omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Dynamic Graphics Project. The Dynamic Graphics Project (commonly referred to as dgp) is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the University of Toronto devoted to projects involving Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Human Computer Interaction, and Visualization. The lab began as the computer graphics research group of Computer Science Professor  in 1967. Mezei invited Bill Buxton, a  pioneer of human–computer interaction to join. In 1972, Ronald Baecker, another HCI pioneer joined dgp, establishing dgp as the first Canadian university group focused on computer graphics and human-computer interaction. According to csrankings.org, for the combined subfields of computer graphics, HCI, and visualization the dgp is the number one research institution in the world.

Since then, dgp has hosted many well known faculty and students in computer graphics, computer vision and HCI (e.g., Alain Fournier, Bill Reeves,  Jos Stam, Demetri Terzopoulos, Marilyn Tremaine). dgp also occasionally hosts artists in residence (e.g., Oscar-winner Chris Landreth). Many past and current researchers at Autodesk (and before that Alias Wavefront) graduated after working at dgp. dgp is located in the St. George Campus of University of Toronto in the Bahen Centre for Information Technology. dgp researchers regularly publish at ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGCHI and ICCV.

dgp hosts the Toronto User Experience (TUX) Speaker Series and the Sanders Series Lectures.

Notable alumni
 Bill Buxton (MS 1978)
 James McCrae (PhD 2013)
 Dimitris Metaxas (PhD 1992)
 Bill Reeves (MS 1976, Ph.D. 1980)
 Jos Stam (MS 1991, Ph.D. 1995)

References

Computer graphics
Computer vision
Human–computer interaction
University of Toronto
Noa Raviv. Noa Raviv (born 1987) is an Israeli fashion designer known for her use of grid patterns and employment of 3D printing in her work.  She attended Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, graduating in 2014. She collaborated with the tech printing firm Stratasys on two pieces which were exhibited in 2016 in the exhibition Manus X Machina at the Anna Wintour Costume Center in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Raviv's work has been as described as manifesting the aesthetic phenomenon of 
hypertexture.

Work 
Raviv's 2014 Hard Copy collection, was based on computer glitches and focused on the value of original objects in our current age.  The project was included in the "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a 2014 article published in Motherboard magazine, Raviv was quoted as saying "The garments, even though there are a lot of things that are digital inside them, at the end they are made through very traditional means."

In the initial design process, Raviv encountered errors within some of her CAD models. In 2015, she used these glitches to produce and installation version of the project for OOPs, an exhibition at Hansen House-Jerusalem.

Hard Copy was her graduate collection at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design.

In her following collection, in Fall 2017, Raviv included items beyond digitally created works, including those garments which Emily Farra, writing in Vogue, described as "painstakingly hand-stitched."

Awards

2014 

3D Printshow - Fashion Designer of the Year

References

Living people
Israeli fashion designers
Israeli women fashion designers
1987 births
Government College of Engineering, Nagpur. Government College of Engineering, Nagpur  (Abbr. GCoEN) (Marathi:शासकीय अभियांत्रिकी महाविद्यालय,नागपूर) is a college that started in the academic year 2016–17. It is affiliated to the Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur and its mentor institute is Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology. Its campus is located at New Khapri, MIHAN Region, Nagpur. In 2024, The College Is Considered 2nd Best College (After YCCE) In Nagpur Through MHT-CET Exam.

References

Engineering universities and colleges in India
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
Universities and colleges established in 2016
2016 establishments in Maharashtra
COSEDA Technologies. The COSEDA Technologies GmbH is a software development company located in Dresden, Germany that was founded in 2015 as a spin-off from the Fraunhofer Institute  or Integrated Circuits IIS, Division Engineering of Adaptive Systems EAS, one of the largest research institutions in the field of design automation in Europe. 

The Company's design environment COSIDE, is the first commercially available design environment based on SystemC as well as on SystemC AMS standards. The company also provides the only publicly available proof of concept to the SystemC AMS-Standard IEEE 1666.1-2016.

See also
 SystemC AMS
 SystemC

References

External links
Official Website

Electronic design automation companies
KGYS (urban safety management system). KGYS, acronym for Kent Güvenlik Yönetim Sistemi" (literally: City Security Management System), is a modular monitoring and imaging system used in urban areas of Turkey for law enforcement to ensure public security, to defend against internal security threats and to perform control tasks more effectively. Significant results are obtained by processing the image and location data in accordance with the legislation, which are supported by results produced by the Turkish Police Information Network (PolNet).

KGYS consists of:
 Command and control center,
 Vehicle tracking system,
 Mobile vehicle inquiry system,
 Police station holding cell improvement and control system,
 Regional imaging system,
 Automatic number plate recognition system,
 Mobile operations management and
 Police computer network.

The 2015-established traffic law enforcement system TEDES, which consists of speed camera, red light camera and automatic number plate recognition device, is an integral part of KGYS.

References

Law enforcement in Turkey
Law enforcement techniques
Automatic number plate recognition
Civil crime prevention
Building for the Future. Building for the Future is a 2013 Indian documentary film about the design, engineering and construction of the tallest building in India – The Palais Royale.

This documentary film has been directed by John Michael Owen. It has been produced by Vidhi Kasliwal. Gautam Pemmaraju is the writer of the film. Grafik Fever has worked on the VFX in the film.

This documentary film is a Landmarc films presentation.

It won Best VFX at the 4th Indian Advertising & Corporate Film Festival – 15.

References

External links
 

2013 films
Indian short documentary films
2013 short documentary films
Quaject. In computer science, a quaject is an object-like data structure containing both data and code (or pointers to code), exposed as an interface in the form of callentries, and can accept a list of callentries to other quajects for callbacks and callouts. They were developed by Alexia Massalin in 1989 for the Synthesis kernel, and named for the Qua! Machine, a unique hardware platform built by Massalin. The origin of the term 'qua' is unclear; Massalin claims humorously that it is a sound made by koalas.

The main purpose of quajects is to provide an abstraction to manage self-modifying code, by allowing runtime code optimizing on a per-object basis. While the original Synthesis kernel required quajects to be written in hand-developed assembly language, this was done to avoid developing a complex compiler; Massalin noted that just-in-time compilation (JIT) for a high-level programming language that permits runtime code generation, as in Lisp or Smalltalk, can also apply this approach, though she also asserted that the complexity of such a compiler was likely to be prohibitive.

Quajects differ from more conventional objects in two key ways: first, they always use a form of the dependency injection pattern to manage both interfaces to other quajects, and continuations out of the quaject; the list of callentry references for this is part of quaject creation, and may be updated during the quaject's lifetime. Second, and more critically, a given quaject's set of methods can be unique to the specific quaject; methods for a type or class of quajects are stored as one or more templates, rather than as fixed code. While shared methods can be accessed through a common table of pointers, individual quajects can also have methods that are generated specifically to tailor the performance for that quaject's behavior.

References

Operating system technology
Alex Lidow. Alex Lidow is CEO and co-founder of Efficient Power Conversion (EPC), former CEO of International Rectifier and is the co-inventor of the HEXFET power MOSFET, a power transistor. Lidow is co-author of the book GaN Transistors for Efficient Power Conversion (2012, Wiley). He has authored numerous peer reviewed publications on related subjects, and received the 2015 SEMI Award for North America for the commercialization of more efficient power devices. Lidow was one of the lead representatives of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) for the trade negotiations that resulted in the U.S. – Japan Trade Accord of 1986 and testified to Congress on multiple occasions on behalf of the industry.

A co-inventor of the HEXFET(R) power MOSFET, Lidow holds 21 patents on power semiconductor technology.

Career
In 1977 Lidow began a 30-year career at International Rectifier (IR), founded by his grandfather and his father Eric Lidow (CEO at the time) in 1947, as an R&D engineer. Lidow became Vice President of R&D at International Rectifier in 1979, and was subsequently appointed head of manufacturing, head of sales and marketing. Lidow was elected to the Board of Directors in 1994. In March 1995, Lidow replaced his father as the Chief Executive Officer, serving alongside his brother Derek Lidow, who departed International Rectifier and founded market research firm  in 1999. Under Lidow’s leadership, International Rectifier was named one of the best managed companies in America by Forbes magazine in 2005. Lidow would remain on as CEO at International Rectifier until October 2007. After leaving International Rectifier, Lidow founded Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) in 2007, an American technology company that designs and manufactures gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally.
Lidow and International Rectifier filed opposing lawsuits over his termination from IR, which were settled out of court in 2013. 
Lidow published contributions to the electronics industry range from multiple technology patents to the co-inventing of the HEXFET power MOSFET. Lidow co-authored the book GaN Transistors for Efficient Power Conversion in 2012. In addition, his writing has been published in numerous blogs and publications, both online and off.

Education
Lidow holds degrees from Caltech and Stanford. He received his Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics from Caltech in 1975, and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 1977 as a Hertz Foundation Fellow.

Boards
Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology    
Chairman of the Compensation and Nominating Committees, and Vice Chair of the Investment Committee for the California Institute of Technology
Board of Overseers for the RAND Corp.

References

Stanford University alumni
American chief executives
California Institute of Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Krista Donaldson. Krista M. Donaldson  (born 1973) is a Canadian–American engineer. She is the CEO of D-Rev, a product design and engineering company that specialises in products for less industrialised countries.

Early life and education
Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Donaldson attended Queen Elizabeth High School before earning her engineering degrees from Vanderbilt University and Stanford University.

Career
Prior to D-Rev, Donaldson was an economic officer at the US Department of State where she worked on economic policy and the reconstruction of Iraq's electricity sector, and as a design engineer at KickStart in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2009, Donaldson was recruited by Jim Patell to join D-Rev, a non-profit product design and engineering company that specialises in products for less industrialised countries. As the CEO of D-Rev, she oversaw the launch of their products Brilliance, a treatment for neonatal jaundice and a prosthetic knee for amputees. As a result, she was named one of Silicon Valley Business Journal's 40 Under 40 in 2011 and honoured by Vanderbilt University with their International Alumni Professional Achievement Award.

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References

External links

Living people
1973 births
American women chief executives
Vanderbilt University alumni
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
American nonprofit chief executives
American technology chief executives
Businesspeople from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Nieuport-Delage NiD 740. The Nieuport-Delage NiD 740 was a French trimotor monoplane designed to carry night mail. Two were built in 1930.

Design

The NiD 740 was specifically designed as a postal aircraft for the night mail, though the mail compartment could alternatively accommodate three passengers. It was a three-engined, wooden aircraft with a cantilever high wing of high aspect ratio and elliptical plan out to pointed tips.  Mounted without dihedral,  the plywood skinned wing was structurally and aerodynamically similar to, though larger than, that of the single-engined Nieuport-Delage NiD 640. Long, narrow, uncompensated ailerons filled much of the trailing edges.

Its one-piece fuselage was built on four spruce longerons interconnected by frames and was plywood covered, giving it flat sides and underside but with curved upper decking.  The NiD 740's central  Salmson 7Ac seven-cylinder radial engine was uncowled in the nose, though diagrams show it enclosed by a narrow-chord cowling. The outboard pair, also uncowled, were mounted well below the wing on parallel and diagonal struts.  The enclosed cockpit was at the wing leading edge; in addition to the normal forward and side windows there was a window in the port side fuselage, matched by one in the starboard side door, to improve his downwards and rearward view. The navigator, provided with radio equipment, was in a separate compartment with his own port side, windowed door. Behind him was the  volume mail compartment with windowed doors on both sides and further lit by two forward windows.  In this area the fuselage was double-walled.

The tail was conventional, with well rounded, roughly elliptical surfaces which were ply covered like the rest of the NiD 740.  The tailplane was mounted on top of the fuselage; its angle of incidence could be adjusted in flight for trimming. Neither elevators nor rudder were balanced.  The latter was large and extended down to the keel, operating in a small elevator cut-out.

The NiD 740 had conventional, fixed, independent landing gear, with each wheel mounted at the vertex of a V-strut hinged on the central fuselage underside. These gave the undercarriage a track of  and placed the wheels directly below the outer engines. Vertical sprung legs, fitted with Messier shock absorbers, joined wheels and the engine-bearing frames. The wheels had brakes (also by Messier) which could be used differentially for ground steering. There was a short tailskid below the rudderpost.  A pair of searchlights were fitted close together below the nose to help with night landings.

Development

The exact date of the NiD 740's first flight is not known though several early tests had been flown by Fernand Lasne before the end of January 1930. It handled well and it could maintain a fixed altitude of  with one engine stopped. Two were built but their later history is not mentioned in the contemporary French aviation literature.

Specifications

References

 740
Trimotors
1930s French mailplanes
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1930
FarmBot. FarmBot is an open source precision agriculture CNC farming project consisting of a Cartesian coordinate robot farming machine, software and documentation including a farming data repository. The project aims to "Create an open and accessible technology aiding everyone to grow food and to grow food for everyone."

History 

The FarmBot project was started in 2011 by American Rory Aronson whilst studying mechanical engineering at California Polytechnic State University. Aronson attended an elective course in organic agriculture where he learned about a tractor that used machine vision to detect and cover weeds which removed the need for herbicides or manual labour, the tractor cost over US$1 million.

In March 2014 Aronson began working on the project full-time funded by a grant from the Shuttleworth Foundation. Firmware developer Tim Evers and software developer Rick Carlino later joined the project as core developers. Rory Aronson created the company Farmbot.io to provide hardware kits and software services and to serve as a funding source to maintain the open source community. 

In 2014 and 2015, FarmBot was entered into the Hackaday Prize, where it became a finalist in 2015. After nine design iterations, the Farmbot Genesis began preorders in July 2016 as the first commercially available version of FarmBot.

Farmbot Genesis

Capabilities 
The FarmBot Genesis is able to plant over 30 different crops within the same area at the same time and is able to operate indoors, outdoors and in covered areas. It can perform almost all processes prior to harvesting including sowing, mechanical weed control and watering while accounting for factors such as age of the plant and local weather conditions.

FarmBot Genesis is controlled through a web based interface allowing remote access from any location on most internet enabled devices. It uses an online crop database called OpenFarm to create an optimal planting plan based on the size of the adult crop.

Components 

The Farmbot Genesis is an open source hardware machine and is designed around reproduce-ability and  availability of components, it can be created using common tools and processes. Its electronics stack consists of a Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino Mega 2560 with a RAMPS 1.4 shield and a camera to record data. The universal tool mount and other tools are 3D printed and are designed to be created with hobby level fused deposition model 3D printers e.g. a RepRap printer. It has two electrical connections and connectors for liquid or gas which are magnetically coupled.

The software for the FarmBot Genesis runs through a web interface allowing the machine to be controlled on most internet enabled devices. All software is available under the MIT license and is available on GitHub.

See also
 Open Source Ecology
 RepRap project

References

External links
 Official product website
 FarmBot Project community website
 FarmBot Github repository

Open hardware electronic devices
DIY culture
3D printing
Engineering projects
Computer output devices
Open hardware organizations and companies
Free and open-source software
Fused filament fabrication
Agricultural robotics
Millennium Forest for Scotland. The Millennium Forest for Scotland project was an initiative created by the Millennium Commission and funded by the National Lottery of the United Kingdom to celebrate the turn of the New Millennium. 

Conceived in 1994, the project's ambition was to restore and maintain a significant amount of the forestry in the Scottish environment, and secondly to reestablish the link between local communities and the environment that surrounded them.

The project's nationwide appeal led to many local communities, farms and established natural projects (such as the National Trust for Scotland and the World Wildlife Fund) investing time and money in restoring and maintaining many areas of natural importance throughout Scotland.

As a result of the initiative, it is estimated that the project has restored over 22,000 hectares of forest and natural land and created 200 kilometers of new hiking trails.

Some locations that the project has helped include:
Angus Millennium Forest, Angus
Balmaha Millennium Forest Park, Balmaha
The Millennium Forest, Borgie, Sutherland
Mugdock Country Park, Milngavie
Cashel Millenium Forest, Loch Lomond
Craigrostan Woods, Inversnaid
Edinburgh (urban forest project)

Although the project was aimed for the turn of the millennium, the efforts and investment in the project lasted over a period of 12 years, with many of the benefits still being felt today. The project ceased to exist following the winding-up of the Millennium Commission in 2006. As seen above, many signposts and markers symbolizing the initiative's legacy can still be seen around Scotland.

See also

 – (Angela Roe, University of Minnesota, 1999)

References

NatureScot
Defunct public bodies of the United Kingdom
Turn of the third millennium
Electronic logging device. An electronic logging device (ELD or E-Log) is a piece of electronic hardware attached to a commercial motor vehicle engine to record driving hours. The driving hours of commercial drivers (truck and bus drivers) are typically regulated by a set of rules known as the hours of service (HOS) in the United States and as drivers' working hours in Europe. The Commercial Vehicle Driver Hours of Service Regulations vary in Canada and the United States.
 
An ELD monitors a vehicle’s engine to capture data on whether the engine is running, whether the vehicle is moving, distance driven, and duration of engine operation.
 
An Eld in trucking can record the following data to keep track of duty status and assist drivers in also tracking their driving limits to avoid fatigue related issues

 Date
 Time
 Location
 Engine hours
 Vehicle miles
 Driver identification
 User authentication
 Vehicle
 Motor carrier

AOBRD (Automatic On-Board Recording Device) was the first in history with an appearance in 1988. Then came the paper logs or electronic on-board recorders (EOBR) were used for hours of service tracking. While recorder logs improve the accuracy of the data, the lack of a consistent data format meant that the logs needed to be regenerated to an equivalent hardware ("paper") format for review and enforcement. The Record of Duty Status (RoDS) definition within the ELD legislation provides a consistent format for enforcement personnel to review, so the ELD Mandate was created.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced the Final Rule of the ELD mandate, and ELD regulations being implemented in several phases with a compliance date of December 18, 2017. Fleets already equipped with loggers or recorders had until December 2019 to ensure compliance with the published specifications.

Before the final rule of the ELD mandate was announced, fleets used the Automatic On-Board Device (AOBRD), a much simpler version of the ELD device that did not provide fleets with many features. For instance, ELDs provide a standardized format and transfer process for roadside inspections, have more sophisticated location tracking, and enable drivers to accept or reject edits made to their driving logs – all of which are required under the ELD mandate.

As mentioned before, it became mandatory for fleets to transition from AOBRDs to ELDs.

References

Road haulage