omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Boudjemaa Talai. Boudjemaa Talai (; 17 May 1952 – 6 August 2022) was an Algerian engineer, corporate executive, and politician who served as the Algerian  from 2015 to 2017. A member of the National Liberation Front, Talai also served as a member of the People's National Assembly from 2017 to 2019.

Biography

Early life and career 
Talai was born on 17 May 1952 in the town of Cheffia in French Algeria. He attended the University of Annaba, graduating in 1978 with a degree in civil engineering with a specialization in construction materials. From 1978 until 1980, Talai worked as a computer engineer for the Algerian National Iron and Steel Company at the El Hadjar Complex steel plant. From 1980 until 1984, Talai attended University of Karlsruhe in West Germany on a scholarship, graduating with a postgraduate certificate in construction infrastructure.

Following his graduation from the University of Karlsruhe, Talai worked as an engineer at various Algerian construction firms. From 2000 until 2003, Talai was the CEO of Batimetal, an Algerian engineering firm. He was also on the board of directors of several other companies.

Political career 
On 16 May 2015, Talai was appointed by Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the president of Algeria, to be the Minister of Transport and Public Works, replacing Amar Ghoul, who was appointed to another ministry. Talai held this role until 6 April 2017. During his tenure as minister, Talai oversaw the modernization of Algeria's mining railway infrastructure. Following the 2017 Algerian legislative election, Talai was elected to represent the Annaba constituency as a member of the National Liberation Front. He resigned from parliament sometime before June 2019.

On 23 September 2019, Talai and several other former ministers from the Bouteflika government were arrested following a corruption scandal which involved businessman Ali Haddad. This scandal was part of the cause for the 2019 Algerian protests. On 7 July 2020, Talai was convicted of abuse of office; he was sentenced to three years in the Koléa prison and fined 500,000 dinars.

Talai was released early from prison on 1 June 2022. Talai died on 6 August 2022 at the age of 70 in the Mustapha Pacha hospital in Algiers from a kidney disease.

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1952 births
2022 deaths
People from El Taref Province
People from Annaba
University of Annaba alumni
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
Algerian engineers
21st-century Algerian politicians
Transport ministers of Algeria
Public works ministers of Algeria
National Liberation Front (Algeria) politicians
Members of the People's National Assembly
Algerian chief executives
Tuas South Incineration Plant. Tuas South Incineration Plant is the largest waste incineration facility in Singapore. It was commissioned in June 2000. The plant can incinerate 3000 tonns of garbage everyday. The incineration reduces the waste volume by 90%. The plant occupies 10.5 ha of reclaimed land. It was constructed at a cost of S$890 million. The plant also generate 80 MW of electricity.

See also
Water supply and sanitation in Singapore

References

2000 establishments in Singapore
Power stations in Singapore
Hafnium carbonitride. Hafnium carbonitride (HfCN) is an ultra-high temperature ceramic (UHTC) mixed anion compound composed of hafnium (Hf), carbon (C) and nitrogen (N).

Ab initio molecular dynamics calculations have predicted the HfCN (specifically the HfC0.75N0.22 phase) to have a melting point of 4,110 ± 62 °C (), highest known for any material. Another approach based on the artificial neural network machine learning pointed towards a similar composition — HfC0.76N0.24. Experimental testing conducted in 2020 has confirmed a melting point above , substantiating earlier predictions made with atomistic simulations in 2015.

Properties 
The HfCxN1−x has been assessed to possess the following properties:
 Thermal conductivity:
 19–24 W·m−1·K−1 at room temperature,
 32–39 W·m−1·K−1 at high temperature and with increased nitrogen content.
 Electrical conductivity: (149×104)–(213×104) Ω−1 m−1
 Plasticity limit: 
 Fusion enthalpy: 
 Flexural strength:
 638 ± 28 MPa at room temperature,
 324 MPa at ,
 139 MPa at ,
 100 MPa at .
 Fracture toughness: 6.73 ± 0.07 MPa·m1/2, 4.7 ± 0.3 MPa·m1/2
 Vickers hardness: , 21.3 ± 0.55 GPa ()

References

Hafnium compounds
Carbides
Nitrides
Mixed anion compounds
Refractory materials
IEEE Transactions on Games. IEEE Transactions on Games is a quarterly journal of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society that publishes peer-reviewed articles covering scientific, technical, and engineering aspects of games. The editor-in-chief is Georgios N. Yannakakis.

History 
The journal started as IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games in 2009 and was renamed to IEEE Transactions on Games in 2017.

Conferences
The Annual IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) is held in various locations around the world. In 2022 CoG is hosted in Beijing, China through a virtual conference 21-24 August.

