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Theodosios Pavlidis. Theodosios Pavlidis (; born September 8, 1934, in Thessaloniki) is a computer scientist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Education
Pavlidis studied at the National Technical University of Athens, where in 1957 he received his Diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering degree. He continued to study at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his MS in Electrical Engineering in 1962 and his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1964.

Career
Pavlidis taught at Princeton University, starting as an assistant professor in 1964, promoted to associate professor in 1968 and full professor in 1975.  In 1980, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, as a Member of Technical Staff.  While at Bell Labs, in 1982, he was appointed Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) and held that position through 1986.  Pavlidis resumed teaching in 1986, first as a Leading Professor, and then as a distinguished professor in 1995, becoming emeritus in 2001.

Pavlidis conducted fundamental research in several computer software technology areas, including pattern recognition, image analysis, picture editing, OCR, computer vision, and barcodes. He contributed to the PDF417 two-dimensional barcode ISO standard, allowing for the barcode itself to have very high information density and error correction. His work in computer vision resulted in an algorithm that could scan barcodes that are poorly printed or defaced/dirty.

Pavlidis has published several books, and numerous articles and papers in leading engineering journals and conference proceedings. He is also a named inventor on 15 U.S. issued patents.

Additional aspects of Pavlidis' career may be found in the sidebar of his IAPR profile.

Honors and awards

Books
 Biological Oscillators: Their Mathematical Analysis. Academic Press, 1973.
 Structural Pattern Recognition. Springer-Verlag, 1977.
 Algorithms for Graphics and Image Processing. Computer Science Press, 1982.
 Interactive Computer Graphics in X. PWS Publishing, 1995.
 Fundamentals of X Programming. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.

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1934 births
Living people
Greek emigrants to the United States
National Technical University of Athens alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Greek computer scientists
Princeton University faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
Scientists from Thessaloniki
Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
David Silver (computer scientist). David Silver (born 1976) is a principal research scientist at Google DeepMind and a professor at University College London. He has led research on reinforcement learning with AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar.

Education 
He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1997 with the Addison-Wesley award, and having befriended Demis Hassabis whilst at Cambridge. Silver returned to academia in 2004 at the University of Alberta to study for a PhD on reinforcement learning, where he co-introduced the algorithms used in the first master-level 9×9 Go programs and graduated in 2009. His version of program MoGo (co-authored with Sylvain Gelly) was one of the strongest Go programs as of 2009.

Career and research 
After graduating from university, Silver co-founded the video games company Elixir Studios, where he was CTO and lead programmer, receiving several awards for technology and innovation.

Silver was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2011, and subsequently became a lecturer at University College London. His lectures on Reinforcement Learning are available on YouTube. Silver consulted for Google DeepMind from its inception, joining full-time in 2013.

His recent work has focused on combining reinforcement learning with deep learning, including a program that learns to play Atari games directly from pixels.  Silver led the AlphaGo project, culminating in the first program to defeat a top professional player in the full-size game of Go. AlphaGo subsequently received an honorary 9 Dan Professional Certification; and won the Cannes Lion award for innovation. He then led development of AlphaZero, which used the same AI to learn to play Go from scratch (learning only by playing itself and not from human games) before learning to play chess and shogi in the same way, to higher levels than any other computer program.

Silver is among the most published members of staff at Google DeepMind, with over 200,000 citations and has an h-index of 93 according to Google scholar.

Awards and honours
Silver was awarded the 2019 ACM Prize in Computing for breakthrough advances in computer game-playing.

In 2021, Silver was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) for his contributions to Deep Q-Networks and AlphaGo. He was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2022.

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1976 births
Living people
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
Computer programmers
Go (game) researchers
University of Alberta alumni
Academics of University College London
Google DeepMind
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Fellows of the Royal Society
Spaun (Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network). Spaun ("Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network") is a cognitive architecture pioneered by Chris Eliasmith of the University of Waterloo Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience. It consists of 2.5 million simulated neurons organized into subsystems that resemble specific brain regions, such as the prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia, and thalamus. It can recognize numbers, remember them, figure out numeric sequences, and even write them down with a robotic arm. It is implemented using Nengo.

References

External links
 Spaun version 2.0 source code

Cognitive architecture
Pamela Hamamoto. Pamela K. Hamamoto is an American diplomat who served as the 18th United States Ambassador as Representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva.

Early life and education
Hamamoto is a native of Hawaii, one of four children born to Howard and Joanne Russell Hamamoto.  She attended the Punahou School with future U.S. President Barack Obama.

She earned a B.S. and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University in 1983 and an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 1990.

