omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Walter Lynn. Walter Royal Lynn (born Valdimir  Royal Lynn; 1 October 1928 – 6 June 2011) was a distinguished professor at Cornell University for most of his academic career. As a civil engineer he was interested in water-quality issues, he was at the forefront of environmental studies. According to one obituary, he coined the term "sustainability."

Born in New York City and raised in Florida, Lynn earned a B.S. in civil engineering at University of Miami (1950), M.S. in sanitary engineering at University of North Carolina (1954), and a PhD at Northwestern University (1963). He joined the Cornell faculty in 1961.

At Cornell, Lynn was the founder and director of Cornell's Center for Environmental Quality Management (1966–1976). He was also Director of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (1970–1978), director of the Center for the Environment (1996–1997), and director of the Science, Technology & Society program (1980–1988). He was an elected faculty member of the Cornell Board of Trustees (1980–1985) and Dean of the Faculty (1988–1993). After retiring, he served as Ombudsman of the university (approx. 1999-2011).

Lynn was also active on many government committees, at local, state, and national levels. He was Mayor of the village of Cayuga Heights from 2002 to 2008.

Obituaries for Lynn appeared in the Ithaca Journal, Cornell Daily Sun, and Cornell Chronicle.

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1928 births
2011 deaths
American civil engineers
University of Miami College of Engineering alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Northwestern University alumni
Cornell University faculty
Sanjeev Kulkarni. Sanjeev Ramesh Kulkarni (born September 21, 1963 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian-born American academic. He is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean of the Faculty at Princeton University, where he teaches and conducts research in a broad range of areas including statistical inference, pattern recognition, machine learning, information theory, and signal/image processing.  He is also affiliated with the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and the Department of Philosophy.  His work in philosophy is joint with Gilbert Harman.  Kulkarni served as Associate Dean for Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2003–2005, Master of Butler College from 2004-2012, Director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education from 2011-2014, and Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University from 2014-2017.

Education 
Kulkarni received degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering from Clarkson University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991.

References

External links 
 Sanjeev Kulkarni at Princeton Electrical Engineering page
 Sanjeev Kulkarni’s homepage
 Sanjeev Kulkarni at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Living people
Indian emigrants to the United States
Princeton University faculty
Clarkson University alumni
Stanford University alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
1963 births
Charles Greaves. Charles Greaves M Inst CE FGS FRSA (1816–1883), eldest son of Charles Greaves (d. 1829), was born in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire on 19 October 1816. He was articled to J. M. Rendel, a civil engineer in Plymouth from 1831 to 1837. He was in India from 1842 to 1847 when he made a survey for the Great Western railway of Bengal. He was engineer of East London waterworks from 1851 to 1875. In October 1872, he was presented with £1000 for his services in carrying out improved filter beds, pumping engines, et cetera, at a cost of one million. He was engineer at Westminster chambers, Victoria St., London from 1875 to 1878. He became a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1851, and was president of that society in 1879. He had a meteorological observatory in Surrey St. London from 1878 to 1883. He died at Sunhill, Clevedon on 4 November 1883.

References
Frederic Boase. "Greaves, Charles". Modern English Biography: A - H. Netherton and Worth. 1892. Page 1872.
The Building News and Engineering Journal. 1883. Volume 45. Page 746. Google Books.
The British Architect: A Journal of Architecture and the Accessory Arts. 1883. Volume 20. Page 217. Google Books.
"Obituary Notices". Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 1884. Volume 76. Page 355. Google Books.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 1888. Volumes 9-10. Page 101. Google Books.
Garth Watson. The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers. Thomas Telford. 1989. Pages 70, 79 and 166.

1816 births
1883 deaths
English civil engineers
English meteorologists
People from Great Amwell
Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts
Technical audit. Technical audit (TA) is an audit performed by an auditor, engineer or subject-matter expert evaluates deficiencies or areas of improvement in a process, system or proposal. Technical audit covers the technical aspects of the project implemented in the organization. For this, an auditor should have a deep knowledge of development, design and security standards, user needs and ethical considerations, with latest algorithms updates.

