omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Kate Keahey. Katarzyna Keahey is a Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and the Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering (CASE) of the University of Chicago. She is a Principal Investigator (PI) of the Chameleon project, which provides an innovative experimentation platform for computer science systems experiments. She created Nimbus, one of the first open source implementations of infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and co-founded the  SoftwareX journal, publishing software as a scientific instrument.

Education
Keahey attended the Gdańsk University of Technology where she obtained her magister inżynier in informatics in 1992. She received her M.S. in computer science at Indiana University Bloomington in 1994, and later went on to earn her Ph.D. in computer science at Indiana University in 1998. Her Ph.D. dissertation was titled, An Architecture for Application-Level Parallel Distributed Computation, and was supervised by Dennis Gannon.

Research
Her research interests include cloud computing,  resource management,  in particular the exploration of how cloud and high-performance/scientific resources can co-exist and complement each other, infrastructure operation, and Internet of Things (IoT)/cloud continuum. She is currently developing methods that support capturing, replicating, and publishing experiments digitally.

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American computer scientists
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Polish computer scientists
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Polish emigrants to the United States
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Gülay Barbarosoğlu. Gülay Doğu Barbarosoğlu is a Turkish industrial engineer and academic administrator who served as rector of Boğaziçi University.

Education 
Barbarosoğlu graduated from Robert College in 1974. She earned a bachelor's degree (1978) and a PhD (1985) in industrial engineering at Boğaziçi University.

Career 
In 2000, Barbarosoğlu was promoted to full professor of industrial engineering at Boğaziçi University. She taught courses in mathematical optimization, logistics, operations, and decision-making. Barbarosoğlu was vice rector of research in Boğaziçi from 2008 to 2012. From 2012 to 2016, she served as rector of Boğaziçi University.

Barbarosoğlu retired from academia in 2016. She was succeeded by .

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Robert College alumni
Lale Akarun. Lale Akarun (born 10 March 1962) is a Turkish electrical engineer and computer scientist researching sign language and gesture recognition, human–computer interaction, and biometrics. She is a professor in the computer engineering department and ex-vice rector at Boğaziçi University.

Early life and education 
Lale Akarun was born on 10 March 1962 in Ankara. She completed a B.S. (1984) and M.S. (1986) in electrical engineering at Boğaziçi University. She earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University in 1992. Her dissertation was titled Decimated Rank Order Filtering.

Career and research 
Akarun joined the faculty at Boğaziçi University in 1992 as an assistant professor. She was promoted to the rank of professor in the computer engineering department in 2002. She served as departmental chair from 2010 to 2012. In 2012, she became vice rector of the university.

Akarun researches sign language and gesture recognition, human–computer interaction, and biometrics.

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Turkish women engineers
Xanadu Quantum Technologies. Xanadu Quantum Technologies is a Canadian quantum computing hardware and software company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company develops cloud accessible photonic quantum computers and develops open-source software for quantum machine learning and simulating quantum photonic devices.

History 
Xanadu was founded in 2016 by Christian Weedbrook and was a participant in the Creative Destruction Lab's accelerator program. Since then, Xanadu has raised a total of US$245M in funding with venture capital financing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Capricorn Investment Group, Tiger Global Management, In-Q-Tel, Business Development Bank of Canada, OMERS Ventures, Georgian, Real Ventures, Golden Ventures and Radical Ventures and innovation grants from Sustainable Development Technology Canada and DARPA.

Technology 
Xanadu's hardware efforts have been focused on developing programmable Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) devices. GBS is a generalization of boson sampling, which traditionally uses single photons as an input; GBS uses squeezed states of light. In 2020, Xanadu published a blueprint for building a fault-tolerant quantum computer using photonic technology.

In June 2022 Xanadu reported on a boson sampling experiment summing up to those of Google and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Their setup used loops of optical fiber and multiplexing to replace the network of beam splitters by a single one which made it also more easily reconfigurable. They detected a mean of 125 to 219 photons from 216 squeezed modes (squeezed light follows a photon number distribution so they can contain more than one photon per mode) and claimed to have obtained a speedup 50 million times bigger than previous experiments.

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External links 
 Official website

2016 establishments in Ontario
Quantum computing
Photonics
Photonics companies
Quantum information science
Companies involved in quantum computing
DigitaOS. DigitaOS was a short lived digital camera operating system created by Flashpoint Technology and used on various Kodak, Pentax, and HP cameras in the late 1990s.

History
DigitaOS debuted with the Kodak DC220 and DC260 on 20 May 1998; both cameras were equipped with PowerPC 800 processors and USB interfaces. In total, it was released on 11 camera models before it was abandoned in 2001. DigitaOS was notable for its ability to run third-party software, a concept that was not again realized until the release of various Android based digital cameras in the early 2010s.

