omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Mike Shapiro (programmer). Michael W. Shapiro is an American computer programmer who worked in operating systems and storage at Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and EMC.

While working at Sun Microsystems, Shapiro developed pgrep, the Modular Debugger (MDB), DTrace, fault management and diagnosis, and other software for Sun's Solaris operating system.

The pgrep and pkill utilities Shapiro created are today found in every major Unix operating system, including Linux, BSD, and macOS, and are commonly used by system administrators and developers.

Shapiro and the DTrace team received a Technology Innovation Award and Overall Gold Medal for Innovation for DTrace from The Wall Street Journal in 2006.
DTrace was also recognized by USENIX with the Software Tools User Group (STUG) award in 2008. Over the next 10 years, DTrace was ported and incorporated into other major operating systems, including BSD and Apple's macOS.

Starting in 2006, Shapiro led Sun's engineering effort to build a commercial storage product using Solaris and Sun's ZFS filesystem, announced  in 2008.  In interviews with the New York Times and Fortune, Shapiro explained how a small engineering team at Sun dubbed "Fishworks" pitched the project to Sun's executives and developed the product outside of Sun's organizational structure.

After Oracle Corporation acquired Sun, Shapiro managed engineering for storage products as Vice President for Storage.  Oracle reported in 2015 that the ZFS Storage product line had surpassed $1B in revenue.

Shapiro announced his departure from Oracle in a 2010 blog posting, and was revealed several years later as a member of the founding team of DSSD when EMC purchased the startup.  He  developed the DSSD software architecture with fellow Sun engineer Jeff Bonwick, and served as DSSD's vice president for software.  Shapiro explained how DSSD built the industry's first NVM Express pooled storage system for multiple host computers in a 2016 interview with the Hot Aisle podcast.  The DSSD product was used in the TACC 2015 "Wrangler" computer cluster and received HPCwire's Editor's Choice Award later that year.

After EMC was acquired by Dell Technologies, the DSSD group was folded into the EMC storage product division in 2017.

Shapiro was a co-author of the NVM Express over Fabrics storage protocol announced in 2014. By 2019, IDC analysts reported that NVMeoF was disrupting SAN purchasing by offering significant performance improvements for networked SSDs.

Publications

 NVM Express over Fabrics Protocol and Architecture Webcast

References

External links
 HDD Vendors Screwed: TheRegister Interview with Mike Shapiro
 Smart People on Ice: Battery Ventures Interview with Mike Shapiro and Adam Leventhal
  DSSD bridges access latency gap with NVMe fabric flash magic

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American computer programmers
Solaris people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Sun Microsystems people
Întreprinderea de Construcții Aeronautice Românești. Întreprinderea de Construcții Aeronautice Românești (ICAR, also icar) (Romanian Aeronautical Design Enterprise), was a Romanian aircraft manufacturer. The company produced aircraft of its own design and under license.

History
Întreprinderea de Construcții Aeronautice Românești was founded in Bucharest in 1932 by Mihail Racovitd. In 1938, it was planned to rename the company Uzinele I.C.A.R. — Societate Anonimd and move it to Transylvania. However, this never occurred. ICAR closed in the early 1950s and production transitioned to the manufacture of industrial fans.

Aircraft

See also
Industria Aeronautică Română (IAR)
Societatea Pentru Exploatări Tehnice (SET)
Aviation in Romania

References

External links

Romanian Aviation Industry at globalsecurity.org
Old image with ICAR facilities at orizont aviatic

Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1932
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Romania
Greater Romania
1932 establishments in Romania
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1951
1951 disestablishments in Romania
Companies based in Bucharest
DEEP-IN. DEEP-IN, also known as Directed Energy Propulsion for Interstellar Exploration, is a spaceflight propulsion concept that uses photonic laser propulsion with beamed power to propel a spacecraft in deep space. The concept was originally conceived by Professor Philip Lubin of the University of California Santa Barbara's Physics Department. Lubin is developing it under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program. DEEP-IN is notable as the first NASA-backed photonic laser propulsion concept. It is heavily derived from DE-STAR, a planetary defense satellite concept previously developed by Lubin, in which he proposes using directed energy from lasers to vaporize or knock off course destructive asteroids headed for Earth.

