omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Tom Delay (businessman). Thomas Auguste Read Delay  (born 9 April 1959) is a British businessman, and a commentator on business issues arising from the impact of climate change. He was Carbon Trust's first chief executive at its creation in 2001, and served in that role for over two decades until December 2023.

Background 
Delay was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London. He went on to study mechanical engineering at the University of Southampton. He also holds an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau.

Career 
After qualifying as a chartered engineer, Delay worked at Shell for 16 years in commercial and operations roles across Africa and Europe. He then moved into management consultancy, working at McKinsey and A.T. Kearney.

In 2001, Delay was appointed as the Carbon Trust's first chief executive, at its formation. He was initially appointed by a joint committee of the UK Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Confederation of British Industry. In June 2023, he announced he would be stepping down from his role at Carbon Trust after two decades in post.

Delay is a member of the UK Energy Research Partnership, and in 2011 he was also appointed to the UK Offshore Wind Cost Reduction Task Force.

He chairs the advisory board of Imperial College London's Centre for Climate Finance & Investment, and its MSc in Climate Change Management & Finance. He is also on the advisory board for the Global CO2 Initiative at the University of Michigan.

Delay is a board member of Severn Trent Plc, where he chairs the Corporate Sustainability Committee.

Honours 
Delay was appointed a CBE by the Queen in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to sustainability in business.

References 

21st-century English businesspeople
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Climate economists
English chief executives
Living people
1959 births
People educated at Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle
INSEAD alumni
Alumni of the University of Southampton
Bowlus. Bowlus is an American luxury travel trailer with a front door, aerodynamic shape and polished aluminum body.

Hawley Bowlus designed and built the travel trailer using his knowledge of aircraft construction. Aspects of the design were used on the first aluminum-body Airstream trailers, the Airstream Clipper. Bowlus stopped producing the trailers in 1936.
 
Production of a modernized, enlarged travel trailer resumed in 2013 in Oxnard, California.

History

Founding and early years

The first Bowlus was designed and built by Hawley Bowlus in 1934. Bowlus was a designer, aerospace engineer and the builder of the Spirit of St. Louis aircraft. From 1934 to 1936, over eighty Bowlus were built at Bowlus’ family ranch in San Fernando, California. 
 
In 1936, Wally Byam who founded Airstream adapted the design for the Airstream Clipper after selling Bowlus trailers.

In November 1936, Bowlus stopped building travel trailers and did not transfer assets to another party.

Approximately half of the original Bowlus travel trailers have survived. In a Scottsdale Gooding & Company auction, a vintage Bowlus Road Chief sold for $187,000.

Modern Era

Bowlus was revived by Geneva Long and her family in 2014. The modern travel trailers are longer, wider and taller than the originals and are lightweight. The new Endless Highways model is described as being the most advanced travel trailer in the world.

The modern-era company is headquartered in Oxnard, California. Each travel trailer is made with birch wood, 2024 T3 aluminum and stainless steel countertops. The company manufactures several versions of the trailer, including the Endless Highways, Endless Highways Performance Edition and the Terra Firma

Technology
The Endless Highway was the first travel trailer to use lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries. Endless Highways travel trailers can run for up to two weeks without hookups.

Appearances
A Bowlus Road Chief appeared in the 1935 Hollywood movie Red Salute.

In 2016, Bowlus  partnered with Bentley for the launch of the Bentley Bentayga during Monterey Car Week.

In 2017, a Bowlus Endless Highways appeared in a Squarespace commercial that was part of a Super Bowl Advertising Campaign with Keanu Reeves.

References 

1934 establishments in the United States
Caravan and travel trailer manufacturers
Hui Zhang (computer scientist). Hui Zhang () is a Chinese-American computer scientist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and an entrepreneur who co-founded Conviva.

Education 
Zhang received a B.S. in computer science from Peking University in 1988, an M.S. in computer engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1989, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993 under Domenico Ferrari with a thesis titled Service Disciplines for Integrated Services Packet-Switching Networks.

Career 
Zhang, together with Ion Stoica, Aditya Ganjam, and Jibin Zhan, co-founded Conviva, where he is chief scientist and chairman of the board.

Zhang's research focus is in Internet QoE, video streaming, network architecture, and real-time big data analytics. Zhang's End System Multicast (ESM) project pioneered the overlay multicast architecture and developed the world's first peer-to-peer live streaming system. The ESM paper published in year 2000 won the ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award in year 2011.  His 4D research project advocated the network control architecture that separates control logic from data devices, and was the precursor to the Software Defined Networks (SDN) initiative. The 4D paper published in year 2005 won the ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award in year 2015.

