omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Vesess. Vesess is a design and technology company founded in Sri Lanka in 2004. It was incorporated in United States as Vesess Inc. in 2007. 

It provides consultancy services in web design and development, UI and UX design, and online strategy. 

Vesess also develops and manages a software-as-a-service product: the online invoicing and billing service Hiveage.

Products

CurdBee

CurdBee was an online invoicing software initially developed as an in-house PHP application to invoice clients of Vesess. A public version was developed using Ruby on Rails and launched in June 2008.  It was the first step for Vesess in moving from being a web design agency to a product company.

CurdBee was mainly used by small businesses and freelancers. It had a free plan which supported unlimited invoicing and unlimited clients, with PayPal and Google Checkout as payment gateways. Paid plans had additional features such as multiple payment gateways, recurring invoices, time and expense tracking and custom domains. CurdBee was discontinued in 2014.

Hiveage
Hiveage is an invoicing and billing software-as-a-service that replaced CurdBee in 2014. Like its predecessor, Hiveage started as a freemium service, but changed to a fixed plan pricing strategy in September 2016. It inherited the CurdBee user base, and has grown to cover more than 140 countries.

Vgo
Vgo was a Software as a service launched by Vesess in September 2015, designed for taxi and logistics companies to compete with other vehicle for hire companies such as Uber. It had a web-based management application that supports online booking, automatic and manual dispatching, fleet, staff and customer management, and detailed reporting. Vgo also had set of mobile applications for customers with smartphones to submit orders, and for drivers to be notified of assignments and track their trips.

Vesess and a group of angel investors led by Just In Time Group had invested $1 million into Vgo. 

Vgo was discontinued in August 2016.

Notes

External links 
 Vesess website
 Hiveage website
 Vgo website

Software companies of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan companies established in 2004
Software companies established in 2004
Endre Kőrös. Endre Kőrös (September 18, 1927 – February 18, 2002) was a Hungarian chemist mostly known in the field of nonlinear chemical dynamics for developing the FKN mechanism, a description of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction involving 11 reactions and 12 species (21 intermediate species and 18 elementary steps), in 1972 with his colleagues Richard J. Field and Richard M. Noyes.

Endre Kőrös is a Széchenyi Prize-winning chemist and was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a leading figure in 20th century chemistry. His main research focused on the field of analysis of complex chemicals and the reaction kinetics (studying the kinetics of chemical reactions). One of his most important contributions, together with his American colleagues Richard J. Field]] and Richard M. Noyes, is the development of the FKN mechanism which allows the modeling of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction in 1972.
From 1949 to his death in 2002, he was a professor at Eötvös Loránd University in the Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry Department. He was the chair of this department from 1984 to 1989.

Career

At the beginning of his career he worked in the field of instrumental analytical chemistry. Within this field, he worked on complex chemical reactions, radio chemistry, and spectroscopy. In the 1950s, he was interested in the chemistry of poly-sulfides and selenium (his PhD was on the subject of selenium).

At the end of the 1950s, he shifted his interest to solutions kinetic properties with nonlinear reactions. Here he contributed significantly to the understanding of the relationship between the spatial structure of molecules and their reactivity.
He introduced the concept of charge transfer auto-catalysis into the understanding of the spatio-temporal behavior of isotope-exchange reaction. According to this idea, the electron rich donor molecule and the electron depleted molecule experience a weak chemical bond and the speed of this reaction is proportional with the bond's strength. In the same period, he also worked on radio-chemistry and developed some techniques to purify cellulose based ion-exchange molecules. As he result he developed a very effective method for radioactive binding detections and to decontaminate radioactive solutions.

From the 1970s, his interest turned to oscillatory reactions. His international fame is due to his collaboration with Richard J. Field and Richard M. Noyes. In 1972, they published a description of the oscillatory Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction involving 11 reactions and 12 species (21 intermediate species and 18 elementary steps). The FKN mechanism served as a starting point for the development of the Oregonator.

