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Ashank Desai. Ashank Desai is an Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor. He is the founding member and past chairman of Nasscom an Indian non-governmental trade association and advocacy group, focused mainly on the technology industry of India. He is the founder and chairman of Mastek, a global technology services company.

Biography

Desai graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay in 1974. He also holds a post graduate diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad where he graduated in the year 1979.

Desai has been involved in CII last ten years as Committee Member. He is also the former president of the Asian Oceanian Computing Industry Organization (ASOCIO). The Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies at IIT Bombay was set up in 2016 to provide a fillip to the study of public policy. In 2021, The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad launched the Ashank Desai Centre for Leadership and Organizational Development (ADCLOD), that offers training, research, and consulting services to leaders at various levels in Indian and multinational organizations.

Honors and awards
In 2021, Desai was honored with the Dataquest Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been felicitated by the Prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, for his contribution to NASSCOM and the IT Industry over the last 25 years. Desai is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Bombay in the year 2002.

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1983 WPI Engineers football team. The 1983 WPI Engineers football team  was an American football team that represented the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) as an independent during the 1983 NCAA Division III football season. In their sixth year under head coach Bob Weiss, the Engineers compiled an 8–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 225 to 56. The team was named Division III Team of the Year by the New England Football Newsletter, and Weiss was honored as 1983 Coach of the Year by the New England College Football Writers Association.

Despite the team's undefeated and untied record, WPI was not invited to participate in the NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs. Weiss responded to the omission: "How do you explain to 83 kids that they're unbeaten but unworthy?"

Tailback Mike Carbone led the team with 1,115 rushing yards.

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Halfway (video game). Halfway is a tactical role playing video game video game developed by Robotality and published by Chucklefish in 2014.  Players attempt to take control of an adrift spaceship that has been overtaken.

Gameplay 
An adrift spaceship begins randomly traveling through hyperspace, during which it is invaded.  Players control a survivor who wakes from crysosleep and attempts to figure out what is happening and how to stop it.  Players encounter other survivors, each of whom has a special ability, and can recruit up to eight of them.  Characters have three stats: health, accuracy, and speed.  Between missions, players can talk to the other survivors and choose which survivors to take with them on the next mission.  Combat is turn-based and tactical.  Each character gets two action points, which they can spend moving, attacking, reloading, or swapping inventory items.  All the ammunition is shared among the squad and takes up limited inventory space.  Squad members who are defeated during combat revive afterward.

Development 
This is German game studio Robotality's first major game.  Chucklefish released Halfway for PCs on July 22, 2014.

Reception 
Halfway received mixed reviews on Metacritic.  Rock Paper Shotgun said it "has some considerable charm", and they enjoyed the mood and attention to detail.  However, they criticized what they felt was the game's tendency to make tactical decisions impossible through not providing enough information, unfair battles, and bugs.  GameSpot praised the game's visuals, music, and mood, but they felt that the lack of permadeath harmed the atmosphere that these elements set up.  They also felt the pacing made some parts of the game feel like a slog.  PC Gamer called it a "relatively tough but mechanically lean sci-fi strategy game".

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1954 Worcester Tech Engineers football team. The 1954 Worcester Tech Engineers football team  was an American football team that represented the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) as an independent during the 1954 college football season. In their eighth year under head coach Robert W. Pritchard, the Engineers compiled a 6–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 161 to 13. The 1954 season was one of three perfect seasons in Worcester Tech's football history, the others being 1938 and 1983.

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WPI Engineers football seasons
College football undefeated seasons
Worcester Tech Engineers football
1938 Worcester Tech Engineers football team. The 1938 Worcester Tech Engineers football team was an American football team that represented the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) as an independent during the 1938 college football season. In their 16th year under head coach Ivan Bigler, the Engineers compiled a 6–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 66 to 29. The 1938 season was the first perfect season in Worcester Tech's football history, others following in 1954 and 1983.

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WPI Engineers football seasons
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Worcester Tech Engineers football
Accounts of Materials Research. Accounts of Materials Research () is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published in partnership between ShanghaiTech University and American Chemical Society. It was rewarded by the Chinese government through Action Plan for the Excellence of Chinese STM Journals in 2020.

