omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Susanne Albers. Susanne Albers is a German theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science at the Department of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich. She is a recipient of the Otto Hahn Medal and the Leibniz Prize.

Education and career
Albers studied mathematics, computer science, and business administration in Osnabrück and received her PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1993 at Saarland University under the supervision of Kurt Mehlhorn. Until 1999, she was associated with the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and held visiting and postdoctoral positions at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, Free University of Berlin, and University of Paderborn. In 1999, she received her habilitation and accepted a position at Dortmund University. From 2001 to 2009, she was professor of computer science at University of Freiburg. From 2009 to 2013, she has been at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Since 2013, Albers has held the Chair for Efficient Algorithms at the Department of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich.

Research
Albers' research is in the design and analysis of algorithms, especially online algorithms, approximation algorithms, algorithmic game theory and algorithm engineering.

Awards and honors
In 1993, she received the Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society, and in 2008 the Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation, considered the most important German research prize that includes a grant of €2.5 million. In 2011, she was elected as a fellow of the German Informatics Society. In 2014, she became one of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

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German computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
1965 births
Living people
People from Georgsmarienhütte
German women computer scientists
German women academics
Game theorists
Edward Bennett (physicist). Edward Bennett (born October 26, 1876 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American physicist, known from his early involvements in wireless transmission.

He obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh (then known as the Western University of Pennsylvania) in 1897. The work was on spark-gap transmitters, jointly with William Bradshaw and supervised by Reginald Fessenden. Working at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he achieved fame in the history of broadcasting from his work with Dr. Earle M. Terry that led to the first transmissions of the WHA (AM) radio station (1914). He later headed the electrical engineering department.

Books
Introductory electrodynamics for engineers (McGraw-Hill, 1926).  With Harold Marion Crothers.

References

1876 births
Year of death missing
American physicists
American electrical engineers
University of Pittsburgh alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Swanson School of Engineering alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society
People from Pittsburgh
Netprimer. NetPrimer is a gratis web-based tool used for analysing primers used in PCR to amplify a DNA sequence. The software predicts the melting temperature of the primers using the nearest neighbor thermodynamic algorithm. The accurate prediction of the melting temperature (Tm) is one of the most important factors that governs the success of a PCR reaction.

NetPrimer also analyzes the thermodynamically important secondary structures such as hairpins, self and cross dimers, runs and repeats. These structures significantly affect the primer efficiency and therefore the success of a PCR reaction.

NetPrimer can be used to determine the best primer pairs for a given set of experimental conditions. The program assigns a rating to each primer analyzed. The rating is based on the proximity of the thermodynamic parameters to their ideal scores.

In addition to the primer quality, its molecular weight and optical activity (both in nmol/A260 and μg/A260) are also presented for quantitation. Primers are analyzed for their GC% (Guanine-Cytosine content). This important parameter determines their annealing strength.

Business model
Although Netprimer is provided without charge, it is not free software.  Users must register for access and thereby receive advertising of Premier Biosoft's other products.

References

External links
NetPrimer Home Page

Science websites
DVPB-HD. DVPB-HD (Digital Video Processing Board - High Definition)  is a prototyping board based on Texas Instruments DaVinci Technology.

It has many of the required peripheral interfaces support such as:
CVBS
Component Video
HDMI
Audio
Giga-Bit Ethernet
RS-232
RS-485
USB 2.0
VLYNQ
HDD
RTC
UART/IrDA
PCI
SPI
GPIO

This board is provided by Texas Instruments' 3rd Party Partner, Einfochips

Features 
Montavista Linux 2.6.10
4 Channel SD or 1 Channel HD
RoHS Compliant

Possible application areas 
Video encoding and transcoding
Video surveillance
Video gateways
Video conferencing
Medical imaging

References
DVPB-HD

External links 
TMS320DM6446 Specifications
DaVinci Developers Wiki (hosted by TI)
DVPB-HD

Graphics hardware
EFI Automotive. EFI Automotive, previously Electricfil, is a French manufacturer of automotive engines and powertrain sensors. The company is headquartered in Beynost, France, and has factories in Joinville, China (Wuhan), Turkey (Istanbul) and the United States (Alabama).

History 
Electricfil was created in La Boisse by Johanny Thollin (1889–1962) in 1936 with the assistance of his stepfather Joseph Guinet. He was mayor of La Boisse from the year 1908 to 1938. He was then the head of a small Braided Fabric electrical cable factory in La Boisse and in 1968 the company relocated to Beynost.

In 2015, the company announced the creation of an incubator for innovative start-ups.

In 2021, EFI Automotive acquired the company Akéo Plus. 

The company announced in 2021 that they would have a turnover of 202 million euros for the whole company (around 1,700 employees).

