omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Kapali Eswaran. Kapali Eswaran is one of the founding members of the IBM System R Project, which formed the genesis of relational database technology.

Eswaran is a graduate of Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley. He was an architect of IBM System R, the precursor to DB2. Eswaran was one of the inventors of SQL language. The Eswaran principle relating to database locking and transactions is a contribution that he made along with Jim Gray and Irv Traiger while working as a scientist at IBM Research. Subsequently, he launched Esvel, Inc. (acquired by Cullinet Software in 1987 for 30+ million, which itself was acquired by Computer Associates which then was acquired by Bradcom) and Kaps Corporation (technology acquired by subsidiary of BP, Hewlett-Packard and by Carlysle Library Systems).   He is currently the CEO of Integrated Informatics Inc.

Eswaran pursued his career primarily working as a researcher and software designer IBM Research where he contributed to several major database and transaction processing systems, including the System-R. He was founder and CEO of Esvel, Inc. and Integrated Informatics Inc.. Integrated Informatics was committed to digital transformation of Healthcare.

References

Living people
People in information technology
Year of birth missing (living people)
The Wounded Sky. The Wounded Sky is a 1983 Star Trek novel (Pocket Books #13) by Diane Duane, featuring James T. Kirk as captain of the USS Enterprise.   The author would four years later adapt the novel's plot for the teleplay of the first season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Where No One Has Gone Before".

Plot

The Enterprise, equipped with a radical new "inversion drive" which allows the ship to bend spacetime and transit immense distances instantly, is sent on a mission to the Magellanic Clouds just outside the Milky Way, in order to place navigation beacons for future extra-galactic voyages using the new technology.

The inversion drive is a product of the "creative physics" practiced by the natives of the Hamal star system, a race of crystalline spider-like beings. The chief designer of the drive is aboard, advising Captain Kirk, as the Enterprise makes its first "jump", after outmaneuvering a Klingon squadron which was sent to capture the new technology.  Unknown to anyone on the starship, however, the use of the drive destabilizes spacetime itself on a fundamental level, creating a rift or tear through which another, external universe penetrates and begins to mix with the Enterprises own, with rapidly spreading, potentially fatal consequences for all life everywhere.

The denouement of the novel follows as Captain Kirk and the Enterprise crew, experiencing bizarre, dream-like experiences of other times and worlds during the use of the drive, realize that something is dreadfully amiss.  Arriving near the rift and observing the destruction it inflicts on nearby star systems, they discover that the price for traveling distances that would take centuries to cover with warp drive may be the loss of their own universe.  Deliberately using the drive one, final time, they cross the "boundary" between external "reality" and their own collective inner consciousness, where they must together draw on mental, emotional and spiritual strengths to heal the wound that they have caused.

The novel deals intensively with the question of whether reality is an objective thing in and of itself, or a product of conscious perception by humans and other intelligences.  Like Duane's other Star Trek novels, it incorporates both real physics and speculative extensions thereof to support the plot.

Like most of Diane Duane's TOS-era novels, this one includes several scenes in the ship's recreation room, one of which quotes a Star Trek filk song based on John Denver's 
"Calypso".

References

External links

Novels based on Star Trek: The Original Series
1983 American novels
American science fiction novels
Fiction set in the Magellanic Clouds
Novels by Diane Duane
Pocket Books books
Dassault Hirondelle. The Dassault M.D.320 Hirondelle was a French 14-seat utility transport aircraft of the 1960s, designed and built by Dassault Aviation.

Design and development
In 1967 the French Air Force, investigating replacement aircraft for the Douglas DC-3 and Beechcraft 18 twin-engine aircraft being used for light transport and pilot navigation training, solicited proposals from the French industrial community, specifying that any submittals would be powered by  Turbomeca Astazou turboprops.

In response to this request, Dassault designed and constructed a single prototype M.D.320, later named Hirondelle (Swallow).  Design and construction were fairly rapid, due to extensive use of Dassault Falcon 20 elements such as the fuselage. The fuselage length and volume were identical to the Falcon 20, and its wing and control surfaces were adaptations of the 20.

The Hirondelle was an all-metal low-wing monoplane with swept vertical tail and slightly swept wing and tailplane, supported on a retractable tricycle undercarriage, with the main gear retracting into the engine nacelles.

The Hirondelle had a circular cross-section fuselage with accommodation for a crew of two and room for a maximum of 14 passengers with 5 round windows on each side of the pressurized cabin.

The prototype, (French civil registration F-WPXB), was powered by two Turbomeca Astazou XIVD turboprop engines mounted in wing nacelles, driving three-blade fully feathering propellers. Production aircraft would have been powered by Turbomeca Astazou XVI engines.

The airframe was designed using fail-safe principles and the wings contained integral fuel cells.

Operational history
The prototype first flew on 11 September 1968, at Bordeaux-Mérignac.

In 1968, the French Air Force procurement office reversed its previous position and announced that it was seeking jet-powered aircraft for the DC-3/Beechcraft 18 replacement program. Thus, there was no further official interest in the Hirondelle, and no further examples were constructed.

The experience gained in the Hirondelle program was applied to the subsequent Dassault Falcon 10 project, the prototype of which first flew in 1970.

The Hirondelle was the last propeller-powered aircraft to be designed by Dassault.

Specifications (M.D.320 Hirondelle)

See also

References

 
 
 
 
 Dassault website (in French)
 Information on Hirondelle program 
 Description of Hirondelle program

Hirondelle
1960s French military utility aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Twin-turboprop tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1968
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
Blériot-SPAD S.27. 

The Blériot-SPAD S.27 was a small French airliner developed soon after World War I.  It was produced as a way for the Blériot company to find new markets for its wartime products in the postwar market, in this instance by adapting the design of the S.20 fighter into a small airliner. Accommodation for two passengers was provided in a small cabin within the fuselage, but in other respects the S.27 strongly resembled its predecessor.

Three were operated by CMA on its Paris-London route, this total increasing to ten by the time that the company merged into Air Union.

Operators

CMA/Air Union

Specifications (S.27)

See also

References

 
 
 aviafrance.com

1910s French airliners
Blériot aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1919
Albion-class ship of the line (1763). The Albion-class ship of the line were a class of five 74-gun third-rate ships of the line, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.

Design
Slade based the design of the Albion class on the lines of the 90-gun ship .

Ships

Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Ordered: 1 December 1759
Launched: 16 May 1763
Fate: Wrecked, 1797

Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Ordered: 22 October 1767
Launched: 26 September 1771
Fate: Broken up, 1816

Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Ordered: 21 August 1774
Launched: 30 July 1779
Fate: Broken up, 1817

Builder: Randall, Rotherhithe
Ordered: 2 February 1778
Launched: 23 March 1780
Fate: Broken up, 1820

Builder: Barnard, Harwich
Ordered: 8 July 1778
Launched: 6 December 1782
Fate: Broken up, 1806

References
Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. .

 
Ship of the line classes
HMAS Paluma (A 01). HMAS Paluma (A 01) was the lead ship of the Paluma-class survey motor launches operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Design and construction

The Paluma-class vessels have a full load displacement of 320 tonnes. They are  long overall and  long between perpendiculars, have a beam of , and a draught of . Propulsion machinery consists of two General Motors Detroit Diesel 12V-92T engines, which supply  to the two propeller shafts. Each vessel has a top speed of , a maximum sustainable speed of  (which gives a maximum range of ), and an endurance of 14 days.

The sensor suite of a Paluma-class launch consists of a Kelvin Hughes 1007 navigational radar and Thales Petrel three-dimensional forward looking active high frequency echosounders. The vessels are unarmed. The standard ship's company consists of three officers and eleven sailors, although another four personnel can be accommodated. The catamarans were originally painted white, but were repainted naval grey in 2002.

Paluma was laid down by Eglo Engineering on 21 March 1988, launched on 6 February 1989 and commissioned into the RAN on 27 February 1989. The ship was named for Paluma, Queensland. She, along with sister ship HMAS Mermaid, was decommissioned on 18 September 2021.

Operational history
In January 2011, Paluma was one of three RAN vessels deployed to survey Moreton Bay and the Brisbane River for submerged debris as part of Operation Queensland Flood Assist, the Australian Defence Force response to the 2010–11 Queensland floods.

Citations

References

Paluma-class survey motor launches
Survey ships of the Royal Australian Navy
Naval ships of Australia
1989 ships
HMAS Benalla (A 04). HMAS Benalla (A 04) is a Paluma-class survey motor launch of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Design and construction

The Paluma-class vessels have a full load displacement of 320 tonnes. They are  long overall and  long between perpendiculars, have a beam of , and a draught of . Propulsion machinery consists of two General Motors Detroit Diesel 12V-92T engines, which supply  to the two propeller shafts. Each vessel has a top speed of , a maximum sustainable speed of  (which gives a maximum range of ), and an endurance of 14 days.

The sensor suite of a Paluma-class launch consists of a JRC JMA-3710-6 navigational radar, an ELAC LAZ 72 side-scan mapping sonar, and a Skipper 113 hull-mounted scanning sonar. The vessels are unarmed. The standard ship's company consists of three officers and eleven sailors, although another four personnel can be accommodated. The catamarans were originally painted white, but were repainted naval grey in 2002.

Benalla was laid down by Eglo Engineering, on 25 November 1988, was launched on 31 January 1990, and commissioned into the RAN on 20 March 1990. The ship was named for the city of Benalla, Victoria.

