omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Tank Tankuro. is a 1934 manga written and drawn by Gajō Sakamoto. The comic features the eponymous character, a robot-like character with a round iron body who could transform into various shapes and produce anything he wanted from the hole in his belly. He fights his archenemy, Kuro Kabuto (Black Helmet).

Tank Tankuro is considered one of the first robot and science fiction manga, inspiring characters like Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy and Fujiko Fujio's Doraemon; however it was preceded by the 1929 comic story Jinzō ningen (Artificial human) by Suihō Tagawa.

Publication history 
Sakamoto published Tank Tankuro's stories as a yonkoma for the Chugai Shougyou Shimbun (current Nihon Keizai Shimbun). He felt he needed a bigger space for his stories and turned to Kodansha, presenting a draft to the editor of Yonen Club magazine. The draft was accepted, and Sakamoto published Tank Tankuro stories in the magazine for four years.

In 2010, a collection of Tank Tankuro stories was published in English by Presspop. It was reissued in 2017 by Fantagraphics.

References

External links 
 タンク・タンクローへようこそ

Fictional robots
Science fiction anime and manga
1934 comics debuts
Robot comics
Kodansha manga
Fantagraphics titles
Yonkoma
1930s manga
Pre-1945 manga
RA1 (railbus). RA1 () (Rail Bus, 1st type) - a series of rail buses that unified structurally with metrovagon. It is produced by JSC "Metrovagonmash". That is an independent mobile unit for the carriage of passengers. The term "Motor coach" is considered more correct by the majority of specialists. However PA1 is classified exactly as "railbuses" in the JSC "Metrovagonmash" factory documentation.
Designed for the transport of passengers on non-electrified sections of railways and can be used for urban, suburban and interregional communication. Railbus have cabins at both ends of the car, and do not require a turn. At the same time, RA1 can be operated singly and in the system of many units (in pairs with 2-3 sections) both. The family PA1 is represented by six models. The body, the crew and the undercarriage are made on the basis of the "Yauza" subway wagons.

History 
Only three copies of this bus were issued for the first 4 years of production (1997-2002).  First unit was operated in motor-car depot South-Eastern Railway since August 2000. Second one entered the Kaliningrad Railway after testing at the experimental ring in Shcherbinka in June 2002. The third unit design documentation was developed, but release of unit was heavily delayed.

The first and second "railbuses" had imported diesel engine and hydraulic transmission on board. The third unit designed for domestic nodes installation. All unitscopies had design different from each other. The first copy of RA1 was originally released with a Scharfenberg automatic coupler (metro coupler) and high footrests. Further, this coupler was replaced by an automatic coupler "SA-3". Third unit was sent for Dubna city operations.

There was a break in 2004–2005, because the rail buses went into series and became entering to many roads of the rail network by small lots. No less than 38 RA1 rail buses have been manufactured at October 2005. The number was reached 91 units (excluding export and metro versions) at the end of 2006. Plus 41 export units and some machines for the domestic metro.

References 

Railbuses
Railcars of Russia
Train-related introductions in 1997
IBM System/370 Model 115. The IBM System/370 Model 115 was announced March 13, 1973, at that time the low-end model of the System/370 line. It was promoted as "an ideal System/370 entry system for users of IBM's System/3, 1130 computing system and System/360 Models 20, 22 and 25."

The Model 115 was withdrawn on March 9, 1981.

Specifications
The CPU  had a CPU and memory cycle time of 480 ns. Main memory was composed of MOSFET monolithic integrated circuits. The Model 115 came standard with 65,536 (64 KB) of memory, but it could optionally be ordered with up to 196,608 (192 KB). The system had a CRT operator console.

Standard features of the Model 115 were the System/370 standard and commercial (including decimal arithmetic) instruction sets, and a "direct disk attachment" for IBM 3340 disk drives. Optional features included System/370 floating point instructions, System/360 Model 20 compatibility, IBM 1401, 1440 and 1460 compatibility, and various input/output attachment options (see below).

Input/output
The Model 115 used integrated attachments to connect to I/O devices. The standard direct disk attachment could attach two to four IBM 3340 disk drives for a total of up to 280 million bytes. Optional integrated attachments provided a standard multiplexer channel interface for slow-speed devices, or, alternatively, an "integrated card I/O attachment" for attachment of either an IBM 5425 Multifunction Card Unit or an IBM 2560 Multifunction Card Machine. An "Integrated Printer Attachment" allowed attachment of either an IBM 3203 or an IBM 5203 line printer. A "magnetic tape adapter" supported an IBM 3210/3211 controller and tape drives. An "Integrated Communications Adapter" could attach up to "four synchronous and eight asynchronous communications lines, or as many as five synchronous communications lines"

Software
The operating system for the Model 115 was either DOS/360 or DOS/VS. DOS/VS supported a single address space of 16,777,216 (16 MB) of virtual storage. This address space could be divided up into up to five partitions. The system could run all software written for System/370 (as long as memory and device requirements were met) Language processors included Assembler,  RPG II, COBOL, FORTRAN and PL/I.

References

IBM System/360 mainframe line
Computer-related introductions in 1973
MeCab. MeCab is an open-source text segmentation library for Japanese written text. It was originally developed by the Nara Institute of Science and Technology and is maintained by Taku Kudou (工藤拓) as part of his work on the Google Japanese Input project. The name derives from the developer's favorite food,  (和布蕪), a Japanese dish made from wakame leaves.

The software was originally based on ChaSen and was developed under the name ChaSenTNG, but now it is developed independently from ChaSen and was rewritten from scratch. MeCab's analysis accuracy is comparable to ChaSen, and it is about 3–4 times faster.

MeCab analyzes and segments a sentence into its parts of speech. There are several dictionaries available for MeCab, but IPADIC is the most commonly used one as with ChaSen.

In 2007, Google used MeCab to generate n-gram data for a large corpus of Japanese text, which it published on its Google Japan blog.

MeCab is also used for Japanese input on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, and in iOS since version 2.1.

Example 
Input:

Results in:

Besides segmenting the text, MeCab also lists the part of speech of the word, and, if applicable and in the dictionary, its pronunciation. In the above example, the verb できる (dekiru, "to be able to") is classified as an ichidan (一段) verb (動詞) in the infinitive tense (基本形). The word でも (demo) is identified as an adverbial particle (副助詞). As not all columns apply to all words, when a column does not apply to a word, an asterisk is used; this makes it possible to format the information after the word and the tab character as  the comma-separated values.

MeCab also supports several output formats; one of which, , outputs tab-separated values in a format that programs written for ChaSen can use. Another format,  (from 読む yomu, to read), outputs the pronunciation of the input text as katakana, as shown below.

References

External links 
 
 

Natural language processing
H100 series. The  is a Japanese diesel-electric multiple unit (DEMU) train type introduced by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) to replace the ageing KiHa 40 series DMU cars. The trains are nicknamed "DECMO", standing for "diesel electric car with motors". They commenced passenger operations in March 2020 on the Hakodate Main Line.

Design
Based on the GV-E400 series DMUs on order by JR East, the H100 series trains are the first diesel-electric multiple units to be operated by JR Hokkaido, with diesel engines driving generators, which in turn power electric traction motors. The trains have stainless steel bodies, and a maximum speed of 100 km/h (62 mph).

Interior
Passenger accommodation consists of longitudinal seating close to the doorways and 2+1 transverse seating further inside the cars. The cars have universal access toilets.

History
Details about the new trains were announced by JR Hokkaido on 12 July 2017. Two single-car pre-series units were delivered from the Kawasaki Heavy Industries factory in Kobe in February 2018 and underwent test-running and evaluation until March 2019. In September 2019, deliveries of the full-production units commenced and on 14 March 2020, passenger operations started with a total of 15 cars on the Hakodate Main Line between Oshamambe and Sapporo. In the fiscal years (April to March) 2020 and 2021, a total of 60 more cars are planned for construction.

From 18 March 2023, the H100 series cars are expected to be introduced on the Furano Line. 

As of 16 March 2024, all Senmō Main Line and Sekihoku Main Line Local and Rapid services are also operated by H100 series cars.

References

External links

 JR Hokkaido press release

Further reading
 

Diesel multiple units of Japan
Hokkaido Railway Company
Train-related introductions in 2020
Kawasaki multiple units
Tuteria. Tuteria is a Nigerian platform for offline and online tutoring, co-founded in 2015 by Godwin Benson and Abiola Oyeniyi, systems engineers.

Background 
Goodwin Benson and Abiola Oyeniyi launched Tuteria -a tutoring platform- on June 9, 2015 after Godwin Benson left Deloitte. The platform is intended to link tutors with Nigerian learners. Benson was inspired by his own experience as a tutor to launch this project and Abiola Oyeniyi who is one of the top Python developers in Nigeria is the CTO of Tuteria and writes the code. Other notable members of the Tuteria team include Two-time Best Graduating Student-Peace Cole, COO and Kehinde Ishie who joined the team at the onset.

The selection of potential tutors is ensured by a verification process that includes an ID and qualifications check along with standard competency tests.

Awards 
In April 2015, Tuteria's developers were among the winners of the Microsoft Mobile devices and services “Passion to Empire” campaign. The start-up was able to raise N3.5million during this campaign.

In 2016, Tuteria won the Internet.org innovation challenge for education.

On May 23, 2017, Tuteria won Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and received a US$32,000 prize by UK's Royal Academy of Engineering.

Services 
The website caters for a wide range of learners and it has 450 approved subjects with 6 main fields: mathematics, science, business, music, languages and computer science.

The tutoring platform also accommodates for other handcrafts and skills like bead-making, dance and photography.

Funding and revenue 
Tuteria received a $20 000 grant from Niara-Africa Inspire and Microsoft Lumia Nigeria.

The tutoring platform generates revenue from commissions on lessons booked via the website or the mobile application. Tuteria charges 15 to 30% for each paid lesson.

References 

Nigerian educational websites
2015 establishments in Nigeria
Distance education institutions based in Nigeria
NASC TigerShark XP. The TigerShark XP is an unmanned aerial vehicle developed by Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation.

Specifications
 Wingspan of 22 feet
 Gross Weight 515lbs.
 Payload Capacity of 100lbs.
 Flight Duration 10 hours.
 Engine 32 Hp Herbrandson 372cc two stroke.
 Autopilot Fully Autonomous Piccolo II

References

Unmanned aerial vehicles of the United States
Unmanned military aircraft of the United States
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Twin-boom aircraft
Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation. Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation is an American engineering company.

Operations
Navmar provides engineering and technical solutions in the area of acoustics, electronics, aerodynamics, systems engineering, prototyping, sensors, electro-optics, materials, system integration, and corrosion protection to defence departments globally. It offers acoustic and non-acoustic sensors, and sonobuoys for undersea surveillance and exploration; unmanned aircraft systems; personnel for unmanned aircraft mission support; and analysis and engineering services for aircraft subsystems and related equipment.

The company was founded in 1977 by CEO and President Thomas Fenerty and is based in Warminster, Pennsylvania, with locations and operations in the United States.

Unmanned aerial vehicles

 ArcticShark
 NASC Tracer
 RQ-23 TigerShark
 Sonex Aircraft Teros
 TigerShark XP

Government contracts
Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation has worked on 194 contracts worth $1.23 billion in obligations from the U.S. Federal Government from FY2007 to 2017.
 A high of $253 million in obligations in FY2011
 A low of $32.1 million in obligations in FY2009

Principle agencies
 Department of Defense
 Department of Transportation
 General Services Administration

References

External links
 https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/19/3-cheap-weapons-systems-president-trump-pentagon-w.aspx
 http://www.oneidadispatch.com/article/OD/20161202/NEWS/161209981

Engineering companies of the United States
Divergent Blade. The Divergent Blade is a two-door sports car prototype manufactured by Divergent Technologies, and designed by Kevin Czinger. The Blade is the first automobile to use 3D printing to form the body and chassis. 

