omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Kenneth Connor (engineer). Kenneth Connor (born 28 August 1946 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an Emeritus Professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he originally joined the faculty in 1974. He became an IEEE Life Fellow in 1998. He earned his BS, MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, and PhD in Electrophysics from New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He continues to work as an engineering education consultant since his retirement in June 2018.

References

Living people
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
1946 births
Julian Szekely. Julian Szekely (November 23, 1934 – December 7, 1995) was a Hungarian-American chemical engineer and materials scientist. He was a professor of materials science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Szekely received both his BSc (1959) and PhD (1961) in chemical engineering from Imperial College London. He moved to the United States in 1966, becoming a US citizen in 1972.

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1934 births
1995 deaths
Engineering academics
American chemical engineers
MIT School of Engineering faculty
University at Buffalo faculty
Academics of Imperial College London
Alumni of Imperial College London
Hungarian emigrants to the United States
Engineers from Budapest
20th-century American engineers
Fellows of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
20th-century American chemists
David Hight. David William Hight (born 17 August 1943) is a senior consultant at the Geotechnical Consulting Group,  a company providing high-level expertise in the field of geotechnical engineering and well known for bridging the gap between research and engineering practice.

Education
Hight was educated at Imperial College London, where he was awarded Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees followed by a PhD in 1983 carried out  in the soil mechanics section of the civil engineering department, headed by Alan W. Bishop and John Burland.

Career
Hight served as a lecturer at Imperial College between 1975 and 1983, and has been visiting professor at Imperial College (1993–2012), at the National University of Singapore (2000) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983).

He has synthesised the causes and effects of disturbance to soil samples and introduced methods to minimise sample disturbance and to assess sample quality. This has enabled him to become an expert in characterising the real behaviour of natural soils, including quantifying their scale of anisotropy of strength and stiffness.

Using this expertise Hight has specialised in forensic engineering, investigating geotechnical failures of tunnels, embankments, road pavements, and port constructions; work that has opened up new avenues of research and led to new approaches to design and construction, including participating in the introduction of compensation grouting. He has carried out technical audits on the foundations of numerous engineering projects including Hong Kong International Airport, the Rio–Antirrio bridge in Greece and Heathrow Terminal 5.

Awards and honours
Hight was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2001 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.

References

Living people
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
1943 births
Alumni of Imperial College London
NCP Engineering. NCP engineering is a Nuremberg-based company producing software for remote access, industrial internet of things security and information security. NCP's products use virtual private network (VPN) and other technologies like encryption, personal firewalls and electronic certificates in a public key infrastructure (PKI) to secure data communication.

NCP has made its IPsec VPN client compatible with the Windows 10, Windows 11, iOS, macOS, Linux and Android operating systems.

Name 

NCP is the abbreviation of "Network Communications Products". The supplement "engineering" describes that the company produces software for secure communications and remote access.

History 
NCP engineering was founded in Nuremberg, Germany in 1986. The company produces software for secure data communication through the Internet, networks via 4G/5G and wireless LANs. At the core of NCP's business is provisioning secure communication connections between stationary and mobile end-devices as well as affiliate and branch networks to a company's headquarters.

In 2007, NCP partnered with WatchGuard Technologies.
 
In January 2010, NCP established a North American affiliate, NCP engineering, Inc.

In February 2010, NCP engineering was awarded US Patent 8811397 B2 for a "System and method for data communication between a user terminal and a gateway via a network node".

NCP engineering has been involved in the ESUKOM project for the development of real-time security in mobile device environments that protect corporate networks since 2010.

As a SIMU project partner (security information and event management for small SMEs), NCP engineering is focused on optimizing IT security in corporate networks.

After many years of working together, in 2017 NCP engineering and Juniper Networks have intensified their collaboration in a technology partnership.

Juniper Networks and NCP engineering began a partnership in 2011 and intensified their collaboration in 2017 with an exclusive technology partnership.

NCP has recently focused on cloud and flexible enterprise products while solidifying multiple hardware partnerships.

References 

Companies based in Nuremberg
Virtual private networks
Companies established in 1986
Software companies of Germany
Accelerated solvent extraction. Accelerated solvent extraction (ASE), also known as pressurized solvent extraction (PSE), is a method for extracting various chemicals from a complex solid or semisolid sample matrix. The process uses high temperature and pressure, which results in the extraction taking less time and requiring less solvent, and possibly also giving better analyte recovery, than traditional methods that use less extreme conditions. The elevated temperature is employed to increase extraction efficiency of the analyte of interest and the elevated pressure is used to keep the solvent in a liquid state as the temperature is increased above its boiling point. An automated system for the process was developed by Dionex, a company owned by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Method 
The extraction cell is filled with the solid sample to be examined and placed in a temperature-controllable oven. After adding the solvent, the cell is heated at constant pressure (adjustable between 0.3 and 20 MPa) up to a maximum temperature of 200°C and kept at constant conditions for a while so that equilibrium can be established. The extract is then transferred to a sample tube. A sample often goes through several extraction cycles. Finally, the extraction cell is rinsed with solvent, the rinsing valve is opened and the cell and all lines are rinsed with nitrogen and the apparatus is prepared for further extractions.

Applications 
Accelerated solvent extraction has found many applications in the food industry, including in:
 The testing of dietary seafoods for arsenic content
 Extraction of catechins from green tea samples
 Authentication of natural vanilla flavors
 The analysis of terpenoids and sterols in tobacco

See also 
 Supercritical fluid extraction
 Superheated water

References 

Analytical chemistry
Extraction (chemistry)
Nicholas P. Samios. Nicholas P. Samios (born March 15, 1932, in NYC) is an American physicist and former director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.

Biography
He majored in physics at Columbia College of Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1953; he earned his PhD at Columbia in 1957. He worked on the Columbia faculty for three years before joining Brookhaven's physics department, where he was appointed laboratory director in May 1982. A major achievement of his tenure was the construction of the RHIC, the first heavy-ion collider. He stepped down as director in 1997 after a dispute on leaked radioactivity in the laboratory, but continued to work as a researcher. In 2003 he became director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center.

Scientific achievements
Samios has specialized  in the physics of high-energy particles. He is especially known for his study of elementary particles, in particular for the discovery of the Omega minus particle in 1964 as postulated by Murray Gell-Mann and Yuval Ne'eman, as well as the first charmed baryon. These discoveries have contributed to the understanding of the spectrum of particles and have carried to the formulation of Quantum Chromodynamics and the Standard Model of particle physics.

Awards 
1980 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
1982 Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1993 Panofsky Prize
2009 Gian Carlo Wick Gold Medal

References

Further reading
 450th Brookhaven Lecture: Nicholas Samios to Reflect on Science
 Articles by Nicholas P. Samios on Scientific American

1932 births
Living people
21st-century American physicists
American people of Greek descent
Brookhaven National Laboratory staff
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Columbia University faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Winners of the Panofsky Prize
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Incident Object Description Exchange Format. Used for computer security, IODEF (Incident Object Description Exchange Format) is a data format which is used to describe computer security information for the purpose of exchange between Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs).

IODEF messages are organized in a human-readable way, and not a machine format. Details of the format are described in RFC 5070 and updated in RFC 6685. Version 2 of the format is defined in RFC 7970, which supersedes the previous version. This RFC presents an implementation of the data model in XML as well as the associated DTD. Further implementation guidance for IODEF v2 is defined in RFC 8274.

One of the main characteristics of IODEF is its compatibility with the IDMEF Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format developed for intrusion detection systems. For this reason, IODEF is heavily based on IDMEF and provides backward compatibility with it.

Format 

IODEF is an object-oriented structured format, composed of 47 classes in the first version. The IODEF and IDMEF formats having a lot in common: the field structure is similar to the IDMEF one and it is an extensible format: in addition to the usual Additional Data Class, which allow adding any information relevant to the IODEF message, most enumerations are provided with an "ext" field. This field is used when none of the proposed choices are fitting.

Here is a list of the main fields:

Software using IODEF 
 Prelude SIEM
 IODEFLIB : Python library to create, parse and edit cyber incident reports using the IODEF XML format (RFC 5070)
 RT-IODEF : Perl module for translating RT tickets to IODEF messages and also maps IODEF to RT’s Custom Fields based on their description tag
 Mantis IODEF Importer : An IODEF (v1.0) importer for the Mantis Cyber Threat Intelligence Mgmt. Framework 
 ArcSight-IODEF-Perl : A perl module to convert arcsight xml to a standardized iodef message
 IODEF Implementations
 IODEF DBI
 IODEF Pb : This library maps IODEF (RFC 5070) to the google protocol buffer serialization library.
 XML :: IODEF – A perl module for easily creating/parsing IODEF Documents
 Stix output formatter for : Iodef::Pb::Simple
 Library for parsing IODEF in PHP

External links 
  – The Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF)
  – Expert Review for Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF) Extensions in IANA XML Registry
  – An Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF) Extension for Structured Cybersecurity Information
  – The Incident Object Description Exchange Format Version 2
  – Incident Object Description Exchange Format Usage Guidance

Intrusion detection systems
First Coast Flyer. The First Coast Flyer is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Jacksonville, Florida, owned and operated by the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA). It currently consists of four radial routes running north, southwest, southeast, and east from the Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center in Downtown Jacksonville, where it connects to the Jacksonville Skyway. The first phase, including stations in Downtown Jacksonville and the northbound Green Line, opened in December 2015, with the southbound Blue Line opening in 2016. Additional phases, including the eastbound Red Line and southwestern Orange Line opened in 2018 and 2021, respectively.

History and planning
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority began studying building a rapid transit system for Jacksonville in 2000, and identified bus rapid transit as the best fit for some corridors. The North Florida Transportation Planning Organization added the BRT system to the city's long-range plan. After years of planning, the system, named the First Coast Flyer, broke ground in 2014 with transit improvements in Downtown Jacksonville. The system opened on December 7, 2015, with service Downtown and on the Green Line, running north to Interstate 295. About a year after the system opened, the Blue Line opened for service, running south to The Avenues at the intersection of U.S. 1 (Philips Highway) and Southside Boulevard near Interstate 95.

Routes
Currently, the First Coast Flyer serves stations in Downtown Jacksonville and along the Green, Blue, Red, and Orange Lines. 

Downtown service runs on Northbound and Southbound routes, and features twelve stations and dedicated lanes for its buses. Downtown service runs from the Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center (next to the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center), north to the Rosa Parks Transit Station, and south to a station at Kings Avenue on the Southbank.

Green Line
The North Corridor/Green Line Route 102 runs 9.39 miles north through the Springfield and Northside areas. It runs from the Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center to Interstate 295 at Lem Turner Road. It serves 11 stations.

Blue Line
The Southeast Corridor/Blue Line Route 107 runs south through the LaVilla, Southbank, San Marco, and Southside areas. It runs from the Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center to The Avenues at the intersection of U.S. 1 (Philips Highway) and Southside Boulevard near Interstate 95. It serves 12 stations.

Red Line
The Southeast Corridor/Red Line Route 109 runs east from Downtown to Jacksonville Beach along Arlington Expressway, Southside Boulevard and Beach Boulevard. It serves 17 stations.

Orange Line
The Southwest Corridor/Orange Line Route 105 runs south from the Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center through Riverside and Avondale to Orange Park along Blanding Boulevard. It serves 13 stations.

References

Bus rapid transit in Florida
Transportation in Jacksonville, Florida
2015 establishments in Florida
Annalisa Buffa. Annalisa Buffa (born 14 February 1973) is an Italian mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis and partial differential equations (PDE). She is a professor of mathematics at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and holds the Chair of Numerical Modeling and Simulation.

Education and career
Buffa received her master's degree in computer engineering in 1996 and received her PhD in 2000, with supervisor Franco Brezzi, from the University of Milan with thesis Some numerical and theoretical problems in computational electromagnetism. From 2001 to 2004 she was a Researcher, from 2004 to 2013 a Research Director (rank equivalent to Professor), and from 2013 to 2016 she was the Director at the Istituto di matematica applicata e tecnologie informatiche "E. Magenes" (IMATI) of the CNR in Pavia. 

In 2016 she was promoted to Full Professor of Mathematics. She holds the Chair of Numerical Modeling and Simulation at EPFL.

She has been a visiting scholar at many institutions, including the  at the University of Paris VI, the École Polytechnique, the ETH Zürich, and the University of Texas at Austin (Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, ICES).

Contributions
Buffa's research deals with a wide range of topics in PDEs and numerical analysis: "isogeometric analysis, fully compatible discretization of PDEs, linear and non linear elasticity, contact mechanics, integral equations on non-smooth manifolds, functional theory for Maxwell equations in non-smooth domains, finite element techniques for Maxwell equations, non-conforming domain decomposition methods, asymptotic analysis, stabilization techniques for finite element discretizations."

Recognition
In 2007 Buffa was awarded the Bartolozzi Prize. In 2015 she was awarded the  "for her spectacular use of deep and sophisticated mathematical concepts to obtain outstanding contributions to the development of computer simulations in science and industry" (Laudatio). In 2014, she was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul with talk Spline differential forms. In 2008, she received an ERC Starting Grant and in 2016 an ERC Advanced Grant. She became a member of the Academia Europaea in 2016.

Selected works

References

External links
ICM2014 VideoSeries IL15.4: Annalisa Buffa on Aug18Mon – YouTube
Importance of Industry: Annalisa Buffa, 2015 ICIAM Collatz – YouTube
 Website of the Chair of Numerical Modeling and Simulation

1973 births
Living people
21st-century Italian mathematicians
Italian women mathematicians
Numerical analysts
University of Pavia alumni
21st-century women mathematicians
Members of Academia Europaea
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Shi Ping (aircraft designer). Shi Ping (; 25 March 1934 – 10 May 2016) was a Chinese aircraft designer, who is responsible for the development of the two-seat intermediate jet trainer Hongdu JL-8. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Shi was born on 25 March 1934 in Poyang County, Jiangxi. He obtained a bachelor's degree from Nanjing Aeronautical Institute in 1956. He was assigned to Hongdu Machinery-building Factory as a designer after his graduation. He was a designer of Nanchang CJ-6, Nanchang Q-5 and Dongfeng-103 between 1950s and 1970s. Shi was appointed as the chief designer for Hongdu JL-8 in 1987.

In 2003, Shi was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was the chief designer of Hongdu Aviation Industry Group as well as the adjunct professor of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1994–2016), Nanchang Institute of Aeronautical Technology (2003–16) and Jiangxi University of Science and Technology (2004–16).

Shi died on 10 May 2016 at the age of 82 in Nanchang.

References

1934 births
2016 deaths
People from Nanchang
Chinese aircraft designers
Engineers from Jiangxi
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Bathuel Harrison Iheanyichukwu. Bathuel Harrison Iheanyichukwu is a civil engineer and architect, who serves as the current Rivers State Commissioner of Works. He was appointed to this position by Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, confirmed by the Rivers State House of Assembly and sworn in on 9 May 2016. He replaces Kelvin Wachukwu, who was suspended indefinitely on 1 April 2016.

See also
Wike Executive Council
List of people from Rivers State

References

Commissioners of ministries of Rivers State
Engineers from Rivers State
First Wike Executive Council
Rivers State Commissioners of Works
ManicTime. ManicTime is automatic time tracking software, which tracks application and web page usage. Tracked data helps users keep track of time spent on various projects and tasks. It was developed by Finkit d.o.o., a company based in Slovenia.

Details
ManicTime Client runs in the background and records applications, documents and web sites used by user. Collected data can then be used to keep track of time spent on various projects and tasks. All data is stored locally in SQL Server Compact database.

ManicTime Server 
ManicTime Server was introduced in 2011. It collects data from ManicTime Clients and generates reports, which can be viewed with a web browser. ManicTime Server is an on-premises software and stores data in either SQLite, PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server. Other applications can interact with ManicTime Server through SQL or JSON web service.

See also
Comparison of time tracking software
Project management software

References

External links
Official site

Time-tracking software
Proprietary software
Saab Active Head Restraints. Saab Active Head Restraints or SAHR is a system to protect against automotive whiplash injuries introduced by Saab in 1997. It was launched when the Saab 9-5 was released for the 1998 model year and had been part of the standard equipment on the Saab 9-3 and 9-5 since.

Details 
SAHR is mounted at the top of a frame, inside the seat-back, which is designed to pivot at its mid point. In a rear-end impact, the occupant’s lower back is forced rearwards by inertia against the bottom portion of the seat-back. A mechanical linkage in the frame then forces the upper half, carrying the head restraint, upwards and forwards to catch the occupant’s head and help minimise the amount of whiplash movement.
The Benefit of the SAHR's system is that the headrest doesn't require replacement once used, unlike BMW and Volvo's WHIPS systems.

SAHR 2 was introduced for the 2003 model year standard on the Saab 9-3. SAHR 2 was designed for even faster activation in rear impacts at lower speeds. The head restraint is activated as soon as the lower back is pressed into the setback by the occupant’s inertia during a rear impact.

Statistics 
In 2002 a study conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety that investigated property damage insurance claims found that Saab's active head restraint design produced a 55 percent reduction in claim rates for women and a 31 percent reduction for men. This is when compared to traditional head restraints.

Awards 
 Technology Award for the Saab Active Head Restraint - Prince Michael Road Safety Awards, Great Britain - 1997 
 Industry Award For the Saab Active Head Restraint - The Windscreens O'Brian Safety Award, Australia - 1997
 Special Prize for the Saab Active Head Restraint - The Danish Association of Polio, Traffic and Accident Victims (PTU), Denmark - 1996

See also 
 Saab 9-3
 Saab 9-5
 Head restraint

References 

Vehicle safety technologies
Saab
Kelvin Wachukwu. Kelvin Kinikanwo Wachukwu is a Nigerian engineer who served as Rivers State Commissioner of Works from December 2015 to April 2016. He was suspended indefinitely from office for negligence, dereliction of duty, particularly his failure to supervise projects effectively. He was replaced by Harrison B. Iheanyichukwu on 9 May 2016.

See also
Wike Executive Council
List of people from Rivers State

References

Commissioners of ministries of Rivers State
Engineers from Rivers State
First Wike Executive Council
Rivers State Commissioners of Works
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)