omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Władysław Findeisen. Władysław Findeisen (28 January 1926 – 7 March 2023) was a Polish engineer, academic and politician.

Life and career 
Born in Poznań, the son of two engineers, during World War II Findeisen took part in the Warsaw Uprising, being captured by Nazis and being imprisoned in a war camp in Germany. In 1949, he graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, where he later became professor and where he co-founded the Department of Automatic Control and Telemechanics (later renamed as Institute of Automatic Control), that he headed from 1955 to 1981. He served as rector of the university from 1981 to 1985, when he was dismissed for political reasons.  A member of the Solidarity movement and a supporter of Lech Wałęsa, he was senator from 1989 to 1993.

The main object of Findeisen's studies was the theory and technology of automatic control, and among other things with his team he developed a system of hierarchical steady-state control used in the chemical industry. He authored or co-authored about 80 scientific articles and 6 books.

During his career Findeisen received various honours and accolades, notably the Order of the White Eagle,  the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Warsaw Uprising Cross and the Honorary Citizenship of Warsaw. He died in Warsaw on 7 March 2023, at the age of 97.

References

External links
 
 Władysław Findeisen at Warsaw Rising Museum

1926 births
2023 deaths
Polish engineers
Polish dissidents
Politicians from Poznań
Democratic Union (Poland) politicians
Members of the Senate of Poland 1989–1991
Members of the Senate of Poland 1991–1993
Home Army members
Warsaw Uprising insurgents
Recipients of the Armia Krajowa Cross
Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland)
Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1944–1989)
Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
Warsaw University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Warsaw University of Technology
Vanilla UAV. The Vanilla UAV is a long-endurance, low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) produced by American manufacturer Vanilla Unmanned. It has flown unrefueled over 8 days.

Development 

Vanilla Unmanned was founded by aerostructures designer Daniel Hatfield, systems engineer Neil Boertlein, and program manager Jeremy Novara. This team designed, built, and flew the VA001 prototype.  In October 2020, Vanilla Unmanned was acquired by Platform Aerospace, a provider of aircraft prototyping, modification, and systems integration.

In December 2016, a VA001 set an Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) world record endurance of 2 days, 7 hours, 56 minutes in Las Cruses New Mexico.  In October 2017, a VA001 completed a flight of 5-days, 1-hour, 20-minutes at NASA Wallops in Virginia, covering 7,000 miles (11,265 km) and landing with three days of fuel remaining.

On 2 October 2021, a Vanilla UAV completed an 8 day, 50 minute flight from Edwards AFB in California, flying 10,600 nmi (19,600 km) in circuits, an internal combustion engine-powered UAV record ratified by the FAI. Only the Rutan Voyager has flown longer unrefueled (see flight endurance records).

In November 2021, NASA flew the Vanilla UAV in the Arctic from Deadhorse Airport, Alaska, testing instruments to survey the region, monitoring sea level change, as it could fly for nearly five days over sea ice, Greenland, and Antarctica ice sheets. It carried a radar to measure the depth of snow on top of the sea ice, and ice-detecting sensors, heating systems, and a special anti-icing coating to manage flight in the cold temperatures.

Design 

The initial VA001 was powered by a off-the-shelf engine driving a pusher propeller, and was controlled by a Piccolo autopilot.

Weighing up to 600 lb (272 kg), it has a 36 ft (11 m) wing span and a 55-gallon (208-litre) fuel capacity.

It has a projected endurance of up to 10 days at 55 kn (102 km/h) and up to , and burning  of jet fuel per hour.

The VA001 was launched using a sled and pulled by a towline attached to a pickup truck. It lands at  on a single center wheel. 

VA001 could carry a  payload for 10 days. Mission payload options include: electro-optical and synthetic aperture radar sensors for surveillance including maritime surveillance, or acting as a radio relay.  Platform Aerospace increased Vanilla's takeoff weight by . It can now carry maximum of  of payload, or fly over  with a  payload.

Specifications (VA001 / Vanilla UAV)

References

External links

Unmanned aerial vehicles of the United States
Unmanned aerial vehicles
3,4-Bis(trifluoromethyl)-1,2-dithiete. 3,4-Bis(trifluoromethyl)-1,2-dithiete is the organofluorine compound with the formula , a yellow liquid. It is a stable 1,2-dithiete. It arises by the reaction of hexafluoro-2-butyne with molten sulfur.

