omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
E-LOTOS. In computer science E-LOTOS (Enhanced LOTOS) is a formal specification language designed between 1993 and 1999, and standardized by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 2001.

E-LOTOS was initially intended to be a revision of the LOTOS language standardized by ISO 8807 in 1989, but the revision turned out to be profound, leading to a new specification language.

The starting point for the revision of LOTOS was the PhD thesis of Ed Brinksma, who had been the Rapporteur at ISO of the LOTOS standard.

In 1993, the initial goals of the definition of E-LOTOS were stated in ISO/IEC JTC1/N2802 announcement.

In 1997, when the language definition reached the maturity level of an ISO Committee Draft, an announcement was posted describing the main features of E-LOTOS.

The following document recalls the milestones of E-LOTOS definition project.

E-LOTOS has inspired descendent languages, among which LOTOS NT and LNT.

See also
 Formal methods
 List of ISO standards
 Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification
 CADP

References

External links
French-Romanian contributions to E-LOTOS

Process calculi
Formal methods
Formal specification languages
Concurrency (computer science)
Concurrency control
Synchronization
Roberta J. Nichols. Roberta J. Nichols (November 29, 1931 Venice, CA – April 3, 2005, Plymouth MI) was an engineer and the Retired Manager, Electric Vehicle External Strategy at Ford Motor Company. She was a founding member of the advisory board for the College of Engineering - Center for Environmental Research & Technology (CE-CERT) at the University of California, Riverside. She has authored or co-authored over 60 publications and she is the holder of three patents for the flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV).

Education
Nichols received her Ph.D. in Engineering from University of Southern California in 1979.

Career
She worked for the Ford Motor Company on alternative fuels for 19 years, retiring in 1995. She helped to establish the research center at the University of California, Riverside and she contributed to the overall engineering program at UCR.

Patents
Control system for engine operation using two fuels of different volumetric energy content; Patent number: 4706629 
Control system for engine operation using two fuels of different volatility; Patent number: 4706630 
Spark timing control of multiple fuel engine; Patent number: 4703732

Memberships
Nichols was a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers. She was a Fellow of the Society of Women Engineers. She was a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and she was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She was a University of California at Riverside CE-CERT Board member.

Awards
National Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineers 1988
Gene Ecklund Award, US Department of Energy 1996
Clean Air Award for Advancing Air Pollution Technology, SCAQMD 1989

References

1931 births
2005 deaths
American women engineers
Engineers from California
Ford Motor Company
USC Viterbi School of Engineering alumni
University of California, Riverside faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
ThingSpeak. ThingSpeak is an open-source software written in Ruby which allows users to communicate with internet enabled devices. It facilitates data access, retrieval and logging of data by providing an API to both the devices and social network websites.
ThingSpeak was originally launched by ioBridge in 2010 as a service in support of IoT applications.

ThingSpeak has integrated support from the numerical computing software MATLAB from MathWorks, allowing ThingSpeak users to analyze and visualize uploaded data using MATLAB without requiring the purchase of a MATLAB license from MathWorks.

ThingSpeak has been the subject of articles in specialized "Maker" websites like Instructables, 
Codeproject, and Channel 9.

See also

 Web of things
 Ubiquitous computing

References

External links
 

Internet of things
Free software programmed in Ruby
Software using the GNU General Public License
Achim Leistner. Achim Leistner is an Australian optician of German origin. During his retirement, he was asked to join the Avogadro project to craft a silicon sphere with high smoothness.

Leistner studied optics at Optik Carl Zeiss in Jena, Germany, and in 1953 qualified as a precision optical craftsman. He moved to Australia in 1957, and worked in CSIRO on optical fabrication methods.

In addition to precision instruments, Leistner uses his hands to feel for irregularities in the roundness of the sphere. The research team has called his extraordinary sense of touch "atomic feeling". As a result the sphere is the roundest man-made object ever. If it were scaled to the size of the Earth, it would have a high point of only  above "sea level".