The system is scalable and modular, so that gradually larger objects can be propelled into space at relativistic speeds (speeds that are a significant fraction of the speed of light) with increasingly powerful lasers. Currently, research models suggest that using this technology, a satellite with a mass of  could reach Mars in 3 days, a significantly shorter time than the current transit time. Additionally, a more massive crewed spacecraft, such as the  Orion spacecraft, could reach Mars in one month, compared to the traditional requirement of at least 5 months. However, News Ledge notes that this short transfer time would require a second array of lasers already existing on Mars to slow vehicles down for Mars orbital insertion.

Technology 
DEEP-IN would use an array of small lasers to focus a stream of photons onto reflectors on spacecraft, eliminating the need for spacecraft to carry propellant and therefore significantly lowering their mass. Photon momentum would be translated to the spacecraft, and reflectors enable a theoretical twofold increase in momentum transfer compared to a blackbody surface. The project anticipates it could carry femtosatellites weighing grams at approximately 0.25 times the speed of light, and still have significant maximum speed on larger spacecraft.

Funding 
Lubin has been furthering this concept under two grants to date from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts - a Phase 1 grant in 2015 of $100,000, and a Phase 2 grant in 2016 of US$500,000.

References

Photonics
Spacecraft propulsion
Interstellar travel
NASA
Lawas Bridge. The Lawas Bridge or Batang Lawas Bridge is a bridge near Lawas town in Limbang Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. Located at the Lawas-Merapok-Sindumin Highway FT1, the bridge was originally the only suspension bridge in Sarawak that was designed for motor vehicles. The old suspension bridge was ultimately replaced by a single-tower cable-stayed bridge in 2014.

Overview
The Batang Lawas Bridge was originally the only suspension bridge being designed for motor vehicles. Ironically, longer bridges such as the Lanang Bridge, Durin Bridge and ASEAN Bridge were all constructed as either box girder bridges, as cantilever bridges, or as girder bridges, resulting shorter span. In addition, the old Lawas Bridge was only a lane wide, and the road traffic had to take turns to cross the Batang Lawas, causing severe congestion during festive season. As a result, a wider 2-lane replacement bridge was proposed as a Tenth Malaysia Plan project. Constructed at the total cost of RM29.79 million, the construction started on 19 January 2012 and was completed on 18 July 2014.

References

Bridges in Sarawak
West Baldwin Reservoir. West Baldwin Reservoir (also known as Injebreck Reservoir, locally) is a reservoir on the Isle of Man, about  north of Douglas which it supplies. It was constructed by building a dam across the valley of the River Glass. It is operated by the Isle of Man Water Authority.

History
Construction of the dam started in 1900 by the Douglas Corporation Water Works Department. A railway was first built, including nine wooden bridges over the River Glen, to transport the required material to site. The construction was finished in 1904.

Dam
The reservoir's dam was completed in 1904. It is an earth fill embankment dam,  high, which required some  of earth to build. There is a vertical puddle clay core supported by zoned earth fill shoulders. The higher part of the upstream shoulder is faced in dry rubble pitching about 60 centimetres  (2 ft) thick. The crest and downstream shoulder are grassed.

Use
The reservoir supplies Douglas, Onchan and the south of the island. Water can also be pumped from the Sulby Reservoir.

References

External links
 Isle of Man reservoirs

Bodies of water of the Isle of Man
Norby (disambiguation). Norby is a fictional robot created by Janet and Isaac Asimov. Norby may also refer to
Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot (1983), the first book in the Norby series by Janet and Isaac Asimov
Norby (TV series), American sitcom television series
Norby, a part of Thirsk, North Yorkshire
Norby (name)

See also
Norrby (disambiguation)
The Cybernetic Grandma. The Cybernetic Grandma (Czech: Kybernetická babička) is a 1962 Czechoslovakian stop motion puppet cartoon. It is a surreal science fiction-horror animation film, showing a dystopian situation where machines tend humans into a cybernetic lifestyle. The story is seen through the eyes of a little child who is led by his grandmother to enter an underground world. There it witnesses many strange events and ends up being cared for by a cybernetic grandma looking like a hybrid between a robotic wheelchair and a giant moth. The film shows a contradiction between the kind and sweet way the machine talks to the child and its disturbingly cold insensitive behavior. The cybernetic grandma is portrayed by the mechanically accurate and formally perfect voice and language of Czech actress Otýlie Benšíková. At the end of the movie, the little child is rescued by its true biological grandma, who turns off the cybernetic one and takes care of it.

References
 Martin Flašar, "Jan Novák, Jiří Trnka A Jejich Kybernetická Babička", Musicologica Brunensia 48, 2013, 1.

External links
 
 Film review at www.weirdwildrealm.com by Paghat the Ratgirl

1962 films
1960s Czech-language films
1962 animated short films
1960s dystopian films
Films directed by Jiří Trnka
1960s science fiction horror films
Czech science fiction horror films
1960s Czech films
Czech animated short films
Haldor Topsøe (1913–2013). Haldor Frederik Axel Topsøe (24 May 1913 – 20 May 2013) was a Danish engineer and founder and chairman of the catalysis company Haldor Topsøe. He was grandson of the chemist and crystallographer Haldor Topsøe (1842–1935), after whom he is named.

Biography
Topsøe was born on 24 May 1913 in Copenhagen, Denmark, as son of captain Flemming Topsøe (1885–1954) and Hedvig Sofie Topsøe (1888–1961). After graduating from Frederiksberg Gymnasium in 1931, he started studying physics under Niels Bohr and chemistry at the Technical University of Denmark. He became a master of Science in Engineering in chemistry in 1936. He started his career with working at AarhusKarlshamn 1936–1939 before founding his own catalysis company Haldor Topsøe in 1940 with which he established himself as engineer in Kongens Lyngby. The company got a production structure in Frederikssund in 1958 and later in Houston, United States.

During the 1950s, Topsøe experimented with petition of silicon to semiconductors in the cellar in his home and in 1959, he founded the process Topsil.

Topsøe owned the company Haldor Topsøe until 1972 when the Italian company Snamprogetti took over 50% of its shares. In 2007, he bought it back and it is now owned to 100% by the Topsøe family. Besides his own process, Topsøe has also worked as among Chairman of the Scandinavian Airlines and Danish Air Lines and been member of the board of directors of among Kampsax, Incentive A/S, De forenede Bryggerier, Haand i Haand and Philips.

Topsøe became an honorary doctor in 1968 at Aarhus University, in 1969 at the Technical University of Denmark and in 1986 at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1985, he received the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters' gold medal and in 1991 a Hoover Medal. Topsøe was also member of several organizations, among them the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and since 1951 Akademiet for de Tekniske Videnskaber.

Topsøe owned the historic house Frydenlund from 1960.

Death
In early May 2013, Topsøe broke his hip following a fall and had to cancel his planned centenarian celebration. He died on 20 May, just four days before his 100th birthday.

Family
Topsøe was married to Inger Topsøe, born Veng Kunst 18 April 1913, from 1936 until her death on 20 August 2008 and they have four children, among them the mathematician Flemming Topsøe (born 25 August 1938) and the engineer Henrik Topsøe (born 1944) who became Chairman of Haldor Topsøe after his father's death in 2013; Henrik died of cancer on 9 August 2019, the day before his 75th birthday.

References

Danish chief executives
20th-century Danish engineers
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
Grand Crosses of the Order of the Dannebrog
1913 births
2013 deaths
Politicians from Copenhagen
Danish chemical engineers
Pradipta Banerji. Pradipta Banerji is a civil engineer and a former director of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), a post he held from October 2011 to October 2017. He also was professor of Civil Engineering at IIT Bombay and at IIT Roorkee.

