omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Lymphater's Formula. "Lymphater's Formula" () is a 1961 science fiction short story by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It is a story of a "mad scientist", mathematician Ammon Lymphater, who  invents an artificial intelligence, and then he realizes that it is  capable of rendering the humankind obsolete.

It was first published in the 1961 collection  (Book of Robots) with the pre-annotation "from the memoirs of Ijon Tichy". The story was never republished with this pre-annotation, and nothing in the novel gives any indication at Ijon Tichy. Piotr Krywak tried to figure out possible explanations for this, apart from a typographical error.

Plot
Ammon Lymphater  became interested in the emerging science of cybernetics and information theory, and started studying the works of an animal brain, the ant's  brain in particular.  He took note that the inherited knowledge is an evolutionary advantage somehow not exploited in full by the evolution. Eventually  he came to a conclusion that only by pure biological restrictions that adaptive abilities of insects were stopped in their tracks by the evolution. He went on further wondering whether the ants have an ability to apriori knowledge, i.e., knowledge neither inherited nor learned. He decided to consult a famous myrmecologist, who told him about a rare ant species Acanthis Rubra Willinsoniana with an exceptionally high adaptability. Eventually Lymphater devised and constructed  "It" capable of instant precognition of everything within "Its" rapidly expanding range of perception. From "It" Lymphater learns that the humanity is not the "crown of evolution", but rather evolution's tool to create "It", because the evolution could not create "It" directly (confirming Lymphater's reasoning about ants).  Realizing that the Superentity "It" renders the human civilization redundant and obsolete, Lymphater destroys "It". "It" already knew Lymphater's intentions, but was not worried, knowing that sooner or later someone else will create "It" again and again.  "It" was only the first variant of Lymphater's formula and the second variant is possible. Lyphater wonders whether the second one would be capable to create the third stage of the evolution which would amount to an artificial God.

Publication history
It was translated in Russian (as "Формула Лимфатера") in 1963, in Hungarian (as "Lymphater utolsó képlete") in 1966, and in Bulgarian (as "Формулата на Лимфатер" by Георги Димитров Георгиев) in 1969.
In 1973 an audiobook was released in German (as "Die lymphatersche Formel"), narrated by Martin Held.

It was also republished (and translated) in some other collections of Lem's short stories.

References

Works by Stanisław Lem
Mad scientists of Stanisław Lem
1961 short stories
Science fiction short stories
Fiction about artificial intelligence
Constructor Institute. Constructor Institute of Technology, formerly known as Constructor Institute and Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT), is a private non-profit institute in Switzerland founded in 2019 by tech entrepreneur and investor Serg Bell. 
The Institute is a part of Constructor Group, comprising education services, technology, and a venture capital fund. The Group is inspired by the Constructor Theory, a proposal for a new mode of explanation in fundamental physics in the language of ergodic theory.

History 

The Institute focuses on teaching, academic research and leadership.

Collaborating with institutions such as Université de Genève and the National University of Singapore, the Institute offers advanced programs at the master, Ph.D., and postdoctoral levels. The development of the Institute is supported by the Canton of Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland through a 3 million Swiss franc ($3.2 million) funding deal. 
As a part of the Constructor ecosystem and its network of academics, scientists, investors and entrepreneurs, the Institute's academic strategy is set by the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Physics Konstantin Novoselov. 
Part of the Constructor ecosystem, in its education branch, is Constructor University, located in Bremen, Germany. In 2021, Constructor Group became the main shareholder of the private Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany. According to the Senate, the new majority owner intends to invest 50 million euros in Jacobs University, half of which in the next two years.

Scientists and academics within the Constructor network 

 Konstantin Novoselov, Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board
 Mark Kamlet
 Mikhail Lukin
 Artur Ekert
 Nicolas Gisin
 Andrea Ferrari
 Rino Rappuoli
 Serguei Netessine
 Bertrand Meyer, Provost and Professor of Software Engineering
 Mauro Pezzè, Chair of Software Testing and Analysis

References 

Schaffhausen
Technical universities and colleges in Switzerland
Mirama–Kabale High Voltage Power Line. The Mirama–Kabale High Voltage Power Line is a high voltage electricity power line, connecting the high voltage substation in the town of Mirama Hills, in the  Western Region to another high voltage substation in te city of Kabale, also in the Western Region of Uganda.

Location
The 132 kilo Volt power line starts at the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) 132kV substation at Mirama Hills, in Ntungamo District, at the international border with Rwanda. From there it travels westwards to the town of Rushenyi, Ntungamo District, a road distance of approximately . 

From Rushenyi, the power line takes a general southwesterly direction and travels to Kabale, in Kabale District, a distance of approximately , from Rushenyi. The power line does not follow the road all the time as is slightly shorter, measuring a total of .

Overview
The power line was developed as part of plans to improve grid power delivery and reliability to the districts in the Kigezi sub-region and to deliver high voltage electricity to Kabale, the largest city in Kigezi. The other consideration is to evacuate power generated by Kikagati Hydroelectric Power Station (16 megawatts) and Nshungyezi Hydroelectric Power Station (39 megawatts) and transmit it to Kabale for industrial, commercial and domestic use. A loan obtained from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), was used in funding the construction of this power line, including a 132/33kV substations at Mirama Hills, and Kabale. In addition, funded by that same loan, is the construction of  medium voltage (33kV and 11kV) distribution lines and  low voltage (415V and 214V) lines. Also, a total of 377 transformers (25kVA, 50kVA, 100kVA & 200kVA) will be installed, together with 14,185 last-mile customer connections.

Construction and funding
Work on this power transmission line began in 2014. In 2015, the Islamic Development Bank agreed to lend the government of Uganda US$83,750,000 to build this power line and Opuyo–Moroto High Voltage Power Line. As of June 2019, procurement of a contractor for the 
Mirama–Kabale Transmission Line was ongoing.

See also
Energy in Uganda
List of power stations in Uganda

References

External links
Website of the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited
Delays cited in power line construction projects As of 26 October 2015.
Museveni attributes persistent power outages to use of old electric poles, wires As of 7 June 2019. 

High-voltage transmission lines in Uganda
Energy infrastructure in Africa
Energy in Uganda
Space Delta 9. Space Delta 9 (DEL 9) is a United States Space Force unit responsible for conducting orbital warfare. Its mission involves preparing, presenting, and projecting assigned and attached forces for the purpose of conducting protect and defend operations and providing national decision authorities with response options to deter and, when necessary, defeat orbital threats. Activated on 24 July 2020, the delta is headquartered at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado.

It replaced the interim 750th Operations Group, 50th Space Wing, which was activated a month before its redesignation.

Structure

List of commanders

References 

Deltas of the United States Space Force
Military units and formations established in 2020
Kevin Duckworth Memorial Dock. The Kevin J. Duckworth Memorial Dock is a dock on the Willamette River, along Portland, Oregon's Eastbank Esplanade.

History 

The dock has served as a memorial to Kevin Duckworth since 2009. In 2016, the Oregon State Marine Board considered a proposal from Daimler Trucking North America to relocate the dock to Swan Island to the company's headquarters. This move was approved by Oregon State Marine Board and Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R). Human Access Project (HAP) intervened to stop this move from happening. The organization proposed improvements to the dock in 2017 by hiring landscape architect firm M.I.G. to reinvision the use of the dock as a non-motorized swimming and fishing dock that included swim ladders and bike racks.

In 2020, HAP was successful in converting the use of the dock from motorized to non motorized and implementing improvements including the addition of eight swimming ladders and bike racks. On July 19, 2021, City of Portland Commissioner Mingus Mapps participated in a Duckworth Wednesday event, where he spoke and jumped in the Willamette River with his staff. In 2022, PP&R and HAP designated the dock one of six safer swimming areas on the Willamette River. In May 2024, the Portland City Council unanimously agreed to transfer the Duckworth (as well as the Holman Dock) to PP&R. These docks were previously managed by Portland Bureau of Transportation and Prosper Portland respectively.

References

External links

 

Kerns, Portland, Oregon
Monuments and memorials in Portland, Oregon
Willamette River
1987 Lehigh Engineers football team. The 1987 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Lehigh finished second in the Colonial League.

In their second year under head coach Hank Small, the Engineers compiled a 5–5–1 record.

The Engineers outscored opponents 221 to 201. Lehigh's 3–1–1 conference record placed second in the six-team Colonial League standings.

This was the 74th and final year that Lehigh played its home games at Taylor Stadium on the university's main campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The following year, Lehigh would open Goodman Stadium on the Goodman Campus; the former Taylor site is now occupied by Lehigh's business school and arts center.

Schedule

References

Lehigh
Lehigh Mountain Hawks football seasons
Lehigh Engineers football
Rajiv Shekhar. Rajiv Shekhar (born 1960) is a professor at IIT Kanpur and he was the former director at IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. Prior to joining IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, he worked as a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur. In recent times, he has been actively working towards research related to Solar thermal energy and applications.

Controversies
In 2018, Rajiv Shekhar along with 3 other professors from IIT Kanpur was accused of making caste related remarks upon a newly appointed assistant professor at department of Aerospace engineering. As a consequence, the assistant professor logged an FIR against them of charges of harassment, mental torture and making caste remarks at local police.

The students and senior faculty members of the institute protested in front of IIT Kanpur director's residence for nearly two hours. The teachers threatened to boycott exams and tender collective resignation, while the students informed the authorities that they would start an agitation if the FIR was not expunged.

A high court judge found the four teachers guilty of flouting IIT Kanpur's conduct code and the SC/ST Preventions Atrocities Act and as a result the complaint was taken to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC).

The IIT Kanpur Board of Governors (BOG) last year found all the four teachers guilty of caste-based discrimination and has taken steps against the other three. But it has not acted against Prof. Shekhar as he had already been appointed director of IIT Dhanbad with the approval of the Visitor, the President of India.

Selected bibliography

Selected articles

References

Living people
1960 births
IIT Kanpur alumni
Academic staff of IIT Kanpur
Indian Institute of Technology directors
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Satellize. Satellize (formerly known as Exseed Space) is the first private Indian company to have a satellite in space. In December 2018, their first satellite was launched into space via SpaceX. They launched their second satellite, AISAT (called ExseedSat-2) for a customer, AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation) India on board the fourth stage of the PSLV-C45.

Exseed Innovations was started in 2017 by Mahesh Murthy, Asshar Farhan, and Kris Nair in Hyderabad. Its focus is on "assembly, integration, testing and operation of satellites" and seeks to "democratize space exploration".

See also 
 
 List of private spaceflight companies
 Pixxel
 Skyroot Aerospace

References 

Private spaceflight companies
Space programme of India
Indian private spaceflight companies
Indian companies established in 2018
2018 establishments in Maharashtra
Companies based in Mumbai
Open Source Security Foundation. The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is a cross-industry forum for collaborative improvement of open-source software security. Part of the Linux Foundation, the OpenSSF works on various technical and educational initiatives to improve the security of the open-source software ecosystem.

History

The OpenSSF was formed in August 2020 as the successor to the Core Infrastructure Initiative, another Linux Foundation project.

In October 2021, Brian Behlendorf was announced as the OpenSSF's first full-time general manager. In May 2023, OpenSSF announced Omkhar Arasaratnam as its new general manager, and Behlendorf became CTO of the organization.

Activity

Working Groups and Projects

The OpenSSF houses various initiatives under its 10 current working groups. The OpenSSF also houses two projects: the code signing and verification service Sigstore and Alpha-Omega, a large-scale effort to improve software supply chain security.

Policy

The White House held a meeting on software security with government and private sector stakeholders on January 13, 2022. In May 2022, the OpenSSF hosted a follow-up meeting, the Open Source Software Security Summit II, where participants from industry agreed on a 10-point Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan, which received $30 million in funding commitments. In August 2023, the OpenSSF served as an advisor for DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a competition around innovation around AI and cybersecurity. In September 2023, the OpenSSF hosted the Secure Open Source Software Summit with the White House, where government agencies and companies discussed security challenges and initiatives around open source software.

See also

 Computer security
 Open Security Foundation

References

External links

Free software project foundations in the United States
Organizations established in 2020
Mirama–Kikagati–Nsongezi High Voltage Power Line. The Mirama–Kikagati–Nsongezi High Voltage Power Line is a planned high voltage electricity power line, connecting the high voltage substation at Mirama Hills, in the Western Region of Uganda, to another high voltage substation at Kikagati Hydroelectric Power Station and continues to end at Nshungyezi Hydropower Station.

Location
The 132 kilo Volt power line starts at the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) 132kV substation at Mirama Hills, Ntungamo District, in Uganda's Western Region. The power line travels in a general easterly direction to Kikagati Hydroelectric Power Station, in Kikagati, Isingiro District, a road distance of approximately . From there, the power line takes a general northeasterly direction to end at Nshungyezi Hydroelectric Power Station, a distance of about , as the crow flies, but is approximately  by road from Kikagati. Due to the steep terrain, the power line does not always follow the winding road. The line measures only , from Mirama Hills to Nshungyezi.

Overview
The power line is being developed to evacuate the 16 megawatts of electricity generated at Kikagati Hydroelectric Power Station and the 39 megawatts generated at Nshungyezi Power Station and transmit it to Mirama Hills, for integration into Uganda's national electricity grid.

Associated power infrastructure
As of August 2020, Kikagati Power Station is under construction at a contract price of US$88 million and an anticipated completion date of 2021. The project received US$12.3 million partial funding from the Uganda GET Fit Program.

Nshungyezi Power Station is a proposed 39 megawatts hydroelectric power station planned on the Kagera River, approximately , downstream of Kikagati Power Station. The development rights are owned by Maji Power Limited, a subsidiary of Berkeley Energy.

Cost and construction
The power line and associated infrastructure developments are budgeted at US$33.4 million. As of August 2020, construction has not started. It was anticipated that by 2022, the power line would be in operation. Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited will own and operate the completed power transmission line. The project received partial funding from the government of Norway.

See also
Energy in Uganda
List of power stations in Uganda

References

External links
 Website of Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited
 Strategic plan to increase power supply pays dividends As of 9 October 2012.

High-voltage transmission lines in Uganda
Energy infrastructure in Africa
Energy in Uganda
Olfa Kanoun. Olfa Kanoun is professor for measurement and sensor technology at the TU Chemnitz.

Career development 
Kanoun completed her studies in electrical engineering and information technology at the Technical University of Munich in 1995. She received her doctorate from the University of the Bundeswehr University Munich in 2001. Her thesis "Kalibrationsfreie Temperaturmessung" was awarded the research prize of the Arbeitskreis der Hochschullehrer für Messtechnik (AHMT e. V.). She then founded the Impedance Spectroscopy working group at the Bundeswehr University Munich. Her habilitation took place abroad. From 2006 to 2007 she was substitute professor for measurement technology at the University of Kassel. Since 2007 she is professor for measurement and sensor technology at the Chemnitz University of Technology.

Research 
Kanoun's research deals with sensors, measurement systems and measurement methods. Among other things, it develops new sensors and new measurement solutions based on impedance spectroscopy. Applications include battery diagnosis and material tests. She also develops force, temperature and humidity measurements.

Awards 
Recognition of excellence in the field on the National Day of Women of Tunisia

References 

Living people
Academic staff of the Chemnitz University of Technology
Technical University of Munich alumni
Bundeswehr University Munich alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Electrical engineering academics
German women engineers
20th-century German women engineers
21st-century German women engineers
20th-century German engineers
21st-century German engineers
RV Atair. RV Atair is a research vessel owned and operated by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (BSH).  She entered service in 2021 and replaces a 1987-built research vessel also named Atair.

History
BSH issued a request for proposals for a new research vessel in October 2014, and completed design work for the ship early in 2015.  The ship was originally planned to have a cost of about €80 million and enter service late in the decade.  The €113.8 million contract for overall engineering and construction of the ship was awarded to Kongsberg.  Construction of Atair was sub-contracted to two German shipyards—Fassmer Werft and German Naval Yards (GNY).  Construction began in December 2017, and the hull and superstructure were launched at German Naval Yards in February 2019.  Following some fitting out work, including the installation of the main powerplants, Atair was transported to Fassmer Werft the following month to be completed.  Sea trials began in late 2019 and continued through September 2020 ahead of the expected delivery of Atair late in 2020.  Upon her entry into service for BSH, which will own and operate Atair, she will replace the 1987-built Atair and operate primarily in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, and the North Atlantic Ocean.

Design
Atair measures  long,  wide, and has a draft of .  She is powered by three Wärtsilä engines, two of which are LNG-capable, that give her a service speed of up to  through a single propeller.  Atair is the first research vessel in the world to have an LNG-fueled propulsion system.  The crew complement is 18 sailors, with accommodations for up to 15 researchers. Scientific facilities on board include several types of sonar, laboratories, rigging to support the deployment of off-vessel equipment, and deck space to house additional temporary equipment.

References

2019 ships
Research vessels of Germany
Io uring. io_uring (previously known as aioring) is a Linux kernel system call interface for storage device asynchronous I/O operations addressing performance issues with similar interfaces provided by functions like / or / etc. for operations on data accessed by file descriptors.

Development is ongoing, worked on primarily by Jens Axboe at Meta.

Interface

It works by creating two circular buffers, called "queue rings", for storage of submission and completion of I/O requests, respectively. For storage devices, these are called the submission queue (SQ) and completion queue (CQ). Keeping these buffers shared between the kernel and application helps to boost the I/O performance by eliminating the need to issue extra and expensive system calls to copy these buffers between the two. According to the io_uring design paper, the SQ buffer is writable only by consumer applications, and the CQ buffer is writable only by the kernel.

eBPF can be combined with io_uring.

History

The Linux kernel has supported asynchronous I/O since version 2.5, but it was seen as difficult to use and inefficient. This older API only supported certain niche use cases, notably it only enables asynchronous operation when using the O_DIRECT flag and while accessing already allocated files. This prevents utilizing the page cache, while also exposing the application to complex O_DIRECT semantics. Linux AIO also does not support sockets, so it cannot be used to multiplex network and disk I/O.

The io_uring kernel interface was adopted in Linux kernel version 5.1 to resolve the deficiencies of Linux AIO. The liburing library provides an API to interact with the kernel interface easily from userspace.

Security

io_uring has been noted for exposing a significant attack surface and structural difficulties integrating it with the Linux security subsystem.

In June 2023, Google's security team reported that 60% of the exploits submitted to their bug bounty program in 2022 were exploits of the Linux kernel's io_uring vulnerabilities. As a result, io_uring was disabled for apps in Android, and disabled entirely in ChromeOS as well as Google servers. Docker also consequently disabled io_uring from their default seccomp profile.

Notes

References

External links 
 Efficient I/O with io_uring, in-depth description of motivation behind io_uring, interface (data structures etc.), and performance assessment
  source repository
  source directory in the Linux kernel repository

Interfaces of the Linux kernel
Linux kernel features
Articles with underscores in the title