omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Francesca Toni. Francesca Toni is an Italian computer scientist who works at Imperial College London in the UK as JP Morgan/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Argumentation for Interactive Explainable AI, Professor in Computational Logic in the Department of Computing, and head of the Computational Logic and Argumentation Group. Her research interests include explainable artificial intelligence, computational logic, argumentation theory, and applications in public health.

Education and career
Toni is originally from "a small town in Tuscany." Initially intending to go into mathematics, she switched to computer science in her last year of high school. She has a laurea (the Italian equivalent of a master's degree) from the University of Pisa, earned in 1990, and completed a doctorate from Imperial College London in 1995. Her dissertation, on abductive logic programming, was supervised by Robert Kowalski.

After working as an intern in Japan and as a postdoctoral researcher in Greece, she returned to Imperial College as a lecturer in 2000. She was appointed as JP Morgan/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Argumentation in 2020.

Recognition
Toni is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Italian computer scientists
Italian women computer scientists
University of Pisa alumni
Alumni of Imperial College London
Academics of Imperial College London
Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence
Han (robot). Han is a social humanoid robot created by the Hong Kong–based company Hanson Robotics. He was first activated in 2015 and debuted the same year at the Global Sources Electronics Fair. His skin is made of Frubber. He can detect people and their gender, age, and emotional expression. He mainly consists of a head that can be mounted on a transparent body allowing people to see his circuitry. According to AI magazine, its main purpose is to help humans find contentment.

Through a mobile phone, Han can make different facial expressions, and can also make basic conversations. He has 40 motors inside his head to make those facial expressions, and multiple cameras inside his eyes and chest.

At RISE conference 2017 in Hong Kong, Han debated with Sophia, another robot by Hanson Robotics about different topics such as the singularity and robot consciousness.

References 

Robots
Humanoid robots
Ragen Moss. Ragen Moss (born 1978) is a visual artist based in Los Angeles. She has exhibited in the United States and Europe.

Education

Moss received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from Columbia University in 2000. She received a Juris Doctor degree from UCLA in 2005 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California Los Angeles in 2012.

Work

Moss' sculptural work is made from layered transparent polyethylene forms that are embedded with paint that roughly resemble biomorphic human shapes. A review in the New York Times described her work as being "concerned with the body and how it functions within society." Moss had work included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Some of her works include texts, such as "manipulative deceptive device or contrivance" which directly refers to insider trading violations.

In 2021, Moss contributed to Art Basel Unlimited with her work "Humane Imagination", consisting of 10 new sculptures that reflect upon the potential of the human mind.

Moss' most recent exhibition, titled CONSPIRE, was presented in Berlin. The installation consisted of seven hanging bulbous sculptures made of painted polyethylene paired with seven glass and metal canisters in which actual flames burn.

Moss' work was included in the exhibition, Day Jobs, at the Blanton Museum of Art. She works as a lawyer in her day job. She has spoken publicly on the ability of art to "perform specific and pointed work on Constitutional questions" including human rights and reproductive freedom.

Collections
Moss' work is held in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

References 

1978 births
Living people
American women artists
21st-century American women sculptors
21st-century American sculptors
TCG Derya (A-1590). TCG Derya (A-1590) is a Turkish fast combat support auxiliary ship of type replenishment oiler of the Turkish Naval Forces, commissioned in January 2024.

History 
In 2016, the Defence Industry Agency (SSB) of the Ministry of National Defense launched a project for the building of an auxiliary ship to meet the needs of the Turkish Naval Forces. The vessel is to provide oil, water, provisions, spare parts, medical supplies, ammunition, etc. to multiple ships at the same time during operations in the high seas and transoceanic waters. It was planned that the ship would serve also as a command and control ship in wartime with its effective combat management capacity.

A contract was signed between the SSB and Sefine Shipyard on 10 July 2018. For the building of the ship, 58 months were planned. State-owned defense companies Aselsan and Havelsan were subcontractors of the shipyard. A domestic contribution rate of 77% was targeted in the project.

In later years, the technical characteristics of the ship were extended, and the initially planned armament changed to more contemporary weapons. The ship was launched from the Sefine Shipyard in Altınova, Yalova Province in October 2021. After successfully completing acceptance tests, she entered service in a ceremony on 19 January 2024, named TCG Derya and with hull number A-1590. She is the second auxiliary ship with the same name following TCG Derya (A-576), ex USS Piedmont (AD–17), which served between  1982 and 1994 in the Turkish Navy.

Characteristics 
Derya provides replenishment at sea for solid, liquid materials and ammunition. She can be used in intelligence gathering, search and rescue and humanitarian  evacuation operations as well as natural disaster relief tasks.

The ship is  long and has a beam of  and a displacement tonnage .  She has a maximum speed of , an operation range of  with more than 30 days of endurance at sea. The ship's refuel capacities are  for F-76 fuel,  for F-44 fuel and  for fresh water. She can carry 48 containers. The vessel is powered by two General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, two diesel engines and two electric motors. She is equipped with Aselsan MAR-D helicopter detection radar, Havelsan ADVENT naval combat management system. The total number of the ship's crew is 326.  The vessel is armed with one  Aselsan GOKDENIZ 35 mm close-in weapon system (CIWS) at the bow and one at the stem, two 25 mm Aselsan STOP remote weapon stations. She carries three helicopters, one on the helipad and two in the hangar.

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Auxiliary ships of the Turkish Navy
2021 ships
Ships built in Yalova
Military vehicles introduced in the 2020s
Rawalpindi-Islamabad Circular Railway. Rawalpindi Islamabad Circular Railway is a mega project aimed at improving the socio-economic conditions of the local people. The project is expected to solve various problems, especially traffic jams.

Overview
The project includes the construction of a circular railway track for Rawalpindi which will also be included in the Leh Expressway project. The track will be 100 km long connecting Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The project was expected to be completed in 2023 but has not yet been completed.

Execution
China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has been entrusted with the task of carrying out the feasibility study of the project. In 2020, a ten-member team of CCECC visited various points of the Leh Nala as part of the project feasibility study along with the Leh Expressway project. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) and Capital Development Authority (CDA) in May 2020, and the feasibility study is likely to be completed within 8 months.

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Transport in Islamabad Capital Territory
Transport in Rawalpindi
Rail transport in Pakistan
Proposed public transport in Pakistan
India Centre for Lab Grown Diamond. India Centre for Lab Grown Diamond (InCent-LGD) is a research and development centre established by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) in collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, India. The centre was established in February 2023 with the aim of developing indigenous technologies for diamond growth and exploring the diverse applications of lab-grown diamonds beyond jewellery, particularly in the field of electronics.

Objectives

 To develop cutting-edge technology for the growth of high-quality lab-grown  diamonds.
 To explore the semiconducting properties of doped diamonds for applications in high-speed electronic devices and next-generation technologies like  5G/6G communication.
 To investigate the use of diamonds in thermal management systems for improved cooling and heat dissipation.
 To develop diamond-based tools for enhanced machine tool life and performance.
 To explore the potential of diamonds in magnetometry and quantum computing.

Research Groups

InCent-LGD has three core research groups dedicated to different aspects of lab-grown diamond technology:

 High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) Group: This group focuses on the HPHT method of diamond growth, which simulates the natural diamond  formation process by subjecting carbon to high pressure and high temperature.
 Microwave Plasma-enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition (MPCVD) Group: This group explores the MPCVD method, where a diamond film is grown on a  substrate from a carbon-containing gaseous plasma.
 Solid-State Microwave Generators (SSMG) Group: This group develops and optimizes SSMGs, which are crucial components for generating the microwave plasma needed for MPCVD diamond growth.

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External links

Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Research institutes in India
Synthetic diamond
Linda van der Gaag. Linda Christina van der Gaag (born 1959) is a Dutch computer scientist whose research concerns artificial intelligence for medical decision support systems, including graphical models, Bayesian networks, and expert systems. She is SUPSI Professor at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in Switzerland.

Education and career
Van der Gaag completed a doctorate in 1990 at the University of Amsterdam, with the dissertation Probability-Based Models for Plausible Reasoning, jointly promoted by Jan Bergstra and Richard D. Gill.

She became a professor at Utrecht University, and head of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences, before moving to the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research (IDSIA) in 2019. At IDSIA, she was named SUPSI Professor in 2020.

Book
With Peter J. F. Lucas, van der Gaag is the coauthor of the book Principles of Expert Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1991).

Recognition
Van der Gaag is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.

References

External links
Principles of Expert Systems

1959 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Dutch women computer scientists
University of Amsterdam alumni
Academic staff of Utrecht University
Bismuth(III) sulfate. Bismuth(III) sulfate is an inorganic chemical compound of bismuth with the formula Bi2(SO4)3. It is a hygroscopic white solid that decomposes at 465 °C to bismuth(III) oxysulfate and is isotypic to antimony(III) sulfate.

Production
Bismuth(III) sulfate is most commonly produced from the reaction of bismuth(III) nitrate and sulfuric acid:

Another polymorph of bismuth(III) sulfate can be produced by the treatment of lithium bismuthate(III) with sulfuric acid.

Properties
Bismuth(III) sulfate decomposes at 465 °C to Bi2O(SO4)2. If continually heated, it decomposes to various bismuth oxysulfates and at 950 °C it decomposes to bismuth(III) oxide. Bismuth(III) sulfate hydrolyzes in water.

References

Bismuth compounds
Sulfates
Adipaldehyde. Adipaldehyde is the organic compound with the formula .  It is a colorless oil that is usually encountered as an aqueous solution because it is highly reactive like many dialdehydes.    The compound has attracted interest as a precursor to nylon-related polymers.  It can be produced by double hydroformylation of 1,3-butadiene, but this methodology has not achieved commercialization.  It has been prepared by oxidation of 1,6-hexanediol with pyridinium chlorochromate.

References

Aldehydes
List of fellows of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. In the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a small number of members are designated as fellows for having made significant accomplishments to the field. The IEEE Fellows are grouped by the institute according to their membership in the member societies of the institute. This list is of IEEE Fellows from the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (IEEE-SSCS).

See also 
List of IEEE Fellows

References 

Solid-state Circuits Society
Arturo Lorenzoni. Arturo Lorenzoni (born September 19, 1966) is an Italian academic, researcher, and politician, known for his significant contributions to energy economics, particularly in electricity markets and renewable energy. He has been an Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Padova since 2006, specializing in energy economics and electricity market economics.

Early life and education
Lorenzoni was born in Padova, Italy. He completed his studies in Electrical Engineering at the University of Padova, graduating in 1991. He then obtained a specializing Master's degree in Energy Economics and the Environment from the Scuola Superiore Enrico Mattei, followed by a PhD in Energy Engineering from the University of Padova in 1995.

Academic career
Lorenzoni began his career as a Research Fellow at IEFE, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, focusing on energy economics. Since 2006, he has been an Associate Professor at the University of Padova. His research interests include the economics and policy of electric markets, renewable energy investments, and energy efficiency. He leads the Energy Economics Group at the Department of Industrial Engineering.

Political career
From 2017 to 2020, Lorenzoni served as the Deputy Mayor of Padova, overseeing urban planning, mobility, private building initiatives, information technology systems, the digital agenda, and university relations.
Since 2020 Lorenzoni seats in Consiglio Regionale del Veneto as leader of the opposition.
With other administrators and mayors of Regione del Veneto Lorenzoni is working to a civic network named Vale.

Professional engagements
Lorenzoni co-founded Galileia S.r.l., a spin-off company from the University of Padova that focused on renewable energy and energy efficiency from 2008 to 2020. He has played a significant role in various EU policy projects and has taught extensively on topics related to sustainable development and energy policy across various international platforms.
He is consultant to many energy companies and public utilities. In 2024 he became a board member of Espe s.p.a.

Publications
Lorenzoni has authored more than 150 publications, with significant works including:
 "Principles of Electricity Markets Economics" - 2020
 "A new measure of Italian hidden energy poverty" - Energy Policy, 2020
 Numerous other peer-reviewed articles on renewable energy and policy analysis.

Honors and awards
Throughout his career, Lorenzoni has received accolades for his academic contributions and public service.

Personal life
Lorenzoni is married with three children and is fluent in Italian and English.

External links
 [University profile] (https://www.dii.unipd.it/category/ruoli/personale-docente?key=7FFB9E0A01C994885DFF99E6CAB2B632)
 [Personal website] (https://www.arturolorenzoni.it/chi-sono/)

References

Academics from Padua
Energy economists
1966 births
Living people
Members of the Regional Council of Veneto
21st-century Italian politicians
MDL-class patrol vessel. The MDL-class patrol vessels are a class of 14 fast patrol vessels being built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders the Indian Coast Guard.

History

The Defense Ministry on 24 January 2024 signed a  contract for multi role FPVs will be indigenously designed, developed and manufactured by MDL under Buy (Indian-IDDM) Category and all boats will be delivered by 63 months from signing. The primary role of the FPVs will include patrolling coastal waters and protecting fisheries. It also has secondary roles like high-speed search and rescue missions in shallow or coastal waters, MEDEVAC operations, providing logistics support and communication links as well as provide coastal convoy escorts.

Features
The FPVs will be equipped with multipurpose drones and wirelessly-controlled remote water rescue craft for surveillance and anti-smuggling operations in India's Exclusive Economic Zone.

Steel cutting ceremony for the first FPV was held at Mazagon Dock on 19 December 2024.

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Patrol boats
Charles Liang. Charles Liang (traditional Chinese: 梁見後; born 1956 or 1957) is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and electrical engineer. He is the co-founder (with his wife Sara Liu), chairman, president and CEO of Supermicro, an information technology company based in San Jose, California.

Early life and education
Liang was born in Taiwan. He earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and a Master of Science (M.S.) in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Career
After graduating, Liang worked on a chip design for a healthcare company that utilized artificial intelligence, which he called an "AI Processor". From July 1991 to August 1993, Liang was the president and chief design engineer of Micro Center Computer, a motherboard design and manufacturing company.

In 1993, Liang co-founded Supermicro alongside his wife and company treasurer, Chiu-Chu Liu, known as Sara. The business began as a five person operation run by Liang. In 1996, Supermicro opened a manufacturing subsidiary, Ablecom, in Taiwan, which is run by Charles's brothers, Steve Liang and Bill Liang. Charles and his wife own close to 31 percent of Ablecom, while Steve Liang and other members of the family own close to 50 percent.

As of January 2024, Liang's stake in Supermicro is estimated at $3.3 billion. Liang holds several patents for server technology.

Green Earth Foundation
Liang is the founder of the Green Earth Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on increasing forestation worldwide. In 2022, the Green Earth Foundation purchased nearly 200 acres of land in Milpitas, California, formerly known as Rancho Higuera.

Personal life
Liang is married to Sara Liu, and they have five children.

References

Living people
American billionaires
University of Texas at Arlington alumni
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology alumni
American chief executives
Taiwanese billionaires
1950s births
Neumann U 87. The Neumann  is a poly-directional large-diaphragm condenser microphone. Originally introduced in 1967, a version of the  is still produced by Georg Neumann GmbH. The  became an industry standard recording microphone, a reputation that continues to endure.

The  was inducted into the TECnology Hall of Fame in 2006.

Features
The  has a large 25.4 mm diaphragm, and can operate with any one of three selectable polar patterns: cardioid, omnidirectional, or figure-8.

History

Introduced in 1967 as the solid-state successor to the , Neumann introduced the  alongside the , , and  as part of the company's first 'FET 80' series of microphones that utilized use solid-state FET electronics that didn't require separate power supplies or multi-pin power cables and allowed the mics to be made smaller. The  could be powered either by the newly introduced standard of a 48V phantom power supply or two internal 22.5 volt batteries.

The original  used a modified version of the '' capsule - the ''. From 1968 to 1974, Neumann also offered the , which worked with AB / Tonader powering (rather than 48V phantom power) or internal 9V battery, and used the same '' capsule used by the .

In 1986, Neumann introduced the , which no longer required two 22.5V batteries, and was able to use the same  capsule as the . A version with XLR connector is appended with a lowercase i, i.e. . The updated version had -3 dB lower self-noise, 5-8 mV/Pa higher sensitivity, and 5 dB lower maximum SPL capability.

In use

The  is more often used for vocals, and has been used in the recording of such notable songs as Neil Young's Heart of Gold, Culture Club's "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville", Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver", War's "Low Rider", Paul Davis' "I Go Crazy", Soft Cell's "Tainted Love", Aerosmith's "Walk This Way", Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey", Talking Heads' "Road to Nowhere", Don McLean's "American Pie", The Doobie Brothers' "What A Fool Believes", Blondie's "The Tide Is High", and Frank Zappa's long-playing album "Lumpy Gravy".

It is also an effective microphone for broadcasters, and has been used by individuals and organizations such as Casey Kasem and NPR.

The  is also popular for micing guitar or instrument amps, or as an overhead microphone.

References

External links
 U 87 Ai Studio Set at Neumann.com

U87
Products introduced in 1967
Z. Morley Mao. Zhuoqing Morley Mao () is a computer scientist whose research concerns computer networks, network security, mobile computing, and distributed systems. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan.

Education and career
Mao was both an undergraduate and a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science in 2003. Her doctoral dissertation, Solving the Interdomain Routing Problem-Understanding Interdomain Routing Dynamics, was supervised by Randy Katz.

She joined the University of Michigan faculty in 2004, and as an assistant professor in 2008 was named Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professor.

Research
Mao is one of the namesakes of the ZMW attack, a method for bringing down the internet via a distributed denial of service attack on its routing systems.
She has also found performance degradation caused by network security software, discovered defects in the sandbox used to keep Android apps secure from each other, and developed techniques by which self-driving vehicles can be tricked into failing to observe obstacles.

Recognition
Mao was the 2016–2017 recipient of the George J. Huebner Jr. Research Excellence Award of the University of Michigan College of Engineering.

She was named as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to performance and security of internet routing and mobile systems". She was named as an ACM Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, "for contributions to internet security and performance".

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of Michigan faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
2023 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery