer specializing in heat transfer, thermal energy, and energy storage, and known as a coauthor of several widely used textbooks on heat transfer. She is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, director of the UCLA Modeling of Complex Thermal Systems Laboratory, and a former associate vice provost at UCLA.

Education and career
Lavine studied mechanical engineering at Brown University, graduating in 1979. After working for two years at Owens Corning in Columbus, Ohio, she returned to graduate study in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, completing her Ph.D. in 1984. In the same year joined the UCLA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She served as chair of the UCLA Academic Senate from 2005 to 2006, chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from 2006 to 2011, and associate vice provost for the UCLA Center for the Advancement of Teaching, from 2017 to 2022.

Books
Lavine is a coauthor of books including:
Introduction to Heat Transfer (with Frank P. Incropera, David P. Dewitt, and Theodore L. Bergman, Wiley; Lavine was added for the 5th edition, 2006)
Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer (with Incropera, Dewitt, and Bergman, Wiley; Lavine was added for the 6th edition, 2007)
Principles of Heat and Mass Transfer (with Incropera, Dewitt, and Bergman, Wiley; Lavine was added for the 7th edition, 2013)

Recognition
Lavine was a 1988 winner of the Presidential Young Investigator Award, and received the F. W. Taylor Medal of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) in 1990. She was elected as an ASME Fellow in 1999.

Personal life
Lavine is married to Gregory Small, a screenwriter and film producer who graduated with her from Brown University in 1979; they have two children.

References

External links
Modeling of Complex Thermal Systems Laboratory

1958 births
Living people
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
Brown University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Damper winding. The damper winding (also amortisseur winding) is a squirrel-cage-like winding on the rotor of a typical  synchronous electric machine. It is used to dampen the transient oscillations and facilitate the start-up operation.

Since the design of a damper winding is similar to that of a asynchronous motor, the winding technically enables the direct-on-line start and can even be used for the motor operation in the asynchronous mode.

Originally the damper winding was invented by Maurice Leblanc in France and Benjamin G. Lamme in the US to deal with the problem of hunting oscillations due to the early generators being driven by the directly connected steam engines with their pulsating torque. In the modern designs the generators are driven by turbines and the issue of hunting is less important, although pulsating torque is still encountered by motors, for example, while driving the piston compressors.

The construction of the damper windings is complex and largely based on empirical knowledge. A typical damper winding consists of short-circuit bars that in the machines with cylindrical rotors share the slots with the field windings, and in the case of salient pole rotors are located in the dedicated slots on the surfaces of pole shoes. There are no bars in the quadrature axis area of the salient pole machines. The bars are terminated on rings or plates encircling the rotor.

References

Sources 
 
 
 

Electrical engineering
Electromagnetic coils
Alma Martinez Fallon. Alma U. Martinez Fallon (born 1958) is a retired marine engineer who worked for many years on the design and construction of military ships at Newport News Shipbuilding and its successor organizations, Northrop Grumman Newport News and Huntington Ingalls Industries. Originally from the Dominican Republic, she emigrated with her family to the US when she was a child. She was president of the Society of Women Engineers.

Early life and education
Martinez Fallon was born on December 1, in 1958 in Constanza, Dominican Republic, the youngest of three children; her mother was a teacher and her father was a forester. In the mid-1960s they moved to San Juan de la Maguana and then Santo Domingo, and in late 1967 they emigrated to New York City. After a year in public school in Queens, New York, she was educated in a Catholic school. She started her college education at Hunter College, intending to become a mathematics teacher. However, she married at age eighteen, divorced at age 22, left college without graduating, and became a bank clerk in Newport News, Virginia.

In 1984, at age 24, she returned to school, inspired by her bank customers (many of whom were shipbuilding engineers) to pursue engineering instead of mathematics education. She spent an academic year in electrical engineering at Stony Brook University, but then transferred to Old Dominion University, where she completed her degree in mechanical engineering in 1987.

Career and later life
Martinez Fallon began working at Newport News Shipbuilding as a co-op student in 1985. Despite multiple other job offers after she graduated, she remained there, initially working on piping in the Seawolf-class submarine. After additional work on military "roll-on/roll-off" ships for transporting vehicles and commercial shipbuilding, she moved into engineering management in the early 1990s. Her subsequent positions involved steel fabrication and supply chain management, eventually becoming corporate director of strategic planning before retiring.

Martinez Fallon was the 41st president of the Society of Women Engineers, serving from 2003 to 2004. She was also elected to the board of governors of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the first Hispanic person to serve on the board. She chaired the American Association of Engineering Societies in 2007.

Recognition
Martinez Fallon was one of five recipients of the 1997 Distinguished New Engineer Award of the Society of Women Engineers. In 2000, she was named as a "one of America's leading minority women in technology" by the magazines Hispanic Engineer, U.S. Black Engineer, and Information Technology, at the Fifth Annual Women of Color Technology Awards Conference. She was elected as an ASME Fellow in 2003.

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Living people
Dominican Republic emigrants to the United States
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
Dominican Republic engineers
Dominican Republic women engineers
Old Dominion University alumni
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1958 births
Presidents of the Society of Women Engineers
Benedict du Boulay. Benedict du Boulay is a British computer scientist and one of the pioneers in the area of application of Artificial Intelligence to education. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Engineering and Informatics at the University of Sussex and visiting professor at University College London.

Biography 
du Boulay gained a BSc in physics from Imperial College London (1966) and a PGCE from the University of Zambia (1968). He completed his PhD in 1978 on Logo in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex.

His responsibilities in Sussex included Dean of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (1994–1998) as well as Dean of science and Technology (2002–2009). His community service to the field of AI in Education included being a President (2015–2017) of the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education and an Associate Editor of its International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.

Research
du Bolulay edited/wrote 12 books and wrote over 190 papers. His most recent book is Handbook of AI in Education.

Notable Publications 
 Benedict du Boulay and Riichiro Mizoguchi (eds.) Proceedings of AI-ED'97, 8th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Kobe, Japan, 18–22 August 1997, IOS, 1997
 Christopher Thornton and Benedict Du Boulay (eds.)   Artificial Intelligence: Strategies, Applications, and Models Through Search. Amacom Books, 1999.
 Carmel Kent and Ben Du Boulay, AI for Learning. CRC Press, 2022 
 Benedict du Boulay, Antonia Mitrovic and Kalina Yacef (eds.):   Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Edward Elgar, 2023.

References

External links
Personal page at Sussex
List of Computing publications at DBLP
ACM Digital Library profile

Academics of the University of Sussex
British computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
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