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Kazim Cecen. Kazim Cecen (August 23, 1919August 8, 1997), was a Turkish hydraulic engineering academic and historian of science.

Life 
Kazim Cecen was born in Elazig in 1919. In 1937, he completed his high school at İzmir Atatürk High School. After that he went to Germany in 1938 to study hydraulic engineering on a scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of National Education, and he completed his degree in engineering in 1943 from the Technische Hochschule in Berlin (now Technische Universität Berlin). Despite enrolling in a doctoral program at the same university, the onset of the Second World War and worsening war conditions within Germany forced him to return to Turkey in 1945 without completing his program.  

After his return to Turkey, he started teaching at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), where he attained an associate professorship in 1949, and full professorship in 1960. In 1959, he attained his PhD from Graz University of Technology in Austria. In 1982, he became the dean of Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering Department at ITU. In 1985, he went to teach at Technische Universität Braunschweig. For his research output, he was awarded the Gotthilf Hagen Medal in 1967. in 1976, he won the Tübitak Science award for his study on water intake facilities and groundwater flows in Istanbul.

Works 
Cecen was the author of numerous works in Turkish and some in English on the waterways of Istanbul, as well as many entries in the Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi (Encyclopedia of Islam), a Turkish academic encyclopaedia for Islamic studies published by the TDV.

His books include:

 İstanbul'da Osmanlı Devrinde Su Tesisleri (Istanbul: Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Yayınları, 1979).
 Süleymaniye Suyolları (Istanbul: Istanbuk Teknik Üniversitesi Bilim ve Teknoloji Araştırma Merkezi, 1986).
 Hüseyin Tevfik Paşa ve "Linear Algebra" (Istanbul: Istanbu Teknik Üniversitesi Yayınları, 1988).
 Mimar Sinan ve Kırkçeşme Tesisleri (Istanbul: Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi İSKİ Yayınları, 1988).
 İstanbul'un Vakıf Sularından Üslüdar Suları (Istanbul: İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Yayınları, 1991).
 Taksim ve Hamidiye Suları (Istanbul: İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Yayınları, 1992).
 Sinan's Water Supply System in Istanbul (Istanbul: İSKİ Yayınları, 1996).
 The Longest Roman Water Supply Line (Istanbul: Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi, 1996)
 II. Bayezid Suyolu Haritaları (Istanbul: İSKİ Yayınları, 1997).
 Topkapı Sarayı'na Su Sağlayan İsale Hatları (Istanbul: İSKİ Yayınları, 1997) (along with Celal Koray).
 İstanbul'un Osmanlı Dönemi Suyolları (Istanbul: İSKİ Yayınları, 1999) (along with Celal Koray).

He also wrote many articles in Turkish on the TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, especially on the Byzantine and Ottoman waterways of Istanbul.

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Recipients of TÜBİTAK Science Award
Turkish scientists
Turkish engineers
Technische Universität Berlin alumni
1919 births

1997 deaths
People from Elazığ
Gu Xinyi. Gu Xinyi (; 23 January 1937 – 2 January 2024) was a Chinese petroleum and mining machinery engineer, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Gu was a member of the 9th and 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Biography
Gu was born in Jiading County (now Jiading District), Shanghai, on 23 January 1937. He attended the Shanghai Jingye Middle School. After graduating from the Petroleum Machinery Vocational School Class of Shanghai Zhonghua Vocational School in August 1953, he was accepted to the Central Fuel Industry Ministry Cadre School. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in November 1955. After graduating in August 1956, he was despatched to the Expert Studio of Yumen Petroleum and Mining Bureau, where he was a translator for Soviet experts. 

Starting in October 1956, he served in several posts in Shengli Oil Field, including leader of the Research and Development Team of the Oil Production Command Headquarters, mechanical technician of North China Petroleum Exploration Department, technical Leader of Dongying Trial Production Command Machine Factory, and captain of Shengli Oilfield Oil Production Research Team. In July 1982, he became a senior engineer at Shengli Oil Field, and was promoted to a professor level senior engineer at Shengli Oil Field in November 1989. 

On 2 January 2024, he died in Jinan, Shandong, at the age of 86.

Honours and awards
 May 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 1999 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation

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1937 births
2024 deaths
Engineers from Shanghai
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
20th-century Chinese engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
Members of the 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Members of the 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Wang Zicai. Wang Zicai (; 23 June 1932 – 13 December 2023) was a Chinese automatic control and system simulation engineer, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Wang was born into a family of farming background in Liaocheng County (now Liaocheng), Shandong, on 23 June 1932. His studies was interrupted by the Second Sino-Japanese War. In order to survive, his family discussed and decided to move north, and settled down in northeast China.

In 1951, he was accepted to Harbin Institute of Technology, and worked at the institute after graduation. In 1987, he led a group of young students to establish the Control and Simulation Center of Harbin Institute of Technology, in which he served as its director between January 1990 and January 2002.

On 13 December 2023, he died from an illness in Harbin, Heilongjiang, at the age of 91.

Honours and awards
 1998 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class) for the distributed simulation technology for large and complex systems
 2000 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the electric simulation testing turntable system technology
 2001 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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1932 births
2023 deaths
People from Liaocheng
Engineers from Shandong
Harbin Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Harbin Institute of Technology
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
20th-century Chinese engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
Insignia (Xbox). Insignia is a non-commercial server hosting project currently in open beta that aims to restore the functionality of Xbox Live for the original Xbox. It provides a free service created via closed-source reverse engineering of the original Live server software, hosted on Insignia's own servers, and its aim is to support every title that had Xbox Live support. Some popular titles are either not supported yet or are supported on a limited basis. Games by Electronic Arts used their own servers that were not based on Xbox Live and cannot currently be supported.

Insignia can work on both unmodified and modified consoles, as well as Xbox emulators. To work on Insignia, a console has to be registered to Insignia's servers; the user can create an Xbox Live account similar to how it would have originally been done. Insignia is completely free-of-charge and has no monthly fee or initial signup price, though requires an email to register an account.

Insignia currently supports most features that worked on Xbox Live, such as matchmaking, leaderboards, friends support, game invites, clans, user generated content, voice chat, game title updates and DLC downloads for some games. 

By January 2025 it has over 21,000 users registered and supports 198 of 339 games that used Xbox Live features.

History 
Insignia was started in 2019 by two developers, Luke Usher and Billy, who decided to work together trying to make an Xbox Live replacement. Billy worked previously on replacement services for the Wii U and 3DS, and Luke was the lead developer of an open source Xbox emulator. Insignia was publicly announced in May 2020 and was planned to go live later that year. In July 2022, a closed alpha test was started. Insignia went into an open beta that November and supported 25 games at release; public signups had been open for one month before the beta.

By November 2022 around 7,000 people has signed up for the waiting list, and by December, 3,500 people were approved and 40 games were supported. By November 2023 it had reached up to 150 games and over 8,000 users.

Multiplayer servers for Halo 2 were launched in March 2024. Certain Affinity founder and Halo 2 map designer Max Hoberman was positive to its launch.

References 

Servers (computing)
Xbox (console)
Xbox network
List of preserved Boeing aircraft. This article is a list of aircraft that were manufactured by Boeing and are in preservation.

Accidents and incidents

In preservation 
 On August 12, 1985, Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a Boeing 747SR registered as JA8119, was performing a flight from Tokyo International Airport, Tokyo,  Japan, to Osaka International Airport, Osaka, Japan, when it crashed at Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture after part of its vertical stabilizer separated from the aircraft. The wreckage of the aircraft is preserved at the  Safety Promotion Center located on the grounds of  Tokyo International Airport in Ota, Tokyo, Japan.
 On March 28, 2002, NC19903 was involved in an accident when it ditched at the Elliott Bay based in Seattle, Washington, United States. However, it was raised, repaired, and placed on static display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center based in Virginia, United States.

List

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Boeing 247

Boeing 307 Stratoliner

Boeing 367-80

Boeing 707

Boeing 727

Boeing 737

Boeing 747

Boeing 757

Boeing 767

Boeing 777

Boeing 787 Dreamliner

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Boeing
Boeing aircraft
Boeing
Pan Junhua. Pan Junhua (; 14 October 1930 – 18 December 2023) was a Chinese applied optics engineer, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography
Pan was born in Shanghai, on 14 October 1930, while his ancestral home in Changzhou, Jiangsu. He attended the Wukang County Middle School and Shanghai Nanyang Model High School. In 1949, he was accepted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University. After university in 1952, he was despatched to the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics. In 1956, he went to the Pulkovo Observatory in the Soviet Union to study astronomical optics and obtained an associate doctoral degree under the supervision of academician Maksutov ().

He returned to China in 1960 and continued to work at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics. In 1980, he was transferred to the Nanjing Astronomical Instrument Research Center, where he led the development of a 2.16-meter optical astronomical telescope, which earned him the First Class of State Science and Technology Progress Award in 1998. He became a researcher at the Institute of Modern Optics, Suzhou University in May 2000.

In 2019, an asteroid with the international designation 216331 was officially named "Pan Junhua Asteroid" in recognition of Pan's significant contributions in the field of applied optics research for a long time.

On 18 December 2023, he died from an illness in Suzhou, at the age of 93.

Honours and awards
 1998 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class) for the 2.16-meter optical astronomical telescope
 1999 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 1999 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class) for the folded axis stepped grating spectrometer

References

1930 births
2023 deaths
Engineers from Shanghai
Tsinghua University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
20th-century Chinese engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions. The following is a list of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) accidents. It shows whether the accident occurred during dangerous goods transportation or at a fixed facility, the accident origin (e.g., storage, process reactor, rail tank car, tank truck), the material involved, its amount, the number of fatalities, and whether a fireball developed (which is typically the case if the material is flammable).

Boiler explosions are not listed here, see List of boiler explosions. Note, however, that not all boiler explosions are BLEVEs, with some being fuel–air explosions arising in the boiler furnace.

Gas cylinders explosions are listed only where many (typically tens of) canisters exploded in a single event.

List

See also 
 List of explosions
 List of boiler explosions
 List of tanker explosions
 Lists of rail accidents
 List of American railroad accidents

Explanatory notes

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Lists of explosions
Process safety
Xu Cheng'en. Xu Cheng'en (; 21 January 1927 – 3 November 2023) was a Chinese refinery process design engineer, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography
Xu was born in Zhuji County (now Zhuji), Zhejiang, on 21 January 1927. In 1945, he was admitted to Zhejiang University.

After graduating in May 1949, he became a member of the Jinzhou Synthetic Plant, which is the first coal refinery in China. In January 1953, he was transferred to the Northeast Petroleum Management Bureau to work due to his outstanding work. In May, he joined the Petroleum Design Bureau of the Ministry of Petroleum and worked at the Beijing Design Institute, where he was promoted to deputy chief engineer in January 1965 and was promoted again to president in January 1984.

On 3 November 2023, he died from an illness in Beijing, at the age of 96.

Honours and awards
 1994 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References

1927 births
2023 deaths
People from Zhuji
Engineers from Zhejiang
Zhejiang University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
20th-century Chinese engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
Terbium nitride. Terbium nitride is a binary inorganic compound of terbium and nitrogen with the chemical formula .

Physical properties 
Terbium nitride crystalyzes with cubic crystal system of the space group of F3m3.

Uses 
Terbium nitride is used for high-end electronics, ceramics, luminescent materials, special metallurgy, petrochemical, artificial crystal, magnetic materials.

References

Nitrides
Terbium compounds
Nitrogen compounds
Brilliant Labs. Brilliant Labs is a Singapore-based technology company that produces open source eyewear featuring artificial intelligence (AI).

Brilliant Labs was founded in 2019 in Hong Kong by Bobak Tavangar, a former Apple program lead. Tavangar said he saw the potential for integrating the capabilities of artificial intelligence into glasses to give consumers "visual superpowers." The goal was to use an open source platform for development that would allow for creators to access the company's code and create new apps for devices.

In January 2024, the company introduced its first product, Frame, which were glasses that looked similar to those worn by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. They were designed to be indistinguishable from regular eyeglasses and would be worn by those who wore prescription lenses. The glasses were enabled for audio with a voice assistant called Noa and featured an AI search engine called Perplexity. They came at a time when other companies introduced similar products, like AI Pin from Humane, R1 from Rabbit, or Vision Pro from Apple, and came after other products, like Google Glass or HoloLens from Microsoft did not gain traction. Prior to this, the company offered the Monocle, an augmented reality (AR) lens that attached to traditional glasses, and which also used open source software.

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Technology
Artificial intelligence
Consumer electronics
Augmented reality
Liana Cipcigan. Liana M. Cipcigan is an electrical and transport engineer who works in the UK as Professor of Transport Electrification and Smart Grids at Cardiff University. Her research interests include smart grids and the effects of electric vehicles on road and power networks.

Before joining Cardiff University, Cipcigan was a senior lecturer at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, and a researcher at the University of Alberta in Canada and at Durham University in the UK.

Cipcigan was elected to the Learned Society of Wales in 2023.

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Romanian electrical engineers
British electrical engineers
Romanian women engineers
British women engineers
Women electrical engineers
Transport engineers
Academics of Cardiff University
Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales
Xiaowen Yuan. Xiaowen Yuan is a New Zealand materials scientist, and is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in novel composite materials from natural materials for high performance uses, such as improving supercapacitor performance.

Academic career

Yuan completed a PhD titled Plasma modification of natural fibres in polypropylene composites at the University of Auckland in 2002. Yuan worked at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, and was an adjunct professor at the National University of Singapore. Yuan then joined the faculty of Massey University and later the Auckland University of Technology. She was promoted to full professor at AUT in 2024. Yuan leads the Future Fibres Laboratory at AUT, and is a professor in the mechanical engineering department.

Yuan's research focuses on novel composite materials, especially from natural materials such as gelatine, cellulose and collagen. In 2018 Yuan received a Smart Ideas grant from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment worth just under $1 million, to research the use of harakeke (New Zealand flax) fibres to improve supercapacitor performance. Supercapacitors are more sustainable alternatives to batteries, but are limited by electrode problems. Yuan and her research team are also investigating the use of other plant and animal fibres such as industrial hemp and wool, in other high-performance uses, such as smart textiles and medical uses. They research fibre production and processing, including fibre surface modification, through to product development.

Selected works

References

New Zealand academics
New Zealand women academics
New Zealand mechanical engineers
New Zealand materials scientists
Academic staff of the Auckland University of Technology
University of Auckland alumni
Academic staff of Massey University
Wen Shizhu. Wen Shizhu (; 2 November 1932 – 3 November 2023) was a Chinese mechanical scientist who was a professor at Tsinghua University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography
Wen was born in Fengcheng County (now Fengcheng), Jiangxi, on 2 November 1932. He was the seventh of eight children. He attended the Chongqing Nankai Middle School. In September 1951, he was accepted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University with the first place in the Hubei Provincial College Entrance Examination. 

After graduating in 1955, he stayed for teaching. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1956. In 1979, he became a visiting scholar at Imperial College London. He returned to China in 1981 and continued to teach at the Tsinghua University. He was made director of the Laboratory of Tribology and was promoted to full professor and doctoral supervisor. In 1985, he was responsible for the preparation of the State Key Laboratory of Tribology of Tsinghua University and was appointed director in 1988 after completion. On 1 April 2003, he recruited as a part-time professor at Henan University of Science and Technology.

On 3 November 2023, he died of an illness in Beijing, at the age of 91.

Honours and awards
 1999 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
 2002 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation

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1932 births
2023 deaths
People from Fengcheng, Jiangxi
Scientists from Jiangxi
Tsinghua University
Academic staff of Tsinghua University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
20th-century Chinese scientists
21st-century Chinese scientists
Qin Yukun. Qin Yukun (; 30 May 1933 – 13 November 2023) was a Chinese engineer who was a professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Qin was born in Shanghai, on 30 May 1933, while his ancestral home in Yangzhou, Jiangsu. In 1949, he was accepted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering,  Jiaotong University, where he graduated in 1953. In July of that same year, he entered the graduate class of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology and also participated in the establishment of the Department of Boiler (later changed to Department of Thermal Energy Engineering).

After university in 1956, he stayed for teaching. He was an assistant in September 1956, lecturer in September 1961, associate professor in September 1978, and eventually professor in May 1985. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in November 1981. He was made director and party branch secretary of the Department of Power Engineering in March 1987 and subsequently dean in May 1990. He rose to become vice president of the institute in October 1990.

On 13 November 2023, he died of an illness in Harbin, Heilongjiang, at the age of 90.

Honours and awards
 1985 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class) for the development of a 130t/h fluidized bed boiler for power generation.
 2000 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class) for the risk controlled combustion technology for thick and thin coal powder.
 2001 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 2015 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class) for the high performance center feeding swirl coal powder combustion technology.

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1933 births
2023 deaths
Engineers from Shanghai
Harbin Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Harbin Institute of Technology
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
20th-century Chinese engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
Multi-spacecraft Autonomous Positioning System. Multi-spacecraft Autonomous Positioning System (MAPS) is networked computer navigation software, Developed by Anzalone and researchers at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. MAPS was successfully tested on the International Space Station in 2018 using NASA's Space Communications and Navigation testbed.

In February 2024, the Lunar Node-1 experiment, a radio beacon, should land on the lunar surface in the payloads on the CLPS Nova-1 lander.

Description 
The system embeds navigation and state information, such as timing, position, and velocity as well as estimated accuracy, into data packets being transmitted by spacecraft and ground stations as part of their digital communications. Using its local clock, a spacecraft can estimate its range from various data transmitters, and then estimate its own location.

History

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NASA
Satellite navigation software