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Jean Ichbiah. Jean David Ichbiah (25 March 1940 – 26 January 2007) was a French computer scientist. From 1977 to 1983, he was the chief designer of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers.

Early life
Ichbiah was a descendant of Greek and Turkish Jews from Thessaloniki who emigrated to France.

Career
In 1980, he founded the Company Alsys. From 1972 to 1974, he worked on designing an experimental system implementation language called LIS, based on Pascal and Simula. He had been chairman of the Simula User's Group and was one of the founding members of IFIP WG 2.4 on Systems Implementation Languages.

He then joined CII Honeywell Bull (CII-HB) in Louveciennes, France, becoming a member of the Programming Research division. Among other projects, he worked on the rewrite of the Siris 7 operating system into Siris 8 computer restructuring Iris 80 .

Ichbiah's team submitted a language design labelled "Green" to a competition to choose the United States Department of Defense's embedded programming language. When Green was selected in 1978, he continued as chief designer of the language, now named "Ada". In 1980, Ichbiah left CII-HB and founded the Alsys corporation in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, which continued language definition to standardize Ada 83, and later went into the Ada compiler business, also supplying special validated compiler systems to NASA, the US Army, and others. He later moved to the Waltham, Massachusetts subsidiary of Alsys.

In the 1990s, Ichbiah designed the keyboard layout FITALY, which is specifically optimized for stylus or touch-based input. Subsequently, he started the Textware Solutions company, which sells text entry software for PDAs and tablet PCs, as well as text-entry software for medical transcription on PCs.

Awards and honors
In 1979, Jean Ichbiah was designated a chevalier (knight) of the French Legion of Honour and a correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences. He received a Certificate of Distinguished Service from the United States Department of Defense for his work on Ada.

Death
Jean Ichbiah died from complications of a brain tumor on January 26, 2007.

References

Further reading

External links
Jean Ichbiah (1940-2007), press release by the Ada Resource Association
"Programming pioneer dies — A tribute to Ada's Jean Ichbiah", by Phil Manchester (2007-02-02)
Obituary by Bertrand Meyer, as published in SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Jean Ichbiah, 66; designed landmark computer language (Boston Globe)
Ada inventor Jean Ichbiah dies (Computerworld)
Member of the French Academy of Sciences 
Ada 83 designer Jean Ichbiah dies, Ada User's Journal, Ada-Europe 2007

Ada (programming language)
American computer scientists
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Neurological disease deaths in Massachusetts
Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts
Deaths from brain cancer in the United States
French computer scientists
20th-century French Sephardi Jews
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Programming language designers
Programming language researchers
1940 births
2007 deaths
TEC. TEC or Tec may refer to:

Education
 Trichy Engineering College, in Konalai, Tamil Nadu, India
 Costa Rica Institute of Technology
 Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, in Monterrey, Mexico
 Tertiary Education Commission (disambiguation)
 The East Carolinian, a campus newspaper of East Carolina University
 Texas Eastern Conference, an American junior college athletic conference

Governmental and public organizations
 Tasmanian Electoral Commission, Australia
 The Episcopal Church (United States) 
 Telecommunication Engineering Center, an Indian government agency
 Tsunami Evaluation Coalition, a coalition created to evaluate the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
 Transatlantic Economic Council, an agreement between the US and EU
 Training and enterprise council, a former type of UK training program administrator
 Topographic Engineering Center, former name of the US Army Geospatial Center
 Treaty establishing the European Community, a former name for the principal EU Treaty
 Transitional Executive Council, a government body that helped facilitate South Africa's transition to democracy in 1994

Military
 TEC-3 or Technician third grade, United States Army rank
 TEC-4 or Technician fourth grade, United States Army rank
 TEC-5 or Technician fifth grade, United States Army rank
 I.G. Brown Air National Guard Training and Education Center, Knoxville, Tennessee

People
 Nechama Tec, Professor Emerita at the University of Connecticut
 Roland Tec, American writer and movie director

Science, engineering and medicine
 TEC (gene), a human gene
 Thermoelectric cooling, a process to create a heat flux between two different materials 
 Time error correction (TEC)
 Transient erythroblastopenia of childhood, a medical condition
 Threshold Exceeds Condition, a value used in computer hard disk evaluation
 Total electron content, a descriptive quantity of the Earth's ionosphere
 Triethylcholine, a drug
 TEC, a Russian abbreviation for thermal power stations in Russia and Soviet Union with combined heat and power plant

Other uses
 Tech (river) (), Pyrénées-Orientales département, France
 TEC-9, a semi-automatic pistol
 Tec (album), a 2023 album by Lil Tecca
 SV TEC, a Dutch association football club
 Terik language (ISO 639-3 code: tec), spoken in Kenya
 Toshiba TEC Corporation, a subsidiary of Toshiba
 Tower en route control, a collection of air-traffic routes
 TRACE Expert City, an office complex in Sri Lanka
 Transport En Commun, a brand name of Belgian transport company Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport
 Turkish Engine Center
 Slang term for a detective
Slick (tool). A slick is a large chisel, characterized by a wide (2-4 inches, 5–10 cm), heavy blade, and a long, frequently slender, socketed handle. A long, flat metal plate fitted with an offset handle. The combined blade and handle can reach two feet (60 cm) in length. The blade of a slick is slightly curved lengthwise, and/or the handle socket is cranked upward, such that the handle and socket clear the surface of the work when the edge is touching. This distinguishes the slick from the similarly sized, short-handled millwright's chisel.

Use
A slick is always pushed; never struck (thus the slender handle). Using a combination of the tool's weight and bracing the handle against the shoulder or upper arm, fine paring cuts are made. Slicks are typically used by shipwrights and timber framers.

See also

References

External links
Hand Tools & Accessories
Tools Used In Timber-frame Construction

Green woodworking tools
Woodworking chisels
Chisels
Woodworking hand tools
USS High Point. USS High Point (PCH-1) was a High Point-class patrol craft of the United States Navy in commission from 1963 to 1975. She subsequently was in commission in the United States Coast Guard briefly in 1975.

Construction and commissioning
High Point was the first of a series of hydrofoil craft designed to evaluate the performance of hydrofoils for the U.S. Navy. The design of High Point began in April 1958 under project SCB 202. She had three submerged foils containing propulsion nacelles and propellers, and was also capable of riding on her hull like a more conventional ship.

High Point was launched on 17 August 1962 by J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corporation in Tacoma, Washington as a sub-contractor to Boeing in Seattle, Washington, at a cost of $2.08 million, together with Vickers, Inc. Marine and Ordnance Department in Waterbury, Connecticut, which provided hydraulic components and controls. Electronic equipment aboard, including automatic stabilization equipment and a dead reckoning navigation system, was developed and manufactured by the United Aircraft Corporation Hamilton Standard Division. She was commissioned on 15 August 1963 with Lieutenant H. G. Billerbeck in charge. She was named after High Point, North Carolina.

Service history

U.S. Navy
Hugh Point carried out tests in Puget Sound from 1963 to 1967. On her foils, she obtained very high speeds, and the U.S. Navy evaluated her for mobility and flexibility as an antisubmarine warfare vessel. The U.S. Navy decommissioned her in March 1975.

U.S. Coast Guard
On 4 April 1975, the U.S. Navy transferred High Point to the United States Coast Guard, which acquired her to evaluate hydrofoil characteristics for use in law enforcement, search and rescue, and marine environmental protection missions. After a first round of tests in Puget Sound, the Coast Guard transferred her to San Francisco, California. While she was attempting to moor at Naval Station Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, her turbine exploded. The $300,000 cost of repair was not in the Coast Guard budget, so the Coast Guard decommissioned her on 5 May 1975 and transferred her back to the U.S. Navy.

Later disposition
High Point was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register sometime in 1980. A private owner intent on restoring her purchased her in 2002, but the effort did not succeed.  In 2005 Terence Orme purchased her to save her from being scrapped. By 2009, she was moored at Tongue Point near Astoria, Oregon, where volunteers were restoring the vessel for use as a museum. These efforts were abandoned. In 2021, a private individual purchased High Point and began to restore her at Astoria with the goal of making her seaworthy once again.

When corrosion was found below her waterline, USS High Point was scrapped in August of 2023.

References

Notes

Sources

External links

 (2002 website of past owner)

Cold War patrol vessels of the United States
Boeing hydrofoils
Ships built in Tacoma, Washington
Ships of the United States Coast Guard
1962 ships
Hydrofoils of the United States
Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology. The Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology is given annually to recognise important members of the science and engineering communities in New York City. Candidates must live or work in the city.

Nominations are submitted in five categories:
Biological and Medical Sciences
Mathematical, Physical, Engineering Sciences
Technology
Public Understanding of Science and Technology
Young Investigator (for scientists and engineers under the age of 40)

The Mayor chooses winners from a list of finalists submitted by the New York Academy of Sciences and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

References

Science and technology awards
American awards
RuleML. RuleML is a global initiative, led by a non-profit organization RuleML Inc., that is devoted to advancing research and industry standards design activities in the technical area of rules that are semantic and highly inter-operable. The standards design takes the form primarily of a markup language, also known as RuleML. The research activities include an annual research conference, the RuleML Symposium, also known as RuleML for short. Founded in fall 2000 by Harold Boley, Benjamin Grosof, and Said Tabet, RuleML was originally devoted purely to standards design, but then quickly branched out into the related activities of coordinating research and organizing an annual research conference starting in 2002. The M in RuleML is sometimes interpreted as standing for Markup and Modeling. The markup language was developed to express both forward (bottom-up) and backward (top-down) rules in XML for deduction, rewriting, and further inferential-transformational tasks. It is defined by the Rule Markup Initiative, an open network of individuals and groups from both industry and academia that was formed to develop a canonical Web language for rules using XML markup and transformations from and to other rule standards/systems.

Markup standards and initiatives related to RuleML include:
 Rule Interchange Format (RIF): The design and overall purpose of W3C's Rule Interchange Format (RIF) industry standard is based primarily on the RuleML industry standards design. Like RuleML, RIF embraces a multiplicity of potentially useful rule dialects that nevertheless share common characteristics.
 RuleML Technical Committee from Oasis-Open: An industry standards effort devoted to legal automation utilizing RuleML.
 Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL): An industry standards design, based primarily on an early version of RuleML, whose development was funded in part by the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) research program.
 Semantic Web Services Framework, particularly its Semantic Web Services Language: An industry standards design, based primarily on a medium-mature version of RuleML, whose development was funded in part by the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) research program and the WSMO research effort of the EU.
 Mathematical Markup Language (MathML): However, MathML's Content Markup is better suited for defining functions rather than relations or general rules
 Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML): With this XML-based language one can define and share various models for data-mining results, including association rules
 Attribute Grammars in XML (AG-markup): For AG's semantic rules, there are various possible XML markups that are similar to Horn-rule markup
 Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT): This is a restricted term-rewriting system of rules, written in XML, for transforming XML documents into other text documents

See also
 RuleML Symposium
 Ontology (information science)
 Business rules
 Business rules approach
 Semantic Web Rule Language
 R2ML
 Flora-2

References

External links 
  
 AG-markup
 Rules Portal

Computer science organizations
Events (computing)
Rule engines
XML markup languages
Knowledge representation languages
Albertite. Albertite is a variety of asphalt found in the Albert Formation in Albert County, New Brunswick, and in a deposit at Dingwall, in the north-east of Scotland. It is a type of solid hydrocarbon.

Albertite has a black colour, a resinous luster, and a hardness of 2½. It is less soluble in turpentine than the usual type of asphalt. It was from a mixture of albertite and pitch that kerosene was first distilled in 1846 by Abraham Gesner, a New Brunswick geologist who had heard stories of rocks that burned in the area and gave the material its first scientific study.

Origin 
Albertite is formed from oil shale in which some of the hydrocarbons have been remobilised as liquid asphalt. The process is as follows:
 Crude oil (petroleum) is produced from source rocks (in the case of Albert Mines, oil shale).
 The petroleum migrates through fractures and becomes trapped in the apex of an anticline.
 The lighter oils gradually leak out through the weakly permeable caprock.
 The bituminous residues (tars, asphaltanes, etc.) are left behind in the fractures as albertite.

Occurrence 
Albertite is named after Albert County in New Brunswick, Canada, where it was first found in the area that became known as Albert Mines. There, the albertite occurs as discordant, cross-cutting veins in the core of an anticline. It was initially mistaken for coal. Most geologists of the 1800s were puzzled by how this "coal" came to be discordant to the local strata, as they did not understand the nature of its oil shale source rock, or the fact that the albertite was essentially solidified asphaltum.

Extraterrestrial albertite has also been detected on the dwarf planet Ceres.

References

External links 
 Albertite occurrences, Albert Mines
 Oil Shows of Nova Scotia, including Albertite leads
 Solid Hydrocarbon References
 Asphaltic substances in Turkey; their physical properties

Petroleum industry in Canada
Oil shale in Canada
Oil shale geology
Bitumen-impregnated rocks
Carbon button lamp. The carbon button lamp is a single-electrode incandescent lamp invented by Nikola Tesla in the 1890s. A carbon button lamp contains a small carbon sphere positioned in the center of an evacuated glass bulb. This type of lamp must be driven by high-frequency alternating current, and depends on an electric arc or perhaps a vacuum arc to produce high current around the carbon electrode.  The carbon electrode is then heated to incandescence by collisions by ions, which constitute the electric current.  Tesla found that these lamps could be used as powerful sources of ionizing radiation.

In February 1892, Tesla gave a lecture to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, in which he described the carbon button lamp in detail. He also described several variants of the lamp, one of which uses a ruby drop in place of the carbon button.

Tesla went on to develop it as a near commercial lighting product. Engineer George Egely has argued that the carbon button lamp "could have been a serious competitor for the incandescent tungsten filament bulbs and the later 'neon tubes' of gas discharge devices.

See also 
 List of light sources

References

External links 
 Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency  - Tesla's lecture to the Institute of Electrical Engineers

Types of lamp
STRINGCOMP. STRINGCOMP was a programming language developed at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN).

It was one of the three variants of JOSS II (along with TELCOMP and FILECOMP) that were developed by BBN. It had extended string handling capabilities to augment JOSS's mathematical focus.  It was a strong influence in the development of the programming language MUMPS.

JOSS programming language family
Strongtalk. In computing, Strongtalk is a Smalltalk environment with optional static typing support. Strongtalk can make some compile time checks, and offer stronger type safety guarantees; this is the source of its name. It is non-commercial, though it was originally a commercial project developed by a small startup company named LongView Technologies (trading as Animorphic Systems).

History
David Griswold wanted to use Smalltalk more extensively, but then-extant implementations were insufficient for his needs. He wanted to improve the performance, add type-checking, and use native graphical user interface (GUI) widgets. His efforts resulted in the 1993 paper he co-authored with Gilad Bracha. This version was based on adding type-checking to the ParcPlace Systems implementation of Smalltalk. However, an implementation begun from scratch could gain a better typing system.

He became interested in the improvements that the team for the language Self had achieved, and envisioned the same methods used to improve Smalltalk. Urs Hölzle, who worked on the powerful Self compiler, spoke with Griswold about implementing the same type feedback in a Smalltalk compiler. Griswold, Hölzle, Lars Bak, and others formed a small company (LongView Technologies, doing business as Animorphic Systems) to re-implement Strongtalk. Work began in 1994 and they completed an implementation in 1996. The firm was bought by Sun Microsystems in 1997, and the team got focused on Java, releasing the HotSpot virtual machine, and work on Strongtalk stalled.

Sun released the 1997 re-implementation of Strongtalk as open-source software under a revised BSD license, including the Strongtalk system image in 2002, and the virtual machine in 2006.  Strongtalk is touted as the fastest implementation of Smalltalk. Strongtalk is available for Windows XP (other ports are in the works) and includes a basic development environment.

See also
 JavaScript
 HotSpot (Java virtual machine)

References

External links 
 
 Strong Smalltalk at smalltalk.org
 Strongtalk at Google Code

High-level programming languages
Object-oriented programming languages
Class-based programming languages
Dynamically typed programming languages
Smalltalk programming language family
Programming languages created in 2002
Cross-platform free software
Formerly proprietary software
Leo Irakliotis. Leo Irakliotis is a computer engineer.  His early work was on optical information processing.  With Leo Kadanoff he founded the Center for Presentation of Science at the University of Chicago, where he taught computer science from 1997 until 2009.
Irakliotis earned a master's degree in theoretical physics from Miami University (Ohio) and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Colorado State University.  In 2005, Irakliotis worked with Jef Raskin to design a new curriculum on humane interfaces and computer enterprises.  The project was never completed due to Raskin's death in the same year.

References

Greek academics
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Chicago faculty
Next Step. Next Step or Nextstep may refer to:

 NeXTSTEP, a UNIX-based computer operating system developed by NeXT in the 1980s and 1990s
 OpenStep, an open platform version of NeXTSTEP originated by Sun Microsystems and NeXT
 Rhapsody (operating system), the Apple Macintosh NeXTSTEP/classic Mac OS hybrid predecessor to macOS
 Darwin (operating system), the open source version of macOS
 GNUstep, an open source version of NeXTSTEP originated by the GNU Organization
 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP), a NASA program
 Next Step Tour, a 1999 tour by the British pop group Steps
 Nextstep (magazine), an American magazine for high school students

See also

 The Next Step (disambiguation)
 NeXstep, a brand of Coca-Cola Co.
 NexStep, a polyurethane product from Interface, Inc.
 
 
 
 Next (disambiguation)
 Step (disambiguation)
PXES. PXES also known as PXES Universal Linux Thin Client, was created in early 2001 by Diego Torres Milano. PXES is a Linux distribution designed to be run on thin clients using PXE; however, it is also possible to boot PXES from a CD-ROM or hard disk if the NIC or BIOS does not support PXE.

In 2006, The PXES project merged with 2X Software, who are merging PXES with the 2XOS. Distribution of PXES will remain free.

References

External links
PXES at Sourceforge.net
2X Software 2XOS
PXES museum

Remote desktop
Network booting