omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
FORPLAN. FORPLAN, short for FORest PLANning, is a computer program developed by K. Norman Johnson and others that uses a linear programming model to estimate land management resource outputs pursuant to the National Forest Management Act of 1976. FORPLAN was developed to bridge the gap between functional resource planning and integrated land-use planning. Its primary usefulness was for the heavily timbered forests in the Pacific Northwest and the Southeastern United States. It is available in two versions.

FORPLAN is the outgrowth of a series of LP systems developed and used by the United States Forest Service, including Resource Capability System (RCS), Resource Allocation Analysis (RAA), Timber Resource Allocation Method (Timber RAM), Multiple Use Sustained Yield Calculation Technique (MUSYC), ADVENT (a system used for program budgeting), and Integrated Resource Planning Model (IRPM). As part of its growing centralization, the Forest Service directed all forests to use FORPLAN rather than competing computer models. FORPLAN allowed planners to enter information about the forest into the computer and then inquire as to, e.g., the maximum amount of timber that could be cut or how much timber could be cut in a decade if the forest were managed to earn maximum profits. FORPLAN allowed planners to break forests up into different zones based on factors such as vegetation, age of timber, wildlife habitat, steepness of slope, or whether the zone had roads.

One criticism of FORPLAN is that it is unable to incorporate emotions, preferences or attitudes that are spatially dependent. Another criticism is that it includes nonuse values, such as protecting watersheds, preserving endangered species, and improving aesthetics, only as constraints on production rather than as goals. Other criticisms are its large size and complexity and problems with documentation and verification. It is also limited by its requirements for massive amounts of data on ecological interactions and for market prices for all resource uses and outputs. Randal O'Toole noted that much of the data in FORPLAN was based on outdated inventories and that average FORPLAN timber prices were often two or three times actual prices.

It was praised by the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment for its enormous analytical capacity, its focus on important issues, and its common language for analysts.

The Australian PREPLAN, or Pristine Environment Planning Language and Simulator, was derived partly from FORPLAN.

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Sanjay Gupta (businessman). Sanjay Raghunathprasad Gupta (1963–2021) was an Indian businessman and civil servant. He was chairman and founder of Neesa Group of companies.

Career 
Sanjay Gupta is a civil engineer from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and a diploma holder in finance from Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI University) and an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer working with the government of Gujarat for 17 years (1985 to 2002) in various departments at top level positions.

Government
Sanjay Gupta joined IAS at the age of 22 and started his career as Civil servant in Gujarat State.

Since then he has held top level positions in various departments of government of Gujarat.

Later, he was managing director of Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation between 1997 and 2002. While there, he helped set up a 160MW gas-based power plant, promoted the largest distributor of internet bandwidth in Gujarat, and launched a fuel consultancy business.

Private sector
He worked as chief executive officer for Adani Group from 2002 to 2005.  In April 2011, he was appointed as executive chairman of the Rs 12,000-crore Metro-Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad project, but resigned suddenly in August 2013.

Gupta announced plans in 2012 to launch a national news channel based in Gujarat.

2015 arrest
In May 2015, Gupta and several others were arrested for their alleged involvement in a Rs 113 crore fraud in the Metro-Link project. He was released on bail for health reasons in December 2015.

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Reza Farajidana. Reza Faraji-Dana (born 1960 in Qom) is an Iranian electrical engineer and reformist politician, who was the minister of Science, Research and Technology under President Hassan Rouhani. He served as president of University of Tehran, and as the former president of the Iranian branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Biography
Reza Faraji-Dana was born in 1960 in Qom and received his math diploma from Hakim Nezami high school in 1978. In the same year, he was admitted to the Shiraz University in electrical engineering.

He studied electrical engineering at the University of Tehran, and at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He graduated with a Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo in 1993. He works as the professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tehran.

Dismissal
Iranian parliament dismissed him as Minister of Science on 20 August 2014. The conservative MPs accused him of permitting students involved in 2009–10 Iranian election protests to continue their education in public universities. He was also accused of appointing senior department heads from people involved in the mass protests of 2009. Some of the PMs who voted for the dismissal of Farajidana were allegedly benefiting from unlawful scholarships in the previous government and the list of those who granted unlawful scholarships has been revealed during the ministration of Farajidana. He was removed from office through impeachment in August 2014.

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Iranian engineers
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Microwave engineers
Academic staff of the University of Tehran
Bruno V. Nordberg. Bruno V. Nordberg,  (April 11, 1857 – October 30, 1924) was a Finnish Swedish engineer that emigrated to the United States and founded the Nordberg Manufacturing Company.

Nordberg was born in Turku. He studied from 1875 to 1879 at the Polytechnical School (, ) in Helsinki, Finland (later Helsinki University of Technology).

After his studies, he emigrated to the United States in 1880 and started working at the E. P. Allis Company in Milwaukee. He founded his own company, the Bruno V. Nordberg Company, in 1886. The company manufactured a cutoff governor for steam engines Nordberg had invented. In 1890, it moved to a larger facility under the Nordberg Manufacturing Company name.

Nordberg died at his home in Milwaukee after an illness of two years in 1924.

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Walter Reginald Hume. Walter Reginald Hume (29 November 1873 – 21 July 1943) was an Australian inventor and industrialist known for inventing modern techniques of producing concrete and steel pipes.

Early life
Hume travelled around Victoria in his early years with his father who gave lectures as a professional phrenologist. Walter Hume was 12 years old when his father died and in the altered family circumstances, Hume had to leave school to find work. He tried his hand at several trades, including plasterering.

Invention and industry
During the depression of the 1890s, Hume and his elder brother, Ernest James Hume (ca.1869 – 18 January 1929), joined forces and worked in country Victoria in construction, repair and farming, from which they developed a workshop business at Malmsbury, Victoria making fencing droppers from hoop iron. The brothers received their first patent for this work.

The brothers moved to South Australia to establish a second factory, but soon after closed down the original Malmsbury business, diversifying towards ornamental steel fencing. In 1910, they established Humes' Patent Cement Iron Syndicate Ltd.as a means of commercialising and developing the centrifugal process for the manufacture of concrete pipes invented by Hume. This technology had a profound impact internationally in developing modern drainage and sewerage systems. On 7 November 1940, a significant contract was signed with the South Australian Government, for construction of the Morgan Whyalla pipeline, to the value of £505,627. Between 1921 and 1926 they ran  of reinforced concrete pipe for the Loveday Irrigation Project. The locomotive used to transport all materials has been restored and operates as an attraction at the Cobdogla Irrigation Museum.

William Dargie painted two portraits of Hume.

Gallery

Death
Walter Hume died of cancer in Melbourne on 21 July 1943, leaving five sons and three daughters.

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Hindmarsh Incinerator. The Hindmarsh Incinerator is a decommissioned incinerator located in the Adelaide suburb of  in South Australia, Australia.  Designed by Walter Burley Griffin, the architect and designer of Canberra, the incinerator was built in 1935 by the Reverberatory Incinerator and Engineering Co. Pty Ltd. as a means of disposing of household refuse.

The incinerator was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate on 21 March 1978 and on the South Australian Heritage Register on 24 July 1980. It is listed as a nationally significant work of 20th-century architecture by the Australian Institute of Architects.

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Incinerators
Buildings and structures in Adelaide
South Australian Heritage Register
Walter Burley Griffin buildings
South Australian places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate
Naval Research Logistics. Naval Research Logistics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers in the field of logistics, especially those in the areas of  operations research, applied statistics, and quantitative modeling. It was established in 1954 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. Its current editor is Ming Hu.

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Operations research journals
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University College of Engineering, Nagercoil. University College of Engineering, Nagercoil (UCEN) is a constituent college of Anna University located at Nagercoil Industrial estate, Konam, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu 629004. It was established in 2009 by the Tamil Nadu Government.

Academics 
The institute offers undergraduate courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Engineering, in various fields. Postgraduate courses award the Master of Engineering degree in part-time mode.

Admission
Undergraduate students are admitted based on competitive student rankings in twelfth standard (higher secondary course) examination. The ranking and subsequent counseling are done by Anna University.

