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Maria Teresa Correia de Barros. Maria Teresa Nunes Padilha de Castro Correia de Barros is a Portuguese electrical engineer whose interests include high voltage engineering, quality engineering of electrical power systems, and transients in power systems. She is a professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, the engineering school of the University of Lisbon.

Education and career
Correia de Barros earned a degree in electrical engineering through the Instituto Superior Técnico in 1974, completed a doctorate there in 1985, and earned her habilitation (Agregado) in 1995.

At the Instituto Superior Técnico, she became head of the Power Systems Division from 1989 to 1991, and from 1990 to 2001 she was president and then head of the executive board of the Instituto da Energia (INTERG). She also headed the Energy Commission of the Portuguese National Research Agency from 1991 to 1994. She became pro-rector of the Technical University of Lisbon from 1999 to 2001. From 2001 to 2009 she worked for Energias de Portugal, and from 2004 to 2007 she was president of the National Electrical Engineering Council of Ordem dos Engenheiros, the Portuguese National Engineers Association. She has also held many visiting positions at international institutions.

She was the founder, in 1993, of the biennial International Conference on
Power Systems Transients.

Recognition
Ward was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2000, "for contribution to modeling and analysis of power systems transients". She became a Fellow (Membro Conselheiro) of Ordem dos Engenheiros in 2002, was given a Technical Council Award for System Technical Performance by the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) in 2008, and is the 2014 winner of the Scientific Committee Award of the International Conference on Lightning Protection.

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Volue. Volue is a Norwegian technology company working in the field of energy, power grid, water, and infrastructure, founded in March 2020.

Volue is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with additional offices in Europe. On October 19, 2020, the company went public and was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange on 21 April 2021.

Volue is developing products which help in renewable energy transition. In May 2021, the company received a grant from state-owned Innovation Norway company to reduce water waste using machine learning and real-time data. For developing a trading platform for energy, Volue was identified as a key innovator by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 funding programme.

History
Volue was founded in March 2020, through the merger of four Nordic companies: Markedskraft, Powel, Scanmatic and Wattsight. Volue's main goal is to increase efficiency and promote digitalisation across industries while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impact.

In October 2020, Volue announced it was preparing for an initial public offering on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Volue's IPO opened on 19 October 2020, trading under the symbol VOLUE.

In December 2020, Volue acquired trading solutions company Likron.

On 21 April 2021, Oslo Børs approves Volue ASA for admission to trading on Oslo Stock Exchange. Starting from 4 May 2021, Volue is listed on Oslo Børs. The company published its first annual report on 14 April 2021.

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Rudd Canaday. Rudd Canaday is an American computer systems engineer and a previous member of the technical staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, credited to co-develop the initial design of the Unix file system. In 2015 he joined a Palo Alto based tech startup, Entefy, as a Senior Architect & Engineer.

Research and career 
Canaday received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Physics from Harvard University in 1959 and received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964.

In 1960s, Ken Thompson developed a game called Space Travel on Multics file system, which ran very slowly on the machine. This caused Thompson to design his own hierarchical file system along with Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy and Canaday. Joe Ossanna also joined Thompson, Ritchie and Canaday to program the operating system called Unics, later named Unix.

In 1973, Canaday along with Evan Ivie started developing the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) to support a computer center for a 1000-employee Bell Labs division, which would be the largest Unix site for several years.

Selected publications 
 Canaday, Rudd H., R. D. Harrison, Evan L. Ivie, J. L. Ryder, and L. A. Wehr. "A back-end computer for data base management." Communications of the ACM 17, no. 10 (1974): 575-582.
 Canaday, Rudd H. "Two-dimensional iterative logic." In Proceedings of the November 30—December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, part I, pp. 343–353. 1965.

See also 
 History of Unix
 PWB/UNIX

References

External links 
 LinkedIn profile
 Why the co-inventor of Unix joined Entefy (Youtube video with narration by Rudd Canaday)

 

Living people
American computer scientists
Harvard University alumni
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New York City Department of Bridges. The New York City Department of Bridges was a municipal government agency that administered the planning, construction, management, and maintenance of bridges in New York City.  The department was created in 1898 with the consolidation of Greater New York, and it operated as one of six co-equal branches of the New York City Board of Public Improvements.  It was later merged with the Department of Public Works in 1916 to form the Department of Plant & Structures.  Its present-day successor is the New York City Department of Transportation.

Prior to the Department's formation, the work of building and managing transportation infrastructure in the Greater New York area was generally overseen by county-level Boards of Supervisors and their associated Highway Commissioners.  When the city was consolidated under a singular charter in 1898, responsibility for all bridge crossings (including minor roadway spans in the outer boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens) was also consolidated–much to the disagreement of existing highway commissioners.

Organization 
Most of the department's workforce included designers and tradesmen in a variety of support roles, including engineers, riggers, and even firemen.  One record from 1900 counts the organization's maintenance division alone at about 480 workers, with moveable bridge-tenders comprising the largest individual trade.  The department's leadership consisted of a Commissioner of Bridges and a Consulting Engineer.  Appointed by the Mayor of New York City, the Commissioner of Bridges was a mayoral cabinet-level position tasked with administration of the entire department and its divisions.  According to the original city charter, the commissioner was also charged with overseeing departmental finances, toll collection, bridge construction and maintenance, and operation of the Brooklyn Bridge trolleys.

Notable projects 
During its existence, the Department of Bridges initiated and managed the construction of many significant bridges in New York City:

 Williamsburg Bridge (initially known as the "East River Bridge")
 Manhattan Bridge
 Queensboro Bridge
 Hell Gate Bridge
 Madison Avenue Bridge
 University Heights Bridge
 145th Street Bridge
 Grand Street Bridge

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Katalin Balázsi. Katalin Balázsi (née Sedláčková; born 1978) is a Slovakia-born Hungarian material scientist.  She is the head of the Thin Film Physics department in the Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, a component of the Centre for Energy Research, Eötvös Lóránd Research Network.  She has also served as the President of the Association of Hungarian Women in Science (2018-2021).

Early life 
Balázsi was born in Šahy (Ipolyság), Slovakia in 1978.  While in elementary school, she represented her school in mathematics competitions.  For high school, her father enrolled her in an electrician high school: there were four other girls in her class, and thirty-two boys.  She graduated with the top ranking in her class.

Balázsi completed her university degrees at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU).  In 2000, she received a bachelor's degree in Electromaterials Engineering; she received a master's degree in materials science in 2002 from the same.  During her master's degree, Balázsi worked as a technician at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.  She then became a researcher at the Academy, using transmission electron microscopy to characterise the structures of nanomaterials; she received her doctorate in materials science from the STU in 2005.  The Institute of Electrical Engineering at the Academy named her the "Young Researcher".

Career 
In 2006, Balázsi became a research fellow at the Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, part of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.  She was appointed as a senior scientist at the Institute's Centre for Energy Research in 2012.  Besides her work with electron microscopy, Balázsi has also studied the development of different ceramic materials.

Balázsi and nine other female scientists founded the Association of Hungarian Women in Science in 2008 to address the national gender imbalance in Hungary's science sector; this Association won the first Nature Research Innovating Science Award in 2018.  She has served as the Association's president from 2018 to 2021.   She also received the 2021 Acta Materialia Mary Fortune Global Diversity Medal.

In 2021, she became the second Hungarian fellow of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS).  She is a board member of the European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS).  She has also been secretary of the Hungarian Society for Material Sciences (2013-2020),  as well as secretary and treasurer of the Hungarian Microscopic Society (2018-2022).

Personal life 
Her husband Csaba Balázsi is also a scientist.  They have two sons.  Besides Hungarian, she speaks Slovak, Czech, and English.

References

External links 

 Thin Film Physics Department at the Centre for Energy Research
 Katalin Balázsi profile at the Hungarian Doctoral Council

1978 births
Hungarian women scientists
Nanotechnologists
Ceramic engineering
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Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava alumni
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Slovak women scientists
Klein Vision AirCar. The Klein Vision AirCar is a two-seat flying car designed by Štefan Klein and Yaron.Jery Sb, made in Slovakia. It was type certified as an aircraft in January 2022.

Design and development
Slovak designer Professor Štefan Klein began working on flying cars in the late 1980s. Having developed the AeroMobil, he left the company to develop a new idea as the AirCar, and set up Klein Vision with colleague Anton Zajac.

The main fuselage of the AirCar doubles as a two-seat road car with four large road wheels. Styled like a sports coupe, it contributes 30-40 percent of the total lift when in the air. For flight it is fitted with foldout wings and extending tailbooms carrying a high tail. A pusher propeller is permanently installed between the fuselage and tail, and a safety parachute is installed. Construction is primarily a semi-monocoque of carbon fibre composite over a steel subframe. Over 20 programmable servo motors are used to perform the transition between road and air configurations. When on the road, the retracted tail surface creates a downforce similar to conventional rear aerofoils.

Power is provided by a 1.6 litre BMW road car engine, running on automotive petrol or gasoline and delivering .

The prototype AirCar is of comparable length to a Mercedes S-Class saloon, at , and around  narrower. Overall weight is .

A second, pre-production prototype is expected to have a monocoque fuselage with a more powerful  engine.

The design was type certified as an aircraft in January 2022 in Slovakia. It also needs approval as a road vehicle before it can be used as such.

Performance
The prototype takes off at around , after a run of . Cruising speed in the air is said to be  Range is estimated as , at a height of . The current version of the car can reach heights of . It is said to take two minutes and 15 seconds to transform from car into aircraft.

Operational history
The prototype first flew on 22 or 27 October 2020.

In June 2021 the prototype AirCar carried out a 35-minute flight between Nitra and Bratislava airports.

On April 23, 2024 - KleinVision's AirCar took to the skies with electronic music pioneer, Jean-Michel Jarre.

See also

References

 Jack Guy; "Klein Vision AirCar completes 35-minute test flight in Slovakia", CBS, 30 June 2021.

External links
 Klein Vision company website

Roadable aircraft
Inference Corporation. Inference Corporation was an American software company that specialized in artificial intelligence systems.

History
Los Angeles-based Inference was founded in 1979. In the 1990s they built a case-based computer program for Compaq Computer Corporation that would enable dealing with a situation where 
"a computer printer turns out a blurry and smeared page" without having to call a help desk. Although such software already existed, the breakthrough was that it was small enough to fit "on three floppy disks."

The company's Automated Reasoning Tool (ART), initially implemented on a mainframe, subsequently made available on PCs, has been extended to ART-IM, an Information Management package; the product line originated in 1988.

Ford and AOL are among the household-known corporations that use Inference software to enhance customer service. Inference was acquired by eGain Corporation in 
2000. Prior to that, Inference acquired 1981-founded Computer Mathematics Corporation, marketer of SMP (computer algebra system); Inference made another acquisition the year before they themselves were acquired by eGain.

Automated Reasoning Tool

The Automated Reasoning Tool (ART) is a system designed by Paul Haley, Chuck Williams, Brad Allen, and Mark Wright, to design rule-based knowledge representations with options for frame and procedural methods of knowledge base representation.

ART's syntax influenced NASA's derived CLIPS in the mid-80s. ART is a derivative of OPS5, with extensions, built for the Inference Corporation.

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Benson Leung. Benson Leung is an engineer known for reviewing USB-C cables for safety and specification compliance. His reviews have cast light on the proliferation of cheap, non-compliant cables.

Biography 

Leung is a senior software engineer at Google working on the ChromeOS kernel. He is an upstream Linux kernel maintainer for Chrome hardware.

USB cable reviews 
In 2016, Leung's laptop, a Chromebook Pixel, was rendered unbootable after plugging in a non-compliant but commercially available USB-C cable. Leung determined the cause to be a miswiring in the cable. Since then, Leung has reviewed USB-C cables on Amazon under the name "LaughingMan", to test for specification compliance and weed out unsafe cables. His tests have identified numerous problematic cables. Some cheap cables identified lack pull-up resistors mandated by the USB specification, potentially causing devices to draw high levels of current, causing irreversible damage to the machines they are plugged into. Leung found problematic cables can break the USB port they are plugged into, or even risk causing an electrical fire. Following Leung's work, some vendors fixed their designs, while Amazon banned the sale of non-compliant USB-C cables altogether. Supplementing his online reviews, Leung has published instructions to help end-users test their cables.

Leung is regarded as an expert on USB-C implementation.

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Google employees
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Anke Lindner. Anke Lindner is a German physicist known for her work on Non-Newtonian fluids and viscous fingering, especially in complex suspensions. She is a professor at Paris Cité University, formerly called Paris Diderot University.

Education and career
Lindner began her studies at the University of Bayreuth. She came to Pierre and Marie Curie University through the Erasmus Programme, and discovering her interest in complex fluids there, completed a doctorate through the École normale supérieure (Paris). After a year working as a consultant in Zürich, she took a postdoctoral research position at ESPCI Paris, following which she became a lecturer at Pierre and Marie Curie University and a researcher for ESPCI. She took her present position at Paris Diderot University in 2013.

Recognition
In 2019, Lindner was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for outstanding contributions to the physics of complex fluids, interfacial flow instabilities, purely elastic instabilities, flexible fibers in Newtonian and complex fluids, active matter, and the pioneering use of microfluidic experiments in these fields".

She was the 2019 winner of the Maurice Couette prize of the Groupe Français de Rhéologie. In 2021 she won the CNRS Silver Medal.

References

External links
Complex suspensions: Anke Lindner research group

1971 births
Living people
21st-century German physicists
German women physicists
University of Bayreuth alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Alumni of the Erasmus Programme
German fluid dynamicists
Arturo Campos. Arturo Campos (1934 – September 5, 2001) was an American electrical engineer who worked at NASA on the electrical systems for the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. He played a major role in devising a solution to the emergency that arose during the Apollo 13 mission.

Early life and education
Campos was born into a Mexican American family in Laredo, Texas; his father was a mechanic. He graduated in 1952 from Martin High School, attended Laredo Junior College, and in 1956 earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas.

Career
He worked at Kelly Air Force Base as an aircraft maintenance supervisor before joining NASA in September 1963. At the Johnson Space Center, he played a major role in developing the electrical systems for both the Apollo spacecraft and the Space Shuttle. On April 13, 1970, he was the subsystem manager responsible for the lunar module power system when the Apollo 13 mission suffered a loss of power due to a fuel cell explosion, and led the way in devising a solution so that the three astronauts aboard could return to Earth safely. He retired from NASA in 1980 and became a consultant in electrical engineering in Houston.

While at the Johnson Space Center, Campos established its branch of the League of United Latin American Citizens and in 1974 became its first president, was a member of the employees' Hispanic Heritage Program, and served as Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Program representative.

Personal life and death
Campos and his wife, Petra T. Campos, had three daughters. He died of a heart attack at his home in Seabrook, Texas, at 66.

Honors and legacy
Campos shared in the Presidential Medal of Freedom that was awarded to the Mission Control staff after the Apollo 13 incident.

He was inducted into the Martin High School Hall of Fame in 2002.

After a public contest, his name was used for the male mannequin Commander Moonikin Campos to be used to test radiation exposure and other hazards on the Artemis 1 lunar mission in 2022.

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American electrical engineers
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Artemis program
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Juan Martín Cermeño. Juan Martín Cermeño, or Zermeño (Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, 1700 – Barcelona, 1773) was a Spanish architect, military engineer and lieutenant general.

Life and work 
Juan Martín Cermeño, son of Domingo Martín Báez and Isabel Fernández Cermeño was born in Ciudad Rodrigo. In 1719 he joined the Royal Engineers Corps. He reached the rank of field marshal in 1748, between 1749 and 1756 he had been an acting general commander of the military engineers.

From a young age he began collaborating in construction works. In 1721 Cermano reformed the entire exterior circuit of the Old Town Melilla and that same year, Cermeño married Antonia de Paredes Fernández, in Melilla, where his son, Pedro Martín Cermeño, was born in 1722.

In 1727 he participated in the siege of Gibraltar. In 1749, Cermeño was appointed General Commander of the Engineers.

In 1751 Cermeño commissioned Pedro de Lucuce to make a report on how to defend the new frontier between Catalonia and France. In September 1753, Cermeño initiated the works of Sant Ferran Castle advised in Lucuce's report in Figueras. His son, Pedro Martín Cermeño, took over the works in 1756.

The Captain General of Catalonia, Jaime de Guzmán y Spinola, II Marquis of la Mina, commissioned him to lay out a new neighborhood in Barcelona that would be called La Barceloneta, following Verboom's construction of the Citadel of Barcelona. Although Verboom had initially drawn up plans for the new district, these were never carried out and, in 1753, Cermeño drew up completely new plans for what would be one of Europe's major urban planning projects during the Enlightenment.

In 1755 he designed the Castle of San Pedro de la Roca del Morro, at the entrance to the bay of Santiago de Cuba.

In 1758 he was appointed Governor of Oran and held the position until 1765. Nine years later his son Pedro Martín Cermeño, also a military engineer, occupied the same position.

The Marqués de la Mina also commissioned Cermeño with the project of the refurbishing works of the Montjuïc Castle in Barcelona. The old fort was demolished and rebuilt in 1779.

Cermeño was involved in city planning of Manila, and fortification of various places including Plaza de Cartagena, Castle of the Moors and planning the expansion of the defenses in Montevideo.

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1700 births
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18th century in Algeria