omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. The International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) is the oldest conference in the field of distributed computing systems in the world. It was launched by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) in October 1979, and is sponsored by such committee. It was started as an 18-month conference until 1983 and became an annual conference since 1984. The ICDCS has a long history of significant achievements and worldwide visibility, and has recently celebrated its 37th year.

Location history
 2019: Dallas, Texas, United States
 2018: Vienna, Austria
 2017: Atlanta, GA, United States 
 2016: Nara, Japan
 2015: Columbus, Ohio, United States
 2014: Madrid, Spain
 2013: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
 2012: Macau, China
 2011: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
 2010: Genoa, Italy
 2009: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
 2008: Beijing, China
 2007: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 2006: Lisbon, Portugal
 2005: Columbus, Ohio, United States
 2004: Keio University, Japan
 2003: Providence, RI, United States
 2002: Vienna, Austria
 2001: Phoenix, AZ, United States
 2000: Taipei, Taiwan
 1999: Austin, TX, United States
 1998: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 1997: Baltimore, MD, United States
 1996: Hong Kong
 1995: Vancouver,  Canada
 1994: Poznań, Poland
 1993: Pittsburgh, PA, United States
 1992: Yokohama, Japan
 1991: Arlington, TX, United States
 1990: Paris, France
 1989: Newport Beach, CA, United States
 1988: San Jose, CA, United States
 1987: Berlin, Germany
 1986: Cambridge, MA, United States
 1985: Denver, CO, United States
 1984: San Francisco, CA, United States
 1983: Hollywood, FL, United States
 1981: Versailles, France
 1979: Huntsville, AL, United States

See also
 List of distributed computing conferences

External links
 ICDCS 2018 - July 2–July 5, 2018, Vienna, Austria
 ICDCS 2007 - June 25–June 29, 2007, Toronto, Canada.
 ICDCS 2006 - July 4–July 7, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.
 ICDCS 2005 - July 6–July 10, 2005, Columbus, Ohio, United States.
 ICDCS 2004 - March 23–March 26, 2004, Keio University, Japan.
 ICDCS 2003 - May 19–May 22, 2003, Providence, RI, United States.
 ICDCS 2002 - July 2–July 5, 2002, Vienna, Austria.
 ICDCS 2001 - April 16–April 19, 2001, Phoenix, AZ, United States.

Distributed computing conferences
Computer networking conferences
Round Foundry. The Round Foundry is a former engineering works off Water Lane in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Founded in the late 18th century, the building was developed into the Round Foundry Media Centre in 2005.

History
The Round Foundry was built in 1795–1797 by a partnership of James Fenton (1754–1834), Matthew Murray, David Wood and the financier William Lister, trading as Fenton, Murray and Wood, (later Fenton, Murray and Jackson). It was at the Round Foundry that Matthew Murray made his name as a great engineer. He produced textile machinery, steam engines and the first locomotives for the Middleton Railway including Salamanca. The Round Foundry developed to become one of the world's first specialist engineering foundries. 

Disaster struck in 1875 when fire destroyed some of the original buildings, including the large rotunda that gave the Round Foundry its name. Some buildings were saved, the earliest of which dates from 1798. There are a total of 7 listed buildings in the Round Foundry complex. These include the Dry Sand Foundry, the Green Sand Foundry and 101 Water Lane.

Redevelopment
The first phase of a £30 million redevelopment has led to the creation of the Round Foundry Media Centre, which provides office space for creative and digital media companies. This project also provides restaurants, bars and cafés set in a number of courtyards that try to retain as much of the character of the old foundry as is possible. This redevelopment project has won a number of architectural awards including; 'Best Creative Land Use' and 'Best Urban Centre', Yorkshire Urban Renaissance Awards 2005; 'Project of the Year', RICS Regeneration Awards 2005; 'Excellence in Architecture and Built Environment' and 'Best Commercial, Industrial and Retail', RIBA Yorkshire White Rose Awards 2005.

The Engine House, where the Salamanca was constructed, is now home to a number of businesses including KBW Barristers Chambers, ISG engineering and the Engine House Café.

Foundry buildings

See also
 Railway Foundry
 Listed buildings in Leeds (City and Hunslet Ward - southern area)

References

External links
Matthew Murray Diagram of Marshall's mills and Matthew Murray's engineering works (Round Foundry) at Water Lane. 
Leeds Engine Builders Plan of Round Foundry c.1841, steam engine manufactory of Fenton, Murray and Jackson.

Listed buildings in Leeds
Grade II* listed buildings in West Yorkshire
Grade II listed buildings in West Yorkshire
List of battery electric vehicles. Battery electric vehicles are vehicles exclusively using chemical energy stored in rechargeable battery packs, with no secondary source of propulsion (e.g., hydrogen fuel cell, internal combustion engine, etc.). The following list includes mass-produced vehicles, formerly produced vehicles, and planned vehicles.

Production models

Highway-capable automobiles 
Highway-capable battery electric automobiles capable of  highway speed:

Outside the Chinese market 
Production highway-capable battery electric automobiles originating outside the Chinese market, both dedicated battery electric vehicles (without an ICE-powered counterpart sharing the same body) or non-dedicated battery electric vehicles (based on an ICE-powered vehicle):

Chinese-market origin 
Production highway-capable battery electric automobiles originating within the Chinese market, including vehicles produced by Chinese manufacturers for domestic market and export markets, and vehicles developed by foreign manufacturers that are only offered in the Chinese market:

Non-highway capable automobiles 
Battery electric automobiles not capable of  highway speed:

Former production models

Post-1995

Outside the Chinese market

Chinese-market origin

Pre-1995

Demonstration fleets or prototypes

Vehicles planned for production

Outside the Chinese market

Chinese-market origin

Motorcycles and scooters 

KTM Freeride
Sur-Ron
Niu Technologies
Ola Electric
Zero Motorcycles
Gogoro
LiveWire
Energica Motor Company
Yadea
Segway

Buses

 Alexander Dennis Enviro 200
 BYD C9
 BYD K9
 Higer Steed EV
 Optare Metrocity EV
 Optare Metrodecker EV
 Optare Versa EV
 Oreos 2X (PVI)
 Oreos 4X (PVI)
 eBuzz K7
 VinBus

Trucks 

 Tesla Semi, all-electric class 8 truck.
 FR8, EVage Motors showcases 1-tonne electric delivery truck

Three-wheelers

Passenger vehicles 

Arcimoto

 FUV

Aptera Motors

 Aptera (solar electric vehicle)

Champion polyplast

 SAARTHI SHAVAK E AUTO

Mahindra Electric Mobility Limited

 Treo

Omega Seiki Mobility

 STREAM

Piaggio Vehicles Private Limited

 Ape' E-City

Cargo vehicles 

Altigreen Propulsion Labs Pvt Ltd

 NEEV
 NEEV HD
 NEEV LR

Keto Motors Private Limited

 BULKe
 BULKe plus 2.0

Kinetic Green Energy & Power Solutions Ltd

 KINETIC SAFAR STAR – 400
 KINETIC SAFAR JUMBO – PICKUP

Lohia Auto Industries

 Humsafar iB

Mahindra Electric Mobility Limited

 Treo Zor
 Treo Zor FB
 Treo Zor DV

Omega Seiki Mobility 

 RAGE+
 SUN-RI

Rickshaws 

Kinetic Green Energy & Power Solutions Ltd

 KINETIC SAFAR SMART
 Kinetic SAFAR SMART LFP

Mahindra Electric Mobility Limited

 Treo Yaari HRT
 Treo Yaari SFT

Omega Seiki Mobility

 RIDE

See also 
 Battery electric multiple unit
 Battery electric vehicle
 Electric aircraft
 Electric boat
 Electric fire engine
 Electric motorcycles and scooters
 Electric vehicle conversion
 Plug-in electric vehicle
 Plug-in hybrid

Notes

References

External links 

Electric vehicles
Electric vehicles
Electric
Production electric cars
Superoptimization. Superoptimization is the process where a compiler automatically finds the optimal sequence for a loop-free sequence of instructions. Real-world compilers generally cannot produce genuinely optimal code, and while most standard compiler optimizations only improve code partly, a superoptimizer's goal is to find the optimal sequence, the canonical form. Superoptimizers can be used to improve conventional optimizers by highlighting missed opportunities so a human can write additional rules.

History
The term superoptimization was first coined by Alexia Massalin in the 1987 paper Superoptimizer: A Look at the Smallest Program. 
The label "program optimization" has been given to a field that does not aspire to optimize but only to improve.
This misnomer forced Massalin to call her system a superoptimizer, which is actually an optimizer to find an optimal program.

In 1992, the GNU Superoptimizer (GSO) was developed to integrate into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Later work further developed and extended these ideas.

Techniques
Traditionally, superoptimizing is performed via exhaustive brute-force search in the space of valid instruction sequences. This is a costly method, and largely impractical for general-purpose compilers. Yet, it has been shown to be useful in optimizing performance-critical inner loops. It is also possible to use a SMT solver to approach the problem, vastly improving the search efficiency (although inputs more complex than a basic block remains out of reach).

In 2001, goal-directed superoptimizing was demonstrated in the Denali project by Compaq research. In 2006, answer set declarative programming was applied to superoptimization in the Total Optimisation using Answer Set Technology (TOAST) project at the University of Bath.

Superoptimization can be used to automatically generate general-purpose peephole optimizers.

Publicly available superoptimizers
Several superoptimizers are available for free download.

 For the x86 family of instruction sets:
 GNU superoptimizer (superopt) (GSO) (1992)  – also supports many other ISAs
 STOKE, a stochastic optimizer for x86-64 x86 assembly language.
 For ARM:
 Unbounded Superoptimizer, transforming LLVM IR into ARMv7-A assembly
 For embedded systems: 
 PIC microcontroller SuperOptimizer (2003)
 A feasibility study by Embecosm (2014) for AVR, based on GSO
 For the JVM:
 Clojure superoptimizer for the Java virtual machine (2012)
 For LLVM IR:
 souper superoptimizer for programs in the LLVM intermediate language.
 For WebAssembly
 slumps provides superoptimization for WASM programs based on souper.

See also
 Peephole optimization
 Dead code elimination
 Metacompilation

References

Compiler optimizations
Tecnomatix. Tecnomatix Technologies, Ltd. (formerly NASDAQ: TCNO) is a provider of Manufacturing Process Management and Product lifecycle management software to the electronics, automotive, aerospace and heavy equipment industries, currently owned by Siemens AG. Tecnomatix's eMPower is a suite of end-to-end Manufacturing Process Management solutions for the collaborative development and optimization of manufacturing processes across the extended enterprise and supply chain.

History
Founded in Israel in 1983, the Tecnomatix Corporation provided Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) solutions for the automotive, electronics, aerospace and other manufacturing and processing industries. The Tecnomatix products suite offered software and services in all process monitoring and control, production management and execution.

Shlomo Dovrat was the founder of Tecnomatix and served as CEO and President from its inception until 1995. In 1993, Dovrat led Tecnomatix's IPO on the NASDAQ (TCNO). He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1995 until December 2001. In 1994, Dovrat was succeeded as CEO by Harel Beit-On (also the company's President. In 2001 Beit-On was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors, and served as Chairman until the company's acquisition in 2005.

In 1999, Tecnomatix acquired Unicam Software Inc., a provider of production engineering software to the printed circuit board (PCB) assembly market.

In 2003, Tecnomatix acquired USDATA Corporation. USDATA was the creator of the supervisory-level control (SCADA) product FactoryLink, and the manufacturing execution systems (MES) product Xfactory.

In 2005, Tecnomatix was acquired by the UGS Corporation and the Tecnomatix product was combined with UGS' existing MPM solutions. The current Tecnomatix software line includes Part Manufacturing, Assembly Planning, Resource Planning, Plant Simulation, Human Performance, Quality, Production Management, Manufacturing Data Management.

In January 2007 UGS was purchased by Siemens AG, and today the Tecnomatix solutions are available from Siemens Digital Industries Software. Siemens Digital Industries Software announced Tecnomatix version 9 in June 2009.

See also
 UGS Corporation
 Manufacturing Process Management
 Product lifecycle management

References

External links
 Official Tecnomatix Website

Business software
Product lifecycle management
Computer-aided design software
Computer-aided manufacturing software
Software companies of Israel
Siemens software products
Weapon (novel). Weapon is a 1989 science fiction novel by Robert Mason. The book was Mason's first novel; he had previously written a memoir about his experiences in Vietnam titled Chickenhawk. The book is about an android, designed to kill, which experiences a crisis of conscience and runs away from its government masters to live in a Nicaraguan village.

Plot
The novel describes a new weapon system being developed for the US military, named Solo. A robot, Solo is designed to replace human soldiers in battle. It is humanoid in shape, in order to allow it to use all the military vehicles and equipment human soldiers do. Solo is capable of feats of great speed, strength and endurance.

Most importantly, Solo is governed by a neural network computer which is able to learn and think much as a human brain does. The robot's designer recognises that this could potentially make Solo as unpredictable and difficult to control as any human is; the military therefore insist that Solo be told a carefully edited version of world history and politics in which the United States are in all cases the unambiguously "good guys" and winners of all conflicts - for example Solo is told that the US won a clear victory in the Vietnam War.

Despite his indoctrination, Solo begins to display what his designers consider aberrant behaviour. He begins to question and occasionally refuse his orders. For example, on one training session Solo is assigned to shoot a human target in a sniper mission. He is told that the mission and target are real, and that he is to genuinely kill the person. He point blank refuses to do so. More worryingly to his designers, Solo is not entirely forthcoming about his reasons for such hesitancy.

On another training mission Solo is lost; he is discovered by a group of Nicaraguan villagers who although initially fearful of him, come to trust the robot and depend on his protection. The novel details Solo's developing friendship with the villagers, whilst the US military attempts to recapture him.

Film and comic adaptations
It was adapted to film as Solo in 1996, taking the name of the main character and title of the sequel novel released in 1992. Also, Dark Horse Comics released a two-part comic adaptation of the movie.

Release details
1989, U.S., Putnam, , 1 March 1989, Hardcover
1990, U.S., Diamond Books, , 1 January 1990, Paperback

1991, U.S., Dove Entertainment Inc., , 1 September 1991, Audio cassette

External links 
Sample Chapters from Robert Mason's Website
Author's Note on Weapon

1989 American novels
1989 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Debut science fiction novels
American novels adapted into films
Science fiction novels adapted into films
1989 debut novels
Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative. Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in San Augustine, Texas.

The Cooperative was organized in January 1938 and its first power lines were energized in December of that year.

The Cooperative serves portions of eight counties in the state of Texas, in a territory generally surrounding San Augustine.

Currently (as of July 2006) the Cooperative has approximately 7,000 miles of line and nearly 37,000 meters.  This includes the customers of the Garrison, Texas municipal-owned system which the Cooperative purchased in September 2001.

External links
Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative

Companies based in Texas
Electric cooperatives in Texas
Jasper County, Texas
Nacogdoches County, Texas
Newton County, Texas
Panola County, Texas
Rusk County, Texas
Sabine County, Texas
San Augustine County, Texas
Shelby County, Texas
Inboard motor. An inboard motor is a marine propulsion system for boats. As opposed to an outboard motor, where an engine is mounted outside the hull of the craft, an inboard motor is an engine enclosed within the hull of the boat, usually connected to a propulsion screw by a driveshaft.

Marine diesel engines used in international shipping are the largest, most powerful engines ever produced.

History

The first marine craft to utilize inboard motors were steam engines going back to 1805 and the Clermont and the Charlotte Dundas.  Harbour tugs, and small steam launches had
inboard steam engines.  In the 1880s the naphtha engine made its appearance and a few boat engines appeared. Such engines had low power and high fuel consumption. The gasoline (petrol) engine pioneer Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach built a four-cycle boat engine and tested it in 1887 on the Neckar River.  Sintz in America built several commercially available engines from 1893.

Sizes

Inboard motors may be of several types, suitable for the size of craft they are fitted to. Boats can use one cylinder to v12 engines, depending if they are used for racing or trolling.

Small craft
For pleasure craft, such as sailboats and speedboats, diesel, gasoline and electric engines are used.  Many inboard motors are derivatives of automobile engines, known as marine automobile engines.  The advent of the stern drive propulsion leg improved design so that auto engines could easily power boats.

Large craft
For larger craft, including ships, where outboard propulsion would in any case not be suitable, the propulsion system may include many types, such as diesel, gas turbine, or even fossil-fuel or nuclear-generated steam. Some early models used coal for steam-driven ships.

The largest engines in the world are marine diesel engines used to power supertankers and container ships. The Wärtsilä RT-flex96C produces , weighs , stands  tall, is  long, and has a maximum of 109 rpm.

Cooling
Some inboard motors are freshwater cooled, while others have a raw water cooling system where water from the lake, river or sea is pumped by the engine to cool it.

However, as seawater is corrosive, and can damage engine blocks and cylinder heads, some seagoing craft have engines which are indirectly cooled via heat exchanger in a keel cooler. Other engines, notably small single and twin cylinder diesels specifically designed for marine use, use raw seawater for cooling and zinc sacrificial anodes are employed to protect the internal metal castings.

References

Marine engines
Resource Ordering Status System. In the United States, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group operates a nationwide, web-based database system for managing wildland firefighting resources. The system, called National Interagency Resource Ordering and Status System or Resource Ordering and Status System, (or simply ROSS), improves efficiency of borrowing and sending home of fire equipment in a large, campaign-type fire. It coordinates equipment movements across bureaucratic lines, making state and federal resources look more like a single pool of equipment and staff.

In the past, borrowing equipment and staff, called resources, from other agencies required people in a command center to place telephone calls and make radio inquiries to find out what was available. Some agencies had internal computer systems to manage equipment and staff moves but they could not exchange data with the systems of other agencies.  This made processes produce non-repeatable results and was labor-intensive, tying up staff on the telephone during their busiest periods. ROSS speeds the process and gives system users an enhanced understanding of:
what quantity of resources are assigned to a fire.
what quantity of resources are on the way to the fire.
how deeply their resources have been depleted by requests.
how soon local equipment will return from a distant assignment.

Participating agencies include many state fire suppression organizations such as CAL FIRE, and federal entities such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, National Information Technology Center, and the United States Forest Service. The National Wildfire Coordinating Group membership is made up of representatives from each of these Federal land management agencies and the National Association of State Foresters.

See also
Incident Command System

External links
ROSS home page
National Association of State Foresters

Wildfire suppression
Firefighting in the United States
John Joseph Martin. John Joseph Martin (October 19, 1922 – August 7, 1997 ) was educated as a mechanical engineer, receiving a Ph. D. from Purdue University in 1951. He joined North American Aviation in 1951 and moved to the Bendix Corporation in 1953. In 1960, he joined the Institute for Defense Analyses. While on sabbatical at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, Hampshire, Martin wrote "Atmospheric Reentry". This book became the first and arguably the best in the open literature about designing reentry vehicles. Sir Michael James Lighthill, who was Martin's host at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, wrote the foreword to Martin's book. In 1969, Martin served as a science advisor to the US President. During 1973-1974 Martin served as an Associate Deputy Director at the Central Intelligence Agency and later as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Air Force. In 1984, Martin became an Associate Administrator at NASA.

Works

References

 

NASA people
20th-century American engineers
1922 births
1997 deaths
United States Air Force civilians
Carter administration personnel
Purdue University alumni
Bendix Corporation people