omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Yaakov Bar-Shalom. Yaakov Bar-Shalom (May 11, 1941) is a researcher in tracking and sensor fusion.  His work is associated with MS-MTT (Multi-Sensor, Multi-Target Tracking) and IMM (interacting-multiple-model) estimator.

Early life and education
Yaakov Bar-Shalom was born in Romania and he emigrated to Israel with his family at the age of nineteen. He earned his Bachelor's and master's degree both in Electrical Engineering from Technion in Haifa, Israel. Following this, he earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University under Stuart Schwartz.

Professional career
Currently, Yaakov Bar-Shalom is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Marianne E. Klewin Professor in Engineering in University of Connecticut. He is the recipient of the 2012 Connecticut Medal of Technology for his work in improving the sensitivity of remote sensors used for surveillance in the presence of background noise or clutter.

Anthony J. DeMaria, recipient of the 2004 Connecticut Medal of Technology and Chief Scientist at Coherent-DEOS, LLC, has stated that Yaakov Bar-Shalom is regarded as the "chief architect of probability-based methods for estimating the paths of moving objects."

Bar-Shalom's research mainly focuses on Target Tracking Systems: Information extraction and fusion from remote sensors (radar, sonar, electrooptical) for tracking cooperative or non-cooperative targets by estimating their trajectories in the presence of disturbances like measurement errors, target maneuvers and interfering signals (false measurements or from detection from other targets). Bar-Shalom has so far published more than 550 papers, 8 books, 20 book chapters and has over 63,000 citations. Under his supervision, 38 Ph.D. have graduated in his  years career as a professor.

Awards and honors
Bar-Shalom is recipient of IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award (1987); UConn AAUP Award for Excellence in Research (1988); J. Mignona Data Fusion Award from the DoD JDL Data Fusion Group (2002); IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications (2008); Connecticut Medal of Technology (2012).

He has been listed by Microsoft Academic Search (top authors in engineering) as number one among the researchers in Aerospace Engineering based on the citations of his work (2012-2016).

Bar-Shalom is also the recipient of the 2015 ISIF Award for a Lifetime of Excellence in Information Fusion. This award has been renamed in 2016 as the Yaakov Bar-Shalom Award for a Lifetime of Excellence in Information Fusion.

References

External links
Yaakov Bar-Shalom
Workshop on Estimation, Tracking and Fusion: A Tribute to Yaakov Bar-Shalom, 2001
IEEE author bio
Estimation and Signal Processing Laboratory
University of Connecticut faculty bio

Living people
1941 births
20th-century Israeli Jews
20th-century American Jews
American electrical engineers
Systems engineers
Control theorists
University of Connecticut faculty
Princeton University alumni
Israeli emigrants to the United States
Romanian emigrants to Israel
Jews from Connecticut
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Israeli electrical engineers
Fellows of the IEEE
Actibump. An Actibump is an automatic speed-bump on a road. It is a product developed by the Edeva AB group, a Swedish traffic systems manufacturing company. It is triggered when a speeding vehicle drives over an activated piece of the road, causing a change in the level of the road as a warning to the driver.

Installations 
The Actibump system is installed in several cities in Sweden, including Linköping, Uppsala, Västerås, Helsingborg, Malmö and on the Öresund Bridge. Currently, there are over 100 Actibump units active in the world, a majority of which are located in Europe. Actibump can be installed in roads with heavy traffic where the speed limit is 5-60 km/h. The system can also be used at logistics centers, toll stations, airports, etc.

Disincentives to using the system are its installation and maintenance costs, which are higher than conventional passive speed bumps. The installation costs for 2 lanes averages around €50,000 per speed bump, with maintenance being required after every 11-12 years.

Effects 
Different evaluations and studies have concluded that when tested, the Actibump was shown to decrease the average speed of drivers, improve traffic flow, and decrease fuel consumption, traffic noise, and air pollution. However, it was also found that there was a small increase in the number of drivers who failed to yield the right of way to pedestrians and cyclists.

References

External links 
 Actibump Function Animation
 Actibump Website

Traffic calming
Road safety
Road transport in Sweden
Türksat 5B. Türksat 5B is a Turkish geostationary high-throughput (HTS) communications satellite of Türksat A.Ş. developed for military and commercial purposes.

Development 
The Türksat 5B project started in September 2011. The final production contract for the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) was planned for 2015. After a delay, the contract was realized in October 2017 when Airbus Defence and Space was selected to join the project with the requirement that 25% of the satellite be built in Turkey in order to stimulate the technological sector of the Turkish economy.

In November 2020, it was announced that satellite level tests for Türksat 5B have begun.

Launch 
The satellite was launched with a Falcon 9 launch vehicle of SpaceX at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 19 December 2021 at 03:58:39 UTC. The first-stage booster used on this mission was B1067, making its third flight; the first stage was successfully recovered on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

Spacecraft 
Türksat 5B is a communications satellite to serve on a geostationary orbit at 42° East longitude. It was built on a Eurostar-3000EOR satellite bus manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space. It has a mass of  and an expected design lifetime of 15 years, maneuver lifetime of more than 35 years. Powered by two deployable solar panels and batteries at 15 kW, the 50 Gbps high-throughput satellite consists of Ku-band, Ka-band and X-band transponders.

The 3 military X-band transponders have global coverage and were developed by Aselsan for use by the Turkish Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB/SSM).

See also 

 Türksat 5A

References 

Communications satellites of Turkey
Satellites using the Spacebus bus
SpaceX commercial payloads
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
High throughput satellites
Spacecraft launched in 2021
2021 in Turkey
Air Patrol Squadron 2 (JMSDF). (also referred to as VP-2 or Fleet Air Squadron 2) is a unit of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force. It is a part of Fleet Air Wing 4 and is based at JMSDF Hachinohe Air Base in Aomori Prefecture. It is equipped with Lockheed P-3C Orion aircraft.

Squadron structure
The squadron comprises two flights, both equipped with P-3 aircraft:
 21st flight
 22nd flight

Aircraft used
 Grumman TBF Avenger (1957-1958)
 Lockheed P-2V-7 Neptune (1958-?)
 Lockheed P-2J (1971-?)
 Lockheed P-3C Orion (1986-)

References

Aviation in Japan
Units and formations of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Military units and formations established in 1957
Tevin Vongvanich. Tevin Vongvanich (born 31 August 1958) is a Thai businessman, and the CEO of PTT Public Company Limited, a Thai state-owned oil and gas company, and a Fortune Global 500 company, since September 2015, when he succeeded Pailin Chuchottaworn.

He has a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Chulalongkorn University, a master's degree in chemical engineering from Rice University, and a master's degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Houston.

References

1958 births
Living people
Tevin Vongvanich
Rice University alumni
University of Houston alumni
Tevin Vongvanich
IEC 61000-4-2. IEC 61000-4-2 is the International Electrotechnical Commission's immunity standard on electrostatic discharge (ESD). The publication is one of the basic EMC standards of the IEC 61000–4 series. The European equivalent of the standard is called EN 61000-4-2. The current version of the IEC standard is the second edition dated 2008-12-09. The basic standards (61000-4) are usually called by product or family specific standards, which use these basic standards as a common reference.

Scope 
The publication describes requirements, levels and test methods to achieve immunity compliance of an electronic product. The purpose is to create a reproducible ground for product compliance and the standard defines: ranges, levels, test equipment, setups, procedures, calibrations, generator waveforms and general uncertainties. The intention is not to define product specific tests but instead establish a basic common reference. 
Product specific tests are instead defined in standards such as EN 50130-4 for alarm systems, EN 50121-4-2 for railway applications or IEC 60601-1-2 for medical equipment.

The product, or equipment under test (EUT), is seen from an operator's point of view during test. The EUT is therefore in its operational mode and testing does not include storage or transportation conditions.

Test levels 
The EUT is subjected to three types of discharge. Direct contact discharge is preferred either directly to the EUT or indirectly through vertical or horizontal coupling planes. Air discharge is used where direct contact cannot be applied.

Note: This table is simplified for the purpose of giving a quick overview. It does not contain the same level of detail as the official IEC 61000-4-2.

ESD transient 
The standard describes the output RC-network of the generator as having typical values of 330 Ω and 150 pF. The specified transient rise time (from 10% to 90% of the first peak) is 0.8 ns (±25%). The transient duration is not specified but for waveform verification currents should be measured in 30 ns and 60 ns for each of the test levels.

See also 
Electrostatic discharge
List of common EMC test standards
List of IEC standards
List of EN standards
Transient voltage suppressor

Notes and references

External links 
IEC Webstore

Electromagnetic compatibility
61000-4-5
David Joiner. David "Talin" Joiner (born June 1958) is an American game programmer, who created games such as The Faery Tale Adventure and Inherit the Earth, contributed audio to Defender of the Crown II (1993), engineering for SimCity 4: Rush Hour (2003), and The Sims 2: University (2005).

Career as programmer
Joiner learned Assembler, Fortran, and COBOL programming between 1976 and 1980 at the Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. In his spare time he coded a space war game on terminals. At the location he also became familiar with coding on Commodore PET, and the Apple II. After leaving the military he joined DataSoft and worked in a professional programmer environment. He then became part of IntelliCreations, and then Mindscape, then begun working on the Amiga 1000 and with MicroIllusions, which started out from a computer store in San Fernando Valley.

According to The Digital Antiquarian, "The seeds of MicroIllusions were planted during one day’s idle conversation when Steinert complained to David Joiner that, while the Amiga supposedly had speech synthesis built into its operating system, he had never actually heard his machines talk; [] .. He proved as good as his word within a few hours. Impressed, Steinert asked if he could sell the new program in his store for a straight 50/50 split. When the program sold well, Steinert decided to get into Amiga software development in earnest with the help of Joiner."

Joiner then begun working on The Faery Tale Adventure, which took him seven months. MicroIllusions published The Faery Tale Adventure first in 1986. In 1988 he wrote Discovery, an educational music editor related hacked game.

Joiner appeared on television of the Computer Chronicles to demonstrate Music-X. He later published under Sylvan Technical Arts. He worked a year on The Sims 2, then left EA. More recently he worked on the user interface of Google+.

Publications
In 1998 Joiner published Real interactivity in interactive entertainment.

References

External links
David Joiner's homepage
David Joiner at MobyGames
David Joiner & Music-X Amiga Based Sequencer (On television show Computer Chronicles)

1958 births
American video game designers
American video game programmers
Electronic Arts employees
Google employees
Living people
American role-playing designers
American software engineers
Scaled Composites 401. The Scaled Composites Sierra (Model 401) is an American experimental aircraft, designed and produced by Scaled Composites of Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California, introduced in 2017. The two examples built were constructed for an unnamed customer to  demonstrate "advanced, low-cost manufacturing techniques" for the production of research aircraft for both industry and government.

First flight was on 11 October 2017.

Design and development
The Model 401 is a single-seat experimental prototype of broadly conventional configuration. The pressurized cockpit is enclosed by a bubble canopy and the plane incorporates a single jet engine and retractable tricycle landing gear.

A low-wing cantilever monoplane, it has lightly swept constant-chord wings with trapezoidal inner sections. It has a butterfly or V tail.

The aircraft is made from composite material. It has a  span wing and a fuselage also of  in length. Empty weight is  and gross take off weight is . The engine used is a single Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-5D powerplant, producing  of thrust.

Specifications (401)

References

External links
Official first flight press release 

401
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2017
Single-engined jet aircraft
2010s United States experimental aircraft
V-tail aircraft
Stealth aircraft
Walker Body Company. The Walker Body Company, a former carriage manufacturer based in Amesbury, Massachusetts, began manufacturing metal automobile bodies in 1911.  It went bankrupt in 1930.  The manufacturing site remains as the Walker Body Company Factory.

History
In 1911, James Walker teamed up with Harlan P. Wells and incorporated autobody manufacturer Walker-Wells Body Co.  An early major customer was Franklin Automobile Company of Syracuse, New York. James Walker was son of Scottish immigrant George T. Walker, Sr., founder in 1898 of carriage manufacturer Walker Carriage Company, and before that partner in other carriage manufacturing businesses.  

Between 1914 and 1919 half of the company's production went to Franklin Co. The remaining orders were divided among the Buick, Paige, Holmes (Canton, Ohio), Jackson, Jordan, Lexington, Packard, REO and White.

Demise

The company went bankrupt in 1930 following the precipitous decline in demand for luxury automobiles after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, along with all the other Amesbury, Massachusetts auto body manufacturers.

References

American companies established in 1911
Vintage vehicles
Amesbury, Massachusetts
Coachbuilders of the United States
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Massachusetts
Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory. Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory (GeoCarb) was an intended NASA Venture-class Earth observation mission that was designed to measure the carbon cycle. 

GeoCarb was to be stationed over the Americas and make observations between 50° North and South latitudes. Its primary mission was to conduct observations of vegetation health and stress, as well as observe the processes that govern the carbon exchange of carbon dioxide, methane, and carbon monoxide between the land, atmosphere, and ocean. 

Selected by NASA in 2016.

Originally intended to be mounted on a commercial geostationary communication satellite operated by SES S.A., a lack of hosting opportunities drove NASA, in Feb 2022, to seek a standalone spacecraft to carry GeoCarb. 

On 29 November 2022, NASA announced the cancellation of development of the GeoCarb mission, citing cost overruns and the availability of other options to measure and observe greenhouse gases, like the EMIT instrument on the ISS and the upcoming Earth System Observatory.

GeoCarb was a joint collaboration between NASA's Ames Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory; the University of Oklahoma; Colorado State University; the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center of Palo Alto, California; and SES Government Solutions (now SES Space & Defense) of Reston, Florida.

GeoCarb instrument 

"The GeoCarb instrument consists of the aperture assembly, telescope, spectrometer, and electronics boxes. It is a four channel near-infrared, single-slit imaging spectrograph optimized to deduce concentrations of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane, and Solar-Induced Fluorescence (SIF) from Geostationary Orbit. 

The instrument is built by Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center."

See also 

Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2
Space-based measurements of carbon dioxide

References

Further reading

External links 
 GeoCarb at NASA's Earth Observing System
 GeoCarb instrument images and schematics of the GeoCarb instrument
 GeoCarb at World Meteorological Organization's OSCAR

NASA programs
Spectrometers
Spacecraft instruments
Satellite meteorology
Greenhouse gases
Cancelled spacecraft
Sage Sharp. Sage Sharp (formerly Sarah Sharp) is an American software engineer who has worked on the Linux kernel, including serving on the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board for two years. Sharp is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

Sharp began working on the kernel in 2006 as an undergraduate at Portland State University, and later through an Intel undergraduate research grant. Sharp's contributions to the kernel include writing and acting as a maintainer for its USB 3.0 driver. In 2015, Sharp recommended that the Linux project adopt a code of conduct for Linux developers; Linus Torvalds adopted a "code of conflict" instead. Sharp stepped down from direct work on the kernel on 5 October 2015, citing the abrasive communication style and "abusive commentary [on submitted patches]" of the maintainer community. 

Sharp was a volunteer co-coordinator of the Outreachy project, and led a team contributing to the Linux kernel for the project's June 2013 internships. Through their consultancy Otter Tech LLC, they work with Outreachy in a paid capacity, providing code of conduct enforcement training and incidence response workshops.

Sharp won the first annual Red Hat Women in Open Source Community Award in 2015 for "efforts in improving communications and inviting women into open source communities" and the 2016 O'Reilly Open Source Award for accomplishments in the open source community.

Early years 
Sharp grew up in Rainier, Oregon, and attended Portland State University as an undergraduate. While at Portland State University, Sharp worked on the Linux kernel for senior elective credits.

See also 
 Coraline Ada Ehmke
 Free software movement
 Linux kernel mailing list
 List of LGBT people from Portland, Oregon
 Valerie Aurora

References

External links 
 Personal website

Living people
American software engineers
1985 births
Portland State University alumni
People from Rainier, Oregon
Engineers from Oregon
LGBTQ people from Oregon
American non-binary people
People from Portland, Oregon
Subodh Raghunath Shenoy. Subodh Raghunath Shenoy (born 16 October 1947) is an Indian condensed matter physicist and a former professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He has also been associated with the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram. Known for his studies on Condensed matter physics and Statistical physics, his research covered topological defect-mediated phase transitions, vortex dynamics and decay kinetics of metastability.

Shenoy is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 1992.

See also 
 Condensed matter theory

Notes

References

External links 
 

Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Science
Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
1947 births
Academic staff of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Indian condensed matter physicists
Living people
2017 Valan International Antonov An-26 crash. On 14 October 2017, an Antonov An-26 transport aircraft of Valan International Cargo Charter crashed shortly before it was due to land at Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport, Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Four of the ten people on board were killed.

Accident

The aircraft was operating a flight from Ouagadougou Airport, Burkina Faso to Félix Houphouët Boigny International Airport, Abidjan. It crashed on the coast of the Ivory Coast shortly before landing. It broke in two during the accident. It was carrying six Moldovan crew and four French Army personnel. Four crew were killed. One of the six  survivors was seriously injured. The aircraft had been chartered by the French Army and was operating in support of Operation Barkhane. The injured were transferred to the Port-Bouet camp for treatment. A thunderstorm was reported in the area at the time of the accident, about 08:30 local time (UTC).

Aircraft

The accident aircraft was an Antonov An-26-100, registration ER-AVB, msn 3204. The aircraft had first flown in 1975.

Investigation
Authorities in the Ivory Coast opened an investigation into the accident. The Civil Aviation Authority of Moldova is assisting the investigation. The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered from the wreckage of the aircraft.

The Ivorian BEA released its final report in August 2019.

References

Aviation accidents and incidents in 2017
Aviation accidents and incidents in Ivory Coast
2017 in Ivory Coast
Accidents and incidents involving the Antonov An-26
2017 disasters in Africa
Bill Paxton (computer scientist). William (Bill) Paxton is a computer scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is one of the founders of Adobe Systems and became one of the original designers and implementors of the PostScript page description language.

In 2021, Paxton was awarded the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize for developing the MESA software for computational stellar astrophysics.

Stanford
Paxton received his PhD from Stanford in 1977. He worked with Doug Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute where the group would build the Online System (NLS) and was there during "The Mother of All Demos".

Xerox PARC
After leaving Stanford, Paxton would join the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where they were working on emerging technologies, including Ethernet, networked personal computers, bitmap displays, graphical user-interfaces, and laser printers.

Adobe
Paxton joined Adobe in 1983. He built the Type 1 font algorithms for PDF. Paxton and his team  received the ACM Software System Award in 1989 for the design of the PostScript language and implementation.

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
In 1990 Paxton retired from Adobe Systems and became an unofficial scholar in residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he started working on the physics of stellar evolution. He is responsible for the EZ stellar evolution program and the creation of the open-source stellar evolution software Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA).

References

Living people
Adobe Inc. people
University of California faculty
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)