omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
David Notkin. David Notkin (1 January 1955 – 22 April 2013) was an American software engineer and professor of computer science.

Early life and education 
Notkin was born in 1955 in Syracuse, New York, U.S. He pursued his Sc. B. degree from Brown University, graduating in 1977, and later received his doctoral degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1984. He then moved to Seattle and joined as a faculty at the University of Washington. His interest was in software engineering, with a particular focus on software evolution.

Career 
In 2000, Notkin received the Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award from the University of Washington. He served as chair of the computer science and engineering department from 2001 to 2006, during which he helped to open the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.

He was a Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE. From 2007 to 2012, he served as the editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. He was also a board member of the Computing Research Association.

Notkin is also noted for his efforts to expand the demographics of computing research, particularly to include women. In 2013, he received the A. Nico Habermann Award in recognition of this. He is also one of the two people after whom the Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award, given by the National Center for Women & Information Technology, is named.

In February 2013, the University of Washington announced the creation of the David Notkin Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science & Engineering, in an event attended by over 300 computer science students at the university to recognise Notkin's contributions.

Death and legacy 
After a few years of battling cancer, Notkin died on April 22, 2013.

Awards 
Notkin received a number of awards:
 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988)
 Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, University of Washington (2000)
 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award (2007)
 ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award (2012)
 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award (2013)
 A. Nico Habermann Award (2013)

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1955 births
2013 deaths
Academics from Syracuse, New York
Brown University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Washington faculty
1998 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the IEEE
American computer scientists
Frank Ayton. Frank Ayton (10 January 1873, Hexham – 24 January 1956) was an English electrical engineer. He was a pioneer of electric vehicles. He was a founder of the Electrical Vehicle Committee of Great Britain, later the Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain. He edited the journal Electric Vehicle.

Frank was born in Hexham, Northumberland, and attended the Imperial Service College in Windsor. He then studied at Finsbury Technical College before working for Siemens Brothers in Woolwich. He worked on the Waterloo and City Line before being taken on by Alexander Kennedy to work on various power station and electric traction projects.

Ayton was a member of the Institute of Transport.

Ayton was a managing director of Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies.

Works
 "Electric Vehicles for Brewery Service", Journal of the Institute of Brewing, Vol. 26 No. 3 March 1920 pp 113–133
 "Applications of Engineering to Agriculture", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Volume: 111 issue: 1, June 1926, page(s): 683-720
 "The Electric Trolley Bus", The Commercial Motor, 30 October 1928 pp.45-6

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English electrical engineers
1873 births
1956 deaths
Rich Kerswell. Richard Rodney Kerswell FRS is a British fluid mechanics scientist and the G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012.

He received his Bachelor of Arts at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1987, his Master of Arts at the University of California in 1988, and his Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. He was a mathematics professor in the University of Newcastle from 1992 to 1996 and in Bristol University from 1996 until he moved  to the University of Cambridge in 2017.

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University of California alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Academics of the University of Bristol
Academics of Durham University
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Fellows of the Royal Society
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Living people
Darmstadt Electronic Computing Machine (DERA). The Darmstadt Electronic Computing Machine (DERA), (German:Darmstädter Elektronischer Rechenautomat) was an experimental, room-sized electronic computer calculator with vacuum tube built in 1951. It was built at the Technische Universität Darmstadt under the direction of Alwin Walther.  The first operation was in 1957, with development completed in 1959.

Technical data 
 Start of construction in 1950/51, start of use in 1957, completed in 1959 
 Programming languages: in addition to machine code also ALGOL.
 I / O device: telegraph (paper tape reader).
 Word machine with George Stibitz, from George Stibitz (also  excess - 3  code), 20 bit (13 decimal places + sign)
 Command length 7 digits
 Drum memory with 3000 words
 Ferrite core register (20 ms access time)
 Clock frequency 200 kHz (addition 0.8 ms; multiplication 12 - 16 ms)
 Components: 1,400 tubes, 8,000 diodes, 90 relays

See also 
 CAB 500
 Carousel memory (magnetic rolls)
 Karlqvist gap
 Manchester Mark 1

References

External links 
Youtube of the Darmstadt Electronic Computing Machine (DERA) - Documentary from 1963
 Librascope LGP-30: The drum memory computer referenced in the above story, also referenced on Librascope LGP-30.
 Librascope RPC-4000: Drum memory computer referenced in the above story
 Oral history interview with Dean Babcock

German inventions
Electronic calculators
Tetramethyl bisphenol F. Tetramethyl bisphenol F (TMBPF) is a new coating intended as a safer replacement for bisphenol A and bisphenol F to use in epoxy linings of aluminium cans and steel cans. It was previously suggested as an insulator in electronic circuit boards.

Polymerization of tetramethyl bisphenol F occurs with epichlorohydrin when heated between 40 and 70 °C using an alkali as a catalyst to form the resin used as a coating.

Health and environmental effects

Causes serious eye irritation. May cause respiratory and skin irritation. Very toxic to aquatic life.

Human endocrine effects
TMBPF does not have any effect on the endocrine system; it does not leach out of cans because unlike BPA it is fully polymerized when deposited on the metal, so there is no free chemical to leach out. Tetramethyl bisphenol F was tested on rats to see if there were effects like male or female hormones. It had almost no effects like this. However, a different study did find effects.

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Commodity chemicals
Coatings
Plasticizers
Veronica Czitrom. Veronica A. Czitrom (also Anne Veronica Czitrom or Verónica Czitróm de Gerez) is a Mexican-American statistician known for her applications of statistics to the quality control of semiconductor manufacturing.

Education and career
Czitrom is originally from Mexico City. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in physics, continued at Berkeley for a master's degree in engineering, and became a professor of systems engineering and applications at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Subsequently, she returned to graduate study in mathematics and statistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her 1984 doctoral dissertation, D-Optimal Experimental Designs and Alternative Models for Quadratic Blending with Process Variables, was supervised by Peter William Meredith John.

After completing her doctorate, she became an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She moved to Bell Labs in 1990, and was seconded from them for two years at SEMATECH. After moving to Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in Singapore, in 2003 she founded a statistical consulting firm in Singapore, Statistical Training & Consulting.

She has also served the American Statistical Association as chair of its Quality and Productivity Section, in 2000. Her accomplishments as chair included the establishment of a scholarship in honor of Mary Gibbons Natrella, funding students to travel to the section's annual conference.

Books
With Patrick D. Spagon, Czitrom is the author of the book Statistical Case Studies for Industrial Process Improvement (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1997).

She is also the author of four Spanish-language textbooks on engineering: Circuitos y sistemas electro-mecánicos (in two volumes, with Víctor Gerez Greiser, 1974 and 1975), Introducción al análisis de sistemas e investigación de operaciones (with Victor Gerez Greiser, 1978), and Métodos para la solución de problemas con computadora digital : problemas y ejemplos (with José Armando Torres Fentanes, 1980).

Recognition
In 1996, Czitrom was the winner of a Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award for technical contributions in industry. In 2000, the American Statistical Association honored her as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women statisticians
Mexican statisticians
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
University of Texas at San Antonio faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
21st-century American women
1910–11 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season. The 1910–11 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season was the 12th season of play for the program.

Season
The Boston Arena served as the home arena for MIT this season.

The team did not have a head coach but Henry Stucklen served as team manager.

Note: Massachusetts Institute of Technology athletics were referred to as 'Engineers' or 'Techmen' during the first two decades of the 20th century. By 1920 all sports programs had adopted the Engineer moniker.

Roster

Standings

Schedule and results

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Wavefront expansion algorithm. The wavefront expansion algorithm is a specialized potential field path planner with breadth-first search to avoid local minima. It uses a growing circle around the robot. The nearest neighbors are analyzed first and then the radius of the circle is extended to distant regions.

Motivation
Before a robot is able to navigate a map it needs a plan. The plan is a trajectory from start to goal and describes, for each moment in time and each position in the map, the robot's next action. Path planning is solved by many different algorithms, which can be categorised as sampling-based and heuristics-based approaches.

Before path planning, the map is discretized into a grid. The vector information is converted into a 2D array and stored in memory. The potential field path planning algorithm determines the direction of the robot for each cell. This direction field is shown overlaid on the robotic map containing the robot and the obstacles. The question for the potential field algorithm is: which cell is labeled with which direction? This can be answered with a sampling-based algorithm.

Wavefront expansion
A sampling-based planner works by searching the graph. In the case of path planning, the graph contains the spatial nodes which can be observed by the robot. The wavefront expansion increases the performance of the search by analyzing only nodes near the robot. The decision is made on a geometrical level which is equal to breadth-first search. That means, it uses metrics like distances from obstacles and gradient search for the path planning algorithm.

The algorithm includes a cost function as an additional heuristic for path planning.

Implementation
Practical open-source implementations of the algorithm are available. The map of the world is provided as an array. Obstacles and the start position of the robot are given by special values in the array. The solver determines the goal direction in the imagined wave.

Existing implementations use a queue to store a wave data structure created around the robot. A typical implementation in Python can be realized in around 200 lines of code.

References

Routing algorithms
Gustaf Neumann. Gustaf Neumann is an Austrian computer scientist who is specialised in information systems. He is a full professor and the chair of the Institute for Information Systems and New Media at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien). Neumann is one of the authors of Wirtschaftsinformatik, which is the bestseller book on Information Systems in German speaking countries with more than 500.000 copies.

Personal life 
Gustaf Neumann is native of Vienna, Austria, born in 1958. His father, Gustaf Adolf Neumann, was an Austrian investigative journalist and newspaper editor.

Awards 

 1987 Heinz-Zemanek award of the Austrian Association of Computer Science (OCG)
 1988 Senator Wilhelm Wilfling Price
 2010 Tcl Community Service Award

Publications 
Gustaf Neumann has published more than 200 books and papers in the areas of program transformation, data modeling, and information systems technology with a focus on e-learning applications. His book Wirtschaftsinformatik is one of the bestsellers in German Speaking countries.

References

External links 
 Personal Web-page at WU Wien
 Institute for Information Systems and New Media
 Vienna University of Economics and Business

Information systems researchers
Austrian computer scientists
1958 births
Living people
SS Jasper F. Cropsey. SS Jasper F. Cropsey was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Jasper F. Cropsey, an American landscape artist of the Hudson River School.

Construction
Jasper F. Cropsey was laid down on 19 May 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2484, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; sponsored by Mrs. William Thinschneider, the granddaughter of the namesake, and was launched on 30 June 1944.

History
She was allocated to the United States Navigation Co., Inc., on 20 July 1944. She was sold for commercial use, 7 April 1947, to United States Navigation Co., Inc. After a name and several owner changes she was scrapped in Italy, in 1967.

References

Bibliography

 
 
 
 

Liberty ships
Ships built in Jacksonville, Florida
1944 ships
Brittany Young. Brittany Young is an engineer, STEM educator, and 2020 TED fellow. She is the founder and chief executive officer of B-360, an education program that supports under-served youth. She was the 2018 Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Fellow.

Early life and education 
Young is from Western Baltimore. She was a student in the Baltimore City Public Schools, and says she had made her mind up about her career by the third grade. She eventually secured a place in engineering at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, which she graduated in 2007. She started working as engineer and simultaneously taught courses at Baltimore City Community College. In 2015 she started working in education and outreach after she realised that engineering education could be used to unite culture.

Career 
Young is founder and chief executive officer of the nonprofit B-360, an education programme that supports disconnected young people and adults. B-360 makes use of dirtbike culture to build bridges between different communities. During the program participants learn about road safety, the mechanics of bike upkeep, bike customisation and how to use 3D printers. She was awarded a Baltimore Corps Elevation Award to develop the idea, creating a dirtbike version of the X Games. In 2017 Young left her career in engineering to concentrate on B-360, and was supported by the Warnock Foundation. That year she won the Black Girl Ventures first entrepreneurship competition in Baltimore.

She was awarded a 2018 Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Fellow. In 2020 Young was selected as a TED fellow. She will deliver a TED talk at the 2020 TED conference in Vancouver.

Awards and honours 
Her awards and honours include:

 2017 Boss Up Baltimore Black Girl Ventures Pitch Competition
 2018 Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Fellow
 2018 Warnock Foundation Social Innovator of the Year
 2018 Open Society Foundation Baltimore Community Fellow
 2020 TED fellow

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Educators from Baltimore
African-American engineers
TED (conference)
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American people
Ponte dei Mulini, Mantua. The Ponte dei Mulini is the name attached to the mainly man-made separations made across the Mincio River at Mantua, region of Lombardy, Italy. Never truly one "bridge" however the harnessed passage of the water from the upper, Lago Superiore, to the lower Lago di Mezzo, has been utilized by the local inhabitants to power mills for nearly 900 years, and hydroelectric generation in the present.

Circa the year 1188, the architect Alberto Pitentino designed a series of dams to flood the swampy area North and West of the medieval city of Mantua. This set of walls create the Lago Superiore. Use of the kinetic energy of the water flow was directed through at least 12 dozen mills, each named after a separate apostle, built along the dam. Work continued on the structure until 1230. 

During the wars of the Visconti and Gonzaga in the 14th century, one effort was to try to rechannel the Mincio, but the effort failed and a breached dam cause a portion of the structure to be damaged, leading to the construction of a rounded dam called della rota.

At the north end of the bridge, circa 1530, Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua commissioned from Giulio Romano construction of a fortress, Porta Giulia, defending access to the city. It was restored in 1752 by the engineer Antonio Maria Azzalini under the patronage of Empress Maria Teresa. 

In 1851 the Verona-Mantua railway was completed, requiring further railway bridges to be built. Allied bombardment of this rail line in 1944 razed the mills. Presently, the structure has a both track and a major highway SS262. On the northeast flank is a tree-lined bicycle and pedestrian lane. A lock allows for boats to traverse from one side to the other. A covered bridge once emerging from the city is also no longer extant.

References 

Bridges in Lombardy
Buildings and structures in Mantua
Seres SF5. The Seres SF5 is an all-electric/range extender crossover SUV shown by Seres at the Auto Guangzhou in 2019.

Overview

The Seres SF5 was initially unveiled as a concept in 2018 alongside the SF7, however, this was revised to the production SF5 in early 2019. The SF5 has a 17-inch screen on the center console, and is one of the first vehicles to ever utilize the Ali OS 2.0 infotainment system.

The tire dimensions of the SF5 are 255/45 R20 and 255/40 R21. The 2WD model is powered by one motor and the AWD model is powered by two motors with the motor capable of producing a maximum of . The range extended versions is equipped with a SFG15TR 1.5-litre engine producing  as the range extender with the combined fuel consumption of  and  for the 2WD and AWD models.

Mass production version has a price range from 278,000 to 458,000 yuan.

Seres A5 
Seres A5 (or Seres 5 in European market) is the global variant of the Seres SF5.

The exterior design of A5 is very similar to the SF5, with a 10mm increase in length compared to the SF5 and a 5mm reduction in height. The weight of A5 is 2220/2360 kg.

The Seres A5 has a top speed of 180 km/h. The front-wheel-drive model is equipped with a Seres built SEP200 motor and boasts a maximum power of 255 kW, and the dual motor AWD version uses two motors (SEP200 front/SEP201 rear) and reaches maximum power of 405 kW.

The Seres A5 is equipped with phosphate iron lithium battery by CATL, whereas SF5 uses the ternary lithium battery.

Powertrain

AITO M5 

In December 2021 an extensively modified version of the SF5 was presented as the AITO M5. It was developed in cooperation with Huawei. The model was sold under a new brand called Aito, which stands for “Adding Intelligence to Auto”.

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Electric concept cars
Production electric cars
Hybrid electric cars
Plug-in hybrid vehicles
Cars introduced in 2019
Crossover sport utility vehicles
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
All-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars of China
Kibwe Tavares. Kibwe Tavares () is a British filmmaker and architect. He is the co-founder of Factory Fifteen, a studio that uses animation and emerging technologies to understand and explain the built environment. His first short, Robots of Brixton, was awarded the 2011 Royal Institute of British Architects President's Medal. He is a 2020 TED Senior Fellow.

Early life and education 
Tavares was born in South London in the 1980s. He studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture. His first short, Robots of Brixton, which was the outcome of his master's degree, was awarded the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award. The film explored the relationship between architecture, class and race, and showed Brixton as a disregarded area populated by London's future robotic workforce. It was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects President's Medal in 2011. His second film was Jonah, which was inspired by The Old Man and the Sea and one of the official Sundance Film Festival selections. Jonah explored the impact of tourism on Zanzibar.

Career 
In 2011 Tavares and other Bartlett graduates established Factory Fifteen, a studio that uses animation  and emerging technologies to understand and explain the built environment. Factory Fifteen have worked with Samsung, Film4 and Formula One.

Tavares was selected as a TED Senior Fellow in 2020.

Tavares' first short film, Robots Of Brixton (a thesis project for his master’s degree) debuted in 2012, leading him to be nominated for the Grand Jury Prize and winning the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. His second short, Jonah (2013), also premiered at Sundance where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. His third short, Robot + Scarecrow, debuted at the BFI London Film Festival in 2017 where it was nominated for the Best Short Film Award. In 2020, Kibwe directed the original story Aisha and Abhaya for the Royal Opera House, and executive produced the acclaimed adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s book series Nought’s and Crosses for BBC One. Kibwe's feature directorial debut, The Kitchen, will have its World Premiere at the closing night of this year’s BFI London Film Festival.

Filmography 

 2012 Robots of Brixton
 2013 Jonah
 2017 Robot + Scarecrow
 2018 Time Machine
 2023 The Kitchen

Awards and honours 
His awards and honours include:

 2011 Royal Institute of British Architects President's Medal
 2011 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize
 2012 Screen International Stars of Tomorrow
 2013 TED fellow
 2015 Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase
 2020 TED Senior fellow

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Year of birth missing (living people)
British filmmakers
People from London
Alumni of the Bartlett