References

External links 

Computer science journals
Games, IEEE Transactions on
Iwona Jasiuk. Iwona M. Jasiuk is a Polish-American materials scientist and bioengineer, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the former president of the Society of Engineering Science. Her research includes work on the mechanical properties of bone, of nanocomposites, and of 3D-printed cellular structures.

Education and career
Jasiuk is an immigrant to the United States from Poland, and counts Polish-French immigrant and scientist Marie Curie as one of her heroes. She studied structural engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago, graduating in 1980, and went on to earn a master's degree there in 1982. She completed a Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics at Northwestern University in 1986.

She worked as a faculty member in the Michigan State University Metallurgy, Mechanics and Materials Science Department from 1986 to 1996, in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech from 1996 to 2004, and in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Concordia University in Canada from 2004 to 2006. In 2006, she took her present position at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, jointly in the Department of Bioengineering and Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering. She added affiliations with the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2014, with the Carle Illinois College of Medicine in 2017, and with the Department of Aerospace Engineering in 2018.

She was president of the Society of Engineering Science for 2006.

Recognition
Jasiuk was named an ASME Fellow in 2003, and a Fellow of the Society of Engineering Science in 2012.

She is the 2016 winner of the American Advanced Materials Award of the International Association of Advanced Materials.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Polish emigrants to the United States
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
American materials scientists
American bioengineers
Women bioengineers
University of Illinois Chicago alumni
Northwestern University alumni
Michigan State University faculty
Georgia Tech faculty
Academic staff of Concordia University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Sweers. Sweers may refer to:

People
 Isaac Sweers (1622–1673), Dutch vice-admiral
 Salomon Sweers (1611–1674), Dutch bookkeeper and counsel for the Dutch East India Company

Other
 Sweers Island, an island in Queensland, Australia
 HNLMS Isaac Sweers (1940), a Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer
 HNLMS Isaac Sweers (1967), a Van Speijk-class frigate
Richard E. Dougherty. Richard Erwin Dougherty (February 3, 1880 – September 9, 1961) was an American civil engineer. He was vice president of New York Central System and played a role in White House Reconstruction. He was president of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1948.

Biography 
Dougherty was born on February 3, 1880, in New York City. He graduated from Columbia University in 1901 with a degree in civil engineering.

Dougherty briefly taught engineering at Columbia before joining the New York Central System in 1902. He served in a number of subordinate positions before becoming assistant engineer in 1904, and resident engineer the following year. He later rose through the ranks as district engineer, design engineer, assistant to the vice president and president, while also advising the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on port development. He became vice president of the railroad company in 1930. He worked on railroad as well as hydraulic projects. Among them were the rehabilitation of Manhattan's West Side to allow for the construction of war plants and later, the construction of West Side Highway.

Dougherty was director from 1928 to 1930, and became president of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1948, the same year he retired from New York Central System. He remained a consultant to the company and oversaw the construction of the Grand Central Terminus real estate in 1951 and worked as a private consultant, advising companies such as the Long Island Rail Road.

Dougherty also served as a member of Harry S. Truman's Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion.

Dougherty died in White Plains, New York, on September 9, 1961, at age 81.

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1880 births
1961 deaths

American civil engineers
Hydraulic engineers
Columbia School of Mines alumni
Engineers from New York City
American railway civil engineers
American railroad executives
Maurice L. Sindeband. Maurice Leonard Sindeband (1885 – December 5, 1971) was an American engineer, inventor, and executive. He was a former president of the Ogden Corporation.

Biography 
Sindeband was born in 1885 in the Russian Empire and moved to the United States in 1890. He graduated from Columbia University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1907.

Sindeband began his career that year with the New York Central Railroad, before moving to the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, which he left in 1915 to join the American Gas and Electric Company, advancing to the post of electrical engineer in 1918. He worked on high-tension power transmission, career-current communication, and substation operation. An inventor, he was also credited for inventing an automatic train control system, an automatic reactor for electric power circuits, an electronic voltage regulator for generators, as well as carrier-current communication and short-circuit current-control systems.

Sindeband later worked for Brown, Boveri & Cie and became president, vice chairman, and director of Ogden Corporation. He was also a director of Avondale Shipyard and Syntex Corporation. He was also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Sideband died on December 5, 1971, at age 84, in New York City.

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1885 births
1971 deaths
Columbia School of Mines alumni
American electrical engineers
American inventors
Fellows of the IEEE
American people of Russian descent
Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion. V. V. Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, ICKC SB RAS () is a research institute in Novosibirsk, Russia. It was founded in 1957.

History
The institute was founded in 1957. Its team was formed of scientists led by A. A. Kovalsky and V. V. Voevodsky. In 2002, the number of employees was 284.

Activities
The study of combustion mechanisms in gas and condensed phases, the processes of formation and distribution of aerosols etc. The institute has developed methods for high-resolution radiospectroscopy and methods for the filtration combustion of gases. It created aerosol technologies for the protection of crops and forests.

Awards
The works of the institute staff were awarded the USSR Council of Ministers Prize (1985), the Lenin Prize (1986), two USSR State Prizes (1968, 1988) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1994).

References

External links
 Институт химической кинетики и горения им. В. В. Воеводского СО РАН. СО РАН.

Research institutes in Novosibirsk
Chemical research institutes
1957 establishments in the Soviet Union
Research institutes established in 1957
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
European Chips Act. The European Chips Act (ECA), also known as simply the Chips Act, is a legislative package to encourage semiconductor production in the European Union.

First announced in February 2022, the Commission has intended through the ECA to reclaim market share from the dominant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and reduce European exposure to supply chain risks. The ECA is part of a "Chips for Europe" investment plan which will span at least until 2030, and aims to establish Europe as "a leader in this market", according to president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. The proposal has three "pillars":
research, development and innovation
a new state aid exemption covering semiconductor manufacturing, and
measures to monitor the supply chain and intervene if necessary.

As of 2022, Europe accounts for less than 10 percent of the production of semiconductors worldwide, and the Commission hopes to increase the figure to 20 percent with a 43 billion euro investment.

A political agreement was found in the Spring of 2023 and the Chips Act (Regulation (EU) 2023/1781 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 September 2023 establishing a framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s semiconductor ecosystem and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/694) was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 18 September 2023.

Criticism
The initiative's association with trade protectionism has been criticised by some writers.

Some have stated its €42 billion volume is comparatively small next to US efforts in their CHIPS and Science Act of $76 billion and efforts through the Inflation Reduction Act. It also does not solve the supply chain problems with raw materials for chip production.

Example projects
In October 2022, the EU supported the French-Italian company STMicroelectronics for the construction of a Silicon Carbide wafer plant in Catania with €293 million through the Recovery and Resilience Facility to be completed in 2026, and in line with the European Chips Act.

, Infineon, Germany's largest chip manufacturer, was planning to add two plants in Dresden for €5 billion and hoping for a subsidy of €1 billion.

See also 
Digital Europe Programme
 CHIPS and Science Act
 Artificial Intelligence Cold War
 Semiconductors in the EU

References

External links 
 European Commission Chips Act proposal announcement
  on EUR-Lex
 Procedure 2022/0032/COD on EUR-Lex
 Procedure 2022/0032/COD on ŒIL

2022 in law
2022 in the European Union
European Union regulations
Policies of the European Union
Open digital policy proposals
Von der Leyen Commission
Electronics industry in South Korea. South Korea is the world's third-largest producer of electronics after China and the United States, accounting for 6.8 percent of global production. South Korea's electronics industry ranked third by production last year, and fifth by consumption. As of 2017, South Korea's electronics industry recorded a production volume of $121.7 billion.

History
For several years after Goldstar produced South Korea's first radio in 1959, the country's electronics industry was mainly focused on internally oriented import substitution, and there were no government agencies or policies to promote the electronics industry. However, the Park Chung-hee government drafted a comprehensive plan to foster the electronics industry as an export-oriented strategic industry in December 1966 after designating 'radio and electrical equipment' as one of 13 export-specialized industries in July 1965.

1966–1979
In the formative years of the electronics industry, the government strategically protected the domestic market and provided incentives for private companies to develop, produce, and export electronics for fostering. Technology has improved, ranging from assembling relatively basic products such as radios to producing more sophisticated products such as color TVs to preparing for the development of core components such as semiconductors.

1980–1992
After its formation, South Korea's electronics industry entered a period of rapid growth, during which the government shifted its focus from consumer electronics to information and communication technology, and South Korean companies greatly expanded their R&D to diversify their products and develop core components and materials. During the same period, private companies also greatly expanded their R&D. As a result, Korea developed a digital transformation system in 1982 and 64K DRAM (world's third largest after the United States and Japan) in 1983.

1993–present
Then, during the period of sophistication, the government and the private sector actively invested in improving core competencies and quality, taking Korea's electronics industry to a world level. The government provided key infrastructure for informatization and e-government, and sought and promoted new growth engines in cooperation with the private sector.

Manufacturers
The following electronics industry have marketed and sold within South Korea:
Bexel
CAS Corporation
HCT Co., Ltd.
Jinwoo SMC
LG Display
LG Electronics
LG Energy Solution
Samsung Electronics
Samsung SDI
Coway
Cuckoo Electronics
Winia Electronics

See also
 Economy of South Korea
 Manufacturing in South Korea

References

South Korea
Industry in South Korea
Tetiana Taran. Tetiana Arkhipivna Taran (, December 4, 1946 – May 17, 2007) was a Soviet and Ukrainian computer scientist who worked in artificial intelligence, published the first Russian-language textbook in artificial intelligence, and founded the series of International Conferences on Data Science and Intelligent Analysis of Information.

Education and career
Taran was born on December 4, 1946, to a military family in Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky in the far east of the Soviet Union, and moved as a child to Sevastopol, at the time part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. She studied engineering and mathematics at the Sevastopol Instrument Engineering Institute, now Sevastopol National Technical University, and graduated with honors in 1969.

She did her doctoral studies at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, completing her Ph.D. in 1973, and then continued at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute as a member of the applied mathematics department. She completed a Doctor of Sciences (the Soviet equivalent of a habilitation) in 1999, approved by Dmitriĭ A. Pospelov.

She died on May 17, 2007.

Contributions
Taran was the author of four books and 12 textbooks, including a widely used discrete-mathematics text and a 2006 textbook on artificial intelligence with D. Zubov, the first on the subject in the Russian language.

She founded the International Conference on Data Science and Intelligent
Analysis of Information, which began as a workshop in 2001 and became an annual series of international conferences in 2005.

References

1946 births
2007 deaths
Ukrainian computer scientists
Ukrainian women computer scientists
Sevastopol National Technical University alumni
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute alumni
Academic staff of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
20th-century Ukrainian women scientists
Soviet women scientists
Soviet computer scientists
Lucia Banci. Lucia Banci (born 20 May 1954) is an Italian chemist who is a professor at the University of Florence. Her research considers structural biology and biological nuclear magnetic resonance, with a focus on the role of metal ions in biological systems.

Early life and education 
Banci was an undergraduate student at the University of Florence. Her interest in magnetic resonance spectroscopy started with electron paramagnetic resonance, which can be used to study molecules that contain unpaired electrons. Banci remained at the University of Florence for postdoctoral research, and received tenure in 1983.

Research and career 
Banci has studied the role of metal ions in biological processes. She extensively developed nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for biological systems, and made use of it to better design and optimise vaccines. She founded the Centro Risonanze Magnetiche (CERM), a magnetic resonance centre in Italy, where she studies globular proteins. Her research resulted in the development of the Meningococcal vaccine.

In 2020, Banci oversaw the installation of the world's first 1.2 GHz nuclear magnetic resonance system. The ultra-high field system can provide information on intrinsically disordered proteins. The instrument makes use of low-temperature superconductors – high-temperature superconductors hybrid magnet technologies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Banci used nuclear magnetic resonance to determine the structure of SARS-CoV-2 and how it could be treated with medicine.

Awards and honours 
 1994 Italian Chemical Society Raffaele Nasini Medal 
 2012 Elected member of European Molecular Biology Organization
 2014 Appointed to European Molecular Biology Laboratory Council
 2014 Elected to the Academia Europaea
 2015 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Distinguished Women in Chemistry Award
 2015 Fiorino d’Oro della Città di Firenze
 2017 Instruct Bertini Award for Integrated Structural Biology
 2017 Bruker Ivano Bertini Award
 2018 National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani Mother Science Award
 2020 Honorary member of the National Magnetic Resonance Society of India
 2022 Accademia dei Lincei Luigi Tartufari Prize

Selected publications

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Living people
1954 births
20th-century Italian chemists
20th-century Italian women scientists
University of Florence alumni
Academic staff of the University of Florence
Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization
Members of Academia Europaea
Kodak House. The Kodak Building is an Art Deco building in the inner suburb of Rathmines in Dublin, Ireland. It was designed by architects Donnelly, Moore and Keatinge in 1930 and was built in 1932. It was originally the warehouse for Kodak Ireland and now houses an advertising agency and other businesses.

Design 
According to the Twentieth Century Society, Kodak's founder George Eastman ran "an image-conscious company" and wanted the Dublin building to disguise the "raw factory" within. Kodak hired Irish firm Donnelly Moore and Keatinge. They designed a structure with horizontal steel windows that were embedded in concrete walls. They accompanied this with "a squat but imposing tower with vertical slit windows as its central feature". William Sedgewick Keatinge made alterations to the design starting in 1949 and later still, Paul Keogh Architects undertook a complete refurbishment of the building.

In naming the structure as "building of the month" for August 2019, the Twentieth Century Society stated that "the building itself, despite having its once-cream render painted white, still stands out against Dublin’s traditional red brick streets". Noting further that a commentator had said the structure looked like “a stray project from Miami Beach that found itself cast adrift in Dublin”.

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Buildings and structures completed in 1932
Art Deco architecture in the Republic of Ireland
Buildings and structures in Dublin (city)
20th-century architecture in the Republic of Ireland