In the following years, Endre Kőrös worked closely with various Hungarian colleagues and found several novel chemical oscillators.

In 1990 he won the Széchenyi Prize together with Miklós Orbán and Zoltán Noszticzius for their contributions to the understanding of chemical oscillatory reactions.

1927 births
2002 deaths
20th-century Hungarian chemists
Geoffrey Lilley. Geoffrey Michael Lilley  (16 November 1919 – 20 September 2015) was an aeronautical scientist known for his work on jet engine noise reduction. His pioneering work led to him being known as the 'father of aeroacoustics', and he played a key role in the development of Concorde.

Life
Lilley was born at Isleworth on 16 November 1919, the youngest of four children. His father Micholl Morland Dessau was an American inventor and rubber magnate who lost his fortune in the Great Depression and left the family. Lilley was his mother's maiden name. He married Lesley Wheeler in 1948 and had three children.

After leaving Isleworth Grammar School at 15, he joined the RAF but failed the eye test to be a pilot. Then in 1936 he became an apprentice engineer with Kodak. At Kodak he was assistant to the Chief Engineer, and in 1938 was involved with the design of the air conditioning system for the new Film Coating and Drying Plant, which was installed and operational in June 1939.

Career
In 1940 Lilley joined Vickers-Armstrong at Weybridge and Supermarine in Southampton, where he worked briefly with Sir Barnes Wallace. His work covered both aircraft design and high-speed bombs.

During the War period he served during his time off working with the Home Guard in London and studied for a BSc by evening classes. He was awarded MSc from Imperial College London in 1945. After the war he worked on the design of wind tunnels for commercial research, one of which remains in use by British Aerospace.

Lilley helped found the College of Aeronautics in Cranfield in 1946 and his work on aircraft research led to him being appointed Professor of Experimental Fluid Mechanics in 1961.

In 1963, Lilley was appointed Professor of Aerodynamics and Astronautics at Southampton University.

Lilley was appointed OBE in 1981 for services to government. In 1983 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and the Aeroacoustic Medal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

After his retirement in 1983, he continued to accept visiting professorships, and worked for NASA at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering.

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Academics of Cranfield University
Academics of the University of Southampton
Alumni of Imperial College London
British scientists
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
1919 births
2015 deaths
Royal Air Force airmen
British Home Guard soldiers
Military personnel from the London Borough of Hounslow
20th-century Royal Air Force personnel
People from Isleworth
Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado. Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado (ADF-C)  or Space Delta 20 (DEL 20) one of three satellite ground stations operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and United States Space Force in the continental United States. Located within Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, the facility is responsible for the command and control of reconnaissance satellites involved in the collection of intelligence information and for the dissemination of that intelligence to other U.S. government agencies.

List of commanders

Col Cary C. Chun, July 2005–August 2007
Col David D. Thompson, July 2007–May 2009
Col Stephen Denker, July 2009–January 2011
Col Ronald L. Huntley, January 2011–August 2012
Col B. Chance Saltzman, June 2012–June 2014
Col Daniel D. Wright III
Brig Gen Christopher Povak, June 2016–August 2019
Col Jacob Middleton Jr., 29 August 2019
Brig Gen Robert J. Schreiner, 12 August 2021
Col David E. Gallagher, July 2024

See also
 Aerospace Data Facility-East
 Aerospace Data Facility-Southwest

References

National Reconnaissance Office
Deltas of the United States Space Force
Buildings and structures in Arapahoe County, Colorado
National Security Agency facilities
Nobuyuki Otsu. graduated from the Department of Mathematical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Tokyo in 1969.  He finished the master’s course in mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics of the University of Tokyo in 1971. Obtained Doctor of Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1981.

He joined the Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL) in 1971. He has been engaged in the research of pattern recognition theory and its application.  Had been Visiting Researcher at Canada National Research Council, Director of Mathematical Information Laboratory at Software Division, and Director of Information Science Laboratory at Information Science Division. Became Chief Senior Researcher in 1990 and Director of Machine Understanding Division in 1991.