References

Auto parts suppliers of France
Automotive companies of France
Companies based in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
French companies established in 1936
Remote racking system. A remote racking system or remote racking device is a system that allows an operator racking in and out a withdrawable circuit breaker from a remote location. It offers a safe alternative to manually racking circuit breakers, which reduces the requirement for service personnel to wear a full-body arc flash hazard suit for protection.

Advantages 

A circuit breaker is an automatically operated electrical switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by overload or short circuit.
There are fixed and withdrawable circuit breakers.

An arc flash is a type of electrical explosion that results from a low impedance connection to ground or another voltage phase in an electrical system. By permitting the automatic racking of the circuit breaker from a remote location, the remote racking systems move service personnel outside the arc flash protection boundary, thus reducing the need for a full-body arc flash hazard suit. 

A remote switch operator is used to remotely operate various types and styles of circuit breakers and controls. When the remote racking system is used in conjunction with a remote switch operator, the user can also operate, trip, and release the circuit breaker from a safe distance.

Designs

There are several designs of remote racking systems on the market and most include either a wired or wireless remote control.  The distance at which these can be used varies by which product is chosen.  Also, the style and size will also be a factor in choosing a remote racking system as some are larger than others. Many systems either implement a "roll-up" design, similar to that of a small hand truck or dolly, while some are integral to the switchgear that the breaker is mounted in.

See also

Circuit breaker
Arc flash
Switchgear

References

Electrical breakdown
Electric power systems components
Safety switches

External links
Switchgear Safety
Richard W. Cook. Richard W. Cook (August 8, 1907 – October 26, 1992) was born in Muskegon, Michigan. From 1927 to 1933, he attended Michigan State University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

In 1940 he was ordered to active duty in the U.S. Army as a First Lieutenant and from 1940 to 1942 served as Assistant Quartermaster and Quartermaster for the Construction Division of the Quartermaster Corps. From 1942 to 1944 he was area engineer for Corps of Engineers, Washington Engineer District.

Cook was involved with U.S. atomic energy. From 1944 to 1947, Cook was Assistant to District Engineer and K-25 Operations Officer, Corps of Engineers, Manhattan Engineer District, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and from 1947 to 1951 he was Deputy Manager and General Manager of Oak Ridge Operations, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). In the fall of 1945, while still at Oak Ridge, Lt. Col. Richard W. Cook was awarded the Legion of Merit for his work on the A-Bomb Project.

From 1951 to 1958 he was employed at AEC headquarters in Washington, D.C. He was made Director of Production and in 1954 promoted to Deputy General Manager of the AEC.

From 1958 to 1973 Cook was employed as an executive at American Machine and Foundry Company and at the Marshall Space Flight Center. He was employed at AMF while it was producing components for the Atlas and Titan missile systems and he was at Marshall Space Flight Center during the height of the Apollo Program.

References

External links
 Papers of Richard W. Cook, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

1907 births
1992 deaths
20th-century American engineers
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Michigan State University alumni
Manhattan Project people
Europe India Gateway. Europe India Gateway (EIG) is a submarine communications cable system that connects the U.K., Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco, France, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, United Arab Emirates, and India.

Organization and owners 
The EIG is approximately 15,000 kilometres long. It was initially designed to deliver up to 3.84 terabits per second but was upgraded in 2015 and 2020. The cable system was built by both Alcatel-Lucent and TE Subcom (formerly known as Tyco) and was scheduled to be completed in the second quarter of 2010. The cable cost $700 million to build, going live in 2011. The EIG was the first direct high-bandwidth optical fibre system from Britain to India.

The investors in EIG was a consortium of 18 telecoms big companies, including.

Cable landing points 
EIG has cable landing points at:

 Bude, UK
 Sesimbra, Portugal
 Gibraltar
 Marseille, France
 Monaco
 Tripoli, Libya
 Alexandria, Egypt then overland to Suez, Egypt, then submarine again
 Jeddah Saudi Arabia
 Djibouti
 Muscat, Oman
 Fujairah, United Arab Emirates
 Mumbai, India

In February 2020, Ciena announced it had completed a major upgrade to the cable to boost capacity for international business traffic, adding 24.3 Tbit/s of information carrying capacity, with a spectral efficiency increase of 52%. The EIG can now transport up to 400 Gbit/s per wavelength, driving more capacity per channel at longer distances.

Outages and incidents 
In March 2013, the EIG cable was cut near Egypt. A few days later the I-ME-WE and SEA-ME-WE 4 cable was also cut near Egypt, supposedly by divers.

In February 2018, The Sunday Times reported that the infrastructure for the UK landing site of the Apollo, GLO-1 and Europe India Gateway cables had been found almost entirely unprotected. Their reporter was able to reach the premises without being challenged, and found the door to the generator room unlocked and left ajar. Vodafone, who manage the facility, said that he had not reached critical equipment and "would not have been able to interrupt the operation of the facility."

See also
Other cable systems following a substantially similar route are:

 FLAG Europe Asia
 I-ME-WE
 SEA-ME-WE 3
 SEA-ME-WE 4
 Australia West Express (AWE)

External links 
 Europe India Gateway website

References 

Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea
Submarine communications cables in the Red Sea
Submarine communications cables in the Arabian Sea
Submarine communications cables in the Indian Ocean
Submarine communications cables in the English Channel
AT&T buildings
British Telecom buildings and structures
Bharti Airtel
Vodafone buildings and structures
MTN Group
Verizon
2011 establishments in Africa
2011 establishments in Asia
2011 establishments in Europe
Telecommunications in India
2011 establishments in Maharashtra
Piel Diamant. The Piel CP.60 Diamant is a single-engine light aircraft designed in France in the 1960s and marketed for home building.

Design and development
The Diamant is a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane and essentially an enlarged version of Piel's successful Emeraude designed to accommodate more passengers. This extra capacity is provided by a redesigned fuselage which is higher in the rear section and longer overall. While the Emeraude has only two seats, side-by-side, the Diamant has an extra bench seat at the rear of the cabin to seat one or two more people. The wingspan is also greater than that of the Emeraude, allowing for a greater maximum take-off weight. The 110 page set of plans included modifications for retractable gear, tricycle gear, and wing mounted fuel tanks.

As with the Emeraude, Piel obtained type certification for the Diamant, allowing it to be manufactured on a commercial basis. However, unlike the Emeraude, this did not actually transpire, and the Diamant was only ever built as a homebuilt.

By the late 1970s, the original versions of the Diamant were no longer offered and had been supplanted by the Super Diamant, designed for more powerful engines and featuring revised tail surfaces.

Variants
 CP.60 Diamant - prototype with  Continental engine.
 CP.601 Diamant - version with  Continental engine.
 CP.602 Diamant - version with  Potez engine.
 CP.603 Diamant - version with 115 hp Lycoming engine
 CP.604 Super Diamant - version with  Continental engine.
 CP.605 Super Diamant - 4 seat version with  Lycoming O-320-E2A engine.
 CP.605B Super Diamant - CP.605 with retractable tricycle landing gear.
 CP.606 Super Diamant - version with 140 hp Lycoming engine
 CP.607 Super Diamant - version with 130 hp Continental engine
 CP.608 Super Diamant - version with 180 hp Lycoming engine
 CP.615 Super Diamant - version with 160 hp engine

Specifications (CP.605B)

Notes

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1960s French civil utility aircraft
Piel aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
European Symposium on Algorithms. The European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) is an international conference covering the field of algorithms. It has been held annually since 1993, typically in early Autumn in a different European location each year. Like most theoretical computer science conferences its contributions are strongly peer-reviewed; the articles appear in proceedings published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Acceptance rate of ESA is 24% in 2012 in both Design and Analysis and Engineering and Applications tracks.

History
The first ESA was held in 1993 and contained 35 papers. The intended scope was all research in algorithms, theoretical as well as applied, carried out in the fields of computer science and discrete mathematics. An explicit aim was to intensify the exchange between these two research communities.

Workshop on Algorithms Engineering 
In 2002, ESA incorporated the conference Workshop on Algorithms Engineering (WAE). In its current format, ESA contains two distinct tracks with their own programme committees: a track on the design an analysis of algorithms, and a track on engineering and applications, together accepting around 70 contributions.

ESA Awards

ESA Test-of-Time Award 
The ESA Test-of-Time Award (ESA ToTA) recognizes outstanding papers in algorithms research that were published in the ESA proceedings 19–21 years ago and which are still influential and stimulating for the field today. Because the Workshop on Algorithms Engineering (WAE) merged in with ESA, the Steering Committee decided that the papers from WAE 1999 to WAE 2001 were also to be considered.

ESA Best Paper Awards 

Since 2022, ESA also awards the best paper for the Simplicity Track:

 2022. Alejandro Flores-Velazco: Improved Search of Relevant Points for Nearest-Neighbor Classification.

ALGO conferences
Since 2001, ESA is co-located with other algorithms conferences and workshops in a combined meeting called ALGO. This is the largest European event devoted to algorithms, attracting hundreds of researchers.

Other events in the ALGO conferences include the following.
 WABI, the Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, is part of ALGO in most years.
 WAOA, the Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, has been part of ALGO since 2003.
 ATMOS, the Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization and Systems, formerly the Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways, has been part of ALGO in 2003–2006 and 2008–2009.
 IPEC, the International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation, founded in 2004 and formerly the International Workshop on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IWPEC), is part of ALGO since 2011

ATMOS was co-located with the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) in 2001–2002.

