omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Rescue (1987 video game). Rescue is a computer game published by Mastertronic in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum. It was written by Ste Cork with music by Tiny Williams and graphics by Mark O'Neill.

Gameplay
The purpose of the game is to rescue the correct scientist and the "ultimate experiment". The player must then guide the scientists back to their spacecraft and refuel it before escaping.

The game generates the same maze layout each time it is played, but it randomises which scientist and which secret experiment (represented by a red test tube) is the correct one.

Enemies are spawned randomly and go around destroying the scientists, experiments, fuel and ammo caches, sometimes making it to player's spaceship and destroying items the players had already recovered.

Reception
In a 1987 review, Your Sinclair described the game as "nice graphics, easy to play but impossible to complete!" and awarded it 7 out of 10.

Rescue was placed at number 44 in the Your Sinclair Official Top 100, compiled by videogame journalist Stuart Campbell in the early 1990s.

References

External links
 

1987 video games
Action games
Mastertronic games
Maze games
MC Lothlorien games
Science fiction video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games
Karminski. The Karminski was an English automobile manufactured only in 1902.

The Karminski was the product of a concern from Bradford. The bonnet of the 7 hp car came to a "torpedo point".  In 1902 the company claimed that it was unable to supply the similar 12 hp model "owing to a contract by a Russian firm for a great quantity".

See also 
 List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom

References
David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Manufacturing companies based in Bradford
Veteran vehicles
Komet. Komet is the word for comet in some languages and may refer to:

In the military:
 Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, the first rocket-powered crewed aircraft
 German auxiliary cruiser Komet, a ship in World War II
 KS-1 Komet, a Soviet anti-ship missile
 HMAS Una, a Royal Australian Navy sloop, formerly the German motor launch Komet

In transportation:
 Dornier Komet, a family of aircraft manufactured in Germany in the 1920s
 Komet (American automobile), made only in 1911
 Komet (German automobile), produced between 1922 and 1924
 Komet (train), a former overnight train service between Germany and Switzerland

In sports:
 SC Komet Berlin, a Berlin sports club from the late 1890s to the late 1930s
 TuS Komet Arsten, a German football club established in 2006
 Fort Wayne Komets, a minor league ice hockey team

In music:
 Komet, the tenth studio album by the German band Megaherz
 "Komet" (song), a 2023 song by Udo Lindenberg and Apache 207

People:
 Gürkan Coşkun (born 1941), a Turkish painter
 Frank Bretschneider (born 1956), a German electronic musician

See also:
 Comet (disambiguation)
Komet (German automobile). The Komet was a German automobile manufactured from 1922 until 1924 by Komet Autofabrik Buchmann & Co of Leisnig.  Later made by another company as the Kenter, this vehicle had a 1060 cc  engine.

engine.

References
 David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Germany
Korn et Latil. Korn et Latil was a French automobile manufacturer established in 1898 at Marsaille. In 1909, after moving to Levallois-Perret being reincorporated and later bankrupt, it was succeeded by Latil.

History
In 1897, Auguste Joseph Frederic Georges Latil (1878–1961) patented a constant-velocity joint, inspired by the knee's patella and which allowed wheels used for steering to also be used for driving, now known as front-wheel drive. This unit (the ) could be attached to the front of horse-drawn vehicles.

Latil and his friend, mechanic Aloïs Korn, started the Korn et Latil Company in Marseille in 1898. Latil patented the design for the front-wheel drive.

The company produced a front-wheel drive voiturette with a  Aster engine. It was designed by Latil.

In 1901, Latil and Korn moved its operations to Levallois-Perret and created the  company  to sell the  in Paris. Despite an initial success, the company was declared bankrupt. By 1905, Charles Blum became an investor and administrator of the company's assets. In 1909, he took over the assets and created a new company called  to manage them.

References

David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France
Veteran vehicles
Kyma (automobile). The Kyma was an English automobile manufactured from 1903 to 1905.

History 
Built by the New Kyma Car Company of Peckham, it came in  twin-cylinder models of three and four wheels.

See also 
 List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom

References
David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Defunct companies based in London
Veteran vehicles
Yoram Moses. Yoram Moses () is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Yoram Moses received a B.Sc. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1986. Moses is a co-author of the book Reasoning About Knowledge, and is a winner of the 1997 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science and the 2009 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing.

His major research interests are distributed systems and reasoning about knowledge.

He is married to the computer scientist Yael Moses.

External links
Yoram Moses's homepage

Electrical engineering academics
Gödel Prize laureates
Dijkstra Prize laureates
Researchers in distributed computing
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Stanford University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Israeli electrical engineers
CRYPTON. In cryptography, CRYPTON is a symmetric block cipher submitted as a candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). It is very efficient in hardware implementations and was designed by Chae Hoon Lim of Future Systems Inc.

