With the rapid adoption of Eclipse as both development tool and application platform, teaching Eclipse plug-in development in universities is showing its necessity and advantage, especially on the undergraduate level. This paper introduces our practice in teaching Eclipse plug-in development for undergraduate students in Technische Universität München, Germany. Following a set of carefully desi...

The total solar eclipse that occurred over the Arctic region on 20 March 2015 was seen as a partial eclipse over much of Europe. Observations of this eclipse were used to investigate the high time resolution (1 min) decay and recovery of the Earth's ionospheric E-region above the ionospheric monitoring station in Chilton, UK. At the altitude of this region (100 km), the maximum phase of the ecl...

We report here the results of studies documenting the contamination of a cigarette-appearing smoking article labeled Eclipse with glass fibers, fragments, and particles. Eclipse, a product of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR), was commercialized in June of 1996. Eclipse is unlike conventional cigarettes in that, like its predecessor Premier, it is designed to heat and not burn tobacco. T...

Entwicklungsmethoden und -werkzeuge für eingebettete Systeme und Enterprise Applikationen nähern sich zusehends an. Insbesondere die modellgetriebene Entwicklung hilft beim Umgang mit zunehmend komplexeren, eingebetteten Softwaresystemen. Zur Automatisierung der Entwicklung ist die Werkzeugunterstützung entscheidend. Die OpenSource-Entwicklungsplattform Eclipse stellt mit dem Eclipse Modeling P...

The Personal Software Process (PSP) is a framework for individual software engineers to improve the quality, predictability and productivity of their work. It consists of a family of seven personal processes that progressively introduce data collection and analysis techniques. This paper presents a PSP tool that is integrated into the Eclipse environment. Currently it includes an Eclipse plug-i...

ECLIPSE is a next-generation virtual telecommunication network that provides multimedia services that integrate voice, video, text, and images. ECLIPSE facilitates the modular decomposition of new telecommunication services. In this paper we sketch the challenges we face in making ECLIPSE highly available when running on top of a heterogenous and widely distributed system. We describe how we ap...

The National Eclipse Weather Experiment (NEWEx) was a citizen science project designed to assess the effects of the 20 March 2015 partial solar eclipse on the weather over the United Kingdom (UK). NEWEx had two principal objectives: to provide a spatial network of meteorological observations across the UK to aid the investigation of eclipse-induced weather changes, and to develop a nationwide p...

The ancient Greek astronomical calculating machine, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, predicted eclipses, based on the 223-lunar month Saros cycle. Eclipses are indicated on a four-turn spiral Saros Dial by glyphs, which describe type and time of eclipse and include alphabetical index letters, referring to solar eclipse inscriptions. These include Index Letter Groups, describing shared eclips...

The British Isles benefits from dense meteorological observation networks, enabling insights into the still-unresolved effects of solar eclipse events on the near-surface wind field. The near-surface effects of the solar eclipse of 20 March 2015 are derived through comparison of output from the Met Office's operational weather forecast model (which is ignorant of the eclipse) with data from two...

Plutarch and Heraclitus believed a certain passage in the 20th book of the Odyssey ("Theoclymenus's prophecy") to be a poetic description of a total solar eclipse. In the late 1920s, Schoch and Neugebauer computed that the solar eclipse of 16 April 1178 B.C.E. was total over the Ionian Islands and was the only suitable eclipse in more than a century to agree with classical estimates of the deca...