omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Aliens: The Computer Game (US Version). Aliens: The Computer Game is a 1986 video game developed and published by Activision for the Commodore 64, Apple II based on the film of the same title. As Activision's UK subsidiary Electric Dreams Software  had independently released their own version of the game with the same title, the game was renamed for European release. Initially planned to be released as Aliens: The Second Part., it was finally published under the title Aliens: US Version with ports for the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum produced by Mr Micro.

Gameplay
Aliens is a series of six minigames strung together via graphical interactive sequences, akin to an adventure game, though the only interaction possible is advancing the dialog, displayed in speech balloons.  The minigames are mostly action sequences that involve piloting a ship from Sulaco to the planet's surface, recognizing equipment, and fighting aliens.

Reception
At the time of its release, the game received mixed reviews, including the scores of 85% from Commodore Format, 8/10 (averaged) from Computer and Video Games, 45% from Crash, 5/10 from Sinclair User, 9/10 from Your Sinclair, and 60% from Zzap!64. Info gave the Commodore 64 version four stars out of five: "The aliens are appropriately creepy, and each sequence is well done & plays quite differently from the others".

Retrospective
VentureBeats Stephen Kleckner commented in a 2014 feature that "as with a lot of compilation-designed titles, Aliens falls into that trap of being a collection of mediocre experiences instead of a game with a singular focus. […] Hardcore fans who own a Commodore 64 should load this one up. Everyone else isn’t missing much that a Let's Play video won't provide." On the other hand, Chris Cummins from Topless Robot wrote in 2010 that "the now-crude graphics aside, it's still arguably the best game based on any of the films in the Alien saga."

Reviews
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine v11 n8 (1987 08)

See also
 List of Alien, Predator and Alien vs. Predator games

References

External links

Aliens at Lemon 64

1980s horror video games
1986 video games
Alien (franchise) games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
Electric Dreams Software games
MSX games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games scored by Russell Lieblich
Video games set in outer space
Video games set on fictional planets
ZX Spectrum games
SDEP. The SDEP (Street events Data Exchange Protocol) comprises an XML data schema and web service WSDL for exchanging information about streetworks, roadworks, and street events between systems.

Elgin was funded by the UK NeSDS Government e-Standards Programme to conduct a consultation and convene meetings to define the requirements of a common data exchange protocol for streetworks registers and other systems handling street events' data. SDEP was developed to allow the open exchange of such data between back office systems used by local authorities to manage their highway networks, in order to enable e-Government and streetworks co-ordination.

The SDEP consultation group comprised ELGIN (chair), Mayrise Ltd., Symology Ltd., Pitney Bowes Inc., Exor Corporation (Bentley Systems), Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Transport for London, with the National Traffic Control Centre in an observing capacity.

See also
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Transport for London
National Traffic Control Centre

External links
SDEP technical documentation including an XML schema and WSDL

XML markup languages
Web service specifications
World Wide Web Consortium standards
Technical communication
Computer file formats
Open formats
Data modeling languages
Data serialization formats
Application layer protocols
Presentation layer protocols
EasyBeans. EasyBeans is an open-source Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) container hosted by the OW2 Consortium. The License used by EasyBeans is the LGPL. EasyBeans is the EJB 3.0 container of the  JOnAS application server.

EasyBeans is integrated in the JOnAS application server Java EE 5 certified application server.

EasyBeans main goal is to ease the development of Enterprise JavaBeans. It uses some new architecture design like the bytecode injection (with ASM ObjectWeb tool), IoC, POJO and can be embedded in OSGi bundles or other frameworks (Spring, Eclipse plugins, etc.).

It aims to provide an EJB 3.0 container as specified in the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) in its fifth version. It means that Session beans (Stateless or Stateful), Message Driven Beans (MDB) are available on EasyBeans.

Open JPA is only the persistence API for EJB 3.0, at the same level as Hibernate. EasyBeans will be a full EJB container, which could use Hibernate, Speedo, or Open JPA for its persistence.

See also 
 JOnAS application server
 Hibernate
 OpenEJB

External links 
 The EasyBeans developer site
 The EasyBeans site
 JSR 220 (EJB 3.0)
 JSR 181 (Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform)

OW2
Java enterprise platform
Microscopic (EP). Microscopic is a 1996 EP by industrial music group Download. It was one of the first releases with a lenticular cover. Their previous LP, Furnace, also used this new type of packaging.

Track listing

Personnel

Download
Dwayne Goettel
Philth
Mark Spybey – artwork
cEvin Key – production, engineering, mixing

Additional musicians
Genesis P. Orridge – vocals (1, 5)
 Tim Olive – bass (6)

Technical personnel
 Anthony Valcic – mastering
 B. Bob – mixing
 Mark Pilon – art direction, artwork
 Clancy Dennehy – photography
 John Gelardi – CD case renderings

References

1996 EPs
Download (band) albums
Lab on a Chip (journal). Lab on a Chip is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes original (primary) research and review articles on any aspect of miniaturisation at the micro and nano scale. Lab on a Chip is published twice monthly by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the editor-in-chief is Aaron Wheeler (University of Toronto). The journal was established in 2001 and hosts other RSC publications: Highlights in Chemical Technology and Highlights in Chemical Biology. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 6.1.

Subject coverage 
Lab on a Chip publishes research at the micro- and nano-scale across a variety of disciplines including chemistry, biology, bioengineering, physics, electronics, clinical science, chemical engineering, and materials science focusing on lab on a chip technologies.

Article types 
Lab on a Chip publishes full research papers, urgent communications, critical and tutorial reviews.

Chips & Tips 
Chips & Tips is an online resource launched in 2006. It is moderated by David Beebe (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and Glenn Walker (North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Chips & Tips pages are brief practical tips for the miniaturisation community, including pictures, videos, and schematics.

See also 
 List of chemistry journals
 List of scientific journals

References

External links 
 
 Chips & Tips

Chemistry journals
Royal Society of Chemistry academic journals
Microtechnology
Biweekly journals
English-language journals
Nanotechnology journals
Academic journals established in 2010
SUSTAIN (military). Small Unit Space Transport and INsertion or SUSTAIN is a concept first proposed in 2002 by the United States Air Force and United States Marine Corps to deploy Marines via spaceflight to any location on Earth.

Project Hot Eagle, launched by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Research Laboratory, is an investigation into the development and use of suborbital spacecraft to fulfill this vision. Hot Eagle would use a craft based on a design similar to Space Ship One, which could launch a squad on a suborbital trajectory in two stages and deliver them anywhere on two hours' notice.

Delivery of soldiers by rocket has been proposed before, including by General John B. Medaris, head of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in the 1950s. The lander itself is designed to hold a 13-man squad and land in almost any terrain at any time, avoiding diplomatic concern for airspace rights.

See also
 Space marine

References

External links
 
 Future Launch - A few visionary Marines would take expeditionary warfare to new heights Navy League of the United States, February 2006
 Military space systems: the road ahead The Space Review, February 27, 2006
 Marines eyeing a ride in space: Trading Muddy Boots for Moon Boots (subscription required) Aviation Week, September 12, 2005

Airborne warfare
United States Marine Corps in the 21st century
DARPA
United States Air Force
Common Lisp Music. CLM (originally an acronym for Common Lisp Music) is a music synthesis and signal processing package in the Music V family created by Bill Schottstaedt. It runs in a number of various Lisp implementations or as a part of the Snd audio editor (using Scheme, Ruby and now Forth). There is also a realtime implementation, Snd-rt which is developed by Kjetil S. Matheussen.

This software was used to digitally stretch Beethoven's 9th Symphony to create Leif Inge's 9 Beet Stretch.

See also
 OpenMusic
 Common Music Notation

References

External links
 CLM Home
 Snd
 Snd-rt

Audio programming languages
Free audio software
Software synthesizers
Common Lisp (programming language) software
Faron Moller. Faron George Moller (born February 25, 1962, in Trail, British Columbia) is a Canadian-born British computer scientist and expert on theoretical computer science, particularly infinite-state automata theory and temporal logic. His work has focussed on structural decomposition techniques for analysing abstract models of computing systems. He is founding director of the Swansea Railway Verification Group; Director of Technocamps; and Head of the Institute of Coding in Wales. In 2023, he was elected General Secretary of the Learned Society of Wales.

Education
Moller studied mathematics and computer science as an undergraduate at the University of British Columbia, and then as a Masters student at the University of Waterloo, before going on to do a PhD supervised by Robin Milner in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.

Career and research
Moller has held posts at the University of Strathclyde, University of Edinburgh, The Swedish Institute for Computer Science, The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and Uppsala University before moving to Wales as Professor of Computer Science at Swansea University in 2000.

Moller serves as director of Technocamps, a pan-Wales schools outreach programme aimed at introducing and reinforcing Computer Science and Digital Competency within all Welsh schools and inspiring young people to study computing-based topics; and Head of the Institute of Coding in Wales.

Awards and honours
Moller is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW), a Fellow of the British Computer Society ( FBCS) and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA), and served as President of the British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science for 15 years (2004-2019). He is a Chartered Mathematician, a Chartered Scientist, and a Chartered IT Professional.

References

1962 births
Living people
Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
British computer scientists
Welsh computer scientists
Canadian expatriate academics in the United Kingdom
People from Trail, British Columbia
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
University of British Columbia alumni
University of Waterloo alumni
Academics of Swansea University
Formal methods people
ARGES mine. ARGES, ACEATM or MACPED is an anti-tank off-route mine, developed by an international consortium
to meet the needs of the British, French and German armed forces. The system consists of a rocket and launch tube, a tripod and a sensor package.

The sensor package has an acoustic sensor that detects the approach of a suitable target and activates the passive infrared and laser sensors which trigger the launch of the rocket when the target passes in front of it.

The rocket uses a modified version of the motor from the LAW 80 anti-tank rocket, and has a tandem HEAT warhead, enabling it to penetrate the side armour of all main battle tanks, including those protected with reactive armour. The rocket has a range of between two and ninety meters, with the hit probability at ninety meters being 97%.

The mine is highly programmable with an active window of between three hours and forty days, to choose a specific target in a convoy, as well as the ability to be re-programmed. The system can also be command initiated.

Specifications
 Weight: 18 to 22 kg quoted.
 Length: 1.02 m
 Height: from 230 mm to 700 mm
 Range: 2 to 97 m
 Traverse: -45 degrees to + 45 degrees

References

 "Germany: Mine Ban Policy," Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor

Anti-tank mines
Flight Assignment: A.T.P.. Flight Assignment: A.T.P. (Airline Transport Pilot or simply ATP) was an amateur flight simulator released in 1990 by the Sublogic Corporation. It runs on DOS based PCs.  The simulation models the Boeing 737, 747, 767, Airbus A320 and Shorts 360.  It features most major aviation beacons in the United States and about 30 major airports.  It also includes a multi-voiced air traffic control simulator.

The game's July 1990 release was snarled by a lawsuit from Microsoft, which claimed ownership of some of Sublogic's source code rights, and it was settled with a number of concessions on the part of Sublogic, most notably dropping the phrase "flight simulator" from all of its products.  This allowed the release of ATP in December 1990.  Releases and updates continued through 1993, and the software remained on the market until December 13, 1995.

In late 1994, Italian company LAGO and Austrian company Nomissoft released a plugin for ATP entitled 3D Advanced Graphics System. The companies went on to purchase rights to portions of the ATP code from Sierra, which had acquired Sublogic in 1995. Although Sierra's own plans for a re-release of ATP on the Windows platform never came to fruition, LAGO and Nomissoft gave new life to the ATP code with the release of their own product, Airline Simulator in September 1996.

In April 1997, LAGO and Nomissoft showed a successor. Airline Simulator 2 Pro was demonstrated at a conference in Europe, but by that December development was halted, as the two companies parted due to fundamental disagreements about the way forward. In March 1998, Nomissoft announced that it had secured the necessary rights to Airline Simulator 2 code, and by August 4, 1999, the grandchild of Sublogic ATP hit retail.

Development of another followup, Airline Simulator 3, had long been teased by Nomissoft founder Simon Hradecky in parallel with Airline Simulator 2s development, but within weeks of AS2s release, AS3s development had been taken over by Aerosoft, a German company. Again, development stagnated, and finally in January 2013, the company confirmed that development had been ceased and the project written off.

References

External links
 A history of ATP

1990 video games
Air traffic control simulators
DOS games
DOS-only games
Flight simulation video games
General flight simulators
Sublogic games
Video games developed in the United States
Tupolev Tu-244. The Tupolev Tu-244 was a proposed supersonic transport (SST) aircraft, developed from the Tu-144. It implemented novel features such as cryogenic fuel to enable flight distances of up to  and would have carried up to 300 passengers. The project was cancelled in 1993.

History
The draft work began in 1979, and when the project ended in 1993 substantial progress had already been made during the interpretation. Specifically, the air resistance in the range of Mach 2 was only 50% higher than a conventional passenger airliner traveling at a speed of Mach 0,9.

The nearly-circular fuselage ( width,  height) and the wing unit would have consisted to a large extent of titanium-composite materials. The engines were to be higher performance hydrogen-fuelled versions of the Kuznetsov NK-321 turbofan, used also with the Tu-160. Adjustable air intake ramps from the Tu-160 might have been included. Projected passenger capacity was 311.

Fly-by-wire was intended for flight control. Rather than using a tilting nose, video cameras were to provide the crew with the necessary view for landings.

Specifications

See also

References

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Tu-0244
Supersonic transports
Abandoned civil aircraft projects
Tailless delta-wing aircraft
Quadjets
Turner Museum of Glass. The Turner Museum of Glass is housed in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield, in England.  It is in the Sir Robert Hadfield Building with the entrance from Portobello Street. It contains examples from ancient Egypt and Rome but mainly from major European and American glassworkers, with a particular focus on those from the 1920s to 1950s.

It was founded in 1943 by Professor W. E. S. Turner of the University, who additionally was the senior author on many papers on glass technology.  One of the exhibits is the wedding dress of his wife Helen Monro Turner (Helen Nairn, married 1 July 1943) which is made of glass fibre, as are the matching shoes.  This has been selected as one of the items in the BBC's extended collection based on A History of the World in 100 Objects.

References

External links 
 Turner Museum of Glass website

Museums established in 1943
Museums in Sheffield
Glass museums and galleries
Sheffield University buildings and structures
University museums in England
Decorative arts museums in England
1943 establishments in England
T. Jack Lee. Thomas Jack Lee (April 1, 1935 – February 24, 2019) was the sixth Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, from July 6, 1989 to January 6, 1994.

Life and career 
Thomas Jack Lee was born in Wedowee, Alabama on April 1, 1935. Prior to his appointment as Director of the Marshall Center, Lee had been Marshall's deputy director since December 1980, after seven years as manager of the Spacelab program at the Center. From July to September 1986 he was also acting director of the Center.

In addition to his responsibilities as deputy director, Lee was manager of the Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle Definition Office, NASA's effort to define and develop a heavy lift launch vehicle capable of meeting national requirements.

Lee began his professional career in 1958 as an aeronautical research engineer with the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency at the Redstone Arsenal. He transferred to the Marshall Center when it was formed in 1960 as a systems engineer with the Center's Centaur Resident Manager Office in San Diego. From 1963 to 1965 he was Resident Project Manager for the Pegasus Meteoroid Detection Satellite Project in Blandenburg, Maryland, and from 1965 to 1969 was chief of the Center's Saturn Program Resident Office at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

From 1969 to 1973 he was assistant to the technical deputy director of the Marshall Center. He then became deputy manager and manager of the Sortie Lab Task Team, and continued as manager when that team became the Spacelab Program Office in 1974.

As manager of the Spacelab Program Office he was responsible for NASA's work with the European Space Agency in the development of Spacelab, a multi-purpose reusable laboratory for Earth orbital science activities. 
 

Lee died of pancreatic cancer on February 24, 2019, at the age of 83.

References

External links 
 NASA biography
 Thomas J. Lee Collection, The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections

1935 births
2019 deaths
NASA people
Directors of the Marshall Space Flight Center
Systems engineers
People from Randolph County, Alabama
Deaths from pancreatic cancer in Alabama
Gene Porter Bridwell. Gene Porter Bridwell (October 4, 1935 – August 4, 2016) was the seventh director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama. He served as director from January 6, 1994, to February 3, 1996.

Before becoming director of the Marshall Center, G.P. (Porter) Bridwell served as manager of the Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle Definition Office, where he supervised efforts involving the proposed vehicle's design, development, and integration. He also served on special assignment with the Space Station Redesign Team and later the U.S./Russian Space Station Integration Team. Previously, he served as manager of the Shuttle Projects Office. There he managed the Shuttle's propulsion elements, including the Space Shuttle Main Engine, External Tank, Redesigned Solid Rocket Motor, Solid Rocket Booster, Advanced Solid Rocket Motor, and related systems and activities, including the Michoud Assembly Facility.

Bridwell was born in Linton, Indiana, on October 4, 1935, and graduated from State High School in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1953. He earned a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He began his professional career as an engineer with Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, California. He joined the Marshall Center in 1962, and his early experience included assignments within the former Saturn Systems Office and Saturn V Program Office. In 1975, he transferred to the Shuttle Projects Office and served in key positions including chief of the Project Engineering Office, and deputy manager of the External Tank Project. In February 1983, he was appointed manager of the External Tank Project.

In the spring of 1987, he served temporarily as acting deputy center director of National Space Technology Laboratories in Mississippi. He was appointed director of institutional and program support at the Marshall Center in October 1988, and assumed the position of manager, Shuttle Projects Office, in May 1989.

In January 1990, Bridwell became the director of National Launch Systems for NASA Headquarters, co-located at the Marshall Center. In February 1992, he was officially transferred back to the Marshall Center from headquarters, where he assumed his post as manager of the Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle Definition Office.

Bridwell died in Huntsville, Alabama on August 4, 2016, at the age of 80.

References

External links
 NASA biography

1935 births
2016 deaths
NASA people
Directors of the Marshall Space Flight Center
People from Linton, Indiana
Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics alumni