The Blade ended up being the backbone of the eventual production car dubbed the Czinger 21C.

Usage of 3D printing 
The use of 3D construction further reduces the expense of building factories and pollution from them, with a more compact and cheaper process. This also can lower capital investment and production costs.

Vehicle data 
The car contains a 2.4-liter 4B11T turbocharged inline-four derived from the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X. The engine has been modified by American tuning house AMS, which meant bore and stroke was increased by 400cc, increasing the liters to 2.4. The modifications have increased to . The horsepower and weight create a power-to-weight ratio of  per ton.  is a reported 2.2 seconds.

The car uses a 3D printed aluminum alloy material for the chassis and body. For the chassis, 3D printed structural joints (in which Divergent calls NODES) are used to construct the basis of the interior, which is then completed by metal parts made by computer algorithm. Because of the use of a 3D printed aluminum material, the overall weight is drastically reduced, sitting at . The chassis weighs . The car's design is bobsled-like, allowing for better weight distribution. The remaining areas would be filled by aerodynamic features and safety parts.

The 3D construction makes the car de-materialized, making the car greener (less resource use and pollution made by manufacturing), lighter (up to 90% lighter than traditional vehicles with more strength and durability), safer (a strong and light car causes less wear and fewer fatalities), and made local (cars built by smaller local groups lowers costs, time, and increase quality).

References 

Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Concept cars
Sports cars
Oxford Nanoimaging. ONI is a start-up company based in Oxford manufacturing super-resolution microscopes.

Background
ONI is a spin-out from Oxford University, originally incorporated in February 2016 and began trading in May 2016.

In May 2016 ONI announced it has raised £1.2 million in seed funding to develop the microscope and launch the product to market. The first product released was the Nanoimager.

In April 2017, ONI raised another £3 million, and in July 2018 raised a $25 million Series A funding round.

In October 2018, the Institute of Physics (IOP) awarded the Business Start-up Award 2018 to ONI. In November 2018, Fast Track included ONI in the Disruptors to Watch list.

References

Companies based in Oxford
British companies established in 2016
John Steeds (scientist). John Wickham Steeds  (born 9 February 1940) is a British physicist and materials scientist. He is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol.

Research 
Steeds is best known for his investigations of the microstructure of materials using electron microscopy and convergent-beam electron diffraction. Early in his career, he produced seminal work on dislocation arrangements in deformed copper crystals, which is a basis for the more recent theories of work hardening. His monograph on anisotropic elasticity theory of dislocations is a standard reference. He has led a sophisticated research effort to make, from image plane diffraction analysis ("real-space crystallography") and convergent-beam diffraction, a complete system for crystallographic structure determination in the electron microscope. He is recognised as a world expert in this technique.

Significant applications include precipitate structure in steels, new phases in the contact regions of integrated circuits and the correction of important errors in the structure of transition metal dichalcogenides. With the first observation of solitons (discommensurations) in the stripe and triply incommensurate states of these layer compounds, he has produced dynamic images of the basic phase-transition mechanisms.

Awards and honours 
Steeds was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1988. In 1996, he received the Holweck Medal, awarded jointly by the Institute of Physics and Société Française de Physique.

References

External links 
 John Wickham Steeds, Eminent Cavendish Physicists, University of Cambridge

1940 births
Living people
Fellows of the Royal Society
British physicists
British materials scientists
Academics of the University of Bristol
Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge
Fellows of the Institute of Physics
Durgapur Institute of Advanced Technology and Management. Durgapur Institute of Advanced Technology and Management (DIATM), in Durgapur, West Bengal, India offers diploma engineering courses which are affiliated to West Bengal State Council of Technical Education (WBSCTE) and degree courses which are affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT).

See also

References

External links 

https://web.archive.org/web/20090619091259/http://www.wbut.net/

Universities and colleges in Paschim Bardhaman district
Colleges affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology
Education in Durgapur, West Bengal
Educational institutions established in 2002
2002 establishments in West Bengal
Black the Fall. Black the Fall (stylized as BLAƆK THE FALL) is a puzzle-platform video game developed by Sand Sailor Studio and published by Square Enix for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. The player controls a machinist in a dystopic world inspired by the Romanian Revolution, solving environmental puzzles and avoiding death.