Operational history
In October 2013, Benalla participated in the International Fleet Review 2013 in Sydney.

HMAS Benalla, along with  were decommissioned at  on 16 June 2023, with the acceleration of the Defence Strategic Review released in May 2023.

Citations

References

External links

Paluma-class survey motor launches
Survey ships of the Royal Australian Navy
Naval ships of Australia
1990 ships
HMAS Mermaid (A 02). HMAS Mermaid (A 02) is a Paluma-class survey motor launch serving in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Design and construction

The Paluma-class vessels have a full load displacement of 320 tonnes. They are  long overall and  long between perpendiculars, have a beam of , and a draught of . Propulsion machinery consists of two General Motors Detroit Diesel 12V-92T engines, which supply  to the two propeller shafts. Each vessel has a top speed of , a maximum sustainable speed of  (which gives a maximum range of ), and an endurance of 14 days. 

The sensor suite of a Paluma-class launch consists of a JRC JMA-3710-6 navigational radar, an ELAC LAZ 72 side-scan mapping sonar, and a Skipper 113 hull-mounted scanning sonar. The vessels are unarmed. The standard ship's company consists of three officers and eleven sailors, although another four personnel can be accommodated. The catamarans were originally painted white, but were repainted naval grey in 2002.

Constructed by Eglo Engineering, Mermaid was laid down on 19 July 1988, launched on 28 September 1989, and commissioned into the RAN on 4 December 1989.

Citations

References

External links

Paluma-class survey motor launches
Survey ships of the Royal Australian Navy
Naval ships of Australia
1989 ships
Maths and Social Sciences Building. The Maths and Social Sciences Building is a high-rise tower in Manchester, England. It was part of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) until that university merged with the Victoria University of Manchester, to form the University of Manchester, in 2004. It was vacated by the university in 2010 but is currently in use by the School of Materials while waiting for a new building to be constructed.

The MSS Building was built in 1969, as part of the UMIST campus. Constructed from reinforced concrete and designed by architects Cruikshank and Seward, it has fifteen stories and an overall height of , making it the tallest building on the former UMIST campus.  Unlike many examples of Brutalist architecture on university campuses of that period, the building deviates from a purely cuboid outline with decorative towers at either end (now used as convenient locations for mobile phone antennae) and the floors up to the 10th being larger, which also breaks up the outline. The building was used largely for staff offices, with some teaching rooms. The 10th to 14th floors (called floors M–Q) accommodated the Department of Mathematics. The University of Manchester Regional Computer Centre (UMRCC) was based on J floor. The "Social Sciences" in the building's name indicates that the building once housed the Management Department, but in recent years the Department of Computation occupied the lower floors of the building. They were to become the School of Informatics in the new university and have since been split between the Schools of Computer Science and Manchester Business School.  A two-floor annex to the MSS building connected to the ground floor houses tiered lecture theatres.

It was built on the site of cramped terraced housing that accommodated factory workers that was studied by Friedrich Engels in his book The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.

The new, merged University of Manchester announced in June 2007 that it plans to sell the Mathematics and Social Sciences Building. In July 2007, School of Mathematics relocated from MSS as well from the Ferranti building and the temporary buildings Newman and Lamb, to the new purpose-designed Alan Turing Building. Later in 2007, the staff of the former School of Informatics relocated, some of them to the Lamb building vacated by the mathematicians.

As of 2015, the building houses the Materials Science department, recently relocated from the old Materials Science Building, awaiting demolition.

External links

Buildings at the University of Manchester
Buildings and structures completed in 1968
Brutalist architecture in England
Samos-F. SAMOS-F or Air Force Program 102 refers to a series of SIGINT reconnaissance satellites launched and operated by the United States Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office during the 1960s. Initial priorities (in decreasing order) were to monitor radio waves in the frequency bands 2.5-3.2 GHz (S band), 9.0–10 GHz (X band), and 59-650 MHz. The intercepted data and their location were stored on magnetic tape, and subsequently transmitted to tracking and acquisition ground stations. Tracking stations were located in the NE (New Boston, New Hampshire), Central (Ottumwa, Iowa), and NW (Fort Stevens (Oregon)) of the continental United States, with additional test sites at Vandenberg AFB, California, and at Ka'ena Point, Oahu, Hawai. The satellites are also called Agena ferrets and heavy ferrets. Approximately sixteen heavy ferrets were launched into low Earth orbits from Vandenberg Air Force Base between February 1962 and July 1971 aboard Thor-Agena and Thorad-Agena rockets. Almost everything about these satellites remains classified.

Launch list

References
SAMOS F2 and SAMOS F3 from Gunter's space page
SAMOS from Jonathan McDowell
Dwayne Day, "Ferrets above: American signals intelligence satellites during the 1960s"  International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 17 no. 3. p449-467 (2004)

Signals intelligence satellites
Reconnaissance satellites of the United States
Satellite series
Military equipment introduced in the 1960s
MITES. MITES, or MIT Introduction to Engineering and Science, is a highly selective six-week summer program for rising high school seniors held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its purpose is to expose students from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds to the fields of science and engineering. The program also aims to foster an interest in these subject matters and prepare students for the pressures and lifestyle of college life.

History
MITES was founded in 1974 as the MITE (Minority Introduction to Engineering) Program with the purpose of increasing the number of people from underrepresented backgrounds in the engineering profession. It started out as a two-week intensive program, and later evolved into what is now a six-week program for 60-80 students.

Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible to apply to MITES, applicants must be:

U.S. citizens or permanent residents
High school juniors or equivalent

Students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds can apply to the MITES Program.

Curriculum
Students take four core classes all six weeks from the following choices:
 Biology/Biochemistry/Chemistry
 Calculus I/Calculus II
 Physics I/Physics II/Physics III
 Humanities

Also, they take one of five electives:
 Architecture - Students learn the concepts of folding, design, and architecture in order to build full-scale models of structures they design at the end of the program.
 Electronics - Students learn the elements of Electronics using a breadboard and create a functioning demonstration of an electrical concept at the end of the program.
 Genomics - Students research DNA and genetic diseases at the Broad Institute, where one third of the human genome was sequenced.
 Engineering Design - Students team up to build robots for specific tasks and compete against each other at the end of the program.
 Digital Design - Students learn computer skills applicable to designing web pages and working toward a final project.

Student life
MITES students live at Simmons Hall, on Vassar Street. Simmons Hall is an undergrad dorm designed in an unconventional style which resembles a giant sponge. They enjoy full use of the facilities at MIT such as the student center and the libraries. Also, students get to know the cities of Boston and Cambridge.

The students also participate in activities such as a Fourth of July barbecue, a tour of Boston, lab tours, a talent show, a college fair, and a variety of speaker's luncheons with people such as the Dean of Science at MIT and Eric Lander.

College Matriculation
Over 2,000 MITES alumni have taken part in the program over the past 41 years. Nearly 30% of MITES alumni have matriculated to MIT. Those MITES students who attend MIT are consistently strong performers. Since its inception, the graduation rate of MITES alumni at MIT is as much as 12 percentage points higher than that of minority students who did not have the privilege of attending MITES.

References
Official MITES Website

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Blériot-SPAD S.33. The Bleriot-SPAD S.33 was a small French airliner developed soon after World War I.  The aircraft was a biplane of conventional configuration whose design owed much to the Blériot company's contemporary fighter designs such as the S.20.  Four passengers could be accommodated in an enclosed cabin within the monocoque fuselage, and a fifth passenger could ride in the open cockpit beside the pilot. A great success, the S.33 dominated its field throughout the 1920s, initially on CMA's Paris-London route, and later on continental routes serviced by Franco-Roumaine.

One interesting development was a sole example converted by CIDNA to act as a blind-flying trainer. A set of controls was installed inside the passenger cabin, the windows of which had been blacked out.

Variants
S.33Single-engined passenger transport aircraft, powered by a  Salmson CM.9 radial piston engine. 41 aircraft built.
S.46Improved version of the S.33, powered by a  Lorraine-Dietrich 12Da engine. 38 built and sold to the Franco-Roumaine Company.
S.48A single S.33 temporarily re-engined in 1925, fitted with a  Lorraine 7M Mizar engine.
S.50Luxury version with passenger cabin enlarged to six seats, fitted with a  Hispano-Suiza 8Fb engine. Three were converted from S.33s, plus two all-new aircraft.

Operators
 
 Franco-Roumaine (20 aircraft)
 CMA (15 aircraft)
 
 SNETA (6 aircraft)

Specifications (S.33)

See also

References

Further reading
 
 

Blériot aircraft
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
1920s French airliners
Aircraft first flown in 1920
LMO. LMO may refer to:

Science and technology
 Lanthanum manganite (LaMnO3), an inorganic compound
 Lithium ion manganese oxide battery (LiMn2O4, etc., or LMO), a cathode material for lithium-ion batteries
 Lithium molybdate (Li2MoO4), an inorganic compound
 Living modified organism or genetically modified organism
 Lunar magma ocean, layer of molten rock theorized to have been present on the surface of the Moon

Other uses
 Lombard language (ISO 639:1 code), of northern Italy and southern Switzerland
 RAF Lossiemouth (IATA airport code), Scotland
 LMO (album), by Rage and Lingua Mortis Orchestra
 Lego Minifigures Online, a defunct massively multiplayer video game