omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Lisp-based Intelligent Software Agents. The Lisa project is a platform for the development of Lisp-based Intelligent Software Agents. Lisa is a production-rule system implemented in the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), and is heavily influenced by CLIPS and the Java Expert System Shell (JESS).

At its core is a reasoning engine based on an object-oriented implementation of the Rete algorithm, a very efficient mechanism for solving the difficult many-to-many matching problem.

Intrinsic to Lisa is the ability to reason over CLOS objects without imposing special class hierarchy requirements; thus it should be possible to easily augment existing CLOS applications with reasoning capabilities. As Lisa is an extension to Common Lisp, the full power of the Lisp environment is always available. Lisa-enabled applications should run on any ANSI-compliant Common Lisp platform.

External links 
 Web page of LISA project
 Reference Guide
 Sourceforge Page

References 

Lisp (programming language)
Jeremiah Head. Jeremiah Head (11 July 1835 Ipswich – 10 March 1899 Hastings) was a British mechanical engineer.

He was apprenticed in 1852 at the works of Robert Stephenson and Co, Newcastle upon Tyne.  
He was manager of the Steam Plough Works of John Fowler and Co in Leeds, where he invented a means of signalling by lamps to facilitate steam-ploughing at night.

From 1868 to 1885, he worked, with Theodore Fox, the firm of Fox, Head and Co, and erected the Newport Rolling Mills, Middlesbrough, for the manufacture of iron plates.  
He introduced a plan of profit-sharing with his workmen; no labour disputes arose.  
In 1864, he also founded the Cleveland Institution of Engineers.
In 1888 he laid out the Bowesfield Iron Works at Stockton-on-Tees, and in 1891 the New British Iron Works at Corngreaves.  
He moved his practice to Westminster in 1894.

He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Family
He married Rebecca Ingram Wrightson, on 26 September 1860; they had children:
 Mary Ingram Head (16 October 1862 – 5 November 1904)
 William Howard Head (b. 28 September 1864
 Archibald Potter Head+ (b. 4 August 1866
 Alfred Wrightson Head (7 February 1868 – 30 May 1872)
 Rebecca Helen Gilchrist Head (11 June 1870 – 17 October 1889)
 Kathleen Campbell Head (b. 4 Jul 1872 -)
 Benjamin Wrightson Head (b. 12 May 1875 -)

References

1835 births
1899 deaths
Engineers from Ipswich
Akaflieg München Mü30 Schlacro. The Akaflieg München Mü30 Schlacro (SCHLepp-ACRObatic) is a high performance two-seat glider tug and aerobatic aircraft designed and built in Germany from 1985.

Development 
Students at Akaflieg München recognized that the requirements of an aerobatic aircraft and glider tug coincided, both needing a high power-to-weight ratio, high rate of climb at relatively low speed, and high control authority. To meet these requirements design and construction of the Mü30 began in 1985. Initially it was intended to fit a Porsche PFM 3200, obtained from Porsche at no cost. Use of the PFM 3200 promised to cut operating costs and environmental impact dramatically, with the engine certified to use MOGAS in place of the very expensive AVGAS, but Porsche abandoned development of the PFM3200 in 1992, leaving the Mü30 without an engine.

During development the ailerons were optimized for maximum roll rate, the wings revised with carbonfibre structure and the center of gravity adjusted by moving the wings  forward, compensating for a heavier Lycoming engine and ensuring reserve for possible future re-design.

Work on the prototype continued and an alternative engine installation was designed for the 223 kW (300 hp) Lycoming AEIO-540 driving a four-bladed propeller. First flight with the Lycoming engine was carried out in 2000 with flight testing continuing till 2003. Problems with cooling the Lycoming engine necessitated the complete re-design of the cooling air intake, exhaust system and cowling.

Flying re-commenced on 16 February 2007, resuming flight tests which, so far, have proved to be satisfactory and certification is well advanced. Initial problems with lateral stability have been overcome by altering the control geometry and flight tests  by Uli Schell have revealed the aircraft to have adequate stability and be easy to control. Flight testing was completed by New Year's Eve 2007, with the exception of Vd (Maximum Design Dive Speed – 1.2x Vne) which had earlier highlighted problems with the elevator trim. After thickening the trailing edge of the elevators the trim problems were alleviated and the Vd test was carried out successfully.

Specifications (Mü30)

Gallery

References

External links

Homepage of Akaflieg München e.V.
YouTube video

2000s German civil utility aircraft
Glider tugs
Mu30
Aerobatic aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2000
404th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade. The 404th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade is a maneuver enhancement brigade of the Illinois Army National Guard.

Formerly the 404th Chemical Brigade, this unit is tailored to support the maneuver and security of a Division-level headquarters. The Brigade comprises Engineer, Chemical CBRN, Military Police, Signal and Support units.

The Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (MEB) is a relatively new formation within the US Army. It is primarily designed to provide maneuver support to its assigned headquarters with a mix of technical expertise and combat power. However, the structure of a MEB also makes it ideal for consequence management in response to domestic disasters. The MEB's mix of Chemical, Engineer, and Military Police units provides it with the capability to support governmental organizations in chemical/biological/nuclear decontamination, law enforcement support, or infrastructure repair and restoration.

History
The 404th traces its history to the 404th Chemical Brigade, the first Chemical Brigade activated into the Army National Guard force structure. The 404th Chemical Brigade was formed in 1990 and originally stationed in Rockford, Illinois. It included the 44th Chemical Battalion during that period. The unit subsequently moved to Machesney Park, Illinois where it remained until its deactivation in 1997. In 2001, the 404th was reactivated and stationed in Chicago, Illinois.
In 2009, the 404th began its transformation process to become the 404th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade.

Units
HQ, 404th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade
405th Brigade Support Battalion (Disbanded)
 Company A (Distribution)
 Company B (Maintenance)
 406th Signal Company
 33d Military Police Battalion
 233rd Military Police Company
 333d Military Police Company
 933d Military Police Company
 44th Chemical Battalion
 135th Chemical Company
 444th Chemical Company
 445th Chemical Company
 450th Chemical Detachment
 123d Engineer Battalion
 HHC
 Forward Support Company
 631st Engineer Company (Support)
 616th Engineer Detachment (Utilities)
 661st Engineer Company
 615th Engineer Detachment (FFHQ)
 661st Engineer Detachment (FFT)
 662d Engineer Detachment (FFT)
 2118th Engineer Detachment (Asphalt)

See also
Army National Guard
Illinois Army National Guard
Transformation of the United States Army

References

External links
History of the Chemical Brigade
The Institute of Heraldry: 404th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade
Illinois National Guard Homepage

Illinois National Guard units
404
Military units and formations established in 2009
Marco Ramoni. Marco Ramoni (April 13, 1963 – June 8, 2010) was a recognized a translational biostatistician and bioinformatician at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Boston, affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Biography
He trained in philosophy and bioengineering, and received a PhD from a joint program between the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Pavia, Italy. He completed fellowships at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), McGill University, and the University of Geneva. He was associate professor of pediatrics and medicine at Harvard Medical School, and he was the director of the Harvard Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory. He co-founded the American Medical Informatics Association Summit on Translational Bioinformatics in 2008.

Ramoni was posthumously elected into the American College of Medical Informatics in 2010.

Biographical information
Ramoni is survived by his wife, Rachel Badovinac Ramoni, who is a faculty member at Harvard Medical School.

References

External links
 Biomedical publications and collaborations
 Computer science publications
 Children's Hospital Informatics Program
 Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
 Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory

1963 births
2010 deaths
Italian bioinformaticians
McGill University alumni
University of Pavia alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Harvard University faculty
University of Geneva alumni
Polytechnic University of Milan alumni
GSF Development Driller II. GSF Development Driller II is a fifth generation, Vanuatu-flagged dynamic positioning semi-submersible ultra-deepwater drilling rig owned and operated by Transocean. The vessel is capable of drilling in water depths up to  with drilling depth of , upgradeable to .

Development Driller II was deployed in drilling a relief well on the Macondo Prospect to stop the oil spill caused by the explosion and subsequent loss of Deepwater Horizon.

References

External links
Transocean official website
 Development Driller II current position at VesselTracker

2004 ships
Drilling rigs
Semi-submersibles
Ships built in Singapore
Transocean
Elias XNBS-3. 

The Elias XNBS-3 was a 1920s prototype biplane bomber built by Elias for the United States Army Air Corps.

Development
The XNBS-3 was a large biplane bomber with a steel tube fuselage and powered by two  Liberty 12A piston engines. It had a conventional landing gear with a tailskid and a crew of four. The prototype was designated XNBS-3 (XNBS=prototype night bomber short distance).  On 13 August 1924 Lieutenant John A. Macready test piloted the Elias XNBS-3 twin engine bomber for the United States Army Air Corps at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio.  The XNBS-3 had New York to Chicago non-stop range and five machine guns for defense. It was similar to the earlier Martin NBS-1 and was no real improvement, so it was not ordered into production.

Operators

United States Army Air Corps

Specifications

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

 

1920s United States bomber aircraft
NBS-3
Biplanes
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Pyroceram. Pyroceram is the original glass-ceramic material developed and trademarked by Corning Glass in the 1950s.
Pyroceram is an opaque, white, glass material, commonly used in kitchenware, glass stove tops, wood stove doors, etc.. It has high heat tolerance and low thermal expansion.

Development

Its development has been traced to Corning's work in developing photosensitive glass. Corning credits S. Donald Stookey with the discovery of Pyroceram. While conducting research in 1953 on a photosensitive lithium silicate glass called Fotoform containing a dispersion of silver nanoparticles, Stookey noted that an accidentally overheated fragment of the glass resisted breakage when dropped. This discovery evolved into Pyroceram, with β-spodumene as the crystalline phase, and was used in 1958 for the production of CorningWare cookware. Pyroceram's thermal stability also results in its being used for mirrors in astronomical telescopes.

A transparent version of Pyroceram, with β-quartz as the crystalline phase, was also described in 1950s patents. By 1963 this variant was also being seriously studied for use in making cookware. It would be extensively explored over the next two decades and result in the creation of Visions cookware, by Corning France, in the late 1970s.

The manufacture of the material involves controlled crystallization. NASA classifies it as a glass-ceramic product.

After about 30 years of informal use as a standard in high-heat (≥1000 °C) applications, Pyroceram 9606 was approved by NIST as a certified reference material for thermal conductivity measurements.

For kitchenware, this ceramic-glass family has been composed approximately, as calculated from precursor glass batches in percent by weight on an oxide basis, of (or similar variations):

 68.2% is Silica Sand (SiO2)
 19.2% is Dialuminum Oxide (Al2O3)
 2.8% Lithium Oxide (Li2O)
 1.8% Magnesium Oxide (MgO)
 1.0% Zinc Oxide (ZnO)
 0.75% Barium Oxide (BaO)
 2.7% Titanium Dioxide (TiO2)
 1.75% Zirconium Dioxide (ZrO2)

Plus additional oxides and colorants depending on the product line being produced.

Trademark

Pyroceram was originally a proprietary brand name.  Corning registered Pyroceram as a trademark for glass-ceramic vessels and utensils in 1958, and in 1966 added polished glass-ceramic tabletops and countertops to the registered uses of the brand name. Both of those registrations have since ended.

In 1998, Corning registered Pyroceram as a trademark for clear glass-ceramic window glass for wood-burning stoves.  It was also studied as a material for rocket nose cones.

See also
National Institute of Standards and Technology.

References

External links 
 The NPL Measurements Contribution to the Certification of Pyroceram 9606 as a Reference Material for Thermal Properties

Glass-ceramics
Corning Inc.
Griffon Aerospace MQM-170 Outlaw. The Griffon Aerospace MQM-170 Outlaw is an unmanned aerial vehicle which is used to support air defense artillery training, research, development, and test activities. It can serve as a target drone, surrogate training platform, or in a surrogate aerial reconnaissance and forward observation role. The aircraft has been in use since 2004.

The system consists of an air vehicle and a ground control station which includes an optional satellite link communication suite. The Outlaw may be launched pneumatically, or by runway takeoff when equipped with landing gear.

References

External links
 Griffon Aerospace MQM-170 Outlaw page on Designation Systems.net
 U.S. Army PEO STRI Outlaw Remotely Piloted Vehicle Target 
Aviation Week Article Griffon
Huntsville Times Article
local news articles Griffon

MQM-170
2000s United States special-purpose aircraft
Target drones of the United States
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
V-tail aircraft
Lee Boysel. Lee Boysel (December 31, 1938 – April 25, 2021) was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur.  While at Fairchild Semiconductor, he developed four-phase logic and built the first integrated circuit with over 100 logic gates, and designed the Fairchild 3800 / 3804 8-bit ALUs. Boysel designed the Four-Phase Systems AL1. He founded Four-Phase Systems to commercialize the technology, and sold the company to Motorola in 1981.

He was a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Litigation 
Texas Instruments claimed to have patented the microprocessor and, in response, Boysel assembled a system in which a single 8-bit AL1 was used as part of a courtroom demonstration computer system, together with ROM, RAM and an input-output device.

References

American electronics engineers
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
1938 births

2021 deaths
Tércio Pacitti. Tércio Pacitti (September 9, 1928 in Atibaia – June 18, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro), São Paulo, Brazil was an electronic engineer and computer scientist in Brazil.

Biography 
Pacitti was born in Atibaia-SP, Brazil, son of Antônio Pacitti and Isabel de Moraes Pacitti. He graduated as aeronautical engineer from ITA, first in the class of 1952, having completed a Masters (1961) and Ph.D. (1971) at University of California, Berkeley. He was a student of David A. Huffman among others at Berkeley.

Pacitti wrote several books in computer science, especially the Fortran Monitor, which from 1967 to 1987 has sold 250,000 copies in the country, and Do Fortran à Internet (From Fortran to the Internet), retrospect of his life and information technology in the world, already in its third edition. He launched in 2006 Paradigmas do software aberto (Paradigms of open source software), his most recent work.

He led the introduction of information technology at the ITA, at the Air Force, at COPPE-UFRJ and at UNIRIO. He was rector of the ITA between 1982 and 1984, and established the course of Computer Engineering.

His last post in the Air Force Command, as Major-Brigadier Engineer, was the Head of the Directorate of Engineering in 1986 and 1987 season in which he also chaired the ADESG. He was president of the Council of Informatics of the State of Rio de Janeiro from 1987 to 1990. It currently belongs to the National Academy of Engineering and is scientific adviser to the presidency of Consist.

On April 24, 2019, the President of the Republic, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, signed Law No. 13,817, in which he granted the title of Patron of Information Technology of Aeronautics to Major-Brigadier Engineer Tércio Pacitti.

Awards
 Excellence in Software Award granted by the International Centre for Software Technology (CTIS), 1996

Decorations
Tercio Pacitti was container, among others, the following medals:

  Commander of the Order of Military Merit (Ordem do Mérito Militar)
  Commander of the Order of Naval Merit (Ordem do Mérito Naval)
  Grand Officer of the Order of Merit for Defense (Ordem do Mérito da Defesa)
  Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico) - President of the Republic of Brazil - Mar/1998.
  Peacemaker Medal (Medalha do Pacificador) (Port Min No 791 of 28 Sep 83 / No. 41 BE, 14 Oct 83)
  Medal of Merit Tamandaré (Medalha Mérito Tamandaré) - Air Force
  Grand Officer of the Order of Ipiranga (Ordem do Ipiranga)

Books

References

1928 births
2014 deaths
People from Piracicaba
Brazilian people of Italian descent
Brazilian computer scientists
Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
Brazilian engineers
Brazilian Air Force generals
Recipients of the Order of Naval Merit (Brazil)
James C. Bliss. James C. Bliss (October 21, 1933 – January 24, 2012) was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur best known for his pioneering role in developing technological aids for visually impaired people.

Education and technical research
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Jim Bliss grew up in Oklahoma City and Chicago. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from Northwestern University in 1956 and began working at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, while enrolled in graduate school at Stanford University. He received his M.S.E.E. from Stanford (1958) and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961). He returned to SRI where he became head of the Bio-Information Systems Group. He continued his dissertation work in tactile communication and also lectured in EE at Stanford, where he met John Linvill, who had conceived a machine that would allow his blind daughter, Candy, to read ordinary print by translating the letter images into vibrations. In 1962 Bliss and Linvill began a multi-year development effort at Stanford and SRI culminating in a successful prototype called the "Optacon" in 1969.

Business development
To commercialize the Optacon, Bliss and Linvill founded Telesensory Systems, Inc. in 1970. Bliss left his position of associate professor at Stanford and became president of TSI, which position he held from the company's beginning until 1992. Under his leadership the company developed, manufactured, and sold many innovative electronics communications products for blind and visually impaired people. In 1994 he founded JBliss Imaging Systems, which provided easy-to-use equipment for scanning and reading aloud printed materials.

Jim Bliss retired in 2005; he died of multiple myeloma on January 24, 2012.

Publications and awards
James C. Bliss published more than a dozen technical papers. In 2007 he received the Migel Medal Award of the American Foundation for the Blind.

References

Further reading

American electrical engineers
MIT School of Engineering alumni
1933 births
2012 deaths
Deaths from multiple myeloma in the United States
SRI International people
Paramount Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon. Paramount Institute of Technology and Management is an Institute of technology, teaching engineering and management in Gurgaon, India.

Courses

Engineering
 Aeronautical Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
 Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
 Computer Science and Engineering
 Information Technology

Management

 Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA)
 Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
 Master of Computer Application (MCA)
 Master of Business Administration (MBA)

External links

Engineering colleges in Haryana
Business schools in Haryana
Universities and colleges in Gurgaon
Process layout. In manufacturing engineering, process layout is a design for the floor plan of a plant which aims to improve efficiency by arranging equipment according to its function. The production line should ideally be designed to eliminate waste in material flows, inventory handling and management. 
In process layout, the work stations and machinery are not arranged according to a particular production sequence. Instead, there is an assembly of similar operations or similar machinery in each department (for example, a drill department, a paint department, etc.)

It is also known as function layout. In this layout machining operation are performed in group together and not arranged according to any sequence.

Main advantages 
 Provide visual control of activities
 Use space efficiently

 Eliminate bottlenecks
 Facilitate communication and interaction  between workers and supervisors
 It is environmental friendly

Criticism 
A common criticism of this layout is that the work can be monotonous for staff, especially if they are involved only in one stage of the process.
This criticism can however be eliminated if the staff are rotated to different departments (involving different processes) thus developing a multi-skilled body of staff.

See also 
 Product layout

References

Further reading 
 S.N. Chary (2006). Production and Operations Management. McGraw Hill. 
 S. Moran (2016). Process Plant Layout. Elsevier.  

Industrial engineering