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PatrolBot. PatrolBot is a programmable autonomous general purpose service robot rover built by Mobile Robots Inc. PatrolBots are manufactured in various configurations and serve as bases for companies developing delivery robots, security robots, environmental monitoring rovers, robot guides, and other indoor service robots.

Capabilities of PatrolBot 
PatrolBot can scan buildings, create floor plans, and navigate them autonomously using a laser range-finding sensor inside the robot. It employs Monte Carlo/Markov-style localization techniques using a modified value-iterated search technique for navigation. It searches for alternative paths if a hall is blocked, circumnavigates obstacles and re-charges itself at its automated docking/charging station as needed. Using a Wi-Fi system the device can operate autonomously or be controlled remotely.

Applications 

PatrolBot is a robotic base used for delivery, security, sensor monitoring, inspection, and guidance tasks. It is a reference platform added onto with various carrying attachments, sensors, touchscreens and cameras. While it began primarily as a security robot, the platform is now used as a base for a broad range of applications.

Robot Control 
Users set up the robot using a GUI interface to give goals, docking location, and constraints such as forbidden areas into the robot's map. Then, using drag and drop, an operator can give goal names, tasks and macros into a "route" or program for the robot to follow. Users can then use set or random sequences for the robot to follow by dragging routes into a weekly schedule. Advanced users can communicate with the robot from external systems or program more advance actions over a command language interface as well as add new sensors.

PatrolBot can be sent to goals on demand or can patrol a sequence of goals. Status windows in the control GUI provide read-outs from the sensors as well as proprioceptive information such as battery levels. The robot's data logs are available for security and energy optimization as well as troubleshooting.

References

External links
The PatrolBot page at MobileRobots Inc.

Service robots
Differential wheeled robots
Teknisk Ukeblad. Teknisk Ukeblad (TU, ) is a Norwegian engineering magazine. The magazine has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway.

History and profile
TU has appeared weekly since 13 April 1883 and was published by Ingeniørforlaget, now Teknisk Ukeblad Media jointly owned by three national professional associations of engineers and architects: the Norwegian Society of Engineers and Technologists (NITO, founded 1936), Tekna (founded in 1874), and the Norwegian Polytechnic Society (PF, founded 1852).

On 24 June 2010 TU had a total circulation of 302,000 weekly copies.

Corresponding publications are Ny Teknik in Sweden, Ingeniøren in Denmark and Technisch Weekblad in the Netherlands.

References

External links 
Teknisk Ukeblad, the magazine's website
Teknisk Ukeblad, some older volumes digitized by Project Runeberg

1883 establishments in Norway
Engineering magazines
Magazines established in 1883
Magazines published in Oslo
Norwegian-language magazines
Science and technology magazines
Weekly magazines published in Norway
DSSA. The term DSSA can stand for a number of things, including:
 Dental Students' Scientific Association of Egypt
 The U.S. Defense Security Service Academy
 domain-specific software architecture
 Department of Anti-terrorism Strategic Studies, an Italian organization under investigation by the Italian police
 Denver Society of Security Analysts
 The Distributed System Security Architecture, a computer security architecture
 The Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad
 Dynamic Security Surveillance Agent, a software application written in Java language
 The Duluth Superior Sailing Association, offering the joy of sailing to the entire Duluth-Superior community.
 Data Storage System for ACSF, a system to record information about the driving with an automatically commanded steering function.
Robert McEliece. Robert J. McEliece (May 21, 1942 – May 8, 2019) was the Allen E. Puckett Professor and a professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) best known for his work in error-correcting coding and information theory. He was the 2004 recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award and the 2009 recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. He was a life fellow of the IEEE and was elected to the  National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Baltimore, McEliece was educated at Caltech (B.S. in 1964, Ph.D. in mathematics 1967) and attended Trinity College, Cambridge in 1964–65. 

He began working at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an undergraduate, and continued there until 1978. From 1978 until 1982 he was professor of mathematics and research professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. During the 1970s, he collaborated with Elwyn Berlekamp at Cyclotomics. 

In 1982 he returned to Caltech as professor of electrical engineering, retiring in 2007.  At Caltech he won five teaching awards and advised 30 Ph.D. students. From 1978 until his retirement, McEliece consulted with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on error-correcting coding schemes.  Beginning in 1997, he consulted with SONY in Tokyo.

He had three daughters and one son. He died in Pasadena, California on May 8, 2019.

Awards and recognitions
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1984) for contribution to information and coding theory research and applications.
Fellow of the IEEE Information Theory Society

Selected publications

A Public-Key Cryptosystem Based on Algebraic Coding Theory, JPL Deep Space Network Progress Report 42– 44 (1978), pp. 114–116, 
On the Inherent Intractability of Certain Coding Problems (with E. R. Berlekamp and H. Van Tilborg), IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory IT-24 (1978), pp. 384–386,

See also
McEliece cryptosystem

References

External links
McEliece website at Caltech

1942 births
2019 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
American information theorists
Public-key cryptographers
Fellows of the IEEE
People from Washington, D.C.
People from Pasadena, California
M-SG reducing agent. In M-SG an alkali metal is absorbed into silica gel at elevated temperatures. The resulting black powder material is an effective reducing agent and safe to handle as opposed to the pure metal. The material can also be used as a desiccant and as a hydrogen source. 

The metal is either sodium or a sodium - potassium alloy (Na2K). The molten metal is mixed with silica gel under constant agitation at room temperature. This phase 0 material must be handled in an inert atmosphere. Heating phase 0 at  takes it to phase I. When this material is exposed to dry oxygen the reducing power is not affected. At further heating to  phase II can be handled safely in an ambient environment. 

The metal reacts with the silica gel in an exothermic reaction in which Na4Si4 nanoparticles are formed. The powder reacts with water to form hydrogen. 

Compounds such as biphenyl and naphthalene are reduced by the powder and form highly coloured radical anions. The powder can also be introduced in a column chromatography setup and eluted with organic reactants in order to probe the reducing power. The powder is mixed with additional (wet) silica gel which provides additional hydrogen. A Birch reduction of naphthalene takes 5 minutes elution time. The column converts benzyl chloride to bibenzyl in a Wurtz coupling and in a similar fashion dibenzothiophene is reduced to biphenyl.

See also 
 Potassium graphite

References 

Desiccants
Reducing agents
Java Data Mining. Java Data Mining (JDM) is a standard Java API for developing data mining applications and tools. JDM defines an object model and Java API for data mining objects and processes. JDM enables applications to integrate data mining technology for developing predictive analytics applications and tools.  The JDM 1.0 standard was developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 73. In 2006, the JDM 2.0 specification was being developed under JSR 247, but has been withdrawn in 2011 without standardization.

Various data mining functions and techniques like statistical classification and association, regression analysis, data clustering, and attribute importance are covered by the 1.0 release of this standard.

It never received wide acceptance, and there is no known implementation.

See also
 Predictive Model Markup Language

Books 
 Java Data Mining: Strategy, Standard, and Practice, Hornick, Marcadé, Venkayala,

References 

Data Mining
Applied data mining
Patrick Stirling (railway engineer). Patrick Stirling (29 June 1820 – 11 November 1895) was a Scottish railway engineer, and Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Northern Railway of England. His father Robert Stirling was also an engineer. His brother James Stirling was also a locomotive engineer. His son Matthew Stirling was CME of the Hull and Barnsley Railway. Another son, Patrick Stirling played for Doncaster Rovers and was mayor of Doncaster.

Career
Patrick Stirling was Locomotive Superintendent of the Glasgow and South Western Railway from 1853 to 1866. He came in 1866 to the GNR, where he constructed several locomotive types. He was succeeded by Henry Ivatt.

Stirling single
Stirling's most famous construction was the 4-2-2 steam locomotive Stirling single called "eight-footer" because of the 8 ft 1 in diameter driving wheel. That engine type set speed records during the race to the north with average train speed between engine changes of more than 60 mph in 1895.

References

External links

 Patrick Stirling at steamindex.com
 http://www.lner.info/eng/stirling.shtml

1820 births
1895 deaths
Locomotive builders and designers
Scottish railway mechanical engineers
Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) people
Glasgow and South Western Railway people
Patrick
Armature (sculpture). In sculpture, an armature is a framework around which the sculpture is built, when the sculpture could not stand on its own. This framework provides structure and stability, especially when a plastic material such as wax, newspaper or clay is being used as the medium. When sculpting the human figure, the armature is analogous to the major skeleton and has essentially the same purpose: to hold the body erect.

An armature is often made of heavy, dark aluminium wire which is stiff, but can be bent and twisted into shape without much difficulty.  The wire is affixed to a base which is usually made of wood.  The artist then begins fleshing out the sculpture by adding wax or clay over the wire.  Depending on the material and technique, the armature may be left buried within the sculpture but, if the sculpture is to be hollowed out for firing, it must be removed.

Large representational sculptures meant for outdoor display are typically fashioned of bronze or other types of sheet metal, and they require armatures for internal support and stability.  For example, a large armature designed by Gustave Eiffel holds up the Statue of Liberty.  The armature can be seen from below by visitors to the base of the sculpture's interior.

Animation 

An armature used in stop-motion animation is an articulated metal, wire or even wooden figure covered with material to build the character, but can be made to hold poses for extended periods of time.

In 3D computer animation, the analogous concept is the skeleton or rig used in skeletal animation.

See also
 Lost wax

Notes
 For this reason, much clay work for firing begins with a simple paper and/or wood armature.  These materials can be removed relatively easily from finished piece while it is still fairly plastic, without damaging it.  Any paper left behind will burn out in the kiln.  A metal armature would expand in the heat and burst the piece.

References 

Sculpture techniques
Animation techniques
COSILAB. COSILAB is a software tool for solving complex chemical kinetics problems.  It is used worldwide in research and industry, in particular in automotive, combustion, and chemical processing applications.

Problems to be solved by COSILAB may involve thousands of reactions amongst hundreds of species for practically any mixture composition, pressure and temperature. Its computational capabilities allow for a complex chemical reaction to be studied in detail, including intermediate compounds, trace compounds and pollutants.

Whilst complex chemistry is accounted for, chemical reactor or combustion geometries that can be handled by COSILAB are relatively simple. For the purpose of ``real-life" simulations this limitation can be overcome, however, by using a library of pre-compiled subroutines and functions, that one can link to his or her own code written in Fortran, the C programming language or C++.  In this way, it is possible to develop fully two-dimensional or three-dimensional CFD or computational fluid dynamics codes that are able to capture fairly realistic geometries.

The development of codes like COSILAB is motivated by a worldwide attempt to keep the environment clean and to save—or at least make best use of—the continuously diminishing fossil fuel resources.

External links
 United States Environmental Protection Agency on NOX
 World Energy Council
 Softpredict's COSILAB page,

Combustion
Computational chemistry software
École nationale supérieure d'agronomie et des industries alimentaires. The École Nationale Supérieure d'Agronomie et des Industries Alimentaires (; ENSAIA) is a French engineering school located in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy near Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, that specialises in biological and agricultural engineering.

Students can enter the school in different ways, but the most common is by a two-year preparation class.

External links
 

Agricultural universities and colleges
University of Lorraine
Universities in Grand Est
Buildings and structures in Meurthe-et-Moselle
Nancy
Eureta. The European Higher Engineering and Technical Professionals Association (EurEta) is a non-profit, non-political organisation formed to set European qualification standards for higher engineering and technical professionals and to keep a European Register of these professionals.
EurETA is a sister organization to FEANI the federation of professional engineers that unites national engineering associations from 32 European countries.

EurEta works with other European, international and national organisations for the benefit of all engineering professionals and the public they serve.

An engineer registered with EurEta is called a "EurEta Registered Engineer" and has the right to use the title "Ing. EurEta". Nationally acknowledged titles of registered professionals shall not be affected by the EurEta title.

External links
Eureta Web page

Pan-European trade and professional organizations
GM2900 platform. General Motors introduced the mid-size transverse engine front-wheel drive GM2900 platform in 1988 with the introductions of the Opel Vectra A and the Vauxhall Cavalier Mk.3 for the 1989 model year. The platform was intended to replace both division's J-cars, the Opel Ascona C and the Vauxhall Cavalier Mk.2, although the platform eventually branched out to Holden, Chevrolet's Latin American branch, and even Saab and Saturn. The GM2900 platform was replaced by the Epsilon platform in 2003, although Saab continued to use the lengthened GM2902 platform for its 9-5 model until 2010, when it was switched to the Epsilon 2 platform. The tooling for the first generation Saab 9-5 was sold to BAIC and with help from Saab engineers they will develop new models for production under the Senova brand.

Models
 1993–1996 Chevrolet Vectra A
 1997–2005 Chevrolet Vectra B
 1990–1997 Holden Calibra
 1996–2002 Holden Vectra
 1990–1997 Opel Calibra
 1988–1995 Opel Vectra A
 1995–2002 Opel Vectra B
 1994–1998 Saab NG900
 1998–2002 Saab 9-3
 1997–2009 Saab 9-5
 2000–2005 Saturn L-Series
 1990–1997 Vauxhall Calibra
 1988–1995 Vauxhall Cavalier Mk.3
 1995–2002 Vauxhall Vectra
 2012-2016 Senova D70

References 

GM2900
Ted Jones (hydroplanes). Tudor Owen ("Ted") Jones (died January 9, 2000) was a hydroplane designer and builder.

Biography
According to Tex Johnston, "Seattleite Ted Jones, a keen marine engineer, designed a revolutionary speedboat, the hydroplane, supported at high speed by two sponsons - streamlined, buoyant, lateral extensions - attached to the forward sides of the boat's wide, flat body. The hydroplane was powered by an Allison aircraft engine identical to the one I modified for Cobra II."

One of his boats, the Slo-Mo-Shun IV, won the 1950 Gold Cup, and set a water speed record (160.323 mph) in Lake Washington, off Seattle (USA)'s Sand Point, on June 26, 1950, breaking the previous (10+ year-old) record (141.740 mph) by almost 20 mph. He also designed several other unlimited hydroplanes that won the APBA Challenge Cup.

Legacy
His son, Ron Jones, Sr., and grandson Ron Jones, Jr. both also had distinguished careers with unlimited hydroplane racing.

Award
He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2003.

References

2000 deaths
American motorboat racers
Hydroplanes
H1 Unlimited
Racing motorboats
APBA Challenge Cup
Year of birth missing
NanoInk. NanoInk, Inc. was a nanotechnology company headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, with a MEMS fabrication facility in Campbell, California.

Overview
A spin-off of Northwestern University and founded by Northwestern professor Chad Mirkin, NanoInk specialized in nanometer-scale manufacturing and applications development for the life science and semiconductor industries. Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN) was a patented and proprietary nanofabrication technology marketed as an anti-counterfeiting aid for pharmaceutical products.

Other key applications included nanoscale additive repair and nanoscale rapid prototyping.  Located in the Illinois Science and Technology Park, north of Chicago, NanoInk had nearly 400 patents and applications filed worldwide and had licensing agreements with Northwestern University, Stanford University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

History
Within seven months of its formation, NanoInk released its first product, the DPN-System-1, which turned any atomic force microscope into a DPN machine.

In February 2013, NanoInk announced it would be shutting down due to insufficient funding when its primary backer, Ann Lurie, decided to pull the plug after investing $150 million over a decade.

See also
Nanosys

References

External links
Official Site
NanoInk Writes its Own Ticket Using Quills on the Nanoscale
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Protect the Product, Not the Package
Role of nanotechnology in brand protection

Nanotechnology institutions
Companies based in Skokie, Illinois
Nanotechnology companies
Antarctic Adventure. is a video game developed by Konami in 1983 for the MSX, and later for video game consoles, such as the Family Computer and ColecoVision. The player takes the role of an Antarctic penguin, racing to various research stations owned by different countries in Antarctica (excluding the USSR).

The gameplay is similar to Sega's Turbo, but plays at a much slower pace, and features platform game elements. The penguin, later named Penta, must reach the next station before time runs out while avoiding sea lions and breaks in the ice. Throughout the levels, fish jump out of ice holes and can be caught for bonus points. The game, like many early video games, has no ending – when the player reaches the last station, the game starts from the first level again, but with increased difficulty.

Legacy
Antarctic Adventure was followed by a sequel for the MSX computer in 1986, entitled Penguin Adventure. In addition, the penguin character Penta, and his son Pentarou became a mascot for Konami through the 1980s. They have made appearances in over 10 games. Of particular note are his appearances in the Parodius series of shoot 'em up games.

Penta, or his son Pentarou, had appeared in Medal Games like Tsurikko Penta, Balloon Penta and Imo Hori Penta. Following in 2002 (not released for mobile in 2001), three mobile games , were released on May 6, 2003, another titled , as part of Konami Taisen Colosseum, and the fishing game as Penta no Tsuri Boken, released for i-Revo.

A screenshot from this game can briefly be seen in the introduction of Gradius ReBirth, released in 2008 for the Wii Virtual Console and in 2014 for the Wii U Virtual Console. An MSX Version was re-released for the Windows Store as part of EGG Project in November 2014 in Japan.

In 1990, Konami released only in Japan a handheld electronic game of Antarctic Adventure, although it is usually listed as South Pole (a more literal translation of the Japanese title).

In 2014, Antarctic Adventure was released on a special version of the ColecoVision Flashback by AtGames, available only through Dollar General stores.

In other games, Pentarou appears as a fisherman.

Soundtrack
The music that plays in each level is "The Skaters' Waltz" by Émile Waldteufel.

See also
 Parodius – game series which also features Pentarou.

References

External links
 
 Review of the game
 

1983 video games
ColecoVision games
D4 Enterprise games
Konami franchises
Konami games
MSX games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Racing video games
Video games set in Antarctica
Video games about penguins
Virtual Console games
Virtual Console games for Wii U
Windows games
Handheld electronic games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan
DirectSkin. DirectSkin is a software component that is used by software developers to add skinning capability to their applications, which may or may not be exposed to end-users. It is made by Stardock, and is derived from the WindowBlinds component of their software subscription package, Object Desktop. Being implemented as an ActiveX/COM component, it may be used by any COM-capable language, including Visual Basic, VB.NET, C#, C++ and Delphi.

DirectSkin uses the WindowBlinds UIS file format, leveraging skin authors' existing knowledge. Users either contract Stardock or third party companies to create their skins, license existing skins for use with an application, or make their own using SkinStudio.

DirectSkin has seen use in various applications; the most public has been that of the ATI CATALYST Control Center, a graphical user interface for their graphics card device drivers running on the .NET Framework, introduced in 2004. Another example is Syncfusion, a toolkit for creating .NET applications.

References

External links 
DirectSkin official home page

Windows-only proprietary software
Stardock software
Jeffersonite. Jeffersonite is a dark green pyroxene mineral, a manganese zinc enriched variety of augite, chemical formula , sometimes compared to aegirine. Jeffersonite is not a recognized mineral name.

It occurs in pegmatites where it can form crystals up to  long and in the contact metamorphic zone between limestone and  various intrusive rocks. It is reported from the Sterling Hill Mine, Franklin, New Jersey, in South Australia and Sweden.

External links
Mindat
Abandoned Mines of New Jersey

Calcium minerals
Manganese(II) minerals
Iron(II) minerals
Zinc minerals
Pyroxene group
Minerals described in 1822
Metisse. Metisse is a 2.5D X window manager with many features that set it apart from the traditional 3D "cube" workspace. Windows can be turned three-dimensionally in any direction, enabling the user to fit more windows onto a screen, and they can be scaled, all while remaining fully operational. The development team has avoided such effects as wobbly windows, giving functionality and productivity higher priority than eye candy.

Metisse was available for Mandriva One 2007, PCLinuxOS 2007, Sabayon Linux, Arch Linux, and other Linux distributions, as well as FreeBSD (with active work as of January 2020), and Mac OS X.

Metisse is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

See also 
 Project Looking Glass
 BumpTop
 3D desktop environment

References

External links 
Metisse website 
Metisse on GNU/Linux demo YouTube

3D GUIs
Free X window managers