Career
Hamamoto began her career as a civil engineer for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, developing computer models to optimize hydroelectric energy generation in California.
She then worked at GTE Corporation and GTE Hawaiian Tel. During the 1990s, Hamamoto was as an investment banker with Goldman, Sachs & Co. and then at Merrill Lynch & Co, where she was a vice president in Corporate Finance.
 
When she was tapped by President Obama to serve as an ambassador, she was serving as trustee and advisor to educational institutions in California. Hamamoto served as a campaign bundler and fundraiser for Obama during the 2012 election.

When Hamamoto was sworn in by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in May 2014, she became the 18th Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. She is the second woman to serve in this position since the 1950s. She resigned in January 2017, after President Trump took office.

Hamamoto is known as a champion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. The U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva has, with her leadership, initiated a program, "The Future She Deserves", to address gender-based violence, adolescent girls' health, economic empowerment and leadership opportunities.

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Living people
Obama administration personnel
People from Hawaii
Permanent Representatives of the United States to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Stanford University alumni
UCLA Anderson School of Management alumni
American people of Japanese descent
1960 births
21st-century American diplomats
American women ambassadors
21st-century American women civil servants
Goldman Sachs people
St. Thomas Institute for Science and Technology. St. Thomas Institute for Science and Technology is an engineering educational institution located in Kattaikonam, Trivandrum, Kerala, India offering engineering education and research. This college was established by the Mar Thoma Church Educational Society (MTCES) in 2010. The college is affiliated to the University of Kerala and the Kerala Technological University.

Academics
The following courses of are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and sanctioned by the Government of Kerala, leading to the B.Tech. Degree of the University of Kerala and Kerala Technological University. It has an annual intake of 240 students for B.Tech courses. The distribution of seats are as follows.

 Civil Engineering : 60 seats
 Computer Science & Engineering : 60 seats
 Electrical & Electronics Engineering : 30 seats
 Electronics & Communications Engineering : 30 seats
 Mechanical Engineering : 60 seats

St. Thomas offers M.Tech programmes in the Civil Engineering Department.

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Engineering colleges in Thiruvananthapuram
Educational institutions established in 2010
George Adam Pfeiffer. George Adam Pfeiffer (16 July 1889, New York City – 28 December 1943) was an American mathematician.

Pfeiffer received in 1910 his master's degree in engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and then his A.M. in 1911 and in 1914 his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University. He spent the academic year 1914–1915 as a Benjamin Pierce Instructor at Harvard University and then in 1915 became an instructor at Princeton University. During WW I, he was in the U.S. army and at Princeton University taught meteorology to army aviation students. After the war he taught, starting as an instructor in February 1919, at Columbia University. There he became in 1924 an assistant professor and in 1931 an associate professor, in which position he remained until his death from a heart attack following minor surgery in 1943.

Pfeiffer is known for publishing the first example of a holomorphic function with a non-linearizable irrational indifferent fixed point. The question of the linearizability of fixed points is of great importance in complex dynamics. After Pfeiffer's example, Hubert Cremer gave various criteria for the non-linearizability of irrational indifferent fixed points, while Carl Ludwig Siegel in 1942 gave conditions which imply the linearizability of such fixed points.

Pfeiffer was on the editorial staff of Annals of Mathematics.

Sources
 Daniel Alexander, Felice Iavernaro, Alessandro Rosa: Early days in complex dynamics: a history of complex dynamics in one variable 1906-1940, History of Mathematics 38, American Mathematical Society 2012; biography of Pfeiffer on p. 365

Selected publications
 "On the conformal geometry of analytic arcs." American Journal of Mathematics 37, no. 4 (1915): 395–430. 
 "Note on the linear dependence of analytic functions." Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 23, no. 3 (1916): 117–118. 
 "A property of the level lines of a region with a rectifiable boundary." Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 34, no. 5 (1928): 656–664.

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1889 births
1943 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
Stevens Institute of Technology alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Columbia University faculty
Charles de Eendero. Charles de Eendero (or d'Eendero; or Carolus van Eendero) was a 17th-century Flemish engineer.

A nobleman from Bruges, d'Eendero wrote the , an illustrated treatise, published in 1695 in his hometown; the first part concerns the use of the proportional compass, the second is a dissertation on ballistics, a research on the shooting force of the cannon used up to the 19th century by French artillery.

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17th-century births
Engineers from the Spanish Netherlands
People from Bruges
Diamond DART series. The Diamond DART is a series of tandem, two-seat civilian and military turboprop trainers manufactured by Austrian Diamond Aircraft, "DART" meaning Diamond Aircraft Reconnaissance Trainer.

