omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Hong Kah MRT station. Hong Kah MRT station is a future elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Jurong Region line in Tengah, Singapore.

History
On 9 May 2018, LTA announced that Hong Kah station would be part of the proposed Jurong Region line (JRL). The station will be constructed as part of Phase 1, JRL (West), consisting of 10 stations between Choa Chu Kang, Boon Lay and Tawas, and is expected to be completed in 2027.

Contract J103 for the design and construction of Hong Kah Station and associated viaducts was awarded to Eng Lee Engineering Pte Ltd - Wai Fong Construction Pte Ltd Joint Venture (JV) at a sum of S$274.3 million. Construction will start in 2020, with completion in 2027. Contract J103 also includes the design and construction of Corporation station, and associated viaducts.

Initially expected to open in 2026, the restrictions on the construction due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delays in the JRL line completion, and the date was pushed to 2027.

Location
The station will be located within the future Tengah planning area.

The station name is also taken from Hong Kah Village and Hong Kah Constituency, of which it was closed down in 1990s and became an army training facility there. However, there were plans to change the name from Hong Kah to "Tengah Garden" for modernisation.

References

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2027
Dean Snell. Dean Snell is a plastics engineer and designer of many name brand golf balls, including Titleist Pro V1 and TaylorMade TP. He is the founder of Snell Golf, a company where he designs and sells namesake golf ball. He also had a brief career as a professional in the American Hockey League.

Early life and education

Snell attended New Bedford High School before attending University of Massachusetts Lowell on a hockey scholarship. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Plastics Engineering. He later played Junior-A level amateur hockey and then for the  Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League.

Career

Prior to his work in the golf industry, Snell spent time with BF Goodrich in its Aerospace and Defense Division where he worked on F-14 and F-15 fighter jets. He joined Titleist in the late 1980s and developed a number of patents for the company, including for the Pro V1. Snell worked for Titleist for seven years.

Snell left Titleist in 1996 and went to work for TaylorMade where he was vice president of golf ball research and development. When he joined the company, it only had one golf ball patent and no one assigned to ball research and development. He was given freedom within the company which grew to approximately 60 research and developers by 2006. During his time there, he designed the TaylorMade TP golf ball which was used on the PGA Tour by players such as Sergio García and Justin Rose.  He left the company in 2014.

After leaving TaylorMade, Snell began designing his own golf ball line under his new company Snell Golf.

References

External links 
 Dean Snell about page on the Snell Golf website

Living people
American engineers
University of Massachusetts Lowell alumni
Golf people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Taiwania (supercomputer). Taiwania () is a supercomputer series in Taiwan owned by the National Applied Research Laboratories.

History
The supercomputer was activated on 9 May 2018 after a two-year program to establish it with a cost of NT$430 million.

In April 2023, it was unveiled that Taiwania 1 itself will be retired and replaced by Taiwania 4.

Technical specifications
The Taiwania 1 Supercomputer has a memory of 3.4 petabytes with a maximum speed of 1.33 quadrillion FLOPS. The hardware takes up a total area of 33 m2. Taiwania 2 has a maximum speed of 9 PFLOPS.

Taiwania 2

History
The Taiwania 2 supercomputer is a follow on to the Taiwania supercomputer designed by the National Center for High-Performance Computing. Taiwania 2 debuted at 20 on the November 2018 TOP500 and 10 on the Green500.

Technical specifications
Taiwania 2 has a computing capacity of 9 quadrillion floating-point operations per second (9 PetaFLOPS, or 9 PFLOPS). Its hardware consists of 252 nodes, each of which contains two Intel Xeon Gold CPUs and eight NVIDIA V100 GPUs. It runs the CentOS operating system.

