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Italian destroyer Lanzerotto Malocello. Lanzerotto Malocello was one of a dozen s built for the  (Royal Italian Navy) in the late 1920s. Completed in 1930, she served in World War II.

Design and description
The Navigatori-class destroyers were designed to counter the large French destroyers of the   and es. They had an overall length of , a beam of  and a mean draft of . They displaced  at standard load, and  at deep load. Their complement during wartime was 222–225 officers and enlisted men.

The Navigatoris were powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam supplied by four Odero-Terni-Orlando water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce  and a speed of  in service, although the ships reached speeds of  during their sea trials while lightly loaded. They carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of  at a speed of .

Their main battery consisted of six  guns in three twin-gun turrets, one each fore and aft of the superstructure and the third amidships. Anti-aircraft (AA) defense for the Navigatori-class ships was provided by a pair of  AA guns in single mounts abreast the forward funnel and a pair of twin-gun mounts for  machine guns. They were equipped with six  torpedo tubes in two triple mounts amidships. The Navigatoris could carry 86–104 mines.

Construction and career
Lanzerotto Malocello was laid down by Gio. Ansaldo & C. at their Genoa-Sestri Ponente shipyard on 30 August 1927, launched on 14 March 1929 and commissioned on 18 January 1930.

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 Lorenzotto Malocello Marina Militare website

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Italian destroyer Antonio da Noli. Antonio da Noli was one of a dozen s built for the  (Royal Italian Navy) in the late 1920s. Completed in 1931, she served in World War II.

Design and description
The Navigatori-class destroyers were designed to counter the large French destroyers of the   and es. They had an overall length of , a beam of  and a mean draft of . They displaced  at standard load, and  at deep load. Their complement during wartime was 222–225 officers and enlisted men.

The Navigatoris were powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam supplied by four Odero-Terni-Orlando water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce  and a speed of  in service, although the ships reached speeds of  during their sea trials while lightly loaded. They carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of  at a speed of .

Their main battery consisted of six  guns in three twin-gun turrets, one each fore and aft of the superstructure and the third amidships. Anti-aircraft (AA) defense for the Navigatori-class ships was provided by a pair of  AA guns in single mounts abreast the forward funnel and a pair of twin-gun mounts for  machine guns. They were equipped with six  torpedo tubes in two triple mounts amidships. The Navigatoris could carry 86–104 mines.

Construction and career
Antonio da Noli was laid down by Cantieri del Tirreno at their Riva Trigoso shipyard on 25 July 1927, launched on 21 May 1929 and commissioned on 29 December.

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 Antonio da Noli Marina Militare website

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Helen Chan Wolf. Helen Chan Wolf is an artificial intelligence pioneer who worked on facial recognition technology and Shakey the robot, the world's first autonomous robot, at SRI International.

Career 
In the early 1960s, Wolf worked with Charles Bisson and Woody Bledsoe at Panoramic Research to train computers in recognising human faces (so-called automated facial recognition). Early computer programs used humans to coordinate a set of features from images of faces and then a computer for the recognition. These features included things such as the positions the inside and outside corners of eyes and mouth. Operators such as these could process around forty pictures an hour.

Wolf joined the Artificial Intelligence group at SRI International (then Stanford Research Institute) in 1966. At the SRI Chan was part of the Application of Intelligent Automata to Reconnaissance project. Here she worked on Shakey the robot, the world's first mobile autonomous robot, which was honoured by an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Milestone in 2017. Shakey used artificial intelligence, making its own plans, navigating between places and improving through learning. Wolf developed the algorithms that extracted coordinates from images. Before Shakey, there were no efforts to integrate artificial intelligence and robotics into a single moving vehicle.

Selected publications 
Her publications include:

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Helen M. Chan. Helen M. Chan is the New Jersey Zinc Professor at Lehigh University. Her work considers the development of ceramic-metal nanocomposites. She is on the board of directors of the American Ceramic Society.