DigitaOS applications were programmed either as JIT compiled scripts using "Digita Script", which ran on the cameras, or AOT compiled programs written in C using an official SDK. The operating system abstracted away most camera functionality and hardware platform differences, allowing software to be compatible with most DigitaOS cameras. Additionally, DigitaOS handled the GUI presented to the user and basic camera functionality.

DigitaOS was intended to extend the features of the camera. Examples of functions provided by scripts included in-camera image database and document generation, in-camera image editing, and custom logo / watermark and/or date imprinting. Printers with DigitaOS could resize photographs without connecting to a computer. Digita File allowed the user to rename and copy image and system files on the camera, while Digita Presents was able to output a slideshow with audio and transition effects.

Because of its ability to run third-party software, several games were ported to it. The most notable of these being DOOM and MAME.

Cameras using DigitaOS 

 Kodak DC220
 Kodak DC260
 Kodak DC265
 Kodak DC290
 Minolta Dimâge EX 1500
 Minolta Dimâge 3D 1500
 HP C500 Photosmart
 HP C618 Photosmart
 HP C912 Photosmart
 PENTAX EI-200
 PENTAX EI-2000

References 

1998 software
Discontinued operating systems
Kannan Moudgalya. Kannan M. Moudgalya (born 21 March 1958) is an Indian professor of Chemical Engineering, Systems and Control, and Education Technology at IIT Bombay.

Education 
Kannan earned his Bachelor of Technology degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras with distinction in 1980 and  master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University, Houston in 1985. He received his doctoral degree on same year in chemical engineering from Rice University, Houston.

Research career and spoken tutorials 
Kannan M. Moudgalya is a professor of chemical engineering, systems and control, and educational technology at IIT Bombay. He was a visiting professor at the University of Alberta.

He has held the posts of associate dean (R&D), head of Application Software Cell and head of the Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme, at IIT Bombay. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. He is a life member of International Society for Technology in Education and Computer Society of India, and a member of IEEE.

He has also written two textbooks: (1) Digital Control, pub-lished by John Wiley & Sons, Chichester and (2) Optimization: theory and practice, jointly with Prof. Mohan C. Joshi, published by Narosa, New Delhi. He has published a large number of papers in refereed international journals and conferences in the areas of mathematical modelling, control and simulation.

He is notoriously known for his rigorous instructorship in the Design Project course at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, which has inspired many startups.

He recently retired from IIT Bombay which leaves a void in the IITB and FOSSEE community. More recently, he has taken an initiative in teaching convicts in prison using Spoken Tutorials.

Fellowships and awards 
Moudgalya has been awarded as "Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Recognition for Re-Engineering India 2020" in the Farmer Welfare/Industry/Institutional Category for having paved the path for multi lingualism by envisaging and curating spoken tutorials in various Indian languages for education, employment and empowerment.

The Spoken Tutorial project received Reimagine Education Award in 2015, by coming first in Nurturing Employability category sponsored by QS and Wharton School. He has also received Google MOOCs Research Award for Extending the Offline Capability of Spoken Tutorial Methodology in 2015.

References

External links 

 Spoken Tutorials 
 Distance Engineering Education Programme
 Digital Control - A book by Prof. Kannan M. Moudgalya 
 Prof. Mohan C. Joshi - Co-author of book Optimization: theory and practice 
Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Recognition for Re-Engineering India 
 

Living people
Academic staff of IIT Bombay
Rice University alumni
Scientists from Chennai
1958 births
Indian chemical engineers
Insa Thiele-Eich. Insa Thiele-Eich (born April 21, 1983) is a German meteorologist and astronaut candidate, selected by the German non-government Die Astronautin project in April 2017. She was one of two women selected to be the first German woman in space, the end goal of the Die Astronautin initiative.

Early life and education
Thiele-Eich was born on 21 April 1983 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Her father is European Space Agency astronaut Gerhard Thiele, who flew as mission specialist aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-99 mission in 2000. Later in her life she went on to study meteorology at the University of Bonn in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She later earned her PhD with a thesis on the effects of climate change on Bangladesh.

Career
Following her PhD, she returned to her alma mater, the University of Bonn, to work as scientific coordinator at the university meteorological institute. She conducted research in weather and climate prediction models and into the meteorological exchange process, her research interests include the impact of climate and weather on human health, the impacts of climate change on specific countries and global hydrometeorology and extreme value analysis.

Die Astronautin
In March 2016 the German non-government initiative, Die Astronautin was founded with the goal of sending the first German woman into space. They put out a call for German woman to apply and received over 400 applications, including Thiele-Eich. By March 2017 Thiele-Eich was included in the group of six finalists for the project. Within a month Die Astronautin officially announced that Thiele-Eich was one of the two women selected, alongside fighter pilot Nicola Baumann (who later pulled out of the program and was replaced by Suzanna Randall, another one of the original six finalists), the two began training in Star City, Russia in August 2017.