Gameplay 

Black the Fall is a puzzle platformer. The player character is an unnamed machinist who escapes a surreal and mostly monochromatic environment presented as a 2.5D platform game. The player controls the machinist who walks, climbs, and uses objects to overcome obstacles and progress in the game. The machinist gains the ability to mind control other workers and later a robot to complete certain puzzles.

The machinist can die in various ways, such as being shot with machineguns, ensnared by guards, crushed by machines, burned by fire or drowned.

Plot 

In a dystopic communist Romania, a machinist goes to work pedaling a bicycle to power a machine. He decides to escape the large factory where he encounters a TV filming propaganda, groups of people cheering on a speech of Nicolae Ceaușescu, and a depot with armored two-legged mechas used for repression.

The machinist makes it outside, a wasteland where all trees are dead and soil is polluted by heavy factories. Here he finds a robot used to complete puzzles. After passing by an abandoned theme park the machinist goes through a wall to a destroyed city where people are still praying in a church soon to be demolished. He finds and takes an overcrowded bus, but is soon arrested and taken to prison.

After escaping his cell, the now injured machinist wanders through an abandoned prison. He hides in a mass grave to avoid capture before making it outside, where a revolution is taking place with people fighting against the government. The machinist uses a semi-broken mecha to open a hole in the city wall. The game ends with the machinist walking in front of images of the Romanian Revolution.

Release
The game was released on Steam's early access in 2014. It also had a Kickstarter campaign in 2014.

Reception

On Metacritic the game received "mixed or average" reviews, according.

References

External links
 

2017 video games
Early access video games
Indie games
Kickstarter-funded video games
Monochrome video games
PlayStation 4 games
Puzzle-platformers
Side-scrolling platformers
Single-player video games
Square Enix games
Video games developed in Romania
Windows games
Xbox One games
Nintendo Switch games
Video games set in Romania
Dystopian video games
Vertical Groove Golf. Vertical Groove Golf (VGG) manufactures a driver and other golf clubs, with a unique design: the groove lines along the face of the club are vertical rather than horizontal. The company was founded in 2014 by Rubin Hanan and Neal Jagoda using technology developed by Tony Antonious prior to his death in 2007. Antonious held over 400 golf related patents at the time of his death, including the Velcro golf glove. The company officially launched on January 9, 2017

Hanan and Jagoda licensed the vertical groove technology from the estate in 2014 and began the testing phase utilizing Golf Labs in San Diego. The club tested well, showing improved distance and accuracy over similar clubs in a controlled environment. Based on test results, GRT Capital, led by Tom Krochuk and Jeff Barry became partners and supplied capital to bring the club to market, specifically a driver.

VGG is currently a provider for the PGA Champions Tour.

Notable golfers who have used Vertical Groove clubs include John Daly,
Rocco Mediate and Kenny Perry.

References

Further reading

External links
 

Privately held companies based in Florida
Golf equipment manufacturers
American companies established in 2014
Camellia Institute of Engineering & Technology. Camellia Institute of Engineering & Technology, commonly known as CIET, is a technical degree college located in Bud Bud, Purba Bardhaman in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Courses

 Civil Engineering
 Computer Science and Engineering
 Electronics and Communication Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering

References

External links
 

Universities and colleges in Purba Bardhaman district
Educational institutions established in 2010
2010 establishments in West Bengal
Colleges affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology
Camellia School of Engineering & Technology. Camellia School of Engineering & Technology, commonly known as CSET, is a technical degree college located in Barasat, North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Courses

 Civil Engineering
 Computer Science and Engineering
 Electronics and Communication Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering

References

External links
 http://www.cset.org.in/

Universities and colleges in North 24 Parganas district
Educational institutions established in 2008
2008 establishments in West Bengal
Colleges affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology