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Swirly World In Perpetuity. Swirly World In Perpetuity is a small sailboat which has been used by Andrew Fagan to make a series of solo voyages.

The yacht was designed by Gary Appleby, a New Zealand apprentice boatbuilder, and was constructed by Michael Brien, who launched it in 1972. According to Fagan, Brien was "an all-rounder and used to be a cabinetmaker and [he] had made an immaculate job of [building] the boat."

The yacht's hull has a chine construction, made of plywood sheathed in Dynel. Measurements taken during a 2019 refit showed that it measured  from stemhead to transom, with a  beam and a  draft. It is a sloop with a masthead rig, with the mast itself being  tall. The yacht was originally equipped with a  Honda inboard motor, this has since been replaced with a  Lifan petrol engine, fitted with a centrifugal clutch.

Fagan purchased the vessel in 1985 and used it to make a series of solo long-distance voyages. These included sailing from Auckland to Raoul Island and back; Auckland to Wellington via the west coast of the North Island, and a double crossing of the Tasman Sea as part of the 1994 Solo Trans-Tasman Race. These voyages were written about in Fagan's book Swirly World: The Solo Voyages, published in 2003.

In 2007, Fagan completed a 3,000 km circumnavigation of New Zealand with the yacht, with the route taking in the subantarctic Auckland Islands. This voyage is detailed in Fagan's 2012 book Swirly World Sails South.

In January 2022, Fagan set out from Auckland to circumnavigate the globe non-stop via the great capes. The voyage was anticipated to take 14 months, but 2,600 km into the journey, when approximately halfway between Auckland and Cape Horn, the boat's skeg and then its rudder were lost. Fagan was rescued by a container vessel, with Swirly World then being abandoned.

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1972 ships
Individual sailing vessels
Single-handed sailing
New Zealand design
Sailing yachts built in New Zealand
Eiman Kanjo. Eiman Kanjo() is a British computer scientist and engineer. She is professor of pervasive sensing at Nottingham Trent University. Her research considers the development of wireless sensing technologies. She was named as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering in 2022. She joins Imperial College London as  Provost's Visiting Professor, October 2023.

Early life and education 
Eiman received a bachelor's degree in Computer and Electronic engineering from the University of Aleppo, Syria. Her doctorate considered vision-based interactive toys. After earning her doctorate, Kanjo moved to the University of Nottingham, where she developed mobile sensing technologies, which harnessed the power of smart phones to track health, social and environmental information. She continued to build smart sensing devices at the University of Cambridge.

Research and career 
Eiman directs the Smart Sensing Lab at Nottingham Trent University. Here she builds systems and digital capabilities for social good. This includes developing wearable technologies and devices for assessing their environment. Her sensors can be attached to the smart phones of cyclists to monitor air pollution uncover the environmental contributors to asthma attacks and monitor how the hustle and bustle of cities impacts physical health. However, she warned against the damaging impacts of smartphones, explaining that notifications can cause a downturn in mood

Kanjo developed a platform, Tag With Me, that provided location-based guidance and an interactive treasure hunt to allow visitors to explore parks and cultural destinations. Tag With Me was used by the Sherwood Forest in their 5G Connectivity project.

She believes her smart sensor networks could be used to monitor mental health in real time, and argued that digital platforms could have helped people find support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2022, Kanjo was named as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering. She moved to Imperial College London as a visiting professor in 2023.

Awards and honours 

 2021 Vice-chancellor's Outstanding Researcher Team Award
 2022 Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering

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Living people
21st-century British scientists
21st-century British women scientists
Academics of Nottingham Trent University
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Sulfur selenium battery. A selenium sulfur battery is a proposed lithium rechargeable battery that in prototype has an energy density of 500 watt-hours/kg. It is approximately 40% lighter than conventional lithium ion batteries.

History 
NASA announced a prototype cell and pack architecture in July 2023.

Solid-state Architecture Batteries for Enhanced Rechargeability and Safety program (SABERS) 
SABERS is a NASA program that researches advanced battery technologies for use in aircraft propulsion. The program funded the development of the new battery.

Design 
NASA's prototypes use a solid-state electrolyte. The cathode is made from sulfur and selenium. The prototype exceeds 1100 Wh/kg at a discharge rate of 0.4C, and 804 Wh/kg at a discharge rate of 1C. The anode is made from lithium metal. This cathode incorporates NASA-patented holey graphene technology provides a highly conductive, low-weight electrode scaffold. Lithium ions are the charge carrier.

NASA's prototypes can be stacked without a casing. Case-free stackability means that the battery's cooling systems can be smaller and lighter. Operating conventional batteries at full power causes rapid temperature increases. The prototype can operate at much higher temperatures than conventional lithium-ion batteries. In addition, they are less affected by pressure changes, which occur during takeoff and landing.

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Lithium-ion batteries
Rechargeable batteries
Maria Ibáñez. Maria Ibáñez Sabaté is a Spanish materials scientist and Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. Her research considers functional nanomaterials for next generation technologies. She was awarded the ETH Zurich Ružička Prize in 2017.

Early life and education 
Ibáñez studied physics at the University of Barcelona. She remained there for her doctoral research, where she developed synthesis strategies for colloidal nanoparticles. Her research originally considered materials for photovoltaics, but she became increasingly interested in thermoelectric materials. During her doctoral research she completed placements at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, University of Chicago, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University and Northwestern. Her doctoral research was awarded the Extraordinary Award, the University of Barcelona's highest accolade. After earning her doctorate she joined ETH Zurich, where she worked with Maksym Kovalenko.

Research and career 
In 2017 Ibáñez was awarded the Ružička Prize for her work on developing new thermoelectric materials. She joined the Institute of Science and Technology Austria as an assistant professor in 2018. She was promoted to the Verbund Professor for Energy Sciences in 2022.

Her research considers nanocrystals that can be used as building blocks to engineer metamaterials. She is interested in the development of solution processed thermoelectric materials with high Seebeck coefficients, electrical conductivities and thermal conductivities.

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Personal life 
Ibáñez is married with two sons.

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Living people
Women materials scientists and engineers
Materials scientists and engineers
21st-century Spanish scientists
21st-century Spanish women scientists
University of Barcelona alumni
Henry Antwi. Henry Antwi is an Australian based mining engineer and mineral economist  He is a fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and the founder and sponsor of the  Tarkwa Student Chapter of AusIMM at the University of Mines and Technology, Ghana.

Biography 
He attended Osei Tutu secondary school, Mfantsipim, and the UST School of Mines in Ghana. He continued his study in the Camborne School of Mines in England, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in engineering, and later attended the Colorado School of Mines in the United States to earn a Master's degree in engineering.

He obtained a Graduate Diploma in Business from Curtin University of Technology in Australia to diversify his studies.

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Living people
Ghanaian engineers
Mining in Ghana
Phillip S. Myers. Phillip Samuel Myers (8 May 1916 – 18 October 2006) was an American mechanical engineer.

A native of Webber, Kansas, Phillip Samuel Myers was born to parents Earl Myers and Sarah Catherine Breon on 8 May 1916. He earned a bachelor's of science degree from McPherson College in 1940, and completed a second bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Kansas State College in 1942, then joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty upon graduation. While teaching, he completed a master's of science (1944) and doctorate (1947) in mechanical engineering at UW–Madison as well. Myers obtained tenure in 1950, and became a full professor in 1955. He chaired UW–Madison's Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1979 to 1983, and was granted emeritus status upon retirement in 1986.

In 1969, Myers became the first academic to serve as president of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the SAE later elected him a fellow in 1977. He was elected a 1971 fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and ten years later won the AMSE's Internal Combustion Engine Award. In 1973, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering, recognized for his "contributions to the understanding of ignition and heat transfer problems of internal combustion engines and their environmental impact." In 1998, Myers was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Myers died on 18 October 2006, aged 90.

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1916 births
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American mechanical engineers
20th-century American engineers
Engineers from Kansas
Engineers from Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
People from Jewell County, Kansas
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
McPherson College alumni
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Kansas State University alumni
Pesa 730M. The Pesa 730M is a 3-unit diesel multiple unit predestined to be used on a wide track that is manufactured in Poland, but actively used in Lithuania and Belarus.

Lithuanian Railways using Pesa 730ML trains in Vilnius–Klaipėda Railway services.

Operators

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Train-related introductions in 2013
Diesel multiple units of Lithuania
Diesel multiple units of Belarus
Diesel multiple units of Poland
PESA SA
Kenton Forsythe. Kenton "Ken" George Forsythe (July 21, 1944 – July 9, 2023) was an American engineer and professional audio pioneer, known for developing high performance loudspeakers for the sound reinforcement industry.

Early years 
Born in Boston, he graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a degree in History and UC Berkeley in 1968 with a Master of City Planning.

Forsythe Audio 
In the mid-1970s Forsythe introduced the Forsythe Audio SR215 dual 15-inch bass horn. The major innovation of the SR215 is that it could fit through a 30-inch door. Forsythe developed two-way compact loudspeaker systems.  He designed vented subwoofer that featured an interchangeable tube venting system allowing the enclosure to be reconfigured for different drivers.

Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) 
In 1978, Forsythe and Kenneth Berger co-founded Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Death 
Kenton Forsythe died on July 9, 2023, at the age of 78.

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External links 
EAW website

 

1944 births
2023 deaths
20th-century American engineers
20th-century American inventors
People from Boston
Renu Vig. Renu Vig is an Indian academic and professor, who currently serves as the 14th vice-chancellor of Panjab University. She is the first woman vice-chancellor of Panjab University.

Education

Vig holds a PhD in engineering and technology in the area of artificial intelligence and neural networks. She completed her Bachelor of Engineering from Punjab Engineering College.

Career
Vig has served as dean of university instructions of Panjab University, prior to her appointment as vice-chancellor. She succeeded Professor Raj Kumar who resigned from his position in January 2023. She has also served as director, University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University.

Awards
Vig won the N K Iyengar Memorial Prize for research paper on Fuzzy Modelling for Ignition Timing Control. She also bagged the Corps of Engineers Prize for research paper on Fuzzy Diagnostic System for Coronary Artery Disease.

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Living people
Panjab University
Heads of universities and colleges in India
Women heads of universities and colleges
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ABFC Cape Wessel. ABFC Cape Wessel, named after Cape Wessel in the Northern Territory, is a  of the marine unit of the Australian Border Force.

The ship was the seventh of eight Cape-class patrol boats to be delivered to the Australian Border Force. The boat, built by Austal in Henderson, Western Australia, had its keel laid in July 2014 and delivered in August 2015.

Austal was awarded a $350million contract to construct eight Cape-class patrol boats for the Australian Border Force to replace the Bay-class patrol boats in 2011, with the eight boats delivered between 2013 and 2015.

References

External links
Austal: Cape-class Patrol Boat (Austal Patrol 58)
Australian Border Force website: Patrol vessels 

2015 ships
Wessel
Patrol vessels of the Marine Unit (Australian Border Force)
ABFC Cape York. ABFC Cape York, named after Cape York in Queensland, is a  of the marine unit of the Australian Border Force.

The ship was the last of eight Cape-class patrol boats to be delivered to the Australian Border Force. The boat, built by Austal in Henderson, Western Australia, had its keel laid in October 2014 and delivered in August 2015.

Austal was awarded a $350million contract to construct eight Cape-class patrol boats for the Australian Border Force to replace the Bay-class patrol boats in 2011, with the eight boats delivered between 2013 and 2015.

References

External links
Austal: Cape-class Patrol Boat (Austal Patrol 58)
Australian Border Force website: Patrol vessels 

2015 ships
York
Patrol vessels of the Marine Unit (Australian Border Force)
Max Shulaker. Max M. Shulaker is a Stanford-educated American electrical engineer and a professor at MIT credited  with the development of the first carbon nanotube computer and the first modern microprocessor built from carbon nanotube transistors. His research was widely reported in US and British media.

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American electrical engineers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
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Richard Brett (theatre consultant). Richard Brett  (1939–2014) was a British stage engineer and is sometimes considered the first ever Theatre consultant.

Born in Croydon in 1939, he worked at the BBC as a senior planning and installation engineer working on the introduction of colour television, until hired by Richard Pilbrow to join the newly-built National Theatre in London in 1967. Pilbrow considered Brett the 'leading stage engineer of our time'. In 1985 he left the National, forming his own theatre consultancy Technical Planning, now known as Theatreplan. 

His reputation for innovative designs was forged by notable projects including the power flying system and drum revolve at the National Theatre and the use of air bearings at the Royal & Derngate.

Brett was chairman of the ABTT and the Society of Theatre Consultants (now the Institute of Theatre Consultants), and founded quadrennial conference ITEAC. In 2023, Brett was included in the 'Engineering Icons Tube Map' by Transport for London and The Royal Academy of Engineering, placing him at London Waterloo station next to the National Theatre.

He died in 2014.

Books 
Richard contributed to several books in his lifetime, including Copenhagen Opera House and the ABTT's Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide.

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1939 births
2014 deaths
British mechanical engineers
British theatre people
Mariëlle Stoelinga. Mariëlle I. A. Stoelinga is a Dutch computer scientist based in the Netherlands. She is full professor of Risk Management for High Tech Systems in the Formal Methods & Tools Group at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands and holds a partial appointment as a full professor in the Software Science department at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. She is also director of Life Long Learning at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, at the University of Twente.

Education 
Stoelinga obtained her degree in Mathematics & Computer Science at the University of Nijmegen, with a specialization in foundations of mathematics and computer science. Her Master’s thesis covered the topic of Exact Representations of and Computability on Real Numbers, under the supervision of Erik Barendsen and Henk Barendregt.

In 2001 she obtained her PhD at the Computing Science Institute in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, supervised by Frits Vaandrager, with a thesis titled: Alea Jacta est: Verification of Probabilistic, Real–Time and Parametric Systems.

Research 

Stoelinga main area of research deals with quantitative risk assessment methods to ensure that the risks associated with high technology systems are within acceptable limits. She develops techniques for analyzing, predicting and improving the reliability of complex systems using fault trees, model-based testing and architectural reliability modelling. 

A distinguishing feature of techniques developed by Stoelinga is compositionality, as she derives the risk profile of a complex system from the risk profiles of its components, using techniques from model checking.

This approach is applied in the field of predictive maintenance and on the interactions between safety and (cyber)security, as testified by her recently granted projects: PrimaVera, CAESAR and ZORRO.

Career 
From December 2001 to April 2004, Stoelinga worked as a Post-doc researcher in Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, with Prof. Luca de Alfaro.

From August 2005 to September 2005 she was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and starting May 2004 she was an assistant professor in the Formal Methods & Tools Group, at the University of Twente, where she now holds a full professor position alongside a partial appointment as a full professor at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, in the Software Science department.

In 2019, she received a substantial grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). She also received an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. With the NWO grant, she is leading a team of industrialists and academics to better integrate the various steps in predictive maintenance. With the ERC grant, Stoelinga is developing new methods for better and more integrated assessment of safety and (cyber)security. Furthermore, Stoelinga recently received another grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for the ZORRO Project: Engineering for Zero Downtime in Cyber-Physical Systems via Intelligent Diagnostics.

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Computer scientists

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
DigitalBlast. DigitalBlast is a Japanese aerospace consulting firm focusing on the space industry in general. It provides guidance to firms seeking to enter the space sector, along with providing support for digital transformation. The company also manages SPACE Media, a news website focusing on private spaceflight.

Project NOAH
Project NOAH is a research and development project of DigitalBlast which aims to develop technologies that will realize a self-sustaining environment on the Moon, in anticipation of human habitats being built there in the near future. One goal of the project is to study the effects low-gravity has on plant production. The AMAZ research equipment will be the first step of this project.

AMAZ
AMAZ is a research equipment under development by DigitalBlast that will use centrifugal forces to create artificial gravity equivalent to the lunar surface. AMAZ will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) and will be used to conduct research on plant growth. Experiments to be conducted by AMAZ include a study on the growth of moss in different gravity environments by Toyama University, and cultivating brewer's yeast in the gravity environment of the Moon and Mars in cooperation with the University of Tokyo and Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

In November 2022, DigitalBlast signed a contract with Axiom Space for placing AMAZ inside the ISS National Lab. Axiom Space will support AMAZ's safety review, along with providing a transport service to orbit and its retrieval. The agreement also left open the possibility of the AMAZ device later being placed inside the Axiom Orbital Segment, a privately operated space station that will be docked to the ISS. The same month, it was announced that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was contracted to design AMAZ's flight model.

In February 2023, DigitalBlast announced plans for a modified version of AMAZ dubbed 'AMAZ Alpha', which will be used for cell culturing.

TAMAKI
TAMAKI is a research equipment that will be capable of supplying water to grow plants inside. TAMAKI will be carried inside an uncrewed science satellite complete with a retrieval space capsule being developed by Elevation Space. As of August 2022, TAMAKI was planned to be launched in 2026.

See also
 Private spaceflight

References

External links
 
 Official website(Japanese)
 SPACE Media(managed by DigitalBlast)

Companies based in Tokyo
Private spaceflight companies
QuEra Computing Inc.. QuEra Computing Inc. is a quantum computing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company develops quantum computers using neutral atoms based on research conducted at both Harvard University and MIT. QuEra also develops software for simulating systems of Rydberg atoms. and finding solutions to Combinatorial Optimization problems.

QuEra actively conducts research in Condensed Matter Physics and combinatorial optimization using neutral atoms as well.

History 
QuEra Computing was founded by Mikhail Lukin, Vladan Vuletić, Markus Greiner, Dirk Englund, Nathan Gemelke, and John Pena in 2018.

Prior to QuEra’s founding, research into using and controlling neutral atoms had already started in 2015 at Harvard and MIT, culminating in a 51-qubit machine which later led to the development of a 256-qubit machine.

On October 24th 2024, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center announced a $16 million expansion to its computing campus, planning to build a quantum computing complex. QuEra Computing was announced as a partner in the project.

Technology 
QuEra uses neutral atoms based on Rubidium which are controlled and trapped using lasers as its qubits.

On November 1, 2022, QuEra released its 256-qubit machine Aquila, to the general public through the Amazon cloud service Braket.

QuEra currently supports an analog computing mode that relies on the Rydberg blockade phenomena and the position of atoms to achieve superposition and entanglement. The analog mode could allow problems such as the Maximum Weight Independent set (graph theory) (MWIS) to be expressed and solved with research from the company to map other problems onto MWIS as well

QuEra plans to offer a hybrid analog-digital quantum computer soon followed by a fully digital gate-based system.

See also 
 Quantum computing
 Cloud-based quantum computing

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Companies based in Boston
American companies established in 2018