A View from the High Ground A week ago last Friday, I got a call from one of my closest friends, Nels Tyring. Many of you may know who Nels is, or know Nels, since he is commonly considered the Father of Control System Integration. If you don't know who Nels is, or don't know Nels, bear with me, because I think this is important for all of you to read. Nels, as is his wont, got … [Read more...] about from the department of lifelong learning…
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about the latest version of Microsoft Word…
To the best of my knowledge, we are not upgrading anytime soon to Word 2007, and Microsoft Vista. There are a bunch of reasons for this, good ones, but since I don't want to hear from the Church of Kill Bill about it, let's not go there. The problem is that documents native to Word 2007 are not backward compatible...I can't read them in Word 2003, without a translator that I … [Read more...] about about the latest version of Microsoft Word…
Enterprise IT versus Automation IT
Having spent the week last week at PCSF, where several competing certification programs were discussed, and having spent the past year heavily involved with the creation of one of them, it occurred to me that once again we've found a major difference between the enterprise IT worldview and the automation IT worldview. The purpose of security in enterprise IT is to save the … [Read more...] about Enterprise IT versus Automation IT
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I just received this press release from ISA: (I've added some emphasis and commentary) ISA Leads Charge to Develop an Automation Engineering Degree Program Research Triangle Park, NC (14 March 2007) -- A committee of industry leaders and academia met at ISA headquarters on Friday to begin work on the learning objectives for an automation engineering curriculum … [Read more...] about (no subject)
Presenting a new instrument: the "Urey"
From the NASA Ames Lab in the heart of Silicon Valley NASA-funded researchers are refining a tool that could not only check for the faintest traces of life's molecular building blocks on Mars, but could also determine whether they have been produced by anything alive. The instrument, called Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector, has already shown its capabilities in one of … [Read more...] about Presenting a new instrument: the "Urey"