References

External links

Index of ESA proceedings at DBLP
List of ESA proceedings at SpringerLink
ALGO History

Theoretical computer science conferences
SS Empire Arnold. Empire Arnold was a 7,045-ton British cargo ship  which was built in 1942 for the Ministry of War Transport. Launched in March and completed in May, she was torpedoed by U-155 on 4 August 1942.

History
Empire Arnold was built by William Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool. She was yard number 1127 and launched on 6 March 1942 and completed in May 1942. Empire Arnold was built for the Ministry of War Transport and managed by Sir R Ropner & Co Ltd.

Empire Arnold was a member of Convoy ON 99, which sailed from Liverpool on 29 May 1942 and arrived in Boston on 12 June. Empire Arnold was in ballast for this journey. On 11 June, Empire Arnold lost the convoy in thick fog at 05:30, regaining the convoy at 17:00.

Sinking
On 4 August 1942, Empire Arnold was a member of Convoy EF 6, which was sailing from New York via Trinidad and Cape Town and then through the Suez Canal to Alexandria. She was carrying 10,000 tons of cargo including aircraft and tanks. At 16:15 hrs CET, Empire Arnold was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic off the South American coast () by U-155, captained by Adolf Piening. Nine crew members were killed and the captain, Frederick Tate, was taken prisoner. The 49 surviving crew members and two passengers were rescued by the Norwegian ship SS Dalvanger. They were landed in Georgetown, British Guiana on 14 August. Tate was landed at Lorient on 15 September and interned at Milag Nord POW camp, Westertimke. During his time as a POW, Tate was a signatory to a document praising the Pilots of the Panama Canal system for their efficiency, courtesy and reliability in assisting ships passing through the canal.  Those lost on Empire Arnold are commemorated at the Tower Hill Memorial, London.

Official number and code letters
Official Numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers.

Empire Arnold  had the UK Official Number 168939 and used the Code Letters BDSV.

References

1942 ships
Ships built on the River Tees
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Empire ships
Ministry of War Transport ships
Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II
World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
Maritime incidents in August 1942
Α-Methylstyrene. α-Methylstyrene (AMS) is an organic compound with the formula C6H5C(CH3)=CH2. It is a colorless oil.

Synthesis and reactions 
AMS is formed as a by-product of the cumene process. In this procedure, cumene is converted to its radical, through a reaction with oxygen.

Normally these cumene radicals are converted to cumene hydroperoxide, however they can also undergo radical disproportionation to form AMS.

Although this is only a minor side reaction, the cumene process is run at such a large scale that the recovery of AMS is commercially viable and satisfies much of the global demand. AMS can also be produced by dehydrogenation of cumene.

The homopolymer obtained from this monomer, poly(α-methylstyrene), is unstable, being characterized by a low ceiling temperature of 65°C.

Side effects in humans 
The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (2009) defined occupational exposure limits of 10 ppm for airborne concentrations of a-methylstyrene. based on allergic reactions, and effects on the central nervous system.

References

Isopropenyl compounds
Benzene derivatives
Monomers
IARC Group 2B carcinogens
Port-map. In two-stroke engine technology a Port-map is a diagram which shows the ports that are cut into the cylinder of an engine.

A port-map can be useful to determine opening/closing-timing and the area of specific ports.
These diagrams are usually represented as a rolled out cylinder where the width equals the circumference and the height equals the stroke plus the cylinder skirt, the ports are outlined.

See also 
Kramer graph

Two-stroke engine technology
Engine technology
Internal combustion piston engines
Motorcycle engines
Visualization (graphics)
James Canton. James Canton is a futurist and writer. His books include Technofutures, The Extreme Future and Future Smart: The Game Changing Trends that Will Transform Your World. Canton is the director of the Institute for Global Futures in San Francisco.

In 2003 Canton was appointed as an advisor to the National Science and Technology Council on nanoscience, nanoengineering and nanotechnology. He also previously served on the advisory board of MIT's Media Lab Europe, and was the founding Co-Chairman of the Futures and Forecasting Track for Singularity University. Canton currently serves on the Corporate Eco-Forum Advisory Board. 

Canton produced the film series The Time Travelers.

Books
Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Innovations Will Transform Business in the 21st Century (2004) Next Millennium Press 
The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years (2006) Dutton 
Future Smart: Managing the Game Changing Trends that will Transform Your World (2015) DeCapo

References

External links

Corporate Eco Forum

Writers from New York City
American chief executives
American male non-fiction writers
1951 births
Living people
American futurologists