Awards and recognition 
Leistner holds certificates in precision optics, geometrical optics, optical design drawing, and mathematics from Optic Carl Zeiss Jena Technical College. He has served as a member of the Australian Optical Society and on international conference working committees for SPIE and the Optical Society of America.

In 2000 he was awarded OSA's David Richardson Medal, "for the development of novel optical fabrication techniques and the design improvement of optical test equipment. By refining the Teflon lap polishing technique and performing research into the mechanism of optical polishing, he has improved the quality and precision of superpolished optical surfaces, pushing the accuracy of shapes and surface roughness down to nearly atomic dimensions."

In 2010 he became an Honorary Fellow with the CSIRO Division of Material Science and Engineering

Footnotes

References

External links 

 List of publications
 One kilogram silicon sphere made at CSIRO for the Avogadro Project

Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century births
20th-century Australian physicists
21st-century Australian physicists
German emigrants to Australia
Living people
Optical engineers
Opticians
Materials Horizons. Materials Horizons is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research across the breadth of materials science at the interface between chemistry, physics, biology and engineering.  The current editor-in-chief is Martina Stenzel. The journal was established in 2014. A sister journal Nanoscale Horizons was launched in 2016.

Article types
The journal publishes "communications" (articles for rapid publication), "reviews" (state-of-the-art accounts of a research field), "mini-reviews" (research highlights in an emerging area of materials science, usually from the past 2–3 years) and "focus articles" (educational articles providing an overview of a concept in materials science).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index. Selective content is also indexed in Polymer Library, Inspec, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts, METADEX, Mechanical Engineering Abstracts, Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts, Metal Abstracts and CSA Technology Research Database, and CABI.

See also
List of scientific journals in chemistry
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Journal of Materials Chemistry B
Journal of Materials Chemistry C

References

External links

Chemistry journals
Materials science journals
Academic journals established in 2014
Royal Society of Chemistry academic journals
Bimonthly journals
English-language journals
Old Federal Building (Fairbanks, Alaska). The Old Federal Building is a historic government building at Cushman Street and 3rd Avenue in Fairbanks, Alaska.  When it was built in 1933, it was the most northern instance of concrete construction in the United States.  It is a large building with three full-height floors and two smaller penthouse levels.  The building's Art Deco styling includes V-shaped grooves set in pilasters that separate columns of windows and aluminum panels.  The grooves are repeated in concrete spandrels above the top row of windows.  Interior decoration includes terrazzo flooring, copious use of marble in walls and floors, and a pressed copper ceiling in the courtroom.  The building was designed by Washington, DC architect George N. Ray, and built by William "Mac" MacDonald, who also later built the Federal Building in Nome.  It originally housed the federal court, post office, and other federal government offices, and the decision to locate it in Fairbanks was critical to the rise of the city's importance; it now houses private offices.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska

References

1933 establishments in Alaska
Art Deco architecture in Alaska
Government buildings completed in 1933
Buildings and structures in Fairbanks, Alaska
Courthouses in Alaska
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska
OpenVX. OpenVX is an open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform acceleration of computer vision applications. It is designed by the Khronos Group to facilitate portable, optimized and power-efficient processing of methods for vision algorithms. This is aimed for embedded and real-time programs within computer vision and related scenarios. It uses a connected graph representation of operations.

Overview
OpenVX specifies a higher level of abstraction for programming computer vision use cases than compute frameworks such as OpenCL. The high level makes the programming easy and the underlying execution will be efficient on different computing architectures. This is done while having a consistent and portable vision acceleration API.

OpenVX is based on a connected graph of vision nodes that can execute the preferred chain of operations. It uses an opaque memory model, allowing to move image data between the host (CPU) memory and accelerator, such as GPU memory. As a result, the OpenVX implementation can optimize the execution through various techniques, such as acceleration on various processing units or dedicated hardware. This architecture facilitates applications programmed in OpenVX on different systems with different power and performance, including battery-sensitive, vision-enabled, wearable displays.