Taiwania 3 

Taiwania 3 is one of the supercomputers made by Taiwan. and also the newest one (August, 2021). It is placed in the National Center for High-performance Computing of NARLabs. There are 50,400 cores in total with 900 nodes, using Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU) and using CentOS as Operating System. It is an open access for public supercomputer. It is currently open access to scientists and more to do specific research after get permission from Taiwan's National Center for High-performance Computing. This is the third supercomputer of the Taiwania series. It uses CentOS x86_64 7.8 as its system operator and Slurm Workload Manager as workflow manager to ensure better performance. Taiwania 3 uses InfiniBand HDR100 100 Gbit/s high speed Internet connection to ensure better performance of the supercomputer. The main memory capability is 192 GB. There's currently two Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU) inside each node. The full calculation capability is 2.7PFLOPS. It is launched into operation in November 2020 before schedule due to the needed for COVID-19. It is currently ranked number 227 on Top 500 list of June, 2021 and number 80 on Green 500 list. It is manufactured by Quanta Computer, Taiwan Fixed Network, and ASUS Cloud.

References

See also
Semiconductor industry in Taiwan
Taipei-1 (supercomputer)

2018 establishments in Taiwan
Computer-related introductions in 2018
Science and technology in Taiwan
Supercomputers
Dragan Gasevic. Dragan Gašević is Professor of Learning Analytics at Monash University. He is a researcher in learning analytics and co-developed several software systems such as P3, , LOCO-Analyst, OnTask, OVAL, and ProSolo. He is recognized as Australia's field leader in educational technologies.

Early life and education
Gašević obtained a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Military Technical Academy in Belgrade, Serbia, and a masters in computer science (software engineering) & a doctorate in computer science (artificial intelligence) both from the University of Belgrade. His doctoral supervisor was Vladan Devedžić.

Career
Gašević worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, as Assistant to Full Professor (January 2007 - January 2015) at Athabasca University, as Professor and Sir Tim O'Shea Chair in Learning Analytics and Informatics (February 2015 - February 2018) at the University of Edinburgh, and as Professor of Learning Analytics at Monash University (February 2018 – present). He served as the Canada Research Chair in Semantic and Learning Technologies at Athabasca University (January 2009 - January 2014). He served as Co-Director (Learning Analytics) of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh (November 2015 - February 2018).

Role in Development of Learning Analytics Field

He is a co-founder and was the President (2015-2017) of the Society for Learning Analytics Research. He served as a founding program chair of the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) in 2011 and 2012 and the general chair in 2016 and as a founding program chair of the Learning Analytics Summer Institute in 2013 and 2014. He served as a founding editor of the Journal of Learning Analytics (2012-2017) and as an editor of the Handbook of Learning Analytics.

See also 
Learning analytics
Learning sciences
Educational data mining
Ryan S. Baker
Arthur C. Graesser
George Siemens

References

External links
Dragan Gašević's webpage http://sfu.ca/~dgasevic

1976 births
Living people
University of Belgrade alumni
Academic staff of Monash University
Krauss wildcard-matching algorithm. In computer science, the Krauss wildcard-matching algorithm is a pattern matching algorithm. Based on the wildcard syntax in common use, e.g. in the Microsoft Windows command-line interface, the algorithm provides a non-recursive mechanism for matching patterns in software applications, based on syntax simpler than that typically offered by regular expressions.

History 
The algorithm is based on a history of development, correctness and performance testing, and programmer feedback that began with an unsuccessful search for a reliable non-recursive algorithm for matching wildcards. An initial algorithm, implemented in a single while loop, quickly prompted comments from software developers, leading to improvements. Ongoing comments and suggestions culminated in a revised algorithm still implemented in a single while loop but refined based on a collection of test cases and a performance profiler. The experience tuning the single while loop using the profiler prompted development of a two-loop strategy that achieved further performance gains, particularly in situations involving empty input strings or input containing no wildcard characters. The two-loop algorithm is available for use by the open-source software development community, under the terms of the Apache License v. 2.0, and is accompanied by test case code.

Usage 
The algorithm made available under the Apache license is implemented in both pointer-based C++ and portable C++ (implemented without pointers). The test case code, also available under the Apache license, can be applied to any algorithm that provides the pattern matching operations below. The implementation as coded is unable to handle multibyte character sets and poses problems when the text being searched may contain multiple incompatible character sets.

