omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Ahmad S. Dallal. Ahmad S. Dallal () is a scholar of Islamic studies and an academic administrator. He is the current president of The American University in Cairo.

Biography 
Dallal received his bachelor's degree in engineering from the American University of Beirut. He worked in the aviation industry before earning his master's and doctorate from Columbia University.

Dallal taught at Stanford University, Yale University, and Smith College before joining the Georgetown University faculty, where he was an associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies and Chair of Georgetown's Arabic and Islamic Studies department. His research focused on the history of learning and the history of sciences in Islamic societies as well as Islamic thoughts and movements. He delivered the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale University in 2008, titled Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History.

Dallal served as the provost of the American University of Beirut from 2009 to 2015 before returning to teach history at the university. He was named dean of Georgetown University in Qatar in 2017.

In 2021, Dallal was named 13th President of The American University in Cairo. He is the first Arab to serve as president of the university.

Dallal speaks both English and Arabic, and is good at Persian, German and French.

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Living people
American university and college faculty deans
Presidents of The American University in Cairo
Academic staff of the American University of Beirut
Georgetown University faculty
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
American University of Beirut alumni
Historians of Islam
Arab academics
Arab scholars
Year of birth missing (living people)
Deans of Georgetown University in Qatar
Dragan Tomić (IT engineer). Dragan Tomić () was the director of the Microsoft Development Center Serbia – MDCS, vice president of engineering at Microsoft Corporation, and he is one of the founders of the Belgrade Technology Institute.

After several successful decades at Microsoft, Dragan Tomic is leaving the company in May 2023 to focus on a career change.

Education and school competitions 

Dragan has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He started school in Belgrade. In 1992, having finished his third grade of secondary school, he continued his studies in the US as a part of the student exchange program. He graduated in computer science and electrical engineering from Texas Tech University in 1998. He also studied at the University of Washington from 2002 to 2005, obtaining his MBA degree in entrepreneurship and finance. During his studies, he participated in many competitions when he was in secondary school, but especially during his university days. He was a multiple finalist in ACM, a type of world championship in programming. At the University International League (UIL), he won the programming competition for all secondary schools in Texas in 1993. At the regional ACM competitions in 1993–1995, he held 4th to 2nd place. In 1995 and 1996, he was a finalist in the ACM international programming competition. As the coach for the Texas Tech University programming team, he won the first place in the region and was ranked among the first 15 in the finale of the international ACM competition.

Professional career 
His professional career started in 1998, after two years of internship at Microsoft Redmond. After 2006, when he got acquainted with the work of the Microsoft Development Center in Serbia, he joined the team in 2007. At that time, an SQL team was established with only several people, which later became the Azure team. Now, this is the largest team in MDCS and the most important Azure Data team in Europe within the company.

Highlights 
Dragan is passionate about sports and nurtures sportsmanship. He enjoys running, spending time in nature camping, and he spends his winters skiing.

See more 
 Microsoft Development Center Serbia

References

External links

 
 
 

Living people
People from Belgrade
Microsoft Research people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Simon Stiell. Simon Emmanuel Kervin Stiell is a Grenadian politician, serving as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change since August 2022. He indirectly succeeded Patricia Espinosa as the head of the UNFCCC, though Ibrahim Thiaw briefly served on an interim basis. Stiell previously served as Grenada's environment, education, and human resources minister.

Career
Stiell is an engineer and studied for an MBA at the University of Westminster. Prior to his political career, he worked in the technology sector for 14 years outside Grenada. He worked for Nokia and GEC Plessey Telecommunications. Stiell moved back to Grenada after his technology career and established a property development company. He also chaired the country's tourism board and chamber of commerce.

Political career
In 2013, Stiell was appointed to the Senate of Grenada, as a member of the New National Party. He served as a junior minister for agriculture, environment, and human resources development. From 2017 to 2018, Stiell was the cabinet minister of education and human resources development. In March 2018, he was appointed as the country's environment and climate resilience minister. Stiell continued until June 2022, when his New National Party lost a general election.

References

Living people
21st-century Grenadian politicians
Alumni of the University of Westminster
Year of birth missing (living people)
Schock 40. The Schock 40 is an American sailboat that was designed by DynaYacht as a racer and first built in 2000.

Production
The design was built by W. D. Schock Corp in the United States, starting in 2000, with ten boats built, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Schock 40 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a masthead sloop rig with a carbon fiber mast and an aluminum boom, a plumb stem with a retractable  bowsprit and a reverse transom. It uses DynaYacht's patented CBTF (canting ballast twin foil) system, which greatly reduces the amount of ballast required and thus the overall boat weight. The weighted bulb can be canted up to 55 degrees either side of the boat's plumb line, using a hydraulic cylinder which is actuated by an electric motor, button-controlled from the cockpit helm position. It has dual fore-and-aft linked rudders, displaces  and carries  of lead ballast.

The boat has a maximum draft of  with the canting bulb down.

The boat is normally fitted with an outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank also has a capacity of .

The design has a minimalist interior, with stand-up headroom, sleeping accommodation consisting of two settee berths in the main cabin and a fully enclosed head.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker. The boat has a hull speed of .

Operational history
In a 2001 review in Sailing World Peter Danjou wrote, "I test-sailed the Schock 40 in San Pedro, Calif., during the Cabrillo Beach YC's Winter Series and can report the new boat is light, narrow, and very fast. The PHRF rating of -6 for wind-ward/leeward racing only begins to tell the story. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, but this 40-foot displacement boat beat an 18-foot skiff (sailed by Howard Hamlin) to the second weather mark in 12 to 15 knots of breeze."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Keelboats
2000s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by DynaYacht
Sailboat types built by W. D. Schock Corp
Polestar 5. The Polestar 5 is an upcoming high-performance full-size sedan battery electric vehicle (BEV) produced by Swedish automobile manufacturer Polestar, an affiliate of Geely Holding and Volvo Cars. The Polestar 5 is expected to become commercially available in 2025.

Overview
The Polestar 5 was first developed as the 2020 Polestar Precept concept car, and a prototype of the Polestar 5 was displayed in June 2022 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

The Polestar 5 will be built on the brand’s first bespoke EV architecture, developed by the Polestar UK R&D team. The body is made of bonded aluminium, while the interior features materials such as natural fibre composite deco panels made from flax fibre, and 3D-knitted upholstery made from recycled PET – both of which have already made their production debuts in the Polestar 3 and Polestar 4.

Specifications
The dual electric motor powertrain of the Polestar 5 will produce 650 kW (870 hp) and 900 N⋅m (660 lb⋅ft) of torque. The vehicle will be equipped with an 800-volt battery developed and manufactured by SK On.

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5
Upcoming car models
Sports sedans
Nina Thornhill. Nina Frances Thornhill  (born 1953) is a British chemical engineer specialising in process automation. She is a professor emerita in the Imperial College London Department of Chemical Engineering, where she formerly held the ABB/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of Process Automation.

Education and career
Thornhill read physics at the University of Oxford, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1976. She earned a master's degree in control systems in 1983 from the Imperial College London Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and completed her Ph.D. in 2005 through part-time study at University College London.

From 1976 to 1984, she worked in industry at Imperial Chemical Industries and British Aerospace. She returned to academia in 1984, as a lecturer in the University College London Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, where she was promoted to senior lecturer in 1991, and professor in 2003. In 2007 she returned to Imperial College London to take the ABB/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of Process Automation. She retired as professor emerita in 2021.

Recognition
Thornhill was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2009, and is a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control.

Imperial College London gave Thornhill the President's Award for Excellence in Research Supervision in 2017.

Thornhill won the Nordic Process Control Award in 2019, for her "novel contributions in research to developing innovative approaches, tools and methods for process monitoring, fault diagnosis and detection and optimal operation of large-scale production facilities".

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External links
Home page

1953 births
Living people
British chemical engineers
British women engineers
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Alumni of Imperial College London
Alumni of University College London
Academics of University College London
Academics of Imperial College London
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
McDonnell Douglas DC-X-200. The McDonnell Douglas DC-X-200 was a proposed airliner from McDonnell Douglas in the late 70's.

It was based off the McDonnell Douglas DC-10, but with a shortened fuselage and hence smaller capacity. It was a shortened DC-10 (keeping the same fuselage cross-section), with a capacity reduced from 270 to 220 passengers in a 3-class layout, and only two engines under the wings, dropping the DC-10's central tailfin-mounted engine. The engines were General Electric CF6s as in the DC-10, but were planned to be slightly uprated. It addition, the wing was a new design, with a higher aspect ratio and supercritical airfoil. 
It was designed to compete with the Airbus A310 and Boeing 767, developed in the same era and of similar size.

McDonnell Douglas worked with NASA on the aerodynamic design, and wind tunnel testing was conducted. However the project was dropped in the summer of 1978 due to low commercial opportunities.

The NASA report lists the main design features: 
 Length : 43.41 m  
 Wingspan : 46.84 m  
 Height : 15.24 m  
 Wing area : 220 m2 
 MTOW : 132 tonnes
 Engines : Two CF6-45 with 200 kN thrust each

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McDonnell Douglas DC-10
1970s United States airliners
Low-wing aircraft
Bryan Sutherland. Bryan James Sutherland MBE (born 1950) is a British former engineer. For fifty years, he was in charge of operating the world's shortest scheduled airline flight, Loganair's two-minute-long Westray to Papa Westray route in Orkney, Scotland.

He is the airline's longest-serving employee, having worked for Loganair between 1967 and his 2017 retirement.

Career 
Sutherland joined Loganair on 17 July 1967, five years after the airline's formation. Beginning in Kirkwall, he spent a few years in Glasgow before returning to Orkney. He was then asked to set up the airline's base in the Outer Hebrides in 1975. He returned to Orkney permanently in 1978.

He planned to retire at the age of 65, but stayed on for two more years to achieve the fifty-year milestone.

Personal life 
Sutherland is married to Dorothy, with whom he has two daughters: Tracey and Lianne.

He was awarded an MBE in the Queen's 2018 New Year Honours. His nomination was submitted by Liam McArthur, member of the Scottish Parliament for the Orkney Islands.

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Living people
1950 births
Scottish engineers
People from Kirkwall
737 series (JR Hokkaido). The  is an AC electric multiple unit (EMU) commuter train type operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) on services in the Sapporo area of Hokkaido, Japan, since 20 May 2023. The type replaced the fleet of KiHa 143 diesel railcars operated on the Muroran Main Line. The trainsets mark the return of local EMU services on the Muroran Main Line since the retirement of the 711 series from these services in October 2012.

The 737 series is the first commuter train type operated by JR Hokkaido to allow for driver-only operation.

Development and design 
The 737 series is the first aluminium-bodied production rolling stock operated by JR Hokkaido (the front ends are made of steel). Its adoption follows the development of the experimental 735 series (introduced in 2012), which was developed to test the suitability of aluminium bodywork in cold-weather conditions. The weight savings brought on by aluminium were also taken into consideration, as the equipment required to support driver-only operation would otherwise lead to a significant increase in weight.

The sets are painted in a light pink livery inspired by cherry blossoms; the front end is painted black, with green and yellow accents.

Internally, the sets use longitudinal seating throughout. The seats are covered in purple moquette with a dotted design, which JR Hokkaido states was inspired by the blooming flowers in the Hokkaido region. Car 2 features a toilet. The floor height is  lower than that of the KiHa 143 railcars they will replace.

Operations 
The 737 series sets operate between  and  stations on the Muroran Main Line; they will replace the fleet of KiHa 143 diesel railcars, in addition to displacing some H100 series diesel-electric railcars, the latter of which had also been planned to replace all local trains on the Furano Line.

The 737 series also entered service on the Hakodate Main Line (Iwamizawa – Asahikawa) from 16 March 2024, with this series alongside H100 series DEMUs replacing older 721 series EMUs and other diesel cars previously operated in this section.

All sets are based at Sapporo depot.

History 
The first two sets, C-1 and C-2, were delivered in November 2022. The sets were manufactured by Hitachi at its Kasado facility. Training took place in January and February 2023. By April 2023, seven sets had been built. The final six sets, C-8 to C-13, were delivered in May 2023.

The 737 series entered revenue service from 20 May 2023.

Configuration 
All trainsets will be made of 2-car sets with a maximum speed of .

The capacity is listed at 269 passengers per trainset, of which 93 are seated.

References

External links 

 JR Hokkaido press release 

Electric multiple units of Japan
737
Train-related introductions in 2023
Hitachi multiple units
20 kV AC multiple units
Angeliki Pantazi. Angeliki Pantazi is a Greek researcher in neuromorphic computing and in applications of control theory to computer data storage systems, for IBM Research in Zurich.

Education and career
Pantazi studied electrical engineering and computer technology at the University of Patras, where she earned a diploma in 1996 and a Ph.D. in 2005. She has been affiliated with IBM Research in Zurich since 2002, and became a permanent member of the research staff in 2006.

Recognition
Pantazi is a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control. She was named as an IBM Master Inventor in 2014.

She was part of a group of IBM researchers who in 2009 won both the Control Systems Technology Award and the Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society, for their work on nanopositioning in microelectromechanical systems. She was the 2017 winner of the Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award, for "the development of advanced control technologies for magnetic tape data storage and nanopositioning applications".

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External links

1982 births
Living people
Greek engineers
Greek women engineers
University of Patras alumni
IBM employees
Technological supremacy. Technological supremacy is the notion of supremacy in the field of technology in either a regional or global international relations context, as well as in subfields, such as military-technological supremacy, including air supremacy. The notion of one or more powers enjoying technological supremacy is ancient; the term 'technological supremacy' dates back to the 1950s. It is normally understood to be wielded by a superpower, such as the United States, originally in competition with the Soviet Union and now with China. Fields in which technological supremacy is being contested include artificial intelligence; wireless technology; and batteries, especially lithium batteries.

Specifically, China is developing its Little Giants program to rival Silicon Valley, its Made in China 2025 program, a new infrastructure program, its Xinchuang Plan for alternative innovation, its digital currency plan, and its science parks plan. The development and maintenance of technological supremacy is associated with the promotion of technological companies and, in the military field, the relation between technological companies and the military in a country's military-technological complex, including Chinese-style 'military-civil fusion'.

The quest for technological supremacy is frequently depicted in science fiction, such as in Ready Player One.

See also 
 Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
 Gunboat diplomacy
 Military-industrial complex
 Offset strategy
 Technological utopianism

References 

Military doctrines
Schock 55. The Schock 55, also called the Nelson Marek 55, is an American sailboat that was designed by Bruce Marek of the design firm Nelson Marek, as a racer and first built in 1990.

Production
The design was initially built by Geraghty Marine, who built two boats as the Nelson Marek 55, and then by W. D. Schock Corp, who acquired the molds and also built two boats as the Schock 55, with production running from 1990 to 1991.

Design
The Schock 55 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a sharply reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel.

The design has a hull speed of .

Operational history
In a 1991 review in Cruising World by Quentin Warren wrote, "long and lean, carrying a deep keel and a tall rig, the new 55-foot ULDB offered this year by the W.D. Schock Corporation is a striking Bruce Marek design with serious racing potential and a one-design slant."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

Keelboats
1990s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Bruce Marek
Sailboat types built by Geraghty Marine
Sailboat types built by W. D. Schock Corp
Lanthanum diiodide. Lanthanum diiodide is an iodide of lanthanum, with the chemical formula of LaI2. It is an electride, actually having a chemical formula of  La3+[(I−)2e−].

Preparation 

Lanthanum diiodide can be obtained from the reduction of lanthanum(III) iodide with lanthanum metal under a vacuum at 800 to 900 °C:

It can also be obtained by reacting lanthanum and mercury(II) iodide:

It was first created by John D. Corbett in 1961.

Properties 

Lanthanum diiodide is a blue-black solid with metallic lustre, which is easily hydrolyzed into the iodide oxide. It has a MoSi2-type structure, with the space group I4/mmm (No. 139).

References 

Lanthanum compounds
Iodides
Electrides
Substances discovered in the 1960s
Promethium(III) iodide. Promethium(III) iodide is an inorganic compound, with the chemical formula of PmI3. It is a red radioactive solid with a melting point of 695 °C.

Preparation 
Promethium(III) iodide is obtained by reacting anhydrous hydrogen iodide and promethium(III) chloride at a high temperature:

 PmCl3 + 3 HI → PmI3 + 3 HCl

From the reaction of a HI-H2 mixture and promethium oxide (Pm2O3), promethium(III) iodide cannot be produced, and only promethium oxyiodide (PmOI) can be obtained. Promethium oxide reacts with molten aluminum iodide at 500°C to form promethium iodide.

References 

Iodides
Promethium compounds
Lanthanide halides
Marie-Louise Saboungi. Marie-Louise Saboungi is a  Lebanese-born American condensed matter physicist at the Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

Early life and education
Saboungi was born January 1, 1948, in Lebanon. She studied Mathematics and Physics at the Lebanese University in Beirut and obtained a Doctorat d’Etat in Physics at Aix-Marseille University, France in 1973, studying the statistical thermodynamics of molten salts.

Career

After her doctorate, Saboungi joined Argonne National Laboratory and worked there as Senior Scientist until 2002. Following this she was a director at the Centre de Recherche sur la Matière Divisée, CNRS until 2011. From 2007 to 2011 she was also Program Officer at Agence Nationale de la Recherche.

In 2011 she joined IMPMC at Sorbonne University, where she currently works.

She has also been a Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of Orléans in 2002–2011, and was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor in Soochow University in 2014.

Research
Saboungi's work focuses on complex soft materials, including ionic liquids and aqueous electrolytes, with a view to applications in energy and biotechnology.  She also studies silver chalcogenides, which display many fascinating phenomena including fast-ion conduction at higher temperatures, linear magnetoresistance over a broad range of magnetic fields, and topological insulator behavior.

Awards and honours
 1990 – Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
 1991 – Award for Leadership in the Professions, YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago
 1992 – Fellow of the American Physical Society
 2000, 2014 – Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
 2007 – Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
 2014 – Doctor Honoris Causa, University of the Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

Selected publications
Large magnetoresistance in non-magnetic silver chalcogenides, Nature 390, 57–60 (1997), 
Electron distribution in water, J. Chem. Phys. 112, 9206 (2000), 
Improving reinforcement of natural rubber by networking of activated carbon nanotubes, Carbon, 46, 7, June 2008, 1037–1045, 
The Structure of Aqueous Guanidinium Chloride Solutions, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 37, 11462–11470,

References

External links

List of patents

Living people
Condensed matter physicists
Women physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Aix-Marseille University alumni
Pierre and Marie Curie University people
1948 births