As a professor, Zhang has mentored many students. He supervised Ion Stoica's Ph.D. dissertation, which won ACM Dissertation Award in 2001. He co-advised, with Vyas Sekar (a former student of his), Junchen Jiang's PhD thesis, which won the 2017 Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award.

Zhang was elected to be a Fellow of ACM in 2005 and received the Alfred Sloan Fellowship in 2000.  He received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1996 and held the Finmeccanica Chair in Computer Science at CMU from 1998 to 2001.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Peking University alumni
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Chinese computer scientists
American computer scientists
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Chinese computer businesspeople
American computer businesspeople
2005 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Sloan Research Fellows
American company founders
Brickland MRT station. Brickland MRT station is a future Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North–South line located in Singapore. It will serve the Choa Chu Kang Neighbourhood 8 as well as Pavilion Park and Tengah Brickland District.

History

Brickland station was first announced on 25 May 2019 as part of the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) Land Transport Master Plan 2040. The station was planned to serve approximately 13,000 existing households from Keat Hong, Bukit Batok West, Pavilion Park, Tengah town’s Brickland district, and future residential developments. Officially confirmed on 28 July 2023, the station is targeted to begin construction in 2024 with a completion date of 2034. Construction works for the station will include a new viaduct and crossover tracks. The longer construction duration for the infill is due to extensive modification works needed which requires realignment of the road and railway tracks similar to Tung Chung East station since the section of the line was never meant to have an infill station in the first place. This would require additional 54-hour closures in 2028 - 2029. Construction can only take place during maintenance hours at night.

Details

Serving the North South line (NSL), Brickland station will be between the  and  stations. The official station code will be NS3A. The station will be constructed along Bukit Batok West Avenue 5 near the junction with Bukit Batok Road.

References

Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2034
Uttar Radhanagar railway station. Uttar Radhanagar railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway Station on the Diamond Harbour Branch line. It is under the jurisdiction of the Sealdah railway division in the Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. Uttar Radhanagar railway station is situated at Radhanagar, South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

History
In 1883, the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a -wide broad-gauge railway from  to  via Uttar Radhanagar.

Electrification
Electrification from  to  including Uttar Radhanagar was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–66.

Station complex
The platform is very much well sheltered. The station possesses many facilities including water and sanitation. There is a proper approach road to this station.

References

Railway stations in South 24 Parganas district
Sealdah railway division
Kolkata Suburban Railway stations
Railway stations in India opened in 1883
1883 establishments in the British Empire
Lucas DeKoster. Lucas James DeKoster (June 18, 1918 – February 23, 2000) was an American politician who served in the Iowa Senate from 1965 to 1983.

He was born to parents John and Sarah Katherine DeKoster in Hull, Iowa, on June 18, 1918. After graduating from Hull High School in his hometown, DeKoster successively attended Kansas State College and Iowa State College, completing a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1939. He was a designer of jet-propulsion engines for the aeronautical industry and worked in New Jersey, Virginia and Ohio. While an Ohio resident, DeKoster studied at the Cleveland–Marshall College of Law. Upon passing the Iowa bar exam in June 1952, DeKoster returned to Hull and practiced general and patent law.

DeKoster won election to the Iowa Senate for the first time in 1964, as a Republican legislator representing District 50. He subsequently served a four-year term for District 49 starting in 1967, and thereafter held the District 1 seat until stepping down in 1983. In 1970, he was a Republican candidate for floor leader of the senate. Ten years after stepping down from the state senate, DeKoster served on the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee.

After his retirement from politics, DeKoster undertook an in-depth study of his family's genealogy and self-published a history/memoir entitled The Books of Our Years.

DeKoster married Dorothea LaVonne Hymans in 1942, with whom he raised five children. He died in Hull on February 23, 2000, aged 81. The University of Iowa Libraries hold separate collections for DeKoster and his mother Sarah.

References

External links
 Lucas DeKoster's papers are housed at University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections & Archives

1918 births
Kansas State University alumni
Iowa State University alumni
2000 deaths
Republican Party Iowa state senators
People from Hull, Iowa
20th-century American engineers
Engineers from Iowa
Iowa lawyers
20th-century American lawyers
Cleveland State University College of Law alumni
20th-century members of the Iowa General Assembly
Odesa Nuclear Power Plant. Odesa Nuclear Power Station () — an unfinished nuclear power plant (nuclear power central), located near the city of Teplodar, Odesa Oblast of Ukraine, near the , 25 km west of Odesa. Two power units with VVER-1000 reactors were supposed to produce electricity for the Odesa Oblast, as well as to provide heat to Odesa, Chornomorsk and Teplodar itself. Planned electrical power of the station is 2000 MW, heat is 6000 MW.

History 
The city of Teplodar, as well as the Nuclear Cogeneration Station, began to be built in the early 1980s. After the accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant construction of the Odesa NCS has been stopped.

Possibility of construction restoration 
National Nuclear Power Generating Company Energoatom (NNEGC "Energoatom") is holding discussions on the restoration of the construction of the APEC.

See also 
 Nuclear power in Ukraine

References

External links

Abandoned buildings and structures
Cancelled nuclear power stations
Nuclear power stations in Ukraine
Teplodar
Deula railway station. Deula railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway Station on the Diamond Harbour Branch line. It is under the jurisdiction of the Sealdah railway division in the Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. This station is situated beside Station Road at Nazra, Deula, South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

History
In 1883, the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a -wide broad-gauge railway from  to  via Deula.

Electrification
Electrification from  to  including Deula was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–66.

Station complex
The platform is very much well sheltered. The station possesses many facilities including water and sanitation. There is a proper approach road to this station.

References

Railway stations in South 24 Parganas district
Sealdah railway division
Kolkata Suburban Railway stations
Railway stations in India opened in 1883
1883 establishments in the British Empire
Bidyadharpur railway station. Bidyadharpur railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway Station on the Canning Branch line. It is under the jurisdiction of the Sealdah railway division in the Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. It serves the local area of Bidyadharpur in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

History
In 1862, the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a -wide broad-gauge railway from  to  via Bidyadharpur.

Electrification
Electrification from  to  including Bidyadharpur was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–66.

Station complex
The platform is very much well sheltered. The station possesses many facilities including water and sanitation. There is a proper approach road to this station.

References

Railway stations in South 24 Parganas district
Sealdah railway division
Kolkata Suburban Railway stations
Railway stations in India opened in 1862
1862 establishments in India
1862 establishments in the British Empire
Pommerman Challenge. The Pommerman Challenge is a multi-agent game to test autonomous artificial intelligence systems.

Game structure 
Two-agent team compete against each other on an 11 x 11 board. Each agent can observe only part of the board, and the agents cannot communicate. The goal is to knock down the opponents. Agents place explosives to destroy walls and collect power-ups that appear from those walls, while avoiding death. Game objects can move unpredictably or be moved by an agent.

Play 
The game involves real-time decision making. Agents must choose moves in about .1 seconds.

Algorithms 
The real-time requirement limits the use of compute-heavy techniques such as Monte Carlo tree search. The branching factor at each move can be as large as 1,296, because all four agents act in each step, choosing among six possibilities. The agents choose by accounting for explosions, which have lifetimes of 10 steps. Explosions derail tree search techniques, as searches with less than 10 levels ignore explosions while deeper searches consider too many choices (given the branching factor).

A hybrid approach uses a limited-depth tree search followed by exploring a deterministic/pessimistic scenario. Limiting the depth keeps the search tree small. The deterministic approach can predict far in the future, by omitting branching. "Good" actions are often those that perform well under pessimistic scenarios, particularly if safety is important. Identifying the worst sequence of positions for an object can suggest where to move it.

After generating pessimistic scenarios, the agent quantifies the survivability of each move, notionally the number of positions in which the agent can then remain safely (without encountering other agents).

Competitions 
3 competitions were organized with slightly changing rules during 2018–2019.

Online - FFA 
This round was a warm-up online event, where each competitor controlled only one agent. Results:
 1st: Agent47Agent by  Yichen Gong
 2nd: aiKiller by Márton Görög

NeurIPS 2018 - Team 
The first Pommerman competition with in-person finals. Results:

 1st: hakozakijunctions by Toshihiro Takahashi
 2nd: eisenach by Márton Görög
 3rd: dypm by Takayuki Osogami

The 3 best performing solutions used online tree search.

NeurIPS 2019 - Team Radio 
The second competition with in-person finals improved communication between teammate agents. Results:
 1st: Márton Görög
 2nd: Paul Jasek
 3rd: Yifan Zhang

References

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Applications of artificial intelligence
Faba bean necrotic stunt virus. Faba bean necrotic stunt virus (FBNSV) is a pathogenic plant virus of the family Nanoviridae. Its infection cycle is remarkable because it has eight segments, each carried in a different particle, that can replicate independently in different host cells and then reassemble outside of the host cells into new complete virions.