The CRYPTON algorithm processes blocks of 128 bits in the form of 4×4 byte arrays. The round transformation consists of four steps: byte-wise substitution, column-wise bit permutation, column-to-row transposition and finally key addition. CRYPTON uses 12 rounds of this encryption process. Due to the algorithm's nature, the decryption process can be made identical to the encryption process using a different key.

See also
 AES process

External links
 Hardware Design and Performance Estimation of The 128-bit Block Cipher CRYPTON by Eunjong Hong, Jai-Hoon Chung, Chae Hoon Lim
 SCAN's entry for CRYPTON version 0.5 as originally submitted as AES candidate to NIST
 CRYPTON: A New 128-bit Block Cipher - Specification and Analysis (Version 0.5) by Chae Hoon Lim, Hyo Sun Hwang
 CRYPTON: A New 128-bit Block Cipher - Specification and Analysis (Version 1.0) by Chae Hoon Lim, Hyo Sun Hwang
 Weak Keys of CRYPTON by Johan Borst, 28 Aug 1998. Response to call for comments on AES candidates. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
 CRYPTON 1.0 Delphi implementation

Block ciphers
Retarder (railroad). In rail transport, a retarder is a device installed in a classification yard used to reduce the speed of freight cars as they are sorted into trains.

Construction
Each retarder consists of a series of stationary brakes surrounding a short section of each on the track that grip and slow the cars' wheels through friction as they roll through them.

Computer control
Modern retarders are computer controlled to apply a precise amount of pressure on the wheels so that cars rolling down a yard's hump are slowed to a safe speed for coupling with cars already standing on the yard's tracks.

Inert retarder
An inert retarder holds a cut of classified railcars to keep them from rolling out of a yard.

See also
 Dowty retarders
Retarder (mechanical engineering)
 Wheel stop

References

Rail yards
Railway buildings and structures
Rail freight transport
Embraer Legacy. The Embraer Legacy is a family of business jets produced by Embraer.

Aircraft include:

 Embraer Legacy 450, mid-size business jet
 Embraer Legacy 500, extended Legacy 450 model, introduced in 2014
 Embraer Legacy 600, a derivative of the Embraer ERJ 145 family
 Embraer Legacy 650, a longer-range version of the Legacy 600

Embraer aircraft
Australian Antarctic Building System. Australian Antarctic Building System, or AANBUS, is a modular construction system used by the Australian Government Antarctica Division for buildings in Antarctica. The individual modules resemble shipping containers. Each module is approximately 3.6 metres by 6 metres by 4 metres high.

Buildings built using the AANBUS modules are placed on concrete footings anchored into the ground and do not need external guy wires to anchor and support them. The modules are built of steel with attached insulation and vapor barriers.

The modular design provides improved shipping, speed of assembly in the short Antarctic summer, and better testing before shipping. The ability to test the assembled modules allows corrections to be made in the convenience of construction sites in temperate climates with easy access to parts and equipment, rather than at remote Antarctic locations where shipping in of replacement parts is an arduous undertaking.

Further reading

External links 
Australia’s Antarctic Buildings: AANBUS
Characteristics of the Australian Antarctic Building System

References 

Architecture in Australia
Australian Antarctic Territory
Technology related to buildings in Antarctica
Polytarp sails. Polytarp sails refer to sails constructed from rectangular polyethylene tarpaulins. Home boat builders often favor these synthetic sheet sails because the materials are inexpensive and easy to assemble into functional, durable sails.

Construction method 
The usual construction method involves

 laying out the tarp material,
 measuring the sail dimensions,
 creating baselines from corner to corner,
 placing double-faced carpet tape around the sail outline with sufficient rounding on selected edges to shape the sail,
 placing a reinforcing rope along the inner edge of the tape, and
 folding the taped overlap back over the rope to create the sail shape.

The sail can be strengthened by adding reinforcing material to the corners and stitching around the edges of the sail. Adding grommets to the corners and edges will allow the sail to be attached to the mast and spars. Because these grommets are placed through doubled material and behind the reinforcing line inside the sail edge, the resulting attachment points have tremendous strength.

Grades and specifications 
The most attractive, durable polytarp sails are usually made from a heavier white polytarp material. Generally, polysails are made from white ultraviolet-protected (UV-protected) material that is 12–16 mils (0.30–0.40 mm) thick (1 mil is .001 inches) and weighs about 6–8 ounces per square yard (200-270 grams per square meter) —about twice the weight and thickness of the common colored tarps which usually have no UV protection.

The weave density of polyethylene strips in the inner layer determines the quality of the material. Common tarps have a weave of about 6' x 8' (1.8  x 2.4 m). "Canopy grade" white polytarps, on the other hand, have a weave of 12' x 14' (3.6 m x 4.3 m) or 14' x 14' (4.3 m x 4.3 m). Increasingly, white polytarp is used to construct mainsails, jibs, and mizzens, while the lightweight polytarp materials are reserved for making spinnakers.

Polysail is the term given to any sail made of polytarp material and not just the white polytarp material.

Common sail types 

Polytarp is used to construct nearly every type of sail. However, the material is best for traditional sail types such as sprits, lugs, gaffs, gunters, lateens, junk sails, and jib-headed sprits. They are not suitable for sails that depend upon being highly tensioned, such as the marconi or Bermuda types of triangular sails.

References

Sailing rigs and rigging
Central Instrumentation Facility. The Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF) was a building in the Kennedy Space Center industrial area that functioned as the core of instrumentation and data processing operations during the Apollo program and the early years of the Space Shuttle program.  It centralized the handling of the center's data including offices, laboratories and test stations; and housed general instrumentation activities serving more than one launch complex. The CIF also included the Central Timing Facility, where a precision clock drove countdown clocks and other timing devices at KSC that required a high degree of accuracy.

The CIF also housed computers and other electronic equipment for reduction of telemetry data, analysis, and transmission to other NASA centers. The three-story structure of approximately  just west of the KSC Headquarters Building was one of the most distinctive buildings in the KSC Industrial Area with its rooftop array of various antennas.

The CIF was left dormant during the intermediate part of the space shuttle program (as other facilities such as the launch control center managed most of the instrumentation in the 2000s), and fell into disrepair. In September 2017, all the equipment inside was donated to the visitor complex and storage facilities, while the disused building was eventually demolished in October.

History

The CIF reflected the desire of Karl Sendler, KSC's first director of information systems, and his planners to centralize data handling. Although it was based on systems developed during Saturn I operations at Complexes 34 and 37, such experience was of limited value, because the distance from Launch Complex 39 to its Launch Control Center was more than 14 times as long.  Planning and construction were coordinated with other NASA centers and with the Atlantic Missile Range. All metal in the building was grounded, and  commercial power and the instrumentation power systems were grounded separately. Fluorescent lights, a source of electromagnetic interference, were not permitted. Its architect, Charles Luckman, also designed other nearby buildings.

CIF antenna site

A smaller building, later known as the CIF antenna site, was placed 1.5 miles (2.5 km) north of the Industrial Area, to be free of radio-frequency interference and have clear line-of-sight to the NASA launch complexes.

References

External links

Brevard County listings at National Register of Historic Places

Buildings and structures in Merritt Island, Florida
Kennedy Space Center
National Register of Historic Places in Brevard County, Florida
Demolished buildings and structures in Florida
Buildings and structures demolished in 2017
Vero Beach Diesel Power Plant. The Vero Beach Diesel Power Plant (also known as the City of Vero Beach Municipal Power Plant) is a historic power plant in Vero Beach, Florida. Located at 1133 19th Place, the Vero Beach Diesel Power Plant was built in 1926 replacing an earlier power plant due to the areas extensive growth. It was built in the masonry vernacular style by architects Carter and Damerow and by the engineering firm of Kennard and Sons. The structure was the city's first public utilitarian facility. It is also the city's oldest municipal building. On February 26, 1999, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.  In June 2016, the Diesel Plant was sold to real estate developer Michael R. Rechter.  Following a $6 million renovation, the building and property were adapted and reutilized as American Icon Brewery - a brewpub/production brewery which opened in September 2017.

References

External links

 Indian River County listings at National Register of Historic Places
 Indian River County listings at Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs

National Register of Historic Places in Indian River County, Florida
Buildings and structures in Vero Beach, Florida
1926 establishments in Florida
Energy infrastructure completed in 1926
Margański & Mysłowski EM-11 Orka. The EM-11 Orka (orca) is a touring and executive aircraft manufactured in Poland.

History
The EM-11 was designed by Edward Margański of Margański & Mysłowski Zakłady Lotnicze (Margański & Mysłowski Aviation Works), who were previously known for their Swift S-1 and MDM-1 Fox sailplanes. Work on this new low cost, light utility aircraft, of unorthodox configuration, with slim glider-like fuselage and two pusher engines, started in 2001 and was constructed of composite materials with a 4-seat cab placed low, for easier boarding. Luggage is stored behind the rear seats. Composite fuselage was a development of sailpane fuselage. As the designer Edward Margański pointed out, his goal was to create flying limousine "for people, not only for pilots", offering good visibility, comfort and ease of boarding. He expressed also, that his ambition was always to create beautiful aircraft, an in this field his inspiration was Let L-200 Morava.

The first prototype EM-11, registered SP-YEN, flew 8 August 2003.  It has a fixed tricycle landing gear and Rotax 912 () engines. The second prototype, registered SP-YEP, was to be a pattern for serial production variant EM-11C, flew 20 October 2005 with Lycoming IO-320 engines and retractable landing gear. In April 2011 EM-11C Orka was EASA certified and is currently in production.
Prior to certification, two prototypes and three further aircraft had been built.

Several variants are planned including, a patrol aircraft with an FLIR head, an air ambulance, a cargo aircraft, and an amphibious version.

Specifications

References

External links

Manufacturer's page

2000s Polish civil utility aircraft
Twin piston-engined pusher aircraft
EM-11
Shoulder-wing aircraft
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
Wind Spirit (ship). Wind Spirit is a motor sailing yacht, sailing as a cruise ship for Windstar Cruises. She is one of an unusual class of only three vessels (, Wind Spirit and ), designed as a modern cruise ship but carrying an elaborate system of computer-controlled sails on four masts.

See also 
List of large sailing vessels

References

External links 

 Windstar Cruises – official site

Cruise ships
Four-masted ships
Individual sailing vessels
1987 ships
PH 75. PH 75 was a military development program in France aimed at designing a nuclear-powered amphibious assault ship during the 1970s.  Design work was never completed by the time the project was cancelled in 1981.

History
The role of providing air support for amphibious operations in the French Navy was left to the aging Arromanches (R 95), a World War II-era light carrier.  PH 75 was envisioned as the replacement for the Arromanches.  Nuclear propulsion was selected to allow the vessel to operate with fewer support vessels and at longer ranges.  Other roles were added to the program including command, rescue, and anti-submarine warfare.  Early plans were for completion of the first unit by 1981, but this proved unobtainable, and after several delays, the project was finally cancelled.

France instead chose to pursue a conventionally powered vessel to fulfill this role, termed a power projection ship, resulting in the development of the Mistral class which entered service in 2005.  Meanwhile, France also developed a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle.

See also
 Mistral-class amphibious assault ship
 List of aircraft carriers

References

Proposed aircraft carriers
Amphibious warfare vessel classes
Helicopter carrier classes
Amphibious warfare vessels of France
Aircraft carriers of France
Nuclear-powered ships of the French Navy
Abandoned military projects of France
1981 disestablishments in France
Blondie24. Blondie24 is an artificial intelligence checkers-playing computer program named after the screen name used by a team led by David B. Fogel. The purpose was to determine the effectiveness of an artificial intelligence checkers-playing computer program.

The screen name was used on The Zone, an internet boardgaming site in 1999.  During this time, Blondie24 played against some 165 human opponents and was shown to achieve a rating of 2048, or better than 99.61% of the playing population of that web site.

The design of Blondie24 is based on a minimax algorithm of the checkers game tree in which the evaluation function is a deep learning convolutional artificial neural network.  The neural net receives as input a vector representation of the checkerboard positions and returns a single value which is passed on to the minimax algorithm.

The weights of the neural network were obtained by an evolutionary algorithm (an approach now called neuroevolution). In this case, a population of Blondie24-like programs played each other in checkers, and those were eliminated that performed relatively poorly. Performance was measured by a points system: Each program earned one point for a win, none for a draw, and two points were subtracted for a loss. Points were earned for each neural network after a multiple of games; the neural networks did not know which individual games were won, lost, or drawn. After the poor programs were eliminated, the process was repeated with a new population derived from the winners. In this way, the result was an evolutionary process that selected programs that played better checkers games.

The significance of the Blondie24 program is that its ability to play checkers did not rely on any human expertise of the game. Rather, it came solely from the total points earned by each player and the evolutionary process itself.  

David Fogel, along with his colleague Kumar Chellapilla, documented their experiment in several publications.  Fogel also authored a book on the development of Blondie24, and the experiences he and his team had while running Blondie24 in on-line checkers games, and eventually in obtaining a victory against a dumbed-down version of Chinook.

References

Further reading

See also 
Genetic Programming

Game artificial intelligence
Computer draughts players
Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages. The annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) is an academic conference in the field of computer science, with focus on fundamental principles in the design, definition, analysis, and implementation of programming languages, programming systems, and programming interfaces. The venue is jointly sponsored by two Special Interest Groups of the Association for Computing Machinery: SIGPLAN and SIGACT.

POPL ranks as A* (top 4%) in the CORE conference ranking.

The proceedings of the conference are hosted at the ACM Digital Library. They were initially under a paywall, but since 2017 they are published in open access as part of the journal Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL).

Affiliated events 
 Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming (DAMP) 
 Foundations and Developments of Object-Oriented Languages (FOOL/WOOD) 
 Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation (PEPM) 
 Practical Applications of Declarative Languages (PADL) 
 Programming Language Technologies for XML (PLAN-X) 
 Types in Language Design and Implementation (TLDI) 
 Verification, Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI)
 Languages for Inference (LAFI)

See also 
 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP)
 Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
 POPLmark challenge

References

External links 
 
 Acceptance Rates of Compiler Conferences

Association for Computing Machinery conferences
Programming languages conferences