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Omax Corporation. OMAX Corporation is a large American provider of multi-axis (the ability to cut non-flat objects) water jet systems for use in the fabrication and manufacturing industry. It is the second largest water jet machining company in the United States of America.

History

OMAX was established in 1993 by Dr. John Cheung and Dr. John Olsen. They made high-pressure abrasive jet machining (a machining and fabrication process using a mixture of strong abrasives and liquid propelled by a high velocity gas) to erode material to form intricate shapes or specific edge shapes.

Aviation High School Robotics
Each year OMAX sponsors the FIRST Robotics Competition team from Aviation High School. OMAX supervises the Aviation "Skunkworks" Team as members cut parts for their robot at OMAX's headquarters. The Aviation High Robotics team won the Creativity Award at the FIRST Championship held in St. Louis, Missouri in April 2011.

Competitors
OMAX's largest competitor is Flow International Corp. To avoid competition Flow International attempted to buy OMAX for $109 million, but because of the downturn in the economy, the offer was reduced to $75 million. In 2009 it was announced that Flow called off the merger stating "We believe that our path forward alone is far superior to one combined with OMAX at the wrong price". John Olsen co-founder of OMAX stated that had the companies merged there would have certainly been layoffs. Other competitors include Jet Edge Waterjets, and ESAB Cutting Products.

References

External links 
http://www.omax.com/waterjets/omax-corporation
http://www.maxiemwaterjets.com/

See also
Water jet cutter

Companies based in Kent, Washington
Companies established in 1993
Alfred Weidler. Alfred Wilhelm Carl Weidler (27 May 1886, Georgsmarienhütte, Germany – 16 June 1966, Los Angeles) was an architect who, after moving from Germany to Los Angeles in 1923, went on to become a prolific model builder for 40 years with 20th Century Fox.

Early career
The impetus for Weidler moving his family to America, arriving 1923, came at the collapse of the German mark after World War I. He had been in the German Army Engineering Corps during World War I. After the war, he became the city architect for Hamburg and started a family with his wife.  By 1939, Weidler had made more than 500 models for Hollywood sets, large and small.  And he was the author of correspondence courses in modelmaking. Hollywood, California's 4589 Lexington Avenue housed The Weidler Studio.

Family

He was married in 1917 in Berlin to a former Wagnerian opera singer, Margarete Therese Louise (née Radon; 1890–1987), later known as Margaret Weidler. They had six children, the first four (Waldtraud, Verena, Werther, and Wolfgang). Waldtraud, later known as Sylvia (1919–2003), was a child actress who appeared in the 1930 film, What a Widow!.

The youngest daughter, Virginia (1927–1968), flourished as a child actress. Sons George (1926–1989), Werther (later known as Warner), and Wolfgang (later known as Walter), were musicians. George, the second youngest child, was a well-known big band saxophonist and composer, whose first marriage was to Doris Day.

Selected publications
 Creative painting without a brush a course of instructions to produce original pictures and idea sketches; a new method of designing by controlled visualization, develops creative imagination, broad conception, speed, by Alfred Weidler (1943) 
 Scenic Master Stencil, by Charles William Alfred Weidler (1943)
 Varistencil Art: Art for everybody, A course of instruction to produce original paintings and idea sketches. A new method of designing by controlled visualization. Develops creative imagination, broad conception, speed.  Augmented and improved edition, Vol. 36, Issue 1, (1945)

Affiliations
 Member, Architects League of Hollywood

References

20th-century American architects
1886 births
1966 deaths
American scenic designers
People from Georgsmarienhütte
People from Greater Los Angeles
German emigrants to the United States
Jolie (programming language). Jolie (Java Orchestration Language Interpreter Engine) is an open-source programming language for developing distributed applications based on microservices. In the programming paradigm proposed with Jolie, each program is a service that can communicate with other programs by sending and receiving messages over a network. Jolie supports an abstraction layer that allows services to communicate using different mediums, ranging from TCP/IP sockets to local in-memory communications between processes.

Jolie is currently supported by an interpreter implemented in the Java language, which can be run in multiple operating systems including Linux-based operating systems, OS X, and Windows. The language comes with formal semantics, meaning that the execution of Jolie programs is mathematically defined. For this reason, Jolie is used in research for the investigation of language-based techniques for the development of distributed systems, and it is also used for teaching at some universities.

The Jolie open source project was started by Fabrizio Montesi in 2006, as part of his studies at the University of Bologna. The project initially began as an implementation of the SOCK process calculus, a formal model proposed by Claudio Guidi et al. at the University of Bologna inspired by the CCS process calculus and the WS-BPEL programming language. Jolie extends SOCK with support for, e.g., tree-like data structures (inspired by XML, but with a syntax resembling that of C and Java), message types, typed session programming, integration with Java and JavaScript, code mobility, application containment, and web programming. A complete list of the project contributors is available at.

The project is currently maintained by Fabrizio Montesi and its evolution is driven by Fabrizio Montesi and Claudio Guidi.

Since it supports the orchestration of web services, Jolie is an alternative to XML-based orchestration languages such as WS-BPEL as it offers a concise (C-like) syntax for accessing XML-like data structures.

References

External links

Programming languages
Jennifer Rexford. Jennifer Rexford is an American computer scientist who is currently the Provost, Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, and formerly the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. Her research focuses on analysis of computer networks, and in particular network routing, performance measurement, and network management.

Life and career 
Rexford did her undergraduate studies at Princeton, earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1991, and then moved to the University of Michigan for  graduate studies in computer science and engineering, earning a master's degree in 1993 and a doctorate in 1996. Her thesis, titled "Tailoring router architectures to performance requirements in cut-through networks", was supervised by Kang G. Shin. She worked at Bell Labs for two summers as a graduate student, and then returned to what had since become AT&T Labs, working there from 1996 to 2005, when she joined the Princeton faculty.

Rexford won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (the award goes to a computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or service contribution at or before age 35) in 2005, for her work on introducing network routing subject to the different business interests of the operators of different subnetworks into Border Gateway Protocol. In 2016, Rexford was named the recipient of the ACM Athena Lecturer award, which recognizes women who have made fundamental contributions to computer science. She became a fellow of the ACM in 2008, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. Rexford was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2014 for contributions to the operational stability of large computer networks. She was also elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

See also
Frenetic (programming language)

References

External links
Home page at Princeton

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Princeton University alumni
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
Princeton University faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2008 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Place of birth missing (living people)
Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates
American women academics
21st-century American women
Chou Yuan-chin. Chou Yuan-chin () is a Taiwanese nuclear engineer. He was the Minister of the Atomic Energy Council in the Executive Yuan from 1 February to 20 May 2016.

Education
Chou earned bachelor's and master's degree in nuclear engineering from National Tsing Hua University. He then earned his Ph.D. in the same field from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Early career
Chou had been an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Chung Cheng Institute of Technology in 1979–1981. In 1984–1985, he was the adjunct lecturer at the Department of Aerospace of Tamkang University and in 1991-1992 he was the adjunct associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Chung Yuan Christian University.

References

Political office-holders in the Republic of China on Taiwan
Living people
Academic staff of the National Tsing Hua University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Huang Tsing-tung. Huang Tsing-tung (; born 1951) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Deputy Minister of the Atomic Energy Council of the Executive Yuan in 2007.

Education
Huang obtained his bachelor's and master's degree in nuclear engineering from National Tsing Hua University in 1975 and 1977, respectively, and doctoral degree in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States in 1987.

References

Political office-holders in the Republic of China on Taiwan
Living people
Academic staff of the National Tsing Hua University
1951 births
WAGR C class. The WAGR C class was a class of light axle load steam locomotives operated by the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) between 1902 and 1961. A total of 22 were built in two batches.

History
The first batch of 12 engines was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia in 1902. This batch was originally of a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement, and was a lighter version of the Ec class, gaining them the Baby Yanks nickname. Between 1908 and 1918 these were fitted with larger, improved boilers and converted to a 4-6-2 configuration. A second batch of 10 engines was built by the WAGR's Midland Railway Workshops in 1915, to the modified 4-6-2 design.

They entered service on mixed passenger and mail services on the Eastern, Eastern Goldfields and Great Southern lines. They later operated on the Northern and South Western lines.

Seventeen members of the class were later fitted with superheaters and reclassified as the Cs class with the first completed in June 1929. In the 1940s, five received new frames. Four of these, Cs270 Black Butt, Cs432 Marri, Cs439 Banksia and Cs440 Jarrah were transferred to the Railway Department Sawmill at Banksiadale in the early 1950s and named. All were included in the sale of the timber mill to Hawker Siddeley Building Supplies in October 1961. After being replaced by road transport, all were scrapped at Subiaco in June 1964.

Namesakes
The C class designation was previously used for the C class locomotives that were withdrawn in 1902. It was reused in the 1960s when the C class diesel locomotives entered service.

See also

Rail transport in Western Australia
List of Western Australian locomotive classes

References

Notes

Cited works

External links

Baldwin locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1902
C WAGR class (1902)
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of Australia
4-6-0 locomotives
4-6-2 locomotives
Scrapped locomotives
Umberto Colombo (scientist). Umberto Colombo (1927 – 13 May 2006) was an Italian chemical engineer, academic and the minister of universities, science and technology of Italy.

Early life and education
Colombo was born in 1927. He received a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Pavia. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.

Career
Colombo trained as a chemical engineer  and worked as a professor at the University of Milan in the 1970s. He served as the president of the Italian energy firm Eni for a short period from November 1982 to January 1983  before being appointed as the head of the Italian nuclear energy unit.

From 1993 to 1994 Colombo served as the minister of universities, science and technology in the Ciampi cabinet. Following this he became a member of the Italian national council of economy and labour. He was one of the shareholders of Energy Conversion Devices and became a member of its board of directors in July 1995 before retiring in November 2004.

Other posts that Colombo held included the chairman of ENEA (Italian national agency for new technology, energy and the environment; 1983-1993), president of the European Science Foundation (1991-1993), chairman of the Italian hydrocarbons trust, director general of Montedision's R&D and strategic planning, director of Montecatini's G. Donegani research centre, governor of the international development research centre (IDRC; 1985-1990) in Canada, chairman of the United Nations's advisory committee on science and technology for development (1984-1986), chairman of LEAD-Europe, and president of the European institute research management association. He was also a member of the Club of Rome's executive committee that had been founded by Aurelio Peccei.

Works
In 1989, Colombo and fellow Italian scientist Francesco Scaramuzzi experimented with nuclear fusion reporting that they had successfully created nuclear fusion at room temperature.

Awards
Colombo was the recipient of the Honda Foundation's award for ecotechnology in 1984. He was also awarded China's state international scientific and technological cooperation award in 1999.

Death
Colombo died in Rome on 13 May 2006 aged 78.

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20th-century Italian engineers
20th-century Italian Jews
20th-century Italian politicians
1927 births
2006 deaths
Eni
Jewish engineers
Jewish Italian scientists
Italian chemical engineers
Italian corporate directors
Government ministers of Italy
Leaders of organizations
Academic staff of the University of Milan
University of Pavia alumni
Independent politicians in Italy
Rose–Vinet equation of state. The Rose–Vinet equation of state is a set of equations used to describe the equation of state of solid objects. It is a modification of the Birch–Murnaghan equation of state.
The initial paper discusses how the equation only depends on four inputs: the isothermal bulk modulus , the derivative of bulk modulus with respect to pressure , the volume , and the thermal expansion; all evaluated at zero pressure () and at a single (reference) temperature. The same equation holds for all classes of solids and a wide range of temperatures.

Let the cube root of the specific volume be

then the equation of state is:

A similar equation was published by Stacey et al. in 1981.

References 

Solid mechanics
Equations of state
Chip Heath. Chip Heath (born July 19, 1963) is an American academic. He is the Thrive Foundation for Youth Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the co-author of several books.

Early life
Heath graduated from Texas A&M University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering. He subsequently earned a PhD in psychology from Stanford University.

Career
Heath taught at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Heath is a professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 
He has taught courses on organizational behavior, negotiation, international strategy, and social entrepreneurship.

With his brother Dan, Heath has co-authored four bestselling books, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (2007), Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (2010), Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (2013), and The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact (2017). He also helped James G. March write the business book A Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen (1994).

Made to Stick was named "Best Business Book of the Year", was on the BusinessWeek bestseller list for 24 months, and has been translated into at least 25 languages. This book was co-written with his brother, Dan Heath.

'Switch' stayed in the New York Times Best Seller List for 47 weeks.

References

External links 
 Grist- Anonymous (March 13, 2007) "An interview with author Chip Heath about making environmental messages sticky" interview with Chip Heath, at Grist
 Brazen Careerist - Penelope Trunk, (August 3, 2006) "Battle Cry Against Power Tripping" interview with Chip Heath, at Brazen Careerist

Living people
American business writers
Texas A&M University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Stanford University Graduate School of Business faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Munindar P. Singh. Munindar P. Singh is a SAS institute distinguished professor and a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University.  Singh is an IEEE Fellow, a AAAI Fellow, a AAAS Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a Member of Academia Europaea, and a ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award recipient.

Education
Singh received his B.Tech. in computer science & engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1986. He obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993 under the supervision of E. Allen Emerson and Nicholas M. Asher.

Research
Singh's research interests include multiagent systems, service-oriented computing, software engineering, artificial intelligence, and social networks. He has made several important contributions to the understanding of interaction and norms in multiagent systems.  He introduced to artificial intelligence the distinction between social commitment (a norm) and psychological commitment (a mental attitude). Singh also introduced the idea that interaction among autonomous social principals (e.g., between two or more organizations) must have a social semantics. This idea has proved to be highly influential within multiagent systems research.  In recognition of Singh's contribution, the paper in which he introduced this idea was awarded the IFAAMAS 2016 Influential Paper Award. Taking this line of thinking further, Singh, in joint work with his Ph.D. student pInar Yolum, introduced the abstraction of commitment protocols.

Singh has also made important contributions to social networks, trust, and distributed computing. His Blindingly Simple Protocol Language (BSPL) introduces the idea that message ordering in interaction protocols fall out automatically from information flow requirements. Therefore, one need not model specify control flow at all in interaction protocols.

References

External links
 Munindar P. Singh's home page
 Multiagent Systems and Service-Oriented Computing Laboratory

Indian computer scientists
Fellows of the IEEE
IIT Delhi alumni
North Carolina State University faculty
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Members of Academia Europaea
WAGR Ec class. The WAGR Ec class was a class of 4-6-2 heavy passenger and goods Vauclain compound locomotives operated by the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) between 1901 and 1958.

History
A total of 20 Ec class engines were built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, in the first half of 1901, and entered service with the WAGR later that year. The following year, Baldwin built the first of two batches of the C class, a lighter version of the Ec class.

Initially, the Ec class' main task was to haul heavy trains on the Eastern Goldfields Railway. Between 1920 and 1923, nine Ec class engines were lightened for use on the lightly laid Northam to Mullewa line, and reclassified as the Eca class.

All 20 were withdrawn between 1923 and 1925, with the frames, wheels, cabs and tenders married with new boilers, cylinders and valve gear at Midland Railway Workshops to become the L class. The costs of the rebuilds were recovered within four years through lower maintenance costs.

By the early 1930s, frame cracks were beginning to appear with 14 receiving new frames. They were replaced in the 1950s by the W class.

See also

Rail transport in Western Australia
List of Western Australian locomotive classes

References

Notes

Cited works

External links

Baldwin locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1901
Ec WAGR class
Vauclain compound locomotives
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of Australia
4-6-2 locomotives
Passenger locomotives
Scrapped locomotives
Rakesh Agrawal. Rakesh Agrawal may refer to:

Rakesh Agrawal (chemical engineer), National Medal of Technology & Innovation Laureate; professor at Purdue University
Rakesh Agrawal (computer scientist), former Technical Fellow at the Microsoft Search Labs

See also 
Rakesh Aggarwal (born 1975), British businessman
Rakesh Aggarwal (gastroenterologist) (born 1961), Indian gastroenterologist
Dalle de verre. Dalle de verre, from French: "glass slab", is a glass art technique that uses pieces of coloured glass set in a matrix of concrete and epoxy resin or other supporting material.

Technique
The technique was developed by Jean Gaudin in Paris in the 1930s. Slabs of coloured glass,  to  square or rectangular and typically up to  thick, are shaped by breaking with a hammer or cutting with a saw. The edges of the resulting pieces may be chipped or faceted to increase the refraction and reflection effects.

The pieces are laid out to a design, similar to traditional stained-glass work. The pieces are laid on a bed of sand, bounded by a wooden casting frame. A matrix material is poured between the glass pieces and allowed to dry, typically requiring 24 hours to harden. The resulting solid panel is quite durable and appropriate for architectural settings or outdoor panels.

The use of thicker glass produces deeper colour effects than traditional lead came stained-glass, especially when illuminated by bright natural or artificial light.

The technique achieved prominence in the stained glass literature of the 1950s and 1960s.

Conservation
Originally, concrete was used as a matrix, which means that older pieces will be structurally unsound and require renovation.  Today, modern technology has created appropriate solutions: An epoxy resin was created with the same expansion rate as the glass. This resin is now used as a matrix instead of concrete.  This has solved all structural issues.

Dalle de verre in the UK
Dalle de verre was brought to the UK by Pierre Fourmaintraux who joined James Powell and Sons (later Whitefriars Glass Studio) in 1956 and trained Dom Charles Norris in the technique. Norris was a Benedictine monk of Buckfast Abbey who went on to become arguably the most prolific British proponent of dalle de verre. His work is incorporated in several Modernist listed Catholic churches.

Other notable dalle de verre artists who have worked in the UK include Gabriel Loire, John Baker and Henry Haig. The latter designed the narthex windows at Clifton Cathedral.

See also
 List of art techniques

References

Artistic techniques
Glass art
Stained glass