The journal is a subscription-access publication that has committed to publishing an increasing number of open access articles, with a future target of transitioning to 100% open access.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Chemical Abstracts Service
Emerging Sources Citation Index
Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 14.6.

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ShanghaiTech University
Academic journals established in 2020
Materials science journals
English-language journals
Hitachi Energy. Hitachi Energy Ltd. is a technology company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. The company's products include high-voltage equipment, transformers, and services for renewable energy.

The company is a subsidiary of multinational conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. The company was formerly known as Hitachi ABB Power Grids, following a joint venture with Hitachi Ltd. and ABB Power Grids in 2020, and was rebranded in 2021 as Hitachi Energy Ltd.

History 
In July 2020, ABB divested its power grid business and sold 80.1% of that to Hitachi Ltd., leading to the formation of Hitachi ABB Power Grids.

In October 2021, Hitachi ABB Power Grids changed its company name to Hitachi Energy. In December 2022, it was confirmed that Hitachi acquired the remaining 19.9 percent shares from ABB Ltd.

Products and services 
Hitachi Energy offers high-voltage switchgear and breakers, high-voltage direct current, transformers, substations, and power-system automation.

Notable projects 
Hitachi Energy has been involved in several notable projects, such as:
 Supplier for Changji-Guquan UHVDC transmission line in China, the world’s first transmission line operating at 1,100 kV voltage (2018)
 Fluoronitrile-based gas replacement for the greenhouse gas sulphur hexafluoride for National Grid in Kent, UK (2021)
 HVDC converter stations for high-voltage direct current submarine power cable North Sea Link (2021)
 Renewable energy microgrid for the remote community of Gull Bay First Nation in Canada (2022) 
 Offshore platforms and onshore HVDC converter stations for electricity grid operator TenneT

See also 
 Hitachi
 ABB
 Hitachi Energy Arena

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Energy companies of Switzerland
DPL Thermal Power Station. DPL Thermal Power Station is a coal-fired thermal power station in Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, which started its thermal power generation operations in 1960. The thermal power plant is located on the west side of Durgapur Station Road, and is one of the 4 coal-fired power plants in Paschim Bardhaman district.

The construction of this power plant started in the 1950s. Electricity generation from the power plant started in 1960. The thermal power plant supplies electricity to consumers by two coal-based power generation units. At present, the electricity generation capacity of the center is 550 MW.

On 1 January 2019, 100% ownership of Durgapur Projects Limited was handed over to West Bengal Power Development Corporation. Currently, DPL works as a subsidiary power generation company of the West Bengal Power Development corporation.

History

Background 
Durgapur city was developed by the Government of West Bengal as a new and industrial city in the state after the independence of India. Electricity demand for large, small and medium industries in Durgapur and surrounding areas continues to grow. The state government had set up DPL thermal power plants for the purpose of generating and supplying the required power.

1960–2008: Old power generation units 
Construction of the two units of the power plant began in the 1950s. Two units were commissioned in 1960, each with a power generation capacity of 30 MW. Two more units with a capacity of 77 MW were commissioned in 1964. Two years later in 1966, the fifth unit started generating electricity. The power generation capacity of the fifth unit was also 77 MW. The sixth unit was formed more than a decade later in 1987. The sixth unit was built after more than a decade in 1987. The power generation capacity of this unit was 110 MW.

2008–present: New power generation units 
The power plant has two new or advanced technology power generation units in operation. The seventh unit was built in collaboration with the Chinese company "Dong Fang Electrical Corporation", which has a power generation capacity of 300 MW. About 1,350 crore rupees were spent on the construction. Former state power minister Mrinal Banerjee inaugurated the seventh unit on 31 March 2008.

"Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited" was in charge of construction of the eighth unit. In July 2014, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the eighth unit, which is capable of generating 250 MW of electricity. But its commercial production could not be started for about a year due to various reasons. Commercial production of the eighth unit began in 2015.

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Coal-fired power stations in West Bengal
Buildings and structures in Durgapur, West Bengal
Energy infrastructure completed in 1960
1960 establishments in West Bengal
20th-century architecture in India
Meixia Tao. Meixia (Melissa) Tao () is a Chinese electrical engineer whose research concerns resource allocation in wireless networks, beamforming, and edge computing. She is a distinguished professor of electronic engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Education and career
Tao studied electronic engineering at Fudan University, graduating in 1999. She completed her Ph.D. in 2003 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

After postdoctoral research at the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, and an assistant professorship from 2004 to 2007 at the National University of Singapore, she moved to her present position at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Recognition
Tao was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2019 class of fellows, "for contributions to resource allocation in broadband wireless networks".