OpenVX is complementary to the open source vision library OpenCV. OpenVX in some applications offers a better optimized graph management than OpenCV.

History
 OpenVX 1.0 specification was released in October 2014. 
 OpenVX sample implementation was released in December 2014.
 OpenVX 1.1 specification was released on May 2, 2016.
 OpenVX 1.2 was released on May 1, 2017.
 Updated OpenVX adopters program and OpenVX 1.2 conformance test suite was released on November 21, 2017.
OpenVX 1.2.1 was released on November 27, 2018.
OpenVX 1.3 was released on October 22, 2019.

Implementations, frameworks and libraries 
 AMD MIVisionX - for AMD's CPUs and GPUs.
 Cadence - for Cadence Design Systems's Tensilica Vision DSPs.
 Imagination - for Imagination Technologies's PowerVR GPUs
 Synopsys - for Synopsys' DesignWare EV Vision Processors
 Texas Instruments’ OpenVX (TIOVX) - for Texas Instruments’ Jacinto™ ADAS SoCs.
 NVIDIA VisionWorks - for CUDA-capable Nvidia GPUs and SoCs.
 OpenVINO - for Intel's CPUs, GPUs, VPUs, and FPGAs.

References

External links
 
 OpenVX Specification Registry
 OpenVX Sample Implementation
 OpenVX Sample Applications
 OpenVX Tutorial Material

Application programming interfaces
Cross-platform software
Applied machine learning
LiteWing Aircraft. LiteWing Aircraft was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Caryville, Tennessee. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight trikes in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft under the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.

The company seems to have gone out of business about 2000.

The company built two models, the LiteWing for the US homebuilt category and The Lite Trike for the ultralight category. The latter was noted for its exceptional low empty weight of  and its very minimalist design.

Aircraft

References

 
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Essex Generating Station. The Essex Generating Station is a peaking power plant  on the banks of the Passaic River, three miles east of Downtown in Newark, New Jersey.

Owned by the Public Service Electric and Gas Company, it was designed and constructed in 1915–16 and by 1924 six generators had been installed, totaling 214,444 kva.

Four simple cycle combustion turbines totaling 617 MW. Three were brought on line in 1971, and another in 1990. They were later replaced.

The electrical substation facility suffered severe damage during Hurricane Sandy. It is part of the PJM Interconnection of the Eastern Interconnection grid electric transmission system.

See also
List of power stations in New Jersey
Essex County Resource Recovery Facility
Newark Energy Center

References 

Natural gas-fired power stations in New Jersey
Power stations in Newark, New Jersey
Essex County, New Jersey
Energy infrastructure completed in 1924
Passaic River
Public Service Enterprise Group
Model Engineers' Workshop. Model Engineers' Workshop is a UK hobby magazine published by Mortons Media Group that was spun off Model Engineer in 1990. The magazine focuses on metal working workshop tools and techniques, although in recent years it has given more space to modern technologies such as CAD/CAM and 3D printing.

References

External links
 Official website

1990 establishments in the United Kingdom
Hobby magazines published in the United Kingdom
Engineering magazines
Magazines established in 1990
Metalworking
Science and technology magazines published in the United Kingdom
Bleached Chemi-ThermoMechanical Pulp. Bleached Chemi-ThermoMechanical Pulp (BCTMP) is a pulp product used by the paper industry as a less-expensive alternative for Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft (NBSK).

BCTMP was first produced by Millar Western in 1988 in its Whitecourt Mill, and was initially used in lower grade paper applications.  The product is attractive to producers because it needed less capital to construct the production facilities. It also provides higher yields than other processes, which lowers the total cost of production. In addition, BCTMP provides higher bulk, opacity, and stiffness in the final product, and the process is more environmentally friendly.

See also 
 Northern bleached softwood kraft
 Southern bleached softwood kraft

References 

Pulp and paper industry
EMD SD30C-ECO. The EMD SD30C-ECO is a  C-C diesel-electric locomotive built by EMD. Although similar to the EMD SD32ECO, the SD30C-ECO follows the Canadian Pacific Railway's request for crashworthiness and EPA emission standards with the "C" in the designation denoting crashworthiness of the cab, frame, and fuel tank. CP Rail requested relaxed emission standards (Tier 0+ instead of Tier 2) to cut costs.

Cores for the locomotives come from CP's fleet of EMD SD40-2s. The frames, trucks, and internal components are reused while a new (standard) cab, designed and constructed by EMD, and a fuel tank is built new for each unit. With the increased emissions requirements, the locomotives feature flared radiators similar to those on the EMD SD45 to house additional cooling equipment. The locomotives have a snoot nose to house additional electronics, and all lighting with the exception of the headlights and ditch lights are LED.

Owners
A total of 50 SD30C-ECOs have been built for Canadian Pacific in 2 orders. The first order was for 20 locomotives numbered 5000-5019 and the second order was for an additional 30 locomotives numbered 5020-5049.

A similar rebuild, classed as SD40E3 was carried out by CSX in early 2017. 13 units were produced, numbered 1700-1712.

References 

C-C locomotives
SD30C-ECO
Rebuilt locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives introduced in 2013
Diesel–electric locomotives of the United States
Diesel–electric locomotives of Canada
Standard gauge locomotives of Canada
Rhonda Software. Rhonda Software is a privately held camera software and hardware design company that produces embedded solutions in the areas of digital image processing, multimedia and connectivity. Rhonda software is used in surveillance applications, action cameras, virtual reality cameras, wearable video recorders, drone cameras, automotive and robotic vision systems and other camera applications.

As of 2022, the company has over 100 engineers, headquartered in the United States (Chicago) with main development office in Kazakhstan (Almaty).

History 
The company was founded in 1995 as a provider of software outsourcing services. In 2004, Rhonda was certified as a SEI CMM level 4. Since 2007 the company has been doing R&D in the area of computer vision.  In 2011, Rhonda introduced its first computer vision solutions myAudience-Count and myAudience-Measure - audience count and classification tools.

Since 2014, Rhonda Software is a camera design partner of Ambarella, Inc. The company demonstrated its H22 SoM with a camera demo design at the CES 2020 Expo and participated in the Embedded World 2020 Expo in the same year. A cooperation with VisionLabs engineers allowed to use their face recognition algorithm in order to execute DNN inference and train the network onboard. In 2021, Rhonda Software established a partnership with Brodmann17 and launched an ADAS camera platform based on Ambarella CV25 edge AI vision System on a Chip.

References 

Software companies based in Illinois
George L. Turin. George Lewis Turin (born 27 January 1930) was an American computer scientist.

From 1983 to 1986, Turin was the Dean of UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Turin retired from UC Berkeley in 1990, and died in March 2014.

Turin was an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the British Science and Engineering Research Council, and was a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His Ph.D. supervisor was Wilbur Davenport.

References

External links
George L. Turin Professor Emeritus at Berkeley
George L. Turin Ph.D Dissertation at MIT 1956

1930 births
2014 deaths
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Falconer V-12. The Falconer V-12 is an American V-12 performance racing engine engineered and built by American Ryan Falconer Racing Engines. The engine was first brought to market in 1990, and has roots in small block Chevrolet engines, and is available in multiple configurations for a variety of applications primarily designed for high performance purposes for automotive, custom, racing, marine and aviation use.

The engine is built to order and has a range of available configurations in both engine volume and accessories.

Applications
 Papa 51 Thunder Mustang

Specifications (Falconer V-12)

References

Thunder Mustang Specs

External links
Falconer Engines

V12 aircraft engines
Marine engines
1990s aircraft piston engines
Leading Edge Air Foils. Leading Edge Air Foils LLC (formerly Leading Edge Air Foils, Inc.), usually called LEAF,  is an American aircraft parts supplier based in Lyons, Wisconsin. It is a US limited liability company.

The company was founded by Bill Raisner in Peyton, Colorado, in the 1980s and claims to be the oldest ultralight aircraft parts supplier. The company specializes in the provision of aircraft parts and aircraft engines and in the past supplied kit aircraft for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft under the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.

The company is owned by Bill Read and Mary Myers and is part of the Wag-Aero group of companies. At one time a subsidiary, Raisner Aircraft Depot (RAD), sold the aircraft kits.

LEAF at one time offered kits and parts for other designer's aircraft, such as Dennis Wiley's Early Bird Jenny, Graham Lee's Circa Reproductions Nieuport, the J & J Ultralights Tukan and Antares MA-32 ultralight trikes, as well as two of Raisner's own designs, the Raisner Graffiti two seat trike and the LEAF Trike single seat trike. The company has long been a Rotax aircraft engine dealer and overhaul facility.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Leia (company). Leia Inc. is an American company producing 3D Lightfield products and software applications.

Leia is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with a nano-fabrication center in Palo Alto, a content team in Los Angeles and Auckland, New Zealand, and industrialization center in Suzhou, China.

History 
The company was founded in 2014 as a spin-off of HP Labs. Its research into the holographic display concept under HP was published by Nature in 2013. CEO David Fattal explained that its diffraction system would address shortcomings with other mobile 3D display systems, such as being able to be seen by multiple viewers at once, using the display in its original 2D mode with no loss of resolution and not requiring CPU-intensive eye tracking. The company foresaw uses of its technology in mobile devices, automobiles, and medical applications.

In May 2016, Leia announced a partnership with Altice to market a smartphone featuring its technology.

In 2017, Red Digital Cinema announced its intent to produce a high-end smartphone featuring the technology (the Red Hydrogen One). As part of its development, Red entered into a strategic partnership with Leia, including funding, and Red's founder Jim Jannard joining Leia's board of directors.

In 2018, Leia launched its lightfield content platform LeiaLoft™ including an Android App Store and a developer portal.

The RED Hydrogen phone featuring Leia's switchable lightfield display product was launched on November 2, 2018 in the United States via AT&T and Verizon and in Mexico via Telcel.

In July 2019, Leia and Continental announced a long-term partnership to bring lightfield displays and content to the automotive world.

In 2020, Leia launched the Lume Pad, a B2B Android tablet featuring its recent switchable 10.8-in Lightfield display, designed to service the Education, Medical, Retail, and Hospitality industries.

Lume Pad won 2 CES 2021 Awards (Computer Hardware & Components and Digital Imaging & Photography).

In 2021, Leia launched the consumer edition of the Lume Pad. The Lume Pad is also part of the launchpad program on amazon.

References

External links 
 

Companies based in California
American companies established in 2014
3D imaging
Holography
Display technology
2014 establishments in California
ATE Vulture. The ATE Vulture is a South African unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed and built by Advanced Technologies and Engineering (now Paramount Advanced Technologies, a division of the Paramount Group). It is powered by a 500 cc 2-stroke fuel injected engine.  Its payload is a gyro stabilised optronic sight communicating on a secure C-Band data/video link. Its cruise speed is 120 km/h and its flight duration allows a loiter time of about 4 hours at 60 km from the launch site with a maximum ceiling of 5,000 m. It is fully automated in launch, flight and recovery, with an automatic return-to-base in case of mission critical failures. An automated vacuum type catapult launcher is mounted on a Samil 100 truck. No external pilot is required, and the transition from launch mode into pre-programmed flight mode is automatic. It is used by the South African Army artillery for target acquisition and fire control.

Notes

External links

 Manufacturers website 

Unmanned military aircraft of South Africa
Thierry Morand. Thierry Morand (born May 24, 1960), is a French entrepreneur and expert in the containment engineering field. He is known for having designed and created unique laboratories and controlled atmosphere areas for more than 30 years, in France and abroad, including four biosafety level 4 laboratories (BSL4). Morand has also improved the equipment and construction standards. His company, Clima plus, designs and manages laboratories projects.

References

External links 
 Gopura Asia web page

1960 births
Living people
French businesspeople
French engineers