Education
Banerji joined as an assistant professor in IIT Bombay in April 1988 and spent more than 23 years there as a faculty member, during which period he has also been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award, and was the Dean (Alumni & International Relations) for two terms. He has been Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of Statics and Dynamics for Aerospace Structures at University of Stuttgart and the Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. His areas of research specialization are Earthquake Engineering and Structural Health Monitoring, and he has been active in guiding research, publishing scholarly papers and developing technology that has been applied in practical situations in both areas. Notably, he has helped the Indian Railways by developing a technology for bridge asset management under increased axle loads.

He is a member/fellow of several professional societies including IISHMII, where he has also been a member of the Executive Council since the inception of the society. He is an editor of the Journal for Civil Structural Health Monitoring published by Springer. He is also a member or chairman of several national and internal-level boards and committees for capacity building and research.

During Banerji's term as director, IIT Roorkee won several national awards for being an Outstanding Engineering Institute.

Controversy
IIT-Roorkee made the news in 2015 for expelling six per cent of its first year batch for poor performance. In an interview, Banerji said "There is procedure and logic behind this. Students were made aware of the criteria at the time of admission."

References

Academic staff of IIT Bombay
Indian Institute of Technology directors
Defence Exhibition Organisation. Defence Exhibition Organisation is an autonomous organisation of the Indian Government established in 1981. The organisation's main charter is to organise and coordinate Aerospace and Defence (A&D) exhibitions in India and aboard. The agency is responsible for organising international exhibitions such as DefExpo and Indian participation at overseas exhibitions such as Aero India and DefExpo. The DEO is also involved in coordinating and the setting-up of "India Pavilion" at major international Aerospace & Defence exhibitions abroad in order to improve the export potenial of the Indian Aerospace & Defence Industry.

DefExpo 
DefExpo is India's flagship biennial event showcasing Land, Naval and Homeland Security Systems, first launched in 1999.

DefExpo2020 was held in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh from February 5th to 8th, 2020. This is for the first time the defence exhibition is being held in the northern state to explore potential available for defence productions. MoD has already announced Uttar Pradesh Defence Corridor to attract investments in defence manufacturing.

DefExpo2022 was held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat from October 18 to October 22, 2022. An investor outreach event 'Invest for Defence' was organised bringing together businesses and investors, with a focus on indigenisation and self reliance in the Indian defence industry, for the first time in the history of the expo.

See also 
Make In India
Startup India

References

External links
DefExpo Website

1981 establishments in Delhi
Defence agencies of India
Government agencies established in 1981
Stinson Model R. The Stinson Model R was an American light aircraft built by the Stinson Aircraft Company in the early 1930s. It was a single-engine high-winged monoplane, developed from the Stinson Junior. 39 units were built.

Design and development
In 1931, work began on a replacement for Stinson's SM-8  Junior four-seat light aircraft. The new design, the Model R, while based on the SM-8, had a shorter fuselage and a revised cabin. While the aircraft's undercarriage retained the basic tailwheel undercarriage layout of the SM-8, the split-axle mainwheels of the earlier aircraft were replaced by a semi-cantilever design, in which the mainwheels and shock-absorber units were enclosed in streamlined fairings attached to a short stub wing, which was also used to carry wing bracing struts. The aircraft had a fabric covered, welded steel-tube fuselage, while the wings were of mixed construction, with spruce spars and steel ribs, covered by fabric.

A retractable undercarriage was also designed for the Model R, with the mainwheels retracting upwards and inwards into the lower fuselage. This had less benefit to the aircraft's performance than was expected, however, and only a few aircraft were built with the retractable undercarriage. The aircraft was powered by a single Lycoming R-680 radial engine (Lycoming was controlled by the Cord Corporation, which also owned a controlling stake in Stinson, and so were the preferred powerplants for Stinson aircraft).