Pattern matching operations 
The algorithm supports three pattern matching operations:
 A one-to-one match is performed between the pattern and the source to be checked for a match, with the exception of asterisk (*) or question mark (?) characters in the pattern.
 An asterisk (*) character matches any sequence of zero or more characters.
 A question mark (?) character matches any single character.

Examples 
 *foo*  	  matches any string containing "foo".
 mini*       matches any string that begins with "mini" (including the string "mini" itself).
 ???*        matches any string of three or more letters.

Applications 
The original algorithm has been ported to the DataFlex programming language by Larry Heiges for use with Data Access Worldwide code library. It has been posted on GitHub in modified form as part of a log file reader. The 2014 algorithm is part of the Unreal Model Viewer built into the Epic Games Unreal Engine game engine.

See also 
 pattern matching
 glob (programming)
 wildmat

References 

Algorithms
Bionix Radiation Therapy. Bionix Radiation Therapy, LLC is an American medical device company known for manufacturing radiation oncology device.

History
Headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, USA, Bionix Radiation Therapy was founded in 1984 as Bionix Development Corporation by Doctor Andrew Milligan and Doctor James Huttner. In 2016, the companies split to become Bionix Radiation Therapy, LLC and Bionix Development Corporation.

Products and services
Bionix Radiation Therapy, LLC offers medical devices including patient immobilization devices for treating cancer using external beam. The company supplies such devices for cancer clinics, radiotherapy centers and medical oncology practices.

See also
 Radiation therapy

References

Companies established in 1984
Health care companies based in Ohio
Privately held companies based in Ohio
Workhorse SureFly. The SureFly is a two-seat hybrid eVTOL aircraft designed by American truck-manufacturer Workhorse Group, before the program was bought by Moog Inc.  for $5 million in December 2019.

Design
The  hybrid electric has a 200-hp gasoline generator giving up to  range over 1 hour.
It has four propeller arms, each with two electric contra-rotating propellers powered by a gas turbine or piston engine generator along with a battery pack.
Targeting a price of $200,000, it can lift a  payload and includes a ballistic parachute.

The SureFly would operate as a conventional helicopter, like the similarly priced two-seat Robinson R22, but would be easier to fly and safer with its integral parachute.
SureFly has taken refundable $1,000 deposits but does not specify a delivery date, and aims to produce 1,000 per year.

The hybrid design is simpler than a pure gasoline drivetrain by eliminating the gearboxes and rotor linkages of a traditional helicopter, while security is higher through two redundant motors. Each propeller blade is driven directly by an independent electric motor and flight control is achieved by varying the RPM of each blade to achieve thrust vectoring and prevailing torque changes across the vehicle, similar to smaller multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles.
It was later upgraded with a 200-kW generator, a  payload capability and up to  range over 2 hours.

Development

After hundreds of tethered flights testing noise, battery and flight controls, it made a free first flight in spring 2018, reaching four feet during 10 seconds.
Flight tests will expand the flight envelope while FAA type certification advances.
Workhorse intends to spin off SureFly into a separate company, valuing it $33 million.

FAA type certification was applied for in fall 2018.
In October 2018, Workhorse put SureFly for sale and its latest backer, Marathon Asset Management, requires a $4 million liquidity for May 31, 2019.

In December 2019, flight controls specialist Moog Inc. bought the SureFly program for $5 million, interested by the electric power systems more than the aircraft, and will use it as an autonomous demonstrator.

Specifications

See also

References

External links
 

Electric helicopters
Lev Gutkin. Lev Solomonovich Gutkin (; 22 November 1914 – 9 February 2011) was a Russian scientist and a specialist in the field of radio engineering and the theory of radio reception. Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honoured worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and laureate of USSR State Prize.

Biography 
Lev Solomonovich Gutkin was born on 22 November 1914. In 1931 he graduated from Moscow Telephone Technical School. In 1932 he entered and in 1937 graduated to the Electrophysical Faculty of Moscow Power Engineering Institute, majoring in radio engineering. His thesis project was nominated for Academician Petrov Award. He continued his studies at the institute in the Department of Radio Receiving Devices in the development of radio compasses. In 1940, Gutkin defended his Candidate of Sciences thesis, which was dedicated to the issues of superregenerative radio reception.

In July 1941, although having heart disease, he volunteered to serve in Red Army. At the rank of private he fought in a radio company of a tank division in the southwestern direction of the Kalinin Front. He was promoted to the rank of junior lieutenant and was assigned to the post of radio control assistant to the commander of the armored mechanized forces of Kalinin Front. In 1943, the State Defense Committee, on the petition of Valeria Golubtsova, director of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, he was recalled together with the group of young specialists to work there.

After the war, Gutkin led the research work in the institute related to the analysis and development of complex radio engineering systems. This work played a big role in the development of radio engineering in the USSR. In 1952, Gutkn defended his doctoral dissertation, which in 1953 was published in the form of a monograph under the title "Transformation and detection of ultrahigh frequencies". In 1956 he was awarded the academic title of professor.

In 1961, Gutkin was appointed as the head of the newly established Department of Radio Engineering Systems at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and held this position until 1984.

Gutkin contributed to the development of the theory of optimal radio reception methods for complex interference, the theory of optimizing systems and devices for a combination of quality indicators, radio control systems. The theory of optimal radio reception is now widely used in space communications, cellular telephones and in receivers of the satellite radio navigation system Glonass.

He died on 9 February 2011 in Moscow.

References 

Academic staff of Moscow Power Engineering Institute
Moscow Power Engineering Institute alumni
1914 births
2011 deaths
Scientists from Moscow
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Soviet scientists
Saar Polygon. The Saar Polygon in Ensdorf, Saarland is a monument commemorating the coal mining industry in Saarland, which ended in June 2012.

Background 
In Saarland, coal has been mined over several centuries. At times, the industry was the largest employer in the region. In June 2012, the last coal mine, Bergwerk Saar, was closed. Since then, there has been no more coal mining in the Saarland. Nevertheless, the history of the coal mining industry, along with its associated traditions, is part of the region's heritage.

History of the Saar Polygon 

In the setting of the coal mining industry ending, an organization called “Bergbauerbe Saar Association” was founded whose stated purpose is to promote the cultural heritage of mining with the establishment of a landmark that celebrates the contribution that the miners had in the region.

In cooperation with RAG AG, which last operated the coal mining industry in Saarland through its subsidiary, RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG, a design contest for the monument was announced. 147 designs were submitted, and the winner of the competition was the Berlin architect duo Katja Pfeiffer and Oliver Sachse. Their design for a walk-through large-scale sculpture demonstrates multiple mountain motifs as a symbol of change and is intended appear to be a gateway into the future. The meaning behind the design of the steel grid construction is the inseparability the past and future of the country and showing the traditional bond of coal, steel and energy in Saarland.

Construction began in late 2015. The sculpture was completed in the spring of 2016 and was inaugurated in September 2016 and opened to the public. The approximately two million euros in construction costs were financed by the association Bergbauerbe Saar Association, RAG AG, the RAG Foundation, the Saarland state government, and donations. Donors could symbolically buy a step inside the monument for 1000 euros; at each level, a plaque with the name of the donor was placed.

Location 

The Saar Polygon stands on the spoil tip of the Bergwerk Saar coal mine. This pile, with an area of about 50 hectares, rises about 150 meters above the surrounding Saar Valley. Due to its prominent position, the polygon is visible from all directions. France and Luxembourg are visible from the structure.

Description 

The walk-in monument is about 30 meters high. The top of the structure is a platform, which spans approximately 35 meters long and is supported by two slanting towers with exactly 132 steps going up 25 meters. The viewing platform weighs around 60 tons. The Saar Polygon is designed to have a different shape depending on the direction in which it is viewed, such as a rectangular arch, a triangle, an inverted triangle, and an hourglass. Furthermore, it resembles the structures that are used in mines for support.

Awards 
 1st Prize in the International Ideas Competition, May 2011
 Association of German Architects - Award for Architecture and Urbanism in Saarland, 2017
 Industrieverband Feuerverzinken - Prize for Architecture and Metal Design, 2017

References 

Monuments and memorials in Germany
Coal mining
Saarland
2016 establishments in Germany
Yury Borisov (scientist). Yuri Petrovich Borisov (; 1923–2006) was a Russian scientist and a specialist in the field of radio engineering. Professor Borisov was Doctor of Technical Sciences, and Dean of the Radio Technical Faculty of Moscow Power Engineering Institute between 1980 and 1987. Laureate of USSR State Prize (1986).

Biography 
Yuri Petrovich Borisov was born on 1 September 1923. In 1949 he graduated from the Radio Engineering Faculty of Moscow Power Engineering Institute. In 1953 he defended his thesis. From 1980 to 1987 he was the Dean of the Radio Technical Faculty of MPEI, in 1980—1990 he was in charge of the Department of Radio Engineering Systems of the Institute. Professor (1984).

Together with Lev Gutkin he was the founder of the Department of Radio Engineering Systems of MPEI, which was formed in 1961 and headed by Professor  Gutkin. Yuri Petrovich gave lectures on such disciplines as "Fundamentals of radio control", "The use of computers in the study and design of radio systems"; he also was one of the authors of the monograph "Radio control of rockets and space vehicles, published in 1968. In 1967, he wrote a textbook "Fundamentals of Multichannel Information Transmission."

Borisov was a specialist in the field of analog and digital modeling of radio systems and radio devices and researched optimization of radio systems characteristics. His scientific work was resulted in the manual called "Mathematical modeling of radio systems" (1975).

In 1986 he was awarded USSR State Prize "for the great contribution to the creation and development of the statistical theory of radio systems".

References

External links 
 Short biography and photo

Academic staff of Moscow Power Engineering Institute
Moscow Power Engineering Institute alumni
1923 births
2006 deaths
Scientists from Moscow
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
King's College of Engineering. Kings College of Engineering is an engineering college in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India, founded in 2001 by  Raj Educational Trust (RET) and managed by the chief executing officer TRS. Muthukumaar. The college is autonomous and is approved by AICTE, New Delhi.

Campus 
The KCE campus spreads over 50 acres in Punalkulam, Gandarvakottai Taluk, Pudukottai District. KCE was accredited with a B Grade for a period of five years by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in 2016.

Courses

UG courses 

 B.E CIVIL (Civil Engineering)
 B.E CSE (Computer Science Engineering)
 B.E ECE (Electronics and Communication Engineering)
 B.E EEE (Electrical & Electronics Engineering)
 B.E MECH (Mechanical Engineering)

PG courses 

 ME CSE (Computer Science Engineering)
 ME PED (Power Electronics and Drives)
 ME THERMAL (Thermal Engineering)
 ME VLSI (Very-Large-Scale Integration)
Fee Structure

 For Computer Science 55,000 Ruppees Per Year

Activities

References

Colleges in Tamil Nadu
Sergey Mikhailovich Bragin. Sergey Mikhailovich Bragin (; 1894–1965) was a Russian scientist and a specialist in the field of electrical engineering, educator, and a laureate of the USSR State Prize.

Biography 
Sergey Mikhailovich Bragin was born in 1894. He graduated from Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute (now St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University). Since 1922 he worked at Sevkabel plant in Leningrad and at the same time was as a lecturer at Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute. In 1932 he was appointed chief engineer of Soyuzkabel Trust in Moscow. From 1933 to 1938 he was deputy director for technical part at Moskabel plant, and then — chief of the cable department of the Glavtsvetmetobrabotka Trust.

In 1939 he was appointed head of the newly established cable technology department at the faculty of electrical materials of Moscow Power Engineering Institute. Just before his appointment Sergey Bragin was awarded the Stalin Prize for his scientific work. He headed the department until 1961, which under his leadership prepared hundreds of Soviet engineers. During World War II he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his merits in the field of science.

Sergei Mikhailovich Bragin was the author of numerous scientific works, including Electrical and thermal calculation of the cable (1960) and Electrical cable (1955).

He died in 1965 and was buried at Cherkizovskoe Cemetery in Moscow.

References 

Academic staff of Moscow Power Engineering Institute
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University alumni
1894 births
1965 deaths
Engineers from Moscow
Recipients of the Stalin Prize