Early life and education 
Chan was born in London and grew up in Northamptonshire. Her parents emigrated from Hong Kong. She attended an open day at Imperial College London where she saw a demonstration involving liquid oxygen and became interested in materials science. She studied materials science at Imperial College London. She received an academic scholarship and was awarded the Governor's Prize for outstanding academic performance in 1979. She was made a doctoral student at Imperial College London and in 1982 employed by the Department of Materials a postdoctoral researcher. Whilst a PhD student Chan attended a scientific conference in Denmark, where a bus driver remarked "teaching a woman science, one might as well teach a telegraph pole". Chan has described London as her favourite city.

Research and career 
Chan joined the faculty at Lehigh University in 1986. Soon after she was appointed to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where she worked in the Mechanical Properties Group of the Ceramics Division. She returned to Lehigh University in 1988, made Associate Professor in 1991 and Full Professor in 2005. In 2006 she was made Chair of the Department of Materials Science.

Chan's research considers the structure and material properties of nanocomposites. She uses reactive processing to create unique ceramic structures, which include cellular and nanopatterned materials. She has investigated how dopants and interfacial chemistry affect diffusion limited processes in ceramics. Chan is interested in manipulating the nanostructure of ceramic-metal composites to control their magnetic and electric properties. The oxidation rates of high temperature alloys can be controlled using reactive elements such as Yttrium and Hafnium. 

She was awarded a Fulbright Program scholarship to spend a year at the Graz University of Technology. In September 2019 Chan was elected to the board of directors of the American Ceramic Society.

Awards and honours 
Her awards and honours include:

 1986, 1990, 1992, 1999 and 2017 American Chemical Society Roland B. Snow award
 1990 Alfred Noble Robinson Award
 1991, 1992 and 2007 Lehigh University Service Teaching Excellence Award
 1992 ASM International Bradley Stoughton Award
 1999 New Jersey Zinc Professor
 2005 Elected Fellow of the American Ceramic Society
 2005 Lehigh University Prize for Excellence in Research
 2011 Elected Chair of the University Materials Council

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Chan is an editor of Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

Personal life 
Chan is married with two children.

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Peter Brenner. Rolf Peter Brenner (December 14, 1937 – March 31, 2019) was a Swiss civil engineer and geologist specialized in soil mechanics.

Life 
Brenner graduated in civil engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 1962. He gained first professional experience at the construction company Conrad Zschokke in Geneva followed by work for Dames & Moore in San Francisco, California (later merged with URS Corporation). From 1966 to 1971, he studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, in the field of soil mechanics. His doctoral thesis entitled Hydrologic model study of a forested and a cutover slope was accepted in 1971. Following his promotion, he returned to Switzerland. There, he worked for the Research Institute of Military Constructions in Zurich, where he carried out studies on the effect of nuclear explosions on soil and underground shelters.

From 1974 until 1981, he was a faculty member in the Division of Geotechnical Engineering and the Director of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok, Thailand. During his term he educated many Master students from countries in Southeast Asia.

After his return to Switzerland, he worked for Electrowatt Engineering (later known as Pöyry Switzerland) in Zurich. From 1997 onwards, he was an independent geotechnical and dam engineering consultant.

Brenner was involved in dam projects worldwide for almost 30 years. Projects included the Atatürk Dam in Turkey and the Mosul Dam in Iraq, two of the largest rockfill dams in the world. Besides dams, he was involved in geotechnical analysis for the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok and the foundation design of the 372 m high Liberation Tower (Kuwait). He was called to inspect damages of earthquakes to dams such as the Sefidrud Dam or several dams in China damaged by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.

Brenner was chairman of the Committee on Dam Foundations of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD). He was a member of the ICOLD Committee on Embankment Dams as well.