Postgraduate students are typically selected based on the competitive rankings in Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (TANCET).

Departments 

Civil Engineering
Computer science and Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Information Technology
Master of Business Administration

Placement 
UCEN has a Training and Placement Wing to train the students and to manage the placements in the college. The Training and Placement Wing provides academic-industry bridge training as well as personality development training.  It is run by volunteer student representatives under the supervision of Training and Placement Officer. The student representatives develop industry ready design, analysis, and simulation courses such as proE, ansys, catia, pcb design, web development, staddpro and software development. Peer to peer technology training and project development motivated. The Training and Placement Wing established several industry collaborations in the area of IT and ITES. It released several software programs developed by students.

Ranking
UCEN is ranked #7 among 497 Non-Autonomous Engineering institutes ( Not Architectural Colleges) affiliated to Anna University. The ranking is based on pass percentage of students during April–May 2013 University exams.

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Nasra Agil. Nasra Agile (; ) is a Somali-Canadian civil engineer and entrepreneur. She has been involved in a variety of community service programmes and initiative, and was awarded The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award - Canada.

Personal life
Agile was born in Somalia. She and her family later moved to Canada. As a teenager, Agile helped launch various community service initiatives. She organized youth programs, survival skills workshops, educational plays and sporting activities. For her tertiary education, Agile studied civil engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto. She graduated from the institution with Honours in 2005, earning a Bachelor of Engineering degree. Nasra graduated at the top of her class at Ryerson University and is recorded as one of the first known women of Somali descent to earn an engineering degree in Canada. She also received the prestigious Golden Key International Honour Society Award for academic excellence.

Career
Agile began her civil engineering career as a road inspector for the Transportation Services department of the City of Toronto government. After a two-year period, she moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which had evolved into one of the main global centers for major real estate development. In 2007, Agile joined Cansult, a Canadian engineering firm headquartered in Dubai and one of the largest industry operators in the Middle East. She later served as an advisor to Nakheel Properties, the biggest real estate developer in the UAE. She was also a Senior Traffic Engineer for the Dubai Municipality's Roads Authority.

In 2012, Agile returned to Somalia to contribute to the local post-conflict reconstruction process. She subsequently opened the country's first dollar store.

Awards
In recognition of her societal work, Agile was presented The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award - Canada by the Governor General of Canada. She also received various academic awards for her scholastic achievements while still an honours student, including the Golden Key International Honour Society Award.

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Canadian Muslims
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Rebecca M. Bergman. Rebecca M. Bergman is an American chemical engineer and the 17th President of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.  She began her term in July 2014, and is the first woman to serve as President of the college, which was founded in 1862. Before her presidency, she was a senior executive at Medtronic, and served on the college's Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2014.

Medtronic career
Bergman received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Princeton University, and undertook graduate studies in chemical engineering and material science from the University of Minnesota.

Bergman spent 26 years at Medtronic, Inc., from 1988 to 2014, including 14 as a senior executive. Her most recent position was Vice President of Research, Technology, and Therapy Delivery Systems for the company’s Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management (CRDM) business, where she led a research and development team of scientists and engineers. She previously served as Vice President, CRDM New Therapies & Diagnostics as well as Vice President, Corporate Science and Technology, where she directed biomaterials and biosciences R&D, new therapy development, and information management initiatives.

Honors and Distinctions

Bergman was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2001. She was also elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2010 for technical leadership in the development of interventional vascular devices and drug delivery systems. 

She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Sigma-Aldrich, on the Board of Directors of The Bakken Museum, and on a number of academic advisory boards. She previously served on the National Advisory Council of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institute of Health and the St. Catherine University Board of Trustees.

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University of Minnesota alumni
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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NBR 141 Class. The NBR 141 Class consisted of two steam  locomotives built by the North British Railway (NBR) in 1869. They were the direct antecedents of the NBR 224 Class .

History
Thomas Wheatley became locomotive superintendent of the North British Railway (NBR) at the start of February 1867. During his tenure of seven years, he provided the NBR with 185 new locomotives; but only eight of these were suitable for hauling express passenger trains, the first two of which were these s, nos. 141 and 164, which were built in 1869; the remaining six were the s of the 224 and 420 Classes, introduced in 1871 and 1873 respectively.

Originally the 141 Class had leading wheels of  diameter, coupled wheels of  diameter, and cylinders measuring . The boilers were domeless, with the safety-valves mounted above the firebox. The frames were single, the driving wheel splashers had eight slots; there was no cab, but a weatherboard with two circular windows. The six-wheel tender held  of water. They were very good locomotives, and when the cylinder diameter was increased by , the performance was not adversely affected.

Rebuilding
On the NBR, locomotives were generally rebuilt when their boilers wore out. Matthew Holmes, locomotive superintendent of the NBR between 1882 and 1903, rebuilt both locomotives in 1890; amongst the improvements were a domed boiler, Westinghouse brake and a cab. In later years, no. 141 was used on trains between Glasgow and .

Final years
Every six months, the NBR renumbered some of its older locomotives into a "duplicate list", in order to vacate numbers for new construction. Accordingly, in 1912, nos. 141 and 164 were placed on the duplicate list, becoming nos. 1158/60 respectively. They were both withdrawn from service in 1915 and scrapped in 1923.

Summary

The locomotives may have been named after 1875 – it has been stated that Drummond, who replaced Wheatley in 1875, named NBR engines "including those already in service".

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AMX Mouse. AMX Mouse was a 1985 computer mouse sold by the British company Advanced Memory Systems. The mouse has 3 buttons. It was sold with a dedicated interface, and usually with some accompanying software such as AMX Art (MacPaint clone), AMX Pagemaker, AMX Palette, AMX Control and Icon Designer.

Market
The AMX Mouse product was sold for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and BBC Micro computers, along with the Acorn Electron (through Advanced Computer Products), these being popular home computers at the time. As such, it allowed modern user interfaces to be present in common household machines.

It was compatible with art software such as OCP Advanced Art Studio or Max Desktop. The game Starglider is also listed as being compatible.

Other software
Other available software from the manufacturer was:

AMX 3D Zicon which took 3D vector drawings and converted them to AMX Art format. Also allowed sketching in 2D and converting to 3D;
AMX Database which was a database with a graphical user interface;
AMX XAM which created multiple choice exams with pictures from AMX Art;
AMX Paintpot which coloured pictures produced with AMX Art.

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ZX Spectrum
Acorn Computers
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Multiprogram Research Facility. The Multiprogram Research Facility (MRF, also known as Building 5300) is a facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It is used by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to design and build supercomputers for cryptanalysis and other classified projects. It houses the classified component program of the High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) project sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

History
The High Productivity Computing Systems program was launched in 2004 as a multiagency project led by DARPA with the goal of increasing computing speed a thousandfold, creating a supercomputer capable of one petaflop (a quadrillion [1015] floating-point operations a second). The project is sited at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and is split into two tracks, one top secret and one unclassified, housed in separate facilities. The secret facility, used by the NSA, is located within Building 5300 at the laboratory and is known as the Multiprogram Research Facility.

The MRF was constructed in 2006 at a cost of $41 million. Located on the laboratory's East Campus, the building covers  and rises five stories high. As of 2012, it is staffed by 318 computer scientists and engineers.

While the unclassified portion of the HPCS project succeeded in designing the 1.3 petaflop Cray XT5 supercomputer in 2007, the MRF succeeded in developing an even faster machine, designed specifically for cryptanalysis and targeted against one or more specific algorithms, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). A former NSA official called the MRF's breakthrough "enormous", giving the agency the ability to break current public encryption standards. The data upon which the supercomputer operates is stored at the agency's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah.

The MRF's next goal is to achieve a machine capable of one exaflop (1018 floating-point operations per second) and then one zetaflop (1021). To achieve an exaflop machine by 2018, the NSA has proposed constructing two connecting buildings, totaling , called the Multiprogram Computational Data Center. The buildings will store dozens of computer cabinets that will comprise the exaflop machine. The facility will eventually use about 200 megawatts of power—enough to power around 200,000 homes—and will require  of cooling equipment.

See also
 Exascale computing

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National Security Agency facilities
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
DARPA projects
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Supercomputer sites