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Living people
Chinese electrical engineers
Women electrical engineers
Fudan University alumni
Alumni of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Academic staff of the National University of Singapore
Academic staff of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Fellows of the IEEE
21st-century Chinese women engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
Honeycomb (company). Honeycomb (stylized as honeycomb.io) is an American software company known for its eponymous observability and application performance management (APM) platform and for its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. Honeycomb's venture capital investors to date include Headline, Scale Venture Partners, and Insight Partners.

Honeycomb's tooling enables software developers to debug live software applications, especially those using a microservice architecture. Honeycomb accepts telemetry from applications instrumented with the OpenTelemetry SDKs, in addition to Structured JSON data or other custom integrations.  Honeycomb offers metrics and tracing visualizations as well as AI-assisted debugging capabilities. The underlying software is a proprietary columnar database running on Amazon Web Services. Amazon has promoted the company as an early adopter of the Graviton family of ARM processors.

History 

Honeycomb was founded in 2016 in San Francisco by Charity Majors and Christine Yen, both of whom were engineers at Parse (later acquired by Facebook). After the acquisition of Parse by Facebook, Yen proposed to Majors that they found a startup together. Majors wanted to build a tool that fixes problems with live applications running in the cloud, inspired by the Scuba in-memory analytics tool they had used at Facebook.

Investors invested $4 million in seed money, followed by $11M in Series A funding in 2019 and $20M in Series B funding in 2020. In 2021, Honeycomb announced a $50M Series C funding round. In 2023, Honeycomb announced that it had raised an additional $50 million in Series D funding, for a total of $150 million in funding to-date.

In December 2021, Honeycomb began an experiment in co-determination by appointing an employee representative to its board of directors, an uncommon governance practice for a United States company. As of 2023, the executive team, board, and employees of Honeycomb are each at least half women and non-binary, making the company unusually gender diverse for a technology startup.

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Software performance management
System administration
Systems management
Website monitoring software
Island End River. Island End River is a short tributary of the Mystic River in Massachusetts. It is notable for its environmental history, which consisted of steady and severe pollution from the 19th century to the 1950s, with concerted cleanup efforts beginning in the early 21st century.

The river was polluted originally through the direct release of wastewater from a coal tar processing plant located along it, resulting in the buildup of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on the river bottom. It was partly dredged in 2007, but its sediments remained heavily contaminated. Its water quality also remained extremely poor, but, as the result of sewage control efforts by the cities of Chelsea and Everett, substantially improved by 2019. Much of the river runs through a culvert, which is in poor condition; the city of Everett began restoring parts of it to the surface in 2021. 

Because of the concentration of PAHs in its sediments, Island End River has served as a useful site for scientific studies of microbial biodegradation.

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Rivers of Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Water pollution in the United States
Megan Robertson (scientist). ''For the Australian former rowing coxswain, see Megan Robertson.’'

Megan L. Robertson is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston noted for her work in polymer chemistry towards achieving "green birth, green life, and green death" via recycling and via biosourced oils and fatty acids to develop new elastomers with the aim of replacing petrochemical sources.

Education 

Robertson earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley working under the direction of Prof. Nitash Balsara. After working at Rohm and Haas (now Dow Chemical) as a senior scientist for two years, she joined the group of Marc Hillmyer at the University of Minnesota as a postdoctoral research associate.

Career 

In 2010 she joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston, and in 2021 she became a full professor. She has received funding from the Department of Defense to investigate chitin-based bulletproof coatings and leads an interdisciplinary team funded through the Welch Foundation to transform polyolefin plastic waste into useful materials. Her most cited work, which was published in Science, is a review on the topic of plastics and recycling. She is an Associate Editor at Macromolecules (journal) and is on the editorial advisory board of the European Polymer Journal. She is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology.

Awards and recognition

 2014 – NSF CAREER Award
 2015 – Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
 2017 – PMSE Young Investigator 
 2018 – Sparks–Thomas award from the ACS Rubber Division
 2022 – Fellow of the American Chemical Society
 2023 – National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award

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Polymer scientists and engineers
Women materials scientists and engineers
Bioplastics
Biomaterials
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UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
McKelvey School of Engineering alumni
Chain extender. In polymer chemistry, a chain extender is a low molecular weight (MW) reagent that converts polymeric precursors to higher molecular weight derivatives.  Often, it is convenient to prepare a polymer at an intermediate MW, which are suitable for solution- or melt-processing.  At or near the final stages of production, the material is treated with a chain extender.  Typically, chain extenders are bifunctional, i.e., they have two functional groups, which can link together two polymers.  Representative classes of chain extenders are diglycidyl ethers, diols, diamines, or dianhydrides.  Chain extenders are often applied to polyurethanes.

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Elastomers
Plastics
Hongqi H6. The Hongqi H6 is a mid-size liftback produced by Chinese automobile manufacturer Hongqi, a subsidiary of FAW Group. It has a dual-tone body design and a  coupe profile.

Overview

The H6 has front-wheel drive and is powered by a 2.0-liter turbocharged engine with two power variants available: the low-power version produces 165 kW and a peak torque of 340 Nm, allowing it to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 7.8 seconds. The high-power version delivers 185 kW and a peak torque of 380 Nm, enabling it to achieve 0-100 km/h acceleration in 6.8 seconds. Both versions are paired with an 8-speed Aisin automatic transmission.

The H6 has a Continuous Damping Control (CDC) suspension system, which enables the vehicle to continuously read multiple dynamic parameters at intervals of 2 milliseconds to adjust the firmness of the shock absorbers in real time to enhance the driving comfort and provide body support during high-speed and continuous cornering, further improving stability.

The interior has carbon fiber trims and features a 12.3-inch LCD instrument cluster. It is also equipped with paddle shifters and a heads-up display (HUD).

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H6
Cars introduced in 2023
Mid-size cars
Sedans
Cars of China
Airborne Kingdom. Airborne Kingdom is a city-building video game developed by The Wandering Band.  Players build and maintain a mobile, flying city.  It was released for Windows and macOS in 2020, and Freedom Games published ports to consoles in late 2021.

Gameplay 
Players control a culture who have rediscovered the lost plans for a flying city that can visit and trade with Earthbound cities.  The city begins as a flying town center, and players build from there.  Heavy buildings increase the need for lift, and construction must be balanced to avoid tilting the city.  Buildings can also generate drag, requiring more propellers.  Coal and other resources from the ground are necessary to keep the city running properly.  To harvest them, players can send workers in airplanes.  Citizens are initially made happy by providing for basic necessities, but they later begin asking for cultural buildings and luxuries.  Players can perform tasks for Earthbound cities, such as finding items that they need, and receive immigrants as a reward.  The happier the city is, the more immigrants it gets.  The ultimate goal is to unite these cities as your allies.  When this goal is reached, players can optionally start on a new map with scarcer resources.  A free DLC released in 2022 adds a tundra landscape, which worsens the city's efficiency and removes all food, water, and coal from the land below.  The city's look is based on a steampunk version of architecture from the Islamic Golden Age.

Development 
Airborne Kingdom released on Windows and macOS on December 17, 2020.  Freedom Games published ports to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on November 9, 2021.

Reception 
Airborne Kingdom received positive reviews on Metacritic.  Rock Paper Shotgun said it is "a true breath of fresh air" and praised its use of steampunk and Islamic architecture, which they said went deeper than surface-level aesthetics.  PC Gamer called it a "smart, hypnotic city builder that won't leave you tearing out your hair".  PC Gamer generally enjoyed the game's relaxing gameplay, though they said the campaign to unite the world was a bit easy.  Although describing it as a "lovely, mildly experimental city sim", Eurogamer said it does not explore the negative implications of its imperialism.  Nintendo Life recommended Airborne Kingdom to fans of city-building games who are looking for a unique setting, but they said it may disappoint those seeking a complex simulation.  They also suggested that strip-mining the world below was a missed opportunity for more narrative commentary.  TouchArcade, who enjoyed the unique setting, also suggested more worldbuilding would have made the game better.  Though both sites recommended the game overall, TouchArcade and Nintendo Life said the game's user interface on Switch could be improved.

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Xbox Cloud Gaming games
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