Objectives of technical auditing
 The technical operations are being performed as per requirement.
 Sound framework of control is in place to sufficiently mitigate the potential risk, with potential ethics and harm reduction as factors.
 The procured technical equipment is technically suitable for the purpose.
 Authority and responsibility for operating activities are assigned properly.
 Information system is adequate to provide assurance of operating activities being performed properly.
 If applicable, the system is updated to incorporate user values (e.g., in the case of ethical artificial intelligence algorithm auditing).

Concentration of technical auditing
 Planning and design
 Procurement or purchase
 Implementation
 Impact of project

Areas to be covered by technical audit

Benefits of technical auditing
 Improvement in internal control systems to mitigate the potential risk.
 Improvement in the quality of service.
 Assurance of Revenue.
 Transparent and cost effective procurement of goods and services.
 Completion of project on time.
 Reduction of project cost and annual operating cost.
 Helps re-scheduling of project activities.
 Performance improvement of a system.
 Harm reduction and centering of system users' values.

Incorporation of users in technical auditing 
While there are methods that developers and researchers can leverage to gain information for effectively auditing systems, such as the scraping approach (i.e., issuing repeated queries and observing system behavior) or code audits (i.e. using tests to understand what vulnerabilities may exist in the source code), it is sometimes the case that users' insight is critical to understand problems with a system (e.g., concerning the ethics of artificial intelligence). As such, there are methods of soliciting (nontechnical) user perceptions and feedback to support a technical algorithm audit. For example, in noninvasive user auditing, researchers and developers may survey users in conjunction with user activity (e.g., through activity logs) to understand interactions with the system and unmet needs that could benefit from auditing. Crowdsourced or collaborative auditing is another approach, in which users are considered as testers, sometimes specifically hired to do so, to provide feedback about system design and behavior. With a trend toward user-centered, ethical systems (e.g., to avoid issues in which harm or bias may go unchecked due to lack of expertise or knowledge that only a diverse range of users can surface), incorporation of users' feedback in the auditing process is becoming increasingly common.

See also
Auditing

References

Types of auditing
Express Series 90. The Express Series 90 is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by the Express Aircraft Company of Olympia, Washington, introduced in the late 1980s. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The Express Series 90 is a development of the earlier Wheeler Express designed by Ken Wheeler. It incorporates a 20% larger tail which gives it a wider center of gravity range, while also enhancing pitch and yaw stability.

The aircraft features a cantilever low-wing, a four-seat enclosed cabin, fixed tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The Series 90 is made from composites. Its  span wing mounts flaps and has a wing area of . The cabin width is . The standard engine used is the  Lycoming IO-540 four stroke, air-cooled, six cylinder powerplant.

The aircraft has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for pilot, passengers and baggage is .

The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 2000 hours.

Operational history
In December 2013 three examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.

Specifications (Series 90)

References

External links
Photo of an Express Series 90

Series 90
1980s United States civil utility aircraft
1980s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
American Biotech. American Biotech Labs, LLC. is a privately held silver nanotechnology company based in Alpine, Utah established in 1998.

Technology 
Products developed by American Biotech Labs primarily involve an aqueous sol of silver(I,III) oxide particles, termed "SilverSol" or silver hydrosol.

SilverSol is used in the medical dressing ASAP Wound Dressing Gel, held by American Biotech Labs' sister company, ABL Medical.

Applications 
SilverSol technology, the main focus of American Biotech Labs, is used in dentistry for developing connective tissue reattachment procedures using erbium lasers, restorative protocols, endodontic protocols, bone grafting protocols, dental implants, and non-surgical periodontal protocols. It has been approved by the EPA for both initial cleaning and maintenance of dental waterlines.

Additionally, the approved product has been found to be effective against biofilms.

References 

Companies based in Utah County, Utah
Biotechnology companies of the United States
Biotechnology companies established in 1998
1998 establishments in Utah
Explorer Ellipse. The Explorer Ellipse is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Dean Wilson and produced by Explorer Aviation of Grangeville, Idaho. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The Ellipse features a strut-braced high-wing that has an elliptical planform, a four-seat enclosed cabin with doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded 4130 steel tubing with a wooden wing. The aircraft is covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing, mounts flaps and has a wing area of . The wings can be folded in five minutes by one person to facilitate ground transportation or storage. The cabin width is . The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is the  Lycoming O-320 powerplant. With this powerplant the aircraft has a cruise speed of .

The Ellipse has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for crew/pilot, passengers and baggage is .

The kit originally came with the complex wings already built and as a result the designer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 1000 hours. Float and ski fittings were included in the kit as standard equipment.

Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that three kits had been sold and one aircraft was flying.

In December 2013 two examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although at one time four had been registered.

Specifications (Ellipse)

References

Ellipse
1990s United States sport aircraft
1990s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Phil Remington. Phil Remington (January 22, 1921 – February 9, 2013) was an American motorsports engineer.

Early life
Remington was born in Santa Monica, California and was a pre-engineering student at Santa Monica Junior College. He initially was a component inspector at Northrop Aircraft.  He joined the United States Army Air Forces during World War II by lying about his age because he was too young and by memorizing the vision charts because he was color blind.  He served as a flight engineer on B-24 Liberators.

Motorsports
After serving in the Army, he began working with friends who raced by building race cars, developing hydroplane parts and engine swap kits.  In the late 1950s he became chief engineer to Lance Reventlow, building the Scarab sports racing car on Princeton Drive in what is now Marina del Rey, California.

When Reventlow was closing his shop, Carroll Shelby hired Remington as his chief engineer in Shelby's new shop on the same street.  Shelby said his competition success was due to Remington.  When Shelby American was split up, Remington remained with the Shelby Racing Components company in Torrance.

Remington moved to North Carolina in 1968 to run the Talladega Grand National stock car program at Holman and Moody.  The team won the Daytona 500 that year.

He moved back to California and worked at Dan Gurney's All American Racers (AAR). There Remington worked on Can-Am, Formula 1, Formula 5000, Indy 500, Trans-Am, GTP and IMSA cars.  He also worked on Alligator Motorcycles and did contract work for aerospace while there.  In 2012 he built the oil and water coolers  and engineered the suspension on the DeltaWing race car. Health concerns caused him to discontinue working full-time at AAR in 2012.

Awards

He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2019.

In popular culture
Remington is portrayed by Ray McKinnon in Ford v Ferrari, a 2019 film about the rivalry between Ford and Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans auto race.

References

External links
Obituary at All American Racers' website
Obituary in Car and Driver

1921 births
2013 deaths
People from Santa Monica, California
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
United States Army Air Forces soldiers
Lock Laces. Lock Laces are elastic, no-tie shoelaces manufactured and distributed by Positive Distribution LLC. The Lock Laces system consists of two elastic shoelaces that are fastened at the tongue of the shoe by two double-eyelet adjustable locking mechanisms and secured into place by two cord clips. Frank Sutton is the president and CEO of Positive Distribution LLC—which is the owner of the Lock Laces trademark, patent, and associated intellectual property.

History
Eric Jackson originally invented Lock Laces for personal use after becoming continuously frustrated with his shoelaces untying and getting damaged.  His original design utilized elastic shoestrings and barrel cord locks. After he was laid off from his job as a light bulb salesman, a friend of his suggested that he sell his invention. Jackson then founded Street Smart LLC in order to market Lock Laces as an official product.

In 1999, Jackson began marketing Lock Laces while assembling the product in his mother's basement. Jackson later began contracting out the packaging and assembly of Lock Laces to Opportunity Builders, Inc., a Millersville, Maryland-based nonprofit that offers employment opportunities for adults with developmental and physical disabilities.

In 2011, Lock Laces became a national sponsor of the Special Olympics’ Healthy Athletes Fit Feet program.

Positive Distribution LLC
In 2016, Positive Distribution LLC purchased the Lock Laces patent, trademark, and associated intellectual property from Street Smart LLC. Today, Positive Distribution LLC manufactures and distributes Lock Laces in over 30 countries worldwide.

References

External links
 Lock Laces

Footwear accessories
Cyrus Shahabi. Cyrus Shahabi is an Iranian-American computer scientist and a 2003 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Biography
Shahabi received his bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the Sharif University of Technology in 1989, followed by a master's degree and PhD in computer science from the University of Southern California (USC) in May 1993 and August 1996 respectively. He currently serves as director of the Integrated Media Systems Center and the Information Laboratory at USC.

