omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Mark Gorenberg. Mark P. Gorenberg (b. 1955) is an American venture capitalist, currently a managing director of San Francisco-based Zetta Venture Partners, the first early-stage venture capital dedicated to investing in Artificial Intelligence.  He also serves as the Chair of the MIT Corporation, the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education 
Gorenberg received a B.S. from MIT (1976), an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota (1979), and an M.S. in engineering management from Stanford University (1984).

Career 
Gorenberg was a member of the original SPARCstation 1 team at Sun Microsystems.

He joined software venture capital firm Hummer Winblad in 1990, soon after its founding by John Hummer and Ann Winblad and when it was investing its first fund. He served on the board of Hummer Winblad companies such as Omniture, AdForce, NetDynamics, and Scopus Technologies.

After 20 years at Hummer Winblad, Gorenberg raised $30 million to start his own venture capital firm Zetta Venture partners.
At Zetta Venture Partners, he led investments in Domo, DominoDataLab and many others.

He has also served on several other non-profit boards, including the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and The Environment.

MIT
Gorenberg joined the MIT Corporation, the institute's board of trustees, in 2001 and became its chair on July 1, 2023. He previously served on the MIT Investment Committee (MITIMCo), Executive Committee, Development Committee, and search committee that hired Sally Kornbluth in 2022. He is also on the steering committee of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.

After the 2023 United States Congress hearings on antisemitism led to the resignation of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, Gorenberg wrote in an open letter that he and the MIT Corporation "entirely support President Kornbluth".

Politics
Gorenberg is a long-time fund-raiser and operative for the Democratic Party. He was a key member of the 2000 presidential campaign of Bill Bradley, and was a key operative and major fund-raiser for the John Kerry during the 2004 Democratic Party presidential primaries, joining the campaign in January 2002.

Gorenberg oversaw California fund-raising for Senator John F. Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.  He was a member of then-candidate Obama's national finance committee in the 2008 Presidential campaign.

In 2011, President Obama appointed Gorenberg to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Gorenberg was a member of the FCC's Technology Advisory Council.

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American venture capitalists
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
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Active Platform. The Active Platform was the name of a development platform released by Microsoft in the 90s for creating web applications and delivering them to a PC desktop environment. The platform consisted of three parts: ActiveDesktop, which would use push technology to deliver the web applications to the desktop; ActiveServer, which would provide server side scripting; and ActiveX, a set of technologies created to allow software components on different machines to communicate with each other using COM and OLE.

History

The Active Platform strategy started to take shape after the cancellation of another Microsoft project, Blackbird, and as challenges were developing from Microsoft's competitors. Blackbird promised to make web applications function more like those users were accustomed to on the desktop, by using distributed OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) rather than HTML markup. The project was soon scrapped, after Microsoft realized that there were performance problems and it became clear that HTML was gaining in popularity. Meanwhile, Netscape, Sun, Oracle and IBM (referred to as the "Gang of Four") proposed turning Java into a similar type of distributed object platform that would form the basis of an Internet OS which could compete with Windows. Such an OS would rely on web applications that were run through a browser and constructed using Java software components.

In response, Microsoft announced the Active Platform at their SiteBuilder conference in October 1996. ActiveDesktop at first was promised by Microsoft to run on any operating system, but only appeared in Windows, first through the Internet Explorer 4.0 release, and later in Windows 98. Active Server was based on IIS 3.0 and included Active Server Pages, the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Microsoft Transaction Server, and a new message queuing-based middleware. ActiveX was based on a number of technologies Microsoft had already developed for Windows. ActiveX controls were OLE based controls that could be embedded in web pages, applications, and on the desktop.

ActiveX became strongly criticized for security problems, and Microsoft later abandoned further development in favor of the .NET Framework. ActiveDesktop was never widely used and disappeared in newer versions of Windows, the concept only later being readopted in the Windows Sidebar, which was added as a response to the Dashboard feature in Apple's OS X. ActiveServer was later harmonized with the .NET platform and a revamped version of ASP became known as ASP.NET.

The Active Platform strategy became the center of a United States anti-trust suit against Microsoft.

References

Microsoft development tools
Bristol Glider. The Bristol Glider was an early British  two-seat biplane glider designed in 1910s by George Challenger and built by the British & Colonial Aeroplane Company at Filton Aerodrome, Bristol.

Challenger was chief engineer of the British & Colonial Aeroplane Company and he designed the glider for Sir George White the company founder. White had the glider built to present to the Bristol and West of England Aero Club after he had been elected president of the club in October 1910.

Challenger had previously designed the Bristol Boxkite, strongly influenced by Henri Farman's aircraft, and the Glider followed the same layout. It had a foreplane well ahead of the wings, mounted on wire-braced wooden booms, which also carried the undercarriage of a pair of long skids carrying  small wheels.   Four booms, tapering together in elevation, carried a single tailplane rather than the pair used by the Boxkite. The foreplane and tailplane moved together to control pitch. A small pair of rudders was mounted between the booms near the tail. Lateral control was by ailerons fitted on the upper wing.

The Glider first flew from the landing ground at Keynsham on 17 December 1910, piloted by Challenger. It was hand-towed into the air and retrieved uphill using a two-wheel dolly. It was damaged in February 1911 and repaired but a more serious accident on 4 September 1911 cost £30 to repair. The Glider survived until 1912 but the final fate is not known. The Glider had been designed to have a  engine fitted but this was never installed.

Specifications

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References

Notes

Bibliography

Glider aircraft
1910s British sailplanes
Glider
Aircraft first flown in 1910
Vogt Lo-150. The Vogt Lo-150 is a West German high-wing, single seat glider that was designed by Alfred Vogt and produced by the Wolf Hirth Company.

Design and development
The Lo-150 was developed from the  wing span aerobatic Vogt Lo-100 as a performance cross country sailplane.

The Lo-150 is constructed from wood, including its wooden monocoque fuselage. Its  span two-piece wing employs a Clark Y airfoil and incorporates flaps for glidepath control. Early examples use a take-off dolly and land on a fixed skid, while later ones use a fixed monowheel landing gear.

Fifteen Lo-150s were produced.

Operational history
Several Lo-150s were imported into the United States. A.J. Smith won the US Nationals flying an Lo-150 in 1961. Harold Jensen flew an Lo-150  in 1962, winning the Barringer Trophy.

Specifications (Lo-150)

See also

Notes

References

External links
Lo-150 photos on Archive.org

1950s German sailplanes
Glider aircraft
Gordon Bashford. Gordon Dennis Bashford (27 August 1916 – 21 September 1991) was a British car design engineer. Bashford played a significant part in the design of most post-war Rover cars, including the Land Rover.

Career

Bashford joined the Rover Company at the age of 14 as an apprentice in 1930.  He went on to be instrumental in the design of Rover's revolutionary Land Rover off-road vehicle which was launched at the Amsterdam Motor Show in 1948.

After the Land Rover, Bashford was involved in the development of a series of David Bache styled Rover cars, including the P4, as chief designer of chassis and body for the P6 and as designer of the SD1 which won European Car of the Year in 1977.

Bashford also played a key role, along with Spen King, in the development of the 1970 Range Rover.

Bashford retired in 1981.

References

British automobile designers
1916 births
1991 deaths
Larnite. Larnite is a calcium silicate mineral with the formula . It is the calcium member of the olivine group of minerals.

It was first described from an occurrence at Scawt Hill, Larne, Northern Ireland in 1929 by Cecil Edgar Tilley and named for the location. At the type locality it occurs with wollastonite, spurrite, perovskite,	merwinite,	melilite and gehlenite. It occurs in contact metamorphosed limestones and chalks adjacent to basaltic intrusives.

Dicalcium silicate is chemically β–, sometimes represented by the idealized oxide formula  also noted  in the cement chemist notation (CCN). When used in the cement industry, the mineral is usually referred to as belite.

References

Nesosilicates
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 14
Qoscos Grid. The QosCosGrid is a quasi-opportunistic supercomputing system using grid computing.

QosCosGrid acts as middleware resource management facilities which provide end-users with supercomputer-like performance by connecting many computing clusters together. By using QosCosGrid large-scale computing models in existing programming languages such as Fortran or C can be distributed among multiple computing resources.

See also
 BOINC

References

External links
CORDIS

Supercomputing
Vogt Lo-170. The Vogt Lo-170 is a West German high-wing, FAI Open Class single seat glider that was designed by Alfred Vogt.

Design and development
The development of the Lo-170 was started in 1960. It was intended as a modern  wingspan cross country sailplane for production by Schempp-Hirth.

The forward fuselage was built from welded steel tube, surrounded by a fibreglass skin. The wing was built from plywood in a negative mold and then covered with fibreglass. The wing uses a Wortmann FX 61-184 airfoil.

Schempp-Hirth decided to produce the Schempp-Hirth Standard Austria and its FAI Open Class variant Schempp-Hirth SHK instead and as a result only one Lo-170 was produced.

Operational history
The aircraft was converted to a motor glider in 1972, with two wing-mounted engines. Plans included increasing the span to .

Specifications (Lo-170)

See also

References

External links
Lo-170 photos

1960s German sailplanes
Glider aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1968
Sarah Allen (software developer). Sarah Allen (born Sarah Lindsley) is an American software developer and entrepreneur.  Allen attended Brown University in Rhode Island, where she majored in computer science and visual arts. Early in her career, she led the development of Adobe Shockwave Multiuser Server, Flash Media Server, and Flash video, and co-founded the company that created Adobe After Effects.
In 2013, Allen was selected for the Presidential Innovation Fellows program working with the Smithsonian Institution.

Companies
In 2010, Allen co-founded and serves as the chief technology officer of mobile startup Mightyverse. In parallel she is the founder of San Francisco-based Ruby on Rails consultancy Blazing Cloud, a product-centric mobile application consulting firm. In 2010, she co-authored the book Pro Smartphone Cross-Platform Development.

Representation of women
In the Silicon Valley community, Allen contributes her time to improving the representation of women in technology as the president of RailsBridge, which aims to "bridge the gap from aspiring developer to contributing open source community member through mentoring, teaching and writing".

Recognition
In 1998, Allen was named one of the Top 25 Women of the Web by San Francisco Women on the Web. Allen was honored on Ada Lovelace Day by the Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners in 2010 and participated in the mobile-themed Google Tech Talk at the company's headquarters in Mountain View. In 2013, Allen was chosen as a Presidential Innovation Fellow and worked for six months with the Smithsonian Institution.

Publications
 "The Future of the Web is not the Past of Windows" W3C Position Paper: Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents. June 2004.
 "Pro Smartphone Cross-Platform Development iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Android Development and Distribution" Sept 2010, Apress.

References

External links 

 

American women computer scientists
Brown University School of Engineering alumni
American software engineers
American computer scientists
21st-century American businesswomen
21st-century American businesspeople
21st-century American scientists
21st-century American women scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Lehtovaara PIK-16 Vasama. The Lehtovaara PIK-16 Vasama () is a Finnish mid-wing, single-seat, FAI Standard Class glider that was designed by Tuomo Tervo, Jorma Jalkanen and Kurt Hedstrom, who were students at the Polyteknikkojen Ilmailukerho (PIK) and produced by Lehtovaara.

Design and development
The PIK-16 is constructed from wood, with a fibreglass nose. The  span wing employs a Wortmann FX-05-168 (14% modification) airfoil at the wing root, transitioning to a NACA 63 (2)-165 at the wing tip. The wing features dive brakes. The prototype Vasama had V tail, but it was changed to cruciform tail on production aircraft.

A total of 56 PIK-16s were built. The aircraft was not type certified but it did become the second most exported Finnish glider, surpassed only by the later PIK-20 series.

Operational history
The prototype PIK-16 set a Finnish national record for a  triangle course of  before it had even finished flight testing.

The design won the OSTIV prize at the World Gliding Championships held at Junín, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina in 1963, finishing third in the standard class.

Variants
PIK-16a
Prototype with a V-tail.
PIK-16b
Revised design with a cruciform tail, four built by the Finnish Aeronautical Association at the Jämi Flying School.
PIK-16c
Third version

Aircraft on display
Finnish Aviation Museum

Specifications (Pik-16 Vasama)

See also

References

Citations

Bibliography

1960s Finnish sailplanes
PIK aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1961
Mid-wing aircraft
Schneider Rundfunkwerke. Schneider Rundfunkwerke AG was a German manufacturer of mass market audio equipment.

History
The origins of the company trace to 1889 in Türkheim, Bavaria, Germany, when Felix Schneider founded a company manufacturing industrial woodworking tools. In 1965 the business entered the audio electronics market through the manufacture of radio cabinets

During the 1970s and 1980s the Schneider name became associated with audio systems; the company was unusual for a German audio systems manufacturer in that it focused on low cost products rather than the luxury sector.

In 1984 computers from the Amstrad company were marketed under the Schneider brand in Germany and central Europe. Schneider sold the Amstrad CPC 464, Amstrad PCW and Schneider Joyce, followed by the Amstrad PC1512 and PC1640.

In 1987 the association with Amstrad ended, and the company produced PC compatible machines from 1988, like the Schneider Euro PC.  

The Gebrüder Steidinger company (maker of the Dual turntable line) and brand were acquired from Thomson in 1988, in part to obtain a saleable brand name in France where the large and long established company Schneider SA was already present. In the 1990s the company's name was changed to Schneider Electronics

In 2002 the company was bankrupt. It was acquired by the TCL Corporation for €8.2 million in 2002.

See also
 Schneider Computer Division
 Schneider Euro PC

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Consumer electronics brands
German brands
Electronics companies of Germany
Companies based in Bavaria
Electronics companies established in 1889
Electronics companies disestablished in 2002
2002 mergers and acquisitions
German companies disestablished in 2002
German companies established in 1889
Engelberg Huller Company. The Engelberg Huller Company was established in 1888 in Syracuse, New York, by John R. Montague, to manufacture and distribute the Engelberg Huller machine which was invented by Brazilian mechanical engineer and inventor, Evaristo Conrado Engelberg, and Willard Halstead to remove the husks and shells from rice and coffee during the milling process.

The Engelberg Huller Company was sold to an agricultural equipment manufacturer located in Nicholson, Pennsylvania, in 1976.  The CEO and owner in 1976 was James Solon. Engelberg Huller Co., INC is still operating a manufacturing plant in Nicholson, PA, exporting Engelberg spare parts and equipment.

References

External links
The Engelberg Huller
Preparing Green Coffee for Marketing -A Coffee Chronology 
OWWM – Engelberg, Inc. – Assigned Patents
OWWM – Engelberg, Inc. – Assigned Patents
Patents for Engelberg Huller Co. – Directory of American Tool and Machinery Patents, 2002
U.S. Federal Trademark Registration 1905 – Engelberg Huller Co. – Logos Database, 2011

Defunct companies based in Syracuse, New York
Manufacturing companies established in 1888
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1976
1888 establishments in New York (state)
1976 disestablishments in New York (state)
American companies disestablished in 1976
Dyn'Aéro Twin-R. The Dyn'Aéro Twin-R is a twin engine kit-built light aircraft based on the single-engine Dyn'Aéro MCR4S, designed and built in France. Its first flight was in March 2011.

Design and development
The Dyn'Aéro Twin-R is a twin engine development of the four-seat, single-engine Dyn'Aéro MCR4S, with a  greater span and increases in tail surface areas. It was originally intended that it should be built from drawings but changes to French multi-engine aircraft regulations led to plans for kit production.

The Twin-R follows previous MCR series structural practice with much use of carbon fibre, notably in the spars and ribs of the wings and control surfaces, which have pre-formed aluminium skins. The fuselage is a carbon fibre monocoque. The wings have constant chord as on the MCR4S, though the increased span raises the aspect ratio to 10.8, and the Twin-R uses the winglets of the early MCR4S versions (2001–2), with curved (in plan) trailing edges, rather than the later, straight edged ones. The aileron span is increased by 20% and the flaps are electrically operated. Like the MCR4S, the Twin-R has a swept fin, ventral fin and T-tail but the fin is taller and the all flying tailplane of greater span. The rudder area is almost doubled and the surface is double hinged to control yaw when one engine is shut down.

The cabin and rear fuselage of the Twin-R are similar to that of the MCR4S. The cabin has a large, forward hinged, one piece canopy with trapezoidal windows aft. It seats the pilot and three passengers in two side-by-side rows. The twin  Rotax 912ULS flat four engines are wing mounted. The tricycle undercarriage has wing mounted, faired main legs and wheels.

The Twin-R appeared in public for the first time at the AERO Friedrichshafen 2010 show. It flew for the first time on 3 March 2011 piloted by Christian Briand.

Variants
Twin-R
Kit built.
ELA1
Proposed certificated aircraft.

Specifications (kitbuilt)

References

2010s French sport aircraft
Twin-R
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2011
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
USCGC Gasconade. USCGC Gasconade is a Gasconade-class  river buoy tender which was built in 1964 at St. Louis, Missouri where she was initially homeported. In 1965 she was assigned a homeport of Omaha, Nebraska. In 2021, she was assigned a homeport at St. Louis. On 15 January 2024 she had provided aids-to-navigation service on the Western rivers of the United States for 60 years.

Design
Gasconade pushes a specific-use  aid to navigation maintenance barge, with a crane and buoy service gear. The vessel has a  beam,  of draft, and displaces 141 tons (full load). She is powered by two diesel engines turning two shafts with 600 bhp, giving the vessel a capability of eight knots.

History
Gasconade was initially assigned a homeport at St. Louis, Missouri in 1964 but was transferred to Florence, Nebraska on 27 July 1965. On 27 September 1965, Gasconade transferred her homeport to the Corps of Engineers facility on John J. Pershing Road in Omaha, Nebraska. In the autumn of 2021, she transferred her homeport once again, back to Arsenal Street, St. Louis. Gasconade is commanded by a master chief boatswain's mate with a crew of thirteen assigned. Her area of operation includes the Missouri River from mile marker 0.0 located at Hartford, Illinois to mile marker 732.3 at Sioux City, Iowa.

Citations

Bibliography

External links
  World navies of Today specifications for Gasconade-class tug-type river buoy tenders

Gasconade-class buoy tenders
Ships of the United States Coast Guard
1964 ships
Ships built in St. Louis
Native antimony. Native antimony is a mineral belonging to the group of native elements, with properties equivalent to those of the antimony element obtained by processing its ores. The name comes from the Latin antimonium. For centuries, the term antimony was also used to refer to stibnite or antimonite, the most common mineral containing this element, from which it was typically extracted. In mineralogy, the official name is simply antimony, although, as with other native elements, it is often referred to as native antimony to avoid ambiguity. It is unclear where native antimony was first discovered, although the Sala silver mine in Västmanland, Sweden, is considered the type locality.

Properties 
The fundamental component is antimony itself, and it is usually very pure, although it may contain traces of other elements, especially arsenic, bismuth, iron, or silver. It is part of the native arsenic group, which also includes arsenolamprite (a polymorph of native arsenic), native bismuth, and the compounds stibarsen, pararasenolamprite, and paradocrasite. It has the same physical and chemical properties as the artificial product, but the natural mineral, when coarsely crystalline, is characterized by its perfect cleavage.

Occurrence 
On a microscopic scale, native antimony is quite widespread in sulfide mineralizations containing this element. On a macroscopic scale, it is much rarer. Pseudocubic crystals have been found in the Consols mine in Broken Hill, New South Wales (Australia), and the Lake George mine in York County, New Brunswick (Canada). In the Sala silver mine, in Västmanland, Sweden, it is found as coarsely crystalline masses within calcite. In the Matilde mine in La Viñuela, Málaga (Spain), coarsely crystalline masses with large cleavage planes are also found, forming an important part of the exploited ore, which is exceptional. In Arechuybo, Chihuahua (Mexico), it appears in a granular form. It is associated with stibnite, kermesite, valentinite, and senarmontite.

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Antimony minerals
Native element minerals