Operational history
The prototype made its maiden flight, piloted by Edward Stinson, in autumn 1931 and was certified as airworthy on 25 January 1932. Stinson immediately set off on a sales tour with the prototype, and that same evening was carrying out a demonstration flight from Chicago when fuel shortage forced him down. Stinson was fatally injured in the resulting crash.

Production continued, but the Great Depression caused sales to be slow, and only 39 aircraft were built, including five Model R-3s fitted with retractable undercarriage. It was succeeded in production by the Stinson Reliant, which managed similar performance at much lower cost ($3995 compared with $5595 for the Model R and $6495 for the R-3).

Variants
R
Basic model, powered by  Lycoming R-680 engine. 31 built (including prototype).
R-1
Proposed derivative of R with retractable undercarriage. Unbuilt.
R-2
Fitted with  Lycoming R-680BA engine, while retaining fixed undercarriage. Three built
R-3
Fitted with retractable undercarriage and R-680BA engine. Five built.
R-3S
Conversion of R-3 with  Lycoming R-680-6 engine.

Surviving aircraft
 8506 – In storage at the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum in Hood River, Oregon.
 8513 – Owned by Roy H. Parkman of San Antonio, Texas donated to the Texas Air Museum - Stinson Chapter.

Specifications (Model R)

References

Notes

Bibliography 

1930s United States civil utility aircraft
High-wing aircraft
U
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1931
UA120. UA120 was a family of American solid rocket boosters, manufactured by the Chemical Systems Division of United Aircraft (later United Technologies Corporation). They were used as strap-on boosters for the Titan rocket family. Several variants existed, with a varying number of segments.

Design

All versions of UA120 shared a common design, with the only significant differentiating factor being the length of the motor. It was a segmented design, with between five and seven motor segments possible. A solid propellant used was a ammonium perchlorate composite propellant with polybutadiene acrylonitrile (PBAN) binder. The stage had an external diameter of 120 inches. Attitude control in flight was provided by means of a liquid injection thrust vector control (LITVC) system, with an external nacelle containing nitrogen tetroxide attached to the side of each booster. Solid fueled separation rockets, used to jettison the spent boosters, were affixed at the top and bottom of the stage. Thrust-termination capability, necessary for crewed rockets such as the Space Shuttle or Manned Orbiting Laboratory, was to be provided by two pyrotechnically triggered ports on the forward closure, which when opened would allow for the non-propulsive venting of exhaust gasses. The forward end of the stage contained an aerodynamic nose cone, an ignitor, separation rockets, and the forward attachment ring. The aft end contained additional separation rockets, the nozzle, and a heat shield.

Variants
The overall design of each variant was very similar, the main difference being the number of segments used. This is indicated by the number at the end of each designation.

UA1205
UA1205 was flown between 1982 and 1992, and used as a strap-on booster on the Titan IIIC, Titan 23C, Titan IIID, and Titan IIIE rockets, besides being proposed for use on several derivatives of the Saturn rocket family.

UA1206
The UA1206 was flown between 1982 and 1992, and used as a strap-on booster on Titan 34D and Commercial Titan III.

UA1207
UA1207 was first flown in 1989 and used on Titan IV-A. It was proposed for several other variants of Titan III and IV, as well as the Titan-IIIM,  derivatives of the Saturn rocket family and the Space Shuttle.

See also
 Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade

References

Solid-fuel rockets
Advent Online Knowledge. Advent Online Knowledge, Inc. was a Schaumburg, Illinois-based producer of software for Prime Computer minicomputers.

Products
 AOKCALC - spreadsheet program
 Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP) - enabled a system administrator to monitor the activities of a selected terminal user or scan the activities of all terminal users on a system
 Extra-Sensory Perception.2 (ESP.2) - enabled a system administrator to capture all prelogon activities of selected dial-up and direct-connect lines in a file
 Financial Reporting System (FRS) 
 Personal Calculator - a visual calculator

References

Defunct companies based in Illinois
Defunct software companies of the United States
Schaumburg, Illinois