References

Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Nanoviridae
Volkswagen Auto 2000. The Volkswagen Auto 2000 is a concept car first shown by German car company Volkswagen in 1981. It was part of a German government-sponsored program to develop cars for the year 2000. Volkswagen's prototype was joined by efforts from Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and the University Working Group HAG (Hochschularbeitsgemeinschaft). As with the other Auto 2000 concepts, Volkswagen's car focused on fuel economy through the use of efficient engines and streamlining, and many of its features were to end up in series production.

Auto 2000
The Auto 2000 project was begun in January 1978 by the West German Federal Ministry for Research and Technology. They put forth 110 million Deutsche Mark for a program to develop the "car for the year 2000," with strict limitations on fuel consumption and weight. The four resulting projects were all presented at the 1981 Frankfurt Auto Show. BMW and Porsche were also initially part of the Auto 2000 project, but they did not reach the second stage (concept car).

Design

The three-door hatchback used the chassis of the Volkswagen Golf Mk1 and was of a particular design, with a tall kammback rear end and a front without a traditional grille. Wind resistance was . Smaller details such as the integrated drip rails (which also hid a welding seam) quickly made their way onto the Golf Mk2. Volkswagen had considered using the Auto 2000's front design on the new Golf, but in the end they decided on a more conventional front for what has long been their most important product. The Auto 2000 front end instead wound up on the Passat B3 in 1988. To save weight, the car used a number of parts made from composite materials, including a plastic rear axle.

The car was fitted with a succession of different engines as it underwent continuous development for a period: the first engine was a 1.2-liter, three-cylinder turbodiesel with . A supercharged version of the same developed ; both these engines were fitted with Volkswagen's 4+E manual transmission, a five-speed 'box with a very long fifth gear to maximize economy. A  1.05-liter supercharged petrol four was also used, coupled to a four-speed automatic with a freewheel function. The Auto 2000 was one of the first to feature Volkswagen's Stop-Start technology, allowing the car to save a considerable amount of gasoline in city driving. A flywheel was used to help start the motor again quickly. This was another feature that was to find its way into production cars, first in some of Volkswagen's own "Formel E" models and later spreading into a large share of all cars sold in Europe.

References

Auto 2000
Jenny Markelin-Svensson. Jenny Maria Gustava Markelin-Svensson (October 30, 1882, Vantaa - March 17, 1929, Helsinki) was a professional inspector and Finland's first female engineer.

Markelin-Svensson's parents were farmer Johan Fredrik Albert Markel and Amanda Fredrika Nummel. She married construction engineer Emil Svensson in 1911. She graduated from a Swedish-speaking high school "Nya svenska samskolan" in 1899. She graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 1905 as an engineer with a focus on road and bridge construction.

After graduating, Markelin-Svensson studied working conditions in Finland and through scholarships, studied working conditions across Europe. In 1908, she was appointed Assistant Inspector to Vera Hjelt, and in 1909 she served as Assistant Inspector in Vyborg and Lahti. In 1913, she moved to Helsinki, to work as a labor inspector for the Health Care Board.

When the Social Administration was established in 1918, Markelin-Svensson served as Finland's first female occupational inspector. Later, she was the Deputy Inspector of the Ministry of Social Affairs until her early death. Markelin-Svensson was also an active social influencer, through public outreach including newsletters, presentations and lectures, as well as through her positions in industry associations and organizations. [1]

References

20th-century Finnish engineers
Finnish women engineers
People from Vantaa
Aalto University alumni
20th-century women engineers
1882 births
1929 deaths
Engineers from Helsinki
Horten Aircraft HX-2. The Horten Aircraft HX-2 is a two-seat flying wing or "Blended Wing Body" aircraft powered by a Rotax 912 iS2 engine. It was built and first flown by Horten Aircraft in 2018 as an experimental aircraft. Test flying continued in 2019 at the Kindel Airfield near Eisenach in Germany.

Design and development
The company is named after aircraft designer Reimar Horten (1915-1994). He is regarded as a pioneer in the field of tailess aircraft and made the most significant contributions to the development of predecessor aircraft prototypes, including the PUL-9 and .

The HX-2 has a two-seat enclosed cockpit in the centre of the carbon-fibre and glass-fibre honeycomb structure, reinforced to provide roll-over protection. The undercarriage comprises a retractable tricycle landing gear, with an emergency ballistic parachute.

By June 2019 there were no published performance specifications for the design, but the company claimed that it would be faster and with greater range than comparable aircraft, due to the lower drag of its no-fuselage design.

The manufacturer claimed that the design was intended to accept new technology propulsion systems, as they become available.

The HX-2 prototype was exhibited at AERO Friedrichshafen, 2019.

Specifications (HX-2)

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2010s German experimental aircraft
Flying wings