omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Exporter (computing). An exporter is a software application that writes out a data file in a format different from its native format.  It does this via special algorithms (such as filters).  An exporter often is not an entire program by itself, but an extension to another program, implemented as a plug-in.  When implemented in this way, the exporter converts the hosting application's native format into the desired format and writes it to the file.

For example, a 3D model may be written with a modeler, such as 3D Studio Max.  A game developer may want to use that model in its game, but uses a custom format that is different from 3D Studio Max's native format.  Using the exporter, the model can be saved in the developer's native format and then read into the game (or a tool) without any extra conversion.  Using exporters, game tools can also export from their native format into formats for other applications (such as the modeler or a paint program, such as Photoshop).

Exporters are important tools in the video game industry. A plug-in or application that does the converse of an exporter is called an importer.  Importers and exporters are often used in conjunction with one another in many software development environments.

References

Video game development
David S. Lewis. David Sloan Lewis Jr. (July 6, 1917 – December 15, 2003) was an American aeronautical engineer who led aerospace and defense giant General Dynamics for 14 years.

Early life 

David Lewis was born in 1917, in North Augusta, South Carolina. As a child, he loved to read aviation books and build model aircraft.

Lewis attended the University of South Carolina, and transferred to Georgia Tech for his last two years. He graduated in 1939 with a degree in aeronautical engineering. While at Georgia Tech, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Career 

After college Lewis began his work career at the Glenn L. Martin Company. Then in 1946, he moved to McDonnell Aircraft Company and became chief of aerodynamics. He was the program manager for the highly successful F-4 Phantom II jet fighter.

Following the merger of McDonnell and Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967, David Lewis served as president of McDonnell Douglas until 1970.

Lewis became the head of General Dynamics in 1970. He was influential in having the F-16 design team choose the Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan engine following his experience with the engine in the McDonnell Douglas F-15 fighter. He remained head of the company until he retired in 1986, following pressure from a congressional subcommittee investigating fraud at General Dynamics, specifically the Electric Boat Division involving submarine contracts and cost overruns. Upon his retirement, the investigation was halted and he remained on the board of directors through 1993. He also served on the Board of Directors for Ralston Purina and Mead Paper, as well as the Board Executive Committee for Bank of America.

Lewis received numerous national and international awards for his contribution to the field of aeronautics, including the Robert J. Collier Trophy in 1975, the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1977, the Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award in 1981, the Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 1982, and the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy in 1984. Lewis was inducted into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame in 2000. He was a member of the Georgia Tech Council of Distinguished Engineering Graduates and a trustee emeritus of the Georgia Tech and Washington University in St. Louis Foundations. He was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the National Academy of Engineering.

Personal life
Lewis was married to his wife, Dorothy, for 62 years. They had four children.

References

External links

 "Pentagon Watchdog Urges Suspension Of Firm`s Chairman", Sun-Sentinel, May 4, 1985 
 "Pace to Head General Dynamics", Los Angeles Times, December 9, 1985
 "The Fugitive Accuser", Time, April 8, 1985

1917 births
2003 deaths
American aerospace engineers
Georgia Tech alumni
Collier Trophy recipients
American business executives
People from North Augusta, South Carolina
20th-century American engineers
Georgia Tech people
Sigma Alpha Epsilon members
Washington University in St. Louis trustees
Triglav (computer). Triglav was a computer from Slovenia developed in the 1980s and manufactured by Iskra Delta. It came to the market in 1985. It had options for three different central processing units (DEC J11, Intel 80286 and Motorola 68010) and could therefore run several different operating systems that were popular at the time (such as μDelta/M - based on Micro/RSX, Xenix, OS-9, MS-DOS and RMX). Also supported was a hard drive with a capacity between 40 and 80 MB, 5.25" floppy drive and a microstreamer tape drive.

Triglav/J11 with μDelta/M was configured as a single or multi-processor system (up to four CPUs) with different multiprocessing options. It was designed by engineers Dušan Zalar (CPU and multiprocessing HW and SW architecture) and Vladimir Pečar (μDelta/M and multiprocessing SW architecture).

The computer is named after Triglav, the highest Slovenian mountain. With the name meaning "three-headed" it also symbolises the three CPU architectures supported by its design. On the foreign markets, Triglav is named Trident. Trident, the three-pronged spear, similarly symbolizes the three CPUs.

References

External links
 Photo gallery from Kiberpipa computer museum.

Computing by computer model
Motoemil. Motoemil was a Greek truck manufacturer based in Thessaloniki (now producing trailers under the name Emilios Trailers). It was named after Emilios Antoniades who started his business, together with his brother Konstantinos, by constructing crude-made trucks assembled from motorcycle and automobile parts. By the mid-1960s, like other similar Greek manufacturers (see also Styl Kar), they were already developing and building complete "automobile" three-wheeler trucks. Motoemil was one of the first of its kind in Northern Greece and soon became the largest in that region, its products sold throughout the country. The first models used 1200cc Volkswagen air-cooled engines. A completely redesigned, more modern-looking model was introduced in 1970, using a German Ford engine.  

Motoemil was one of the few Greek producers that survived the end of the "three-wheeler era" in that country, as it had developed a completely new breed of heavier, four-wheel trucks in the mid-1970s. The Autofarma model was an all-terrain 4x4 truck with 2 tonne payload and a Mercedes-Benz Diesel engine, perfectly placed in the "farm truck" category according to Greek law. In that respect, it was similar to other Greek vehicles (all locally developed), like the Agricola, the  AutoDiana Unicar, the Balkania Autotractor, the EBIAM, the Petropoulos Polytrak and others. However, the Autofarma was produced in numbers exceeding those of all others combined, sold through a network of dealers throughout the country. It was simultaneously a very rugged, reliable all-terrain vehicle requiring minimal maintenance costs (suited for the extremely harsh treatment farm vehicles were exposed to), with a significant payload, a relatively comfortable cabin and a reasonably smooth road behavior for longer drives. A minor facelift was done on the model in 1979, but by the mid-1980s this category of vehicles was not competitive anymore due to changes in Greek Law combined with more "sophisticated" demands of Greek customers, met by competitively priced imported types. This was a change the Northern Greek company was not able to cope with, ceasing all truck production in 1985. For one more time, though, it was able to adjust to market opportunities, switching to development and production of light (mostly for boat transport) and heavier trailers. The company name was subsequently changed to Emilios Trailers under which it successfully operates to date.

References
 L.S. Skartsis, "Encyclopedia of Greek vehicles and aircraft", Achaikes Ekdoseis/Typorama, Patras, Greece (1995) 
 L.S. Skartsis, "Greek Vehicle & Machine Manufacturers 1800 to present: A Pictorial History", Marathon (2012)  (eBook) 
 Walter Zeichner, "Dreirad- und Kleinlieferwagen 1945-1967", Schrader Motor-Chronik, Bd.72

External links 
 Company site

Truck manufacturers of Greece
Manufacturing companies based in Thessaloniki
1985 disestablishments in Greece
Greek brands
Leon Sterling. Leon Sterling is an Australian academic.

Career
After completing a PhD at the Australian National University, Sterling worked for 15 years at universities in the UK, Israel and the United States. He returned to Australia as Professor of Computer Science at the University of Melbourne in 1995. He served as Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering for 6 years. After stepping down as Head, he took up an industry-sponsored chair, becoming the Adacel Professor of Software Innovation and Engineering. In 2010, he moved to Swinburne where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies for four years and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Digital Frontiers) for two years. He returned to the University of Melbourne in 2019 where he is a part-time Professor of Software Engineering. 

Sterling has been a prominent figure in IT in Australia, serving as Head of the Council of Deans of ICT from 2012 to 2014, has been on a number of national committees, and has been a strong advocate for coding in schools through public lectures, blogs, and committee memberships. His current research is in incorporating emotions in technology development, where motivational models are an essential element.
Sterling is the co-author, along with Ehud Shapiro, of the computer science textbook The Art of Prolog.

References

External links
Sterling's website 
Leon Sterling profile (University of Melbourne)
Leon's home page (Swinburne University of Technology)

Australian computer scientists
Scientists from Melbourne
Australian textbook writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
KN-3 reactor. The KN-3 reactor (VM-16) is the nuclear reactor used in pairs to power the s. The reactor was also intended to be used on the Ulyanovsk class of supercarriers. It is a pressurized water reactor (PWR), using enriched uranium-235 fuel to produce 300 MW of power. 

It was developed by OKBM Afrikantov.

References

Soviet naval reactors
Pressurized water reactors

de:Kirow-Klasse#Antrieb
XSB. XSB is the name of a dialect of the Prolog programming language and its implementation developed at Stony Brook University in collaboration with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the New University of Lisbon, Uppsala University and software vendor XSB, Inc.

XSB extends Prolog with tabled resolution and HiLog.

Features 
XSB is a compiled dialect of Prolog based on the Warren Abstract Machine. Unlike systems derived from Quintus, XSB uses a module system based on Prolog atoms. It features tabled resolution and supports the HiLog language (permitting limited higher-order logic programming). Tabling enables XSB to implement the well-founded semantics and makes it suitable as a deductive database engine. The open source XSB implementation includes an interface to the Python programming language.

History

XSB was originally developed at Stony Brook University by David S. Warren, Terrance Swift, and Kostis Sagonas and launched in 1993-4. It was based on the SB-Prolog language that was also developed at Stony Brook University in 1986, and it was the first implementation of tabled resolution.

Syntax

XSB supports the ISO-mandated Prolog data types such as integers, floating point numbers, and atoms. Integers in XSB can be interpreted in multiple bases. By default integers are interpreted in base 10 but can be interpreted in a range of bases from 2 to 36.

See also 
 Comparison of Prolog implementations
 Prolog syntax and semantics

References

Further reading

External links
 
 xsb git repo
 Information on Stony Brook Prolog

Prolog programming language family
Slipform stonemasonry. Slipform stonemasonry is a method for making a reinforced concrete wall with stone facing in which stones and mortar are built up in courses within reusable slipforms. It is a cross between traditional mortared stone wall and a veneered stone wall. Short forms, up to 60 cm high, are placed on both sides of the wall to serve as a guide for the stone work. The stones are placed inside the forms with the good faces against the form work.  Concrete is poured in behind the rocks. Rebar is added for strength, to make a wall that is approximately half reinforced concrete and half stonework. The wall can be faced with stone on one side or both sides. After the concrete sets enough to hold the wall together, the forms are "slipped" up to pour the next level. With slipforms it is easy for a novice to build free-standing stone walls.

History 
Slipform stonemasonry was developed by New York architect Ernest Flagg in 1920. Flagg built a vertical framework as tall as the wall, then inserted 2x6 or 2x8 planks as forms to guide the stonework. When the masonry work reached the top of a plank, Flagg inserted another one, adding more planks until he reached the top of the wall. Helen and Scott Nearing modified the technique in Vermont in the 1930s, using slipforms that were slipped up the wall.

Gallery

Notes

The diagram of the slipform wall section is completely misleading without showing the 2nd form.

External links
Slipform Stone Masonry

Stonemasonry
Construction
Types of wall
Boonton Iron Works. The Boonton Iron Works were founded about 1770 by Samuel Ogden who, with others in his family, purchased a  tract along the Rockaway River, near present-day Boonton, New Jersey. Here rolling and slitting mills were erected that engaged in the manufacture of nail rods and bar iron. With the construction of the Morris Canal in 1830, the New Jersey Iron Company was organized. This company built a new plant costing $283,000 (equivalent to $ million in ) and imported skilled mechanics from England. Under Fuller & Lord (1852–1876) the enterprise become an integrated industry with ore and timber reserves, canal boats, furnaces, mills and auxiliary plants. After 1881, the business slowly declined. The plant closed in 1911.

Historic district
The property was listed as the Boonton Ironworks Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 2023, for its significance in engineering, industry, and transportation. The  historic district located in Grace Lord Park in the town of Boonton includes 13 contributing sites and 2 contributing structures. It includes the Arch Bridge from the Boonton Ironworks and sections of the Morris Canal, previously listed on the NRHP.

See also 
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, New Jersey
David Thomas (industrialist)

References

Sources
James Truslow Adams, Dictionary of American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940).

External links
 
Abandoned Iron Mines of the NJ Highlands

Boonton, New Jersey
Buildings and structures in Morris County, New Jersey
Ironworks and steel mills in the United States
Ruins in the United States
Economic history of New Jersey
Industrial buildings and structures in New Jersey
Companies established in 1770
1770 establishments in New Jersey
Pre-statehood history of New Jersey
1911 disestablishments in New Jersey
National Register of Historic Places in Morris County, New Jersey
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
NGMA. NGMA may refer to:

 National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, India, or one of its branches:
 National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore
 National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
 National Grants Management Association

Or an acronym standing for "Next Generation MicroArchitecture" for CPU:
 Intel "Next Generation Microarchitecture", once a reference to Core microarchitecture
 AMD Next Generation Microarchitecture (disambiguation)
Sand Lake Wetland Management District. Sand Lake Wetland Management District is located in the U.S. state of South Dakota and is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This is the largest Wetland Management District in the U.S., with 45,000 acres (182 km2) of area directly under federal protection and another 550,000 acres (2,225 km2) managed in partnership with private landowners as conservation easements. A total of 162 Waterfowl Production areas are located on the federally owned lands and the conservation easements are generally adjacent to these areas and act as buffer zones to increase habitat protection.

References

External links
 

National Wildlife Refuges in South Dakota
Protected areas established in 1961
Wetlands of South Dakota
Bodies of water of Brown County, South Dakota
Protected areas of Brown County, South Dakota
1961 establishments in South Dakota
Landsverk Lynx. The Landsverk Lynx was a series of Swedish 4x4 armoured cars developed by AB Landsverk just prior to World War II.

In Danish service it was designated as PV M39, in Swedish service as pansarbil m/39 (pbil m/39), or pansarbil m/40 (pbil m/40) for a later Volvo production series.

History 
AB Landsverk, who had developed the L-180, L-181 and L-182 family of armored cars, began developing the Lynx in 1937 as a private project. Sweden wasn't particularly interested so AB Landsverk pitted it against the British Alvis-Straussler AC3 in Denmark, after which an order for 18 vehicles were placed by the Danish army. The first prototype was available for trials in January 1938 and three vehicles were shipped to Denmark in April 1938, outfitted with a Madsen 20 mm cannon and Madsen machine guns. Fifteen more vehicles were supposed to be delivered to Denmark but the German invasion of Denmark (1940) derailed this plan and the vehicles were instead requisitioned by Sweden, refitted with new turrets and 20 mm cannons from Bofors and designated pansarbil m/39 (). Thirty more vehicles were ordered by Sweden but, since Landsverk did not have the capacity to produce them, the contract was fulfilled by Volvo and these vehicles bear the designation pansarbil m/40 due to a variety of changes, such as being fitted with 145 hp Volvo engines.

Characteristics 
The Lynx had a low slung body with well sloped, but thin, armor and used a modified Landsverk L-60 turret. The 140 hp Scania-Vabis engine was in the middle on the left side. It was able to be driven from both the front and the rear and featured a crew of six (commander, 3 gunners, and front and rear drivers). All models were armed with three machine guns and a main autocannon.

Wheels were produced by Overman Gummifabriks AB Sundbyberg.

Operational history 
The three Lynx delivered to Denmark were numbered PV9, PV10 and PV11, which formed the basis of two armored car squadrons attached to cavalry regiments. These were captured and used by German police units. Between 1941 and 1943 the Swedish m/40 models were completed and participated in exercises with reconnaissance units. In 1956 thirteen Pansarbils were sold to the Dominican Republic.

Further reading 
 Leland Ness (2002) Jane's World War II Tanks and Fighting Vehicles: The Complete Guide, HarperCollins, London and New York, 
 ointres.se – Pansarbil m/39-40, by Rickard O. Lindström

References 

Landsverk vehicles
Main battle tanks of the Cold War
Armoured cars of the interwar period
Armoured fighting vehicles of Sweden
World War II armoured cars
Military vehicles introduced in the 1930s
EEVIAC Operational Index and Reference Guide, Including Other Modern Computational Devices. EEVIAC Operational Index and Reference Guide, Including Other Modern Computational Devices is the 5th full-length studio album by Man or Astroman?. E.E.V.I.A.C. is an acronym and stands for "Embedded Electronic Variably Integrated Astro Console" (also known as the "EEVIAC Mainframe Supercomputer") and is a play on ENIAC, which is sometimes hailed as the first modern computer.

Man or Astroman? actually built a mockup of a supercomputer to have onstage for this album.

Track listing
 "Interstellar Hardrive"
 "D:Contamination"
 "U-235/PU-239"
 "Domain of the Human Race"
 "Theme from EEVIAC"
 "A Reversal of Polarity"
 "Fractionalized Reception of a Scrambled Transmission"
 "Engines of Difference"
 "Psychology of A.I. (Numbers Follow Answers)"
 "Krasnoyask-26"
 "Within the Mainframe, Impaired Vision from Inoperable Cataracts Can Become a New Impending Nepotism"
 "As Estrelas Agora Elas Estão Mortas"
 "_/Myopia"
 "Automated Liner Notes Sequence" (unlisted)

References

Man or Astro-man? albums
1999 albums
Touch and Go Records albums
Levenshtein coding. Levenshtein coding is a universal code encoding the non-negative integers developed by Vladimir Levenshtein.

Encoding 
The code of zero is "0"; to code a positive number:
Initialize the step count variable C to 1.
Write the binary representation of the number without the leading "1" to the beginning of the code.
Let M be the number of bits written in step 2.
If M is not 0, increment C, repeat from step 2 with M as the new number.
Write C "1" bits and a "0" to the beginning of the code.

The code begins:

To decode a Levenshtein-coded integer:
Count the number of "1" bits until a "0" is encountered.
If the count is zero, the value is zero, otherwise
Discard the "1" bits just counted and the first "0" encountered
Start with a variable N, set it to a value of 1 and repeat count minus 1 times:
Read N bits (and remove them from the encoded integer), prepend "1", assign the resulting value to N

The Levenshtein code of a positive integer is always one bit longer than the Elias omega code of that integer.  However, there is a Levenshtein code for zero, whereas Elias omega coding would require the numbers to be shifted so that a zero is represented by the code for one instead.

Example code

Encoding 
void levenshteinEncode(char* source, char* dest)
{
    IntReader intreader(source);
    BitWriter bitwriter(dest);
    while (intreader.hasLeft())
    {
        int num = intreader.getInt();
        if (num == 0)
            bitwriter.outputBit(0);
        else
        {
            int c = 0;
            BitStack bits;
            do {
                int m = 0;
                for (int temp = num; temp > 1; temp>>=1)  // calculate floor(log2(num))
                    ++m;
                for (int i=0; i < m; ++i)
                    bits.pushBit((num >> i) & 1);
                num = m;
                ++c;
            } while (num > 0);
            for (int i=0; i < c; ++i)
                bitwriter.outputBit(1);
            bitwriter.outputBit(0);
            while (bits.length() > 0)
                bitwriter.outputBit(bits.popBit());
        }
    }
}

Decoding 
void levenshteinDecode(char* source, char* dest)
{
    BitReader bitreader(source);
    IntWriter intwriter(dest);
    while (bitreader.hasLeft())
    {
        int n = 0;
        while (bitreader.inputBit())     // potentially dangerous with malformed files.
            ++n;
        int num;
        if (n == 0)
            num = 0;
        else
        {
            num = 1;
            for (int i = 0; i < n-1; ++i)
            {
                int val = 1;
                for (int j = 0; j < num; ++j)
                    val = (val << 1) | bitreader.inputBit();
                num = val;
            }
        }
        intwriter.putInt(num);           // write out the value
    }
    bitreader.close();
    intwriter.close();
}

See also

Elias omega coding
Iterated logarithm

References

Entropy coding
Numeral systems
Data compression
TIS (cable system). TIS (Thailand-Indonesia-Singapore) is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the South China Sea linking Thailand, Singapore, and Indonesia

It has landing points in:
Songkhla, Songkhla Province, Thailand
Changi, Singapore
Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia

It has an initial transmission capacity of 30 Gbit/s, upgradeable to 320 Gbit/s, and a total cable length of approximately 1,100 km. It started operation in December 2003.

References

 
 
 

Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean
Indonesia–Thailand relations
Singapore–Thailand relations
Indonesia–Singapore relations
2003 establishments in Indonesia
2003 establishments in Singapore
2003 establishments in Thailand