omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Reihaneh Safavi-Naini. Reihaneh "Rei" Safavi-Naini () is the NSERC/Telus Industrial Research Chair and the  Alberta Innovates Strategic Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Education 
Reihaneh received her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada, under supervision of Prof. Ian F. Blake. She obtained her BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran.

Career 
Before joining University of Calgary in 2007, she was a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics and the Director of Telecommunication and Information Technology Research Institute (TITR) and Centre for Information Security at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

She is the co-founder of the Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance and served as its director until December 2018. She is currently leading the Information Security Lab (formerly known as the iCORE Information Security Lab) at the University of Calgary.

She has served as the program co-chair of CRYPTO, ASIACRYPT, ASIACCS and Financial Cryptography and as a program committee member of major conferences in cryptology and information security. She has also served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), and is currently an Associate Editor of IET Information Security and Journal of Mathematical Cryptology. In 2023 she was elected a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research.

Publications 
Her research interest is in cryptography and information theory and their applications to information security systems. She has published over 500 papers, including:

 Scalable fragile watermarking for image authentication. (2013) Angela Piper, and Safavi-Naini Reihaneh. IET Information Security.
 An efficient signature scheme from bilinear pairings and its applications. (2004) Fangguo Zhang, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Willy Susilo. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
 Digital rights management for content distribution. (2003) Qiong Liu, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Nicholas Paul Sheppard. Proceedings of the Australasian information security workshop conference on ACSW frontiers.

See also
 List of University of Waterloo people
 Zhang Fangguo, a collaborator on short signature schemes

References

External links 
 
 
 

Living people
University of Waterloo alumni
Public-key cryptographers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Calgary
Ranger Engines. The Ranger Engines Division (also Ranger Aircraft Engine Division) of the Fairchild Engine & Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft engine company. It was known as the Fairchild Engine Division after World War II.

History
The Fairchild-Caminez Engine Corporation was founded in 1925 to produce Harold Caminez's 447 engine. In 1928, it constructed a factory in Farmingdale, New York. The American Airplane & Engine Corporation was founded by the Aviation Corporation in 1931 to continue manufacturing of Ranger engines.

In 1934, the company name changed to Ranger Engineering Corporation, then in 1939 to Ranger Aircraft Engines, Division of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation.

Products

See also
 List of aircraft engines

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links

 Fairchild (Ranger) – Aircraft Engine Historical Society

Manufacturing companies established in 1888
Companies based in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
Defunct aircraft engine manufacturers of the United States
1888 establishments in Pennsylvania
Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System. Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System is a system at airports having a surveillance infrastructure consisting of a Non-Cooperative Surveillance (e.g. SMR, Microwave Sensors, Optical Sensors etc.) and Cooperative Surveillance (e.g. Multilateration systems). A-SMGCS has 4 levels, level 1 and 2 have been validated by EUROCONTROL Airport Operations and Environment division in Eurocontrol located in Brussels, Belgium and work is ongoing to verify requirements for further implementation levels in coordination with ICAO, FAA etc.  It uses the aircraft’s transponder transmission as the primary indication of airborne status.

ICAO Definition 
ICAO Doc 9830 defines A-SMGCS as follows:

Advanced surface movement guidance and control system (A-SMGCS). A system providing routing, guidance and surveillance for the control of aircraft and vehicles in order to maintain the declared surface movement rate under all weather conditions within the aerodrome visibility operational level (AVOL) while maintaining the required level of safety.

List of Airports with FAA approved SMGCS Plans

See also 
Runway Awareness and Advisory System
Airport surveillance and broadcast systems 
Follow the Greens

References

Further reading 
Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems (A-SMGCS) Manual
Validation Master Plan for A-SMGCS Implementation Level I
Validation Master Plan for A-SMGCS Implementation Level II

External links 
EUROCONTROL Airport Operations and Environment Homepage
Eurocontrol A-SMGCS website

International Cooperation on Airport Surveillance: ICAS
 Sensis Corporation A-SMGCS website

Air traffic control
Molinux. Molinux was an operating system based on Ubuntu sponsored by the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha and the Fundación Ínsula Barataria.

The name "Molinux" derives from the Spanish word molino, meaning "mill" or "windmill". Each version of Molinux is named after a character from the classic Spanish novel Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes.

Project information

Molinux was an initiative begun in 2005 by the government of Castilla-La Mancha  to introduce the Castile-La Mancha community to the forefront of the Information Society. The Molinux project is intended to attack the digital divide by reducing the cost of software and offering an easy-to-use operating system. 

The sponsoring regional government's commitment to the open source philosophy is such that they have committed not to impose the use of Molinux. "The advantage is that the software is free to compete with anyone, and the user can choose between using this or any other software."

Latest version

Molinux 6.2 (codename "Merlín") was launched on 2010-12-24. It was based on Ubuntu 10.10.

Main features
 Based on Ubuntu "Lucid" 10.04
 Linux kernel 2.6.32
 GNOME 2.30
 OpenOffice.org 3.2
 Mozilla Firefox 3.6
 X.Org Server 1.7
 The distribution's artistic team has delivered new desktop backgrounds depicting images from the autonomous community and some abstract designs, as well as brand new icons for the panels, menus and desktop. An interesting new feature is a new backup manager that automates backing up of data to external devices or over the local network.

References

External links

Official site
Fundación Ínsula Barataria

Educational operating systems
Spanish-language Linux distributions
State-sponsored Linux distributions
Discontinued Ubuntu derivatives
Discontinued Linux distributions
Paul McEuen. Paul McEuen (born 1963) is an American physicist. He received his B.S. in engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma (1985), and his Ph.D. in applied physics at Yale University (1991). After postdoctoral work at MIT (1990–1991), he became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He moved to Cornell University in 2001, where he is currently the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics. He is an expert on the electrical property of carbon nanotubes and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Research focus
Paul McEuen studies the electrical and mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes, scanning probe microscopy of nanostructures, molecular electronics, and applications of nanoelectronics in chemistry and biology. His group publishes their work frequently in Nature and Science, and McEuen has an h-index of 90.

Novel
McEuen wrote a scientific thriller, Spiral (released in 2011), in which an emeritus Cornell biology professor is murdered as part of a plot involving a biological weapon, which received positive reviews by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. The German translation became available on October 29, 2010. McEuen sold the movie rights for "Spiral" to Chockstone Pictures.

Positions
 Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics,  Cornell University, (2008–present)
 Professor, physics, Cornell University, (2001–present)
 Associate professor, Physics, University of California, Berkeley (1996-2000)
 Assistant professor, Physics, University of California, Berkeley (1992-1996)
 Postdoctoral researcher, MIT (1990-1991)

Awards and fellowships
 National Academy of Sciences (2011)
 American Physical Society Fellow (2003)
 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize (2001)
 Packard Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow (1999)
 LBNL Outstanding Performance Award (1997)
 National Young Investigator (1993-1998)
 Packard Foundation Fellow (1992-1997)
 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1992-1994)
 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator (1992-1995)

Other contributions
 McEuen has written Chapter 18, Nanostructures of Kittel's famous textbook Introduction to Solid State Physics (8ed).
 McEuen, along with others, helped uncover the Schön scandal.

References

External links
 McEuen Lab Homepage at Cornell University
 Paul McEuen's Department of Physics Faculty Home Page, Cornell University
 McEuen wins 2001 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Condensed Matter Physics

1963 births
Living people
21st-century American physicists
American nanotechnologists
Carbon scientists
Cornell University faculty
Cornell Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics
Yale University alumni
University of Oklahoma alumni
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Nanophysicists
M23 chemical mine. The M23 is a United States steel cased chemical landmine. The mine was developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and approximately 100,000 units were produced. The U.S. completed its destruction of its stock at the Umatilla Chemical Depot in 2008 and the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System in 2000.

The mine is broadly similar to the M15 anti-tank mine in appearance, with the addition of four pairs of small ridges along the top surface. The mine has two secondary fuse wells in addition to the primary fuse well and can be set to operate either for anti-vehicle or anti-personnel purposes. It is normally fitted with either an M603 or M608 fuse. Upon activation, the bursting charge breaks open a thin steel casing, heating and spraying VX nerve agent to form an aerosol.

Specifications
 Diameter: 
 Height: 
 Weight unfused: 
 Content:  of VX nerve agent and  Composition B4 bursting charge.

References

Land mines of the United States
Chemical weapon delivery systems
Chemical weapons of the United States
Military equipment introduced in the 1960s
Plated-wire memory. Plated-wire memory is a variation of magnetic-core memory developed by Bell Laboratories in 1957. Its primary advantage was that it could be assembled by machine, which potentially led to lower prices than magnetic core, which was almost always assembled by hand.

Instead of threading individual ferrite cores on wires, plated-wire memory used a grid of wires coated with a thin layer of iron–nickel alloy (permalloy). The magnetic field normally stored in the ferrite core was instead stored on the wire itself. Operation was generally similar to core memory, with the wire itself acting as the data line, and the magnetic domains providing the individual bit locations defined by address (word) lines running on either side of (and perpendicular to) the data wire.

Early versions operated in a destructive read mode, requiring a write after read to restore data. Non-destructive read mode was possible, but this required much greater uniformity of the magnetic coating.  

Improvements in semiconductor RAM chips provided the higher storage densities and higher speeds needed for large-scale application such as mainframe computers, replacing previous types of memory, including both core and plated-wire memory.

Plated-wire memory has been used in a number of applications, typically in aerospace. It was used in the UNIVAC 1110 and UNIVAC 9000 series computers, the Viking program that sent landers to Mars, the Voyager space probes, a prototype guidance computer for the Minuteman-III, the Space Shuttle Main Engine controllers, the KH-9 Hexagon reconnaissance satellite, and in the Hubble Space Telescope.

References

External links
 technikum29.de - Description of Plated-wire memory

Computer memory
Non-volatile memory
Ravindran Kannan. Ravindran Kannan (; born 12 March 1953, Madras) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, where he leads the algorithms research group. He is also the first adjunct faculty of Computer Science and Automation Department of Indian Institute of Science.

Before joining Microsoft, he was the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Applied Mathematics at Yale University.  He has also taught at MIT, CMU and IISc. The ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) presented its 2011 Knuth Prize to Ravi Kannan for developing influential algorithmic techniques aimed at solving long-standing computational problems. He also served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2012 and 2013.

Ravi Kannan did his B.Tech at IIT, Bombay. He received his PhD in 1980 at Cornell University under Leslie Earl Trotter, Jr. His research interests include Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics as well as Optimization. His work has mainly focused on efficient algorithms for problems of a mathematical (often geometric) flavor that arise in Computer Science. He has worked on algorithms for integer programming and the geometry of numbers, random walks in n-space, randomized algorithms for linear algebra and learning algorithms for convex sets.

Key contributions
Among his many contributions, two are
 Polynomial-time algorithm for approximating the volume of convex bodies
 Algorithmic version for Szemerédi regularity partition

Selected works

Books 
 2013. Foundations of Data Science. (with John Hopcroft).

Other representative publications
 "Clustering in large graphs and matrices," with P. Drineas, A. Frieze, S. Vempala and V. Vinay, Proceedings of the Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 1999.
 "A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for learning noisy Linear Threshold functions," with A. Blum, A. Frieze and S. Vempala, Algorithmica 22:35–52, 1998.
 "Covering Minima and lattice point free convex bodies," with L. Lovász, Annals of Mathematics, 128:577–602, 1988.

Awards and honors
 Joint Winner of the 1991 Fulkerson Prize in Discrete Mathematics for his work on the volumes of convex bodies.
Knuth Prize 2011 for developing influential algorithmic techniques aimed at solving long-standing computational problems.
In 2017 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

See also 
 Szemerédi regularity lemma
 Alan M. Frieze
 Avrim Blum
 László Lovász

References

External links
  Ravi Kannan's home page
 
 Distinguished Alumni Awardees 1999, IIT Bombay
 Fulkerson Prize Award

Indian computer scientists
20th-century Indian mathematicians
Yale University faculty
Tamil scientists
IIT Bombay alumni
Cornell University alumni
Living people
1953 births
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
21st-century Indian mathematicians
2016 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Knuth Prize laureates
Theoretical computer scientists
Geoweb. The concept of a Geospatial Web may have first been introduced by Dr. Charles Herring in his US DoD paper, An Architecture of Cyberspace: Spatialization of the Internet, 1994, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory ().

Dr. Herring proposed that the problem of defining the physical domain in a computer or cyber-infrastructure, providing real time and appropriate fidelity, required a cyber-spatial reference or index combining both Internet Addressing and Hierarchical Spatial Addressing.

As such, the Geoweb would be characterized by the self synchronization of network addressing, time and location.  The Geoweb would allow location to be used to self organize all geospatially referenced data available through the Internet.

The interest in a Geoweb has been advanced by new technologies, concepts and products, specifically the popularization of GPS positioning with the introduction of the iPhone in 2007.

Virtual globes such as Google Earth and NASA World Wind as well as mapping websites such as Google Maps, Live Search Maps, Yahoo Maps, and OpenStreetMap have been major factors in raising awareness towards the importance of geography and location as a means to index information.

The increase in advanced web development methods such as Ajax are providing inspiration to move GIS (Geographical Information Systems) into the web.

Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) has emerged as an academic community interested in technical aspects of helping people find information about places.  In order to make information accessible from geographically oriented applications, coordinate metadata must be created via some form of geocoding or geoparsing process.  After obtaining geographic coordinates, they must be indexed in useful ways that allow people to interact with the non-geographic nature of the content, e.g. viewing photographs or keyword searching.

The semi-annual Geoweb Summits in New York have covered the emerging geoweb industry since 2010, connecting GIS and mobile LBS with Internet of things and augmented reality.

Related References

See also
 Digital Earth
 Search engine
 Geospatial Content Management System (GeoCMS)
 Geographic Information Retrieval
 Geocoding and Geoparsing
 Web mapping

External links

 Geoweb Forum

Web 2.0 neologisms
World Wide Web
1990s neologisms
Geographic data and information
Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes. Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes (SLOSH) is a computerized model developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and the National Weather Service (NWS), to estimate storm surge depths resulting from historical, hypothetical, or predicted hurricanes. The model functions by taking into account a storm's pressure, size, forward speed, forecast track, wind speeds, and topographical data.

SLOSH is used to evaluate the threat from storm surge, and emergency managers use this data to determine which areas must be evacuated. SLOSH output is used by the National Hurricane Program (NHP) when conducting Hurricane Evacuation Studies as a hazard analysis tool for assisting with the creation of state and local hurricane evacuation plans or zones. SLOSH model results are combined with roadway network and traffic flow information, rainfall amounts, river flow, or wind-driven waves to determine a final analysis of at-risk areas.

References

External links 
 FEMA/Surge map server
 

Tropical cyclone meteorology
Numerical climate and weather models
Scientific simulation software
Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo. Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo was born on 10 January 1887 in the country estate of Vista Bella, province of Aija, Peru, department of Áncash.  He was an engineer, physicist and mathematician.

Early years
He studied at Colegio Nacional de la Libertad (Huaraz) and later the College of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Lima), where he met Peruvian writer Abraham Valdelomar. In 1905 he was admitted into the Mathematical Sciences faculty of the San Marcos National University in Lima. At the end of the 1906 academic year (24 December), he received a distinction from President José Pardo, receiving a gold medal.  After this, he traveled to France to get his degree in Electrical Engineering in the University of Grenoble. After that he took further studies at Columbia University. In 1912 he returned to Peru, where he worked as a professor at San Marcos University. After this he traveled around Peru, searching for suitable places to construct hydro-electric central power stations.

In the Third Pan-American Scientific Congress held in Lima, Antúnez de Mayolo presented the work "Hipótesis sobre la constitución de la materia," proposing the existence of a "neutral element" in the atom. Eight years later, Englishman James Chadwick confirmed this theory. In 1934, he proposed the existence of the positron in his article "Los tres elementos constitutivos de la materia." In 1936, David Anderson received the Nobel prize for its discovery.

References

1887 births
Year of death missing
Antúnez family
College of Our Lady of Guadalupe alumni
National University of San Marcos alumni
Tir Cymen. was an environmental and preservation programme in Wales to preserve representative examples of the Welsh landscape. It started in 1992 and new nominations were closed in 1998.

Countryside Council for Wales started the programme in October 1992. Meirionnydd, Dinefwr and Swansea were chosen as representative examples of the wide variety of Welsh landscapes, habitats and farming systems. Four farms were examined in Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire. 17 new archaeological sites were recorded in upland portions, adding to the 5 previously known.

 led to a follow on programme in Wales called Tir Gofal.

References

Environment of Wales
Environment of Carmarthenshire
Environment of Gwynedd
Swansea
Operation Junkyard. Operation Junkyard is an American television series that aired from October 5, 2002 to February 15, 2003 on Discovery Kids.  Essentially a spin-off of TLC's popular series Junkyard Wars, OP/JY featured teams of teens that were challenged to build gadgets out of junk in six hours. Teams featured on the show include the Rummaging Robots and Jurassic Junkers, and the teams were tasked to build gadgets like water bailing machines, mud scooters, and remote control battleships.

Premise
At the beginning of each show the challenge of the day was revealed and teams attempted to collect "bodgits" by completing small challenges. "Bodgits" were helpful advantages that teams could earn, including time with the on-set engineer or special parts for use in their build. Two identical school buses filled with junk were given to the teams, who had six hours to create their contraptions.

Teams

Episodes

Reception
In a positive review, The San Diego Union-Tribune television critic Roshni Kakaiya wrote, "I really recommend this show to everyone, even younger kids. The story has a lot of meaning. If I could rate this on a scale of colors, black being the worst and gold being the best, I would rate this show silver." Calling the show "entertaining and educational", The Dallas Morning Newss Jeanne Spreier gave it an A-minus, writing that it "gets high marks for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is using words such as release valve, psi gauge and propulsion—and making them synonymous with fun".

References

External links

2002 American television series debuts
2003 American television series endings
2000s American children's game shows
2000s American reality television series
American children's reality television series
American children's education television series
American television spin-offs
Discovery Kids original programming
NBC game shows
NBC reality television shows
American English-language television shows
American television series about teenagers
Television shows filmed in California
Television series by Banijay