She took time off from training for the project in 2018 for maternity leave and returned to training in early 2019. Currently, the flight plan calls for the flight to happen sometime in the early 2020s, one of the two women will be selected to fly the mission with the other serving as her backup, which one will take which seat is not clear yet.

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Fajr-4. The Fajr-4 () is an Iranian air-to-surface guided rocket that was first unveiled on 9 May 2020 through a video released by the IRGC Aerospace Force. In the video, the missile is seen undergoing a drop test from a Sukhoi Su-22 fighter-bomber. Videos released of Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, paying a visit to an IRGC Aerospace Force suggest that Iran had already armed its Sukhoi Su-22's with a new air-to-surface missile.

The IRGC has not provided further details of the missile.

Design
The Artillery rocket has a caliber of 333 mm, uses command guidance and has maneuvering fins.

Variants
The missile has two variants, Fajr-4 and Fajr-4CL.

References

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Air-to-surface missiles of Iran
Fajr family of rockets
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Universal Stylus Initiative. The Universal Stylus Initiative (USI) is a non-profit alliance of companies promoting a technical standard for interoperable active pen styluses on touchscreen devices such as phones, tablets, and computers.

It defines a two-way communication protocol between the stylus and the computer and allows the stylus to remember user preferences for ink color and stroke. It support 9-axis inertial measurement.

Products started coming to market in 2019 including one stylus and several Chromebooks from different manufacturers. By 2019, there were over 30 members, including Google and 3M, but some major players like Apple and Microsoft had not joined. As of 2022, the promoters include Google, Intel, Lenovo, Samsung, and Synaptics. Dell, Sharp, and Wacom are contributors.

While USI promotes itself as an open standard, access to detailed specifications is restricted to paying members.

History 
USI was launched on April 23, 2015, by a group of prominent OEMs, stylus and touch controller manufacturers.

 September 22, 2016: Release of the USI 1.0 Stylus and Device Specification
 September 26, 2019: Announcement of the first 14 companies with products using the USI 1.0 Specification
 June 10, 2020: Launch of the USI active stylus certification program
 February 28, 2022: Release of USI Version 2.0 specification

Features

USI 1.0 

 Two-way communication protocol
 Support for multiple simultaneous styluses on a single device
 Pressure sensitivity (up to 2048 levels in USI 1.0)
 Button presses and eraser functionality
 Tilt detection

USI 2.0 

 NFC wireless charging capability
 Support for in-cell display panels
 Expanded tilt functionality

See also 

 Stylus (computing)
 Digital pen
 Pen computing
 Active pen
 Wacom
 Surface Pen
 Apple Pencil
 Computer mouse
  Human–computer interaction

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Vensys Energy. Vensys Energy AG (stylized as VENSYS) is a German gearless wind turbine manufacturer which is majority-owned by Chinese turbine manufacturer Goldwind.

Vensys licenses its products to several non-European manufacturers of wind turbines. In addition, Vensys itself manufactures plants on a small scale at its headquarters in Neunkirchen, Saarland.

The Vensys group includes Vensys Elektrotechnik GmbH in Diepholz , which manufactures the electrical components, and NEVEN Windenergie GmbH in Trier, which is involved in project development.

The Goldwind Wind Energy GmbH based in Hamburg has been the company's largest single shareholder since 2008 with a 70% stake.

Licensee
 Goldwind
 Enerwind
 Eozen
 ReGen

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Engineering companies of Germany
2008 mergers and acquisitions
German brands
List of Intel Xeon processors (Comet Lake-based). 

"Comet Lake-S" (14 nm)

Xeon W-12xx (uniprocessor) 
 -E: embedded
 -P: high performance (and power), with cTDP down to 95 W
 -T: low power

"Comet Lake-H" (14 nm)

Xeon W-10xxxM (uniprocessor)

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ALKA (weapon). The ALKA directed-energy weapon (DEW) system is a Turkish dual electromagnetic/laser weapon developed by Roketsan. It was first unveiled at the 2019 IDEF exhibition on 8 May 2019. This combat laser was allegedly used to destroy one of GNC's Wing Loong II UAVs; if true, this would represent the first known time a vehicle-mounted combat laser was used to destroy another combat vehicle during genuine wartime conditions.

History
It was reported in 2010s that various Turkish organizations like TÜBİTAK SAGE and Aselsan had been working on tactical lasers and some had achieved success in both 2015 and 2018 prior to the unveiling of ALKA directed-energy weapon. According to ROKETSAN official Prof.Uğur Kayasal the weapon was developed in response to the increase of drone attacks on Turkish forces. ROKETSAN spent five years making the directed energy weapon system and spent the last two years of the developmental period to make the system road-mobile. On 4 August 2019 an ALKA DEW mounted on an off-road armored car allegedly shot down a Chinese-made Wing Loong II UAV in Misrata, Libya.

Characteristics
The ALKA DEW is claimed to have a power of 50 kW. It operates both laser and electromagnetic systems. It purportedly uses automatic target recognition utilizing both electro-optical and radar detection to track multiple targets simultaneously. It is claimed by its designers to have the capability to disable a swarm of drones at a range of 4000 m, destroy a target with laser at 500 m distance and destroy a target at 1000 m distance with electromagnetic weapons. According to the designers, it can track targets at speeds as high as 150 km/h and track targets with precision of 8 mm at 1000 m distance. It can purportedly operate in both night and day time and on multiple platforms, both stationary and mobile. It has allegedly been used both against IEDs and UAVs in multiple environments.

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Central Gliding School. The Central Gliding School (CGS) is the Royal Air Force's primary institution for the training of gliding instructors for the instruction of Royal Air Force and Air Cadet personnel. It is administered under No. 2 Flying Training School and is responsible for the standardisation of the Air Cadet gliding syllabus and its instructors.

History

The Central Gliding school was formed on 9 August 1971 at RAF Spitalgate by merging No. 1 and No. 2 Gliding Centres. It was renamed the Air Cadet Central Gliding School in 1984. It delivered gliding instruction and air experience to Air Training Corps cadets. Gliding Instructors from the ACCGS were regulated and examined under direction of the RAF Central Flying School (CFS) at RAF Cranwell. ACCGS and CFS examiners carried out currency and competency checks annually on Volunteer Gliding Schools (VGS) and their instructors.

Current operations
Instruction at CGS includes the delivery of Grade 2 (G2) and Grade 1 (G1) instructor training. The G2 course (approximately 4 months long) includes pilots seat conversion training, enabling the pilots to fly from both the front and back of the Viking T1. The Grade 1 syllabus allows pilots to conduct instructional sorties to cadets, and supervise flying above 500ft AGL (above ground level). G1 instructors are then allocated the ‘QGI’ (Qualified Gliding Instructor) qualification at RAF Syerston and are then able to deliver the Gliding Scholarship syllabus.

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Weeden Manufacturing. Weeden Manufacturing was a toy company best known for producing Model steam engines and electric motors. They started making toy steam engines in October 1884 to sell via Magazine, and went on to make 100 different styles. Weeden made its own tooling for all the engines they made. From 1890 to 1912 Weeden made a steam powered toy train. In the 1920s Weeden ventured into children's banks and electric stoves. In 1942 they were purchased by the National Playthings division of Pairpoint Glass. The last steam engine was made 10 years later in 1952.

The Weeden Manufacturing Co. was at one time associated with Joseph Arthur Beauvais (1824-1899) of New Bedford MA who also managed several other companies in New Bedford and the area including two railroads.

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Joseph von Baader. Joseph von Baader (30 September 1763 – 20 November 1835) was a German engineer and medical doctor, chiefly known for his role as a pioneer of railway transport in Bavaria, alongside Joseph Anton von Maffei and Theodor von Cramer-Klett. He was the brother of mining engineer and Catholic theologian Franz Xaver von Baader.

Life and career
Born into an environment of relative wealth – his father, Franz Joseph Baader, became Duke Clement of Bavaria's personal physician in 1768 – he originally also pursued a career in medicine. However, following his graduation in 1785, he decided to shift to studies of mathematics and physics instead, widening his knowledge in these areas through a study trip to England from 1787 to 1795, where he worked as a civil engineer.

After this period, he returned to Bavaria, where he joined the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1796. His theory of suction published in 1797 attracted the attention of the Elector Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, who in 1802 commissioned Baader with the creation of new fountains for the Nymphenburg Palace Park. In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte called him to Paris, where he submitted plans for the development of a new engine for the Machine de Marly, though these were never realized. Starting in 1807, he began advocating for the construction of railway lines, his involvement in this cause going as far as to present a working model of a railcar in 1818, which he developed into a fully-sized machine in the following years. In 1815, Baader acquired the patent for a freight wagon that was able to travel by rail and road. In 1832, in order to develop the country to build a railway from Rosenheim via Miesbach, Tölz, Iffeldorf to Lechbruck and a canal from Iffeldorf to Lake Starnberg and on to Munich, Baader made a plea for a railway connection from Munich to Starnberg.

In 1810, he invented what is hypothesized to have been the first modern pedal boat. He was raised to Bavarian nobility in 1813.

Following the death of his daughter, Caroline, in 1834, von Baader's own health also began to deteriorate. He died on 20 November 1835.

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