omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Gregg Trahey. Gregg E. Trahey is an American biomedical engineer and academic in the field of medical ultrasound. He is the Robert Plonsey Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. In 2022, he was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for contributions to speckle tracking and acoustic radiation force impulse imaging in medical ultrasound".

Education and early career 
Trahey attended the University of Michigan, receiving the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in 1975 and 1979, respectively. After graduation, he joined the Peace Corps, volunteering in Grenada and Dominica. He also worked at ECRI in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, evaluating medical devices including ultrasound systems. During this time, he met Olaf von Ramm, a professor at Duke University, at an ultrasound research conference. Trahey decided to join von Ramm's lab as a doctoral student at Duke, where he developed techniques to reduce the presence of speckle in ultrasound images. He received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1985, and his thesis was titled Speckle Reduction in Ultrasonic B-mode Images via Spatial Compounding.

Research career 
Trahey joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University as an assistant professor in 1985, and began a joint appointment in the Department of Radiology in 1994. He was subsequently promoted to full professorship in biomedical engineering in 1998. From 2000 to 2005, he was the James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Since 2013, he has been the Robert Plonsey Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering.

Trahey was named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) "for outstanding contributions in developing novel methods of ultrasonic imaging" in 1999. In 2022, he was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for contributions to speckle tracking and acoustic radiation force impulse imaging in medical ultrasound".

Trahey's research interests include speckle tracking, elastography, and image-guided surgery. His notable doctoral students include Kathryn R. Nightingale and Muyinatu Bell.

Selected publications

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 Duke University faculty profile
 

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Sanjay Govil. Sanjay Govil is an Indian-American businessman. He is the owner of the Washington Freedom cricket team and the founder and chairman of Infinite Computer Solutions.

Early life and education
Govil graduated from Auburn University with a degree in electrical engineering. He also has advanced degrees from Syracuse University and Wharton School of Business. His father was a professor of mathematics at Auburn University.

Career
Govil began his career at IBM. In 1999, Govil founded Infinite Computers, a global technology platform provider. The company went private in 2018; as of 2023, Govil sits on the Board of Directors of the Company. Govil is the founder and CEO of Zyter.

Govil also owned the Delhi Acers badminton team before a sellout to the Dalmia Group ahead of the 2017-18 Premier Badminton League season.

Govil is a founding investor in Major League Cricket and the lead team investor and owner of the Washington Freedom cricket team. Govil and the team partnered with George Mason University to build a combined cricket and baseball stadium in Fairfax, Virginia.

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Judith Bamberger. Judith Ann Bamberger is an American mechanical engineer whose research has concentrated on the measurement of physical properties in materials undergoing multiphase flow, especially through the use of ultrasound, and its applications in the cleanup of the Hanford Site. She is a senior research engineer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in its Energy and Environment Directorate.

Education
Bamberger majored in physics and chemistry at Dickinson College. She has a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and completed her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Washington State University. Her 2013 doctoral dissertation, Characterizing and Modeling of Concentration Profiles during Pulsed Jet Mixing of Slurries, was supervised by Cecilia Richards.

Recognition
Bamberger was named as an ASME Fellow in 2014. She was the recipient of the 2015 Tri-Cities Engineer of the Year Award.

Personal life
Bamberger also competes as a triathlete.

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American women engineers
Dickinson College alumni
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Washington State University alumni
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Maia and Marco. Maia and Marco are artificial intelligence used by GMA Network. Unveiled in 2023, they are used to fulfill the role of sports newscasters.

Background
Maia and Marco are artificial intelligence (AI) which take the form of three-dimensional human avatars. Maia makes use of a female avatar while Marco uses a male likeness. They have aesthetic features that are typical to Filipino showbusiness personalities.

Among the technologies used in making and operating the AI include image generation, text-to-speech AI voice synthesis/generation, and deep learning face animation. They are also demonstrated to be bilingual, being able to speak in English and Tagalog (Filipino).

Use
The AI pair was unveiled by GMA Network on September 24, 2023, for their coverage of Season 99 of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

Fulfilling the role of sports newscasters, Maia and Marco would join GMA's courtside human reporters. The AI pair are scheduled to appear four times a month on GMA's digital media platforms. They will not appear in traditional television broadcast.

Reception
The launch of the Maia and Marco was met with strong reactions. Various journalists and other personalities across the Philippine media industry expressed concern that their employment be at risk with the introduction of AI. The quality of the AI ability to emulate human behavior was characterized by critics as "soulless".

GMA responding to concerns has stated that the AI would complement rather than replace its live human journalists including sportscasters.

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines urged dialogue among its peers in the newsroom on policy on how to use AI, which the group acknowledge as "inevitable".

See also
Xinhua–Sogou AI news anchor

References

2023 introductions
GMA Network
Sports commentators
Information technology in the Philippines
AI software
Majdi al-Saleh. Majdi al-Saleh ((مجدي الصالح) born: 1963)) is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the Minister for Local Government since April 2019.

Early life and education
He was born in 1963 near Nablus. He earned his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Damascus in Syria.

Career
Al-Saleh, an engineer by profession, had a background in the private sector prior to his notable roles in Palestinian organizations. He was the founder of the General Union of Palestinian Contractors and went on to be elected as the Secretary General of the Palestinian General Federation of Engineers. Additionally, he held the position of head of the Engineer's Syndicate.

In April 2019, Majdi al-Saleh assumed the position of Minister for Local Government in the Palestinian Authority (PA) government led by Mohammad Shtayyeh. Notably, he is a member of the Palestinian Central Council (PCC).

Al-Saleh possesses extensive experience in overseeing and executing infrastructure projects. He has played a crucial role in offering support and guidance to various local government institutions, including municipalities, village councils, and other local authorities as Minister for Local Government.

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Rosalyn Moran. Rosalyn J. Moran is an Irish and British neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist. She is deputy director of the King's College London Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Her research looks to understand neural algorithms through brain connectivity.

Early life and education 
Moran grew up in Ireland, where she studied applied mathematics at the local boys school. Moran was an undergraduate and postgraduate student in electronic engineering at the University College Dublin. Her doctoral research applied information theory to biomedical signal processing. During her PhD, she met a scientist who was combining electrical and chemical analysis of schizophrenia, and became interested in pursuing a career in neuroscience. She was a postdoctoral researcher at University College London supported by the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging.

Research and career 
Moran moved to Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute in 2012, where she spent four years as an assistant professor. She returned to the United Kingdom in 2016 and joined the University of Bristol as a senior lecturer. In 2018, she was made associate professor at King's College London. She became deputy director of the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence in 2022.

Moran's research combines artificial intelligence, Bayesian inference and experimental neurobiology to understand brain connectivity and neural processing. She is interested in how neurotransmitters (e.g. noradrenaline, serotonin) in decision making. She uses deep networks to model diseases, with a focus on neurodegenerative diseases and schizophrenia.

Moran has investigated the free energy principle, an all-purpose mode of the brain and human behaviour. The free energy principle is based on surprise minimisation, brains work to minimise free energy. Moran has argued that the free energy principle offers an alternative rationale for generative artificial intelligence.

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Barbara Shollock. Barbara Ann Shollock  is a metallurgist focusing on nickel-based superalloys and other advanced alloys, including their mechanical properties and the growth and selection of crystal grains in their formation. Educated in the US and England, she works in England as head of the Department of Engineering at King's College London.

Education and career
Shollock was an engineering student as an undergraduate at Lehigh University, became a researcher at AT&T Bell Labs, and while at Bell Labs earned a master's degree from Lehigh. She completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford.

After postdoctoral research in Keble College, Oxford as a Rolls Royce Junior Research Fellow from 1988 to 1991, she joined the academic staff at Imperial College London. She became a senior lecturer there, before moving to the University of Warwick in 2014 as the holder of a Tata Steel Chair in Advanced Characterisation and Coatings. In 2019 she moved again, to her present position at King's College London.

Recognition
Shollock was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2023, "for her research contributions to the fundamental, theoretical and experimental understanding, development, and performance enhancement of advanced metallic alloys".

References

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British metallurgists
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Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Ivory Tower Building. The Ivory Tower Building was also called the Ivory Tower or the Makerere University Ivory Tower is the main administrative building at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. It is among the oldest buildings of the university

Origins 
The Ivory Tower construction started in 1930s and ended in 1941 under the leadership of George C. Turner who served as the Principal of Makerere College from 1939 to 1946.  The construction of the Ivory Tower building was funded by Colonial Development bourse.

In early 1938, Duke of Gloucester represented His Majesty King George IV to cut the first sod for the construction of the Ivory Tower on 1938 -November.

Architecture 
The Ivory Tower is a tall building with distinct white walls and blue-shuttered windows.

The Ivory Tower was constructed using British Architectural style of the 20th century with a T-shape with a bare stone on the extreme top, a large bell housed in four arches and have a large gents of Leicester clock on the entrance. It's a replica of University of London.

Significance 
The Ivory Tower houses the Finance and records/registry department which have the students records and the basement has full archive files spanning the whole historical journey of Makerere University.

The Ivory Tower building is the icon for Makerere University and also considered a national pride and heritage. It's among the UNESCO Heritage sites found in Uganda. It is a tourist attraction motivating people to visit the University.

Fire 
On 20 September 2020 overnight, fire gutted the Ivory Tower leaving huge cracks on the outer walls, completely burnt off the roof and most windows.  Short circuit due to faulty electrical system caused the fire outbreak according to the Criminal Investigation Department and Ministry of Works report.

Fire started from the roof and spread to down floors which had the offices for finance and records department.

Reconstruction 
The Ivory Tower was knocked down after 19 months since the fire outbreak incident as a way to allow the reconstruction after carrying out a detailed, conservatory study and documentation. After the demolition, Makerere University reconstructed the iconic Ivory Tower. The reconstruction used modern building methods with reinforced concrete frame unlike the previous block work structure. However, it maintains its outward appearance.

The government of Uganda funded the reconstruction of Ivory Tower with 21 billion UGX, and Excel Company Limited was contracted to do the reconstruction.

Mastercard Foundation contributed $1 million Uganda shillings to the reconstruction of the Ivory Tower.

See also 

 Makerere University
8 Makerere University Library
 Barnabas Nawangwe

References 

Monuments and memorials in Uganda
 Buildings and structures in Kampala
Toulouse Aerospace. Toulouse Aerospace, formerly Montaudran Aerospace or Aerospace Campus, is a campus project linked to the aeronautics, space and embedded systems jobs and part of Aerospace Valley. Located in Toulouse in the Montaudran district, it will be built entirely by the Toulouse Métropole. Its surface area will be 40 hectares on the site of the former Toulouse-Montaudran airport which saw the beginnings of Aéropostale.

Description 
It is the town planner David Mangin who will direct the entire project, construction of which began in the first quarter of 2011. The Institut Clément Ader, from the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, has set up within the walls of the Espace Clément Ader in March 2014, and was inaugurated in October.

Building B 612 of 26,140 m2 opened its doors on July 1, 2018.

Mangin's project was preferred for the place it gave to the preservation of the heritage of Aéropostale: ten hectares should be dedicated to it and certain historic buildings will be preserved (map room, Château Petit Raynal, etc.), to make the L'Envol des pionniers museum.

Project 
Like the Cancéropôle for oncology, this involves bringing together in the same place the main players in training and research in a field, in this case aeronautics and space:

 Bringing together the two Toulouse aeronautical grandes écoles of the GEA: ENAC and SUPAERO – as well as universities and university institutes located in the same geographical area: Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University, INSA Toulouse and INPT. The Maison de la formation Jacqueline Auriol will thus bring together under the same roof all Toulouse training courses in mechanical and production engineering in the aeronautics and space sector (opening planned for January 2022).
 Group of 1000 researchers mainly from ONERA, CCR EADS, CNRS, and CNES.
 Creation of infrastructure necessary for the development of SMEs and provision of common services.

This project is a continuation of the Rangueil scientific complex where ISAE, ENAC, INSA Toulouse, Paul-Sabatier University, LAAS-CNRS, CNES are already located... and close to important players such as Airbus, Airbus Defense and Space, Thales Alenia Space, Freescale, Latécoère, Siemens VDO Automotive, Thales. Toulouse Aerospace will therefore be the whole made up of this new area under development and the current Rangueil complex. It is part of the continuation of making Toulouse the international capital of aeronautics and space.

References

External links
 Website of Toulouse Aerospace

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MV Normand Maximus. MV Normand Maximus is a subsea construction vessel and the largest ship in the Solstad Offshore fleet. The ship has a deadweight tonnage of 13,598 and a gross tonnage of 26,832. It is  long and  wide, and has a reported draft of . Additionally, it has a 900-ton crane, a 550-ton Vertical Flex Lay System, and can accommodate up to 180 people.

History 
While Normand Maximus was off the coast of Brazil in February 2017, workers from Baker Hughes were conducting pre-commissioning tests in advance of the ship's deployment as an offshore platform for Saipem. During pressure testing of the gas flow system, the mixture of monoethylene glycol and air in the system exploded. Several valves and pipes were blown, and one employee was killed by the incident. In 2020, Saipem cancelled the charter for Normand Maximus early, only four years into its eight-year contract.

In February 2022, it was announced that Normand Maximus, along with sister ships Normand Frontier, Normand Pioneer, and Normand Navigator, had been chartered for a total of $45.8 million. The American Shipping Company from Oslo acquired the vessel in May 2022 through a long-term bareboat charter. The following year, in May 2023, a letter of intent for the ship was signed with another offshore company. The vessel would be under contract beginning in 2024, for at least 490 days thereafter.

References

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 Letter of Intent for charter of the CSV Normand Maximus

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Innovation SSI-2001. Innovation SSI-2001 is a sound card for IBM PC compatible computers introduced by the Innovation Computer Corporation in 1989. Unique to its design was the use of the MOS Technology SID as its sound chip of choice.

Description 

The sound card was produced by Innovation Computer Corporation and was intended to compete with Adlib. It has a mono output RCA connector and a game port, there are also 3 groups of jumpers that allow you to enable or disable the joystick port, control its sensitivity and change the audio port address from the default 280hex to 2A0hex, 2C0hex or 2E0hex. During use, the card uses 32 serial I/O ports. Connects via 8-bit ISA.

This sound card did not gain much popularity and was supported only by a few computer games. Lack of support also led to the discontinuation of production, and many of the cards released were later disassembled into SID chips for the Commodore 64. Considered one of the rarest PC sound cards, only about 10 copies of the original board are known to exist worldwide. However, since 2015, DIY specialists have mastered the production of replicas.

Emulation 
Reverse emulation is currently possible: the DOSBox emulator supports Innovation SSI-2001 emulation, without the presence of a real device.

References

Links 
 Innovation SSI-2001: the history of one of the rarest sound cards for the IBM PC (and its replica)
 Photography

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Battery industry in Quebec. The battery industry of Quebec encompasses all activities related to the production, research, and development of electric batteries in the Canadian province of Quebec. This industry has grown in response to the increasing demand for lithium-ion batteries, primarily in the context of electric mobility and renewable energy.

Quebec possesses significant reserves of lithium and graphite, two essential raw materials for the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries. The availability of these natural resources has attracted investments and industrial projects to the province.

History 
In 2019, a study commissioned by Propulsion Québec emphasized the crucial importance of quickly positioning Quebec as a hub for the lithium-ion battery industry for electric vehicles due to rising demand and the need to reduce carbon footprint.

In 2021, Investissement Québec outlined its strategy to invest massively, using both public and private funds, between 1 and 2 billion Canadian dollars over two to three years to strengthen international expertise at every stage of the battery production chain.

Quebec has established partnerships with international companies in the battery sector, further solidifying its position as a global supplier of battery components.

In 2023, the Quebec government announced various support measures to encourage research, development, and battery production within the territory. The government granted a $150 million loan to Ultium CAM, a joint venture between General Motors (GM) and POSCO Future M, to establish a cathode materials production plant in Bécancour. Similarly, the government provided a $150 million loan to Solutions énergétiques Volta Canada for the construction of a copper foil manufacturing plant for electric vehicle batteries in Granby.

Criticisms 
In 2023, Laurent Ferreira, CEO of the National Bank, strongly criticized the billions of dollars in subsidies given to the battery industry in Canada, lamenting the attraction of foreign companies at the expense of support for domestic businesses. He pointed out that these subsidies primarily benefit foreign shareholders, not contributing sufficiently to the Canadian economy. In response, Quebec's Minister of Economy, Pierre Fitzgibbon, defended the subsidies, emphasizing their importance for the development of the battery industry in Quebec while advocating for targeted government intervention in selecting sectors that justify such subsidies. He also positioned the Quebec government between advocates of laissez-faire and interventionism, considering targeted intervention as essential for stimulating the economy.

References 

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Economy of Quebec
Bismuth arsenide. Bismuth arsenide is an inorganic compound, with the chemical formula BiAs. Its α-modification and β-modification have been reported in theoretical calculations.

Preparation 

Bismuth arsenide can be prepared by reacting bismuth chloride and tris(trimethylsilyl)arsenic in toluene at room temperature:

 BiCl3 + As[Si(CH3)3]3 → BiAs + 3(CH3)3SiCl

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Arsenides