omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Michèle Marie Fieux. Michèle Marie Fieux (born 25 October 1940) is a French oceanographer.

The daughter of Joseph Fieux and Paule Brunot, she was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. She was educated at the Lycée Hélène Boucher in Paris and attended university in Paris. From 1968 to 1977, Fieux was a research engineer at the Centre National pour l'Exploitation des Océans and, from 1978, at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. From 1973 to 1975, she was a research associate at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She became a professor of oceanography at the ENSTA ParisTech in 1979. Her primary area of interest is the hydrology and dynamics of the Indian Ocean and through flow between the Pacific and Indian oceans. She is a researcher at the Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et du Climat at Pierre and Marie Curie University.

Fieux is a member of the American Geophysical Union, The Oceanography Society and the Académie de Marine.

She was awarded a medal by the French Oceanographic Society in 1985. She received the Albatross Award from the American Miscellaneous Society in 1991 and the Tchihatchef prize in 1992. In 2000, she was named a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honour. In 2011, she was awarded the Prix des sciences de la mer by IFREMER.

References 

1940 births
Living people
French oceanographers
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Pole (surveying). In surveying, a pole is bar made of wood or metal and normally held vertical, upon which different instruments can be mounted: a prism, a GPS device, etc. It may be manufactured with a predetermined length (e.g., 2 meters) or may be graduated for different heights or stages.

Technology advances have introduced tilt-compensation capability into survey poles, that allow the surveyor to measure points above ground or when the pole is off-vertical.

References-

See also 
 Level staff

Surveying instruments
Michael Rotkowitz. Michael Charles Rotkowitz (born 1974) is an applied mathematician best known for his work in decentralized control theory. He was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he held appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), and was also affiliated with the Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Program (AMSC).

Rotkowitz took leave from his university position to work as a staff research scientist with Lyft Marketplace Labs in San Francisco, subsequently worked with Amazon Transportation Services’ Middle Mile team, and now works with Instacart.

Born in Brooklyn, Rotkowitz grew up in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey.

Education 
Rotkowitz received a B.S. in mathematical and computational science, an M.S. in statistics, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics, all from Stanford University.

Academic career 
Rotkowitz was the postdoctoral fellow in networked embedded control at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden from 2005 to 2006, and a research fellow with the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia from 2006 to 2008. From 2008 to 2011 he served as a research fellow, senior research fellow, and Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at the University of Melbourne. From 2012 to 2019 he was assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), and was also affiliated with the Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Program (AMSC), taking leave in 2018 to work in the tech industry.

Honors and awards 
 IEEE George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (2007) for "A Characterization of Convex Problems in Decentralized Control"
 SIAM Control and Systems Theory Prize  (2011) Conferred: "for Contributions to the theory of optimal controller synthesis for decentralized systems subject to information and control constraints."
 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2014)
  Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

References

External links 

 https://mcrotk.github.io/
 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WX3W4zUAAAAJ&hl=en

1974 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
Academics from Brooklyn
People from Old Bridge Township, New Jersey
Stanford University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Mathematicians from New York (state)
21st-century American mathematicians
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Paul Sohl. Paul Alan Sohl (born 1963) is a retired rear admiral in the United States Navy who served as Commander of the Operational Test and Evaluation Force.

Early life
Sohl is originally from Waterloo, Iowa. He holds a Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Stanford University.

Naval career
Sohl was commissioned an officer via the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and became a Naval Aviator in 1988. Following flight training and completion of the F/A-18C Fleet Replacement Squadron syllabus, he was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 113 (VFA-113), homeported at NAS Lemoore, California, during which time he was deployed during the Gulf War. In 1993, he graduated from the United States Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS), a command in which he would later serve as the executive officer and commanding officer.  He later served as executive officer and commanding officer of Fleet Readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE) at NAS Jacksonville, Florida and Commander, Naval Test Wing Pacific. Other command positions Sohl has held include Commander of the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division and Commander, Fleet Readiness Centers (COMFRC). He has also been deployed to serve in Operation Enduring Freedom and was named Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force (COMOPTEVFOR) in 2016.

Awards Sohl has received include the Legion of Merit and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal.

Business career 
Paul Sohl is currently the Chief Executive Officer of The Florida High Tech Corridor.

References

External links
Official Navy Biography

1963 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Waterloo, Iowa
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Military personnel from Iowa
United States Naval Aviators
United States Navy personnel of the Gulf War
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
United States Naval Test Pilot School alumni
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Navy rear admirals (upper half)
Vyacheslav Golubtsov. Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Golubtsov (; 10 April 1894, Nizhny Novgorod – 18 October 1972, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian scientist and a specialist in the field of thermal engineering.

Biography 
He was born on 29 March (10 April New Style) in 1894 in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of a teacher. He was a brother of Valeria Golubtsova, the wife of the Soviet statesman Georgy Malenkov.

In 1913–1915 he worked in Pavlovsky Posad as a mechanic and as a technician at Elektrogorsk Power Plant, which was one of the first power plants in Russia. In 1915-1918 he served in Russian Imperial Army. In 1918—1922 he again worked at the Power Plant: first as an Assistant to the Head of the Electric department, then as an Assistant to the Director of the Power plant.

In 1925 Golubtsov graduated from Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute with a degree in the field of electrical power stations engineering. He was a member of the CPSU(b) since 1931. Until 1937 he worked in leading positions in the construction and operation of power plants in Leningrad, Volkhovstroy, Kashira, Chelyabinsk, Dneprodzerzhinsk and other cities. In 1931-1933 he was Chief engineer and Deputy manager of Mosenergo. Since 1937 he was Deputy Chief Engineer of Glavenergo; in 1939–1945, deputy head of the technical department of the People's Commissariat of Power Plants of the USSR.

From 1944 he worked at Moscow Power Engineering Institute, appointed a professor in 1945. He taught in the Department of Boiler Plants. In 1947, he organized, and until 1964 headed, the Department of Water and Fuel Technology. From 1964 he was professor-consultant of MPEI.

He was a Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1953, and was awarded the Stalin Prize, III degree, in 1950.

He died on 18 October 1972 in Moscow.

References

1894 births
1972 deaths
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Academic staff of Moscow Power Engineering Institute
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University alumni
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Soviet engineers
Luigi Torchi. Luigi Torchi was an Italian inventor. He invented the first direct multiplication machine in 1834. This was also the second key-driven machine in the world, following that of James White in 1822.

Very little is known about the inventor and the machine. It is only known that he was a carpenter; his machine was awarded a gold medal from the Imperial-regio istituto lombardo di scienze, lettere e arti in Milan in 1834. A document of the award provides the known details of the machine, while a second document shows a drawing of the machine itself. However, no detailed documents about how it worked are known to exist.

The machine was exhibited in Brera between 1834 and 1837; it was later found by Giovanni Schiaparelli in bad condition. Subsequently, no further information about the machine exists.

Bibliography 
 Silvio Hénin, Two Early Italian Key-Driven Calculators, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 32, no. 1, 2010, pp. 34–43.
 Silvio Hénin, Early Italian computing machines and their inventors. Reflections on the History of Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012. 204–230.

External links 
 History-Computer.com: Luigi Torchi

19th-century Italian inventors
Italian scientific instrument makers
1810s births
Year of death missing
Paul Viola. Paul Viola is a computer vision researcher, and Distinguished Engineer at Zoox. He is a former MIT professor, a former vice president of science for Amazon Prime Air and a former Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. He is best 
known for his seminal work in facial recognition and machine learning.   He is 
the co-inventor of the Viola–Jones object detection framework along with Michael Jones. He won the Marr Prize in 2003 and the Helmholtz Prize from the International Conference on Computer Vision in 2013.
He
is the holder of at least 57 patents in the areas of advanced machine learning, web search,
data mining, and image processing.
He is the author of more than 50 academic
research papers with over 56,000 citations.

References

External links
 Detecting Faces (Viola Jones Algorithm) – Computerphile

Living people
Computer vision researchers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Machine learning researchers
1966 births
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Michael Jones (scientist). Michael J. Jones is an American computer scientist and inventor working as a computer vision researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.

Education 
Jones earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 under Tomaso Poggio.

Career 
Jones is the co-inventor, with Paul Viola, of the Viola–Jones face detection method, an ICCV 2003 Marr Prize and CVPR Longuet-Higgins Prize winner.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer vision researchers
Mitsubishi Electric people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
American computer scientists
Sankalp-class offshore patrol vessel. Sankalp-class offshore patrol vessels are a series of two offshore patrol vessels designed and built by Goa Shipyard Limited for the Indian Coast Guard. The vessels, also classified as Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessels, are the largest vessels constructed by Goa Shipyard Limited. Samarth class and Saryu class were derived from this class of offshore patrol vessels.

History
In March 2004, the Indian Coast Guard placed an order for a single Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel at a cost of . In August 2005, a repeat order was placed at the same cost for a similar vessel under options clause of the original contract.

Description
Sankalp-class vessels have an overall length of 105 metres, a 12.9 metre beam and a draught of 3.6 metres. They are powered by two SEMT Pielstick 20 PA6B STC diesel engines rated at a combined , each driving a Wärtsilä WCP 5C10 controllable-pitch propeller. They have a top speed of 24 knots and a range of 6,500 nautical miles at 12 knots. Sankalp class is armed with two 30 mm CRN-91 naval guns controlled by a fire control system and two 12.7 mm "Prahari" machine guns. They are equipped with external firefighting systems, an integrated bridge system and an integrated machinery control system. Sankalp-class ships can carry five high-speed boats capable of search and rescue, interception and pollution control missions. The vessels of this class have been classified by both Indian Register of Shipping and American Bureau of Shipping.

Operational history
In August 2011, ICGS Sankalp participated in a mission to control an oil spill off the coast of Mumbai. In September 2012, Sankalp was tasked to fight a fire onboard MV Amsterdam Bridge. Sankalp has undertaken goodwill visits to Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, Qatar and Oman.

In December 2013, a CRN-91 naval gun on ICGS Samrat was accidentally triggered as it was being repaired, partly damaging the Western Naval Command headquarters building in Mumbai. In June 2015, ICGS Samrat participated in a disaster relief mission to rescue 20 crew members of MV Jindal Kamakshi. In December 2017, ICGS Samrat rescued 72 fishermen in distress off the coast of Kerala.

Ships of the class

References

Patrol ship classes
Indian Coast Guard
Ships of the Indian Coast Guard
BEAM (Erlang virtual machine). BEAM is the virtual machine at the core of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform (OTP). BEAM is part of the Erlang Run-Time System (ERTS), which compiles Erlang source code into bytecode, which is then executed on the BEAM. BEAM bytecode files have the .beam file extension.

Originally BEAM was short for Bogdan's Erlang Abstract Machine, named after Bogumil "Bogdan" Hausman, who wrote the original version, but the name may also be referred to as Björn's Erlang Abstract Machine, after Björn Gustavsson, who wrote and maintains the current version. Both developers worked on the system while at Ericsson.

The predecessor of the BEAM was JAM (Joe's Abstract Machine), which was the first virtual machine for the Erlang language and was written by Joe Armstrong.

BEAM Languages 
Although BEAM was created for Erlang, several other languages have been either created for it or ported to run on it. The most popular of these is Elixir, which had more responses than Erlang itself in a 2023 Stack Overflow developer survey. Other notable examples include:

 Clojerl, a port of Clojure to BEAM
 Cuneiform, a language for large-scale scientific data analysis
 Gleam, a statically typed functional language for BEAM
 LFE, Lisp Flavored Erlang, a lisp frontend for the Erlang compiler
 Luerl, Lua on the BEAM, designed and implemented by one of the creators of Erlang

See also 
 Comparison of application virtual machines
 Register machine

References

External links
 Erlang website
 A History of Erlang
 The Erlang BEAM Virtual Machine Specification, 1997
 The BEAM Book by Erik Stenman
 Languages, and about languages, on the BEAM

Erlang (programming language)
Programming language implementation
Register-based virtual machines
David Williams (geologist, born 1898). David Williams (1898 – 8 May 1984) was a noted British geologist.

Williams was born of Welsh parents in Liverpool, England. After studying civil engineering at the University of Liverpool, he became interested in geology after his twin brother Howel began to study geology. David Williams studied under Percy Boswell at the University of Liverpool. There David Williams received his Ph.D. for research on paleozoic volcanic rock in Snowdonia.

He was the Head of the Department of Geology at Imperial College London from 1950 to 1964; his predecessor as Head was H. H. Read and his successor was John Sutton.

David Williams was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1959.

Selected publications

References

20th-century British geologists
1898 births
1984 deaths
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Academics of Imperial College London
Lyell Medal winners
Deans of the Royal School of Mines
Cyclopentasilane. Cyclopentasilane is a cyclic compound of silicon and hydrogen with the chemical formula . Containing five silicon atoms arranged in a pentagonal ring, it is the silicon analog of cyclopentane. Cyclopentasilane is a colorless pyrophoric liquid. It is an oligosilane. It is of research interest because of its potential use as a liquid silicon ink for printing silicon structures on integrated circuits or solar cells.

Production
Cyclopentasilane can be made from diphenyldichlorosilane (C6H5)2SiCl2 reacting with lithium. This forms decaphenylcyclopentasilane. This reacts with aluminium chloride in benzene catalysed with hydrogen chloride to yield decachlorocyclopentasilane. Decachlorocyclopentasilane then has its chlorine replaced by hydrogen using lithium aluminium hydride.

Properties
Cyclopentasilane is pyrophoric. It has a σ-delocalization property. Cyclopentasilane is a liquid at standard conditions, but can be frozen to crystals at 173K. The monoclinic crystals are not isomorphic to cyclopentane. The silicon to silicon bond lengths in the solid vary from 2.3353 and 2.3377 Å, which is shorter than in the substituted cyclopentasilanes or linear silanes. In gas form, those bond lengths, as measured by electron diffraction, increased to 2.342 Å.

Cyclopentasilane is sensitive, and starts decomposing when heated over 84°C, when it loses hydrogen and polymerizes. As it is heated more silane is produced, and at 178°C it yields disilane.
When heated to over 250°C it decomposes to a silicon hydrogen polymer.

Molecule shape
A five member ring can adopt a number of shapes: planar with all the atoms arranged in a pentagon with symmetry D5h; envelope symmetry Cs, with four atoms in a rectangular plane and one popped up like the flap, and twist with symmetry C2. The planar form has slightly higher energy than the other forms.

References

Silanes
Five-membered rings
Iris (transponder). The Iris transponder is a small, low power deep-space transponder designed by JPL for use in cubesats.  It unifies a number of communication functions - receiver, command detector, telemetry modulator, exciters, and control functions - into one 1.2-kg package that occupies about 0.5 U.  Iris is designed to handle X band uplink, UHF receive, and both X band and optional Ka band downlink.  It is only one third the mass, and lower power, compared to the smallest previous solution, the Small Deep Space Transponder.

Functions                                                
The capabilities of Iris include:
                                                        
X-band receiver/downconverter capable of carrier tracking.
Command detector unit function.
Telemetry modulation function.
X-band exciter.   
A matching X-band power amplifier and low-noise amplifier.                                 
X-band ranging.
UHF (390-450 MHz) receiver for communication with landers/rovers.
Differential one-way ranging (DOR) at X-band.                                     
Uplink: TC Space Data Link Protocol - CCSDS 232.0-B-3
Downlink: AOS Space Data Link Protocol = CCSDS 732.0-B-3
Supports codes Convolutional 7-1/2, Manchester, Bi-Phase, and bypass (NRZ), Reed Solomon (255,223), Turbo codes with rates 1/2, 1/3, and 1/6 (block size 8920 bits)
Interface to rest of CubeSat electronics is through Serial Peripheral Interface Bus, with a special hardwired output to reset the CubeSat.

Missions
Mars Cube One
Lunar Flashlight
BioSentinel
NEA Scout

See also
Electra (radio)

References

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johann Wilhelm Dilich. Johann Wilhelm Dilich (1600 – 1657) worked between 1628 and 1657 as an engineer and master builder in Frankfurt am Main.

Born in Kassel, we was the son of master builder .
He used instruments made by the imperial instrument maker Erasmus Habermehl (died in 1606 in Prague). Dilich had uniform leather cases produced for these devices:
 Octagonal vertical sundial signed "Erasmus Habermehl fecit 89"
 Conversion plate with slide signed "Erasmus habermehl"
 Octagonal vertical sundial signed "E.H.fecit"
 Theodolite signed "Erasmus Habermehl"
 Round vertical sundial

Works 
 Peribologia oder Bericht Wilhelmi Dilichij Hist: Von Vestungsgebewen Vieler orter, as well as with native reasons and published by Johannem Wilhelmum Dilichium, Frankfurt 1640
 Peribologia Seu Muniendorum Locor[um] Ratio Wilhelmi Dilichii, Edita Sumptus Et Typos Suppedi Tante Joanne Wilhelmo Dilichio F: Architecto, Frankfurt 1641
 Kurtzer Unterricht Wie auff Unterschiedene Arten mann einen fürgegebenen Platz Fortificiren kan, Frankfurt 1642
 His drawings of the Frankfurt fortress were kept in the city archive and were lost during the Second World War.

Bibliography 
 Tobias Büchi: Das Festungsbuch Wilhelm & Johann Wilhelm Dilichs, in Scholion 3, 2004, .

References

External links 

 

17th-century German architects
Businesspeople from Frankfurt
Engineers from Kassel
1600 births
1657 deaths
17th-century German writers
17th-century German male writers
Henry Hoke (fictional inventor). Henry Hoke (20th century) was a fictitious Australian scientist, engineer, and inventor.

Early life and education
Hoke was the son of Dr Silas Hoke and Beryl Hoke, and lived in the small outback town of Hoke's Bluff.

Silas Hoke operated a pharmacy, and  invented a medication called Willing’s Suspension of Disbelief, and Beryl Hoke was an accomplished blacksmith.

Career
Many of Hoke's inventions were lost but are now being rediscovered. He is considered to have been fifty years ahead of his time.

Hoke first worked as a fencer, starting his career as an inventor by developing pre-dug fence post holes.

Hoke established a tool manufacturing company, Hoke's Tool Company.

Notable inventions
Some of Hoke's more notable inventions are now known to include:
 Packaged half baked ideas
 A hammer which works around corners
 Boxed spark plug sparks
 A clock work motor vehicle
 The wooden magnet
 Bottled spirit level bubbles
 The random excuse generator
 Tartan paint
 Dehydrated water pills

Recognition
Hoke has been immortalised in various media.

Many of his invented tools have been researched and are now documented in the publication, Henry Hoke’s Guide to the Misguided, and in the publication, The Lost Tools of Henry Hoke.

Hoke's work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals, for example by the Australian Network for Art and Technology as part of National Science Week in 2010, and for example in South Australia's 2018 History Festival.

In 2013 Questacon featured an exhibition of Hoke's inventions, The Lost Tools of Henry Hoke.

He was the subject of a twenty-one episode documentary television series by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation first broadcast in 2014 and repeated in 2016.  The audio was rebroadcast as part of The Science Show by the ABC in 2018.

Further reading
 Henry Hoke’s Guide to the Misguided -  - National Library of Australia
 The Lost Tools of Henry Hoke -

References

Science fiction characters
Australian folklore
Ashish Singh Patel. Ashish Singh Patel is an Indian politician currently serving as Cabinet minister, Government of Uttar Pradesh. He is Technical Education, Consumer Protection, Weights and Measures Minister, Government of Uttar Pradesh and also member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. He is a working president of the Apna Dal (Sonelal) party and husband of Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Anupriya Patel. He completed his B.tech. in Civil Engineering from Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology Jhansi.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Apna Dal politicians
Apna Dal (Sonelal) politicians
Members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council