omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Nvidia GameWorks. Nvidia GameWorks is a middleware software suite developed by Nvidia. The Visual FX, PhysX, and Optix SDKs provide a wide range of enhancements pre-optimized for Nvidia GPUs. GameWorks is partially open-source. The competing solution being in development by AMD is GPUOpen, which was announced to be free and open-source software under the MIT License.

Components
Nvidia Gameworks consists of several main components:

 VisualFX: For rendering effects such as smoke, fire, water, depth of field, soft shadows, HBAO+, TXAA, FaceWorks, and HairWorks.
 PhysX: For physics, destruction, particle and fluid simulations.
 OptiX: For baked lighting and general-purpose ray-tracing.
 Core SDK: For facilitating development on Nvidia hardware.

In addition, the suite contains sample code for DirectX and OpenGL developers, as well as tools for debugging, profiling, optimization, and Android development.

See also
 PhysX
 GPUOpen
 TressFX
 Havok (software)

References

External links
 Nvidia GameWorks

Free and open-source software
Middleware for video games
Nvidia software
Video game development software
Debra L. Reed. Debra L. Reed (born 1957) is an American businesswoman who served as the CEO of Sempra Energy from 2011 until her retirement in 2018. She was the first female CEO of Sempra Energy, a Fortune 500 energy services holding company based in San Diego, California.

Early life 
Reed was born and raised in Southern California.

Education
In 1978, Reed earned her BS in Civil Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Southern California. In 1986, she received her license for Engineer in Training.

Career
Reed served as chairman of the board of directors of Sempra Energy from 2012-2018 and chief executive officer of Sempra Energy from 2011-2018.  She was promoted from her previous role as executive vice president at the firm.   Before moving into the management of Sempra Energy, Reed was chief financial officer and thereafter (2006 to 2010) President and CEO of two Sempra subsidiaries, San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas Co (SoCalGas). She retired in 2018 and was replaced by Jeffrey Martin.

In her role at Sempra, Reed presided over $37bn in assets, operated revenues of $10+bn and 17,000 employees. Reed started at SoCalGas in 1978. Her total compensation for 2013, $9,792,288 and her stock ownership for 2014, 57,762.

Business achievements
In 1988, Reed became SoCalGas’s first female officer. She was one of few female 500 CEOs from the Fortune 500 companies.

Business awards
In 2014, Reed was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Energy to the National Petroleum Council. Fortune Magazine has named her to its list of "Most Powerful Women in Business" six consecutive times, ranking her #23 in 2015 and #22 in 2016.

Board memberships
Reed is a member of the board of directors of Halliburton Co., the Board of Councilors of the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, Chairman’s Competitiveness Council, The Trusteeship and The Business Council.

In the past, Reed was chairman of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, a member of the board of directors of Genentech and Avery Dennison Corp.

On April 8, 2015, Caterpillar Inc. announced that Reed had been nominated to join the board of directors, with election to be held at the June 2015 annual stockholders meeting.

Personal life
Reed lives with her husband in San Diego. They have one daughter.

References

American women chief executives
American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies
American chief financial officers
Sempra Energy
1957 births
Living people
USC Viterbi School of Engineering alumni
Women chief financial officers
21st-century American women
Hemchandra Kekre. Hemchandra Baburao Kekre (4 April 1935 – 5 November 2014) was a professor, author, and head of the Computer Science Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Kekre was among the initial professors who started the computer science department at IIT Mumbai.

Biography

Early life and education
Hemchandra Kekre was born in India on 4 April 1935 to Mrinalini Kekre, and Baburao Kekre.

Kekre graduated with degrees including: B.E. (Hons) in Telecommunications engineering from Jabalpur Engineering College, MTech in Electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, M.S.Engg in (Electrical engineering) from the University of Ottawa, and lastly a PhD in Electrical Engineering from IIT Mumbai.

Kekre moved from the electrical department to the computer science department 1970.  Kekre was head of the Computer Science department between 1978 and 1984. Kekre retired from IIT Mumbai in 1995, and joined Thadomal Shahani Engineering College in Mumbai as a Professor of Computer Science, Vice Principal, and Head of Department of Computer Science. In 2008 Kekre joined Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management & Engineering (MPSTME) as a Senior Professor of Computer Science. Kekre worked in MPSTME until his death.

Academic works
Kekre is named after several transformations, these include: Kekre wavelet transform,
 Kekre's hybrid wavelet transform technique, Kekre's fast codebook generation and Kekre's LUV color space.

References

1935 births
2014 deaths
IIT Bombay alumni
AirLony. AirLony is a Czech aircraft manufacturer based in Štětí. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of complete ultralight aircraft and aircraft kits for amateur construction.

The company's sole current product is the AirLony Skylane UL, which is a two-seat ultralight replica of the four seat Cessna 182.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Intel Binary Compatibility Standard. The Intel Binary Compatibility Standard (iBCS) is a standardized application binary interface (ABI) for Unix operating systems on Intel-386-compatible computers, published by AT&T, Intel and SCO in 1988, and updated in 1990. It extends source-level standards such as POSIX and XPG3 by standardizing various operating system interfaces, including the filesystem hierarchy layout (i.e., the locations of system files and installed programs), so that Unix programs would run on the various vendor-specific Unix implementations for Intel hardware (such as Xenix, SCO Unix and System V implementations). The second edition, announced in 1990, added an interface specification for VGA graphics.

iBCS, edition 2, was supported by various Unix versions, such as UnixWare and third-party implementations. A Linux implementation was developed ca. 1994, enabling Linux to run commercial Unix applications such as WordPerfect.

There have been several security issues in various iBCS implementations over the years.

See also 
 Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
 Linux Standard Base (LSB)

References 

Unix history
Unix standards
Mooney M10T. The Mooney M10T is a light aircraft that was under development by Mooney Aircraft with an original proposed delivery date in 2017. The project was cancelled in April 2017.

The first flight of the proof of concept prototype was on 23 December 2015.

Design and development
The M10T is a three-seat, single engine, low-wing, tricycle gear composite aircraft, that was originally proposed as a new training aircraft. Although similar in configuration to the Ercoupe-based Mooney M10, the aircraft is an all-new design of composite construction with sidestick controls. The M10J is a parallel development, with a larger  engine and retractable landing gear.

The company planned to produce the design at its Chino, California plant initially, with the option of expanding to its Kerrville, Texas facility. Assembly was also considered for a new plant under construction in Hunan province, China.

In April 2017 the company indicated that development was canceled, but that their next-generation piston aircraft would use the knowledge they gained during the project.

Variants
M10T
Fixed gear trainer with Continental CD-135 diesel engine. One prototype built.
M10J
Retractable gear version with Continental CD-155 diesel engine. None completed.

Specifications (M10T)

References

External links
Mooney Project Announcement
New Mooneys: No Parachute? by Paul Bertorelli, AVweb

Low-wing aircraft
Mooney aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Abandoned civil aircraft projects of the United States
Aircraft first flown in 2015
2010s United States sport aircraft
Diesel-engined aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
Karosa C 734. Karosa C 734 is an intercity bus produced from 1981 to 1996 by bus manufacturer Karosa from the Czech Republic. It was succeeded by Karosa C 934 in 1996.

Construction features 
The Karosa C 734 is the basic model of Karosa 700 series. C 734 is built on a common frame and body with the city bus models B 731 and B 741. The body is semi-self-supporting with frame and engine with manual gearbox is in the rear. Only the rear axle is powered. The front axle is independent and the rear axle is solid. All axles are mounted on air suspension. 
On the right side are two doors. Between the axles underneath the bodywork is a luggage compartment with a volume of 3.5 m³. Hot water heating is provided, and is efficient at temperatures lower than 0 °C, however, the problem of the whole bus is controlling the flow of heat. Difficulties in ventilation and cooling are experienced during high exterior temperatures, since the only ventilation is two small sliding windows on the right side and three on the left. Forced ventilation from two heating system fans can not effectively exchange air. 
Seats for the passengers are spaced as 2 + 2 with a central aisle. The driver's cab is not separated from the rest of the vehicle.
C 734 (like other variants of the 700 series) had undergone many modifications during production, which should ensure better serviceability of these buses (especially newer, more powerful engines).

Production and operation 
Serial production started in 1981, and continued until 1996.

Currently, the number of Karosa C734 buses in service is decreasing, due to advanced age of buses.

Chollima-973 
A number of Karosa C734 were converted into trolleybuses by the Pyongyang Trolley Bus Factory in the 90s with the conversion finishing in 1997. These trolleybuses are the second most common vehicle in Pyongyang's trolleybus systems behind the newer articulated Chollima-091. They also serve in Pyongsong. Since then, some vehicles have been converted into work cars by adding a platform on the roof.

Historical vehicles 
Private collector in Prague (1 bus, ex Czech army, year 1982)
Private collector in Otvovice (1 bus, ex Lamer, year 1990)
Probo trans Beroun (1 bus, year 1982)

See also 

 List of buses

References

Buses manufactured by Karosa
Buses of the Czech Republic
Vehicles introduced in 1981
Kiwi Bus Builders. Kiwi Bus Builders is a New Zealand bus bodybuilder based in Tauranga.

History

Kiwi Bus Builders was established in 1993. It has built bus and coach bodies for many operators including Go Bus Transport, NZ Bus and Tranzit Coachlines.

In 2011, Kiwi Bus Builders entered an agreement with Alexander Dennis to assemble 120 Enviro200 buses for NZ Bus. This was followed by an order for a further 40.

References

Alexander Dennis
Bus manufacturers of New Zealand
Companies based in Tauranga
Tauranga
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1993
New Zealand companies established in 1993
Nicola Pinna. Nicola Pinna (born 14 November 1974 in Milan, Italy) is a chemist and professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Scientific career 
Pinna's doctoral studies were undertaken at Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris) with a focus on physical chemistry. His postdoctoral work at Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG (Berlin) saw him researching the catalytic properties of vanadium oxide nanoparticles. He has since worked at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam), Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, the University of Aveiro (Portugal), and Seoul National University (Korea). He has been a professor of inorganic chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin since July 2012. From July 2016 to April 2021 he was also head of the Department of Chemistry.

His research focuses on nanostructured materials, mainly dealing with the synthesis of nanomaterials by solution and gas phase routes, their characterization and the study of their physical properties. In particular, his research interests include the synthesis of crystalline metal oxide nanoparticles, heterostructures, hybrid materials and thin films by novel nonaqueous sol-gel routes, their assembly, and the study of their physical properties such as optical, electrical, electrochemical, magnetic, catalytic, gas sensing.

In 2011, he was ranked among the top 100 materials scientists of the past decade by impact.

He is executive editor of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research, associate editor of Carbon Energy  and was member of the editorial board of the Journal CrystEngComm from 2011 to 2015. Additionally he published books on Atomic Layer Deposition and the synthesis of nanoparticles.

References

External links 
 

1974 births
Living people
21st-century Italian chemists
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
William E. Bradley Jr.. William Earle Bradley Jr. (January 7, 1913 – September 19, 2000) was an American engineer and businessman who was the first president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He spent much of his career in research at Philco. He also spent 10 years doing government work and founded a water-purification business.

Personal life 
Bradley was born January 7, 1913, in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. For 41 years he was married to Virginia Althea Meyer, also an employee of Philco. When he died on September 19, 2000, he was survived by two children. He was a member of Wrightstown Friends Meeting.

Career 
Bradley earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1936, although the university counted him in the Class of 1935. He was a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. In June 1936 he joined Philco as a factory test engineer working on radio receivers. The next year he began working on wide-band amplifiers for television receivers, then in the experimental stage. During World War II he participated in Philco's collaboration with the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a collaboration that led to the invention of radar. He was promoted to assistant director of Philco's research division in 1945, director of the research division in 1946, and technical director in 1952. In addition to his research on television and radar, he also worked in physical optics, solid-state physics, and transistor manufacturing at Philco.

In 1957 Bradley went on leave from Philco and spent the next 10 years doing scientific work for the federal government. He began on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisory Panel, chairing a subcommittee on missile defense as part of an arrangement with MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He later moved to the Institute for Defense Analyses. In 1970 Bradley moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he founded Puredesal Corp., which researched energy-efficient water purification. The business failed, and Bradley became a consultant. He was involved in work on Marambio Base in Antarctica.

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 
Bradley played a prominent role in the early life of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He delivered the lecture at the third meeting of SIAM in May 1952, the first since the organization was incorporated. In October of that year Bradley became the organization's first president at the urging of Ed Block, who worked under him at Philco and who spearheaded SIAM's creation. Bradley resigned shortly after, however, citing conflicts with his other activities. In May 1953 he was replaced by Donald B. Houghton.

References

External links 
 Presidents of SIAM

1913 births
2000 deaths
American electrical engineers
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
American business executives
Presidents of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
People from Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania
20th-century American businesspeople
Engineers from Pennsylvania
20th-century American engineers
National Highway 231 (India). National Highway 231 (NH 231) is a  National Highway in India. It connects Maheshkhunt, Sonbarsa Raj, Simri Bakhtiyarpur, Saharsa, Madhepura, Purnia and Kora.

Route
National highway 231 transits across one state of India in east - west direction. It is spur road of

Bihar
Maheshkhunt
Sonbarsa Raj
 Simri Bakhtiyarpur
 Bangaon
Saharsa 
Madhepura
Murliganj
Banmankhi 
Purnea
Kora

Junction

  Terminal at Maheshkhunt.
  near Bangaon
  near Madhepura
  near Line Bazar, Purnea
  near Gulabbagh, Purnea
   Terminal at Kora.

References

National highways of India
Ricardo Bressani. Cesar Ricardo Bressani Castignoli (28 September 1926 – 30 January 2015) was a Guatemalan food scientist. Born in Guatemala City, he received a bachelor of science in chemical engineering degree from the University of Dayton in 1948. In 1951, he received a master's degree from Iowa State University. In the same year, Bressani returned to Guatemala where he worked at the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, INCAP. In 1952, he received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to study biochemistry at Purdue University, where Bressani obtained his Ph.D. in 1956. Afterwards, he reincorporated to the INCAP, this time as the Head of the Division of Agricultural Sciences and Food until 1993.

In 1983, Bressani became one of the 42 founding members of the Third World Academy of Sciences, known today as The World Academy of Sciences. In the 1990s, Bressani was the editor-in-chief of the journal Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición. He was also an associate editor of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin. In 1992, he arrived to the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, and in 1998, he founded the Center for the Studies of Food Science and Technology. Bressani wrote more than 300 publications in many scholarly international journals.

Bressani performed an investigation on practical solutions to nutritional problems within the population of Guatemala and the rest of Central America. His experiments led to the creation and production of Incaparina, a nutritional supplement based on a mixture of corn flour, soy flour, cottonseed meal, and Torula yeast. This supplement was intended to be primarily served in the form of gruel.

References

Further reading

External links 
 UNICEF campaign 'Te Toca' (It's your turn)
 Corinne A. Pernet, “Between Entanglements and Dependencies: Food, Nutrition, and National Development at the Central American Institute of Nutrition (INCAP),” In Sönke Kunkel, Corinna Unger und Marc Frey, eds., International Organizations and Development, 1945-1990, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, p.101-125.

1926 births
2015 deaths
Food scientists
Guatemalan scientists
Grand Crosses of the Order of the Quetzal
Albert Einstein World Award of Science Laureates
University of Dayton alumni
Iowa State University alumni
Purdue University alumni
Guatemalan people of Italian descent
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Musical Electronics Library. The Musical Electronics Library (or MEL) is a lending library of homemade electronic musical devices in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand, and is a worldwide leader in the Scavengetronica movement.

The library contains electrolytic capacitors, rampwave oscillators, white noise generators, light theremins, sample and holds, ring modulators, preamplifiers, pitch shifters, phasers, and mixers; mostly built inside repurposed VHS cases. Highlights of the collection include the "electric bee motorcycle sound-maker box", a device which emulates the sound of meowing cats inside a Cats VHS box, and "Mad Max" which has been described as "Merzbow in a box".

MEL is run by volunteers and curated by musician and device-builder Kraus. The library was inspired by the work of Nicolas Collins and Bob Widlar. Musicians using equipment from MEL include Hermione Johnson, Kraus, Pumice, Diana Tribute, Samuel Flynn Scott, the MEL Orchestra, Piece War, Ducklingmonster, the Biscuits, Powernap, Herriot Row, and Chronic Fatigue Sindrome.

The library has been running synthesizer-building workshops around New Zealand. MEL also co-hosts an open weekly maker night with the Auckland University of Technology where projects are developed in a collaborative environment.

Kraus stated in a New Zealand Listener interview that "doing any kind of community project like this for me is a political thing - of self-organisation and encouraging people to take control of their lives, instead of just being a consumer, buying something someone else has made, or some robots in China. The kind of empowerment that comes from learning a new skill is a really powerful thing." He said in NZ musician magazine that he wants "to emphasise the idea of sharing and also reducing waste through re-using things and giving seemingly broken or out of date things a new purpose."

The library started in Auckland and 2014 and opened a Wellington chapter in 2016.

Gallery

References

External links 
 Musical Electronics Library blog
 Musical Electronics Library Auckland microblog
 Musical Electronics Library Auckland inventory
 Musical Electronics Library Wellington inventory
 Documentary on MEL

Electronic music organizations
Libraries in Auckland
Karangahape
Organisations based in Auckland
Libraries in Wellington
Music organisations based in New Zealand
Underground culture
Hackerspaces
DIY culture
Tool libraries
Music libraries
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. Makers: The New Industrial Revolution is the third book written by Chris Anderson, Editor in chief of Wired magazine. The book was published on October 2, 2012, by Crown Business. He is also the author of  The Long Tail,  published in 2006. Makers focuses on a new industrial revolution as modern entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop.

The book is largely based on his 2010 article, "In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits". The ideas he portrayed, such as crowdsourcing of ideas, utilization of available lower-cost design and manufacturing tools, and reviewing options to outsource capital-intensive manufacturing were highlighted in the February 2010 Harvard Business Review article, "From Do It Yourself to Do It Together".

Overview

References

External links
Review in The Guardian
Chris Anderson's blog

2012 non-fiction books
Business books
Works about the information economy
Ernest Micek. Ernest Micek (February 18, 1936 - October 29, 2020) was an American businessman. He was the chairman and chief executive officer of Cargill from 1995 to 1999.

Biography

Early life
Ernest S. Micek was born on February 18, 1936, in Arcadia, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he graduated with a BS degree in chemical engineering in 1959.

Career
In 1995, Micek succeeded Whitney MacMillan as chairman and chief executive officer of Cargill, working in those capacities until 1999.

References

1936 births
Living people
People from Arcadia, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
Businesspeople from Minnesota
Businesspeople from Wisconsin
American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies
Cargill people