omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Philip Aiken. Philip S. Aiken (born 9 January 1949, in Sydney) is an Australian business executive.

Aiken holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in chemical engineering from University of Sydney, and has attended the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School. Aiken was formerly Group President of BHP Billiton's energy business, and an executive director of Nylex. He held senior positions at BOC, and was also a senior advisor to Macquarie Capital (Europe).

Early life and education
Aiken was born in Sydney, Australia, on 9 January 1949. In 1970, he graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in chemical engineering from University of Sydney and later in 1989, attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Career
Aiken started his career in 1970 with BOC; where he served for nearly 26 years, holding several senior positions. In 1995, he was appointed executive director and Chief Executive of Nylex (which later became Invensys). From 1997 until his retirement in 2006, he worked for BHP Billiton; firstly as President of BHP Petroleum, and latterly as Group President of BHP Billiton's Energy business. From 2006 until 2009, he was a senior advisor at Macquarie Bank.

He was appointed to the board of Robert Walters in July 2000, and as its chairman in May 2007. On 24 May 2012, Aiken decided to step down from his role as chairman of Robert Walters once the process of appointing a successor chairman has been completed.

In April 2012, Aiken was appointed to the board of Aveva, to succeed the outgoing chairman Nick Prest. He commenced his duties as chairman after the shareholders approval at the Annual General Meeting on 12 July 2012 and stood down in January 2023. In April 2013 he joined the board of Newcrest standing down following its acquisition by Newmont whose Board he joined in November 2023. In March 2015, he became chairman of Balfour Beatty and stood down as chairman on 20 July 2021.

He joined the Board of New Energy One Acquisitions in 2021 and BIAC in 2023.

He was also formerly a non-executive director of National Grid plc, copper mining company Kazakhmys,Indian-focused energy company Essar Energy. and Miclyn Express Offshore,a Singapore based service boat company.

Personal life
Aiken lives in Melbourne and London with his wife, Fran. He was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in June 2013.

References

External links
AVEVA Group plc Board
 National Grid plc Board
Essar Energy plc Board

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1949 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Sydney
Australian expatriates in England
20th-century Australian businesspeople
21st-century Australian businesspeople
BHP people
University of Sydney alumni
Members of the Order of Australia
Australian expatriates in the United States
Airsport Sonet. The Airsport Sonet () is a Czech ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Airsport of Zbraslavice. The aircraft is supplied in complete, ready-to-fly form.

Design and development
The aircraft was derived from the Airsport Sonata motor glider and designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a cantilever low-wing, a T-tail, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The Sonet is made from composites. Its polyhedral wing comes in three optional spans: ,  and . It requires an engine of about  and no more than . Standard engines available are the  Rotax 582 two-stroke and the  HKS 700E four-stroke powerplant.

Specifications (Sonet 11.4)

References

External links

2000s Czech ultralight aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Airsport aircraft
Adam Freytag. Adam Freytag (1608–1650) was a Polish military engineer, mathematician and physician. He is best known for his work Architectura militaris nova et aucta, the first manual of bastion fortifications of the so-called Old Dutch system, published in 1631. In 1633–1634, he served as a Polish military engineer in the Smolensk War.

1608 births
1650 deaths
People from Toruń
Polish military engineers
Polish people of the Smolensk War
17th-century Polish mathematicians
17th-century Polish physicians
Alisport Yuma. The Alisport Yuma is an Italian ultralight aircraft, produced by Alisport of Cremella. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Zenith Aircraft considers the Yuma an unauthorized copy of the Zenith STOL CH 701. The World Directory of Light Aviation describes it as being inspired by the CH 701.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features STOL performance, a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The Yuma's fuselage is made from welded steel tubing, covered in aluminium sheet and the tail surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. The wing is all-aluminium, with its leading edge slats made from carbon fibre. Its  span wing employs V-struts, jury struts and flaps. Standard engines available are the  Rotax 912UL, the  Rotax 912ULS and the  Rotax 914 turbo-charged four-stroke powerplant.

Specifications (Yuma)

References

External links

1990s Italian ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Alisport aircraft
Sonpur Junction railway station. Sonpur Junction, station code SEE, is a railway station and the headquarters of the Sonpur railway division of East Central Railway. Sonpur Junction is located in Sonpur city in Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar.

History

In 2011, the Sonpur Junction was given a facelift with a wider approach roads and greenery in and around the station premises at the cost of . The work on doubling of tracks on  tracks between Sonpur and Hajipur has been carried on since past few years and is set to be completed by the end of 2012.

Bridge 
In 2009, the construction of India's longest road-cum-rail bridge, the Digha–Sonpur rail–road bridge, was underway on the banks on the Ganges nearby, to connect Patna to Pahleja Ghat.  The bridge was completed by end of August 2015. It is  long and therefore the longest road cum rail bridge in India and one of the longest in the world.

Infrastructure 
There are 4 platforms at Sonpur Junction. The platforms are interconnected with foot overbridges (FOB). The length of the platforms were increased in 2011 to accommodate 24-coach trains. The major facilities available are Waiting rooms, computerised reservation facility, Vehicle parking. The vehicles are allowed to enter the station premises. The station also has STD/ISD/PCO Telephone booth, toilets, tea stall and book stall. The passenger reservation system, booking counters and unreserved ticketing system are provided with air-conditioning facility.

In October 2016, Railways inaugurated a Happiness Junction at the Sonepur railway station, with an objective to provide books and several other entertainment tools to passengers waiting for trains.

Gallery

Nearest railway stations
The distance from nearby stations are:

Nearest airports
The nearest airports to Sonpur Junction are:
 Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Patna 
 Gaya Airport 
 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata

See also 
 Lichchavi Express

References

External links 
 
 Official website of the Vaishali district

Railway stations in Saran district
Railway junction stations in Bihar
Sonpur railway division
Lapping film. Lapping film, in telecommunications, is a precision coated abrasive consumable mainly used for processing and polishing optical fiber connectors. It is made from a polyester base sheet, coated with precisely graded minerals such as diamond, aluminium oxide, silicon carbide, silicon oxide or cerium oxide. Lapping film is designed to provide a uniform, consistent finish on optical fiber connector end tips to ensure efficient light/signal transmission. It is available in 0.01-45 μm grades, with or without pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) backing.

References

Abrasives
Lionel Guérin. Lionel Guérin () is a French Chief executive officer and Politician.

Biography

Training 
Lionel Guérin is an aerospace engineer graduate from École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique and airline pilot graduate from École nationale de l'aviation civile.

Career in business 
Graduate engineer, he is hired as technical Director at Europe Aéro Service responsible for fleet maintenance. After his training at ÉNAC, he became an airline pilot at Uni Air, Air Inter and Air France airlines. On the French national airline, he became Captain Airbus A320, flight instructor and responsible for operational standards, before creating the regional airline Airlinair. Since February 2007, he is also President of Transavia France.

In September 2011, he is tipped to become chairman of Air France and successor of Pierre-Henri Gourgeon. Supported by Jean-Cyril Spinetta, he is ultimately not retained for the benefit of Alexandre de Juniac.

Political activities 
Since 2003, Lionel Guérin is President of the Fédération nationale de l'aviation marchande and the Chambre syndicale du transport aérien. He is also member of the board of directors of the Conseil supérieur de l'aviation marchande. From 2006 to 2011, he is adviser at the Banque de France of Creteil.

Lionel Guerin is also an environmental activist, fond of parrots and supporting sustainable aviation.

Personal life 
Lionel Guérin is married and has two children.

Award 
 Knight of the Légion d'honneur.
 Officer of the French National Order of Merit

Bibliography 
 Info-Pilote number 612, Paris, Info-Pilote, March 2007

References 

Living people
École nationale de l'aviation civile alumni
Aviation in France
French businesspeople
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite
French aerospace engineers
Commercial aviators
Year of birth missing (living people)
Gordon J. Key. Gordon J. Key authored video game software for the Acorn BBC Micro, Electron and  platforms in the 1980s and 1990s. His most well-known works were published by The Fourth Dimension (earlier known as Impact Software). He is also credited with additional programming routines in FedNet's futuristic flight combat game Star Fighter 3000 (1994), and authored Party Machine for the Amstrad CPC.

In an article about the Electron referring to Key's Holed Out! golf simulator, Steve Botterill  (co-founder of The Fourth Dimension) referred to Key as being "one of the most brilliant programmers" he had ever met. In an interview in the November 1988 issue of The Micro User, Key explained that his development as a programmer began for pleasure, modifying existing games. He then used increasingly more machine code in an effort to produce magazine games of equal quality to commercial titles. At the time of publishing Clogger, he was learning ARM assembly language in addition to setting up a vehicle restoration business for old buses.

In 2010, Key answered a number of questions posed by registered members of The Icon Bar forum. He has not written any commercial software since starting in the antiques trade.

List of games 
 Clogger (BBC Micro/Acorn Electron)
 E-Type (BBC Micro/Acorn Electron/Acorn Archimedes, 1989)
 Holed Out! (BBC Micro/Acorn Electron/Acorn Archimedes, 1989)
 Apocalypse (Acorn Archimedes, 1990)
 Break 147 / Superpool (Acorn Archimedes, 1991)
 Black Angel (Acorn Archimedes, 1992)
 Haunted House (Acorn Archimedes)
 The Time Machine (Acorn Archimedes)
 E-Type 2 (Acorn Archimedes/RiscPC)
 Virtual Golf (Acorn Archimedes/RiscPC)
 Powerband (Acorn Archimedes/RiscPC)
 Pendragon (BBC Micro)

References 

Video game programmers
Video game designers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Traversed edges per second. The number of traversed edges per second (TEPS) that can be performed by a supercomputer cluster is a measure of both the communications capabilities and computational power of the machine. This is in contrast to the more standard metric of floating-point operations per second (FLOPS), which does not give any weight to the communication capabilities of the machine. The term first entered usage in 2010 with the advent of petascale computing, and has since been measured for many of the world's largest supercomputers.

In this context, an edge is a connection between two vertices on a graph, and the traversal is the ability of the machine to communicate data between these two points. The standardized benchmark associated with Graph500, as of September, 2011, calls for executing graph generation and search algorithms on graphs as large as 1.1 Petabyte.

The ability of an application to utilize a supercomputer cluster effectively depends not only on the raw speed of each processor, but also on the communication network. The importance of communication capability varies from application to application, but it is clear that the LINPACK benchmarks traditionally used for rating the FLOPS of supercomputers do not require the same communications capability as many scientific applications.
Therefore, alternative metrics that characterize the performance of a machine in a more holistic manner may be more relevant for many scientific applications, and may be desirable for making purchasing decisions.

See also 

 TOP500 
 Graph500
 HPCG benchmark
 Criticism of LINPACK benchmarks

References 

Cluster computing
Parallel computing
Units of temporal rate
Excelsior JET. Excelsior JET is a now-defunct proprietary Java SE technology implementation built around an ahead-of-time (AOT) Java to native code compiler. The compiler transforms the portable Java bytecode into optimized executables for the desired hardware and operating system (OS). Also included are a Java runtime featuring a just-in-time (JIT) compiler for handling classes that were not precompiled for whatever reason (e.g. third-party plugins or dynamic proxies), the complete Java SE API implementation licensed from Oracle, and a toolkit to aid deployment of the optimized applications. Excelsior JET was developed by Excelsior LLC, headquartered in Novosibirsk, Russia.

Overview
Excelsior JET passed the "official" test suite (TCK) for Java SE 8, and was certified Java Compatible on macOS and a number of Windows and Linux flavors running on Intel x86, AMD64/Intel 64 and compatible hardware. (The macOS version was 64-bit only.)

The Enterprise Edition supported the Equinox OSGi runtime at the JVM level, enabling ahead-of-time compilation of Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) applications, and version 7.0 added such support for Web applications running on Apache Tomcat.
Version 10.5 introduced a new garbage collector optimized for multi-core and multi-CPU systems

Excelsior JET Embedded implements the Java SE for Embedded technology in a very similar manner. The only major differences used to be in licensing and pricing, but as of the latest version Excelsior JET Embedded also supports ARM-based platforms.

Latest Release
Version 15 introduced incremental compilation for AMD64 and ARM targets and improved application performance across all platforms.

Product EOL
On May 15, 2019, Excelsior announced discontinuation of Excelsior JET in an e-mail to their customers and next day also on their website. Support was announced to be stopped and the engineering team to leave completely within only ~2 weeks ("early June 2019") and Website for downloads announced to be offline mid of June (within only ~4 weeks). At August 7, 2019, it was announced Excelsior was acquired by Huawei.

See also

 GNU Compiler for Java (removed from GCC in October 2016)

References

External links

 Excelsior JET Homepage
 Improve Startup Time of Java Applications
 Reduce Download Size of Java Applications 
 Profile-Guided Optimization
 Huawei acquires Russian developer Excelsior

Java development tools
Discontinued Java virtual machines
Leo Ubbelohde. Leo Ubbelohde (4 January 1877, Hanover – 28 February 1964, Düsseldorf) was a German chemist.

During his career he served as a professor in Karlsruhe and Berlin. He is known for his research on mineral oils, fuels, catalysis and viscosity.

He was the inventor of a suspended-level viscometer used for determining kinetic viscosity, known today as a "Ubbelohde viscometer".

Publications 
 Über Kondensationen der Isatinsäure und des o-Amidobenzaldehyds mit Isonitrosoaceton, (1903)
 Handbuch der Chemie und Technologie der Öle und Fette :  Chemie, Analyse, Gewinnung und Verarbeitung der Öle, Fette, Wachse und Harze. 
 Zur Viskosimetrie. Anhang : Umwandlungs-tabellen für Viskositätszahlen, (1940).

References 

20th-century German chemists
Scientists from Hanover
1964 deaths
1877 births
Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin
Scorpion (processor). Scorpion is a central processing unit (CPU) core designed by Qualcomm for use in their Snapdragon mobile systems on chips (SoCs). It was released in 2008. It was designed in-house, but has many architectural similarities with the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 CPU cores.

Overview
 10/12 stage integer pipeline with 2-way decode, 3-way out-of-order speculatively issued superscalar execution
 Pipelined VFPv3 and 128-bit wide NEON (SIMD)
 3 execution ports
 32 KB + 32 KB L1 cache
 256 KB (single-core) or 512 KB (dual-core) L2 cache
 Single or dual-core configuration
 2.1 DMIPS/MHz
 65/45/28 nm process

See also 
 Krait (CPU)
List of Qualcomm Snapdragon processors
Comparison of ARMv7-A cores
Adreno

References

ARM processors
Qualcomm IP cores
Krait (processor). Qualcomm Krait is an ARM-based central processing unit included in the Snapdragon S4 and earlier models of Snapdragon 400/600/800 series SoCs. It was introduced in 2012 as a successor to the Scorpion CPU and although it has architectural similarities, Krait is not a Cortex-A15 core, but it was designed in-house. In 2015, Krait was superseded by the 64-bit Kryo architecture, first introduced in Snapdragon 820 SoC.

Overview 

 11-stage integer pipeline with 3-way decode and 4-way out-of-order speculative issue superscalar execution
 Pipelined VFPv4 and 128-bit wide NEON (SIMD)
 7 execution ports
 4 KB + 4 KB direct mapped L0 cache
 16 KB + 16 KB 4-way set associative L1 cache
 1 MB (dual-core) or 2 MB (quad-core) 8-way set-associative L2 cache
 Dual- or quad-core configurations
 Performance (DMIPS/MHz):
 Krait 200: 3.3 (28 nm LP)
 Krait 300: 3.39 (28 nm LP)
 Krait 400: 3.39 (28 nm HPm)
 Krait 450: 3.51 (28 nm HPm)

See also 
 Scorpion (CPU)
 Kryo (microarchitecture)
 Comparison of ARMv7-A cores
List of Qualcomm Snapdragon processors

References

External links
 Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Site.

ARM processors
Qualcomm IP cores
Joseph Neng Shun Kwong. Joseph Neng Shun Kwong (October 28, 1916 – January 4, 1998) was a chemical engineer, most famous for his role in the development of the Redlich–Kwong equation of state.

Biography
Joseph Kwong was born in Chung Won, China in 1916, and emigrated to the United States as a child with his family.  Kwong earned a bachelor's degree in 1937 from Stanford University in chemistry and basic medical sciences.  He then earned a Master of Science degree in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Michigan, and was awarded a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1942.

Kwong worked as a chemical engineer at Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. (later 3M) from 1942 to 1944, helping to develop adhesive products.  In 1944, Kwong began working at the Shell Development Company in California.  During his time at Shell, Kwong met Otto Redlich, a physical chemist who had fled his native Austria to the United States in 1938 as the Nazis took power.  The two presented a paper in 1948 describing what is now known as the Redlich–Kwong equation of state, which related the pressure, volume, and temperature of different compounds.  Kwong returned to 3M in 1951 as a senior chemical engineer in the Chemical Division, working there until retirement in 1980, at the age of 64.  The development of the Redlich-Kwong equation was the last significant theoretical treatment of thermodynamics.  He died of pneumonia in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on January 4, 1998, at the age of 81.

References

1916 births
1998 deaths
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
Chinese chemical engineers
Chinese physical chemists
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Thermodynamicists
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
Deaths from pneumonia in Minnesota
Alba (motorcycle). The Alba motorcycle was manufactured at Stettin between 1919 and 1924 by Alfred Baruch. They featured four-stroke engines of 198cc, 247cc and 249cc capacity. Alba also manufactured three-wheeled delivery vans, as well as supplying engines to other manufacturers such as Huy and Teco. Although the company stopped manufacture in the mid-1920s, Alfred's son Manfred continued to supply spares up to the mid-1930s.

References

Motorcycle manufacturers of Germany
Monmouth New Hydro Scheme. The Monmouth New Hydro Scheme, which incorporates the Osbaston fish pass, is a hydroelectric scheme in Osbaston, near Monmouth, in South-East Wales.

Description
The scheme produces 670,000 kW hours of electricity per year, which is enough to power 152 homes. It also provides heat for the landowner, Ronald Kear's, home. The scheme is built around two screw turbines. These Archimedes' screws are operating in reverse, with water flowing down, to power generators. An earlier hydroelectric power station had been on the site from 1896 until 1953, which itself was built on the foundations of an even older forge. Alongside the scheme is the Osbaston fish pass, built by the Environment Agency Wales at a cost of £600,000. The fish pass allows river-spawning fish, such as salmon, to access an extra 125 miles of river - something which they had not been able to do since Osbaston Weir was put in place in the 18th century.

The power station was officially opened on 23 September 2009 by the Earl of Wessex. Several months later, in June 2010, local schoolchildren released salmon into the River Monnow at the site of the power station - the salmon were initially reared at their school, Osbaston Primary School, as part of a class project. Once the salmon became fry, they were taken to Cynrig Hatchery, in Brecon. The fish pass is not only used by salmon, but also larger creatures - in June 2010, a camera set up at the site of the fish trap caught footage of an otter swimming through the trap.

References

Monmouth, Wales
Hydroelectric power stations in Wales
Marius Lavet. Marius Lavet (February 8, 1894 in Clermont-Ferrand – February 14, 1980 in Paris) was a French engineer who invented in 1936 the principle of stepper motor. He studied at Supélec, the School of Electric Power, French private engineering school.

A stepper motor can turn an electrical impulse in angular movement. This type of engine is very common in all devices where it is desirable to control the speed or position in open loop, usually in positioning systems. The invention of Lavet is enshrined in French Patent FR823395 and was instrumental, among other applications, for the development of watches with quartz mechanisms, using the principle known as the piezoelectric. Quartz watches dominate the world market today, due to their low price and high precision.

External links
 Brevet fr 823395 
 L'Association Marius Levet 

1891 births
1980 deaths
Knights of the Legion of Honour
French electrical engineers
Scientists from Clermont-Ferrand
Maurice Deloraine. Maurice Deloraine (1898–1991) was a French engineer, executive and technical director of International Telephone and Telegraph. Deloraine was strongly involved in the development of the so-called Huff-Duff.

Deloraine and others made an initial patent for delta modulation called "Communication system utilizing constant amplitude pulses of opposite polarities" (French patent issued 1946, US patent filed 1947).

References

1898 births
1991 deaths
ESPCI Paris alumni
History of air traffic control
20th-century French inventors