omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Radeon HD 8000 series. The Radeon HD 8000 series is a family of computer GPUs developed by AMD. AMD was initially rumored to release the family in the second quarter of 2013, with the cards manufactured on a 28 nm process and making use of the improved Graphics Core Next architecture. However the 8000 series turned out to be an OEM rebadge of the 7000 series (although Bonaire is a GCN 2.0 based chip, thus being of newer development).

Architecture 
The Radeon HD 7000 series was launched in 2011 and it marked AMD's shift from VLIW (TeraScale) to RISC/SIMD architecture (Graphics Core Next). The highend-mainstream cards were equipped with GCN-based chips while some of the mid-low end ones were just rebranded TeraScale-based cards. All of the GCN-based chips were made using the 28 nm process, becoming the first chips ever to be based on that technology. The GCN-based chips for desktop cards were codenamed as Southern Islands, while the mobile ones (again, only the GCN-based and not the rebranded ones) were codenamed as Solar System.

Multi-monitor support 

The AMD Eyefinity-branded on-die display controllers were introduced in September 2009 alongside the Radeon HD 5000 series and have been present on all chips since then.

Video acceleration 
Both Unified Video Decoder (UVD) and Video Coding Engine (VCE) are present on all GCN-based chips (starting with the GCN 1.0 HD 7000 series). Both are fully supported by AMD Catalyst and by the free and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD.

OpenCL (API) 
OpenCL accelerates many scientific Software Packages against CPU up to factor 10 or 100 and more.
OpenCL 1.0 to 1.2 are supported for all Chips with TeraScale and GCN Architecture. OpenCL 2.0 is supported with GCN 2nd Gen. or 1.2 and higher)   For OpenCL 2.1 and 2.2 only Driver Updates are necessary with OpenCL 2.0 conformant Cards.

Vulkan (API) 
API Vulkan 1.0 is supported for all with GCN Architecture. Vulkan 1.1 (GCN 2nd Gen. or 1.2 and higher) will be supported with actual drivers in 2018 (here only HD 8770).
On newer drivers Vulkan 1.1 on Windows and Linux is supported on all GCN-architecture based GPUs.
Vulkan 1.2 is available with Adrenalin 20.1 and Linux Mesa 20.0 for GCN 2nd Gen. or higher.

Chipset table

Desktop models 
 Graphics Core Next (GCN) supports the Mantle API and Vulkan API
 OpenGL 4.5 support for TeraScale 2 with AMD Crimson Beta (driver version 15.30 or higher)
 OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan 1.0 support for GCN 1.0 and higher with AMD Crimson 16.3 or higher.
 Vulkan 1.1 support for GCN 1.0 and higher with AMD Adrenalin 18.3.3 or higher.

Mobile Models

Integrated Models

Radeon Feature Matrix

See also 
 Radeon HD 2000 series
 Radeon HD 3000 series
 Radeon HD 4000 series
 Radeon HD 5000 series
 Radeon HD 6000 series
 Radeon HD 7000 series
 Radeon Rx 200 series
 Nvidia GeForce 700 series
 List of AMD graphics processing units
 Free and open-source device drivers: graphics#ATI/AMD

References

External links 
 techPowerUp! GPU Database

AMD graphics cards
Computer-related introductions in 2013
GPGPU
Graphics hardware
Graphics processing units
Burelle. Burelle is a French holding company headquartered in Paris. Its most important subsidiary is OPmobility SE.

History
Burelle was founded in 1957 by Pierre Burelle and his family as a legal entity for its growing businesses. In 1987, Burelle went public and was listed on the .

Subsidiaries

OPmobility SE (formerly Plastic Omnium)

OPmobility SE is a global leader in designing and manufacturing advanced mobility solutions, including intelligent exterior systems, custom complex modules, lighting systems, energy storage solutions, and electrification technologies for mobility actors worldwide. Employing 40,300 people across 28 countries, OPmobility SE is majority-owned by Burelle SA, which holds a 60.01% stake. In 2024, OPmobility demonstrated strong operational performance, achieving a 2.1% growth in economic revenue and a 4.3% operating margin, marking an increase of €24 million compared to 2023. The company is listed on Euronext Paris (Compartment A) and included in the SBF 120 and CAC Mid 60 indices.

Sofiparc
Sofiparc specializes in asset management, owning and operating a diversified portfolio of office spaces and hotels. As of June 2024, it manages 87,000 square meters of office space and 1,347 parking spots, with a 97% financial occupancy rate. Sofiparc also holds a 4% stake in a hotel portfolio comprising 16 hotels with 1,638 rooms, primarily in dynamic regions such as Lyon. Revenue from its real estate and hotel operations grew by 21.6% in the first half of 2024, reaching €12.6 million. The subsidiary continues to expand into the hotel sector while maintaining a low loan-to-value (LTV) ratio of 25%. It was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Lyon.

Burelle Participations
Burelle Participations is a private equity arm fully owned by Burelle SA, focusing on investments in medium-sized French companies outside the automotive sector. The portfolio is diversified, with 54% in primary funds, 20% in secondary funds, and 26% in direct equity investments, primarily in Europe and North America. In the first half of 2024, its net asset value (NAV) reached €137.2 million, a 6% increase since December 2023. The subsidiary aims to deploy at least €35 million annually while maintaining a disciplined investment strategy.

Ownership structure
At the end of 2023, the Burelle family held 85.3% of the capital of Burelle SA and 91.52% of the voting rights. This control was exercised directly and also indirectly, through the shareholders Sogec 2 and Compagnie Financière de la Cascade.

References

Holding companies established in 1957
Companies based in Paris
French companies established in 1957
Holding companies of France
Companies listed on Euronext Paris
Terence Nonweiler. Terence Nonweiler (8 February 1925 - 17 December 1999) held a Chair of Aeronautical Engineering at Glasgow University and later became Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. He has been credited with being the pioneer of wave-riding technology.

In January 1957 Nonweiler, and six other enthusiasts (including Beverley Shenstone) met at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield and formed the Man-Powered Aircraft Committee (later to become the Man-Powered Aircraft Group of the RAeS) with the purposes of reviewing relevant literature, assessing its prospects, and promoting its realisation.

He also developed a family of airfoils, the best-known of which is the GU25-5(11)8 which was the subject of a wind tunnel test by F.H. Kelling in 1968.  This airfoil was used as the canard wing section on the Quickie aircraft.

Personal life 
Nonweiler was born on 8 February 1925 in London. He married Patricia Hilda Frances (née Neame) in 1949 and they had four sons and one daughter. He died on 17 December 1999, aged 74, at his home in Raumati Beach, New Zealand.

External links
 Papers of Terence Reginald Forbes Nonweiler, b.1925, engineer, Professor of Engineering (Aeronautics and Fluid Mechanics), University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1961-1975

References

British aerospace engineers
1925 births
1999 deaths
CK College of Engineering and Technology. CKCET is a college of engineering and technology, located in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a public institution, and was established in 2002. The college's chairman is CK Ranganathan and its executive director is Amudhavalli Ranganathan. Previously, it was Jayaram Engineering College. It conducts courses in five main branches of engineering i.e., Civil, CSE, EEE, ECE, and Mechanical. The college also servers with its management course MBA. The chairman Mr.CK Ranganathan is none other than the Chairman & Managing Director of CavinKare Pvt. Ltd. It has a well experienced and qualified faculty team.

See also
Education in India
Literacy in India
List of educational institutions in Cuddalore district
List of institutions of higher education in Tamil Nadu

References

External links
 
 Ck Civil Consultancy official website
 Ck Technical Symposium official website 

Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu
Education in Cuddalore district
Educational institutions established in 2002
2002 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Pegasus EDA 100 Flamingo. The Pegasus EDA 100 Flamingo is a Slovenian ultralight aircraft, that was under development by Pegasus d.o.o. of Branik. The Flamingo was introduced to the public at the AERO Friedrichshafen show in 2010 and was first flown late in 2013. The aircraft was intended to be supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft and was initially expected to be distributed by Fly Synthesis in Europe.

The company seems to have gone out of business in early 2016 and development ended.

Design and development
The Flamingo was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules and intended as both a touring aircraft for private ownership and a trainer for flying school use. It features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seat tandem enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed or optionally retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from carbon composites. Its  span wing has an area of  and mounts flaps. The standard engine intended to be used for the production aircraft was the  Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplant, which was expected to give a cruise of  for the fixed gear version and  for the retractable version.

Variants
EDA 100 Flamingo Fixed Gear
Model with fixed landing gear, first flown in 2013.
EDA 100 Flamingo Retractable Gear
Model with retractable landing gear, not flown.

Specifications (EDA 100 Flamingo)

References

External links

 Official website
2010s Slovenian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Christophe Caloz. Christophe Caloz (born May 8, 1969, Sierre, Switzerland) is a researcher and professor of electrical engineering and physics at KU Leuven. He graduated from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he received a Diploma of electrical engineering in telecommunications in 1995 and a Ph.D. in electromagnetics (photonic crystals) in 2000. From 2001 to 2004, he was a Postdoctoral Research Engineer at the Microwave Electronics Laboratory of University of California at Los Angeles. He was then a professor and a Canada Research Chair at the École Polytechnique de Montréal until 2019, before joining KU Leuven where he is the director of the Meta Research Group.

Research
Caloz has done pioneering contributions to the field of electromagnetic metamaterials and smart antennas over the past decade. His most recent advances in these areas include magnetless non-reciprocal metamaterials and electronically steered leaky-wave antennas for enhanced Wifi MIMO systems. In the past few years, he discovered giant Faraday rotation in graphene and subsequently demonstrated novel microwave and terahertz devices. Moreover, he introduced the paradigm of Radio Analog Signal Processing (R-ASP), based novel dispersive delay structures that he called "phasers", which bear great promise to next-generation wireless communication systems.

Professional activities
Caloz is a Distinguished Lecturer and AdCom Member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Technical Committees MTT-15 (Microwave Field Theory) and MTT-25 (RF Nanotechnology), a Speaker of the MTT-15 Speaker Bureau, the Chair of the Commission D (Electronics and Photonics) of the Canadian Union de Radio Science Internationale (URSI) and an MTT-S representative at the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC).

Honors and awards
Caloz received several awards, including the UCLA Chancellor's Award for Post-doctoral Research in 2004, the MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2007, the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship in 2013, and many best paper awards with his students. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 2010 and an Optica Fellow since 2020. He is also in Thomson Reuters' list of Highly Cited Researchers, which is composed of the 3,200 most influential scientists of the world in all disciplines.

References

External links

Academic staff of the Université de Montréal
Electrical engineering academics
1969 births
Living people
Swiss emigrants to Canada
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
People from Sierre
Metamaterials scientists
Fellows of the IEEE
Microwave engineers
Swiss electrical engineers
Fellows of Optica (society)
Optical engineers
Academic staff of KU Leuven
Mill test report (metals industry). A mill test report (MTR) and often also called a certified mill test report, certified material test report, mill test certificate (MTC), inspection certificate, certificate of test, or a host of other names, is a quality assurance document used in the metals industry that certifies a material's chemical and physical properties and states a product made of metal (steel, aluminum, brass or other alloys) complies with an international standards organization (such as ANSI, ASME, etc.) specific standards.

Mill here refers to an industry which manufactures and processes raw materials.

Steel

An MTC provides traceability and assurance to the end user about the quality of the steel used and the process used to produce it.

Typically a European MTC will be produced to EN 10204. High quality steels for pressure vessel of structural purposes will be declared to 2.1 or 2.2 or certificated to 3.1 or 3.2.  (EDIT: type is declared not by chapter in the document, but by type name, so edited the numbering)

The MTC will specify the type of certificate, the grade of steel and any addenda. It will also specify the results of chemical and physical examination to allow the purchaser or end user to compare the plate to the requirements of the relevant standards.

What is MTC for steel? 

In steel industry
There are mainly two types of MTC in steel industry, as for steel plates or steel pipes, there must be specific inspection scope or lists:
 MTC  EN 10204 3.1 :MTC 3.1 is issued by the manufacturer in which they declare that the products supplied are in compliance with the requirements of the order and in which they supply test results. This is the most common MTC in steel industry, when there is no extra requirement of customer for TPI inspection and witness of production and inspection of tests.
 MTC  EN 10204 3.2 :MTC 3.2 refers to the report prepared by both the manufacturer's authorized inspection representative, independent of the manufacturing department and either the purchaser's authorized inspection representative or the inspector designated by the official regulations and in which they declare that the products supplied are in compliance with the requirements of the order and in which test results are supplied.

References

Metallurgy
Quality control
Nico van Kampen. Nicolaas 'Nico' Godfried van Kampen (June 22, 1921 – October 6, 2013) was a Dutch theoretical physicist, who worked mainly on statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

Van Kampen was born in Leiden, and was a nephew of Frits Zernike. He studied physics at Leiden University, where in 1952 under the direction of Hendrik Anthony Kramers he earned his PhD with thesis Contributions to the quantum theory of light scattering. He showed in his thesis how to deal with singularities in quantum mechanical scattering processes, an important step in the development of renormalization, according to Kramers. Van Kampen made fundamental contributions to non-equilibrium processes (in particular on the master equation) and in many-body theory (especially in plasma physics). His work on non-equilibrium processes began in 1953 in the research group of Sybren Ruurds de Groot (the successor to Kramers) in Leiden. In 1955 Van Kampen joined the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University, where he later became full professor and professor emeritus after his retirement.

His monograph Stochastic processes in physics and chemistry (1981) is considered a classic. In his 2002 book Waanwetenschap (Science), Van Kampen condemned what he saw as pseudoscience, even within the scientific community; the book met with a mixed reaction—five scientists, including , Floris Takens and Dennis Dieks, wrote a commentary on his book. Van Kampen had 15 Dutch-type PhD students, including Barend Felderhof (1963), John Tjon (1964) and Johannes Roerdink (1983). 

Van Kampen was an uncle of the Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel prize winner Gerard 't Hooft, and encouraged 't Hooft to study physics in Utrecht. Van Kampen was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1973. He died, aged 92, in Nieuwegein.

Quantum mechanics
Van Kampen was a severe critic of non-orthodox interpretations of quantum mechanics.  Some of his views on this subject were published in his article "The scandal of quantum mechanics". He disclosed his own approach to quantum mechanics in his paper "Ten theorems about quantum mechanical measurements".

Additional works
 with B. U. Felderhof: Theoretical methods in plasma physics, North Holland 1967,  
 
  Views of a physicist. Selected papers of N. G. van Kampen, World Scientific 2000 (ed. Paul H. E. Meijer)  
 Stochastic processes in physics and chemistry, North Holland 1981, 3rd edn., 2007,  
 Elimination of fast variables, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1985. Series: Physics Reports, v. 124, no. 2

References

External links

 

20th-century Dutch physicists
1921 births
Scientists from Leiden
Leiden University alumni
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2013 deaths
Academic staff of Utrecht University
Dutch theoretical physicists
Quantum physicists
Zingbot. Zingbot 9000 (formerly Zingbot 3000), colloquially known as Zingbot, is a robot visitor that is featured on the American version of the television show Big Brother, which airs on CBS. The robot has appeared on every season since the show's twelfth season in 2010, excluding the show's spin-offs, Big Brother: Over the Top and Celebrity Big Brother.

The robot, which is actually a human in a robot costume, is a form of comic relief and offers one-line insults ("zings") to each of the house guests in an annoying, mechanical sounding voice. Each insult is followed by the comment, "Zing!", which has entered the popular lexicon, particularly within the house.

Appearances
Zingbot 3000 made its first appearance on Big Brother 12 during one of the Power of Veto competitions.  The Zingbot 3000 also made a cameo appearance at the Big Brother 12 season finale. During Big Brother 13, its appearance coincided with a veto competition where the house guests raced to build the "Bride of Zingbot". In Big Brother 14, the theme was to build a Zingbot baby during one of the veto competitions. Zingbot 3000 attended Comic Con in 2011. Zingbot re-appeared on August 28, 2013 during Big Brother 15 and on August 20, 2014, during Big Brother 16. However, on Big Brother 17, he got an upgrade, now named the "Zingbot 9000" which had much more brutal zings on August 26, 2015. Zingbot 9000 again appeared on August 17, 2016 during Big Brother 18, and it was announced that Zingbot had entered the presidential race. Zingbot 9000 re-appeared on August 23, 2017 during Big Brother 19, having won the presidency and being modeled after President Donald Trump. In Big Brother 20, a Hide and Go veto competition was held August 22, 2018, at "Zing-a-Lago," where house guests raced to recover materials compromising to President Zing. In Big Brother 21, Zingbot returned to host the "Free the Zing" Power of Veto competition where he was put in the  and the HouseGuests had to help him escape. Zingbot appeared in Big Brother 22 and onwards.

References

Big Brother (American TV series)
Fictional robots
Stick PC. A stick PC or PC on a stick is a single-board computer in a small elongated casing resembling a stick, that can usually be plugged directly (without an HDMI cable) into an HDMI video port. A stick PC is a device which has independent CPUs or processing chips and which does not rely on another computer. It should not be confused with passive storage devices such as thumb drives.

A stick PC can be connected to a peripheral device such as a monitor, TV, or kiosk display to produce visual or audio output. Stick PCs generally have limited computing power and are not suited for intensive tasks, but can be suitable in other applications that do not require such power.

History 

The stick PC was first introduced in 2003. The Gumstix, which came out that same year, used the ARM architecture system on a chip (SoC) and the Linux 2.6 kernel. Windows CE can be installed on this stick. It was based on the idea of making a PC similar in size to that of an average stick of chewing gum.

As the popularity of smart TVs and set-top boxes to view streaming services (such as the Roku) grew, companies started looking at making these small computers even smaller and easier to use.

Several stick PCs using ARM architecture SoCs were introduced around 2012, made of sticks pluggable in an HDMI port, including the Android Mini PC MK802 series from Rikomagic, using Android or Linux distributions, both based on Linux and Allwinner Technology or Rockchip SoC and Cotton Candy, using Samsung Exynos SoC.

2013-2014 saw several manufacturers come out with stick PCs. MeeGoPad released the first x86 based stick PC, featuring the Intel Atom Z3735F Processor. In April 2013, Tronsmart released the MK908, using the Rockchip RK3188 (featuring the quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 and ARM Mali-400MP GPU). On July 24, 2013, Google introduced the Google Chromecast, a streaming device similar in function and design to a stick PC. On November 19, 2014, Amazon released a smaller version of the Amazon Fire TV called the Fire TV Stick.

In March 2015, ASUS and Google introduced the Chromebit, a stick PC based on the Rockchip RK3288 SoC and running Google's ChromeOS.

In 2016, Intel introduced the Intel Compute Stick. It was discontinued in June 2020.

Neural compute sticks 
In July 2017, Intel released the Movidius Neural Compute Stick which included a Vision Processing Unit for vision-specific AI workload. In January 2018, the Laceli AI Compute Stick came out, including a neural network processor unit for AI workload called Lightspeeur 2801S Neural Processor, and claiming to be more powerful and more energy-efficient than the Movidius. In November 2018, the Orange Pi AI Stick 2801 came out, also featuring the Lightspeeur 2801S Neural Processor.

See also
Single-board computer
System on a chip

References 

 
Digital media players
Networking hardware
Streaming media systems
Edward Purkis Frost. Edward Purkis Frost (1842 – 1922) was an English pioneer of aviation. He built ornithopters, and became president of the Aeronautical Society.

E.P. Frost lived at West Wratting Hall in Cambridgeshire and became a Justice of the Peace.

Frost began studying flight in 1868 and built a large steam-powered flying machine with both fixed and flapping wings from 1870 to 1877. Frost had intended to have a 20-25 hp steam engine but the actual engine with 5 hp was not powerful enough to lift the ornithopter from the ground. The experiment cost Frost £1000.  In collaboration with several colleagues he started another large similar craft in 1902 with an internal combustion engine. Sources are conflicted about the success of this aircraft. One source alleges that it lifted from the ground in 1904. Another, however directly contradicts this assertion, claiming that it was suspended from a tree and could be observed to rise slightly on every downbeat of the wings. A wing from this craft is displayed in London's Science Museum.

Frost had been a member of the Aeronautical Society since 1875 and became its president from 1908 to 1911.

References 

English aerospace engineers
Aviation inventors
British aviation pioneers
19th-century aviation
1842 births
1922 deaths
People from West Wratting