Development

The DART-450 made its first flight on 17 May 2016.
Certification of the $3.1 million plane was expected by the end of 2017.
The first two deliveries were to be for a non-certificated kit version in 2017, while a certificated aircraft was expected to be delivered in September 2018. Diamond intends to deliver 50 aircraft per year.
The third prototype was expected to fly in late 2017, powered by a 550hp (410kW) GE Aviation engine.

Design
The DART-450 is built predominately from carbon fibre. It is powered by a  Ivchenko-Progress Motor Sich AI-450S turboprop engine, driving a five-bladed MT Propeller. The cockpit accommodates two crew on ejection seats. The avionics are provided by Garmin and the fuselage is able to mount an optional retractable surveillance camera, plus other equipment.

Variants
Diamond DART-450
First flown on 17 May 2016. It has a  Ivchenko-Progress Motor Sich AI-450S turboprop, weighs  empty and has a  max takeoff weight.
Diamond DART-550
A version powered by a  General Electric GE H75-100 turboprop, it was first flown on 24 May 2018. It has eight hours endurance, Martin-Baker MK16 ejection seats, a Garmin G3000 cockpit, 1,600 kg (3,527 lbs) OEW, 2,400 kg (5,291 lbs) MTOW.
Diamond DART-750
Upgraded with the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turboprop engine rated at , the aircraft had its first flight on 12 June 2023.
CETC TA-20
Chinese licensed locally manufactured variant of the DART-450 utilizing alternate Chinese avionics, first flown on 6 November 2018. It is being proposed as a possible candidate for the development of a basic military trainer aircraft for the People's Liberation Army Air Force. 
UZGA UTS-800
Russian localised variant. Being manufactured in Yekaterinberg by Ural Works of Civil Aviation for the Russian Aerospace Forces as a low-cost trainer.

Operators
 - 3 UTS-800 Variants delivered

Specifications (DART-450, utility (reconnaissance) configuration)

See also

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Dart series
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined turboprop aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2016
Trainer aircraft
GeoOrbital. GeoOrbital is an electric wheel system fitted to existing bicycles by the American company GeoOrbital, Inc. It launched its successful crowdfunding campaign in 2016. A GeoOrbital powered bike was featured during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 at Brooklyn, NY in May 2016. In May 2017 it launched a Crowdfunding Reg CF campaign on the site StartEngine

History
GeoOrbital was founded by Michael Burtov in 2014. Burtov conceived the concept while watching a film called Tron, thinking that a lot of space was wasted inside the wheels - leading him to create an electric wheel system. He designed a wheel that can take the place of the existing wheel on nearly any bike, with two size options at launch. The motor and battery were able to produce a top speed of 20 mph and battery lasts for 12 miles, extendable to 30 miles with pedaling. In 2016, the company debuted on Kickstarter, reaching its fundraising goal of 75,000 within 78 minutes. With the fundraising campaign, the company drew the attention of media and was covered in TechCrunch, Irish Times, Huffington Post, The Verge, Gadgette and others.

The company also successfully raised a funding around of $150,000 from a group of independent angel investors.

The successful kickstarter campaign in May and June 2016 generated $1,261,222 in pledges pre purchasing around 1600 wheels. [14]

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Electric bicycles
EMU500 series. The EMU500 series is a series of electric multiple unit passenger trains operated by Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA). The trains are built as local trains and are used throughout the country's rail network.

History 
In the 1990s, the TRA was facing an aging fleet of local trains, all of which did not feature air conditioning. Therefore, in 1993, the company entered a contract with South Korean manufacturer Daewoo to build 344 cars, which would be arranged all into 86 trainsets. The first of these trains arrived in the summer of 1995, and the first passenger service began in 11 October of the same year.

Features 
The train is built on a system developed by Siemens, which features three-phase induction motors and a 16-bit control system. Trains are usually operated in four-car units in the following order: a motorized car with the cab (EMC), an unmotorized car with a pantograph (EP), an unmotorized car (ET), and a motorized car (EM). The braking system is supplied by Knorr-Bremse.

The exterior of the train is made of stainless steel, the first in Taiwan to use the material. Its appearance is based on the design of the DR2900 series. Each car features three doors on each side, an improvement from the EMU400 series' two doors. The destination signs have black text over a white background, which is inverted from the EMU400 series; this was updated to an LED display in 2004–2005. 

Similar to other local trains, seats run parallel to the walls of the train. The cars originally had one step at each door; this was removed beginning in 2017 by raising platforms and remodeling the interior to turn the trains into a low floor layout for accessibility. With this change, the doorframe was raised slightly, and an LED display was installed above the doors. As of August 2019, 246 out of 334 cars are low floor.

