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Eli Ben-Sasson. Eli Ben-Sasson (Hebrew: אלי בן-ששון) is an Israeli computer scientist known for his work on zero-knowledge proofs. He is also the co-founder and CEO of StarkWare Industries, and a former professor at Technion.

Career 

Ben-Sasson studied theoretical computer science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning his PhD in 2001.

In 2014, Ben-Sasson and other researchers collaborated on Zerocash, a design for a private cryptocurrency based on zero-knowledge proofs. Ben-Sasson later became a founding scientist of Zcash, which was based on the Zerocash design.

In 2018, Ben-Sasson and other researchers invented STARKs, a type of zero-knowledge proof which has applications in blockchain privacy and scalability. Later that year, Ben-Sasson co-founded StarkWare Industries, which aims to scale blockchains using STARK techniques. Ben-Sasson later became CEO after Uri Kolodny stepped down from the role in 2024.

In April 2019, Technion sued Ben-Sasson along with co-founder Michael Riabzev, alleging that StarkWare Industries was based on intellectual property developed at the university.
The institute demanded 50% of Ben-Sasson's stake in the company. Ben-Sasson maintained that the company merely used employees' knowledge, but no invention belonging to the Technion. In 2020 the two sides reached an agreement and Ben-Sasson left the Technion.

References 

Israeli cryptographers
Modern cryptographers
Theoretical computer scientists
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Israeli company founders
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Living people
People associated with cryptocurrency
Year of birth missing (living people)
Electro-pneumatic control. Electro-pneumatic control systems are built with electrical components to control pneumatic components (for example through electrically operated valves).

Description 
The working medium, compressed air, is controlled by electrical signals. 

In contrast to purely pneumatic controls, electro-pneumatic controls allow significantly more complex functions, especially through the use of electronic circuits such as programmable logic controls. The advantage of pneumatics lies in the simple and cost-effective implementation of actuators, for example with pneumatic cylinders.

Examples
Pipe organs:
Electro-pneumatic action
Tubular-pneumatic action
Railway brakes
Electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains
Electrostatic–pneumatic activation
 Electropneumatic paintball marker

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Pneumatics
Control engineering
Silk Route Transit Network. The Silk Route Transit Network is a fiber-optic infrastructure project developed by iQ Networks, a subsidiary of iQ Group Holding. Its purpose is to connect Europe and Asia through Iraq, avoiding traditional routes like the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. The project aims to serve as a key IP transit route, providing faster and more efficient data transfer between continents, and positioning Iraq as a hub for data connectivity in the Middle East.

History 
Conceptualization (2010)

The Silk Route Transit Network was proposed in 2010 by iQ Networks, the aim was to create a fiber-optic network providing a direct link between Europe and Asia, avoiding the congested routes through the Red Sea and Egypt.

Project Launch (2010–2014)

Despite Iraq's political and security challenges, the project commenced with the installation of over 3,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cable across the country. This initiative aimed to rebuild Iraq's digital infrastructure and support economic recovery by enhancing connectivity.

Delays and Resumption (2014–2020)

The project faced delays due to regulatory and geopolitical challenges as well as regional conflicts, including the ISIS crisis. However, iQ Networks used this period to redesign and improve the existing network, and by 2020, the project resumed with new investments.

Completion and Expansion (2020–present)

By Q4 2023, the network was fully operational, covering 3,500 kilometers across Iraq. It features multiple layers of fiber-optic cables and provides a short, efficient route for data transmission between Europe and Asia.

Overview 
The network connects key cities across Iraq and extends beyond national borders, with six cable landing stations in strategic locations such as Ibrahim Xalil (Turkey) Al-Faw (Persian Gulf), and Arar (Saudi Arabia). The network provides low-latency connectivity, with delays as short as 70 milliseconds. It supports high-speed data transmission for services like cloud computing and online gaming. The Silk Route Transit Network is important for Iraq's digital transformation. It helps diversify the economy by attracting investments in technology and digital services, reducing reliance on oil exports. As a data transit hub, it positions Iraq to meet the global need for reliable internet connectivity. iQ Group plans to increase the network's capacity for more data and explore innovations like solar-powered data centers. These steps aim to strengthen Iraq's position as a tech hub in the Middle East.

