Today is the birthday of Alan Turing, the father of Information Science, whose "Turing Test" is one of the seminal artificial intelligence tests. It is fitting, then to be attending Geek Pride Day at Dick Morley's Barn. Morley runs a daylong ideafest on the week of the longest day of the year every year (last year's event was unfortunately cancelled due to Dick's second knee … [Read more...] about Geek Pride Day–"Cars, Trucks and Brains"
Rockwell divests…more business for the Directory of Lost Companies
Rockwell Automation to Commence Sale Process For Mechanical And Motor Business MILWAUKEE (June 20, 2006) – Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) today announced its plan to sell the company’s Dodge® mechanical and Reliance Electric™ motors and motor repair services businesses. These are leading producers of mechanical power transmission products and industrial motors, and are … [Read more...] about Rockwell divests…more business for the Directory of Lost Companies
Our sister blog: On Honeywell User Group
If you want a different take on last week's Honeywell User Group Americas, check out our sister magazine (Pharmaceutical Manufacturing) and their editorial blog, On Pharma with stories like: * Genentech changing the shape of MES (Notes from HUG I) * Abbott dispels MES myths (Notes from HUG II) * Beware those F.A.T. typos; Merck chooses upgrade over overhaul (Notes from … [Read more...] about Our sister blog: On Honeywell User Group
More from my speech at Honeywell last week… June 19th, 2006
John Halajko, of FMC, wrote me an interesting note. He reminded me that "job-sharing" might be an interesting experience as you get old...."One other thing that I did not mention is what I found in the assignment supporting the Astaris/Agrium PPA I Plant. Here we used licensed electricians to preform software build and maintain. In said project we trained the plant … [Read more...] about More from my speech at Honeywell last week… June 19th, 2006
Emerson wastes no time…
I have said for years that I thought Bristol-Babcock was insane for being so publicity averse. I tried for years to get them to talk about the neat applications they had in both oil and gas SCADA and in water and wastewater SCADA applications (like controlling the most important salmon fish ladder in North America, for example) and they basically said, "Yeah, well, we'll get … [Read more...] about Emerson wastes no time…