Incidents 
On 15 June 2017, a southbound EMU500 series train number 2719 was changing tracks south of Dali station when it was hit by a northbound E400 series that was undergoing testing. The E400 hit the second car of the four car unit, killing 5 and injuring 17. The TRA determined that the crash was caused by a faulty ATP system in the E400, as well as speeding by the train driver causing him to misread the signs.

On 8 July 2016, a bomb was detonated within a northbound EMU550 train number 1258 near Songshan station, injuring 25 people. The perpetrator, who was also injured, was arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

On 27 April 2020, A EMU500 series train collied with another EMU500 series train near Hualien station, injuring 7 TRA employees.

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Electric multiple units of Taiwan
Swissmill Tower. The Swissmill Tower, also known as Kornhaus, is the tallest operating grain elevator in the world. Standing at , it is the second-tallest building in the Swiss city of Zürich.

History and description 
The Swissmill Tower is a grain elevator close to Limmatplatz in Zürich. It was built near the Migros Tower, replacing a former grain elevator after the city voted in favor of building a larger silo. The original mill (Kornhaus) was built in 1843 on the same site.

The site required piles built to a depth of  in the bedrock of the Limmat Valley. The increase of its height to  was done by slipforming. This required as many as 60 construction workers processing concrete in three shifts around the clock. The construction took place in two stages. The first phase was completed in early July 2015. The second began in September 2015, and end in April 2016. Mill operations continued during construction. The works were carried out by Implenia.

Significance 
At , the Swissmill Tower is the tallest operating grain elevator in the world. The second tallest, the Schapfen Mill Tower in Ulm, Germany, is  tall excluding the antenna. The tallest grain elevator ever constructed, the Henninger Turm, stood  and was demolished in 2013.

The Swissmill Tower can store 40,000 tonnes of grain. Swissmill is the largest mill company in Switzerland, processing 800 tons of grain daily. This represents 30% of the Swiss national grain requirements. It supplies flour for Swiss retailers Coop, Volg and Landi.

Critics have said the silo's exterior and height are overly industrial. However, municipal authorities say that the silo was intentionally designed in that way. Its external appearance is intended to express its interior – an industrial plant.

In July 2016, there was a proposal to cover the tower's exterior with plants, in response to a request by Zürich politicians to redo the facade. Architect Miriam Vázquez suggested this during the planning phase, but later deemed it too expensive.

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Towers in Switzerland
Commercial buildings completed in 2016
2016 establishments in Switzerland
Buildings and structures in Zurich
Grain elevators
Agricultural buildings in Switzerland
21st-century architecture in Switzerland
Rena Gasimova. Rena Tofiq Gasimova (born 1961) is an Azerbaijani computer scientist, who holds the position of Sector Chief at the national Information Technology Institute ().

Career
Gasimova graduated in 1985 from the Faculty of Automatics and Computer Science, Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute named after Ch. Ildirim.

From 1985 until her present appointment she worked for the ACS Department of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. She worked to develop systems for various purposes, such as a database management system "The Court of Auditors, the corporate information system "Personnel". She took part in the creation of the www.science.az portal of ANAS. She carried out research on the implementation of technology in Azerbaijan, carrying out maintenance and analysis of multidimensional databases to support decision-making. She also involved in the study of methods and algorithms for control and learning (data mining) in corporate network environment, and investigated methods of analysis of aggregate data in operational systems, analytical processing (OLAP - On-Line Analytical Processing), based on a large distributed information resources. Currently she is engaged in investigating the issues of forming a knowledge base of domain names related to interests of the Republic of Azerbaijan. She is the author of more than 38 scientific papers, 28 of them published in scientific publications.

She is engaged in training activities in the Training Innovation Center of the Information Technology Institute, and she currently holds the post of Sector Chief at the institute.

References
 RənaTofiq qızı Qasımova, AMEA İnformasiya Texnologiyaları İnstitutu (ict.az).

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Soviet computer scientists
Azerbaijani computer scientists
Azerbaijani women computer scientists
1961 births
Living people
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government Institute of Engineering and Technology. Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government Institute of Engineering and Technology is an engineering college run by the government of Himachal Pradesh, in Pragatinagar, Shimla district. It is affiliated to Himachal Pradesh Technical University (HimTU) and is approved by AICTE (2012).

History
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government Institute of Engineering & Technology was established on 10 April 2011.

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Memorials to Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Engineering colleges in Himachal Pradesh
Education in Shimla district
Educational institutions established in 2011
2011 establishments in Himachal Pradesh