omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Daniel Abadi. Daniel Abadi is the Darnell-Kanal Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park. His primary area of research is database systems, with contributions to stream databases, distributed databases, graph databases, and column-store databases. He helped create C-Store, a column-oriented database, and HadoopDB, a hybrid of relational databases and Hadoop. Both database systems were commercialized by companies. 

Abadi was the first to describe the PACELC theorem in a 2010 blog post. PACELC, a response to the CAP theorem, was proved formally in 2018 in a SIGACT News article.

Education and career 

Abadi obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Neuroscience from Brandeis University in 2002. A year later, he graduated from Cambridge University with a master's degree in Computer Speech, Text, and Internet Technology. He then pursued a PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was advised by Samuel Madden. At MIT, Abadi collaborated with several researchers to propose C-Store, a column-oriented database. C-Store was commercialized by Vertica and eventually acquired by Hewlett-Packard. Abadi obtained his PhD degree in 2007, writing a dissertation titled Query Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems.

He became an assistant professor at Yale University in 2007 and subsequently an associate professor in 2012. In 2010, a company named Hadapt commercialized his research on HadoopDB, a hybrid of relational databases and Hadoop. Hadapt was acquired by Teradata in 2014.

In 2017, he joined University of Maryland, College Park as the Darnell/Kanal Professor in Computer Science.

Awards and recognitions 

Abadi's 2008 dissertation Query Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems received a SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2009. Two PhD students advised by him, Alexander Thomson and Jose Faleiro, also received this award for their dissertations.

He received a NSF CAREER award in 2009 and a Sloan Fellowship in 2011.

Abadi received VLDB's best paper award in 2007 for Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning and test of time award in 2015 and 2019 for C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS and HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads, respectively.

He was selected as an ACM Fellow in 2020 "for contributions to stream databases, distributed databases, graph databases, and column-store databases".

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Neven Ilic. Neven Iván Ilic Álvarez is a Chilean engineer and sports official that was born on 4 April 1962 in Antofagasta, Chile. He is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Education
Ilic studied Civil Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Career
Some of Ilic's most important achievements while in charge of the Chilean Olympic Committee were the creation of the ADO Chile, the Association of Olympic Athletes of Chile, the creation of the Olympic Sports Channel (CDO) with 24-hour transmission; the construction of the Olympic Training Center in Santiago with more than 29,000 square meters and the Olympic Training Center for Canoeing and Rowing in Curauma, Valparaíso; as well as the awarding of the hosting rights for the 2014 South American Games, 2017 South American Youth Games and the 2023 Pan American Games to the Chilean capital of Santiago.

Sports career
Ilic was a member of the Network Stadium Commission, which studies the conditions of the different national stadium in order to improve their infrastructure. From 2000 to 2004 he was Director of the National Tennis Federation, as well as the Director of the High-Performance Center, National Tennis Federation. He was the chairman of the Olympic Athletes Association (ADO-Chile), a non-profit corporation whose goal is to position Chile as a top sporting nation. Ilic was a member of the Marketing Commission of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC). In 2010, he was a member of the Evaluation Commission for the South-American Games, Medellín. He was president of the Organizing Committee for the South-American Games, Santiago in 2014, and President of the Organizing Committee Beach Bolivarian Games, Iquique in 2016. In 2017, he was President of the Organizing Committee for the South-American Youth Games, Santiago. From 2008 to 2016, he was a Member of the Executive Committee for the Pan-American Sports Organization (PASO), where in 2017 he was PASO President. In 2017 he was elected as member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). 2014 he was a member of the Evaluation for Youth Olympic Games, as well as in 2018 when he was a member of the Evaluation for the Youth Olympic Games 2022. In 2019, he was a member of the Coordination of the Games of the 2028 Summer Olympics, and in May 2020 he ran for re-election at the Panam Sports General Assembly in Cancún, Mexico, where in October 2020 he was set to be re-elected with no votes against.

Awards
In 2018, Ilic received the IFBB Spirit of Sport.

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Michelle Wang. Michelle Dong Wang is a Chinese-American physicist who is the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences at Cornell University. She is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her research considers biomolecular motors and single molecule optical trapping techniques. She was appointed Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2009 and the Biophysical Society in 2024.

Early life and education 
Wang earned her bachelor's degree in nuclear physics at Nanjing University. She moved to the Chinese Academy of Sciences for her graduate studies, where she majored in physics and earned a doctorate in 1986. Wang moved to the United States in 1986, where she worked toward a master's degree at the University of Southern Mississippi. She completed a second doctorate at the University of Michigan. Wang was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University.

Research and career 
In 1998, Wang was appointed assistant professor at Cornell University, where she was made Professor in 2009. Wang is interested in single-molecule biophysics. Her research considers biological molecular motors, including RNA polymerase molecules which move along the DNA template during cell division. During this process genetic information is transferred from DNA into new RNA. DNA motor proteins often experience roadblocks, including binding proteins that can interfere with essential biological processes. Wang has looked to understand the interactions between histones and DNA in nucleosomes.

Wang has pioneered several structural probes to better understand molecular motors, including angular optical trapping, DNA unzipping and nanophotonics. Angular optical traps isolate birefringent particles within a polarized laser beam. The particles can be rotated by rotating the polarization of the laser, which allows for the precise control and identification of biological molecules which are attached to the birefringent particles. To perform these optical rotation measurements, Wang makes use of bio-functionalized quartz nano-cylinders. Building on her experiences in photonics, Wang created an electro-optofluidic platform that can be used to trap single molecules. These traps use photonic interference to create three-dimensional on-chip optical traps at the antinodes of the standing waves of an evanescent field.

Awards and honors 
 2000 W. M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar award
 2008 Cornell University Provost's Award for Distinguished Scholarship
 2008 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
 2009 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
 2023 Elected to Member of the National Academy of Sciences
 2024 Elected Fellow of the Biophysical Society

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Romilly Madew. Romilly Jane Madew  (née Evans; born ca. 1966) is an Australian business executive who specialises in sustainable building practices and infrastructure strategy.  she is chief executive officer of Engineers Australia.

Early life and education 
Romilly Jane Madew, then Evans, completed her secondary education at Presbyterian Ladies' College Pymble in 1984. 

She subsequently graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics.

Career 
In 1994 Madew moved to Canberra to work for Mallesons Stephen Jaques in their property department. From there she moved to the Property Council of Australia as executive director of its ACT office in 2002. 

Madew was CEO of the Green Building Council of Australia from 2006 to 2019. She was appointed CEO of Infrastructure Australia in April 2019. 

In May 2022 she was appointed CEO of Engineers Australia.  she is still in this position.

Other activities
She is one of the co-founders of the Minerva Network, an organisation of businesswomen who mentor women athletes. She has served on the board of both Chief Executive Women and Bilgola Beach Surf Life Saving Club.

Honours and recognition 
Madew won the 2009 Telstra White Pages Community and Government award for New South Wales.

In the 2019 Australia Day Honours Madew was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to the construction sector as a change agent and advocate for sustainable building practices". 

She was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in October 2019.

Personal 
Madew is married to David Madew. They have three children.

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Suman Banerjee. Suman Banerjee is an Indian computer scientist and businessman working as the David J. DeWitt Professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Education 
Banerjee earned a Bachelor of Technology degree in computer science and engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1996, followed by a Master of Science and PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Career 
Banerjee worked as an assistant and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2004 to 2014. He was the CTO and co-founder of StratusWorX, a company that developed cloud workspace software. In July 2020, Ericsson acquired StratusWorX and the company's patent portfolio.

Banerjee was named an ACM Fellow in 2020 for his contributions to research in the area of wireless systems and an IEEE Fellow in 2022 for his contributions to the "development of tools to improve performance and usability of wireless systems". He has been cited more than 28,000 times (April 2021).

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William Richards Adrion. William Richards Adrion is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was named an ACM Fellow in 1996 and elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1995. He was a founding member and the first Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, and was also a founding member of the Computing Research Association.

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Kathmandu–Terai Expressway. Kathmandu–Terai/Madhesh Expressway or NH33 (previously: H20)  (), also known as Fast Track, is an under construction road connecting Kathmandu and Nijgadh in southern Terai region of Nepal. The road is  long, of which,  is normal roads,  is bridges and  is tunnels. The expressway is being constructed by Nepal Army, originally scheduled to be completed by September 2021. The new set target date for completion is 2026. As of January 2025, around 37% of the work has been completed. 

The consulting service for the construction is provided by Yooshin Engineering, a Korean firm. The most complicated section, including the tunnels and several bridges will be constructed by Chinese companies China State Construction Engineering and Poly Changda Engineering.

Controversies
In 2020, the Nepal Army had selected six international firms to provide consultation service for the project, however the process was stopped after a probe found that the selection criteria were leaked.

See also
National Highway System (Nepal)
Nijgadh International Airport, which will be connected to Kathmandu by the expressway

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External links
 Official website of the project

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SkyWater Technology. SkyWater Technology is an American semiconductor engineering and fabrication foundry, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. It is the only US-owned pure-play silicon foundry.

History  

The company was formed in 2017, when private equity firm Oxbow Industries acquired Cypress Foundry Solutions, a microelectronics fabricator that was previously a subsidiary of California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp. 

In early 2021, SkyWater acquired an additional chip factory in Osceola, Florida, repurposing the University of Central Florida NeoCity fabrication facility into a second fabrication site. It expanded its facility and added 100 new jobs in 2021, partially due to funding from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.

Initial public offering
SkyWater Technology filed an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in March 2021.

U.S. infrastructure investment
SkyWater has been cited as an example of the infrastructure the Biden administration is investing in. On April 12, 2021, President Joe Biden held up a silicon wafer created by SkyWater as he explained that chips represents a form of infrastructure.

On July 20, 2022, Skywater announced plans to invest 1.8 billion dollars into a manufacturing facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, but the company has since backed out of those plans due to a shortage of funding.  The facility is within Purdue University's Discovery Park District.

Technology
SkyWater produces semiconductor chips using 90-nanometer process technology on equipment designed to handle 200-millimeter wafers of silicon. SkyWater works in the consumer, industrial, military & defense, and automotive industries. SkyWater is a Department of Defense-accredited Trusted supplier, part of the DOD's efforts to secure a supply chain within the United States.

SkyWater has collaborated with Efabless and Google to create the first open source chip manufacturing program.

On August 21, 2021, SkyWater announced an expanded partnership with Rockley Photonics Holdings, focused on Rockley's health monitoring solution.

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Denise Bower. Denise Bower is an English civil engineer and academic. She is Professor of Engineering Project Management at the University of Leeds, and an executive director at Mott MacDonald.

Biography

Education
Bower received her Bachelor of Engineering in civil engineering from the University of Manchester in 1990. In 1995, she earned her Doctor of Philosophy in project management from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

Career
Bower began a research assistant position at UMIST in 1991, and later became a Shell lecturer of project management there.

She was the director of the Engineering Project Academy at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England from 2011 until 2016. While still working at the University of Leeds, she began working as executive director of the Major Projects Association. She worked at MPA until 2020.

In 2016, she became an independent advisor for Mott MacDonald, and continued in that capacity until 2020 when she became executive director of external engagement.

She has been a professor at the University of Leeds for over 20 years.

Distinctions
Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management "for her work in collaboration with Infrastructure UK (UK Treasury) to develop an Infrastructure Routemap to enable more informed project and programme initiation and delivery decisions." (2014)
Member of UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities
Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Council Member at the Institution of Civil Engineers
Chair of the Capacity Building and Professionalism Panels at the Institution of Civil Engineers
Judge for Wolfson Economics Prize (2014)

Awards
Order of the British Empire "for services to the Engineering and Construction Industries"

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Inflatable vision unit. An inflatable vision unit (IVU, sold under the trademark Emergency Vision Assurance System or EVAS) is an aircraft safety device which is deployed in the event of heavy smoke in the cockpit, and provides a volume of clear air with clear plastic windows on either side, through which the pilot can see key flight instruments and see out the front windscreen. , it was the only such device approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.

The EVAS device was invented by Bertil Werjefelt, with patents issued in 1994 and 2000. Its installation cost is about US$30,000, roughly equivalent to a cockpit window pane, according to its inventor.

Operation
When stowed, the EVAS measures . In the event that smoke in the cockpit obscures a pilot's vision and cannot be cleared by a smoke evacuation system, the IVU device is manually unstowed and inflated in under thirty seconds by using a pull tab, making contact with the instrument panel and windscreen. By placing their smoke goggles against the window on the other side of the unit, the pilot is afforded a clear view of their instruments and windscreen. The IVU includes a pump, 0.3-micron air filter, and battery to provide for two hours of operation in order to seek an emergency landing.

Adoption
Calls by the Independent Pilots Association and other industry bodies to include the device in aircraft followed the September 2010 crash of UPS Airlines Flight 6, in which smoke in the cockpit was a major factor. The IPA represents UPS Airlines pilots. As of October 2010, the FAA had not mandated use of the device.

As of October 2019, over 7000 IVU devices had been delivered, and the device was certified by ten aircraft manufacturers for use in 120 aircraft models. Gulfstream Aerospace was the first manufacturer to incorporate the device, and as of October 2019 had equipped more than a thousand of its aircraft with the technology. The device is available as a standard option on Gulfstream, Bombardier, and Dassault Falcon jet aircraft. The manufacturer claims that the device is included on 86% of U.S. domestic cargo aircraft, and 72% of cargo aircraft worldwide.

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Elizabeth Cuthill. Elizabeth Hahnemann Cuthill (October 16, 1923 – January 11, 2011) was an American applied mathematician and numerical analyst known for her work on sparse matrix algorithms, on block iterative methods for the numerical approximation of differential equations, and on the development of computer simulations of nuclear reactors. She was a researcher for the United States Navy at the David Taylor Model Basin. The Cuthill–McKee algorithm and reverse Cuthill–McKee algorithm are heuristics for permuting matrices into forms with small bandwidth and for associated problems in graph bandwidth, named for the work of Cuthill with James McKee.

Education and career
Cuthill was born on October 16, 1923, in Connecticut, the daughter of Paul Richard Hahnemann and Barbara Baumann Hahnemann.

She earned a master's degree in applied mathematics at Brown University in 1946, with a master's thesis "On the velocity distribution and stability of flow through a two-dimensional channel" supervised by Chia-Chiao Lin. After this, she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1951; her dissertation, Integrals on Spaces of Functions which are Real and Continuous on Finite and Infinite Intervals, was supervised by Robert Horton Cameron. While completing her doctorate, she became an instructor at Purdue University. In 1953, she became a researcher for the United States Navy, working at the David Taylor Model Basin, where she became Numerical Analysis Coordinator for the Computation, Mathematics, and Logistics Department.

She died on January 11, 2011, in Frederick, Maryland.

Recognition
Cuthill was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1963. In 1976, she won the David W. Taylor Award of the US Navy "for her valuable contributions in the development and exploitation of mathematical and computational techniques for significant Navy applications".

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German trawler V 202 Franz Westermann. V 202 Franz Westermann (later V 205 Franz Westermann) was a German trawler built in 1937 which was converted into a Vorpostenboot for the Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was sunk at Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands in an allied air raid on15 June 1944. Repaired post-war, she was renamed Pommern in 1954 and served until 1960.

Description
Franz Westermann was  long, with a beam of  and a depth of . It was assessed at , . The ship was powered by a triple expansion steam engine, which had cylinders of ,  and  diameter by  stroke. The engine was built by Deschimag, Wesermünde and was rated at 96nominal horsepower. It drove a single screw propeller.

History 
Franz Westermann was constructed as yard number 599 by Deschimag Seebeck in Bremerhaven as a fishing trawler. She was launched in November 1937 and completed on 28 December. She was built for Reederei Siebert & Co, Wesermünde. The Code Letters DFDI were allocated, as was the fishing boat registration PG 521. On 6 October 1940, the Kriegsmarine requisitioned the vessel and commissioned it as a Vorpostenboot in the 2 Vorpostenflotille under the designation V 202 Franz Westermann. It was redesignated V 205 Franz Westermann on 20 October. With the rest of the 2 Vorpostenflotille, Franz Westermann operated in the North Sea from 1939 to 1940 and in the English Channel from 1940 to 1944.

V 202 Franz Westermann was sunk in an Allied air raid on St. Peter Port, Guernsey on 15 June 1944. She was refloated and repaired in 1948, receiving the fishing boat registration BX 297. Franz Westermann was renamed Pommern on 28 June 1954 and was then homeported at Cuxhaven. She was then owned by the Cuxhavener Hochseefischerei. She was sold to W. Ritscher, Hamburg for breaking on 30 April 1962.

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