omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Sven Gösta Nilsson. Sven Gösta Nilsson (January 14, 1927, Kristianstad – April 24, 1979, Lund) was a Swedish theoretical physicist at the Lund Institute of Technology.

Nilsson's father was a preacher. As an undergraduate engineering student, he spent a year at Occidental College in California. He obtained a Master of Science in engineering physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Influenced by Tommy Lauritsen and Torsten Gustafson, Nilsson decided to switch paths from engineering to physics, and in 1950 he was admitted to postgraduate studies in Lund with Gustafson as his supervisor.

After early work with Lauritsen on excited states in 6Li, Nilsson became interested in evidence that heavy nuclei could be deformed into ellipsoidal rather than spherical shapes. Rotational bands had been discovered in 1953, an observation that was incompatible with a spherically symmetric shape.

Nilsson set out  to produce a model for the structure of deformed nuclei, building on work by Maria Goeppert-Mayer that had been published in 1950, as well as work by Aage Bohr and Ben Mottelson at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (later the Niels Bohr Institute). His research, in collaboration with Bohr and Mottelson, led to the so-called Nilsson model and a 1955 doctoral thesis, "On some properties of nuclear states." Nilsson's main innovations were the introduction of a method for modeling the flat-bottomed shape of the nuclear potential, as well as formulating a model that made calculations practical, and exploiting the digital computing technology of the day.

Nilsson and Mottelson  embarked on a comprehensive program of comparing nuclear properties with the predictions of the deformed shell model. The Nilsson model was successful in explaining the spins and magnetic moments of nuclei far from closed shells, problems which would have been intractable with the spherical shell model. In many cases, a disagreement between theory and experiment led to the discovery that the experimental results had been mistaken.

Sven Gösta Nilsson was involved in the work of CERN's Theoretical Study Division when the group was located in Copenhagen. More than twenty years later, then in Geneva, he spent a sabbatical period at CERN. Starting in 1963, he was a professor of mathematical physics at the two-year-old Lund University of Technology, helping to build its research programs. In 1974 he was elected to membership in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was an active environmentalist and frequent author of newspaper articles. Nilsson is buried at Norra kyrkogården in Lund.

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1927 births
1979 deaths
Swedish physicists
People from Kristianstad Municipality
Academic staff of Lund University
KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society
People associated with CERN
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Charles Coleman (engineer). Charles Hubert Coleman Jr. (October 28, 1926 – July 13, 2005) was an American electronic engineer and a pioneer in the field of color video tape recording and later in high data-rate digital tape recording. He was also an amateur explorer and avid pilot.

Early life
Coleman was born on October 28, 1926, in Washington, DC and, as one of three children, grew up in Charleston, Illinois. His father was a professor of history at a state teacher's college. On his 17th birthday in October 1943, he joined the US Marines.  Following boot camp, he was shipped to the Pacific and spent the remainder of the war teaching young Marines how to be radio technicians. Upon discharge in 1946, he joined WBKB-TV (now WBBM) in Chicago.  In 1953, WBKB-TV was purchased by CBS Television. At CBS he quickly became a pioneer in the brand new field of video tape recording. Coleman invented Autotec time base correction and applied it to improve the quality of the black and white TV broadcasts from WBKB

Career at Ampex
By 1960, engineers at Ampex Corporation in had recognized the superior quality of the recorded TV images being shown on a certain Chicago TV station (WBKB). Coleman was quickly lured to join Ampex in Redwood City, California where he spent the rest of his career on perfecting video tape recording and pushing the boundaries of high data-rate tape-recording. Coleman made many inventions and received many accolades for his work. He received both the SMPTE David Sarnoff Gold Medal and the IEEE Vladimir K. Zworykin Award in 1970 and, subsequently, the Alexander M. Poniatoff Award at Ampex  in 1971, for his contributions to color video tape recording. Coleman was also the driving force behind the Digital Cassette Recording System. Ampex' most successful digital product. His colleagues at Ampex included Charles Ginsburg, John Mallinson, and Neal Bertram.

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American electronics engineers
1926 births
2005 deaths
Engineers from Washington, D.C.
Military personnel from Washington, D.C.
United States Marines
20th-century American engineers
People from Charleston, Illinois
Engineers from Illinois
Military personnel from Illinois
United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II
Deaths from kidney failure in the United States
Hoveyzeh (cruise missile). The Hoveyzeh (Persian: موشک کروز هویزه) is an Iranian designed and built, all-weather, surface-to-surface cruise missile. The Hoveyzeh is from the Soumar family of cruise missiles. The missile was unveiled at a defense exhibition in Tehran on 2 February 2019 during celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The Aerospace force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will acquire and be supplied with these missiles.

The surface-to-surface cruise missile is capable of low altitude flight and has a range of 1,350 km, with the ability to strike ground targets with high precision and accuracy.

Name 

The Hoveyzeh surface-to-surface cruise missile is named in honor of the Iranian town of Hoveyzeh in the Khuzestan province. The city sustained heavy casualties and ubiquitous damage during the war and was a victim of chemical weapons used by Iraqi forces during the Iran–Iraq War.

Development 

The Hoveyzeh is a part of the Soumar cruise missile family, which was unveiled in 2015 with the first missile of the family being the Soumar which had a range of 700 km. Although this claim is disputed by some media outlets claiming that due to the missile's similarities with the Kh-55, acquired from Ukraine in 2001, that the Soumar missile has a range of 2,000–3,000 km. It is believed that the Hoveizeh is either an upgrade to or has been developed from the Soumar.

It was unveiled and displayed to the public on 2 February 2019 at a Tehran defense exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The missile was put into service and will be supplied to the Aerospace force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

During Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami's interview with the press about the missile, he stated that the missile has been designed and manufactured by Iran Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO) with the missile being tested on the day of the unveiling, complemented with video evidence, successfully travelling 1,200 km and striking test targets with precision accuracy.

Capabilities 

Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile states that: "Iran has succeeded in producing low-flying cruise missiles that fly to target under the radar."

Operators 
  – number of units is unknown

See also 
 Defense industry of Iran
 List of military equipment manufactured in Iran
 Iranian underground missile bases
 Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran
 Islamic Republic of Iran Army
 Iran Electronics Industries
 Science and technology in Iran
 Hoveyzeh (armored car)

References

External links 
Videos
 Iran unveils new missile on 40th anniversary of revolution – Euronews (English)
 – YouTube – Ruptly (Persian, not translated to English)
 Iran Test fires 1350 Km range Turbofan jet Hoveizeh Land attack cruise missile موشك كروز هويزه – IRIB (Iranian-state TV, Persian)

Cruise missiles of Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran Army
Surface-to-surface missiles of Iran
Guided missiles of Iran
Military equipment introduced in the 2010s
Alvin (digital cultural heritage platform). Alvin is a national technical platform for the dissemination and long term preservation of digitised cultural heritage and digital collections in Sweden. The platform contains material from several Swedish cultural heritage organisations, and is operated and developed at Uppsala University Library in collaboration with Gothenburg University Library and Lund University Library through the Alvin consortium.

History 

Alvin as a system originated from several different projects that Uppsala University Library ran or participated in during a period between 2000-2014:

 Creating a database to handle  Erik Waller's extensive autograph collection
 The management of the university library's digitized map and image collections through the image database Bildsök (sv. "Image Search")
 The provenance and material bibliographic database ProBok, which was a collaboration between Uppsala University Library and the University Library at Lund University
 The archive and handwriting infrastructure Ediffah, where several different Swedish research libraries collaborated

These differing and technically diverse projects made it obvious to those involved that the management, operation and further development of these projects were both person-dependent and unsustainable in a long-term perspective. Something needed to be done to increase the coordination of the cultural heritage field, to get the systems to talk to each other, and to give the organisations involved the time and opportunity to update outdated technology in pace with technological progress.

The concept that then came to be Alvin was formulated in 2011 in a final report for the project LUPP. In order to remedy the person-dependence and to prevent services from losing their technical relevance over time, a common platform should be launched.

The basic technical development of Alvin took place between 2012 and 2014 during the infrastructure project ArkA-D. Finally, this project culminated in Alvin being launched at the conference Digitalisera - men sen då? (sv. "Digitise - but then what?"),  at the Nordic Museum November 28, 2014.

References

Citations

Bibliography 
 "About Alvin". info.alvin-portal.org/about-alvin/about-alvin/. Accessed June 24, 2020.
 "Background and history". wiki.epc.ub.uu.se/display/alvininfo. Accessed June 24, 2020.

External links 
 
 Alvin wiki

Cultural heritage of Sweden
Swedish digital libraries
Space Combat (play-by-mail game). Space Combat is a play-by-mail game that was published by Twin Engine Gaming. It was computer moderated.

Gameplay
Space Combat was a game of tactical space combat in which 10 players fight in arena combat to win the rights to control an area of space that was just discovered. The game is focused on tactical combat with little diplomacy. Each player controlled a "parent", or a "big organic factory and fortress", which control the players "offspring", or troops. While players had to plan the tactics associated with negotiating and fighting within a 35 x 35 gridspace arena, they also had to consider the strategic aspects of the game which included parent production of modules which affected actions of offspring and the parent, as well as planning for offspring type generation. The overall goal is to acquire sufficient victory points to win the game.

Reception
J.W. Akers-Sassaman reviewed Space Combat in Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer No. 85. Akers-Sassaman commented that "an innovative, quick-paced and overall very satisfying tactical space game that is one of the best in this universe, or any other, for that matter."

Reviewer Stephan Wieck opined that: Overall, Space Combat is a nice game that's well-moderated and fun. Don't expect anything more out of the game than the tactical combat, but you can expect plenty of that. The game takes less than a year from start to finish and has pretty simple rules, so it's good for PBM beginners, though you should be wary of Space Combat veterans showing up in your game arena.

Challenge reviewed the game and stated that "This game is great for anyone interested in trying out a play-by-mail game for the first time—it is clearly written, reasonably priced, reliably run, and fun."

See also
 List of play-by-mail games

References

Bibliography

Further reading

 
 
 

Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Strategy games
Wargames
Wargames introduced in the 1980s
Jiaodaluo. Jiaodaluo or Foot Treadle Flour Sifter () were foot-operated pedal implements that were used to sift flour in China. The foot treadle flour sifter had long been in use in China. An illustration of the machine is depicted in Song Yingxing's encyclopedia Tiangong Kaiwu written in 1637.

References

Agricultural machinery
Chinese inventions
Material-handling equipment
Solid-solid separation
SUT torpedo. The AEG SUT 264 is a German 21 inch heavyweight wire-guided torpedo produced by Atlas Elektronik which entered service in 1967.

Description 
SUT stands for Surface and Underwater Target. It is a dual-purpose weapon that can be launched from surface ships, submarines, and shore positions.

Mod 2
The SUT Mod 2 has been compared favorably to the Chinese Yu-4 and Yu-6.

Production 

A production line was set up in Indonesia with the cooperation of the Indonesian Navy and Indonesian Aerospace to produce the SUT under license. Taiwan received 200 torpedoes from this production line in 1998.

Service history

Chile 
In 2004 the Chilean  O'Higgins fired a SUT while running at depth during its acceptance tests off Lorient, France.

India 
In 2013 OEM Atlas Elektronik was contracted to upgrade the 64 SUTs remaining in Indian service.

The SUT was the first torpedo fired by the  because of a lack of procurement of planned heavyweight torpedoes. A planned purchase of Black Shark torpedoes fell through because their manufacturer Finmeccanica was blacklisted by the Indian government for procurement corruption.

Taiwan 
The SUT was originally procured along with the two Hai Lung-class submarines. The torpedoes were procured from the Indonesian production line. In addition to money Taiwan exchanged landing craft and 100,000 tons of rice for the torpedoes.

On September 4, 2003 a war shot SUT fired by a submarine during the Hankuang No. 19 training exercise broke its control wires and went out of control. The torpedo was recovered four hours later from a Yilan County beach. Representatives of the manufacturer traveled to Taiwan to participate in the incident investigation. On October 8 the Navy tested a second torpedo with satisfactory results. On October 14 the Navy held a full test in Pingtung County, the first torpedo experienced similar problems to the one on September 4 but the issue was resolved and a second torpedo successfully destroyed the target, a decommissioned Yang-class destroyer.

In 2010 the Taiwanese Navy offered a reward to local fishermen for the recovery of a training SUT lost during an exercise. The SUT will be replaced by the Mk 48 torpedo in Taiwanese service.

Users
 Chilean Navy
 Colombian Navy
 Ecuadorian Navy
 Egyptian Navy
 Hellenic Navy
 Indian Navy
 Indonesian Navy
 South Korean Navy
 South African Navy
 Republic of China Navy
 Peruvian Navy

See also 
SST torpedo

References 

Torpedoes of Germany
Military equipment introduced in the 1960s
FZ275 LGR. The FZ275 LGR - Laser Guided Rocket is a weapon system by Thales (formerly Forges de Zeebrugge). It is intended to provide a low-cost guided missile compatible with existing unguided 70mm rocket launch platforms. The HE (High Explosive) version of the FZ275 LGR is equipped with a HE warhead with impact fuze.

In June 2024, Adani Defence & Aerospace signed an agreement with Thales Group to locally manufacture 70 mm calibre FZ275 LGR rockets for Indian attack helicopters like HAL Rudra and HAL Prachand.

Program status
 2006 – Program start
 November 2010 – First successful firing
 October 2015 – Successful air-to-ground test firing onboard South-African (SAAF) Rooivalk helicopter at Denel Overberg Test Range (OTB) 
 December 2017 - Test firings at the Älvdalen test range
 November 2024 - Belgian company Thales and an unnamed Ukrainian company have signed an agreement to build FZ275 LGR in Ukraine, for use against drones.

Specifications 

 Diameter: 70 mm (2.75 in)
 Length: 1.8 m
 Weight: 12.5 kg /9.1 kg (after burn)
 Guidance: SAL - Semi-Active Laser. 
 Steering type : 4 folding canards
 Laser : compatible with STANAG 3733 or used defined code
 Range from Sea Level: Min: 1.5 km Max: 8 km
 Motor: FZ276 MOD.1 rocket motor
 Warhead: FZ319 HE warhead with MK352 impact fuze

See also 

 Direct Attack Guided Rocket
 Low-Cost Guided Imaging Rocket
 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System
 Roketsan Cirit
 Guided Advanced Tactical Rocket

References 

Guided missiles
Tang Xiao'ou. Tang Xiao’ou (; 24 January 1968 – 15 December 2023) was a Chinese businessman and computer scientist. He was the founder and chairman of SenseTime, an AI company. He also served as professor of information engineering, associate dean of engineering, and outstanding fellow of engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Tang's research primarily focused on areas such as computer vision, pattern recognition, and video processing. Tang was honored with the Best Paper Award at the 2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. He served as the programme chair in 2009 and the general chair in 2019 for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. His editorial contributions include roles as an Associate Editor for both the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the International Journal of Computer Vision. Additionally, Tang has been recognised as a Fellow of the IEEE.

Biography 
Tang was born in Anshan, Liaoning, northeastern China in 1968.

Tang received a Bachelor of Science with a major in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1990. He received a Master of Science from the University of Rochester in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in ocean engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. He worked at MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution during his doctoral studies. Funders of his research included the Office of Naval Research of the United States Department of the Navy.

After graduating from MIT, Tang taught in the Department of Information Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2001, he founded the Multimedia Laboratory of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 2005 to 2008, he worked at Microsoft Research Asia. He served as Associate Dean of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2014, he spearheaded the first facial recognition to beat human accuracy. Tang co-founded SenseTime with Xu Li in 2014. Upon SenseTime's IPO in December 2021, Tang was estimated to have a net worth of approximately $3.4 billion.

Tang died on 15 December 2023, at the age of 55. SenseTime made the announcement the next day and changed the colour scheme of its website to black-and-white in mourning. The Chinese University of Hong Kong also changed his faculty page to a black-and-white theme.

References

External links
Homepage at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
 SenseTime

1968 births
2023 deaths
Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Artificial intelligence researchers
Chinese computer businesspeople
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese expatriates in the United States
Chinese technology company founders
Chinese technology chief executives
Fellows of the IEEE
Machine learning researchers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Microsoft Research people
People from Anshan
University of Rochester alumni
University of Science and Technology of China alumni
Andre Jaecklin. Andre August Jaecklin (born June 27, 1933) is a Swiss electrical engineer and was a university teacher. He made contributions in different fields of electronics starting with telecommunications, followed by data storage while in California and notably semiconductor devices for power applications. In particular, he is a pioneer of optically fired thyristors in the field of power electronics.

Life 
Andre A. Jaecklin graduated in electrical engineering at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 1958. Subsequently, he spent two years at its Institute of Telecommunications, headed by Heinrich Emil Weber, earning his doctorate degree based on a thesis entitled Transistorisierter Impulsgenerator für die Zeittaktzählung von Telefontaxen. His first employment in industry was at G. Hasler Ltd. in Berne, Switzerland. In 1963, he emigrated to the US and worked for Ampex Corporation in Redwood City in the field of magnetic-tape data storage devices. When he returned to Switzerland in 1968, he joined the newly founded Corporate Research Center of Brown, Boveri & Cie in Baden AG. His first assignment was the development of a photoelectric current sensor for high-voltage transmission lines using the Faraday effect together with Peter J. Wild.

In 1970, he started and led a new research group Semiconductor Devices. The efforts were directed towards applications in AC/DC converters for high-voltage DC power transmission. Within the company, he changed from the Research Center to the Electronics Division in 1973. There, he contributed to the development of corresponding products. His activity concentrated on the conception and realization of new bipolar devices such as very high power thyristors and Gate turn-off thyristors (GTOs) to be used in DC transmission lines and electrical locomotives.

From 1981 onwards, he lectured power electronics at the ETH Zurich. In April 1993, this university made him adjunct professor at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.

Honors 
 IEEE Fellow since 1995
 Prof. André Jaecklin introduced into the ISPSD / IEEE Hall of Fame. D-ITET, ETH Zurich, 29 May 2018

Publications 
 A. A. Jaecklin, M. Lietz: Birefringence and Faraday Effect. J. of Appl. Math. and Phys. 20 (4), 1969, p. 565
 André A. Jaecklin (Editor): Power Semiconductor Devices and Circuits. Springer, New York. 26 October 2012, .
 André A. Jaecklin: Publications by Andre A. Jaecklin. Researchgate. Retrieved 28 May 2019
 Wolfgang Fichtner and André A. Jaecklin: ISPSD Proceedings International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices & ICs. IEEE, 1 December 1994, 436 pp. 
 André A. Jaecklin (Keynote Paper):  Integration of Power Components – State of the Art and Trends. 7th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications. Trondheim, Norway.  EPE Association, Brussels, September 1997.

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20th-century Swiss engineers
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Fellows of the IEEE
1933 births
Living people
ETH Zurich alumni