Honors 
 Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
 Fellow Geological Society of London

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Jonathan Sykes (engineer). Jonathan Sykes is an Engineering Services Manager at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sykes graduated from the University of Arizona in 1982 and since that time has worked in electric power industry at System Protection and Test and at Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco, California, where he also served as senior manager. During the 1990s, he was with RTU/SCADA systems in Arizona and in 2000 became an inventor of IEC 61850 Generic Object Oriented Substation Events messaging. In 2019, Sykes became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has served as secretary of the IEEE Power and Energy Society.

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Fusion Specialties. Fusion Specialties is an American company and manufacturer of mannequins.

Founded in Huntington Beach, California in 1986 by Jim Talaric and Jim Barber, the company pioneered new methods of manufacture using polymers (an urethane elastomer) rather than fiberglass, as well as the 2010s trend to begin having lines of fuller-figured and more natural body sizes.  Talaric is considered a "trendsetter in manufacturing and durability" of mannequins, who followed in the footsteps of Adel Rootstein, an earlier pioneer in mannequin manufacturing.  Judy Townsend, a collector and broker of antique mannequins, has called Talaric "the Henry Ford" of mannequin manufacturing; while "Rootstein is the Rolls-Royce".

The company won their first big retail client, The Limited, in 1990. The company moved from California to Colorado in 1991, at a time that it employed 35 people. By 2006, the company was producing more than 50,000 mannequins per year, with 110 employees, and their clients included Victoria's Secret, Banana Republic, REI, Chico's, The Gap, and Old Navy.  Retail industry DDI Magazine said that, "If they're not the largest [in the industry], they're certainly one of the largest."

In 2007, the company was acquired by private equity firm Blue Sage Capital of Austin, Texas.

, the company makes a variety of custom-designed mannequins to fit the particular clothing product lines of designers and stores, a practice that has substantially reduced costs for large department stores, as well as played a role in the industry changes that no longer require the specialty mannequin dresser job.  It employs several fine-art trained artists as sculptors to make the many custom models they produce for various clothing product retailers.  The company is currently owned by "Noa Brands Global, a holding company headquartered in Barcelona, Spain." The company manufactures in China, Mexico and Westminster, Colorado.

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University of Iowa College of Engineering. The University of Iowa College of Engineering is one of twelve academic colleges in The University of Iowa.

The college comprises six distinct departments: biomedical, chemical and biochemical, civil and environmental, electrical and computer, industrial and systems, and mechanical engineering. It provides comprehensive educational programs leading to the attainment of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.

Eight alumni are members of the National Academy of Engineering.

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Sonia Aïssa. Sonia Aïssa is a professor in the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) of the Université du Québec, in the INRS Research Centre for Energy, Materials, and Telecommunications. Aïssa earned a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering in 1998 from McGill University, following which she joined the INRS.

Aïssa was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2019, "for contributions to design and performance analysis of cognitive radio and cooperative communication systems".

Her current research interests include modeling, design and performance analysis of wireless communication systems and networks.

She currently serves as an Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications as of 2019.

She also is a member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Background: 1996 to 1997, Aïssa was a Researcher with the Department of Electronics and Communications of Kyoto University of Japan, and with the Wireless Systems Laboratories of NTT, Kanagawa, Japan.

From 1998 to 2000, Aïssa was a research associate at INRS-EMT in Montreal. Then from 2000 to 2002, while she was an assistant professor, she was a Principal Investigator in the major program of personal and mobile communications of the Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research (CITR), leading research in radio resource management for wireless networks. From 2004 to 2007, she was an adjunct professor with Concordia University, Montreal. In 2006, she was Visiting Invited Professor with the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan. Her research interests lie in the area of wireless and mobile communications, and include radio resource management, cross-layer design and optimization, design and analysis of multiple antenna (MIMO) systems, cognitive and cooperative transmission techniques, and performance evaluation, with a focus on Cellular, Ad Hoc, and Cognitive Radio networks.

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Gayle Laakmann McDowell. Gayle Laakmann McDowell (born 1982) is a software engineer and author. She is the author of the career development book Cracking the Coding Interview.

Education 
McDowell was educated at the Episcopal Academy and the University of Pennsylvania where she was awarded Bachelor of Engineering (BSE) and Master of Engineering (MSE) degrees in Computer Science in 2005.

Career 

After working as a software engineer for Google she joined a small venture capital-funded startup company as the Vice President (VP) of engineering before being awarded a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. McDowell subsequently founded her own business, CareerCup.com, which helps people prepare for interviews at tech companies.

First self-published in 2008, her book Cracking the Coding Interview provides guidance on technical job interviews, and includes solutions to example coding interview questions.  As of 2015, the book was in its sixth edition and have been translated into seven languages.

McDowell has also written the books Cracking the PM Interview (for product managers: PMs), Cracking the PM career and Cracking the Tech Career. Coverage of her books include The New York Times, The Guardian, 
The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and Fast Company.

McDowell gave the graduation speech at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science Masters Commencement in 2016.

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AAC Technologies. AAC Technologies Holdings, Inc. (), or AAC Technologies in short form, is a civilian-run enterprise founded in 1993 and headquartered in Shenzhen, PR China. It engages in the manufacture and distribution of miniaturized acoustic components.

AAC Technologies designs, develops and manufactures a broad range of miniaturized components that include speakers, receivers and microphones in the acoustic segment. It produces these components for mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, wearables, ultrabooks, notebooks and e-readers.

AAC Technologies is one of the main suppliers of Apple Inc.

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Terry Fossum. Terry Fossum is an American actor and businessperson. He is best known as the winner of the 2017 reality television series Kicking and Screaming. Fossum is an author and does business training and speaking engagements.

Biography 
Fossum was born in Mission, Texas but raised in McAllen, Texas as one of three brothers, during which time he joined the Boy Scouts of America, where he became an Eagle Scout. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University while serving in the Corps of Cadets, following which Fossum became an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He also became the Officer of the Year for the Fairchild Air Force Base and was the Executive Officer for a Group of Nuclear B-52 Bombers.

After the Air Force Fossum founded sales company and the Terry L. Fossum Learning Center in Rwanda. he also started the Terry L. Fossum Scholarships for Underprivileged Youth in McAllen, Texas; providing agricultural training for Malawi, Africa in 2018.

Television 
In 2017, Fossum appeared on Fox reality television series Kicking and Screaming, a show that paired survival experts with “wilderness impaired partners”. He and his partner Natalie Casanova  won the competition, splitting the $500,000 grand prize. This then led to several million dollars in donations for the Scouts following the series airing. Fossum was also the producer for the film Tiger Lily Is My Little Sister, in which he also acted, and the film Role Prey. Both films centered on the problem of human trafficking.

In 2021, Fossum received the Best Supporting Actor and Fan Favorite award at the Christian Film Festival for his role in the movie Agape. Also in 2021, Fossum published a self-help book titled The Oxcart Technique: Blueprint for Success. 

Fossum has continued to be involved in the Boy Scouts of America, first as a scoutmaster, and eventually as the vice president for programs for the Washington State's Inland Northwest Council. Fossum was married before but then divorced. Today he is married to a woman who has three sons, whose scoutmaster he became.

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SS Edward M. House. SS Edward M. House was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Edward M. House, an American diplomat, and an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson.

Construction
Edward M. House was laid down on 21 August 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1209, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Miss Irene F. Long, the confidential assistant to Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, and was launched on 23 October 1943.

History
She was allocated to A. L. Burbank & Company, Ltd, on 4 November 1943. She took part in the invasion of Normandy, June 1944. On 30 June 1944, Edward M. House was torpedoed or mined in the English Channel. On 20 February 1946, she was allocated to the Japanese government until 16 December 1946, when she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Astoria, Oregon. She was sold for commercial use, 7 July 1947, to Rederi A/S Vindeggen. She was removed from the fleet on 15 July 1947. Edward M. House was renamed Blue Master and reflagged in Norway. In 1954, she was sold to Bahia Salinas Cia Nav, and reflagged in Liberia. In 1967, she was reflagged in Greece, and sold for scrapping in 1970.

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