omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Softtek. Softtek is a Mexico-based information technology company, operating in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, the company has 15,000 associates in Mexico and abroad and is the largest private IT vendor in Latin America.  The company offers application software development, testing, security and support; business process outsourcing (BPO); and IT infrastructure management, security and support to more than 400 corporations in more than 20 countries. It also acts as a value added reseller (VAR) for SAP, Microsoft, Blue Yonder, AWS and other software products. The company has trademarked the term "nearshoring" to describe the provision of outsourced services to customers in other countries that are in proximity.

History

Softtek was founded in 1982 as a small IT services company by Gerardo López, develop customized software for customers including Mexico’s second largest bank and managing their IT infrastructure. Following the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, in 1997 Softtek introduced the nearshore model, opening the first global delivery center in Latin America. In August 2000, Blanca Treviño took the position of President and CEO. In August 2007, the company acquired China based I.T. UNITED, extending its services to the Asian market. In December 2019, Softtek acquired 75% of Vector ITC, Spain-based digital technology services firm.

Management

Softtek has one of the few female CEOs in a large multinational company. Blanca Treviño, President & CEO of Softtek, assumed the position in August 2000. Under her leadership Softtek became the largest private IT service provider in Latin America. She is a board member for Wal-Mart Mexico, The United States – Mexico Foundation for Science, the University of Monterrey, and TecMilenio University. She is also an adviser to the Government of Nuevo León, her home state in Mexico. She was featured as a “Rising Star” in 2007 by Fortune Magazine’s "50 most powerful women in global business" issue. Treviño was also selected as the fourth most powerful business woman in Mexico by CNN Expansión in 2008, which was her second time featured in this ranking. In 2019, WITI inducted Blanca into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame.

Controversy 
On May 31, 2020, in the midst of the commotion by the worldwide Black Lives Matter movement, the Brazilian affiliate was involved in accusations of racism on social networks after firing an employee who led the movement in Brazil. In response, Softtek said: "our human resources policies comply with regulations and are in line with our code of ethics"

Acquisitions

References

External links
 Softtek website

Technology companies established in 1982
Information technology companies of Mexico
Privately held companies of Mexico
Companies based in Monterrey
Mexican brands
Mexican companies established in 1982
Hangin'-A-Round. Hangin'-A-Round was the name of the robotics contest at the 2006-2007 FIRST Vex Challenge (FVC). The contest involved building a robot from a kit that could attain a higher score than the opposition by placing the softballs into the colored goals, possessing the “atlas ball”, and by being parked on the platform or hanging from the bar.

The game
Competitors were put on two-team alliances in the qualification matches. The competitors could place their robot anywhere on their side of the field. Each match had a 20-second autonomous period. During the autonomous period each robot's program could drive autonomously to score points without human control. Once the 20 seconds were over, the operators controlled them for the following 2-minute operator control period.

Scoring
The robots' main objective was to score softballs into a low corner goal for 1 point each or score softballs into a tall, triangular goal for 3 points each. In the center was a square platform placed on a dolly. On the platform was a raised bar, 36" off the ground, from one corner to the opposite corner diagonally. A robot parked on the platform and not touching the foam mats would win 5 points. A robot hanging from the bar at the end of a match without touching the platform or the foam would win 15 points. A large, yellow ball called the Atlas Ball was placed on the platform at the beginning of each match. The Atlas Ball would double the points that an alliance made by scoring balls in goals if it was mostly on their side. Also, the alliance that scored the most points in the 20-second autonomous period would gain a 10-point autonomous bonus.

Championship Awards

Championship Winners
3053 Occam's Engineers
1114 Simbotics
3230 EMP

Championship finalists
3050 Jaws
3549 Rivited Steel
3652 FLAME

Inspire Winner
3053 Occam's Engineers

References

External links
2006 Hangin'-A-Round Game Manual

2006 in robotics
Joachim Hagenauer. Joachim Hagenauer (born 29 July 1941) is an information theorist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich. He pioneered the use of soft bits (see Soft output Viterbi algorithm), a coding theory technique that contributes to the high performance of the turbo codes.

Professor Hagenauer's work enabled the advancement of turbo coding and led to a significant improvement in channel coding for digital communications and storage. His works have been applied to digital receiver designs, satellite transmissions and other facets of telecommunications.

Hagenauer received his doctorate in 1974 from Darmstadt University of Technology where he also served as an assistant professor. In 1990 he was appointed a director of the Institute for Communication Technology at the German Aerospace Center DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen. In 1993 he became the Chair of the University of Technology's Communications Technology department in Munich, Germany.

He was also active at the IEEE Information Theory Society.

In 1992, Hagenauer was elevated to the grade of IEEE fellow for contribution to the application of convolutional codes to mobile radio and satellite communications.

He has been awarded the Erich Regener and Otto Lilienthal Prizes from the German Aerospace Association, and the Armstrong Award from the IEEE Communications Society, and was also elected to the Bavarian Academy of Science. In 2003, he received the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal for meritorious achievements in telecommunications.

See also 
 Google scholar profile

References

External links 

 Engineering & Technology History - Joachim Hagenauer
 

 IEEE. IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal Recipients: 2003 - Joachim Hagenauer (biography), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) website. Retrieved May 2010.

Living people
1941 births
German information theorists
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich

Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Indeterminacy in computation. Indeterminacy is a property of formal systems that evolve in time (often conceptualized as a computation), in which complete information about the internal state of the system at some point in time admits multiple future trajectories.

In simpler terms, if such a system is returned to the same initial condition—or two identical copies of the system are started at the same time—they won't with certainty produce the same behaviour, as some element of chance is able to enter the system from outside its formal specification.

In some cases the indeterminacy arises from the laws of physics, in other cases it leaks in from the abstract model, and sometimes the model includes an explicit source of indeterminacy, as with deliberately randomized algorithms, for the benefits that this provides.

Disambiguation

Indeterminacy in computation may refer to:

 quantum indeterminacy in quantum computers
 nondeterministic finite automata
 nondeterministic algorithm
In concurrency:
 indeterminacy in concurrent computation
 unbounded nondeterminism
AmSafe. AmSafe Inc. is a manufacturer of air safety and securement products to the aerospace, defense, and ground transportation industries and maker of aircraft seatbelts. AmSafe makes the Aviation Inflatable Restraint (AAIR), a seatbelt airbag approved by the FAA designed to improve occupant protection from serious head injury during an otherwise unsurvivable aircraft accident. The airbag allows manufacturers and airlines to meet the FAA 16g seat retrofit rule that mandates all aircraft comply by October 2009 (1).

AmSafe’s aviation products can be found on most commercial aircraft, including seat belts, restraints, cargo and barrier nets, tie-downs, and cabin interior textiles. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, AmSafe operates manufacturing and service facilities around the world. Numerous general aviation aircraft manufactures have adopted the airbag, including Mooney, Cessna and Cirrus.

The Marmon Group founded this company. In 2004 it was purchased by an investor group led by The Pritzker Group and Admiralty Partners, Inc.. In 2007, it was further acquired by a new investment group led by Berkshire Partners and The Greenbriar Group.  In 2012, it was acquired by TransDigm Group.

References

External links
BBC Horizon
Air Transport World
Tom Barth Air Impact Survivability
Flight Safety Foundation
AmSafe company web site

Aviation safety
Manufacturing companies based in Phoenix, Arizona
Nord 3202. The Nord Aviation 3202 is a 1950s French military trainer aircraft designed and built by Nord Aviation to meet a French Army requirement for a two-seat basic trainer, as a replacement for the biplane Stampe SV.4. Altogether, 101 examples were built, with the first flying on 17 April 1957.

Design
The 3202 was a cantilever low-wing monoplane with a fixed tailwheel landing gear and a nose-mounted inline piston engine. It had an enclosed cockpit for pupil (front) and instructor (rear) in tandem.

Operation

The Nord 3202 was used as a military training aircraft.  After retirement from military use, many examples were sold to the civilian market, including several now (2012) flown in the United States.

Variants
Nord 3200
Prototype with a 240hp (179kW) Salmson 8AS-04 engine.
Nord 3201
Prototype with a 170hp (127kW) Regnier 4L-22 engine.
Nord 3202
Production aircraft with a  Potez 4D-32 engine, 50 built.
Nord 3202B
Production aircraft with a  Potez 4D-34 engine, 50 built.
Nord 3202B1B
modified by Aérospatiale for use by the Patrouille de l'Aviation Légère de l'Armée de Terre in aerobatic competitions. Larger ailerons, lower weight, new landing gear, and variable-pitch propeller.
Nord 3212
Redesignation for 3202s fitted with radio compass and equipped for instrument flight training.

Operators

French Army

Specifications (N 3202)

See also

References

Further reading

External links

 Aviafrance

3202
1950s French military trainer aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1957
Osgood Company. The Osgood Company was a Marion, Ohio based manufacturer of heavy machinery, producing steam shovels, dragline excavators and cranes. What would eventually become Osgood Company was founded in 1910 as Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company by A.E. Cheney, the former head of sales for the Marion Steam Shovel Company. Marion Power Shovel acquired Osgood Company in 1954 and integrated Osgood's products into the Marion Power Shovel product line.

History
The company that would provide key intellectual property for what would become Osgood Shovel was established by William Carmichael, nephew of William Otis, the inventor of the steam shovel. Despite having introduced the first drag-line, Carmichael's Albany, New York based company folded in 1899. The assets of Charmichael's failed enterprise remained unused until Cheney and his financial backers acquired the rights to them and moved the machinery to Marion Ohio.

Establishment
Arthur Edgar Cheney, Sales Manager for Marion Steam Shovel, left that company after a disagreement with its CEO, George W. King, over products designed specifically for smaller jobs. King intended to take the company that he co-founded into the lucrative mining industry, while Cheney saw a need for machines that could operate in construction environments. To capitalize on his idea to produce construction machinery, Cheney purchased the assets of the defunct Osgood Manufacturing Company of Albany, New York.

In 1912 Marion Steam Shovel successfully sued Cheney's company for trademark infringement, and the company changed its name from Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company to Osgood Shovel Company, later shortened to the Osgood Company.

Fate
Osgood as an independent company ceased to exist in 1954 when it was acquired by Marion Power Shovel Company. Bucyrus International, Inc., purchased Marion Power Shovel in 1997. Bucyrus is being acquired by Caterpillar, Inc. in a transaction completed in the July 2011.

References

Construction equipment manufacturers of the United States
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Ohio
Marion, Ohio
Marion Power Shovel Company
Companies established in 1910
1910 establishments in Ohio
Terrarium (novel). Terrarium   is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writer and essayist Scott Russell Sanders, published by Tor.

Plot summary

In the late 21st century, humans have been forcibly moved into an enclosed network of domed cities connected by travel tubes known as 'The Human System'. The outside world was left because of extreme pollution, and the cities rely on harvesting the seas. Inside these cities, (called the "Enclosure") taboos extend so far as to make uncovered legs and unpainted faces a horrific sin. Due to likely ongoing large scale social engineering there are 12 stages for mating but most women have their reproductive organs removed or are used as breeders starting at the age of 13.

Fear of the outside is extreme, another aspect of the social engineering that was incorporated into The Human System. Hence it is called the "wilder" and people who enter these lands legally on maintenance work are called wildergoers. Exiting The Human System without permission is illegal and might result in execution.

The book focuses on a man named Phoenix and a Wildergoer called Teeg Passio, daughter of a renowned deconstructor of the original Earth cities whose pieces and materials were used to create the Enclosure. The book details how they and a group of others escape out into the wilds and find an outside world they didn't expect.

Sources
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1985 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
1985 American novels
Tor Books books
Turbomeca Arriel. The Turbomeca Arriel is a series of French turboshaft engines that first ran in 1974.
Delivering , over 12,000 Arriel engines have been produced from 1978 to 2018, logging more than 50 million flight hours for 40 helicopter applications.
In June 2018, 1,000 Arriel 2D were in service, powering H125 and H130 single-engine helicopters, having logged one million flight hours since 2011.
After endurance tests and fleet data analysis, their TBO increased by 25% to 5,000 hours and mandatory inspection rose to 15 years with no hourly limit, lowering maintenance costs.

The Liming WZ-8 (turboshaft) and Liming WJ-9 (turboprop) are the designations for Turbomeca Arriel production in China. In 2021 Safran opened a production facility in Grand Prairie, Texas for production of Arriel 2E engines, which had previously only been produced in France.

Applications
 AgustaWestland AW109
 Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin
 Eurocopter AS565 Panther
 Eurocopter MH-65 Dolphin
 Eurocopter EC130
 Eurocopter EC145
 Eurocopter EC155
 Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil
 Harbin Z-9
 Harbin Z-19
 Kopter AW09
 MBB/Kawasaki BK 117
 Sikorsky S-76

Specifications (Arriel 1)

See also

References

External links

 Turbomeca Arriel official site

Arriel
1970s turboshaft engines
Arthur Bergan. Arthur Theodore Bergan is a Canadian civil engineer and professor. He specializes in transportation engineering. He supervised the construction of highways and the development of Transport Canada's Transportation Centers.  He supervised the development of the Weigh-in-Motion Scale, designed to weigh vehicles passing over computer-assisted scales at speeds up to 70 miles per hour.

Early life
Arthur Bergan was born in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan and graduated from high school in 1949. He began working at the provincial Department of Highways in 1951. He attended the University of Saskatchewan, obtaining a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1961, a Master of Science in Soil Mechanics from UofL in 1964, and a Ph.D. in Pavement Design for Heavy Loads from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968.

Career 
During his career, Bergan supervised the design and construction of highwaysmany in previously undeveloped regions in north and northeastern Saskatchewan. An estimated 500 miles of Saskatchewan highway were built under his supervision through challenging terrain such as permafrost and muskeg.

In the 1970s, Bergan established the University of Saskatchewan's Transportation Research Centre to conduct research and training in transportation systems, safety, and economics. One of Bergan's first projects was a study of seatbelt effectiveness. In 1978, Saskatchewan became the first province in Canada to legislate the use of seatbelts. Bergan's most important success may be his lead role in improving highway efficiency and safety. In 2003, he was inducted into the Saskatchewan Transportation Hall of Fame. 

Bergan was instrumental in establishing a network of transportation centers across Canada, under the mandate of Transport Canada. The network evolved into Canada's lead center of excellence in transportation safety research, with research centers across Canada, including the University of Saskatchewan.

In the late 1970s, Bergan developed a weigh-in-motion scale capable of weighing trucks traveling at highway speeds. This technology led to the formation in 1980 of International Road Dynamics (IRD), a Saskatoon company specializing in weigh-in-motion, commercial vehicle operation enforcement, and intelligent transportation systems. Under Bergan's leadership as board chairman, IRD became an international leader in intelligent transportation systems (ITS).

Bergan authored numerous refereed journal and conference proceedings. He served on college, national, and international professional committees. He was appointed president of the  Canadian Technical Asphalt Association, and served as assistant dean of the College of Engineering from 1978 to 1983. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Saskatchewan and other engineering and transportation associations.

References

External links
Irdinc.com
Usask.ca

Transport engineers
University of Saskatchewan alumni
Living people
1930s births
GridApp Systems. GridApp Systems, Inc. was a database automation software company. It was purchased by BMC Software in December 2010.

Founded in 2002 and headquartered in New York City, GridApp Systems was the brainchild of five former employees of Register.com, Rob Gardos, Shamoun Murtza, Matthew Zito, Dan Cohen, and Eric Gross. The five realized that 85% of the routine tasks performed by database administrators could be automated, decreasing critical errors and improving productivity; all five functioned as GridApp's CEO, CTO, Chief Scientist, Director of Development, and Mr. Database respectively.

GridApp's flagship product is GridApp Clarity, which has won the following awards and recognition:
 SearchSQLServer ― 2006 ― "Performance and Tuning" Category ― Silver 
 ServerWatch ― 2008 ― "Automation and Compliance" category ― Silver
 CODiE ― 2008 ― "Best Database Management Software" category ― Finalist
 EMA ― 2008 ― "EMA Rising Star"

References

Software companies established in 2002
American companies established in 2002
Software companies based in New York (state)
2002 establishments in New York City
2010 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States
Defunct computer companies based in New York (state)
BMC Software acquisitions
Exner function. The Exner function is an important parameter in atmospheric modeling. The Exner function can be viewed as non-dimensionalized pressure and can be defined as:
 
where  is a standard reference surface pressure, usually taken as 1000 hPa;  is the specific gas constant for dry air;  is the specific heat capacity of dry air at constant pressure;  is the absolute temperature; and  is the potential temperature. It is named after Felix Maria von Exner-Ewarten.

References 
Pielke, Roger A. Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling. Orlando: Academic Press, Inc., 1984.
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service. National Weather Service Handbook No. 1 - Facsimile Products. Washington, DC: Department of Commerce, 1979.

See also 
Barometric formula
Climate model
Euler equations
Fluid dynamics
General circulation model
Numerical weather prediction
Primitive equations

Numerical climate and weather models
Aérospatiale Ludion. The Sud Aviation/Aérospatiale SA-610 Ludion (Ludion - Cadet) is a tiny, unorthodox VTOL aircraft demonstrated at the 1967 Paris Air Show. It consisted of little more than a chair, behind which were mounted two downward-pointing augmented rocket engines with control provided by thrust vectoring. The Ludion was intended to carry its pilot and 30 kg (66 lb) of equipment up to 700 m (2,300 ft) at an altitude of up to 200 m (600 ft).

The unusual powerplant consisted of a monofuel de-composition chamber fed with pressurised isopropyl nitrate (AVPIN), ignited by a catalyst. The high pressure gasses produced in the de-composition chamber were fed to two augmentor tubes, built by Bertin, either side of the pilots seat, angled slightly outwards. As the gasses entered the augmentor tubes through rocket nozzles, thrust was augmented by inducing airflow through the ducts which acted as aero-thermo-dynamic ducts, due to the heat and kinetic energy added to the flow through the ducts, and the carefully shaped exhaust nozzles.

Specifications (SA-610 Ludion)

See also

References

External links

Description of the Ludion
Another description of the Ludion
Sud-Aviation SA-610 Ludion (1967-1968) - Youtube video

Aérospatiale aircraft
1960s French experimental aircraft
VTOL aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1967
Rocket-powered aircraft
Aerosport Quail. The Aerosport Quail is an ultralight aircraft that was designed for home building by Harris Woods.
First offered for sale in 1971, by the end of the decade, 375 sets of plans had been sold, with around 26 aircraft under construction and 10 flying.

Design
The Quail is an all-metal cantilever high-wing monoplane with an enclosed cabin and tricycle undercarriage. The aircraft uses simple flat-sided construction with pop-rivet assembly. The wing design is unmodified from the Aerosport Rail homebuilt. The prototype was powered with a Rockwell L680R engine.

Aircraft on display
There are Quails on display at the North Carolina Aviation Museum in Asheboro, North Carolina, and the Pima Air Museum in Tucson, Arizona.

Specifications (Aerosport Quail)

References

Quail
Homebuilt aircraft
1970s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aerosport Inc. 

Aerosport Inc was a company founded by Harold Woods in Holly Springs, North Carolina in 1971 to market aircraft and plans for homebuilding.

List of products

Aerosport Quail
(1971) Single-engine high-wing one-seat ultralight monoplane aircraft with tricycle undercarriage and enclosed cabin
Aerosport Rail
(1970) Monoplane one-seat ultralight aircraft with two pusher engines and open cabin
Aerosport Scamp
(1973) Single-engine one-seat ultralight biplane aircraft with tricycle undercarriage and open cabin
Aerosport Woody Pusher
(1960s) Single-engine two-seat parasol ultralight monoplane aircraft with open cockpit and tailwheel undercarriage
Aerosport-Rockwell LB600
A piston engine for ultralight aircraft, based on a snowmobile engine (in partnership with Rockwell International).

References
 

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Defunct companies based in North Carolina