omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Samuel Honeyman Kneass. Samuel Honeyman Kneass (1806–1858) was an American civil engineer and architect.

Kneass was born in  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1806. He was the elder son of William Kneass (1781-1840), who would go on to become the second Chief Engraver of the United States Mint, and the older brother of engineer Strickland Kneass (1821-1884).

At age 15, Samuel joined the Philadelphia architectural firm of William Strickland, with which he helped build the headquarters building of the Second Bank of the United States, survey the route of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and build the Susquehanna division of the Pennsylvania state canal.

In 1837 and 1838, Kneass was the lead engineer during the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad's construction of the Newkirk Viaduct, the Schuylkill River bridge that completed the first rail link between the cities. His service is noted on the 1839 Newkirk Viaduct Monument in Philadelphia.

On March 14, 1837, Kneass married Anna Lombaert (1814-1869) in Morrisville, Pennsylvania. Anna was a daughter of Charles Lombaert, who was one of the PW&B's three superintendents.

From 1849 to 1853, Kneass was the Chief Surveyor and Regulator for Philadelphia. His 1853 report to the city was "the first attempt to systematize the disparate sewers and sewerage systems in place in various municipalities around the time of Philadelphia's consolidation." He was succeeded in the job by his younger brother, Strickland, who served as Chief Engineer & Surveyor from the city's consolidation in 1855 until his retirement in 1872.

Kneass died in Philadelphia on February 15, 1858.

Notes

External links
Kneass family papers at the Historical Society of Philadelphia
Plan exhibiting the curb heights, water courses and culverts in the Northern Section of Passyunk, 1839 ca. by Kneass

American civil engineers
Architects from Philadelphia
19th-century American architects
American surveyors
American railroad pioneers
19th-century American railroad executives
1806 births
1858 deaths
Burials at The Woodlands Cemetery
Engineers from Pennsylvania
AMOS-4 (satellite). AMOS-4 is an Israeli commercial communications satellite, operated by Spacecom Satellite Communications, Tel Aviv-based, part of the AMOS series of satellites.

History 
Spacecom, the AMOS satellites operator, announced in 2007 that it has signed an agreement to build and launch AMOS-4, with Israel Aerospace Industries. IAI constructed the satellite for approximately US$365 million. Spacecom paid US$100 million for AMOS-4. The Israeli government paid Spacecom US$265 million generated from a pre-launch deal to supply it with services on AMOS-4 over the satellite's full 12 year life span. AMOS-4 was originally considered as a candidate for launch on a SpaceX Falcon-9 launch vehicle. The satellite was later assigned to a Zenit-3SLB launch vehicle and was finally launched in August 2013.

Launch 
It lifted off on 31 August 2013, 20:05:00 UTC from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The geostationary satellite provides direct-to-home television broadcasting, multimedia, broadband Internet and mobile communications services for 12 years, to communication centers, distribution of internet services and data transmissions to communications networks. AMOS-4 extends Spacecom's coverage footprint to Russia and Asia, along with improving service in the Middle East and Europe with Ku-band and Ka-band transponders. The satellite is positioned in geostationary orbit 35,888 km over the equator at 65° East longitude.

Mission 
AMOS-4 was initially operated from 67.25° East longitude for in-orbit testing. The satellite is positioned at 65° East longitude in geostationary orbit.

See also 

 Spacecom
 List of satellites in geosynchronous orbit

References

External links 
 AMOS-4

Satellite television
AMOS-4
Communications satellites of Israel
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Spacecraft launched in 2013
Spacecraft launched by Zenit and Energia rockets
2013 in Israel
DMol3. {{DISPLAYTITLE:DMol3}}
DMol3 is a commercial (and academic) software package which uses density functional theory with a numerical radial function basis set to calculate the electronic properties of molecules, clusters, surfaces and crystalline solid materials

from first principles. DMol3 can either use gas phase boundary conditions or 3D periodic boundary conditions for solids or simulations of lower-dimensional periodicity. It has also pioneered the use of the conductor-like screening model COSMO Solvation Model for quantum simulations of solvated molecules and recently of wetted surfaces. DMol3 permits geometry optimisation and saddle point search with and without geometry constraints, as well as calculation of a variety of derived properties of the electronic configuration. DMol3 development started in the early eighties with B. Delley then associated with A.J. Freeman and D.E. Ellis at Northwestern University. In 1989 DMol3 appeared as DMol, the first commercial density functional package for industrial use by Biosym Technologies now Accelrys. Delley's 1990 publication was cited more than 3000 times.

See also 

 Quantum chemistry computer programs

External links 
 DMol3 datasheet
 developers page
 Materials Studio

References 

Computational chemistry software
Density functional theory software
Physics software
Skyline SL-122 Bdzhilka. The Skyline SL-122 Bdzhilka (, bee) is a twin engine agricultural spray aircraft designed and built in Ukraine and first flown in 2010.

Design and development
The SL-122 is designed for crop spraying.  It is a high-wing monoplane with an unswept, constant chord wing with square wing tips braced with a single strut to the lower fuselage on each side.  The wing has flaps and automatic slats for low speed flight. Two  Rotax 912 ULS2 liquid cooled flat four engines are mounted over and ahead of the wing leading edge, as close together as the disks of the three blade propellers allow.

The fuselage of the SL-122 is flat sided and deep.  There are two tandem seats in the underwing cabin, which is fully glazed all around.  Its rectangular tailplane is mounted on top of the fuselage, below a straight tapered fin and rudder.  The Pchelka has a fixed, conventional undercarriage; V-struts hinged to the lower fuselage support the mainwheels at the outer ends of bungee cord sprung half axles from the fuselage underside. There is a cantilever, steerable tailwheel.

The SL-122 has a 250 L (55 Imp gal; 66 US gal) tank for agricultural spray liquid and can treat 200 ha (494 acres) per hour in 37 m (121 ft) swathes.

It first flew in May 2010 and made its public debut a month later in Zhytomyr.

Operational history
No sales were reported by 2012, though the prototype had been put on the market.

Variants
SL-122 Agricultural aircraft.
SL-124 Projected four seat transport, unflown late 2012.
SL-125 Projected amphibious variant, unflown late 2012.

Specifications (SL-122)

References

Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
2010s Ukrainian agricultural aircraft
SL-122 Pchelka
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2010
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
GotoBLAS. In scientific computing, GotoBLAS and GotoBLAS2 are open source implementations of the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) API with many hand-crafted optimizations for specific processor types. GotoBLAS was developed by Kazushige Goto at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. , it was used in seven of the world's ten fastest supercomputers.

GotoBLAS remains available, but development ceased with a final version touting optimal performance on Intel's Nehalem architecture (contemporary in 2008).
OpenBLAS is an actively maintained fork of GotoBLAS, developed at the Lab of Parallel Software and Computational Science, ISCAS.

GotoBLAS was written by Goto during his sabbatical leave from the Japan Patent Office in 2002. It was initially optimized for the Pentium 4 processor and managed to immediately boost the performance of a supercomputer based on that CPU from 1.5 TFLOPS to 2 TFLOPS. , the library was available at no cost for noncommercial use. A later open source version was released under the terms of the BSD license.

GotoBLAS's matrix-matrix multiplication routine, called GEMM in BLAS terms, is highly tuned for the x86 and AMD64 processor architectures by means of handcrafted assembly code. It follows a similar decomposition into smaller "kernel" routines that other BLAS implementations use, but where earlier implementations streamed data from the L1 processor cache, GotoBLAS uses the L2 cache.
The kernel used for GEMM is a routine called GEBP, for "General block-times-panel multiply", which was experimentally found to be "inherently superior" over several other kernels that were considered in the design.

Several other BLAS routines are, as is customary in BLAS libraries, implemented in terms of GEMM.

As of January 2022, the Texas Advanced Computing Center website states that Goto BLAS in no more maintained and suggests the use of BLIS or MKL.

See also
 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS)
 Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL)

References

Numerical linear algebra
Numerical software
Software using the BSD license
SNCASE SE-1010. The SNCASE SE-1010 was a late 1940s French photo-survey aircraft designed and built by SNCASE for the Institut Géographique National. One prototype was built, but it crashed and the project was cancelled.

Design and development
In 1945 SNCASE designed a "stratospheric" transport for transatlantic postal work designated the SE-1000. The design was not built, but after the nose section was modified, it was built as high-altitude photo-survey aircraft for the Institut Géographique National, and re-designated the SE-1010. If it was decided not to use it as a survey aircraft, it was proposed to produce it as a 14-passenger transport instead.

The SE-1010 was a sleek, four-engined, mid-wing monoplane powered by four Gnome-Rhône 14R 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engines. The prototype SE-1010, with French test registration F-WEEE, first flew on 24 November 1948. On 1 October 1949 the prototype entered a flat spin during test flying from Mariganne and crashed, killing the six person crew near Carcès. The project was canceled and the three aircraft being built were not completed.

Variants
SE-1000
Proposed four-engined stratospheric transatlantic postal aircraft, not built.
SE-1010
High-altitude photo-survey aircraft, one built.
SE-1011
Production aircraft: three under construction when project was abandoned.
SE-1015Long-range 18-seat courier airliner'
SE-1020 Maritime patrol aircraft with Jumo 213 engines and gun turrets.
SE-1030Proposed 40-passenger airliner variant, not built.
SE-1035Proposed airliner variant, not built.
SE-1040Proposed turboprop test-bed to evaluate the Rolls-Royce Dart engine.

Specification (Survey aircraft)

Notes

Bibliography

SE-1010
1940s French civil utility aircraft
Four-engined tractor aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1948
Four-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear
Rossi Shuttle Quik. The Rossi Shuttle Quik is an Italian ultralight trike that was designed by Paolo Rossi and produced by Rossi Soavi Paolo of Camposanto. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as custom-built, ready-to-fly-aircraft.

The company appears to be out of business and production of the design completed.

Design and development
The Shuttle Quik was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . Each Rossi aircraft was built to order, but a typical Shuttle Quik has a maximum gross weight of . It features a cable-braced P&M Quik hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit with a cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a four-stroke,  RM engine or a four-cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition  Rotax 912ULS engine.

P&M Aviation do not normally supply wings to other manufacturers, but they had a longstanding relationship with Rossi that made them confident to do so in his case.

With the  RM powerplant, the Shuttle Quik may be the most powerful ultralight trike flown.

Specifications (Shuttle Quik)

References

External links
Archives of the company website on Archive.org
Photo of Rossi Shuttle Quik
Photo of Rossi Shuttle Quik

2000s Italian sport aircraft
2000s Italian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Analog front-end. An analog front-end (AFE or analog front-end controller AFEC) is a set of analog signal conditioning circuitry that uses sensitive analog amplifiers, often operational amplifiers, filters, and sometimes application-specific integrated circuits for sensors, radio receivers, and other circuits to provide a configurable and flexible electronics functional block needed to interface a variety of sensors to an antenna, analog-to-digital converter or, in some cases, to a microcontroller.

A radio frequency AFE is used in radio receivers, known as an RF front end.

Modules
AFE hardware modules are used as interface sensors for many kinds of analog and digital systems, providing hardware modularity. For example, Texas Instruments markets health monitoring AFEs as the ADS1298, AFE4400 and AFE4490. Atmel markets analog front-ends for smart meters.
Analog Devices markets a CN0209 product for test and measurement applications.

References

Analog circuits
Electronic circuits
NVX. NVX may refer to:

 N-version execution environment (NVX) used for N-version programming
 Yamaha NVX, several motorscooters in the Yamaha Aerox lineup
 Novavax, a pharmaceutical company which uses the product code "NVX-"
 Invoxia, an electronics company which uses the model code "NVX"

See also

 1NVX, a protein configuration for HRAS
Valley Engineering Backyard Flyer. The Valley Engineering Backyard Flyer is an American single-seat ultralight aircraft.

Design and development
The BackYard Flyer is a high wing single-engine conventional landing gear or tricycle gear aircraft. The aircraft was built to comply with FAA part 103 rules for ultralight aircraft. The fuselage is constructed of welded aluminum tubing. The cantilever main wing is capable of rotating 90 degrees for storage without removal from the fuselage. The 40 hp engine uses a Valley Engineering Series Three PSRU. Aircraft are sold with a Ballistic Recovery Systems parachute installation.
After about 20 aircraft were built the production was postponed with plans to restart building in early 2022.

Variants
The Backyard Flyer can be configured as a conventional or tricycle gear aircraft, with a covered or open fuselage.

Specifications (BackYard Flyer)

References

External links
Flight Videos

Homebuilt aircraft
Ultralight aircraft
Circe (cable system). Circe is a submarine communications cable that connects network switches in the United Kingdom with those in Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. It was built at a cost of US$1 billion by Viatel in the late 1990s and measures up to 8,700 km in total length. According to a 1998 Bloomberg Businessweek article, Circe is one of the first cross-border fibre-optics networks in Europe.

In 2013, media reports revealed that communication passing through Circe is being secretly monitored by the British intelligence agency GCHQ as part of its ongoing surveillance project.

See also 
 List of international submarine communications cables

References 

Submarine communications cables in the English Channel
1990s establishments in Europe
Rajesh P. N. Rao. Rajesh P. N. Rao (born 2 July 1970 in Madras, India) is the Director of the NSF Center for Neurotechnology (CNT) and the Cherng Jia and Elizabeth Yun Hwang Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Dr. Rao is a researcher in the fields of computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and brain-computer interfacing. With Dana Ballard, he proposed the predictive coding model of brain function in 1999. He has contributed to Bayesian models of perception and decision making. In brain-computer interfacing, Prof. Rao and his collaborators were the first to demonstrate direct brain control of a humanoid robot in 2007.

In the first demonstration of human brain-to-brain communication in August 2013, Rao wearing an electrical brain-signal reading cap triggered the movement of his colleague Andrea Stocco's hand via the Internet, allowing their brains to cooperate to solve a computer game. The demonstration was subsequently replicated across other pairs of humans, and extended to other tasks, and to a BrainNet for more than two brains. 

Rao also works on the decipherment of the Indus script. By comparing the entropy of the Indus script with entropies of linguistic scripts such as those for Sumerian and Old Tamil, and nonlinguistic sequences such as DNA and a programming language, his work suggested that the Indus script behaves more like a linguistic script than nonlinguistic sequences.
He has also given a TED talk on this topic where he backed the Dravidian hypothesis put forward by Iravatham Mahadevan. 

Rao is the author of the book Brain-Computer Interfacing (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and co-editor of two volumes, Probabilistic Models of the Brain (MIT Press, 2002) and Bayesian Brain (MIT Press, 2007). He has given a TEDx talk on "Brain co-processors: When AI meets the Brain." 

With Prof. Adrienne Fairhall, Rao offered the first massive open online course in computational neuroscience in 2013. The course continues to be offered on Coursera. 

Rao graduated summa cum laude from Angelo State University in 1992 with a B.S. degree in Computer Science/Mathematics. He then attended the University of Rochester where he earned his Master's degree (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) in Computer Science. He was a Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies before joining the University of Washington faculty in 2000.

Awards
 Sloan Faculty Fellowship, 2001 
 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, 2002 
 NSF CAREER Award 2002 
 ONR Young Investigator Award, 2003 
 Guggenheim Fellowship 2016

References

External links
 Home page and publications
 fusione mentale
 
 TED talk: A Rosetta Stone for a lost language (TED2011)
 TEDx talk: Brain Co-Processors: When AI Meets the Brain (TEDx Berkeley 2020)

University of Washington faculty
Angelo State University alumni
University of Rochester alumni
1970 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
American neuroscientists
Networked Society. The Networked Society is a type of future ecosystem in which widespread internet connectivity drives change for individuals and communities. The concept has been popularized by the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company Ericsson. Connectivity means a device can digitally communicate with and transfer data to other systems through a real-time communication network (typically the internet). It is expected that people living in the Networked Society will be able to use connectivity to improve their lives and businesses. New services in e-health, for example, will be driven by connectivity, mobility and cloud computing in the Networked Society.

Origins 
The Networked Society was first presented by Ericsson President and CEO Hans Vestberg in a YouTube video on August 26, 2011. The Networked Society concept has been discussed further in other videos, animations, infographics and articles.

On July 16, 2013, The Guardian published a video interview from the Activate London Summit 2013, where Vestberg explained how increasing connectivity will create access to information, services and communication that will transform society, business and the way we live our lives.

More recently, Ericsson CTO Ulf Ewaldsson described his vision of the Networked Society in a video interview with presenter Andrew Keen on the information technology website TechCrunch on August 6, 2013.

References

Ericsson
Internet terminology
Russian Union of Engineers. The Russian Union of Engineers (RUE) (Russian: Российский союз инженеров (РСИ)) claims to be an all-Russian nongovernmental organization of engineers, design-engineers, builders, inventors, rationalizers, researchers, scientists, scientific and technical employees, and managers of industrial production. It has published several studies on economics, energy and housing related subjects and a paper on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

Social projects 

On January 21, 2012, at the Polytechnical Museum of Moscow, the Russian Union of Engineers presented the general rating of city appeal of Russian cities for 2011.

On May 20, 2013, the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency of Construction and Housing of the Russian Federation, Russian Union of Engineers and the experts of Lomonosov Moscow State University developed a rating and methodology of  evaluation of urban environment and analyzed the 50 largest Russian cities. For this work, the Union designed the methods of urban environment quality assessment and a city appeal threshold.

The rating has been developed:

 by the order the President of the Russian Federation defined in paragraph 1 of Assignments No. Pr-534 of the President of the Russian Federation as of February 29, 2012, to executive bodies as a result of the meeting “On measures of implementation of the housing policy” as of February 14, 2012 
 by the order of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation defined in paragraph 4 of the List of assignments № VP-P9-1581  “On development of a methodology of assessment of urban environment quality and assessment of the major cities of Russia”  of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation as March 20, 2012.

See also 

 Science and technology in Russia

References

Links to sources 
Official website of the Russian Union of Engineers
  Leaders of the Russian Union of Engineers
  Contacts of the Russian Union of Engineers
  Report on activities of the Russian Union of Engineers, Russia 1 channel
  Presentation of the General Rating of Russian Cities, Plekhanov Club
 Democracy in a Technological Society, Langdon Winner, 1992
 The Russian Union of Engineers: The proposal to reduce the tax burden on oil from 55 to 45% - is fully justified
 Russian Union of Engineers came to the conclusion that the Lipetsk almost unfit for life
 The Russian Union of Engineers supports reducing the tax burden on the oil industry
 Novokuznechane leave the city because of the local authorities?
 Russian Union of Engineers presented rating appeal of Russian cities
 The Russian Union of Engineers: Chita characterized by depressive state
 "Russian Union of Engineers': the emergence of the Russian electric prematurely
 After the accident at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch vehicle "Proton-M" in the "Russian Union of Engineers' expressed the need for the expansion of the Institute of the military office
 The Russian Union of Engineers supports the desire of the authorities to strengthen state control over pricing in the housing sector

Economy of Russia
Non-profit organizations based in Russia
Engineering organizations