omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
G. K. Ananthasuresh. Gondi Kondaiah Ananthasuresh is an Indian mechanical engineer and Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India. He is best known for his work in the areas of Topology optimization, Compliant mechanism and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS).

He is currently serving as the Divisional Dean of Mechanical Science at Indian Institute of Science. He was formerly the chairman of Centre of Biosystems Sciences and Engineering (BSSE) and Mechanical Engineering (ME) at Indian Institute of Science.

He is the recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 2010 for Engineering Sciences.

Biography
Ananthasuresh did his B.Tech in Mechanical engineering from IIT Madras and obtained MS  in Mechanical engineering from University of Toledo in the years 1989 and 1991, respectively. He received his PhD degree in Mechanical engineering in 1994 from University of Michigan. He was a Post-doc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Before moving to India, he was faculty at University of Pennsylvania from 1996 to 2004.

Currently, he heads the Multidisciplinary and Multi-scale Device and Design Lab (M2D2)  at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.  He has advised 18 PhD students and 30 master's students so far.

See also
Topology optimization
Compliant mechanism

References

Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
IIT Madras alumni
University of Toledo alumni
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
1967 births
Living people
Engineers from Andhra Pradesh
Indian mechanical engineers
People from Anantapur district
20th-century Indian engineers
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science
All American Turbo-Cat. The Turbo-Cat was a jet aircraft catapult launch system powered by six jet engines. It was invented by Don Doolittle, and manufactured by the All American Engineering Co. of Wilmington, Delaware, USA. Six Allison J33 engines in a capstan arrangement provided 50,000 horsepower directly to the launching cable.
It was developed for expeditionary use by the U.S. Marine Corps, and it was to be air transportable.

Six jet engines are arranged in a circle with the exhausts facing the center where the mass flow of hot exhaust gasses is vented through a diffuser into a pair of large launching turbines. The launching turbines are connected by a main shaft to a cable drum from which an endless tensioned cable shunts underground to a launching track. Then down the track and around a pulley and back to the cable drum. By diverting the flow of exhaust gasses into a launching turbine, the cable drum and its tensioned cable can be accelerated to very high speeds.

See also
 Index of aviation articles
 Rocket sled
 Rocket sled launch
 Dolly (trailer)
 Ground carriage

References
 Jet Cat, FLYING magazine, May 1958, pp. 32–33, 74

External links
 
 Turbo-Cat Circa 1958

Aviation in the United States
Jet engine technology
Jet engines
Types of take-off and landing
Oriented energy filters. Oriented energy filters are used to grant sight to intelligent machines and sensors. The light comes in and is filtered so that it can be properly computed and analyzed by the computer allowing it to “perceive” what it is measuring. These energy measurements are then calculated to take a real time measurement of the oriented space time structure.

3D Gaussian filters are used to extract orientation measurements. They were chosen due to their ability to capture a broad spectrum and easy and efficient computations.

The use of these vision systems can then be used in smart room, human interface and surveillance applications. The computations used can tell more than the standalone frame that most perceived motion devices such as a television frame. The objects captured by these devices would tell the velocity and energy of an object and its direction in relation to space and time. This also allows for better tracking ability and recognition.

References

Artificial intelligence engineering
Lidar
FG-46. The FG-46 (a.k.a. EPKM and SpaB-170) is a Chinese spin stabilized solid rocket motor burning HTPB-based composite propellant. It was developed by China Hexi Chemical and Machinery Corporation (also known as the 6th Academy of CASIC) for use in the Long March 2E on GTO missions. It first flew as a prototype SPTS-M14 on July 16, 1990 on the Badr A mission. It had its first commercial mission orbiting the AsiaSat 2 on November 28, 1995 and exactly one month later, on December 28 its second and last mission for EchoStar 1.

It has a total nominal mass of , of which  is propellant load and its burn out mass is . It has an average thrust of  with a specific impulse of 292 seconds burning for 87 seconds, with a total impulse of . It is spin stabilized at 40 rpm and the propellant mass can be reduced by up to  eight months before launch or up to  on the launch site.

References

Rocket engines of China
Solid-fuel rockets
Bernard Sunley & Sons. Bernard Sunley & Sons was a British property development company.

It was founded in 1940 as Bernard Sunley & Son by Bernard Sunley (1910–1964) who "ranked alongside the most successful property developers of the 1950s property boom".

The company was dissolved in 2011.

Notable buildings
 Merton Civic Centre (1960)
 Arlington House, Margate (1964)
 City Tower, Manchester (1965)

References

Construction and civil engineering companies of the United Kingdom
British companies established in 1940
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1940
Construction and civil engineering companies disestablished in 2011
Real estate companies established in 1940
Real estate companies disestablished in 2011
1940 establishments in England
2011 disestablishments in England
Sunley family
British companies disestablished in 2011
Amparo Moraleda Martínez. Amparo Moraleda Martínez (Madrid, 1964) is a Spanish business executive.

Early life and education
Moraleda received a degree in industrial engineering at Comillas Pontifical University. She graduated from IESE Business School with an MBA.

Career
In 1988 Moraleda joined IBM, and took the role of president for the company for Spain and Portugal in 2001. In 2005 she was named president of IBM Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, Greece, Israel, Turkey). In the same year she was also inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.

At the end of 2008, Moraleda left the company to join Iberdrola as International Director of Operations, a position she was in until February 2012. She became member of the Board of Directors of CaixaBank in 2014.
In May 2015, she replaced Josep Piqué as Spanish advisor for Airbus. In October 2016, Moraleda joined the Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences.

Other activities

Corporate boards
 Maersk, Independent Member of the Board of Directors (since 2021)
 Spencer Stuart, Member of the Advisory Board (since 2017)
 Vodafone, Non-Executive Independent Member of the Board of Directors(since 2017)
 Airbus, Independent Member of the Board of Directors (since 2015)
 SAP Ibérica, Member of the Advisory Board (since 2013) 
 KPMG Spain, Member of the Advisory Board (since 2012)
 Solvay, Member of the Board of Directors (2013–2021)
 Faurecia, Member of the Board of Directors (2012–2017)

Non-profit organizations
 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Member of the Governing Board (since 2010)

References

External links 

Living people
1964 births
Spanish businesspeople
Women corporate directors
Directors of CaixaBank
Comillas Pontifical University alumni
João J. R. Fraústo da Silva. João J. R. Fraústo da Silva (Tomar, August 30, 1933 – June 10, 2022) was a Portuguese chemist.

Fraústo da Silva received his degree in industrial chemical engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico in 1958 and his D.Phil.  in chemistry working with Harry Irving (chemist) at the University of Oxford in 1962. He held several positions throughout his career, which features:

Director of the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon;
President's Office of Research and Planning of Educational Action (GEPAE) of the Ministry of Education;
First Rector of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa;
Minister of Education and Universities in the VIII Constitutional Government of Portugal;
President of the National Institute of Public Administration;
President of the Foundation Cultural Centre of Belém;
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Oriente.

References

1933 births
2022 deaths
Portuguese chemists
Instituto Superior Técnico alumni
Alumni of the University of Oxford
20th-century Portuguese people
People from Tomar
FG-47. The FG-47 (a.k.a. SpaB-54) is a Chinese solid rocket motor burning HTPB-based composite propellant. It was developed by China Hexi Chemical and Machinery Corporation (also known as the 6th Academy of CASIC) for use in the Long March 2C SD/CTS/SMA third stage. It had its inaugural flight on the Iridium-MFS demonstration mission on September 1, 1997.

It has a total nominal mass of , of which  is propellant load. It has an average thrust of  with a specific impulse of 288 seconds burning for 35 seconds, with a total impulse of .

See also
 CTS
 Long March 2C
 Iridium deployment

References

Rocket engines of China
Solid-fuel rockets
John von Neumann Center. The John von Neumann Center (JVNC) was one of the five pioneering US supercomputer centers created by the National Science Foundation (NSF), established in 1985. The JVNC was the only national center to use the cryogenic ETA10 supercomputer. Named for John von Neumann, the Center was located in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey at Princeton University and operated by The Consortium of Scientific Computing, Inc. an organization of 13 institutes from several states.

The von Neumann center had supported the research of 1,400 from about 100 institutes. Eight industrial corporations utilized the facilities. The NSF cancelled the center’s 69 million dollar, five year funding beyond September 1990. The NSF closed the John von Neumann Center in April 1990.

The facility originally used several Control Data Corporation Cyber 205 computers, and after much delay, received several air-cooled ETA10 computers and one cryogenic ETA10 supercomputer. The first ETA10 was installed after a one-year delay in March 1988. The NSF review panel found that the ETA10 suffered a software failure once every 30 hours, and that its ability to run programs on more than one of its eight processors at any one time was poor.
In addition to those computers, the facility had a Pixar H, two Silicon Graphics IRIS, and had video animation capabilities.

ETA Systems, the company that made the ETA10 supercomputers, shut down in April 1989. As a result, the NSF gave the Princeton center a 6-month extension to create an alternate plan. Although the NSF’s peer review panel voted 5-2 to continue NSF support for the facility, as long as the center could raise money to upgrade the requested four-processor Cray Y-MP computer to an eight-processor computer. The center quickly obtained commitments from several of its large users, yet agency officials voted to cancel the decision. Only two of the 10 members of the Princeton center’s consortium of state, industry, and academic users from outside New Jersey had agreed to help fund the $5 million Cray upgrade.

The NSF closed the John von Neumann Center in April 1990.

References

National Science Foundation
Supercomputer sites
Organizations established in 1985
Organizations disestablished in 1990
Princeton University
1985 establishments in New Jersey
1990 disestablishments in New Jersey
Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle. The Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV) was a project developed by NASA in the 1980s, aiming to create a reusable, remotely controlled, free-flying vehicle capable of performing various on-orbit missions and services to support orbiting spacecraft.

Originally envisioned as a short-range robotic space tug for moving payloads in the vicinity of the Space Shuttle and Space Station, the OMV was part of NASA's 1984 Space Station Freedom plan, and was initially estimated at $400 million.

In 1984, NASA awarded three $1-million study contracts to Vought, Martin Marietta, and TRW. TRW secured the $205-million OMV phase B contract in June 1986. However, estimated costs had risen to $465 million by 1987, leading to the cancellation of further work on the project.

Specifications 
Initiated in 1986, the OMV development program involved TRW as the prime contractor, with a planned first flight in 1991. The vehicle, measuring 15 feet in diameter, was designed to mount directly into the shuttle payload bay. 

Its modular design included a Short Range Vehicle with hydrazine and cold gas RCS systems, avionics systems, and a weight of approximately 6,500 lb. For high delta-velocity missions, a bipropellant Propulsion Module (approximately 11,000 lb) could be added, bringing the total weight to 17,500 lb. This module was exchangeable on orbit for bipropellant refueling, and all RCS and avionics modules were replaceable for maintenance.

The OMV's versatility allowed it to operate from the Shuttle, the Space Station, or in a space-based configuration. Its capabilities included satellite delivery, retrieval, reboost, controlled deorbit, viewing, and subsatellite support missions.

References 

Space tugs
Cancelled American spacecraft
Collaborative diffusion. Collaborative Diffusion is a type of pathfinding algorithm which uses the concept of antiobjects, objects within a computer program that function opposite to what would be conventionally expected. Collaborative Diffusion is typically used in video games, when multiple agents must path towards a single target agent. For example, the ghosts in Pac-Man. In this case, the background tiles serve as antiobjects, carrying out the necessary calculations for creating a path and having the foreground objects react accordingly, whereas having foreground objects be responsible for their own pathing would be conventionally expected.

Collaborative Diffusion is favored for its efficiency over other pathfinding algorithms, such as A*, when handling multiple agents. Also, this method allows elements of competition and teamwork to easily be incorporated between tracking agents. Notably, the time taken to calculate paths remains constant as the number of agents increases.

References

Algorithms
Data janitor. A data janitor is a person who works to take big data and condense it into useful amounts of information. Also known as a "data wrangler", a data janitor sifts through data for companies in the information technology industry. A multitude of start-ups rely on large amounts of data, so a data janitor works to help these businesses with this basic, but difficult process of interpreting data.

While it is a commonly held belief that data janitor work is fully automated, many data scientists are employed primarily as data janitors. The information technology industry has been increasingly turning towards new sources of data gathered on consumers, so data janitors have become more commonplace in recent years.

References

Information science
Computer occupations
Randy Bush (scientist). Randy Bush is a fellow at Arrcus and a research fellow at Internet Initiative Japan. He was among the inaugural inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012, given by the Internet Society.

Career
Bush has been working in the computer industry since 1966. He began with programming languages and specifically compilers. In 1977 he co-founded Northwest Microcomputer Systems with several other businessmen and computer engineers in Coos Bay, Oregon. The company released the 85/P, a Pascal development microcomputer, in 1978.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bush played a role in bringing the Internet to South Africa.

Bush was the senior engineer of the Verio founding team in the late 1990s, and worked there for five years as the Vice President of IP Networking. He was the Principal Engineer at RAINet in the early 90s, which was later acquired by Verio at which time he joined Verio. He was the founder of the Network Startup Resource Center and worked there as a PI.

Bush has served as a member of the IESG. At APNIC, he has been the Routing SIG Co-Chair, Policy SIG Co-Chair, and the Fees Working Group Chair. He was on the founding board of ARIN, helped start AFRINIC, NANOG, etc.  He was the chair of the ACM Internet Governance Committee. Bush also co-founded the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders' Constituency within ICANN's DNSO.

Bush was one of the core architects and designers of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), Route Origin Validation, BGPsec, and a number of other associated technologies.

He has also been the technical contact for the .bz ccTLD, and has executed the technical operations for .ng.

Bush was a chair of the IETF Working Group on the DNS for a decade. Randy has been influential in setting up Internet networks in parts of Latin America, Southern and Eastern Africa, etc. He has also served as a Corporate researcher at AT&T for more than a year.

On November 27, 2023, at the 87th RIPE meeting in Rome, Bush was honored with the Rob Blokzijl Award.

Publications
Into the Future with the Internet Vendor Task Force  A Very Curmudgeonly View  or  Testing Spaghetti — A Wall’s Point of View at Archive.psg.com
A Basic FidoNet(r) Technical Standard Revision 16
Home Page: PSG
Profile: RAINet
A list of all of his publications.

References

 Article initially sourced from Randy Bush at ICANN Wiki under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Network scientists
Stephen Warren (astronomer). Stephen John Warren is a Professor of astronomy at Imperial College London.

Education 
Warren studied civil engineering, with a strong emphasis on geotechnics, at the University of Cambridge, gaining a First in 1978. He returned to complete a doctorate at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, which he finished in 1988.

Career and research 
Warren joined Imperial College London as a professor in 1994. He has since held a European Southern Observatory (ESO) fellowship and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.

Warren holds a particular expertise in the field of quasars. Since 2001, he has been greatly involved in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey. He was the leader of the team responsible for the discovery of the most distant quasar found, ULAS J1120+0641.

Warren has published over 70 papers in the field of astrophysics since 1987, featuring in journals such as Nature.

Awards and honours
Warren was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford.

References

21st-century British astronomers
Academics of Imperial College London
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
20th-century British astronomers
Zero-Force Evolutionary Law. The Zero-Force Evolutionary Law (ZFEL) is a theory proposed by Daniel McShea and Robert Brandon regarding the evolution of diversity and complexity. Under the ZFEL, diversity is understood as the variation among organisms and complexity as the variation among the parts within an organism. A part is understood as a system that is to some degree internally integrated and isolated from its surroundings. In a multicellular organism, for example, a cell is a part, and therefore complexity is the number of different cell types. Like the theory of relativity, the theory has a special and general formulation. The special formulation states that in the absence of natural selection, an evolutionary system with variation and heredity will tend spontaneously to diversify and complexify. 

The general formulation states that evolutionary systems have a tendency to diversify and complexify, but that these processes may be amplified or constrained by other forces, including natural selection. The mechanism of the ZFEL is the inherently error-prone process of replication and reproduction. In the absence of selection, errors tend to accumulate, with the result that individuals within a population tend to become more different from each other (diversity) and parts within an individual tend to become more different from each other (complexity). Both of these tendencies can be overcome by selection, including stabilizing or negative selection, with the result that diversity or complexity often does not change, or even decreases. What the ZFEL offers is not so much a prediction as a null expectation, telling us what will happen in evolution when selection is absent. It is the analogue of Newton's law of momentum, which tells us the trajectory of a moving object in the absence of forces (a straight line).

See also 

 Constructive neutral evolution
 Evolution of biological complexity
 Neutral theory of molecular evolution

References

Evolutionary biology
Neutral theory
Neuenfelder Maschinenfabrik. The Neuenfelder Maschinenfabrik (NMF) is a German company for ship cranes in Neuenfelde, Cranz, Germany.

History 
The Neuenfelder Maschinenfabrik was founded in 1970 by J.J.Sietas as a separate company from the yard. Since then developed and produced ship cranes and hydraulic systems got individual clients, the company converted on a complete supplier, and the activities of the company from planning through design and manufacturing extended to the service. In addition to the production at the plant in Neuenfelde, since 2004, delivered cranes to China, mainly produced for the Asian market, but also for the European. In the course of insolvency of Yard, NMF was acquired by TTS in 2012.

Cranes 
Design features of the cranes of NMF were a splash proof closed crane housing in welded steel construction, in which all major units were housed. Many cranes offered the so-called 2-line operation on the hook every time a charge. This eliminated the change of shear. Due mostly two pump units and equipment with an auxiliary hoist, a certain reliability was ensured.

The most powerful ship crane was a type of DK SL Heavy Lift load capacity of up to 1000 t. These were also the strongest storm ship cranes in the world, only Huisman Equipment from the Netherlands manufactures powerful ship cranes, but based on a different concept.

References

External links 
 NMF

Literatur 
 Michael Meyer: TTS NMF: Crane manufacturer sees itself well positioned. In: Daily Port Report of 9. Januar 2014, S. 15 (German)

Manufacturing companies of Germany
Shipbuilding companies of Germany