omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Hollis Godfrey. Hollis Godfrey (1874 – January 17, 1936) was an American writer, teacher, engineering consultant, and president of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry.

Early life and education
Hollis Godfrey was born in 1874 in Lynn, Massachusetts. He was educated at Tufts College and Harvard University, receiving degrees in engineering. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology  in 1889. After graduation Godfrey stayed on to teach at his alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1906 to 1910 Godfrey was the administrator of scientific studies at the Girl's High School of Practical Arts in Boston.

Writing career
While employed at the School of Practical Arts in Boston Godfrey published several literary works. These works include the "ingenious scientific novel" The Man Who Ended War in 1908 and Elementary Chemistry in 1909. Published after Elementary Chemistry Godfrey started the series "Young Captains of Industry" the first book, For The Norton Name, being printed in 1909. His article "The Air of the City," was selected for admission into the Hodgkins Library of Atmospheric Air.

Drexel Institute
Sometime after moving to Philadelphia Godfrey was commissioned to survey the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry's facility. The original intent of the survey was possibly to see if the Institute would be appropriate for the "training [of] city employees." As a result of his survey he recommended that the institute be restructured internally. He was then offered the presidency of the Institute by the board of trustees and assumed office on December 1, 1913. During his presidency, per his survey, Godfrey reorganized the Institute by consolidating departments, creating three schools, and standardizing the programs of study into two- and four-year programs. In January 1919 Godfrey developed the cooperative educational system in the School of Engineering. Godfrey resigned on October 1, 1921.

Advisory commission and later life
In 1916, during his tenure at Drexel, Godfrey was selected by President Woodrow Wilson to be an advisory member for the Council of National Defense, an organization formed to coordinate resources and industry for national security. Godfrey served in that capacity, advising in the area of engineering and education, from 1916 to 1918. In his last year at Drexel he established the Council of Management Education in Boston in March 1920, following his resignation at Drexel he became chairman of the council. He later went on to be president of the Engineering-Economics Foundation. He died on January 17, 1936.

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1874 births
1936 deaths
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
People from Lynn, Massachusetts
Tufts University School of Engineering alumni
Writers from Massachusetts
Presidents of Drexel University
Council of National Defense
On Mark Engineering. On Mark Engineering was an American aircraft remanufacturing company established in 1954 at Van Nuys Airport in California. Its most significant products were rebuilding military surplus A-26 Invaders into executive transports—the Marketeer with an unpressurized fuselage and the Marksman with fuselage pressurization. On Mark converted a single B-26 into the YB-26K Prototype. After successful tests, that prototype was reconfigured with 39 other planes into the B-26K Counter-Invaders (later redesignated A-26A) for counterinsurgency missions with the US Air Force. A total of 40 of the planes were produced. On Mark also undertook conversion work of a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser into the prototype Pregnant Guppy for Aero Spacelines.

Products

 On Mark Executive
 On Mark Marketeer
 On Mark Marksman 
 B-26K Counter-Invader
 Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy—prototype only

References

External links

 Marksman by Airscene org uk
 A site on Van Nuys Airport, including On Mark Engineering

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Manufacturing companies based in Los Angeles
Manufacturing companies established in 1954
Technology companies established in 1954
1954 establishments in California
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Chen Xing (hydrologist). Chen Xing (; July 1921 – 15 May 2009) was a Chinese hydrologist who was involved in the design of the Banqiao Dam.

Chen was born in Nanjing and was a vocal critic of the government dam building policy, which involved many dams in the basin. He had recommended 12 sluice gates for the Banqiao Dam, but this was scaled back to 5 and Chen Xing was criticized as being too conservative. Other dams in the project, including the Shimantan Dam, had similar reductions of safety features and Chen was removed from the project. In 1961, after problems with the water system surfaced, he was brought back to help. Chen continued to be an outspoken critic of the system and was again removed from the project.

In August 1975, both Banqiao Dam and Shimantan Dam failed when deluged by Super Typhoon Nina, as Chen had warned. Their failure destroyed 60 more dams downstream.

In the 1980s, Chen participated in the Agri-Energy Roundtable (AER), attending and speaking at several conferences on the world stage and becoming the first Chinese to join AER's board. In 1984 Chen worked with his provincial governor, He Zhukang, to invite an international investment mission- later organized by AER - which proved successful in attracting world attention to the resources and opportunities in central China.

He died in May 2009 at the age of 87.

See also 

 Banqiao Dam
 1975 Banqiao Dam failure

References

1921 births
2009 deaths
Chinese hydrologists
Scientists from Nanjing
Tablet press. A tablet press is a mechanical device that compresses powder into tablets of uniform size and weight. A tablet press can be used to manufacture tablets of a wide variety of materials, including pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, cleaning products, industrial pellets and cosmetics. To form a tablet, the granulated powder material must be metered into a cavity formed by two punches and a die, and then the punches must be pressed together with great force to fuse the material together.

A tablet is formed by the combined pressing action of two punches and a die. In the first step of a typical operation, the bottom punch is lowered in the die creating a cavity into which the granulated feedstock is fed. The exact depth of the lower punch can be precisely controlled to meter the amount of powder that fills the cavity. The excess is scraped from the top of the die, and the lower punch is drawn down and temporarily covered to prevent spillage. Then, the upper punch is brought down into contact with the powder as the cover is removed. The force of compression is delivered by high pressure compression rolls which fuse the granulated material together into a hard tablet. After compression, the lower punch is raised to eject the tablet.

Tablet tooling design is critical to ensuring a robust tablet compression process. Considerations when designing pharmaceutical tablet compression tool design include tooling set, head flat, top head angle, top head radius, head back angle, and punch shank. As well as ensuring a single dose of drug, the tablet tooling is also critical in ensuring the size, shape, embossing and other physical characteristics of the tablet that are required for identification.

There are 2 types of tablet presses: single-punch and rotary tablet presses. Most high-speed tablet presses take the form of a rotating turret that holds any number of punches. As they rotate around the turret, the punches come into contact with cams which control the punch's vertical position. Punches and dies are usually custom made for each application, and can be made in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and can be customized with manufacturer codes and scoring lines to make tablets easier to break. Depending on tablet size, shape, material, and press configuration, a typical modern press can produce from 250,000 to over 1,700,000 tablets an hour.

See also 
 Tablet (pharmacy)

References

Machines
Drug manufacturing
Viztel Solutions Group. Viztel Solutions Berhad is involved in the business of developing and marketing of voice technologies and telecom software services.

It is a fast-growing technology firm that was publicly listed on the MESDAQ Market of Bursa Malaysia (MESDAQ: VIZTEL, 0050) since July 2004. The Group has business presence in South East Asia, Greater China, Middle East and USA.

History 
Viztel Solutions Group or Viztel Solutions Berhad was founded in 1999 by 4 engineers, namely Lau Kin Wai, Pang Hao Chen, Chong Kam Hoe and Tan Heng Kiat.

References

External links 
Systech Berhad (MYX: 0050), bursamalaysia.com
Software Company Overview of Viztel Solutions Bhd, bloomberg.com

Defunct companies of Malaysia
Companies formerly listed on Bursa Malaysia
Companies disestablished in 2011
1999 establishments in Malaysia
2011 disestablishments in Malaysia
Companies formerly listed on MESDAQ
Malaysian companies established in 1999
Software companies established in 1999
Jim Brown (computer scientist). James A. Brown was manager of the group within IBM responsible for the programming language APL2 program product. APL2 was first available on IBM mainframe computers in 1980, and was later available under Linux, Unix, and Windows. In 1993, Brown received the Kenneth E. Iverson Award for Outstanding Contribution to APL from the Association for Computing Machinery.

In 1996, he left IBM to become a consultant and entrepreneur. In 1999, Brown cofounded SmartArrays, Inc., and has held a senior position in the company for many years. The firm develops specialized analytic software based on columnar databases, with memory-resident vector processing, for uses where customers consider commercial off-the-shelf software to be more expensive, slow, or limited. Note: SmartArrays ceased operations and the corporation was dissolved as of February 2019

References

External links

American computer scientists
Computer systems researchers
Programming language researchers
IBM employees
APL implementers
Living people
1943 births
The E and B Experiment. The E and B Experiment (EBEX) was an experiment that measured the cosmic microwave background radiation of a part of the sky during two sub-orbital (high-altitude) balloon flights and took large, high-fidelity images of the CMB polarization anisotropies using a telescope which flew at over  high. The altitude of the telescope made it possible to reduce the atmospheric absorption of microwaves, which allowed massive cost reduction compared to a satellite probe, however, only a small part of the sky can be scanned and for a shorter duration than a typical satellite mission such as WMAP.

The first flight was an engineering flight over North America in 2009. For the science flight, EBEX was launched on 29 December 2012, near McMurdo Station in Antarctica. It circled around the South Pole using the polar vortex winds before landing on 24 January 2013 about  from McMurdo.

Instrumentation
EBEX consists of a 1.5 m Dragone-type telescope that provides a resolution of 8 arcminutes in frequency bands centered on 150, 250, and 410 GHz.  Polarimetry is achieved with a continuously-rotating achromatic half-wave plate supported by a superconducting magnetic bearing and a fixed wire grid polarizer.  The wire grid is mounted at 45 degrees to the incoming light beam and transmits one polarization state while reflecting the other.  Each polarization state is subsequently detected by its own focal plane with a 6 degree instantaneous field-of-view on the sky.  Each of the focal planes contains up to 960 transition-edge sensors read out with frequency-domain SQUID multiplexing.

Temporary disappearance
The EBEX telescope was reported missing in May 2012, while in transit from the University of Minnesota to the NASA
Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas. The driver of the truck said that the trailer had been stolen while parked at a motel in Dallas. Scientists and employees of the trucking company searched the area and found the missing trailer parked at a truck wash near Hutchins, Texas. The trailer had been opened, but no scientific equipment had been stolen and the telescope was undamaged.

Flight

EBEX launched from Williams Field on the Antarctic coast on 29 December 2012.

See also
Cosmic microwave background experiments
Observational cosmology

References

External links
Main (UMN) Site
Miller CMB group

Physics experiments
Radio astronomy
Cosmic microwave background experiments
Balloon-borne telescopes
Astronomical experiments in the Antarctic
IBM Kittyhawk. Kittyhawk is an IBM supercomputer.  The proposed project entails constructing a global-scale shared supercomputer capable of hosting the entire Internet on one platform as an application, whereas the current Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks.

In 2010 IBM open sourced the Linux kernel patches that allow otherwise unmodified Linux distributions to run on Blue Gene/P.  This action allowed the Kittyhawk system software stack to be run at large scale at Argonne National Lab.  The open source version of Kittyhawk is available on a public website hosted by Boston University.

In 2012 the Kittyhawk project was made a part of the United States Department of Energy fault oblivious execution (FOX) project, and ported to run on the Intrepid supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory.

In 2013 researchers used the Kittyhawk project to demonstrate a novel high-performance cloud computing platform by merging a cloud computing environment with a supercomputer.

Specifications
IBM Research has published three papers detailing the project. Kittyhawk will be based on the previously developed IBM supercomputer called Blue Gene/P. In theory, Kittyhawk can have up to 16,384racks, for a total of 67.1million cores and 32PB (32×250 bytes) of memory.

See also

List of IBM products

References

External links
Current Kittyhawk Homepage (Boston University) 
Towards a Global Scale Public Computer — lecture given by IBM Engineer, Jonathan Appavoo at Stanford University (video archive).

Kittyhawk
Massively parallel computers
William Bryson. William Bryson may refer to:

 William Bryson (minister) (1730–1815), Irish Presbyterian minister.
 William Bryson (civil engineer) (1823–1903), Scottish civil engineer, surveyor and architect 
 William Bryson (electrical engineer) (1855–1906), Scottish electrical and marine engineer
 William Curtis Bryson (born 1945), American judge
 Bill Bryson (politician) (1898–1973), Australian Labor Party politician
 Bill Bryson (born 1951), UK-based American author
 Bill Bryson Sr. (1915–1986), American journalist
IP PBX. An IP PBX ("Internet Protocol private branch exchange") is a system that connects telephone extensions to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and provides internal communication for a business. An IP PBX is a PBX system with IP connectivity and may provide additional audio, video, or instant messaging communication utilizing the TCP/IP protocol stack.

Voice over IP (VoIP) gateways can be combined with traditional PBX functionality to allow businesses to use their managed intranet to help reduce long distance expenses and take advantage of the benefits of a single network for voice and data (converged network). An IP PBX may also provide CTI features.

An IP PBX can exist as a physical hardware device or as a software platform.

Function
IP PBX is primarily a software hosted on a regular desktop or server as per the requirement demands based on the expected traffic & criticality. Till 2019 IP PBX were deployed primarily as inbound and outbound call center solutions for large corporate and commercial cloud telephony operators worldwide cloud communications. Most of the IP PBX installation uses Asterisk (PBX) for its telephony support, built on LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP). With telecom service providers across the world is slowly preferring SIP Trunks over Primary Rate Interface as main enterprise communication delivery, the IP PBXs will now be in demand extensively. As IP PBX is software, functions and features can be designed based on the customers' requirements such as conference calling, XML-RPC control of live calls, interactive voice response (IVR), TTS/ASR (text to speech/automatic speech recognition), PSTN interconnectability supporting both analog and digital circuits, VoIP protocols including SIP, Inter-Asterisk eXchange, H.323, Jingle and others.

IP PBX software
 3CX Phone System - was based on Windows operating system, but now has Windows and Linux versions.
 Asterisk - based on Linux operating system and has the largest market share.

Most of the other IP PBXs were derived and customised on Asterisk as you will find a very long list.

 Bicom Systems
 Dialexia
 trixbox (formerly Asterisk@Home)
 FreeSWITCH

See also
 Cloud communications

References

Office equipment
Telecommunications equipment
VoIP software
Fazlul Halim Chowdhury. Fazlul Halim Chowdhury (1 August 19309 April 1996) was a fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences and one of the longest-serving Vice-Chancellors of the University of Dhaka. He made pioneering contributions to the development of physical chemistry in Bangladesh, publishing more than 20 articles. He focused on cellulose fibers (especially jute), polyelectrolytes, and proteins.

Early life
Chowdhury was born on 1 August 1930 to Abdul Aziz Chowdhury, an educationist and Afifa Khatun of Kunja Sreepur village, in Comilla District, Bengal Presidency.

Education
SSC, Noakhali R.K. Zilla H.E. School, 1945
HSC, Comilla Victoria College, 1947
BSc (Hons), Department of Chemistry, University of Dhaka, First in the First Class
MSc, Department of Chemistry, University of Dhaka, First in the First Class, 1951
PhD, Manchester University, UK (Thesis entitled "The Acid Behaviour of Carboxylic Derivatives", 5 July 1956) Awarded   "Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851" to pursue PhD studies.

Academic career

Lecturer, 1952–53; assistant professor, 195658, Department of Chemistry, Dhaka University
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, Rajshahi University, 195890
Nuffield Fellow, Cambridge University, U.K. 196062
Dean, Faculty of Science, Rajshahi University, 1972
Commonwealth Senior Fellow, Cambridge University, U.K. 197374
Member, University Grants Commission (UGC), 197476
Vice Chancellor, University of Dhaka, 197683
Fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, 1979 
Asia Foundation Fellowship, 1984
President, Bangladesh Chemical Society, 198486
Senior Advisor in Basic Sciences, UNESCO, New Delhi, 198590
University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka, 199596
President, The Rajshahi University Teachers Association
Provost, Abdul Latif Hall, Rajshahi University
Senior Researcher, American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington D.C.

Research
Chowdhury made pioneering contributions to the development of physical chemistry in the country, publishing more than 20 articles. He focused on cellulose fibers (of jute in particular), polyelectrolytes, and proteins. He also guided a number of PhD theses.

References 

1930 births
1996 deaths
Fellows of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
Bangladeshi chemists
Physical chemists
Vice-chancellors of the University of Dhaka
Academic staff of the University of Rajshahi
Comilla Victoria Government College alumni
People from Chauddagram Upazila
Marine Development. Marine Development (Glasgow) Ltd., established in Scotland in 1972, developed the linkspan for over 30 years. They pioneered integral tank, submerged tank, and mobile linkspans under the direction of John Rose. These semi-buoyant ship-to-shore bridges minimise engineering infrastructure requirements and were originally designed a cheap and simple means of using ro-ro ferries in the Western Isles of Scotland, but later found wider applications.

They no longer trade but their expertise was acquired in 2007 by TTS Marine, who are developing the design of tank linkspan further.

References

Companies of Scotland
Water transport infrastructure
1972 establishments in Scotland
Manufacturing companies established in 1972
British companies established in 1972
Some Assembly Required (2007 TV series). Some Assembly Required is a Discovery Channel television series which premiered in the United States on December 27, 2007 and originally aired in 2007 and 2008. Hosts Brian Unger and physicist Lou Bloomfield explain how various things are manufactured and participate in the manufacturing process. The show is also titled as How Stuff's Made in the UK.

Episodes

Season 1 (2007–2008)

Season 2 (2008)

References

External links
Official website

Discovery Channel original programming
Documentary television series about industry
Edusim. Edusim is a cave automatic virtual environment "Immersive Touch" 3D natural user interface (NUI)-based concept of lesson driven (multi-user) 3D virtual worlds on the classroom interactive whiteboard or classroom interactive surface.  The Edusim concept is demonstrated by the Edusim free and open-source multi-user 3D Open Cobalt virtual world platform and authoring tool kit modified for the classroom interactive whiteboard or surface. The Edusim application is a modified edition of the open source Open Cobalt Project and relies heavily on the affordances of direct manipulation of 3D virtual learning models and constructionist learning principles.

Goals 
The goal of the Edusim project is to provide an example platform, and initial resources for demonstrating the use of lesson driven 3D virtual environments in the classroom or for training purposes using interactive surfaces and/or whiteboards as the hardware platform for the "immersive touch" 3D NUI direct manipulation of the 3D learning content. For example, students are able to play with 3D renderings of dinosaur fossils and study the flight of birds from every angle.

History 
The Edusim project originated and the term "immersive touch" 3D natural user interface was coined in September 2007 at the Greenbush Education Service Center in Southeast Kansas as an effort to bring an engaging 3D experience to the classroom interactive whiteboard.  Pilot groups were established with 6th and 7th grade middle school students throughout Southeast Kansas to observe how students would engage with the software, and how the user interface would need to be augmented to account for the affordances of the interactive whiteboard, and the usability of the students.

Immersive Touch 
Immersive Touch natural user interface is defined as the direct manipulation of 3D virtual environment objects using single or multi-touch surface hardware in multi-user 3D virtual environments.  Coined first to describe and define the natural user interface learning principles associated with Edusim.  Immersive Touch natural user interface now appears to be taking on a broader focus and meaning with the broader adaption of surface and touch driven hardware such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and a growing list of other hardware.

Emerging and potential immersive touch environments 
Smartboard 3D Tools: Smartech deployed the first commercial Edusim UI in their 3D Tools product.
Google Earth on a collaborative interactive surface.
iPad

References

Edusim functions and functionalities. Weblog - Greenbush Labs. (11-20-2007).
Key points to variations of the Edusim IWB environment. Weblog - Greenbush Labs. (2-9-2008).
Edusim and the Mobile Immersive Learning Lab. Weblog - Greenbush Labs. (2-28-2009).
 Immersive Touch and Edusim.  Weblog - Greenbush Labs (8-2-2009)

External links 
Official website

Free and open-source software
2007 software
Virtual reality