Also he hold adjunct professorships in two universities. He became professor at Cooperative Graduate School, the University of Tsukuba in 1992 (to 2010), and Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo in 2001 (to 2007). He retired from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in 2012 and awarded the title of Emeritus Researcher.

He has engaged in mathematical fundamental research and its application concerning pattern recognition, image processing, multivariate analysis, artificial intelligence, and neurocomputing. Otsu's method, an image binarization technique, is still a standard technique widely used both in Japan and abroad.

He has made significant contributions to elementary research on principles of human soft intelligence (information processing) such as recognition, understanding, reasoning, and learning, and "soft information processing (intelligent information processing) method" as applications.  In the Real World Computing (RWC) Project (MITI's 10 years national project during 1992-2001), he promoted the research and development of "real world intelligence," and established fundamentals to exploit new application fields of intelligent information processing and multimedia information processing.

Winning prizes
 1978  - Electronic communication academic meeting Incentive award of art and science: "Threshold determination method from concentration distribution"
 1988 - Behavior metrology meeting Prize from an academic society Excellent prize: Achievement about "building of unifying basic theory by nonlinear extension of a multivariate analysis/multivariate analyses both hands way" (a series of thesis)
 1998 - IAPR sponsorship MVA'98 Most Influential Paper of the Decade award : "A New Scheme for Practical Flexible and Intelligent Vision Systems"
 2002 - Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers Niwa Takayanagi prize achievement prize.: "The real world intelligence technology" promotion of research and development"

References

Further reading

External links
 Computer science bibliography - Nobuyuki Otsu

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
University of Tokyo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Academic staff of the University of Tsukuba
Tremec TR-3160 transmission. The TREMEC TR-3160 is a six-speed RWD manual transmission that features six forward speeds and one reverse speed.  It is manufactured by TREMEC (formerly Transmission Technologies Corporation).

The TR-3160 is designed for either a single or double overdrive application and is used for light delivery vans, light commercial vehicles, or performance vehicle applications.

Based on an 81mm center distance, the TR-3160 utilizes high strength steel on all gears and shafts - maximizing torque capacity and durability while minimizing weight and package size. High capacity tapered bearings and high capacity synchronizers contribute to low shift efforts and shifter travel. All gears are hard-finished.

The multi-rail shift system accommodates direct mount and semi-remote shifter locations that provide greater flexibility while reducing noise, vibration and harshness (NVH).

TR-3160 features:
 Rear-wheel drive, six-speed manual transmission available with single or double overdrive
 Double and triple cone synchronizers feature hybrid and sintered bronze friction material
 Multi-rail shift system accommodates direct mount or semi-remote shifter locations
 High-precision guide plate
 Advanced interlock system
 Anti-friction roller ball detents
 Hollow shafts and webbed gears
 Three-piece end load design aluminum housing
 Low-friction linear shift rail bearings 
 Dry weight is 55 kg (121 lb) in base configuration; 51 kg (112 lb) with mass reduction

Applications
 2013–2019 Cadillac ATS
 2016–Present Chevrolet Camaro
 2016–2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350
 2021-2023 Ford Mustang Mach 1
 2024 Ford Mustang Dark Horse

Selected Gear Ratios

See also
 Tremec

References

6070
General Motors transmissions
Louis Norberg Howard. Louis Norberg Howard (March 12, 1929 – June 28, 2015) was an American mathematician who was professor emeritus of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He contributed to a broad range of subjects, including hydrodynamic stability and geophysical flows. He made a number of key advances in our understanding of turbulent convection, flows in Hele-Shaw cells, salt-finger zones, rotating flows, and reaction–diffusion equations.

References

1929 births
2015 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
Swarthmore College alumni
Princeton University alumni
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
J. B. Colt Company. The J. B. Colt Company was a producer of lamps and acetylene products based in New York City, headed by James Bennett Colt and in operation from 1891 to 1911. Among its products was the Colt Acetylene Flash Lantern used by the American military.

The company was acquired by its competitor, the Acetylene Apparatus Company of Chicago, in 1911.

A former Colt employee (1894-1896), Edwin J. Hadley, went on to invent cinema equipment, including a 1904 device to reduce image flicker.

References

Colt Company
Defunct manufacturing companies based in New York City
Manufacturing companies established in 1891
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1911
1891 establishments in New York (state)
1911 disestablishments in New York (state)
1911 mergers and acquisitions
American companies disestablished in 1911
American companies established in 1891
Martin Knutson. Martin A. "Marty" Knutson (May 31, 1930 - December 11, 2013) served as Director of Flight Operations for NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, and also as site manager of the Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility at Edwards Air Force Base in CA, at that time a satellite facility of Ames, from May 1984 through late 1990.

Born in St. Louis Park, he attended the University of Minnesota, majoring in electrical engineering. Knutson joined the U.S. Navy, before transferring to the Air Force as an aviation cadet in 1950. Following service in Korea and participation in developmental testing and operational missions in the F-84 and F-86, he was recruited to fly the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft for the Central Intelligence Agency in 1955. He was assigned to Det A, the first U-2 detachment to deploy operationally.

On July 9, 1956 he flew the third overflight of the USSR, Mission 2020 in a U-2A. The sortie from Wiesbaden took him over Berlin, Riga, Kaunas, Vilnius and Minsk. After re-assignment to Det B he flew Operation TOUCHDOWN, the 20th Soviet overflight, exactly three years later, (also in a U-2A). This mission was launched from Peshawar, Pakistan and landed nine hours later in the Iranian desert. He retired from the USAF in 1970.

Knutson joined NASA in 1971 as manager of U-2 flight operations at Ames and was one of several pilots who flew the aircraft on Earth resources science missions. He later flew the ER-2, an updated model of the U-2 that remains in service at NASA Dryden today.

During Knutson's six years at Dryden he maintained the facility at operational readiness for Space Shuttle landings and replaced Dryden's aging fleet of F-104 support aircraft with F/A-18 Hornets. He also provided leadership for numerous flight research projects including the X-29 forward-swept-wing technology demonstrator; the Controlled Impact Demonstration, the F-15 Digital Electronic Engine Control project that integrated propulsion and flight controls, the Pegasus air-launched rocket for placing small payloads into low Earth orbit; the CV-990 Landing Systems Research aircraft that tested improved braking systems for the Space Shuttle; and the F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle.

After the Air Force announced the impending retirement of the SR-71 Blackbird, Knutson successfully sought to acquire three of the airplanes for Dryden. In late 1990 he returned to Ames where he served as chief of flight operations until his retirement in 1997.

His awards include the Meritorious Service Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross, both from the Air Force, NASA's Outstanding Leadership Award, and the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive. He was an Associate Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and a charter member of the federal government's Senior Executive Service.

References 

NASA Dryden Center Director Biography: Martin A. Knutson

1930 births
2013 deaths
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
People of the Central Intelligence Agency
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
United States Air Force officers
TechnoCalyps. TechnoCalyps is a 2006 Belgian transhumanism documentary film written and directed by Frank Theys. It explores the advance of technology.

Documentary precept
Set as a three-part documentary, TechnoCalyps posits that genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, bionics, and nanotechnology seem to be converging towards a goal of having mankind transcend human limits.  "Director conducts his inquiry into the scientific, ethical and metaphysical dimensions of technological development. The film includes interviews by top experts and thinkers on the subject worldwide".

Cast
Jay McMahon narrated the documentary that has following interviewees: 

 Ian Buruma 
 Jean-Jacques Cassiman
 L. Stephen Coles
 Sadaputa Dasa
 Hugo De Garis
 Aubrey de Grey
 Theodore John Kaczynski
 Raymond Kurzweil
 Jeffrey Lichtman
 Ralph C. Merkle
 Marvin Minsky
 Hans Moravec
 Max More
 David F. Noble
 Mark Pesce
 Joe Rosen
 Kirkpatrick Sale
 Anders Sandberg
 Richard Seed
 Bruce Sterling
 Gregory Stock
 Mark W. Tilden
 Frank Tipler
 Margaret Wertheim
 Robert J. White
 Robert Anton Wilson
 Terence McKenna
 Rael
 Osman Bakar
 Michel Baudry
 Ted Berger
 Yang Dan
 Thomas B. DeMarse
 Anne Foerst
 Erin D. Green
 Mark Humayun
 Hamada Kazuyuki
 Carlo Montemagno
 Natasha Vita-More
 Jim Yount

Reception
H+ Magazine wrote that the film focuses "on the various emerging technologies that Transhumanism has coalesced around and feature illuminating (or potentially terrifying) interviews with scientists working in these fields", and Crónicas de Esperantia wrote that the film was an excellent documentary that shares some future keys.  Christopher Webster of Quiet Earth reviewed the documentary and wrote that it "is a really smart look at humanity's quest for immortality through science" and how with its focus on hard science "gets into how this quest effects art and culture and how the whole mess intersects to form the very fabric of who we are."

See also
 Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
 Ancient astronauts
 Building Gods (documentary)
 Effective altruism
 Global catastrophic risk#Anthropogenic

References

External links
 
 
  TechnoCalyps: Part I. TransHuman
  TechnoCalyps: Part II. Preparing for the Singularity
  TechnoCalyps: Part III. The Digital Messiah

Transhumanism
Futurology documentaries
2000s English-language films
2000s Belgian films
Ito-toren. The Ito-toren (Dutch for Ito Tower) is a  tall office building in the Zuidas in the Dutch capital city Amsterdam. The building is part of the Mahler4 complex and has inside that complex the code "1AH".

Construction and ownership 
The construction of the Ito-toren was part of the first construction phase of Mahler4 and took place between September 2002 and June 2005. In June 2004, the building was topped out. The developers of the Ito-toren were G&S Vastgoed, Fortis Vastgoed Ontwikkeling and ING Real Estate. Toyo Ito, after whom the building is named, and his architecture firm designed the office building. ZZDP Architecten was involved in the design process as well. The company Van der Vorm was the engineer.

In December 2002, the developer G&S Vastgoed sold the building for €133.5 million to the German company Commerz Grundbesitz-Investmentgesellschaft (CGI), a Commerz Real company. At the same time, CGI bought the office building SOM and the parking garage, both parts of Mahler4 as well. CGI was together with the three developers involved as an investor in the project since 1999. Commerz Real was negotiating with Tishman Speyer in order to sell the Ito-toren at the end of 2013, but the companies didn't reach an agreement. The German company Union Investment did reach an agreement on April 15, 2014 and thus bought the Ito-toren for €172.8 million, which was €200,000 more than the estimated value by an appraiser. The nearby office building SOM was again sold at the same time.

Architecture 
The Ito-toren has twenty-five above ground floors and two underground floors. The footprint of the building has a size of around . The supporting elements of the Ito-toren are made of reinforced concrete and the building has a steel frame. The Ito-toren has an angular exterior with holes in it. The facade is characterized by horizontal rows of windows with rows of aluminium panels in between them. Inside the Ito-toren, there are four atria.

The Ito-toren has a total floor area of . On the ground level, there's a cafeteria for the people working in the building. Besides, the Ito-toren has a large rooftop terrace on the 15th floor. The biggest tenant is the law firm Houthoff, that extended its lease agreement by ten years in November 2013. The law firm rents a total floor surface of . Other tenants include ABN AMRO, Accenture, BearingPoint, Edelman and Trafigura. The Icelandic commercial bank Icesave had its office in the Ito-toren as well.

Gallery

References 

Amsterdam-Zuid
Skyscraper office buildings in Amsterdam
Office buildings completed in 2005
Toyo Ito buildings