Bonding
Being planar with six pi-electrons, the compound is considered to be aromatic.  This description is supported by an electron diffraction study, which reveals an elongated C=C distance of 1.40 Å and shortened C-S distances of 1.73 Å.

Reactions
The compound tends to dimerize at room temperature, but the dimer cracks at higher temperature back to the dithiete. It is used to prepare metal dithiolene complexes.  It reacts with low valent metal complexes by oxidative addition:

References

Organic disulfides
Sulfur heterocycles
Four-membered rings
Trifluoromethyl compounds
Chery eQ7. The Chery eQ7 () is an electric compact crossover SUV by Chery. Being essentially a facelift of the eQ5, only the front end and rear bumper was restyled, and dimensions are mostly the same.

Overview 
The Chery eQ7 is powered by electric motors producing 135kW and 155kW with torque of 225N·m and 285N·m respectively. The top speed is 180km/h and 0-100km/h acceleration takes 8 seconds. The CLTC electric driving range is 412km and 512km for variants equipped with 53.87kWh and 67.12kWh batteries respectively.

Cost 
The price of the electric car starts at $21,800 and goes up to $29,070.

References

External links

 
 Chery eQ7 in Egypt

Chery vehicles
Cars introduced in 2023
Compact sport utility vehicles
Crossover sport utility vehicles
Cars of China
Orly Alter. Orly Alter (Hebrew: אורלי אלתר) is an Israeli-American physicist and research associate professor in the field of bioengineering and human genetics. She has published several papers about her research in genomic signal processing and bladder and brain cancers. She is a professor at the University of Utah.

Education and career 
Alter began attending school at Tel Aviv University in Israel and graduated in October 1989 magna cum laude with her bachelors of science in physics. After receiving her undergraduate degree, she began pursuing her Ph.D. in applied physics at the Stanford University in California, USA. She completed her Ph.D. with a thesis on “Quantum Measurement of a Single System," under the mentorship of Yoshihisa Yamamoto in January of 1999 and then moved onto a postdoctoral fellowship working with genetics, remaining at Stanford. Alter moved to the University of Utah in 2010.

Research 
Alter has one published book named Genomic Signal Processing: Discovery of Principles of Nature from Matrix and Tensor Modeling of Large-Scale Molecular Biological Data. Alter's work on finding patterns in DNA finds predictors indicative of a woman's risk for ovarian cancer, and she uses mathematical models to improve the outcomes for women with ovarian cancer.

Awards and recognition 
In 2005 Alter was selected by the International Linear Algebra Society to give the Linear Algebra and its Applications Lecture.

Selected publications

References

External links 
 

Living people
University of Utah faculty
Tel Aviv University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Geneticists
Women physicists
Living Vehicle. Living Vehicle (LV) is a self-sustainable vehicle designed to support human habitation with very little to no resource needs from external sources.

LVs are purpose-built to live in year-round, thus they are capable of supporting human habitation in all seasons, including sub-freezing temperatures. They are also able to create and manage resources for continued  and indefinite off-grid use.

Background 
Designers Matthew and Joanna Hofmann set out to design a stylish off-grid vehicle in 2017. Inspired by years of traveling full-time in mobile spaces while running a custom mobile design firm in Santa Barbara, CA, the Hofmanns felt the need to create a new mobile space designed for a modern mobile lifestyle. LV is offered with very limited production per year.

In 2022, Living Vehicle was the first to release Atmospheric Water Generation in a production vehicle. Since its foundation in 2017, LV comes in different generations and models with diverse specifications.

Versions
The original LV was released in 2019, typically having large windows and skylights to create the outdoor living experience, as well as a large deck area. It was fitted with high-end home appliances.

LV 2020 introduced solar powered air conditioning, using 12 solar panels. Its interior length increased slightly, to 28 feet. Twenty-five LV2020s were to be produced.

See also 

 Recreational vehicle

References

External links
 Living Vehicle website

Land vehicles with sleeping facilities
Trailers
María Luisa Bonet. María Luisa Bonet Carbonell is a Spanish computer scientist interested in logic in computer science, including proof complexity and algorithms for the maximum satisfiability problem. She is a professor of computer science at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Education and career
Bonet is originally from Barcelona. After earning a degree in philosophy at the University of Barcelona in 1984, she became a Fulbright Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a master's degree in mathematics there in 1987, and became a doctoral student of Samuel Buss, studying theoretical computer science. Buss moved to the University of California, San Diego in 1988, but Bonet remained at Berkeley; her 1991 doctoral dissertation, The Lengths of Propositional Proofs and the Deduction Rule, listed both Buss and Leo Harrington as co-advisors.

Bonet did postdoctoral research as a Warchawski Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego, at the University of Pennsylvania, and at DIMACS in New Jersey. She returned to Barcelona in 1996, to take a position in the computer science department of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She became a full professor there in 2007.

Selected publications
; preliminary version in 27th Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 1995), 

; based on conference papers in SAT 2009, CCIA 2009, AAAI 2010, and CP 2012

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Spanish computer scientists
Spanish women computer scientists
University of Barcelona alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Academic staff of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Yttrium perchlorate. Yttrium perchlorate is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula . The compound is an yttrium salt of perchloric acid.

Synthesis
Dissolving yttrium oxide in perchloric acid solution can produce yttrium perchlorate octahydrate.

Chemical properties
Potentially explosive.

Physical properties
The compound is soluble in water and forms a hexahydrate with the formula •6.

References

Perchlorates
Oxidizing agents
Yttrium compounds
Gaetanina Calvi. Gaetanina Calvi (1887 Milan – 1964 Carate Brianza) was an Italian engineer. She was the first woman to graduate from Polytechnic University of Milan, in 1913, and second in Italy after Emma Strada.

Early life and education 
She graduated from the Isep Parini high school. In the academic year 1908/1909, she enrolled in civil engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan. She graduated in 1913 with 85/100.

Career 
Calvi worked for the engineers Gardella and Martini in Milan. In 1925 Calvi designed a new wing of the L'Istituto dei Ciechi (Institute for the Blind) in Milan, in collaboration with the architect Mario Faravelli. 

She then taught mathematics at the Istituto dei Ciechi and in 1933 became a benefactor of the Institute’s Group Home with a large bequest following the death of her mother. 

In 1940, with the entry of Italy into the Second World War, Calvi retired from teaching in Milan but took child students in mathematics, Latin and Italian from the local population of farmers or labourers who worked in the spinning mills of the River Lambro, near her home in Costa Lambro, a village in Carate Brianza. She was known as Countess Calvi and "those who could afford to paid a small amount; those who could not paid for their lessons with a few hens."

She worked as a freelancer engineer and teacher until her death, in Carate Brianza in 1964.

See also
List of women who obtained doctoral degrees before 1800

References 

1887 births
1964 deaths
Polytechnic University of Milan alumni
Women engineers
People from Milan
Civil engineers
Italian engineers
Italian women engineers
Italian civil engineers
Women's firsts
Volkswagen ID.2all. The Volkswagen ID.2all is an electric concept car that was first shown publicly on March 15, 2023. It previews a production version to be launched on the European market in 2025.

A sport version of the ID.2all was introduced as the Volkswagen ID.GTI in September 2023.

Overview
The ID.2all uses a shortened and simplified version of the MEB electric platform called the MEB Entry, with a targeted range of  and producing , with a  time of 7 seconds.

References

External links
 

Volkswagen vehicles
Volkswagen concept vehicles
Electric concept cars
Shaanxi KQ-200. The Shaanxi KQ-200(Also known as Y-9Q; NATO reporting name: Milt or Mitch) is a four-engined, turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft used by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy. It was built by Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation and is based on the Y-8F-600 category III (Y-9 for new designation) airframe featuring WJ-6C turboprops with six blades 
on each engine.

The first two prototypes were first seen at the SAC factory airfield in November 2011 and mass production is believed to have begun in 2015. It features a completely pressurised cabin, a bulbous radome which house a search radar and a distinctive magnetic anomaly detector (MAD). An additional electro-optical turret housing a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) camera, CCD/TV camera and laser rangefinder is fitted underneath the forward fuselage. It also has four opening to deploy sonobuoys (SQ-4 and SQ-5) and cargo bay to carry anti-submarine grenades and torpedoes.

Operators
 People's Republic of China
 People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force - 20+

Specifications

See also

References

2010s Chinese patrol aircraft
Four-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
KQ-200
High-wing aircraft
Four-engined turboprop aircraft
Greg Brockman. Gregory Brockman is an American entrepreneur, investor and software developer who is a co-founder and currently the president of OpenAI. He began his career at Stripe in 2010, upon leaving MIT, and became their CTO in 2013. He left Stripe in 2015 to co-found OpenAI, where he also assumed the role of CTO.

Early life and education 
Brockman was born in Thompson, North Dakota, and attended Red River High School, where he excelled in mathematics, chemistry, and computer science. He won a silver medal in the 2006 International Chemistry Olympiad and became the first finalist from North Dakota to participate in the Intel science talent search since 1973. In 2003, 2005, and 2007, he attended Canada/USA Mathcamp, a summer program for mathematically talented high-school students. In 2008, Brockman enrolled in Harvard University, but left only a year later, before briefly enrolling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career 
In 2010, he dropped out of MIT to join Stripe, Inc., a company founded by Patrick Collison, an MIT classmate, and his brother, John Collison. In 2013, he became Stripe's first-ever CTO, and grew the company from 5 to 205 employees. Brockman left Stripe in May 2015, and co-founded OpenAI in December 2015 with Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever. The company was initially run from Brockman's living room.

Brockman helped create the OpenAI founding team, and led various prominent projects early on at OpenAI, including OpenAI Gym and OpenAI Five, a Dota 2 bot.

On February 14, 2019, OpenAI announced that they had developed a new large language model called GPT-2, but kept it private due to their concern for its potential misuse. They finally released the model to a limited group of beta testers in May 2019.

On March 14, 2023, in a live video demo, Brockman unveiled GPT-4, the fourth iteration in the GPT series, and the newest language model created by OpenAI.

On November 17, 2023, along with the firing of Sam Altman from OpenAI, Greg Brockman was told he was being removed from the board, but was vital to the company and would remain in his role at the company, reporting to the CEO. He later in the day announced on X (formerly known as Twitter) he had quit the company.

On November 20, 2023, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Brockman and former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman would join Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. The following day, after a deal was reached to reinstate Altman as CEO, Brockman returned to OpenAI. Brockman was on sabbatical since August 2024 and announced to join at the end of the year. In November 2024, he returned to the company after three months of absence.

Personal life 
In November 2019, Brockman married his girlfriend, Anna.

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1980s births
Living people
American investors
American software engineers
American technology company founders
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
OpenAI people
People from Grand Forks County, North Dakota
Red River High School alumni
Sodium p-toluenesulfonate. Sodium p-toluenesulfonate is an organic compound with the formula .  It is white, water-soluble solid.  It is produced by the neutralization toluenesulfonic acid with sodium hydroxide.  It is also a common product from the reactions of sodium-based reagents with toluenesulfonates.

Heating this salt in strong base results in desulfonation, giving, after acid workup, p-cresol.

References

Sulfonyl groups
Leaving groups
Sulfonates
Sodium benzenesulfonate. Sodium benzenesulfonate is an organic compound with the formula .  It is white, water-soluble solid,  It is produced by the neutralization benzenesulfonic acid with sodium hydroxide.  It is also a common ingredient in some detergents.  The compound typically crystallizes from water as the monohydrate.

Heating this salt in strong base results in desulfonation, giving, after acid workup, phenol This reaction was at one time, the principal route to phenol.

References

Sulfonyl groups
Leaving groups
Sulfonates
Lanthanum oxalate. Lanthanum oxalate is an inorganic compound, a salt of lanthanum metal and oxalic acid with the chemical formula .


Synthesis
Reaction of soluble lanthanum nitrate with an excess of oxalic acid:

Also, a reaction of lanthanum chloride with oxalic acid:

Physical properties
Lanthanum(III) oxalate forms colorless crystals that are poorly soluble in water.

The compound forms various crystallohydrates •n, where n = 1, 2, 3, 7, and 10.

The crystallohydrates decompose when heated.

References

Inorganic compounds
Oxalates
Şahap Kocatopçu. Şahap Kocatopçu (1916–2012) was a Turkish engineer, politician and businesspeople. He was the minister of industry for two times in the cabinets established after the military coups. He headed several state and private companies.

Early life and education
He was born in Istanbul on 17 February 1916. He was educated in Galatasaray High School until 1936. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954 receiving a degree in metallurgical and materials engineering. He also obtained a Ph.D. in the same field.

Career
Kocatopçu started his career at Sümerbank in 1945. Then he joined the General Directorate of Cement Industry as a planning manager. On 11 May 1954 he was named as the director general of the state-owned Turkey Bottle and Glass Factories and held this post until 22 September 1980. Following the military coup in 1960 he was elected to the Constituent Assembly. Between 1960 and 1961 he served as the minister of industry and technology in the cabinet formed by Cemal Gürsel. He resigned from the post on 14 July 1961.

Kocatopçu became the first chairman of the Turkish Employer Unions Confederation in 1962 of which he was one of the founders. He held the post until 1967. In 1963 he became the chair of the council at Istanbul Chamber of Industry. He was appointed minister of industry in 1980 after the military coup and remained in office until 13 December 1981 when he resigned from office. He was the chairman of the Turkish Industry and Business Association between 1985 and 1986.

Membership and activities
Kocatopçu was confounder of various foundations and served in their boards. He was a member of the Galatasaray S.K.

Personal life and death
Kocatopçu was married and had two children. He died in Istanbul on 25 April 2012 at age 96. Kocatopçu was interred in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery in Istanbul.

Awards
Kocatopçu was the recipient of Ordre national du Mérite (1984).

References

20th-century Turkish businesspeople
21st-century Turkish businesspeople
20th-century Turkish engineers
1916 births
2012 deaths
Burials at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
Engineers from Istanbul
Galatasaray High School alumni
Businesspeople from Istanbul
Industry ministers of Turkey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Members of the 24th government of Turkey
Members of the 25th government of Turkey
Members of the 44th government of Turkey
Independent politicians
Politicians from Istanbul
Members of the Constituent Assembly of Turkey
Devarajan (Dave) Thirumalai. Devarajan (Dave) Thirumalai, an Indian-born American physicist, is the Collie-Welch Reagents Professor in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. His research spans equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, such as the transition from liquid to
amorphous state, polymer-colloid interactions, and protein and RNA folding. He is known for his contributions to the theories of protein/RNA folding, protein aggregation, glasses (the Random First Order Transition – RFOT theory), and biological machines. He also does research in intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), organization and dynamics of chromosome and cell biophysics. Prior to moving to the University of Texas at Austin, he was a distinguished university professor in the University of Maryland from 2010 to 2015.

Educational Background
Dave Thirumalai studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur where he earned a MSc degree (1977).  He earned his doctorate degree in 1982 from the University of Minnesota under Donald G. Truhlar.

Academic career
After postdoctoral studies at the Columbia University in New York City, he joined University of Maryland as an assistant professor of physics in 1985. He is the founding director of the biophysics program in the University of Maryland. In 2016, he joined the University of Texas at Austin as the Collie-Welch Reagents Chair.

Awards and honors
1986–1988 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
1987–1992 Presidential Young Investigator Award.
2009 Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists.
2009 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
2011 Honorary Senior Hans-Fisher Fellow.
2014 Fellow of the Biophysical Society.
2015 Fellow of the American Physical Society.
2016 Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Medal.
2016 ACS Theoretical Chemistry Award.
2018 Oesper Award, Chemistry, University of Cincinnati.
2019 APS Award, Irving Langmuir Prize.
2019 Hans Neurath Award, Protein Society.
2025 Founders Award, Biophysical Society. 
2025 Max Delbrück Prize,  American Physical Society.

References

Living people
21st-century American physicists
Indian expatriate academics in the United States
Indian expatriates in the United States
Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
20th-century American physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society

Year of birth missing (living people)
American biophysicists