References 

Fiber-optic communications
Infrastructure in Iraq
Marit Reigstad. Marit Reigstad is a professor at the University of Tromsø. Her research interests are in developing a comprehensive understanding on the regulatory mechanisms of carbon fluxes from the ocean's surface to depth. She has led a variety of interdisciplinary projects and expeditions including 'The Nansen Legacy' which aims are to provide a cross-disciplinary, sustainable, and holistic management of marine systems and human presence within the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean.

While being the lead of The Nansen Legacy, Reigstad has organized key research conferences, leading discourse on climate and ecosystem changes in the seas for over 300 researchers across 19 countries.

Education 
Reigstad received her Ph.D. in Marine Ecology from the Department of marine biology at the University of Tromsø.

Honours and awards 
Dr. Reigstad has received recognition for her accomplishments, including:

 2022 Outreach Award, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT
 2016, Research Award, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT

Publications 
Dr. Reigstad has over 100 publications, with over 20,000 reads and cited over 5,000 times. Some key publications include: ￼

 Ice algae contributions to the benthos during a time of sea ice change: a review a supply, coupling, and fate. ￼
 Contrasting seasonal patterns in particle aggregation and DOM transformation in a sub-Arctic fjord.
 Hydrography inorganic nutrients and chlorophyll a linked to sea ice cover in the Atlantic Water inflow region north of Svalbard.

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Norwegian academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Tromsø alumni
Yassierli. Yassierli (born 22 April 1976) is an Indonesian academic and politician serving as minister of manpower since 2024. He has worked at the Bandung Institute of Technology since 1998.

Early life
He is an alumnus of SMA Negeri 1 Padang, graduated in 1993 and came from Lubuk Minturun, nephew of the late Aziz Syoeib, a former pediatrician. He took his undergraduate education at ITB majoring in Engineering in 1993-1997. Then he continued his Masters education at ITB majoring in Industrial Engineering and Management in 1998-2000. After that, he took a doctoral degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA, in 2001-2005. Currently, Yassierli works as a teaching staff and researcher at the Faculty of Industrial Technology ITB.

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1976 births
Living people
Minangkabau people
Government ministers of Indonesia
Academic staff of Bandung Institute of Technology
21st-century Indonesian politicians
IRocket. iRocket (Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc) is a startup based in New York, founded in 2018, which develops rocket engines and a small reusable launch vehicle named Shockwave.
In 2021 iRocket signed a  Space Act Agreement With NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to accelerate the development of its reusable rocket engine. The company received in 2023 a  $1.8 million TACFI contract  from the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) to develop the rocket engine. The company also signed in 2023 a four-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Air Force to test its engine technology at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) High Thrust Research Facility.

Shockwave will be a fully reusable rocket, 125 feet tall, 9 feet in diameter, designed to transport 1.500 kg to low earth orbit (LEO). All stages will be reusable. First launch is planned for 2027.
The methalox engine is manufactured via 3D printing and will be 100% reusable.

References

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 Official website

American companies established in 2018
Companies based in New York (state)
Aerospace companies of the United States
Private spaceflight companies
Technology companies established in 2018
Bromine perchlorate. Bromine perchlorate is an inorganic chemical compound with the formula BrOClO3. It is a shock and light-sensitive red liquid which decomposes above -20 °C.

Preparation and reactions
Bromine perchlorate can be produced from the reaction of cesium perchlorate and bromine fluorosulfate at -20 °C:
CsClO4 + BrSO3F → BrOClO3 + CsSO3F
Alternatively, it can also be produced by the reaction of chlorine perchlorate and bromine at -45 °C. Bromine perchlorate reacts with hydrogen bromide to regenerate bromine:
BrOClO3 + HBr → Br2 + HClO4
This compound also reacts with cesium perchlorate, to produce Cs[Br(ClO4)2], and various fluorocarbon halides, to produce fluoroalkyl perchlorates.

References

Bromine(I) compounds
Perchlorates
Juani Bermejo Vega. Juani Bermejo Vega (born 1987 in Cáceres, Spain) is a Spanish quantum computing researcher, activist, and the most senior transgender woman in quantum computing in Europe.

Career 
Bermejo completed a double degree in computer science and physics at the University of Salamanca. Her scientific vocation was partly inspired by her aunt, a professor of systems and automation engineering at the same university. After studying for a year in Canada in 2008, she decided to pursue research in quantum computing. She completed her doctoral work in Munich under the supervision of physicist Juan Ignacio Cirac.

During her doctorate, she completed a research stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. After earning her Ph.D., she spent three years as a researcher at the Free University of Berlin. In 2019, she returned to Spain with a research position at the University of Granada. She is one of the few transgender scientists worldwide at her level in quantum computing, the most senior in this field in Europe, and Europe's only transgender professor in quantum computing.

She began her transition process in 2018 and came out in 2019 while in Berlin. Transitioning has led to a loss of authority in her field, which has led her to reflect that if she had started her transition earlier, her scientific career might have been negatively impacted due to prejudice.

As a science communicator and LGBTQ activist, she is co-founder of the Q-Turn project, a quantum computing conference that prioritizes diversity among speakers. These inclusive conferences highlight women and minority groups in a relaxed and welcoming environment. Additionally, Bermejo was a founding member of the Equal Opportunities Working Group of Max Planck PhDnet in 2014.

Recognition 

 Athenea3i-Marie (Sklodowska) Curie Research Fellowship.
 Named among the 20 Granada residents to follow in 2020 by the digital media outle Ideal.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the University of Granada
Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin
Spanish LGBTQ scientists
Spanish computer scientists
21st-century Spanish physicists
Spanish feminists
Spanish women activists
Spanish transgender women
Spanish LGBTQ rights activists
21st-century Spanish women scientists
1987 births
People from Cáceres, Spain
Living people
21st-century Spanish LGBTQ people
DSB class F. The DSB Class F are a class of Danish  steam locomotives, of which 120 were built between 1898 and 1949 for the DSB (Danske Statsbaner (Danish State Railways)).

These locomotive supplemented and replaced the smaller Class Hs and was used for shunting at almost every station on the DSB network. Between 1930 and 1945, the Class F was supplemented by 15 Class Q 0-8-0T locomotives. The last 15 Class F locomotives were delivered by Frichs to DSB in 1949.

Preservation 
A total of 10 class F locomotives have been preserved, mainly those built in 1949; some of them are operational, and six are located in Denmark. Two further examples, F 662 and F 668, were formerly preserved, but were scrapped in 2013 and 2016 respectively.

F 656 was purchased by Richard Hurlock in 1975 for 17,000 kroner, and brought to Peterborough for use on the Nene Valley Railway, which opened in 1977. It was retired in 1986 with a defective firebox and spent 16 years in storage awaiting repairs. In 2004, the locomotive underwent a major overhaul lasting 20 years and returned to working order in February 2024.

F 654 was used by the Angeln Steam Railway in Germany for its museum train until it was withdrawn in 2017; by then it was in need of boiler repairs. In 2020, F 654 was bought by the Kittel Foundation, which is based in the Neumünster depot.

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0-6-0T locomotives
Shunting locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1898
Steam locomotives of Denmark
Valérie Derouet. Valérie Derouet aka Valérie Derouet-Mazoyer (born March 2, 1965) is a French engineer who is a director at EDF Nuclear and Thermal and president of the French Nuclear Security Center of Excellence.

Life
Derouet was born in 1965 in Paris.

She studied engineering at the École nationale supérieure des mines. An early employer of Derouet was the utility company Veolia. In 1999 she became the marketing director at the telecommunications company Alcatel and a director of strategy at the nuclear fuel company that was then called Cogema. She moved responsibilities at Cogema in 2002 when she became their Director of Dismantling and Waste Management.

In 2011 she became a senior vice president in the French company EDF. She was in charge of nuclear production.

In 2018 she was the prime author of the conference proceedings concerning " "The French Nuclear Centre of Excellence - COE". The book catalogued France's efforts to ensure that they have the best standards and trained staff in their nuclear industry as supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In the same year she succeeded Alain Bauer as president of the College of the National Council for Private Security Activities (CNAPS). Bauer had the elected position since 2012 which is when Derouet became a member. Derouet had become a vice-president of the college from 2015 to 2017.

In 2022 she was appointed chair of the board of the National Council for Private Security Activities on 14 September by decree.

Honours
Derouet was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor by the minister of defence, Jean-Yves Le Drian at l'hôtel de Brienne.

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1965 births
Living people
People from Paris
French engineers
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Nuclear engineers
Andy Zeng. Andy Zeng is an American computer scientist and AI engineer at Google DeepMind. He is best known for his research in robotics and machine learning, including robot learning algorithms that enable machines to intelligently interact with the physical world and improve themselves over time. Zeng was a recipient of the Gordon Y.S. Wu Fellowship in Engineering and Wu Prize in 2016, and the Princeton SEAS Award for Excellence in 2018.

Early life and education 
Zeng studied computer science and mathematics as an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. He then moved to Princeton University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 2019. His thesis focused on deep learning algorithms that enable robots to understand the visual world and interact with unfamiliar physical objects. He developed a class of deep neural network architectures inspired by the concept of affordances in cognitive psychology (perceiving the world in terms of actions), which allow machines to learn skills that can quickly adapt and generalize to new scenarios. As a doctoral student, he co-led Team MIT-Princeton to win 1st Place of the Stow Task at the Amazon Picking Challenge, a global competition focused on advancing robotic manipulation and bin picking. He also spent time as a student researcher at Google Brain. His graduate studies were supported by the NVIDIA Fellowship.

Research and career 
Zeng investigates the capabilities of robots to intelligently improve themselves over time through self-supervised learning algorithms, such as learning how to assemble objects by disassembling them, or acquiring new dexterous skills by watching videos of people. Notable demonstrations include Google's TossingBot, a robot that can learn to grasp and throw unfamiliar objects using physics as a prior model of how the world works. His research also investigates 3D computer vision algorithms.

He pioneered the use of Foundation models in robotics, from systems that take action by write their own code, to robots that can plan and reason by grounding language in affordances. He co-developed large multimodal models, and showed that they can be used for intelligent robot navigation, world modeling, and assistive agents. He also worked on algorithms that allow large language models to know when they don't know and ask for help.

In 2024, Zeng was awarded the IEEE Early Career Award in Robotics and Automation “for outstanding contributions to robot learning.”

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American computer scientists
American software engineers
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Princeton University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Cell-based architecture. Cell-based Architecture (CBA) is a software design paradigm that structures applications as a collection of small, self-contained units called "cells." Each cell encapsulates specific functionality along with its own data, logic, and state, enabling independent development, deployment, and scaling. CBA is a approach that combines aspects of application architecture, deployment architecture, and organizational (people/team) architecture. This integration promotes modularity, agility, and efficient collaboration across development processes.

In cell-based architecture, applications are decomposed into multiple cells, each representing a bounded context with its own data, logic, and state. Cells interact with each other through well-defined interfaces, promoting loose coupling and high cohesion. This approach facilitates parallel development and allows teams to focus on individual cells without impacting the entire system.

See also 

 Microservices
 Service-oriented architecture
 Distributed computing
 Cloud computing

References 

Software architecture
Software design
Alessandro Chiesa. Alessandro Chiesa is an Italian computer scientist. He is an associate professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and a now-adjunct professor at University of California, Berkeley. He has contributed to the field of zero-knowledge proofs, and was a co-founder of Zcash and StarkWare Industries.

Biography 
Chiesa was born in Varese, Italy in 1987. He studied math and computer science at MIT, where he earned his SB, MEng and PhD. His PhD was in theory of computation, advised by Silvio Micali at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Chiesa became an assistant professor at UC Berkeley in 2015. In 2018 he was named in MIT's Innovators Under 35 list. In 2021 he became an associate professor at EPFL.

Research 
In 2013, Chiesa coauthored a paper and implementation of TinyRAM, a virtual machine whose execution could be proven using zero-knowledge proofs.

In 2014, Chiesa coauthored the design of Zerocash, which laid the foundation for the Zcash protocol. The work was recognized by the Test of Time Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

In 2020, Chiesa coauthored the design of Zexe, a related protocol which drew on ideas from Zerocash and extended it to arbitrary computations. The Zexe design became the foundation of a blockchain called Aleo.

Awards 
 Google Faculty Research Awards (2018 and 2017)
 Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2020)
 Sloan Research Fellowship (2021)
 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Test-of-Time Award (2024)

References

External links 
 Homepage

Living people
Modern cryptographers
Italian cryptographers
People associated with cryptocurrency
Year of birth missing (living people)
Orhan Arda. Orhan Arda (19 May 1911 - 4 July 2003) was a Turkish architect and academic. He designed Anıtkabir, the mausoleum complex of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, with Emin Onat.

Life 
He was born in Thessaloniki on May 19, 1911. He completed his primary and high school education in Istanbul. He graduated from the (ITU) Higher Engineer School in 1936. In 1938, he started to work as an assistant to the construction branch of the high school he graduated from. In 1939, he was entitled to be an associate professor. In 1960, he was appointed as a professor at the second building chair of the Faculty of Architecture of Istanbul Technical University.

He participated in the international competition opened for Anıtkabir on March 1, 1941, together with Emin Onat. The duo's project was awarded with the first place. He worked with Emin Onat during the implementation projects and construction process of Anıtkabir. He taught architectural project lessons with Emin Onat at the university until 1945. With the transformation of the Graduate School of Engineers into Istanbul Technical University, he received the title of associate professor in the field of building knowledge. From this date until November 10, 1953 (Atatürk's funeral to Anıtkabir), while carrying out his academic and office studies, he also participated in the construction site works of Anıtkabir with the permission of his duty at the university.

In 1960, he was appointed as a building knowledge professor at the Faculty of Architecture of ITU. After a while, he was brought to the presidency of the same podium. He worked as a professor at the chair of environmental analysis and industrialized building design at ITU Faculty of Architecture. He retired from his position at the university in 1978. Professor Orhan Arda, a member of the Chamber of Architects numbered 828, died on July 4, 2003. After the ceremony held at the Faculty of Architecture of Istanbul Technical University in Taşkışla and the funeral prayer held at Şişli Mosque, his body was buried in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.

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1911 births
2003 deaths
Turkish architects
Mark Warner (physicist). Mark Warner FRS (26 January 1952—24 December 2021) was a pioneer in the field of liquid crystal elastomers, and proponent of physics education in the UK.

Life 
Born and raised in New Zealand, Mark Warner arrived in the UK after being awarded a scholarship in 1969 to study at Cambridge University, Corpus Christi College—where he would be based for the majority of his career.

After completing his PhD on the molecular motion of polymeric systems, he moved to Stanford for a postdoctoral position that introduced him to liquid crystals, the field that would define his research career. Recognition of his work in liquid crystal elastomers included the 2003 EuroPhysics Prize from the European Physical Society.

Beyond research, Mark also played an important role in physics education in schools, culminating in the Isaac Physics program, which he founded with Prof. Lisa Jardine-Wright. They were awarded IOP Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize for this initiative.

He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2002, and Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012.

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1952 births
2021 deaths
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge