omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Richard Passman. Richard Passman (June 30, 1925 – April 1, 2020) was an American aeronautical engineer and space scientist. He worked on projects including the Corona, the first spy satellite. He was a volunteer in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and author.

Early life and education 
Passman was born in Cedarhurst, New York, to Ethel and Matthew Passman. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1944 and mathematics in 1946. He earned a master's in aeronautical engineering in 1947. He joined the Navy Pilot Training program during WWII, but was discharged for medical reasons.

Career 
Passman worked for Bell Aircraft, General Electric, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Grumman Corp.

He worked on the team that created Bell X-1, the first airplane to exceed the speed of sound and served as the Chief Aerodynamicist for Bell X-2, the first plane to break mach-3. He also worked on the Corona, the spy satellite that informed the U.S. of Russian nuclear power. Passman's work also included the Nimbus weather satellite and the SNAP-27 power system for Apollo missions to the moon. He served as manager of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory project before it was terminated by President Nixon.

He co-authored X-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plan and the Pilots who Ushered In the Space Age in 2014. He was named to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Wall of Honor.

Personal life and death 
Passman was married to Minna for 70 years. They had three sons and lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the time of his death. He died of complications from COVID-19 at Holy Cross Hospital.

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Abbas Akhil. Abbas Akhil is an Indian-American politician and engineer who served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. When he took office on January 15, 2019, Akhil became the first Muslim member of the New Mexico Legislature.

Early life and education 
Born in India, Akhil earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Aligarh Muslim University. He then relocated to New Mexico, where he earned a Master of Science in industrial engineering from New Mexico State University.

Career 
Prior to entering politics, Akhil worked as an engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. In 2017, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Albuquerque Public Schools Board. In 2018, he defeated incumbent Republican Jim Dines to represent the 20th district. In October 2019, Akhil announced that he would not run for re-election in 2020.

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Simpl. Simpl or SIMPL may refer to:

 Simpl (Munich), a venue in Munich, Germany
 simpl., an abbreviation for 'simplification' or 'simplified'
 SIMPL, a Linux project
 Simpl (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/simpl) is an open source, smart and secure middleware platform that supports data access and interoperability among European data spaces. It is currently (2024–07) under development by the European Union.

See also 
 Simpel
 Simple (disambiguation)
 Sympl
Lauf Cycling. Lauf Cycles is an Icelandic bicycle brand based in Reykjavík. They specialise in gravel bikes. 

The Lauf Forks idea was born over a cold bike-ride aprés beer in a cramped basement apartment in Reykjavík around Christmas-time 2010. Avid mountain biker and engineer Benedikt Skulason, at the time working as an R&D engineer for a high-end composite prosthetic feet company, pitched his idea of a super-light revolutionary bicycle suspension fork to his good friend and industrial designer Gudberg Bjornsson.

They are most commonly known for their invention of the Lauf Spring: a pivotless trailing link fork. A set of glass fiber springs are attached between the wheel set and the forks of a bike. Manufacturing is done in Iceland, with subsidiary dealers found in both Europe and the United States.

The company gained media attention when Canadian Cyclo-cross National Champion, Michael Van Den Ham used Lauf bikes for his successful competition wins in 2018.

In 2023, Lauf launched the Úthald (meaning "endurance" in Icelandic), marking their first foray into the road bike market.

See also
Gravel bicycle

References

Cycle manufacturers
Cycling in Iceland
Manufacturing companies of Iceland
Companies based in Reykjavík
ST-class armored boat. The ST-class was a type of armored boat of the Imperial Japanese Army that saw service during World War II. She was developed in 1940 (Showa 15) mainly for riverine patrol in China, a role that was previously served by the Soukoutei-class armored boat. The prototype was 11 meters long with a beam of 2.00 meters and a draught of 1.10 meters. Her speed was 9.65 knots. All ships were built at the Yokohama shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries She was armed with a 37 mm gun (:jp:狙撃砲).

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Ships of the Imperial Japanese Army
Ships built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
David Hu (scientist). David L. Hu (born circa 1979) is an American mathematician, roboticist, and biologist who is currently an associate professor at the engineering department of Georgia Tech. His research centers on animal behavior and movement, and is noted for its eccentricity.

Hu was born in Rockville, Maryland, and as high school student he was a semifinalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. His father was a chemist who enjoyed collecting and dissecting road kill, which inspired his son's curiosity regarding the science of living things. He received his Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hu is married to Dr. Jia Fan, a data scientist employed by AT&T with whom he has two children. Hu's children have inspired some of his research projects. "From a diaper change with my son, I was inspired to study urination. From watching my daughter being born, I was inspired by her long eyelashes."

Hu is known for focusing on irreverent and whimsical research subjects. In 2016 his work was criticized by Arizona Senator Jeff Flake as one of the twenty most wasteful federally funded research projects. Hu responded to this criticism with a TEDx talk in which he embraced the label of "the country's most wasteful scientist" and criticized the senator's understanding of the scientific method.

Recognition
Hu has twice won the Ig Nobel Prize for Physics. In 2015 he shared the prize with Patricia Yang for research on the duration of animal urination, in which Yang and Hu found that nearly all mammals evacuate their bladders in approximately 21 seconds plus or minus 13 seconds. In 2019 Hu and colleagues won the prize for studying the means of production of the cubical feces of wombats.

He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2023, "for innovative experiments in biological fluid mechanics and a willingness to share them with young scientists".

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Miami Maid. The Miami Maid was a US three passenger amphibious aircraft first flown in 1929. Despite ambitious production plans, only two were built.

Design and development

The Miami Maid was an all-wood flying boat with a cantilever parasol wing. It made use of existing components: the wing was a Fokker design and the hull that of a Curtiss F flying boat. In plan the wing was tetragonal out to rounded tips and swept only on the trailing edge. It was built from mahogany and spruce, with box spars and fabric-covering, and was held over the fuselage by pairs of inverted-V cabane struts between the upper fuselage longerons and the forward and aft wing spars, the latter outward-leaning. Narrow chord ailerons filled about half the span.

Its pusher mounted radial engine, a  Menasco-Salmson B-2 on the prototype, was strut-mounted and completely uncowled over the wing with its propeller turning in a deep, rectangular cutout in the trailing edge. Production aircraft were expected to use a  Wright Whirlwind J-6-9.

The two step hull of the Maid had an ash framework, including the longerons, keel and transverse steps. The outer surfaces were mahogany with double planking on the planing bottom and plywood elsewhere. The hull was divided internally into five water-tight compartments. Stability on the water was provided by two narrow, unstepped, under-wing floats, each mounted on three struts. The two crew sat side-by-side ahead of the wing leading edge. Photographs show them protected by two different windshield designs, one an inclined, one-piece screen, and the other an inclined, two-piece swept unit strengthened by a horizontal, triangular sheet that gave better protection. This open cockpit could be quickly enclosed if necessary. Its three passengers sat on a long seat behind the crew.

The Maid's empennage was angular, with a triangular fin and rectangular balanced rudder. Its tailplane, clipped triangular in plan, was braced on each side from below with pairs of vertically orientated V-struts from the fuselage to its front and rear. Its elevators were rectangular apart from a cut-out for rudder movement.

The Miami Maid was first flown, off water, on 26 March 1929. Early tests showed it had pleasant and responsive control characteristics. At that time the retractable undercarriage was not fitted, though the intention was to do this by the summer of 1929. It is not certain if this happened. It is also not known if the prototype was modified to accept the Whirlwind engine but a second aircraft was built and fitted with one.

In mid-1929 funding was being sought to build a Miami factory in which five Maids a month would be built but nothing came of it.

Specifications (Menasco-Salmson B-2 engine)

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Parasol-wing aircraft
Pusher aircraft
Flying boats
1920s United States civil aircraft
Subha Varier. Subha Varier is an Indian space engineer. She has specialised in the video systems used on Indian satellite launches. In 2017 she received the Nari Shakti Puraskar, India's highest award for women after the record release of 104 satellites in one launch.

Life
Varier grew up in Alapuzha. She graduated in Electronic and Communication Engineering from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum.

In 1991 she joined the Indian Space Research Organisation. She was based at the Vikram Sarabhai Space centre's avionics division.

The PSLV C37 space mission was intended to place 104 satellites in Sun-synchronous orbits on February 15, 2017. The satellites belonged to six different nations and it was important that not only did each satellite launch without touching another, but that there was proof that this had happened. Video of the release needed to be convincing and Varier was given the task. The launch was successful and it was recorded by eight different cameras. The resulting video was then processed, compressed and sent back to earth. The video was decoded and played in real time as the satellites were released. Afterwards the video was viewed the files were then sent to a VSSC web repository.

In March 2017, she was one of three scientists chosen to receive an award from the Indian President: Anatta Sonney, B. Codanayaguy and Varier. On International Women's Day in 2017, she was in New Delhi where she was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar by President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Each of the awardees received a citation and 100,000 rupees.

Private life
Varier and her husband Raghu have two children. Her husband also works at VSSC and they live at Ambalamukku near Kowdiar.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Indian women engineers
21st-century Indian engineers
20th-century Indian women engineers
20th-century Indian engineers
Kasper Hornbæk. Kasper Hornbæk is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. He was inducted into the CHI Academy in 2020.

Kasper Hornbæk received both his M.Sc. as well as his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen. He is best known for his work on usability in human-computer interaction.

He is section head of the Human Centered Computing group at the UCPH Department of Computer Science.

In 2020 he was induced into the CHI Academy.

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1972 births
Living people
People from Roskilde
University of Copenhagen alumni
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Syrian Space Agency. The Syrian Space Agency () is a government run organization overseen by the Syrian Minister of Communications and Technology, Iyad Mohammad al-Khatib, and dedicated to space exploration.

History 
 On the 18th of March 2014, after three years of Syrian Civil War, the government announces the creation of the Syrian Space Agency.
 On the 19th of August 2016, the Syrian Government and the Russian Government signed an agreement pledging cooperation in the areas of Space Research and Remote Sensing. It was signed by the general director of the authority for remote sensing, Dr Osama-al Ammar, on the Syrian side, and Igor Komarov, the head of Roscosmos, on the Russian side.
 On the 11th of December 2018, the Syrian Minister of Communications and Technology, Iyad Khatib, said during a visit to space research facilities that "a road map for the Syrian space program, as well as for the launch of the first artificial satellite into Earth’s orbit should be developed".

See also 
 General Organization of Remote Sensing

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Government agencies established in 2014
Space agencies
Government of Syria
Science and technology in Syria
IBM platform (disambiguation). The term IBM platform could refer to any of the hardware and operating systems below.

Current

IBM Power Systems, a family name for the merged System p and System i
PureSystems, an IBM product line of factory pre-configured components and servers also being referred to as an "Expert Integrated System"
IBM Z, a family name used by IBM for all of its z/Architecture mainframe computers from the Z900 on; this is the most recent architecture descended from IBM System/360 
IBM System z, an older name for IBM Z
IBM z System, an older name for IBM Z
IBM PC compatible, a machine compatible with the IBM PC and successors.
IBM i, an operating system that runs on IBM Power Systems and IBM PureSystems, preceded by:
CPF, the operating system for the S/38
OS/400, the operating system for the AS/400
i5/OS, the operating system for the eServer i5
z/OS, a 64-bit operating system for IBM mainframes; this is the most recent incarnation of OS/360 and successors

Discontinued

IBM System i, preceded by S/38, AS/400 and eServer i5, is a line of midrange computer systems from IBM that uses the IBM i operating system
IBM System p, formerly known as RS/6000, was IBM's RISC/UNIX-based server product line. 
IBM System/360, the predecessor to S/370
IBM System/370, the predecessor to XA/370
IBM Extended Architecture/370 (XA/370), the predecessor to ESA/370
IBM Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 (ESA/370), the predecessor to IBM System/390
IBM System/390, the predecessor to IBM System z
IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform
Operating System/360 (OS/360), IBM's flagship operating system for S/360 and early S/370
OS/VS1, successor to OS/360 MFT
SVS, OS/VS2 Release 1, successor to OS/360 MVT and predecessor to MVS
MVS/370 is a generic term for all versions of the MVS operating system prior to MVS/XA
OS/VS2 Release 2 through 3.8
MVS/System Extension (MVS/SE)
MVS/System Product (MVS/SP) Version 1
MVS/XA, predecessor of MVS/ESA
MVS/ESA, predecessor of OS/390
OS/390, predecessor of z/OS

Suprercomputer platforms:
IBM Scalable POWERparallel (1993-2000)
QCDOC (1998-1999)
IBM Blue Gene (1999-2015)
IBM iDataPlex (2008-2014)
IBM PERCS (2011)
IBM Intelligent Cluster, (2001-2014, now Lenovo Intelligent Cluster)

See also
IBM System (disambiguation)
San Miguel gneiss. The San Miguel gneiss is a Paleoproterozoic pluton in the Nacimiento Mountains of New Mexico. It has a radiometric age of 1.695 billion years, corresponding to the Statherian period.

Description
The San Miguel Gneiss is a quartz monzonitic to granodioritic gneiss. It ranges in color from salmon-pink to light pinkish-gray and in texture from fine- to coarse-grained. Foliation is lenticular and trends northeast. The modal composition is 16 to 32 percent microcline, 29 to 36 percent plagioclase (An27-33), 25 to 30 percent quartz, 2 to 9 percent biotite, and with accessory opaque minerals, muscovite, chlorite, and myrmekite. There are also traces of zircon, apatite, sphene, epidote, and sericite are present. Some of the plagioclase takes the form of subhedral megacrysts up to 5 mm across. Metamorphism may have reached the amphibolite metamorphic facies.

The unit is the dominant unit in the central Nacimiento Mountains. This range is underlain by numerous overlapping plutons emplaced in metasedimentary and metavolcanic beds that may correlate with the Vadito Group. The San Miguel gneiss itself may correlate with the Tres Piedras Orthogneiss in the Tusas Mountains.

The pluton contains apparent roof pendants of amphibolite or leucogranite. It is intruded by the Joaquin quartz monzonite.

History of investigation
The gneiss was named by Woodward et al. in 1974 as part of their survey of Precambrian rocks in the southern Nacimiento Mountains.

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Precambrian formations of New Mexico
Paleoproterozoic magmatism
Proterozoic North America
Choe Hui-jong. Choe Hui-jong () is a politician of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He is the Head of the Science Education Department of the Workers' Party of Korea and a member of the Central Committee of the Party. He was a delegate to the 10th convocation, 11th convocation and 12th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's unicameral parliament.

Biography
Born in 1946. He studied metal processing engineering at Kim Chaek University of Technology. In March 1975, he was transferred the 3rd Revolution of the Kaesong Textile Factory, and in November 1993 he was appointed head of the Institute of Rapid Cooling and Structural Engineering at the Institute of Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In February 1994, he became the chairman of the National Science and Technology Committee and the head of the Korean Federation of Science and Technology. In December of the same year, he became president of the People's University Training Party. In 2002, he served as chair of the Library Association and in 2007, became director of the National Quality Supervision Bureau.

He served as the 10th and 11th delegates of the Supreme People's Assembly in 1998 and 2003, respectively, and was elected as the 12th convocation in 2009.

In September 2009, he was elected to the Central Committee of Science Education of the Party and to the Central Committee of the Chosun Workers' Party in September of the following year.

At the time of the death of Pak Song-chol in October 2008, Kim Jong-rin in April and November 2010, and Jo Myong-rok he was member of their funeral committees.

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Bernhard Goldenberg. Bernhard Goldenberg (20 March 1872 in Dahlerau – 30 May 1917 in Essen) was a German engineer.

Life 
Goldenberg was the son of Friedrich Goldenberg, the head of the dye works at the Wülfing works and son. Later he also did a practical training in mechanical engineering at the Wülfing works. After his mandatory military service, Goldenberg studied mechanical and electrical engineering at the technical universities in Hannover, Stuttgart and Berlin before becoming a technical advisor to Hugo Stinnes in 1899. In 1903, after a study trip that had primarily taken him to the General Electric and Edison Electric Light Corporation plants in the US, he became Technical Director of Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG, and in this capacity was responsible for the technical implementation of the rapid expansion of electrification in the Rhineland and Ruhr area. In this capacity, the power plants in Essen (1903), Reisholz (1909), Wesel (1912) and the promontory headquarters in Knapsack (April 1914), later named after Goldenberg, were built in rapid succession.

After his death in 1917, after a five-day hospital stay and battle with pneumonia, RWE named the Goldenberg-Werk lignite-fired power plant in Knapsack near Cologne after him at Stinnes' suggestion.

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1917 deaths
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Alfred Sit. Alfred Sit Wing-hang, GBS, JP (; born 1962) is a Hong Kong government official. Since 2020, he served as Secretary for Innovation and Technology from 2020 to 2022.

Sit joined the Hong Kong government as an Assistant Electrical and Mechanical Engineer in September 1984 and was promoted to Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer in August 2001. He was subsequently promoted to Government Electrical and Mechanical Engineer in December 2007 and to Deputy Director of Electrical and Mechanical Services in September 2011. He rose to Director of Electrical and Mechanical Services in October 2017.

Sit was president of the Hong Kong Institute of Facility Management, the chairman of the Biomedical Division, and the honorary secretary of the Nuclear Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.

In April 2020, Chief Executive Carrie Lam appointed him Secretary for Innovation and Technology, succeeding Nicholas Yang.

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Living people
Government officials of Hong Kong
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Hong Kong engineers
Recipients of the Gold Bauhinia Star
Tze Leung Lai. Tze Leung Lai (June 28, 1945 – May 21, 2023) was a Chinese-American statistician of Hong Kong descent. He was the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics, as well as a professor of Biomedical Data Science and of the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford University. He co-directed the Center for Innovative Study Design (CISD) at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, one of the highest honors in statistics, in 1983.

He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1967. He received an M.A. in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1971 in Mathematical Statistics from Columbia University.

He supervised 79 doctoral theses and 7 postdoctoral trainees.

He died on May 21, 2023.

Honors and awards
He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1983. He was also awarded a Guggenheim fellowship the same year.

He was a fellow of the American Statistical Association (1986), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and Academia Sinica (1994).

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External links
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American statisticians
Stanford University Department of Statistics faculty
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1945 births
2023 deaths
Members of Academia Sinica