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Bzzzt. Bzzzt is a platform game developed by Karel Matějka (KO.DLL) and published in 2023 for macOS, Linux, Windows, and Nintendo Switch. The player controls a small robot in a futuristic environment, mimicking 8-bit arcade video games.

Plot
The game is set in the year 4096. Scientists Emma and Robert dedicated their lives to working on new technologies and the result is artificial intelligence ZX8000. All that remains is to transfer consciousness into the body of a small robot and test all its functions and abilities. Although the original idea of the scientists was good, not everything goes according to plan in the creation of a toaster-sized robot. Testing is interrupted by the villain Badbert. ZX8000 has a difficult task ahead - it must save the scientists and the whole world.

Gameplay 
The game can be played in three different levels of difficulty. The easiest difficulty gives the player three lives per level, crazy difficulty gives player only seven lives for the entire game. There is also normal difficulty. Players can compare their results in global rankings or beat time records for individual levels. Another challenge in the game is collecting points - screws and completing each level with the full number.

With the increasing number of abilities, the robot becomes more and more agile. It can gradually chain double jumps and overcome increasingly difficult obstacles and traps. Completing all 52 levels takes an average of 2.5 - 3.5 hours and is suitable for beginners due to the different difficulties. It is available in nine languages, including Czech.

The robot is controlled in a side-view perspective on either a gamepad or keyboard. For the ability to transfer energy, the robot becomes a spark of ones and zeros that flies, using the arrows on the keyboard is impractical, due to sensitive controls. A gamepad is recommended.

Development
This action retro jumper was created in the workshop of developer Karel Matějka, under the name Ko.dll. He also created the pixel art graphic processing, for which he has been known for a long time. The music was also provided by Martin Linda in collaboration with Matějka. To create the soundtrack, Linda used the Rytmik program that he developed himself. The game was published by CINEMAX s.r.o. and released on 13 November 2023.

The static pixel art background features 1.25 million hand-drawn pixels that took 4 years to create.

Reception
The game has received generally positive reviews holding 91% on Metacritic indicating "Universal Acclaim."

Accolades
1st in INDIE OF THE YEAR on IndianTV - Community Vote
6th place on IndieDB's INDIE OF THE YEAR 2023 - Player Vote
Best Design GDS 2022
Indie Community Vote GDS 2022

References

External links
Official website

2023 video games
Cinemax (video game developer) games
Platformers
Single-player video games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in the Czech Republic
Video games set in the future
Windows games
Wilhelm Schneider (engineer). Wilhelm Schneider (born May 3, 1938) is an Austrian scientist and a specialist in fluid mechanics. He is an is Emeritus Professor of at TU Wien.

Biography and research

Wilhelm Schneider was born in Vienna, Austria in 1938. He graduated with a doctors' degree from TU Wien in 1963. He then worked at the DFVLR till 1968 and then at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a year and then joined the DFVLR in 1969. He moved to TU Wien in 1973 and became an emeritus professor in 2006.

His research contributions are significant in many areas of fluid mechanics and related areas including supersonic and hypersonic flows, radiation gas dynamics, waves in fluids, jets, plumes & shear layers, convection flows, condensation, evaporation, fluidization, electric arcs and other topics. 

He became the corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1989 and a full member in 1995. He also served as the chairman of the academy form 2002 to 2006. He is the receipient of many awards including Ernst Mach prize (1966), Ludwig Prandtl Ring (2005) and others. He became the member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2011.

On his 60th birthday, an edited book titled Recent Advances in Boundary Layer Theory was published by Springer and on his 70th birthday the book

References

1938 births
Living people
Fluid dynamicists
Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
TU Wien alumni
G.K. Stothert & Co. G.K. Stothert & Co was a British engineering company primarily known for shipbuilding and repair founded in 1852 in Bristol, England.

History
The Bristol offshoot of Stothert, Slaughter & Co., which later became Stothert & Pitt, had been set up in St Phillips in 1837 with the hope of gaining orders from the Great Western Railway. By 1844 they had diversified into shipbuilding, producing two 105 ton iron screw steamers named Avon and Severn which were built for running between Newport and Bristol. The railway works part of the company eventually became Avonside Engine Company, and the shipbuilding part moved to Hotwells in 1852. It was officially known as the Clifton Marine Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Works. Under the control of George Kelson Stothert it separated from the parent company in 1855, and partnerships were formed with E.T. Fripp (1855–1859) and R.H. Marten (1859–1862); after that, G. K. Stothert held sole control until 1899. When he died in 1908, the business was established as a limited company carrying his name. The business remained in operation under his name until 1933, although shipbuilding stopped in 1904.

A fire occurred at the yard in 1893; later correspondence states that this destroyed the company's records to that date.

After G. K. Stothert passed away, the obituary written by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers noted that he "...was one of the pioneers of iron shipbuilding in this country".

Location
In 1852, the company took over an existing shipyard adjacent to the Cumberland Basin that had been used by George Lunnell between 1834 and 1851. Their site consisted of slipways, Hotwells Dry Dock (now Pooles Wharf Marina) and Merchant's Dock (now filled in, although the old entrance is still visible).

Vessels 
Several large vessels were built within the first few years of operation, including the Scamander, Meander and Araxes, ranging between 780 and 1156 tons and being built in 1854 and 1855 for the Moss Line of Liverpool.

The company became known for producing river and canal tugs, including a significant number for use on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. This commenced with an initial order for three in 1860 (Moss Rose, 1860, Mayflower, 1861 and Violet, 1862) and ended with a final order for two in 1904 (Active and Victor) which are believed to be the final vessels launched by the company.

The yard numbers the company used seem to have covered all works undertaken, rather than just vessels; Mayflower's current boiler (dating from 1909) is yard No. 303.

References

Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United Kingdom
Defunct companies based in Bristol
Manufacturing companies based in Bristol
Manufacturing companies established in 1852
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1933
Shesha Jayaram. Sheshakamal (Shesha) H. Jayaram is an Indian-Canadian power engineer specializing in high voltage systems, in advanced materials for high-voltage insulation, and in the application of high voltage pulses in food processing. She is a professor and university research chair of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Education and career
Jayaram received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University in India in 1980, and a master's degree in high voltage engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 1983. She came to Canada for doctoral study in engineering at the University of Waterloo, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1990.

After two years as an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario, she returned to the University of Waterloo as a faculty member in 1992. She served as president of the Electrostatics Society of America from 2015 to 2019.

Recognition
Jayaram received the Rajyotsava Prashasti, an award of the Karnataka state of India, in 1998.

She was named an IEEE Fellow in 2008, "for contributions to the use of high voltage in process technology".

The Electrostatics Society of America gave her their Distinguished Service Award in 2020, and their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. She was the 2023 recipient of the IEEE Industry Applications Society Outstanding Achievement Award.

References

External links
High Voltage Engineering Laboratory at Waterloo

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian electrical engineers
Canadian women engineers
Indian electrical engineers
Indian women engineers
Women electrical engineers
Bangalore University alumni
Indian Institute of Science alumni
University of Waterloo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Fellows of the IEEE
Million-Guiet. Million-Guiet was a French coachbuilding company.

History 
The company was founded in 1854 to manufacture carriages in Paris. In 1900, the production of car bodies began. At that time, the company was based in Levallois-Perret. Until 1914, the car bodies were described as old-fashioned.

In 1919, a license was acquired from Gustave Baehr. This made the bodies lighter. These included bodies on chassis by Chenard & Walcker, Hispano-Suiza, Panhard & Levassor, Peugeot and Voisin. 

In 1928 Luis Sanz and M. Mossier took over the company. In January 1930 they acquired a patent from Jean de Vizcaya for the Toutalu construction method and in turn gave a license to D'Ieteren. They used light metal. They built bodies for Alfa Romeo, Bugatti, Citroën, Delage, Hispano-Suiza, Lorraine-Dietrich, Panhard & Levassor and Talbot as well as for a Cord L-29, Lancia Dilambda and Renault Vivastella. Other well-known cars include Ballot, Bugatti Type 46 and Type 50, Farman, Isotta Fraschini, Lincoln, Minerva, Rochet-Schneider, Rolls-Royce and Turcat-Méry.

Their angular design did not harmonize well with the streamlined design that emerged in the 1930s. In 1936, the production of complete bodies ended. 

The company continued to exist manufacturing accessories for some time, until it closed in 1943. 

Between 1950 and 1954, Million-Guiet-Tubauto manufactured buses and trolleybuses under the brands MGT and Tubauto.

Gallery

References 
Coachbuilders of France
French companies established in 1854
Cdial. Centre for Digitization of Indigenous African Languages, CDIAL is a technology company focused on artificial intelligence (AI) for the enterprise, specializing in language models in low-resourced languages, research, and deployment. The organization was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, US with offices in Lagos, Nigeria.

In 2023, CDIAL launched its technology, Indigenius Mobile, a conversational AI platform for multilingual communication and interaction. CDIAL also released its multilingual smart Keyboard designed to enable communication in 180 African languages and allow users to communicate in their native languages.

In May 2023, CDIAL unveiled a dictionary that translates modern words into native languages covering new existing words not contained in native dictionaries.

History 
The organization was officially established in 2021 by three Nigerians, Yinka Iyinolakan, Soji Akinlabi, and Shona Olalere setting out on a mission to localize digital access and digitize indigenous languages, including building technology that businesses can use to deploy customer support agents, chatbots, search engines, copywriting, translation, summarization, and other AI-driven products. CDIAL products include the Indigenius app on Play Store, enterprise API solutions for translation and speech recognition, and hardware systems supporting African languages

Milestones 
In 2023, CDIAL got a $50,000 Prize at Pharrell Williams' Black Ambition third annual demo day competition, in a ceremony held in Tribeca, New York. In 2024, CDIAL received the Innovative and Technology Award presented by Nigeria's vice president,Kashim Shettima on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria as part of its 2024 MSME Day support program, and was listed as part of the first cohort of ten innovative startups by Accelerate Africa, an accelerator program striving to be the Y Combinator of Africa. Google also selected CDIAL for its Cohort 8 Africa accelerator program for startups.

References 

Innovation
Technological change
Organization
Technology
Nigerian companies established in 2021
Red Baron Squadron (Israel). The Red Baron Squadron is a squadron in the Israeli Air Force, which operates Eitan type UAVs from the Tel Nof Airbase. The squadron was established on January 28, 2019 as part of an agreement between the Government of Israel, the Israeli Aerospace Industries and the German Army. It is the only Israeli Air Force squadron without a numerical designation.

Roles
The squadron's role is to train Israeli and German pilots as operators of the Eitan UAV, until the end of the development of the UAV of the German Air Force (variant of the "Eitan"), and then to train them directly on the German UAV. The value of the agreement between the countries is estimated at 900 million Euros, under which the German Air Force will lease seven UAVs for a period of nine years. Five of the UAVs will be used for operational purposes and two more for training  In addition to the lease agreement, a contract in the amount of 170 million euros was decided on for the use of the airport and airspace.

Namesake
The squadron is named after Manfred von Richthofen, a German fighter pilot and fighter pilot during World War I. Manfred, who was identified with a red " Fokker Dr.I " three-wing plane, in addition to being Freiherr, he was nicknamed after the war as "The Red Baron". The name of the squadron was proposed by the Israeli side of the agreement, marking the legacy of the battle of the Red Baron.

Honours

In November 2020, Germany's military attaché in Israel, Colonel Jürgen Hefner, awarded the Cross of Honor to the first squadron commander, Lt. Col. Y (name kept secret).

References

Israeli Air Force squadrons
Germany–Israel relations
Pak-Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology. Pak-Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (abbreviated as PAF IAST) is a public science and technology university located in Mang, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The institute focuses on artificial intelligence, railway engineering, nanotechnology, mineral resources and agricultural technologies. It is the first foreign engineering university in Pakistan and is located about 40 miles from the capital of the country, Islamabad.

History 
In 2005, Atta-ur-Rahman, who was the Chairman of the Higher Education Commission (Pakistan) at the time, presented and secured approval of a Rs250 billion project to establish seven universities centred around Engineering, Science and Technology in collaboration with China and several European countries. These universities were intended to improve the Higher Education sector in Pakistan so as to enable its young population to take part in the global technology sector.

The Chairman was able to enlist the support of two Austrian scholars (Bernd Michael Rode and A Min Tjoa) through his personal contacts, who played a crucial role in the collaboration between the two countries and the establishment of the institute. Three Austrian and five Chinese universities are part of the collaboration.

The foundation stone of the institute was laid on 7 May 2016, by the then Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khattak.

The institute was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan on 17 September 2020.

Campus 
The university is located in a rural, mountainous area and has a naturally formed lake in the middle of campus.

The university has on-campus Wi-Fi, labs, auditoriums, a standard library with cubicles for group discussions and hostels for residential students. For sports and recreation, there are jogging tracks, two grounds for football and cricket, along with badminton and volleyball courts.

Collaborations 
In late 2020 a memorandum of understanding was established between Peshawar Zalmi Foundation and PAF-IAST for skill development and training.

In 2023, the institute and Chengdu University in China launched a joint Mechanical Engineering Technology programme, two years will be spent at the institute in Pakistan and two years will be spent at Chengdu University.

In 2024, a higher education delegation from the United Kingdom visited PAF-IAST for the formation of an international collaboration to "enrich academic experiences and drive innovation in both nations".

See also 
 National University of Sciences & Technology

 Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology

 Higher Education Commission (Pakistan)

 Science and technology in Pakistan

 Supercomputing in Pakistan

References 

Universities and colleges established in 2020
Educational institutions established in 2020
Public universities and colleges in Pakistan
2020 establishments in Pakistan
Public universities and colleges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Elmo Motion Control. Elmo Motion Control is an engineering company specializing in developing, producing, and selling innovative hardware and software solutions in motion control. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Petah Tikva, Israel. On September 4, 2022, Elmo was fully acquired by Bosch Rexroth.

History 
Elmo Motion Control was established in 1988 by Haim Monhait. Four years later, in 1992, the company expanded its operations by opening its first subsidiary in the United States. In 2008, Elmo acquired and merged with Control Solutions (Pitronot Bakara), further solidifying its position in the market. In 2015, the company opened an additional production facility in Warsaw, Poland, to meet the growing demand.

Over the years, Elmo has steadily expanded its global presence by establishing eight additional subsidiaries worldwide. These include operations in China, Europe, and the APAC region. The most recent subsidiary was opened in Singapore in 2019.

Operations 
Elmo employs over 400 personnel and has its headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Petah Tikva, Israel. The company also has worldwide sales and technical support offices and additional manufacturing facilities.

Products and markets 
Elmo offers complete motion control solutions, ranging from design to delivery, including cutting-edge servo drives, network-based multi-axis motion controllers, power supplies, and integrated servo motors. These solutions can be customized, configured, and simulated using Elmo's proprietary software tools, which are designed to be advanced and easy to use. Elmo's products cater to various industries, such as semiconductors, lasers, robots, drones, life sciences, industrial automation, and extreme environments.

Product lines 
Elmo Motion Control provides various servo drives suitable for various motion requirements, from industrial applications that require high precision and power density to extreme applications designed for critical missions in harsh environments. Since its establishment, Elmo has developed three generations of products, each offering servo drives and motion controllers for both industrial and harsh environments. Platinum's latest product line is known for its EtherCAT networking precision and fully certified functional safety in all its products. Elmo's servo-drive product lines comply with global industry standards.

Acquisition by Bosch Rexroth 
In September 2022, Elmo Motion Control was fully acquired by Bosch Rexroth, a leading global supplier of drive and control technologies.

References

External links 
 Official website

Companies based in Petah Tikva
Israeli companies established in 1988
Motion control
2022 mergers and acquisitions
JT38CW-DC. The JT38CW-DC is a new locomotive designed in a project of modernization and repowering of an old GE EMD G16 locomotive, with the request of the Kosovo's national rail company called Trainkos. From the original locomotive only the Westinghouse L26 breaking system and bogies with traction motors were retained.

See also 

 Rail transport in Kosovo

References 

Standard gauge locomotives of Kosovo
Diesel–electric locomotives of Kosovo
Jane Lehr. Jane M. Lehr is an American electrical engineer whose research concerns pulsed power, liquid dielectrics, and ultra-wideband transmission. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Mexico, the former president of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, and a coauthor of the book Foundations of Pulsed Power Technology.

Education and career
Lehr majored in engineering physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where she graduated in 1985. She completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at New York University in 1996.

After working in industry, she became a research engineer for the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1997 to 2002, and then a research physicist at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque from 2002 to 2013, associated with Sandia's Z Pulsed Power Facility. During this time, she was president of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society for the 2007–2008 term.

In 2013, she moved to the University of New Mexico as chair of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Book
Lehr is a coauthor of the book Foundations of Pulsed Power Technology (with Pralhad Ron, Wiley and IEEE Press, 2018).

Recognition
Lehr  was named an IEEE Fellow in 2008, "for contributions to high power switches for generating electromagnetic radiation". She is the 2015 recipient of the Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, given to her "for outstanding contributions to the leadership of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society and the IEEE NPSS Pulsed Power Science and Technology Technical Committee".

References

External links
Aperiodic: Applied Pulsed Energy, Ionization, and Discharge Center, Lehr's laboratory at the University of New Mexico

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women electrical engineers
Stevens Institute of Technology alumni
New York University alumni
Air Force Research Laboratory people
Sandia National Laboratories people
University of New Mexico faculty
Fellows of the IEEE