Shahabi received an Okawa Foundation Research Grant for Information and Telecommunications in 2001, a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2002, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2003, and the Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Scientist award in 2009. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is the author or co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed articles.

Research
Shahabi’s research is in the area of information management. He is mainly known for his contributions to the field of geospatial information management. Under this area, he has made contributions in several subareas, notably: spatial indexing, geospatial information integration, participatory sensing, geo-social environments, location privacy and ride-sharing. Moreover, he pioneered fundamental concepts such as road-network queries, spatial skyline queries and spatial crowdsourcing.  He chaired the founding nomination committee of ACM SIGSPATIAL for its first term (2008-2011 term). He is the chair of the ACM SIGSPATIAL (2017-2020 term).

In addition, Shahabi is responsible (along with Xiaoming Tian and Wugang Zhao) for introducing a new type of tree structure named TSA-tree, based on wavelets. His other work includes the Clustered AGgregation (CAG) algorithm, and the Spatial Skyline Query.

References

Living people
20th-century births
American computer scientists
Sharif University of Technology alumni
University of Southern California alumni
University of Southern California faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Voisin Type de Course. The Voisin Type de Course was an early French aircraft built by Voisin Frères. It was first flown early in 1910.

Design and development
The 1910 Type de Course was designed by Gabriel Voisin as a racing aircraft to take part in the many competitions being held at the time.  A development of his highly successful 1907 biplane, it was a two-seater two-bay pusher configuration biplane with an  elevator (aircraft) mounted on the upcurved front of the nacelle and rear-mounted empennage carried on two pairs of booms carrying the tail surfaces.  The first aircraft flown, built for Henri Rougier, had a single rudder above the stabiliser and a fixed fin below: some later examples differed slightly.  The structure made extensive use of metal: the nacelle was constructed of circular and elliptical section nickel-steel tubing, the interplane struts were steel and the wings had steel spars and wooden ribs. Importantly, it differed from the earlier Voisin aircraft in having provision for lateral control in the form of ailerons, which allowed Voisin to dispense with the "side-curtains" between the wings characteristic of his earlier aircraft.  Rougier's aircraft had  biplane mid-gap ailerons mounted on the front outer pair of interplane struts. The undercarriage consisted of a pair of mainwheels under the wings, a large nosewheel carried between a pair of inverted V-struts under the front of the nacelle and a small tailwheel mounted on the bottom of the fin. It was powered by a 50 hp E.N.V. water-cooled V8.

The first example was flown by Rougier on the 13 April 1910.  A second aircraft built for René Métrot differed in having monoplane ailerons, two rudders and an uncovered nacelle.
Others were built for various customers, differing in the engine fitted: these included the  Gnome and the 4-cylinder Gobron. Six were flown at the second Reims Grande Semaine d'Aviation, but without any success in any of the competitions.

Specifications

Notes

References

Opdycke, Leonard E. French Aeroplanes Before the Great War  Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1999 

Type de Course
1910s French sport aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1910
Nicolas Grandjean. Nicolas Grandjean (born February 14, 1967) is a French and Swiss professor of physics. His achievements include over 600 articles.

Biography
Grandjean was born in Dijon, France, and is a French and Swiss citizen. He studied at the University of Clermont-Ferrand and the Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis. In 1991, he joined the Solid-State Physics and Solar Energy Laboratory, a division of the French National Center for Scientific Research where he studied semiconductor nanostructures. By 1994 he obtained his Ph.D. and became a CNRS winner. Later on, as a senior research fellow, he worked at the Research Center for Heteroepitaxy and its Applications, a division of CNRS in Sophia Antipolis. In 2004, he became a tenure-track professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne becoming a director of the Laboratory of Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics where he still serves. He was promoted Full Professor in 2010. From 2012 to 2016, he was the director of the Institute of Condensed Matter. Since 2019, he is a board member of Riber, a world's leading supplier of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) products.

Research
In 1999, he along with his colleagues, have discovered that combining gallium nitride (GaN) and quantum dots (QDs) into aluminum nitride (AIN) matrix, produces a glowing white light. In 2006, his group and colleagues at the University of Southampton reported polariton lasing at room-temperature.

References

1967 births
Living people
French physicists
Swiss physicists
Scientists from Dijon
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne