omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Meeko Oishi. Meeko Mitsuko Karen Oishi is an American engineer and control theorist. She is Gardner Zemke Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico.

Research
Oishi's research focuses on the safety of human-in-the-loop systems for transportation, assistive technology, and robotics, using methods based on stochastic control. She has also studied motor control in Parkinson's disease patients, and the effects of intelligent lighting on circadian rhythms.

She participated with Joan Roughgarden on a controversial paper in Science applying cooperative game theory to sexual selection, later expanded into a book by Roughgarden.

Education and career
Oishi is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She majored in mechanical engineering at Princeton University, graduating in 1998. She went to Stanford University for graduate study in mechanical engineering, where she earned a master's degree in 2000 and completed her Ph.D. in 2004, under the supervision of Claire J. Tomlin.

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the  National Ecological Observational Network and Sandia National Laboratories. She became a faculty member at the University of British Columbia from 2006 to 2011 before moving to her present position at the University of New Mexico in 2011. At the University of New Mexico, she was named Regents' Lecturer for 2015–2018. She was promoted to full professor in 2020, and named Gardner Zemke Professor for 2020–2022.

References

External links
Human-Centered Systems & Control Lab

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Albuquerque, New Mexico
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
American control theorists
Princeton University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
University of New Mexico faculty
Obira Dam. Obira Dam  is a gravity dam located in Hokkaido Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control, irrigation and water supply. The catchment area of the dam is 186.1 km2. The dam impounds about 265  ha of land when full and can store 33200 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1972 and completed in 1992.

References

Dams in Hokkaido
Eiger Express. The Eiger Express is a gondola cableway linking Grindelwald with the Eigergletscher that opened in December, 2020.

History 
The Eiger Express was constructed as part of a wider project known as V-cableway.  This included a new station, Grindelwald Terminal, the replacement of the Männlichen cableway and the construction of the Eiger Express.

The project beginnings were formed back in 2008, when a replacement railway station for Kleine Schiedegg was explored to be underground. It was ultimately not pursued. A later project for a Y cableway was considered but abandoned in 2011. In 2012, the first plans for the V cableway were undertaken and in 2014 a vote took place in Grindelwald to decide if it should be built. The vote did not pass, however a second plan was approved in early 2015.

Planning permission was granted in 2015, however construction did not begin until April 2018 due to 17 objections needing to be rectified. A long running objection was from local man, and former Jungfraubahn employee Otto Kaufman, who demanded £750,000 in compensation. Ground was broken on 3 July 2018, and the project at that point had cost 12million CHF. In March 2019, tunnelling works on the Eiger were completed to allow for progress to continue during the year constructing the new station for Eigergletscher and skiing areas. From May 2020, the gondolas were constructed for the Eiger Express.

In December 2020, the Eiger Express opened.  Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the opening was a very limited attendance event with several executives and two eagles in attendance.

Operation 

The Eiger Express takes 15 minutes in total duration, travelling at 8 meters per second across a total distance of 6483 meters. The Eiger Express allows a faster access to the Jungfraujoch summit by 47 minutes.  There are 44 gondolas, that can hold a maximum of 26 people. In addition, there is a VIP gondola numbered 888 which features a champagne bar in the centre of the cabin. There is a capacity of 2,200 people per hour to be transported.  Due to the tri-cable system, there are only seven towers on the route, and the gondolas pass within 1800 meters of the Eiger north face.

Upon arrival at the gondola station, there is a new passenger hall that has been constructed to connect to the Eigergletscher railway station. Transfers to the Jungfraujoch train can be made, alongside exits for walkers and skiers. There is a bistro within the new building.

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Bernese Oberland
Gondola lifts in Switzerland
Grindelwald
Transport in the canton of Bern
Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group
Hermann Josef Schnell. Hermann Schnell ( 16. September March 1916 – 7 September 1999) was a German organic chemist who developed the first commercial polycarbonate, Makrolon.
Hermann Schnell studied chemistry at the University of Freiberg. His supervisor was Hermann Staudinger a well-known polymer chemist.

After his phd he worked in the research laboratory of the Bayer AG in Uerdingen, starting in 1946. In 1953 he developed the synthesis of polycarbonates by reacting phosgene with bisphenol A. This material marketed as Makrolon was a commercial success.

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1916 births
1999 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
20th-century German chemists
German organic chemists
Polymer scientists and engineers
List of bridges known for strikes. This is a list of bridges and overpasses whose low clearance causes a notable amount of accidents, also known as bridge strikes. Simply being struck by a vehicle is not criteria for inclusion on this list. To be included, the bridge should have a notable history of strikes.

Many countries establish minimum standards for the structure gauge of bridges. For example, the United States requires a height of 14 feet (4.27 m) for highway bridges. Some vehicle standards are made to conform to these expectations. In much of the United States, the maximum height of a semi truck, in the absence of an approved overheight permit, is 13 feet, 6 inches (4.12 m). Some bridges were built before the adoption of these standards, and are undersized. Accidents involving these bridges have spurred mitigation efforts, such as installing sensors and signs that warn drivers. These efforts do not entirely eliminate strikes, prompting some efforts to increase the clearance height.

Viral videos of bridge strikes have generated substantial public interest. One of the most famous examples of this is the Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass, also known as the "11foot8" bridge, which was popularized by a YouTube channel.

Bridges 

The bridges are listed in no particular order.

References 

Strikes
Road hazards
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Theresa Utlaut. Theresa Lynn (Teri) Utlaut is an American statistician, and a principal engineer at Intel Corporation, where she develops statistical methods for Intel's microprocessor and integrated circuit manufacturing processes, as well as providing statistical consultation and training. She is also a user of the JMP statistical software package and its scripting language, and a coauthor of the book JSL Companion: Applications of the JMP® Scripting Language.

Education and career
Utlaut was an undergraduate at the University of Portland. She completed a Ph.D. in statistics at Oregon State University in 1999, with the dissertation F-Tests in Partially Balanced and Unbalanced Mixed Linear Models supervised by David S. Birkes.

While a student, she worked at Intel as a summer intern for three summers, and she joined Intel permanently after completing her Ph.D.

Service
Utlaut chaired the Quality and Productivity Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2013. She was elected as chair of the ASA Council of Sections Governing Board in 2016, and in the same year chaired the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality. In 2021-2022 she chaired the ASA Committee on Membership Retention and Recruitment.

Recognition
Utlaut was named a Fellow of the American Society for Quality in 2020, "for outstanding leadership and accomplishments in implementing quality and process improvement projects; for extraordinary commitment to the development and teaching of courses; for exceptional dedication while mentoring others; and for the passionate promotion of quality and statistics". In 2022 she was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
American women statisticians
University of Portland alumni
Oregon State University alumni
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Interak. Interak is a range of Z80 based CP/M computers from Greenbank Electronics a small UK producer of Z80-based computers in the early 1980s based in Liverpool.

The system was a rack back system that allowed the purchase of individual boards to expand the system. The bus is of Interak's own design.

References

Computer-related introductions in 1982
Z80-based home computers
Personal computers
Computers designed in the United Kingdom
Josef Kareis. Josef Kareis (14 February 1837 – 12 May 1913) was an Austrian electrical engineer and politician.

Biography
Kareis was born into a Jewish family in Semice, Bohemia, and studied engineering at the Prague Polytechnical Institute. From 1858 till 1896 he was in the service of the state, first in the department for triangular survey in Tyrol and Croatia until 1863, and thereafter as a telegraph operator in various provinces across Austria. When electrotechnics first became known, Kareis devoted himself to its study, and from 1883 to 1896 edited the Zeitschrift für Elektrotechnik. He also wrote several treatises on the subject, founded the Elektrotechnische Verein in Vienna, and busied himself with many undertakings along this line. He represented his native country in 1883 as secretary of the  in Vienna, and in 1889 as vice-president of the International Electrotechnical Congress in Paris.

From 1890 to 1896 Kareis represented Leopoldstadt in the city council. In the 1897 legislative election he was elected delegate from the same district to the Reichsrath, which position he held until 1900.

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1837 births
1913 deaths
Academic journal editors
Austrian electrical engineers
Jews from the Austrian Empire
Jews from Bohemia
Czech Technical University in Prague alumni
Members of the Imperial Council (Austria)
Jewish Austro-Hungarian politicians
Jewish engineers
People from Leopoldstadt
Surveyors
Engineers from Austria-Hungary
Sulemanu Koney. Sulemanu Koney is a Ghanaian engineer and mining executive. He is the chief executive officer of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, and the executive director of the ECOWAS Federation of Chambers of Mines.

Early life and education 
Koney had his secondary education at the Accra Academy. Following his secondary education, Koney proceeded to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering. He later enrolled at the Maastricht School of Management for his master's degree in international business. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in marketing which he obtained from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the United Kingdom.

Career 
Koney began at the marketing department of Shell Energy (now Vivo Energy Ghana Limited) as the head of technical sales with focus on lubricants. He later gained appointment as the retail business manager for the West African Sub-region, but opted to join the Ghana Chamber of Mines in the year 2000. There, he worked as the director of analysis, research and finance for a period of thirteen years. In 2014, he was appointed acting CEO and later, substantive CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Mines. In 2016, upon the founding of the ECOWAS Federation of Chambers of Mines (EFEDCOM), he became the chamber's first executive director.

Koney is a member of the board of the National Petroleum Authority and chairs the agency's Technical Committee. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI).

Honours 
In 2020, Koney was awarded an honorary doctorate degree (Doctor of Science (DSc) honoris causa) by the University of Mines and Technology (UMAT).

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the Accra Academy
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology alumni
Ghanaian chief executives
21st-century Ghanaian engineers
OpFires. Operational Fires (abbreviated as OpFires) is a hypersonic ground-launched system developed by DARPA for the United States Armed Forces. The system deploys a boost glide vehicle. The prime contractor for the program is Lockheed Martin. The missile's range is thought to be up to 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers).

OpFires intends to produce a medium-range hypersonic missile that is cheaper and with less range than the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) to strike larger numbers of targets at operational ranges. It will reuse the glide body from the AGM-183 ARRW. The unique aspect of OpFires is use of a "throttleable" rocket motor, where thrust can be turned off at a desired point mid-flight instead of needing to wait until all fuel is burned to make it better able to hit a short-range target.

History
The system was successfully tested in July 2022 from a Palletized Load System-based launcher vehicle at White Sands Missile Range. The system achieved all test objectives, including first ever use of a U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) logistics truck as a medium-range missile launcher, missile canister egress, stable flight capture, and use of U.S. Army inventory artillery fire control systems to initiate the test mission. Lockheed Martin built the system, which includes a Northrop Grumman rocket motor, and conducted the test.

See also 
Pershing II (similar range)
Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon
AGM-183 ARRW
Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept

References 

Military research of the United States
Medium-range ballistic missiles of the United States
DARPA projects
Lockheed Martin
Carbon (programming language). Carbon is an experimental programming language designed for connectiveness with C++. The project is open-source and was started at Google. Google engineer Chandler Carruth first introduced Carbon at the CppNorth conference in Toronto in July 2022. He stated that Carbon was created to be a C++ successor. The language is expected to have an experimental MVP version 0.1 in 2025 and a production-ready version 1.0 after 2027.

The language intends to fix several perceived shortcomings of C++ but otherwise provides a similar feature set.
The main goals of the language are readability and "bi-directional interoperability" (which allows the user to include C++ code in the Carbon file), as opposed to using a new language like Rust, that, whilst being influenced by C++, is not two-way compatible with C++ programs. Changes to the language will be decided by the Carbon leads.

Carbon's documents, design, implementation, and related tools are hosted on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license with LLVM Exceptions.

Example
The following shows how a program might be written in Carbon and C++:

See also

 Comparison of programming languages
 Timeline of programming languages
 C++
 D
 Go
 Rust
 Ring
 Mojo
 V

References

External links 
 
 Carbon at the Compiler Explorer (godbolt)

Google
Programming languages
Statically typed programming languages
Cross-platform software
Object-oriented programming languages
Programming languages created in 2022
Google software
Lunar Cruiser. The Lunar Cruiser is the nickname of a crewed pressurized lunar rover being developed jointly by JAXA and Toyota that astronauts can drive and live on the Moon.

Mobile Habitat
The Lunar Cruiser is being developed as a part of NASA's Artemis program and will enable astronaut crews to take trips across the Moon lasting up to 30-45 days, live independently from the station by using its life support system as a backup. Named after the Toyota Land Cruiser, its name was chosen "because of the familiar feeling it offers the people involved in the development and manufacture of the vehicle prototype as part of the joint research project as well as the familiarity it will provide the general public." The rover is currently being manufactured, with an expected launch date no earlier than 2032. The rover itself will use fuel-cell electric-vehicle technologies. An update by the development team in late 2023 indicated the very first cruiser would be deployed along with the first moonbase. Mitsubishi is helping develop the hydrogen electrolysis unit due to its development in new maritime technology.

References

External links

Lunar rovers
Missions to the Moon
Satin (codec). Satin is a lossy speech codec developed by Microsoft. Satin was designed to supersede the earlier Silk codec in their applications, and implements a neural network and novel signal processing to improve performance over its predecessor.

Features 
Satin is designed to deliver good sound quality despite limited bandwidth or high packet loss, such as over unreliable WiFi or cellular networks. Satin can produce output bitrates of 6 to 36 kbps, and operates on super-wideband audio (a 32 kHz sampling rate). Sound is encoded by processing a sparse representation of the input, then decoded with the help of a neural network that infers the high frequencies from the low ones. Because neural networks are computationally complex, optimization and vectorization of the network were required to achieve acceptable performance. To improve resilience to packet loss, each packet is encoded independently and the codec has its own packet loss concealment system.

History 
Silk was developed by Skype and can compress wideband speech in 14 kbps. Satin is considered to be Silk's successor, and was initially announced and implemented for Microsoft Teams in 2020. As of February 2021, it was used for all two-way calls in both Teams and Skype. According to Microsoft, a future release will add support for music in full-band stereo at bitrates of at least 17 kbps.

Quality 
Microsoft claims that Satin's quality is significantly better than Silk, achieving mean opinion scores up to 1.7 points higher in low-bitrate A/B testing. Microsoft also notes that Satin's bitrate savings allows for sending more redundant data to increase resistance to packet loss.

Support 
As of February 2021, Skype and Microsoft Teams implemented Satin for all two-person calls, and an expansion to larger Teams meetings was planned.

References

External links 

 Satin: Microsoft's latest AI-powered audio codec for real-time communications with a demonstration

See also 

 Lyra (codec), an AI-based codec by Google
 Videotelephony

Lossy compression algorithms
Proprietary software
Microsoft software
2020 software
Speech codecs
Alto Tâmega Dam. Alto Tâmega Dam () is a concrete double curvature arch dam on the Tâmega River. It is located in the municipalities of Ribeira de Pena and Vila Pouca de Aguiar, in Vila Real District, Portugal.

It is part of the wider Tâmega Electricity-Generating Group formed of 3 dams and 3 plants

Iberdrola signed a 70-year concession with the Government of Portugal in July 2014 for the design, construction and operation of three projects: Alto Tâmega, Daivões and Gouvães dams.

Construction of the dam will be completed in 2024.

Dam
Alto Tâmega Dam is a 106.5 m tall and 334 long double-curvature concrete.

Reservoir
The reservoir surface area for the dam has 7.4 km2.

Power plant 
The generating unit of the dam consists of two 80MW turbine units with a maximum flow rate of 200m³/s producing 139GWh of electricity a year. The dam contains two lateral spillways with combined discharge capacity of 1,825m³/s, which protect the dam from over-topping.

See also

 List of power stations in Portugal
 List of dams and reservoirs in Portugal

References

Dams in Portugal
Hydroelectric power stations in Portugal
Dams completed in 2022
Energy infrastructure completed in 2022
2022 establishments in Portugal
QLattice. The QLattice is a software library which provides a framework for symbolic regression in Python. It works on Linux, Windows, and macOS. The QLattice algorithm is developed by the Danish/Spanish AI research company Abzu. Since its creation, the QLattice has attracted significant attention, mainly for the inherent explainability of the models it produces.

At the GECCO conference in Boston, MA in July 2022, the QLattice was announced as the winner of the synthetic track of the SRBench competition.

Features
The QLattice works with data in categorical and numeric format. It allows the user to quickly generate, plot and inspect mathematical formulae that can potentially explain the generating process of the data. It is designed for easy interaction with the researcher, allowing the user to guide the search based on their preexisting knowledge.

Scientific results
The QLattice mainly targets scientists, and integrates well with the scientific workflow. It has been used in research into many different areas, such as energy consumption in buildings, water potability, heart failure, pre-eclampsia, Alzheimer's disease, hepatocellular carcinoma, and breast cancer.

See also
 Symbolic regression
 Explainable artificial intelligence

References 

Data mining and machine learning software
Free data analysis software
Big data products
2020 software
Daivões Dam. Daivões Dam () is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Tâmega River. It is located in the municipalities of Ribeira de Pena and Cabeceiras de Basto, in Vila Real and Braga Districts, respectively, Portugal and it is part of the wider Tâmega Electricity-Generating Group formed of 3 dams and 3 plants

Iberdrola signed a 70 year concession with the Government of Portugal in July 2014 for the design, construction and operation of three projects: Alto Tâmega, Daivões and Gouvães dams.

Construction of the dam completed in July 2022.

Dam
Daivões Dam is a 77.5 m tall, 264 m long dam.

Reservoir
The reservoir surface area for the dam has 1.76 km2.

Power plant 
The generating unit of the dam consists of two 57 MW Francis turbine units with a maximum flow rate of 220m³/s and a small 4.1 MW unit to turbine the ecological flow, producing 159 GWh of electricity a year.
The spillways are located over the dam and consist of four radial gates with a width of 11.5 m and height of 9 m each with a maximum discharge capacities of 3,400 m³/s.

See also

 List of power stations in Portugal
 List of dams and reservoirs in Portugal

References

Dams in Portugal
Hydroelectric power stations in Portugal
Dams completed in 2022
Energy infrastructure completed in 2022
2022 establishments in Portugal
Iberdrola